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Highroad How is Trump like HumptyDumpty? by Jim Hightower

omandante Trump, El Jefe, the gringo strongman! That’s the image our current commander-inchief seems to be cultivating. He has surrounded himself with generals, cavalierly threatened war with all “bad hombres,” drastically bulked up military spending, and imperiously slapped foreign leaders, people and nations with demeaning tweets and public

rants. Posing as Patton-on-thePotomac, Trump is out to “Make America Feared Again.” How’s that working out? Look south, to Mexico. Our bellicose president has repeatedly blasted Mexicans as marauding thieves, murderers and rapists. Adding injury to insult Trump pledged to seal off Mexico by building an 1,800-mile-long, 30-foot high, “big, beautiful wall.” But the Big Man and his Big Wall are crumbling in the face of reality. Start with the cost: $21.6 billion! The congressional leaders of Trump’s own party couldn’t choke down a number that big, so the interim budget agreement they passed in April provided exactly zero dollars to start building his wall. Then there’s the reality of illegal entry into our country. First, twothirds of undocumented people living

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here enter legally, zipping through customs with a valid visa. Then, when their visa expires, they just stay here. No wall will affect this big majority of immigrants — they would walk through or fly over Trump’s massive monument to futility. Second, these days, most people crossing the Mexican border illegally are not Mexicans, but Central Americans, especially children fleeing gangs that are routinely kidnapping, raping and murdering kids. Furthermore, the fastest growth in illegal immigration is not from Latinos, but people from Asian nations. Far from making America feared, much less “great” — Trump’s foolish belligerence is making him a global laughingstock. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 17 , 2017 5

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his could be the greatest fish seawater, developed more sensitive tests story since the one about loaves that showed seawater in the dead zones and fishes — and with a lot contained only a fifth to a third of the more fish involved, at that. iron needed for healthy algae growth. But first some background. One implication of Martin’s findBack in 1988 an oceanographer ings was that the addition of a relatively named John Martin proposed a radical small amount of iron (a few million new way of combating global warming: tons) to the right parts of the ocean Fertilize selected might result in the zones of the production of bilworld’s oceans with lions of tons of iron particles to algae and thus the SEAS WITH IRON spark massive algae removal of billions COULD BE A QUICK, blooms. The algae of tons of CO2 would draw carbon from the atmoECONOMICAL FIX FOR dioxide out of the sphere. GLOBAL WARMING. atmosphere and In other words, NEEDLESS TO SAY, incorporate the fertilizing the seas carbon into its cell with iron could be THE WORLD’S structure. When it a quick, economiENVIRONMENTAL died it would sink cal fix for global ESTABLISHMENT WAS to the bottom of warming. the sea, where the Needless to say, HORRIFIED BY THE IDEA. carbon would be the world’s envisequestered. ronmental estabOceanographers lishment, which has had known for decades that there a knee-jerk aversion to technological were vast stretches of the world’s oceans solutions to human problems, even existhat were devoid of algae, despite contential ones, was horrified. It wasted no taining sufficient quantities of nitrogen time in passing international moratoriand phosphorus, the nutrients necessary ums and bans to keep iron fertilization for algal growth. from being commercialized for atmoThey also knew that algal life spheric CO2 reduction. This effectively prevented a San required trace amounts of iron in seaFrancisco-based company called water for photosynthesis and growth, Plankos, Inc., founded by an entreprebut the conventional wisdom held that there were sufficient amounts of it pres- neur named Russ George, from being able to create and sell carbon credits by ent in the dead zones. Martin, who was one of the world’s see DANISH PLAN Page 7 leading authorities on trace elements in

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fertilizing the sea. However combating climate change isn’t the only reason to fertilize the oceans with iron. Phytoplankton (algae) is the life-form at the bottom of the oceanic food chain. It’s eaten by zooplankton. Zooplankton is consumed either directly or indirectly by everything else. More phytoplankton means more zooplankton, more zooplankton means more fish. Which brings us to the mother of all fish stories. George re-purposed ocean iron fertilization. Instead of using it to sequester carbon and combat global warming, he proposed using it for “ocean restoration,” including restoring collapsing fisheries by creating plankton ‘pastures’ for fish to feed in. George found a partner in the Canadian First Nations Haida tribe, which had lived a salmon-centric way of life for centuries. The tribe formed the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation and funded it with $2.5 million of tribal money. And in 2012 a Restoration Corporation sponsored ship with George aboard spread 120 tons of iron sulfate solution over 50,000 thousand square kilometers (about 20,000 square miles) in the Gulf of Alaska. The fertilization targeted the area favored by pink salmon and was timed for when the young fish were expected to swim into it. NASA satellite images subsequently confirmed huge algae blooms in the Gulf of Alaska. The result? According to the Alaska Department of Fish an Game, in 2013 (the year following the fertilization) the pink salmon catch in the commercial fishery totaled 219 million fish — four-and-a-half times more than were caught the previous year and four-and-a-half times more than were expected. The total salmon catch (all species) came to 272 million fish. Both were new records. But did the Haida iron fertilization experiment cause the record salmon runs? Critics were quick to point out that correlation is not causality. The scientific method requires experimental evidence to be backed up by repeatability of results by the researchers and reproducibility of results by others. The Haida experiment has been neither repeated nor reproduced because of the assorted moratoria and bans intended to kill the technology — which is a crime against humanity for which those responsible should be keel-hauled. But there has been some supporting evidence from natural iron fertilization events, compliments of volcanic eruptions. Boulder Weekly

The 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines and the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland both spewed out thousands of tons of iron-rich ash that caused algal blooms over vast stretches of open water in the Pacific and the Atlantic. Both events support Martin’s iron hypothesis. In August 2008 the eruption of Mount Kasatochi in the Aleutians ejected a large amount of iron-rich ash

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what George calls “the ocean fish pastures of the Pacific.” George predicts the eruption will lead to major algae blooms and big increases in the salmon runs in the next year or two. “The timing is almost perfect,” he says. Predictability is important in science and in fish stories. Stay tuned. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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Russia’s “fear of an attack from the U.S. and NATO”? I know that Dyer’s Weekly cover story of July 27 discusses a whole host of actions taken by both Putin individually and another host of actions taken by Russia’s government and private individuals and a variety of different organizations. How, speaking specifically or generally, would you characterize “Putin’s actions,” which you believe can be better explained by Putin and Russia’s “fear of an attack from the U.S. and NATO,” actions for which Dyer and Danish and perhaps a whole campaign of forces demonizing Putin and Russia to prepare and enthuse the American people for a U.S. and NATO attack on Russia? 5) When you say “attack on Russia,” do you mean military attack, non-military economic attack, or both? Do the economic sanctions that Barack Obama’s administration placed on Russia for what they believed to have been Russia’s hacking attack on the 2016 U.S. elections, and those additionally placed on Russia by the Congress, with President Trump’s signature, constitute part of the “U.S. and NATO attack on Russia” you believe Putin has reason to fear? By the end of your letter, Ron, you’ve presented multiple pieces of historical and contemporary evidence to support just one of your claims, that “Russian fear of an unwarranted and illegal U.S./NATO attack seems very reasonable,” but none to support your other claims against Joel Dyer, Paul Danish and Dave Anderson. I hope that your future public statements will better detail the evidence, which such claims require. Matt Nicodemus/Boulder

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efore I say anything else, I want to thank Heather Heyer for being strong enough, brave enough and committed enough to attend the counter demonstration against the racists in Charlottesville who gathered under the guise of protesting the removal of a Confederate statue last weekend. All of us here at Boulder Weekly are so sorry she was murdered by and because of these people. I’d also like to thank and send our condolences to Susan Bro, Heather’s mother. We can not imagine your loss and pain. Your ability to raise an extraordinary daughter, forgive her killer and even manage to thank the president for his eventual shortlived condemnation of the various racist hate groups responsible for Heather’s death is a powerful lesson for all of us. I for one fear I would not have your strength of heart if I found myself in your current circumstance. Mostly, I just feel angry and confused. I do not understand how we got here. Oh I get the frustrated electorate, the disenfranchised workers whose jobs went overseas, the white backlash to the Democratic Party’s disingenuous and divisive use of identity politics, the generally accepted political position that rural America doesn’t matter and the electoral college. I understand how Trump got elected, but I don’t understand how we got here, in the midst of a full-fledged race war with a nationalist, neo-Nazi, white supremacist sympathizer as the leader of the free world. Make that the leader of the United States because the rest of the free world has nothing but disgust for Donald Trump and does not see him as the leader of anything except the radical racist fringe of American society. On Tuesday, Aug. 15, I believe we moved past the point of no return. I really do. Trump’s third, and most honest, response to the violence in Charlottesville left no path forward to heal a nation and avoid future violence so long as he remains in office. Sure it was already going pretty badly: Trump/ Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, mass deportations, a White House infested with racist pseudo intellectuals whose defense for everything is “fake news.” But even with that backdrop, the events of the last week crossed a new and irreversible line. For nearly eight months we have waited for our political system to self-correct. We have waited for establishment Democrats to understand that the protesting crowds in the streets are as angry at them as they are the Republicans. For eight months we have 10 August 17 , 2017

waited for Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Lindsey Graham or any other supposed leader in the Republican Party to acknowledge that Donald Trump is a nearly illiterate, narcissistic, racist, money launderer clearly being influenced by the foreign mobsters and oligarchs who have been propping up his flailing businesses for decades. And for eight months these Republican “leaders” have left him in power in hopes that his pen would eventually sign Republican legislation that would give still more tax breaks to the rich at the expense of the poor before the inevitable impeachment comes. Sure, some of them have been mildly critical of Trump, but mostly he has been treated as nothing more than a controversial, outsidethe-mainstream political figure. Well that’s not good enough. Not now. Not after he finally showed his true colors. Make that color. White is all that matters to this man. Like his Klanmarching father before him, Donald Trump is a white supremacist and we now know with certainty what he means when he says “make America great again.” I am a lesser person than Heather Heyer’s mom. I do not accept Donald Trump’s belated, half-hearted condemnation of the racists groups who participated at Charlottesville. He has been encouraging and pushing these same racists towards violence and hatred for many years. Think about it. As far back as 1973, Trump was sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination for refusing to rent apartments in one of his developments to African Americans. And then there was his self-funded ad campaign calling for the death of the Central Park five — five young black men who were eventually exonerated of a notorious 1989 rape of a white woman. Even after being found innocent thanks to DNA testing, Trump was still insisting that they were guilty as late as 2016 while running for president, a wink to the racist right in this country that also refused to accept the DNA results. Then there was the “birther” movement. Trump became the most ardent supporter of this conspiracy theory put forward by the racist right, which sought to delegitimize the first black president of our country. In the past two years he has refused to denounce or strategically delayed denouncing the support he has been publically given by figures associated with the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, white nationalists and the alt-right. When he does denounce their support due to polit-

ical pressure, he always makes sure they understand his criticism is not real. Consider his ever-shifting positions on Charlottesville. His initial response to the violence was to blame both the alt-right rally attendees and the counter protestors, without mentioning Heather Heyer’s name or her death, or calling out the KKK and neo-Nazis by name. And when he did finally acknowledge Heyer’s death, he refused to call it an act of terrorism. Then two days later, under extreme pressure from his own party and advisers, Trump finally criticized the KKK and Neo-Nazis as bad people who did a terrible thing. As a result, he was immediately criticized by the likes of Klan leader David Duke who reminded the president via Twitter he was elected by white America. So the very next day, to the astonishment of many in his own administration, Trump reverted to blaming the “alt-left” for the violence in Charlottesville and again claimed that both sides played a role in the tragedy that ensued. His flip-flop obviously worked with his racist base, as evidenced by the immediate praise heaped upon him for his brave honesty by Duke and infamous white supremacist Richard Spencer. In addition, within hours of his Monday wink-wink criticism of the KKK and neo-Nazis, Trump was busy retweeting the words of a right-wing conspiracy theorist whose crazed theories help fuel the violence and hatred of the radical right. The very same guy who caused an idiot to show up with a semiautomatic rifle to a pizza parlor in 2016 because he thought Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring out of the restaurant. And then... then the president of the United States — a man completely embroiled in controversy over his sick lack of compassion and wrong-headed handling of the death of a young, innocent woman who was mowed down by a car driven by a neo-Nazi — retweeted a cartoon of a train with his name on it mowing down and killing a person labeled “CNN.” This doesn’t anger me because I’m overly sensitive to journalists getting picked on by the president. Nor am I so naive as to believe that the president was just being funny with a mistimed joke — although he has shown himself capable of such stupidity. I am angry and frustrated because the president of our country is a sick, deranged, racist who must, and I believe will, be removed from office. And if it doesn’t happen really soon, the streets of our country will be filled with far more blood than that of Heather Heyer. Charlottesville is spreading like a cancer and next time the victims are likely to be on both sides... in no small way thanks to the ignorant hate-filled rhetoric of the president. Did I mention he equates Confederate leaders Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee — who tried to destroy the United States in order to preserve slavery — to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington? There are a lot of people who have to share the blame for the existence of a President Trump. Two-outof-three white men voted for Trump as did the majority of all white women. Evangelicals overwhelmingly Boulder Weekly

supported Trump, presumably more for his impact on the makeup of the Supreme Court than his sexual assaults on women, support of racism and claim that he has never asked for forgiveness because he has never done anything wrong. And establishment Democrats put forward the only candidate so flawed and unpopular that she could actually lose to Donald Trump, and they had to rig the DNC against her rival just to get her onto the final ballot. There is plenty of blame to go around, but pointing fingers doesn’t help anyone at this point. Voting for Trump can be forgiven. Washington needed a wake up call, and by golly it was sent. But if you still support Donald Trump after Tuesday, you may need to look in the mirror and consider the hard fact that you may be a racist by way of enabling racism. I don’t like using such a broad brush, but it seems unavoidable when speaking to those who are still supporting this clearly racist president. This is no time for pride and insecurity. A lot of good people voted for Trump for a variety of reasons that seemed justified at the time. But now it’s time for those who voted for Donald Trump to stop supporting and enabling him. We do not have a year or two to wait for Special Council Robert Mueller’s investigation to conclude. At this point, such a lengthy timetable is simply irresponsible governing by Republicans. They must be made to understand that their belief that they still have a small window of time to exploit Trump as their useful idiot before he’s removed from office is simply no longer true. The longer they wait, the more blood that will be on their hands. This is not a political game. Our nation isn’t heading for a cliff that we can suddenly steer away from at the last minute. We have gone over the cliff and are in freefall, and the only parachute that can prevent our deadly impact is the swift removal of Trump from office. The revolution is underway and it is being televised. With the exception of those who rely solely on Fox News for information, we are all seeing it everyday. From the protests at Standing Rock to the Women’s March to the shooting at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria to the deadly riots in Charlottesville, the one thing that is crystal clear is this: Time is up on the Trump presidency and things are getting more violent by the day. Congress has every right to impeach Trump tomorrow based on his obvious incompetence and clear inability to fulfill the duties of the office, which though not specifically written down anywhere, include not dividing the nation by race Boulder Weekly

and starting a civil war by giving support to neo-Nazis, the KKK and alt-right, including the racists he has actually given jobs to in his administration. Leaving Trump in power — a twisted, self-centered man, willing to do anything to stay in office for even a few more months — will result in more blood in the streets; maybe a nuclear war; the further destruction of our democratic processes byway of the interference from his mobster, oligarch pals from the former Soviet Block; the fur-

ther and possibly irreversible degradation of the planet via global warming; and possibly a full-scale revolution, including a race war like we have not seen since the 1960s. All of this can be avoided if just a few hundred elected officials in Washington D.C. can be persuaded to find their spine and think about our country as opposed to their own political fortunes and those of their corporate donors. I have no doubt they will be persuaded sooner rather than later. It’s just a

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s seen from Earth, a solar eclipse takes place when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, partially or totally obscuring the sun. When serendipity delivers a perfect alignment, the moon blocks the entire disk of the sun causing a total solar eclipse, and for some brief minutes, bright daylight gives way to nighttime stars. When the brightness of the sun’s disk is obscured, its faint outer envelope is revealed. The sun’s tenuous corona is a spectacle in itself: sculptured by invisible magnetic forces, it draws harmonious lines that flow like the folds of a ballerina’s skirt as she performs her breathtaking choreography. A total solar eclipse renders speechless even the most articulate amongst us, who will barely manage to spew a cacophony of shrieks, squeals and howls. A total eclipse is visible from somewhere on the Earth’s surface every 18 months on average, but at a given location, you will have to wait several hundred years to see one again. The last total solar eclipse over the lower 48 states happened on February 26, 1979. On August 21 of this year, the moon will cast its eerie shadow over a large strip of the country. A 70-mile-wide swath of darkness will travel at several thousand miles per hour from the Pacific to the Atlantic, making its first appearance in Oregon and progressing through the continent all the way to South Carolina. Aside from the sheer beauty of the event, solar eclipses offer scientists a rare opportunity to observe the solar corona under pristine conditions that cannot be replicated with any man-made observational setup. Many scientific discoveries have been made during solar eclipses, from unveiling the structure, composition and physical properties of the sun’s outer atmosphere, to the verification of the theory of general relativity by measuring the bending of starlight due to gravity. The solar physics community in the U.S. is thrilled to test their long-awaited experiments this coming August. Several Boulder-based groups are currently working hard to get their instruments ready in time for the eclipse. The High Altitude Observatory (one of the labo-

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ratories of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR) is building two instruments that will be deployed on a mountaintop near Casper, Wyoming. These experiments can observe the sun’s Corona in a complementary fashion. The NCAR interferometer will measure for the first time the extended infrared spectrum of the corona during a total eclipse, producing data that will provide a wealth of new information on the rarefied environment of the sun’s outer atmosphere. “We are surveying unknown territory in the infrared regions of the coronal spectrum‚” says Dr. Phil Judge with excitement. A second experiment, led by the same team, will test a novel camera technology (PolarCam) inspired by the compound eye of the mantis shrimp, which is able to detect not only the intensity of light but also its state of polarization. The human eye is completely insensitive to polarized light, but many animals, such as the honey bee or the mantis shrimp, see the world through polarization filters. This experiment will not only provide valuable information about the magnetic forces that shape the sun’s corona, but will also serve as a testbed for new technology that could revolutionize future astronomical observations.

Another Boulder-based group from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will conduct airborne observations of the eclipse. SwRI’s instruments will be looking at the sun from two NASA WB-57 airplanes that will fly along different sections of the eclipse path. This strategy will lengthen the duration of totality to about 8 minutes (the maximum duration of totality at a given site is less than a third of that), allowing scientists to measure changes in the corona at these longer timescales. But the sun is not the only object of desire for researchers during the eclipse. NASA’s aircraft will also measure the infrared signature from Mercury, enabling us to learn about the planet’s formation and its soil composition. And while in that neck of the woods, why not search for Vulcanoids? This hypothesized population of asteroids is believed to travel around the Sun inside the orbit of Mercury, but its existence has yet to be proved. Ultimately, all of these observations will aid in the comprehension of the physical processes taking place in the Sun’s outer layers and will, according to Dr. Phil Judge, help us “understand the evolving magnetism on the Sun and its effects on Earth.” The total phase of the August eclipse cannot be seen from anywhere in Colorado. Boulder will achieve almost 95 percent totality, which means that more than 5 percent of the sun will remain uncovered. “That’s a lot of light,” says Dr. Doug Duncan, CU Professor and director of the Fiske Planetarium. “Five percent of the sun is still 20,000 times brighter than the full moon.” Although it may be tempting to not go through the hassle of traveling to the totality path, be advised that no partial eclipse bears even a meager comparison to the sublime magnificence of totality. A total eclipse is a unique, unforgettable experience that only a few privileged people (as percentage of the total population) get a chance to enjoy. The next opportunity to watch one in the continental U.S. will be in 2024. Some useful tips: use eclipse glasses when looking at the sun during all phases of the partial eclipse, but if you’re in the path of totality, be sure to remove them during totality so that you can experience the Corona in all its glory. If you get a chance, watch the behavior of the wildlife around you. Just like humans, animals gaze at the eclipse in awe, for it is an extraordinary event when the world plunges into darkness twice in a day. And lastly, refrain from taking pictures during totality or you might miss it. Just savor those fleeting moments because you will remember them for the rest of your life. Rebecca Centeno, Ph.D., is a solar physicist at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. August 17, 2017 13

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s the new school year begins and Colorado kids return to classrooms, Region 8 of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has an action plan to combat food waste in public schools across the state. Every day, Americans waste enough food to fill the Rose Bowl. Discarded food is the largest portion of material in landfills, and when it’s trapped between other junked materials, food waste decomposes anaerobically (without oxygen), creating the greenhouse gas methane in the process. According to Virginia Till, recycling specialist with the EPA, most food waste in landfills could have been donated or eaten. And seeing as 14 percent of Americans lack reliable access to affordable, nutritious food, she says, it’s time to change our attitude surrounding food waste, starting in K-12 public schools. “The research done so far ... is that most of that waste occurs at the consumer level. So obviously educating kids is a really great way to go, and that can also impact families,” Till says. She helps schools find opportunities to donate excess food and advocates for alternative ways to use food, such as harnessing the production of methane from food scraps to create energy, and converting wasted oils into fuel. This education and outreach has led many schools in Colorado to show interest in combating food waste. Aurora School District worked to donate more than 30,000 servings of food to food banks and food pantries in 2015, while the Poudre School District conducted a study with Colorado State University’s Department of Food Science and Food Nutrition and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to measure food waste in cafeterias. Ghita Carroll, sustainability coordinator for Boulder Valley School District (BVSD), points out the district’s partnership with Eco-Cycle, and its

The 2016-17 food waste club at Douglass Elementary School was recognized by the EPA for their efforts.

school’s food waste club, which circulated a survey asking students about their food likes and dislikes. They also created a video and hosted a food waste day where club members used fun activities to educate their fellow students about food waste. And their efforts were successful: By the end of last school year, Douglass Elementary had reduced food waste from 80-100 pounds a day to 60 pounds a day. This achievement earned the students the EPA’s Presidential Environmental Youth Award, which recognizes environmental stewardship programs by youth in the United States. In the future, the students in the food waste club hope to not only continue the program but expand it as well. “We want to try and stop food waste, maybe not just at our school but at BVSD, and it can keep growing and growing,” says Maddie Romine, who starts fifth grade at Douglass this fall. The Green Star Schools Program also recommends other food conservation strategies, like serving bulk milk instead of individual cartons, to continue reducing waste across the district. Till points to other, less obvious ways the EPA says food waste can be reduced in public schools. “For example, having recess before lunch. There’s also ‘offer versus serve’ strategies so kids have more choices. Another emphasis should be on connections to farm-to-school efforts ... there’s less food waste because the kids are more connected to their food.” The implementation of food waste reduction strategies set forth by the EPA, school districts, local organizations and students like the group at Douglass are establishing a new flavor of conservation in the places the future of our country spend the most time — public schools.

Public schools on the path to food waste reduction by Mana Parker Green Star Schools program, which focuses on zerowaste goals through education and awareness within their 46 school partners. “It is unique nationwide because we collect food waste in the cafeterias and classroom,” Carroll says. “The message there is take what you can eat, eat your food, but for that wasted food we can’t do anything with, we have that compost available.” Although composting has become the go-to solution to food waste, according to the EPA’s food recovery hierarchy, there are many options to divert food waste before it is relegated to compost bins. These include reducing the amount of extra food, giving away uneaten food, feeding animals and finding industrial uses. Last year at Douglass Elementary School, nine students decided to reduce food waste before composting by creating share tables in the cafeteria. At these tables, students could leave unwanted fruit for others to pick up and eat. The effort was lead by the

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In 2011, 2,400 volts of electricity surged through Eduardo Garcia’s body in the backcountry. But it hasn’t slowed him down.

duardo Garcia was born curious. It’s a curiosity that led him to explore “the coulees and sage flats” of his native southwest Montana as a young child, as well as travel the world as a private yacht chef. But it’s a curiosity that also left him laying in the middle of the backcountry alone, significantly injured and barely alive. From an early age Garcia spent the majority of his time in the outdoors surrounding his family home near Yellowstone. “For me, the creeks and the draws and drainages and the peaks that we grew up looking at, those were always our play pens,” he says. Along with the trial and error exploration of his childhood, Garcia mastered the essentials of survival through his time in the Boy Scouts, learning how to make a shelter, build a fire, even cook a rabbit. “Being a Boy Scout is that ultimate lost boy experience,” he says. “You’re just begging for school to end and family chores to end so you can just go run around,” he says. His childhood wasn’t without problems, though. He was kicked out of nine different schools and start-

and backpack and picked up a wakeboard and picked up a skateboard and picked up a surfboard and picked up spear fishing gear and said, ‘Well, my new mountain territory is the ocean.’” Garcia spent the next 10 years on the water, before returning home to Montana to focus on a burgeoning seasoning and sauce company, and settle into himself a little more. One early morning in the fall of 2011, Garcia set out bow hunting in the familiar backcountry near his home. He spotted an antelope buck in a field, but kept walking. Just before noon he came across a metal barrel, half buried in the ground. Peering inside, a decomposing bear carcass drew his curiosity. He took out his knife to explore. What he didn’t know was that the carcass was covering a neglected electrical junction box, and Garcia was jolted with 2,400 volts of electricity. He doesn’t remember waking up on the forest floor or really much of what happened next, but his body kicked into survival mode and he began walking to get help. “Somewhere an hour or so later, after stumbling around, I started to recall where I was, why I was there and then piece back together potentially what had happened,” he says. “I remember seeing that ante-

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ed using drugs and alcohol as an early teen, around the same time he met his father for the first time. Despite these challenges, Garcia graduated culinary school and became a private yacht chef, bringing along his natural curiosity and thirst for adventure. “When I left to go yachting in 2000, I hung my climbing shoes, and I hung up my fly rod and my rifle

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lope buck again on my way down and noting it. ... And it kind of helped bring me back to where I was. Seeing that buck was like, ‘Oh yeah, shit, I saw that thing this morning so I must be... what was I doing this morning?” While Garcia slowly began to recall the events of the day, he remained completely unaware of the extent of his injuries. “What I was not aware of was how damaged I was, how close to being dead I was,” he says. He walked three miles and roughly two hours before coming upon a house. He was immediately air-evaced to Salt Lake City’s Burn Trauma ICU, where he spent the next 48 days. He had nine exit wounds that left gaping holes in the top of his head, the left side of his chest and his left thigh. Throughout his recovery, Garcia maintained his natural optimism, and film clips from his time in the hospital are now part of a new documentary, Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story screening at eTown Hall on Aug. 23 followed by a Q&A with Garcia. “I felt I had a job. I couldn’t do much,” Garcia says. “I couldn’t even pick my nose, and I thought, well, what actually can I do to be an active part of this team here? I can smile, I can kind of twinkle my eyes at everyone and just let them know that I’m grateful and I appreciate everything everyone is doing here. And I’m going to try my best to just fight on the inside.” But there were rough moments. The doctors weren’t able to save his left hand and they had to remove his left testis, where they discovered something else. Garcia had stage 2 testicular cancer. “You wake up an amputee and that’s a pretty big pill to swallow, a pretty big thing to deal with,” he says. But the cancer really felt more like an “inconvenience.” He was halfway through his surgeries and after significant testing, Garcia says, doctors found no trace of cancer outside of the removed testis. Still, they prescribed three months of chemotherapy, which put the rest of his Boulder Weekly

recovery on hold. “Patients are not subjected to chemotherapy when they have open wounds,” Garcia says the doctors told him. “So the first step is to have all of your wounds close up. It’s like building a house, not being done with the house but there’s a storm coming, we just need to protect the home as best we can and we’ll get back to building later.” All in all he underwent 21 different surgeries during his recovery. He lost significant muscle mass in the “entire left quadrant” of his body. Doctors detached his left latissimus muscle from his hip and swung it over his chest to cover the hole left by lost abdominal, oblique and pectoral muscles. He lost “a chunk” of his left quadricep and four ribs. But despite all this, Garcia hasn’t really slowed down. “What’s impressive and crazy is all these other muscles that kick into gear ... the little muscles that you use when the big ones are no longer present,” he says. “I still row a drift boat and I’m aware that my left side is not as strong as my right side, but it’s stronger than when I came out of the ICU because I use it and those little muscles are in shape.” Now, several years later, he wakeboards, surfs and swims. He continues to hunt, rock climb and flyfish in the backcountry of Montana. His curiosity continues, and he’s “still out picking up rocks and looking under things.” But to this day, the simple act of hiking is the most therapeutic activity he does. “It requires the heart to pump and the mind to work and all the vital organs to be in place. That most elemental thing, which is the body working,” he says. “Hiking is the simplest form of recreation as long as you have the body and mind and you can locomote, then you’re out having fun. For me, the most simple reminder of where I’ve been and what I’ve gone through is that I can throw a backpack on and grab some bear spray and head up into the high country. Anything else beyond that is a bonus.”

After suffering life-threatening injuries, Eduardo Garcia continues to explore the backcountry around him. He’s currently working on an outdoor cooking show expected to air later this fall.

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rtist Jenny Morgan has always had a talent for painting the human figure. In the early days of her career, Morgan painted hyper-realistic canvases that looked almost like photos. But as she began to evolve as an artist, a desire built to leave realism and move toward

abstraction. She wanted to peel away years of traditional training and reveal a new facet of her ability. “It was a process of pulling back and leaving areas open and allowing myself to [manipulate] paint in a way that made me uncomfortable,” she says. “It was really about pushing my own personal boundaries and how I perceived how a painting should look like. “Especially as a young student, you receive validation for a certain way of working,” she continues. “So, leaving those comfort zones is where I found excitement in the work.” One day, during what she calls a “happy accident,” Morgan took a sandpaper and turpentine-dipped rag and began to rub away at the layers of oil paint she had built up. “I had a very raw inclination to destroy the perfection, destroy the realBoulder Weekly

ism,” Morgan says. “To kind of take that away and go beyond it.” Left: “Helpful It was in this destruction of her work that Spectre,” a selfMorgan began to find her voice as an artist. portrait by Jenny Morgan; Right: Showing through Aug. 27 at MCA Denver, “Breakthrough Skindeep traces the evolution of Morgan’s work Sharona.” over the past decade. Throughout the years she’s embraced a variety of techniques to go beyond realism. She continues to rub away coats of the painting, leaving behind ghost-like body parts or faces peering out from behind a cloudy screen. Her paintings are full of color, which Morgan says she uses as an emotional language. Many figures are placed amid a colorful backdrop that give energy and vibrancy to the paintings. She also uses a color glaze on top of body parts — a glowing red fingertip or a blue arm. Some figures are even painted in non-skin tones entirely. But while Morgan experiments with her style, she continues to use the see SKINDEEP Page 20

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human form as an anchor to reality. “I think there’s a root drive in the work, understanding Left: “Anchor” Right: that I’m attracted to the correct structure, and not really “Mentor.” distorting anything with the body, but using color or subtle Morgan paints from photoabstraction on top of that to really distort it,” she says. “I graphs she know that I want to work with the figure and kind of this takes during sessions with basic structure, and anything I do on top of that is satisfyher models. ing in the work and that’s what feels like I’m pushing and developing.” Her work has been described as portraiture, but any of her canvases show there is more at play than just a recreation. By altering the realism of the figure, Morgan paints an almost unseen realism of the psyche. Her paintings convey personifications of emotions. By rubbing away the top layers of the paint, it’s as if Morgan removes the outer persona to show what’s underneath. Morgan sees this in her own work. She says by altering her figures, they become completely differently entities. “The more realistic and more photographic the paintings are, for me, the more they feel like actualized people,” she says. “So, the more that I can abstract or push them in some way, they become more than a person in a spiritual way.” When choosing her models, Morgan looks for personal connection. She’s used friends, family members and teachers. She selects people organically, looking for relationships she wants to explore. She paints from photographs she takes during sessions with her models. Morgan prefers her models to pose nude. Removing protective layers of clothing reveals vulnerability that Morgan captures in her work. She favors stoic poses, allowing for slight expression from the body. While she says the photo shoots can be filled with laughter, Morgan asks her models not to smile. What’s left is in-between moments that allow for open interpretation; in one painting, a figure could seem frightened, grief-stricken or even serene. “I usually take between 50 to 100 shots. I’m still always amazed at the subtlety that can happen between the clicks of the camera lens, even when someone is not trying to be emotive,” she says. “I feel like I don’t need someone to smile or to frown or to feign crying in order to express emotion. There are much more subtle layers that can be expressed when someone is very static.” Morgan shies away from narratives, painting her subjects in spaces devoid of context. Avoiding literal representations of specific emotions, Morgan relies on emotional impulses for her painting choices. “At any moment in making a painting you can be partially aware of internal motivation,” she says. “But part of the magic in it is the unconscious stuff that comes through and peaks back at you.” Along with painting her models, Morgan spends a lot of time doing self-portraits. She says they allow her to experiment deeper, and they serve as a way to process what’s going on internally. “That’s kind of the most challenging part of doing the self-portraits,” she says. Boulder Weekly

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“It’s laced with looking at yourself and being challenged by yourself. ... It’s about confronting myself on a consistent basis.” Morgan uses painting as a tool for selfexploration, an approach that has allowed her to face deep-rooted fears. For her self-portrait “Helpful Spectre,” Morgan had the idea to swap black and white, seemingly turning herself inside out. The result is a painting resembling a photographic negative. “I had nightmares of making this demonized, inverted portrait,” she says. “I worried there would be real life implications of doing that to myself. So, I had to get courage to do that.” Looking back a year later, Morgan says it was helpful to go through that process of overcoming those fears. “Now seeing that painting and not having that same psychological resonance for me validates that you can work through those perceived levels of fear of the unknown and come out the other side of it,” she says. While Morgan acknowledges the cathartic nature of her self-portraits, she is hesitant to overanalyze their meaning. “Painting and externalizing emotions visually and using a metaphorical language to get out those feelings that don’t have words attached to them is part of the process,” she says. “It’s hard for me to rewind and attach a lot of words to it. But that’s where the exhilaration comes from in the work and the personal growth comes in when I can challenge myself on those levels.” Since Morgan’s work is rooted in visceral emotion, it’s easy for the viewer to connect with it. And with no clear narrative, the paintings can mean different things to different people. In “Mentor” a woman’s thighs glow red, which can signify lust or danger. In “Shadow Play” a blue hand reaches around Morgan’s head, begging the question, does it represent a deeper part of the psyche coming to the surface, or is it a foreign element completely? And Morgan’s heard many different theories. “One person came up to me at an opening and said that he sees all of the detached hands in my work as male. That’s how he’s seeing something alien touching the female body — that [element] becomes male to him,” she says. “And that was fascinating to me and I had to take that in and digest it, and I asked myself, ‘Are they?’ “I really do appreciate that,” she continues. “And that’s the point of making the work and sharing it with the world. Seeing how people react to it. And allowing them to project whatever they need to project on top of that.” Blending realism and abstraction creates a third form, another dimension, Boulder Weekly

a place viewers must actively search for to Left: “Self,” another self-porfind what lies trait by Jenny beneath the surface. Morgan; Right: “The Source.” “It’s almost ironic,” Morgan says with a laugh. “[The work is] not skindeep, it’s the opposite of that. But it’s also, because of the realism, easy to be confronted with these people on a surface level, and it requires a bit of time and space and a willingness to go deeper into the frame.”

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Getting to Yes Rick Wakeman, keyboard maestro, relives the magic of the past, the tension of the Hall of Fame and explains what’s up with those capes

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or those prog fans who may not have known, Rick Wakeman, arguably the most accomplished of the classic generation of prog keyboardists (still drawing breath, anyway), moonlights as a standup comedian and comedy TV show host in his native England. His bits, while not necessarily steeped in modern hipster irony and trending a bit toward oldguy physical infirmity and divorce jokes, are typically self-effacing and, for those accustomed only to hearing him scaling the dizzying arc of amped-up, Bach-infused organ solos, can be a bit disarming. Seldom has that been more evident than last spring, when the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame finally relented and gave one of its lifetime achievement awards to Yes. In the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, the progressiverock-standard bearer is a bit diffuse. Lineup changes have rendered the branded Yes, headed by guitar icon Steve Howe, an ongoing franchise producing new music every few years but touring largely against its landmark records from the ’70s and ’80s. Two of its founding members are deceased, one is happily retired, and the last, keyboardist Tony Kaye, is sadly a mere footnote for all but the most committed Yes archivists. As Wakeman and Jon Anderson, both long ago excised from the continuing franchise, set up shop as their own Yes project last year, to Howe’s nonetoo-secret dismay, the simmering discomfort between the two camps played out onstage in Cleveland. Howe read a somewhat lengthy tribute to the band’s legacy and commitment to musical excellence and integrity, a faintly detectable broadside to anyone else pretending to be Yes, along with a perfunctory celebration of spreading Yes music to new audiences around the world. When it was Wakeman’s turn, he ad-libbed a bit about strip joints, prostate exams and the unreliability of body parts still sadly attached to aging male bodies. “I was listening to some of the earlier speeches,” he told BW a few weeks ago, “and, yeah, they were all fine, y’know. I loved Joan Baez’ speech, I think she’s wonderful. And I’ve seen [a lot] of induction speeches before, and you know, they’re much like the Oscar speeches. Why do people do this? Do they think people want to hear him thank their grandma and aunts and uncles and their newspaper delivery man who brings the news every Thursday? And do I Boulder Weekly

really want to know about their careers classical flourishes, maddeningly precise and how it happened? No — the fact is, instrumental interplay and seamless everybody there already knows that time changes. Nevermind that much of stuff anyway. this material is a challenge for guys in “Jon and Trev... they know that I’m their 60s to render convincingly, it well known for comedy in the U.K., wasn’t particularly easy 45 years ago. and literally as we were walking up the “It’s interesting: I listen back somestage, Trev said, ‘Go on, go for it.’ It time to tracks like ‘Close to the Edge,’ wasn’t meant to be detrimental to the and truly, I think, how the hell did we music or the Hall of Fame or anything, do that? ... I mean, we were limited to it was just meant to have a little bit of 16 tracks. Nowadays you can have 400 fun.” tracks, or as many as you want. Still, we observed, “For example, the Howe seemed to keep Deborah Anderson Creative ‘sparkle tape’ as we his distance and there called it, the opening was a detectable vibe to ‘Close to the Edge,’ of tension between that section took us a the camps on stage. couple of weeks. “I was very proud Wind, bells, all of that. to be inducted, and I mean, now you could really for the music to knock that up on a be inducted, because synthesizer sampler in really it was about the a matter of minutes. music. I was very “It was a unique proud of that. But period of time when you’re right, the tenmusicians were ahead sions and all that, just of technology. You had really silly. I’m too old ideas of what you for that. I would like wanted to do and had to have had a big to try to find a way of ON THE BILL: Yes featurneon sign to hold up doing it. By the end of ing Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman. 7:30 that said ‘Lighten the ’70s and early ’80s p.m. Hudson Gardens and Up.’ I mean, we are technology had started Events Center, Littleton. so fortunate to be in to take over and was Tickets $48 for adults, $38 for children. the position we’re in.” starting to run the For the record, musicians. “Trev” refers to gui“The truth is we tarist Trevor Rabin, briefly the band’s knew where we wanted to go — we guitarist (and source of the mantlehad no satnav, no roadmap. We worked crushing opening guitar riff of “Owner incredibly long hours in the studio, long of a Lonely Heart,” the band’s pop hit hours in rehearsal, and every now and from the 1980s). Rabin retired from the then something would absolutely click, band not long after and has since purand it would take us on to the next sued a successful soundtrack career in thing, and the next. ... We were defiHollywood, only coaxed out of perfornitely punching above our weight.” mance retirement recently to join For his part, Wakemen has had a Anderson and Wakeman in this Yes hugely productive career outside of Yes, spinoff enterprise. with soundtracks and huge, symphonic For many of the most cynical projects like “Journey to the Center of reviewers, Wakeman and Anderson’s the Earth” and “Six Wives of Henry franchise (which is dubbed this year VIII,” as well as a professorship at the “Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor London College of Music. Some classic Rabin and Rick Wakeman”) belies the moments came early, when Wakeman idea that old warhorses reliving their was still a session player in London: triumphs are a predictable bore. The lovely piano intro to Cat Stevens’ Wakeman and Anderson have breathed “Morning Has Broken,” the atmospheric melotron behind Bowie’s first fresh life into the material. “Yes, these hit, “A Space Oddity.” guys still have it: Jon Anderson, Trevor One such collaboration was some Rabin, and Rick Wakeman faithfully astonishing piano work Wakeman did delivered the spirit and the essence of with folk singer (later pop hit author of the music of the band from which they “Year of the Cat”) Al Stewart. derived ... and they did so in grand “I absolutely loved working with Al. style,” crowed a reviewer from Tampa My most memorable session I did with Bay. Plaudits have even come from the notoriously prog-skeptical British press: Al was on the Orange album. I loved that album. We spent a week or two at “There were multiple ‘pinch me’ Trident Studio in London. He came in moments throughout the show,” yelped on the last day of recording and said he the U.K.’s Daily Express. had a new song, called ‘News from The band’s fiery early days yielded Spain.’ He played through on the guitar highly kinetic material; heavily arched Boulder Weekly

and I wrote out the piano part for it. And he said, ‘What I’d like you to do, Rick, is at the end, think Rachmaninoff. And just keep going.’ “I said, ‘Oh, OK.’ And that’s what I did — oh, I had a field day. Thoroughly enjoyed it. “And I remember the day the record came out, I remember going out that morning to buy it. And when it came to the track ‘News from Spain,’ I thought, I know what’s going to happen here, there’ll be about 20 seconds of the piano part. I played for almost three minutes … and they kept a lot of it in. And for a young session player, I was just so made up. I was thrilled.” Unlike many musicians of lengthy tenure, Wakeman is happy to go on and on with stories of the past (and Wakeman has a lot of them), but his press minder came on to cut us off for one last question. We wanted to ask about his place in Norfolk, and ask about Keith, and that dreadful Union album, and his Piano Portraits projects, and his sons’ careers in music... but faced with the end of the interview, we had to ask about one thing. The capes. What is up with the capes? “It was in ’71, someone did a review of a Yes show, very complimentary of the band, and when it got around to my playing, with all the keyboards I had around me, reaching for pedals with my legs and arms and so forth, the reviewer said I looked something like a demented spider. And I laughed, but after the next couple of shows, I realized he was right, doing all this reaching around, which I’m not sure I could even do these days anymore. “So we played Hartford, Connecticut, open air festival, and we were introduced by a local DJ onstage, and he was wearing a cape. Threequarter length cape. And he was quite a big bloke. Fat. He was quite fat. And I thought, well, the cape covers a multitude of things. I thought, hold on, that’s exactly what I need. “So we came offstage, we’d just been paid. We got $200 a week back then. Covered all our costs, for everything. I had 10 $20 bills in my back pocket. As he came off the stage, I said, ‘I’ll give you $200 for the cape.’ And he said... no. I took the money out and waved it in front of him, and he went... yeah, OK. “And I came off and Michael Tait, who was our lighting guy at the time, he said, ‘Rick, that’s the answer, but that cape’s wrong. It’s the wrong color, and it’s too short. I know a lady who can make you a great cape.’ And she went on to create all of what I call the ‘classic capes.’ “And that was it.”

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It’s Only a Paper Moon Hanging Over Immigration History is performance and installation art more than it is theater.

The American dream and the American nightmare Motus Theater’s newest production explores the racial scripts of our immigrant history by Angela K. Evans I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. — James Baldwin

ver the weekend of Aug. 12, the largest display of white supremacy in the U.S. in decades took place

in Charlottesville, Virginia. The “Unite the Right” movement gathered hundreds of men, and some women, many carrying torches, some donning Ku Klux Klan insignia, some waving Nazi flags. The movement was met by counter-protesters and soon skirmishes and brawls broke out between the two groups. The rally ended with one dead and dozens more injured.

As performance artist and artistic director of Motus Theater Kirsten Wilson read about the events in Charlottesville and watched YouTube videos of prominent white supremacists speaking, she began to hear rhetoric all too familiar. “We were attacked by the most vicious people. The animalistic snares and snarls on their faces. … This is the behavior of an animal, of a savage,” Mike Enoch told a crowd before inviting infamous Klansman David Duke to speak in one of the videos. For Wilson, this line is nothing new. It’s a racial script straight out of the past and also the topic of Motus Theater’s new production, It’s Only a Paper Moon Hanging Over Immigration History. “It’s about the assignments,” Wilson says. “Racial scripting was a way to justify dehumanizing [people], the stealing of people’s lands and the

exploitation of their labor.” Since its inception, Motus Theater has garnered a reputation for telling the stories of the marginalized and facilitating dialogue about society’s most pressing issues. But the goal of Motus has also been about “helping people understand the marginalized history that we have edited out so we can think more clearly about the present,” Wilson says. She started working on the new piece a few years ago, slowly and meticulously researching American history through the experiences of immigrants themselves. Wilson read account after account of new immigrants wrestling with the racially divided society that was and is America, and distinguishing themselves from other marginalized groups see PAPER MOON Page 26

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by taking on the racism of the time. projection, evoking the nation’s compli“And that’s what became so paincated history and the internal borders it ful. The process[es] of Americanizing has created. and participating in racial violence Several times throughout the perwere so woven together,” she says. “For formance, a large projection of an most of American history, becoming eclipse, the moon slowly moving American also required assimilating across the sun, will leave the audience into whiteness, especially being recogin complete darkness, demanding nized as American.” deep reflection about what they have Whether it was the Irish, the just seen. Italians or the Jews, different groups “What I’m hoping in that moment came into the country, particularly of the eclipse is for people to sit there after the Civil War, and sought their in the dark and not just feel despair — own identity by separating themselves it’s tragic how this played out in histofrom the black American experience, ry — but [it’s] a reminder that there she continues. are other ways of doing it,” Wilson “Immigrants were coming into says. “That we can make other choices such a highly racialized, segregated and take other actions.” world and their survival was depenAlthough the material is weighty, dent on distancing themselves from even burdened, with the injustices of the border of African American or history, Wilson also infuses the perblackness. Because if they were deterformance with levity. “Levity in the mined to be too black then they were sense of making light of insanity,” she exploitable.” says. “We’re trying to make light of In looking at the nation’s history in these racial scripts because they are this way, Wilson found it impossible absurd ... but these are deadly scripts.” to separate the promise of the For now, It’s Only a Paper Moon will American dream from the reality of be presented as a work-in-progress, racial violence that for many became soliciting audience feedback, as Wilson the American nightmare. herself wrestles through the material It’s Only a Paper Moon is a piece of she’s presenting. It’s also the first performance and installment in the installation art more Motus series Let’s All Be ON THE BILL: It’s Only Americans Now, an than it is theater. A Paper Moon Hanging Over Immigration History. The ongoing project made “It’s monologues Dairy Arts Center, 2590 up of several yet to be juxtaposed with images Walnut St., Boulder. August completed parts. and icons, and how 17-21 and 24-27. Although Wilson is these interact with each still uncertain exactly other,” Wilson says. how it will all unfold, “I’m manifesting the she’s committed to the absurdity of this history exploration of how racial injustice and and turning up the volume on it.” violence has shaped the immigrant Accompanied by jazz violinist story of America up to the present day. Anthony Salvo, the first act explores the racial scripts of America’s early his- In the future, she will be touching more tory, and the roles people were assigned on the experience of the Latino immigrant in America. “Ultimately we need “as in black, white and savage,” Wilson says. The second act explores how other to look at how this racial script has dramatically affected our southern border groups of people “negotiated into this and this idea of America for highly racialized history.” Americans,” Wilson says. Wilson will be joined on stage by But this first production challenges improv performer Jim Walker, and the the audience to see history in a new two move through the material as different characters and historical figures, light, not only the way it’s been framed in the past. By exposing these scripts, It’s as well as director and actor wrestling Only a Paper Moon contextualizes the over the scripts they’ve been tasked events of Charlottesville in the broader with bringing to life. Throughout the show, a white noose scope of history. Wilson hopes people will rethink the parts in which they’ve hangs center stage, creating a visual been cast and the roles they play in image of how racial violence threatens maintaining the system of racial violence the very survival of what America in America. claims to be. Historic images are pro“These scripts are what helped that jected outside the noose, “outside the young man drive into a crowd of peoborder of whiteness,” as Wilson says, ple,” she says. “I think we need to know while other images will appear inside them and get more familiar with them, the noose, representing “what we allow inside of the American dream.” And the so that we can be more careful with them.” noose itself becomes a third field of Boulder Weekly

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Boulder International Fringe Festival

A Genderqueer Cabaret — by Katie Woodzick.

Princesses After Dark — created by Stories with Spirit. Courtesy Stories With Spirit

8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17; 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19; 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 20; 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26.

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Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder. A Genderqueer Cabaret is an exploration in updating the gendered pronouns in musical theater and jazz standards. This show is full of rainbows, leopard print and dismantling the gender binary in performance. Created and performed by Katie Woodzick, directed by Ashley Rice, with accompaniment by Angela Galik, this show is sure to please audiences of all ages. Sit back, relax and enjoy songs from Cole Porter, the Gershwins and some of Broadway’s biggest shows. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for students and seniors.

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8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17; 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19; 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 20; 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24; 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25; 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26. Pine Street Church Fellowship Hall, 1237 Pine St., Boulder. You think you know your fairy tale princesses? Think again. Dark, bloody, funny and full of life, Princesses After Dark features retellings of Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast. These are the fairy tales of your great-great-great grandmother. No G-rated cartoons or singing rodents. Luck of the draw will determine which stories are told each night.

Boulder International Fringe Festival Between the Wish and the Thing — by Katherine Hawthorne. 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18; 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19; 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Mike Machian Aug. 20; 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24; 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25; 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26. Kelly’s Barn, 1360 Sumac Ave., Boulder. Between the Wish and the Thing asks the audience to imagine the future. From fortune cookies to stock market predictions, childhood dreams to science fiction adventures, the show takes the viewer on an immersive performance journey, combining movement, storytelling and live music played by the performers. With influences ranging from ballet and modern dance, from Buster Keaton’s classic physical comedy to hip hop, expect the unexpected.

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Boulder International Fringe Festival Schedule 2017

Pussy Grabs Back

8 Stories with Spirit

Princesses After Dark

3:30 Skazki

Baba Yaga

5 Boulder Burlesque

6:30 Skazki

Pussy Grabs Back

Baba Yaga

6:30 David Ortolano

8 David Ortolano

The Man Who Sold the World

8 Skazki

Pine Street Fellowship

Pine Street Sanctuary

Baba Yaga

5 Bossy Flyer Flight

8 VIVA Theatre & Maya Productions The Riddle of Shakespeare...

6:30 Theatre B Our Boy

8 Maria Grazia Affinito

Eating Pasta off the Floor

BYOV

3:30 VIVA Theatre & Maya Productions

6:30 Bossy Flyer Flight

8 VIVA Theatre & Maya Productions The Riddle of Shakespeare...

6:30 Odds & Ends Productions

The Riddle of Shakespeare...

5 Bossy Flyer Flight

3:30 Maria Grazia Affinito

Eating Pasta off the Floor

mOTHER

5 Theatre B

8 Theatre B

Our Boy

5 Katharine Hawthorne Between the Wish and the Thing

3:30 Katharine Hawthorne Between the Wish and the Thing

3:30 David Ortolano

The Man Who Sold the World

5 Skazki

Baba Yaga

6:30 Stories with Spirit

Princesses After Dark

2 Maria Grazia Affinito

Eating Pasta off the Floor

3:30 Theatre B Our Boy

Between the Wish and the Thing

*One night only. Benefitting Boulder Fringe.

6:30 Boulder Valley Productions

6:30 Trixie Silver Productions Cabaret Libra

For the Sake of the Dance

8 Boulder Valley Productions

8 Trixie Silver Productions

For the Sake of the Dance

Cabaret Libra

5 Boulder Burlesque

5 David Ortolano

Pussy Grabs Back

The Man Who Sold the World

6:30 Stories with Spirit

Princesses After Dark 6:30 Boulder Burlesque Pussy Grabs Back

8 David Ortolano

8 Stories with Spirit

The Man Who Sold the World

Princesses After Dark

5 Trixie Silver Productions Cabaret Libra

6:30 Boulder Valley Productions

For the Sake of the Dance

5 Stories with Spirit

Princesses After Dark

6:30 David Ortolano

The Man Who Sold the World

8 Boulder Burlesque

Pussy Grabs Back

6:30 VIVA Theatre & Maya Productions

5 Bossy Flyer Flight

The Riddle of Shakespeare...

8 VIVA Theatre & Maya Productions

8 Bossy Flyer

The Riddle of Shakespeare...

Flight

6:30 Maria Grazia Affinito

Eating Pasta off the Floor

6:30 Odds & Ends Productions mOTHER

3:30 Bossy Flyer Flight

5 VIVA Theatre & Maya Productions The Riddle of Shakespeare...

3:30 Odds & Ends Productions mOTHER

8 Odds & Ends Productions

8 Maria Grazia Affinito

5 Maria Grazia Affinito

2 Katharine Hawthorne

5 Katharine Hawthorne

3:30 Katharine Hawthorne

Eating Pasta off the Floor

Between the Wish and the Thing

SATURDAY, AUG 26

SUNDAY, AUG 27 ‘

3:30 PM

My Days with D

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Fringe Comedy Show

8 The Great Perhaps Performance Collective

‘

My Days with D

The Real

mOTHER

3:30 Katharine Hawthorne

The Real

9:30 PM

The Real

6:30 The Great Perhaps 6:30 *AJ Finney & Performance Collective Roger Haak

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WEDNESDAY, AUG 23

8 The Great Perhaps Performance Collective

A Genderqueer Cabaret

5 The Great Perhaps 3:30 The Great Perhaps Performance Collective Performance Collective

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5 PM

TUESDAY, AUG 22 ‘

6:30 Mandy Greenlee & Michael Kebles

Sail On!

8 Katie Woodzick

NOMAD PLAYHOUSE

6:30 Boulder Burlesque

5 Stories with Spirit

Not Quite

6:30 Harriet Patterson

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Wesley Theater

Baba Yaga

For the Sake of the Dance

8 Ada Cheng

The Love Song of Tonya Harding

ENCORE & PARTY

5 Skazki

For the Sake of the Dance

6:30 Boulder Valley Productions

The Love Song of Tonya Harding

5 Clara Elser

TRIDENT BOOKSELLERS & CAFE

Cabaret Libra

6:30 Clara Elser

Sa S u

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8 Trixie Silver Productions

8 Boulder Valley Productions

5 Trixie Silver Productions

Sail On!

The Ballad of Blade & Buttercup

Saturday

August 26

AWARDS CEREMONY

For the Sake of the Dance

Cabaret Libra

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6:30 Trixie Silver Productions

SANITAS BREWING

Wesley Lounge

6:30 Boulder Valley Productions

The Ballad of Blade & Buttercup

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The Real

5 Harriet Patterson

8 Harriet Patterson

CRUISE & BREWS

8 The Great Perhaps Performance Collective

8 Mandy Greenlee & Michael Kebles

5 PM

Unsafe at Almost Any Speed

The Real

‘

6:30 *Stories on Stage

My Days with D

6:30 The Great Perhaps Performance Collective

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ANGLERS

The Ballad of Blade & Buttercup

5 The Great Perhaps Performance Collective

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8 Mandy Greenlee & Michael Kebles

The Ballad of Blade & Buttercup

A Genderqueer Cabaret

FISHY FUNDRAISER

The Real

Friday

August 25

Not Quite

MONDAY, AUG 21

My Days with D

5 Mandy Greenlee & Michael Kebles

6:30 Ada Cheng

Principles Of Flight

8 Katie Woodzick

‘

My Days with D

6:30 The Great Perhaps Performance Collective

6:30 Bridget Foley

5 PM

5 The Great Perhaps 3:30 The Great Perhaps Performance Collective Performance Collective

The Love Song of Tonya Harding

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Principles Of Flight

SATURDAY, AUG 19

8 Bridget Foley

Thursday

August 24 5 Clara Elser

Not Quite

DAIRY ARTS CENTER

My Days with D

The Love Song of Tonya Harding

5 Ada Cheng

‘

6:30 The Great Perhaps Performance Collective

Sail On!

M T W

Sunday

August 20

HAPPY ARTS HOUR

Community Dance Collective

The Ballad of Blade & Buttercup

6:30 Harriet Patterson

Not Quite

8 Clara Elser

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A Genderqueer Cabaret

1:30 PM

8 Katie Woodzick

6:30 Ada Cheng

5 Katie Woodzick

‘

Principles Of Flight

BOULDER LIBRARY

6:30 Bridget Foley

5 Bridget Foley

Saturday

August 19

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Trident Booksellers & Cafe

Sail On!

5 Mandy Greenlee & Michael Kebles

Kelly’s Barn

ALL YOU CAN ARTIST BUFFET & PARTY

5 Harriet Patterson

Friday

August 18

A TASTE OF BOULDER BURLESQUE WORKSHOP

Thursday

August 17

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WESLEY THEATER

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6 PM

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WEDNESDAY, AUG 16

Eating Pasta off the Floor Between the Wish and the Thing

EVENTS from Page 29

Thursday, August 17 Music Andrew Wynne. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville. Beefcake At The Lounge. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Ben Hammond. 4:30 p.m. ViewHouse Eatery, Bar & Rooftop, 2015 Market St., Denver. Big Dopes. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. An Evening with DJ Clark Thomas. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Korby Lenker, Jeff Cramer, Ali Sperry. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.

Stephen Thurston Trio. 8 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Lyle Divinsky’s Soul Survivors — with The Deer and Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Stomping Ground Thursdays. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Maceo Parker. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Mlima, Dynamic Distraction, Williams, Frank & Searls. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. The Night Owls. 9 p.m. Angel’s Landing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver.

Feed Me, No Mana. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver.

The Ongoing Concept — with Eidola, Save Us From The Archon. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Ghost Tapes. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Outback Saloon Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder.

The Hawthorne Roots Live Experience. 6 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont.

Rajdulari. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Height Keech. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

The Piano Guys. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison.

Jon Wayne & The Pain — with Mile High Allstars. 7:30 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

The Shivas. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

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Stoopidheads Red Rocks Preparty. 8:30 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Events Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont. Celebrating Life in Recovery. 7 p.m. Twin Peaks Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 9696 Paschal Drive, Louisville. College starring Buster Keaton with Hank Troy, piano. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Colorado Rockies Baseball. 1:10 p.m. Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Denver. Crime and Pun-ishment. 7 p.m. The Old Spaghetti Factory, 1215 18th St., Denver. Third Thursday Improv. 7 p.m. Wesley Foundation, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Friday, August 18 Music Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder. Bonnie And The Clydes. 9 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, Boulder. Bridget Hartman Trio. 9 p.m. Angel’s Landing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver. Diverje, Kill Minus Nine (CD Release Show). 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Eli Young Band. 8 p.m. The Grizzly Rose, 5450 North Valley Highway, Denver. Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder. An Evening of Ragas — A Special Pre-Eclipse Concert. 7:30 p.m. Vali Soul Sanctuary, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder. Friday Night Social — with Gumbo le Funque. 10:15 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

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The Get Together & Space in Time: B-Side Music Fridays. 5 p.m. Museum Of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Happy Hour — with King Stan Band. 5:30 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver. JoJo’s Slim Wednesday featuring John “JoJo” Hermann of Widespread Panic — with Naughty Professor and Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

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Jux County plays “The Pretenders” featuring Julie Monley & Colin Bricker. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle@ Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Kalimba The Spirit of Earth Wind and Fire — presented by KUVO 89.3. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Little Creatures plays “Talking Heads” featuring Julie Monley. 9 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 20, Boulder. Live Patio Music — Tim Baldwin. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Love Stallion, The Hits, Thousand Frames. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. McPherson Live Music. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont. Mobiius. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Moody Good. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver. Mr. Majestyk’s 8 Track Revival. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Ned Mountain Jam featuring members of New Family Dog, Malai Llama, Deadphish Orchestra and more. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. One Flew West and Wildermiss — Sponsored by Bellco Credit Union. 6 p.m. Village at the Peaks, 1250 S. Hover St., Longmont. Pennysick. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Peter Yarrow — “Peter, Pups and Music.” 6 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder.

THURSDAY AUGUST 24

Stereo No Aware. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

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Propaganda: A Comedy Show featuring Jono Zalay. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

Glass Top Bar. 5 p.m. Galleria at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver.

Saturday, August 19 Music Blind Pilot. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Blood Road. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. HERESTOFIGHTIN. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

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Brazilian Girls — with Fun Factory.

theater Anything Goes. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Oct. 1. Broadway Bound. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Aug. 20. Footloose: The Musical. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Sept. 3. Frozen. Buell Theater, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Oct. 1. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Aug. 19. The Little Mermaid. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Aug. 19

Motus Theater’s new multimedia performance, It’s Only a Paper Moon Hanging Over Immigration History, focuses on the creation of racial scripts in immigration history, how these scripts shaped that history through both legal methods and extralegal violence, and how “American” came to be associated with assimilating into “whiteness.” See page 25 for more on this production.

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus Live! Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Aug. 27. On Golden Pond — presented by Lowry’s Spotlight Theatre. The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Aug. 26

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story — presented by Equinox Theatre Company. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo Street, Denver. Through Aug. 19. Today, Tomorrow & Forever: A Celebration of Patsy Cline — Starring Melissa SwiftSawyer. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont. Begins Aug. 18. Through Aug. 27

Psychic TV. 8 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

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Pink Hawks (Album Release). 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Rocky Mountain Folks Festival. 10 a.m. Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main St., Lyons.

BEN HANNA 8PM JOSHUA VANACHORN 9PM

Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Slightly Stoopid — with Iration, J Boog, The Movement. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison. S.M.O.S — Mixed Emotions Tour. 8 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

Stomp Street Heist. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Taylor Scott Band, Kris Lager Band. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Tethys. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Trout Steak Revival. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland. Events Argentine Tango GroundSchool Classes. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. “Human Tattoo Gallery” Art Event. 7 p.m. Ion Real Estate, 2049 Larimer St., Denver. The Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue presents: “Agents of T.E.A.S.E..” 8 p.m. The Clocktower

9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

John Gorka House Concert. 7:30 p.m. Living Room Live House Concerts, 3780 23rd St., Boulder.

Brunch — with La Pompe Jazz (Gypsy Swing). 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Kahn & Neek. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Cat Power. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Chain Station. 8 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver. The Custom Shop. 8 p.m. Angel’s Landing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver. Daphne Willis. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. Dave Barnes — The Joke Concert. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. The Delta Sonics. 10:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Fixate (UK). 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Flamenco Music and Dance. 7 p.m. Willow Farm, 11898 N. 75th St., Longmont. Gov’t Mule, Yonder Mountain String Band — with Marcus King Band. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Am-

Live Music: Barrel of Blues. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder. Live Patio Music — Blue Lightning. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Lowdown, End of Eves, One from None, Corrupt Carnage, Lord Sandwich. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. LYFTD. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Music Lessons of Westminster. 1 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. Native Daughters. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. New Latitude’s 2nd CD release party. 5 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver. Porchfest Closeout Party. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Blues. 5:30 p.m. see EVENTS Page 34

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Art Inspired by the Land. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 10.

LABOR DAY WEEKEND

“Helpful Spectre,” by Jenny Morgan, a work from MCA’s Skindeep exhibit. See page 19 for more on the show.

Common Ground. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 12.

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

FRI 11:30 AM - 10:00 PM SAT-SUN 10:30 AM - 10:00 PM MON 10:30 AM - 8:00 PM

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

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Mi Tierra. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 22. Paper on Paper: The Art of Chine-Collé. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Aug. 20.

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Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 31. The Western: An Epic in Art and Film. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 10.

Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 20.

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Lucas Brothers. 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Long Live Kevin — Super RAD Cancer Benefit Concert and Karaoke. 2 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

Meet in the Street. 11 a.m. 16th Street Mall, Denver.

S1lencer. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Red Earth Herbal Gathering. 10 a.m. Pachamama Farm, 10771 N. 49th St., Longmont.

S1lencer — with Fat Lee, Johnny James, Six O’Clock, Poedic & Nexkin. 6 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

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

School of Rock Denver Tribute to Shock Rock. 3:30 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. School of Rock Denver Tribute to Talking Heads. 12 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

Summer Slaughter Tour. 2 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Tatanka — with Red Sage (Album Release Show), I Conscious (Patio Set), Selecta Razja. 8:15 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

The Sexy Liberal Resistance Tour. 8 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Sunday, August 20 Music Blues and BBQ with David Booker. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. The Boulder Timberliners. 5 p.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th St., Boulder. Brass Under Glass. 4:30 p.m. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Cabaret Libra: Songs of Love, Liberty, and Leisure. 5 p.m. Wesley Foundation, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Throttlebomb. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Denver Beatniks. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Winehouse: An Embodiment of Amy (Amy Winehouse Tribute). 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Die Antwoord — with DJ Flash. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison.

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Laurie Dameron. 5 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, Boulder.

Rocky Mountain Folks Festival (Saturday Pass). 10 a.m. Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main St., Lyons.

Sherefe — Arabic Mediterranean Fusion. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder.

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Denver ColorFest. 2 p.m. EXDO, 1399 35th St., Denver. Lafayette Peach Festival. 8 a.m. Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, 1290 S. Public Road, Lafayette. Loopr Mobile Cannabis Lounge Routes. 2 p.m. 1-Up Colfax, 717 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Downtown Brunch — with The Adam Bodine Trio. 9:30 a.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Drayco Mccoy. 8 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Espresso! 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder. John Gorka Returns (House Concert #2). 7:30 p.m. Living Room Live House Concerts, 3780 23rd St., Boulder.

Mind Coats. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. PiperFest. 8 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Rocky Mountain Folks Festival (Sunday Pass). 10 a.m. Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main St., Lyons. Vinyl Sundays with the Denver Kush Club. 12 p.m. Spangalang Brewery, 2736 Welton St., Denver. Westword Tacolandia 2017. 3 p.m. Civic Center Park, 101 14th Ave., Denver. Will’s Journey Tribute Band. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Events Boulder Comedy Show. 6 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder. Boulder Market — Free Concert at Noon. 11 a.m. Central Park, 13th Street and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Suite 64, Boulder. Incredible, Edible Gluten Free Food Fair. 10 a.m. Denver Mart, 451 E. 58th Ave., Denver. Loopr Mobile Cannabis Lounge Routes. 2 p.m. 1-Up Colfax, 717 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Mmmwhah! Creativity Gathering & Workshop. 11 a.m. Silver Sage Cohousing Common Room, 1650 Yellow Pine Ave., Boulder. The Nut House Comedy Show. 7:30 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. Ophelia’s Sunday Peep Show — Hosted by Vivienne VaVoom. 8 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Red Earth Herbal Gathering. 12 a.m. Pachamama Farm, 10771 North 49th St., Longmont. see EVENTS Page 36

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Geoff Laughton — Building a Conflict-Proof Relationship. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Ned Wolf. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Wednesday, August 23 Priscilla Stuckey — Tamed by a Bear. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Arsonists Get All The Girls — with Conquer Divide, Circuit Of Suns, West Clif. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Get Busy Living, Stories Through Storms, POST/ WAR. 8 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. GOD MODULE. 8 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Khalid. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Kol Nashim Open Rehearsals. 5:30 p.m. Hebrew Educational Alliance, 3600 S. Ivanhoe St., Denver. Monday Night Menagerie featuring Wabakinoset, King Friday, Jan Monk, Jew Tang Clan. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Noches de Verano: Tango at the Teahouse. 6 p.m. Plaza beside the Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder. Prospect Sound Bites presents Intuit. 5 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont. Sam Hunt — with Maren Morris, Chris Janson, Ryan Follese. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison. Vinyl Mondays. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Events Free Beginner Argentine Tango Class. 6 p.m. Boulder Dushanbe Tea House, 1770 13th St., Boulder. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Cloudship. 8 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder. EshOne. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Fat Tuesdays — A Tribute to New Orleans Funk. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Plaza beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder.

Jacob Collier. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

The Cured — The Ultimate Cure Experience. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Jazz Jam Hosted by Todd Reid. 9:45 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Dylan Kishner Band, Silver and Smoke, Hello, Mountain, Red Onion Purple. 8 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Khalid. 8 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 N. Clarkson St., Denver. David Booker. 6:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder. Open Mic — with the Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. Pickwick. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Sam Hunt — with Maren Morris, Chris Janson, Ryan Follese. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison. Snatch Game Live featuring The Pearl Necklaces, Evelyn Evermoore and Vivica Galactica. 8 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

House With A Yard. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Jack Gwydion. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Jazz. 9 p.m. Angel’s Landing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver. Joe Banamassa. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison. Marty Friedman — with Scale The Summit, The Fine Constant. 5 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Master Arrow. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Mixed Taste Garden Parties. 4:30 p.m. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver.

Tame Impala at Melt Festival 2016. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Mojomama. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette.

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

Monty Alexander Trio. 6 and 8:30 p.m. Dazzle@ Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Washed Out. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Events Doppelgängers! Improv Showcase. 8 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. The Next Stage NOW Presents: Sunset Cinema. 6 p.m. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Pitch Lab: 7 Stand-Up Comedy Techniques To Improve Your Sales Pitch! 6 p.m. Commons on Champa, 1245 Champa St., Denver. Spicy Lounge Music and Dancing. 7:30 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. Unlocking the Cage: Documentary Screening. 6:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder.

Ninja Sex Party. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 N. Clarkson St., Denver. Pleasure Prince. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. RE: Search featuring Muzzy Bearr — with TNERTLE, Preliminary Malfunction, Mikey Thunder, Jubee. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Rosie Forever. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Wednesday Acoustic Open Mic Hosted by Captain Flashback. 4 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver. White Dwarf. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

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2 Chainz. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Atomga. 6:30 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver. Bear & the Beast, Scotty & Late Nights, Bardots, Hunter Hamilton. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Ben Hammond. 6 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder.

Comedy at Tandoori. 8 p.m. Tandoori Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Swing Dance Lessons. 6:30 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder.

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f all the faces to grace the silver screen, none were greater or more enchanting than The Great Stone Face of Buster Keaton. Born Joseph Frank Keaton in 1895, and given the nickname “Buster” for his ability to take a fall — as the legend goes, Harry Houdini was the one who bestowed the moniker; he didn’t, but it’s a good story — Keaton made his name alongside Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd as one of the three clowns of the silent era. Keaton was popular in his day, but not like he’s been in perpetuity. Now, many consider him to be the greatest of the silent comedians. Partly because of his sheer physicality, partly for his seemingly endless cinematic imagination and partly because, “There just aren’t faces like that anymore.” That beautiful stone face will grace the silver screen once more this season, closing out Chautauqua’s 32nd Summer Silent Film Series with two films: The High Sign — Keaton’s first short as an actor/director — and College, Keaton’s deadpan sports comedy. Colorado’s favorite silent film pianist, Hank Troy, will accompany both. Shot in 1920, The High Sign was Keaton’s first attempt behind the camera and though the short has plenty of successful gags, Keaton wasn’t fully satisfied and held its theatrical run until 1921. In the interim, Keaton made seven other successful films and established himself as a comedian with The Great Stone Face, which he wore with deadpan indifference no matter the situation or how perilous the outcome seemed. Fast-forward to College in 1927 and we find Keaton in a period of unrivaled creativity. Coming just one year after his bonafide masterpiece, The General, and with Steamboat Bill, Jr. and The Cameraman, both 1928, in the percolator, College plays to Keaton’s strengths as both a gag and stunt man. Running a brisk 65 minutes, College is sparse on story, heavy on gags. Keaton knew how to get straight to the good stuff. The premise: Ronald (Keaton) is a high school brainiac who shuns sports. While this might sit well with his teachers and mother, his girlfriend, Mary (Anne Cornwall), falls for the handsome class jock and leaves Ronald heartbroken. But with college around the corner, Ronald decides to forgo the scholastic arts in hopes of winning Mary’s heart by making the team. But making the team isn’t as easy as Ronald might hope. He tries baseball, then track and field, and fails miserably at both. Keaton, an agile and gifted athlete in real life, manages to squeeze every last drop of comedy out of these moments of incompetence, letting the audience revel in watching a physically capable and agile performer flounder foolishly. All with the same deadpan stone face. That’s the secret to Keaton. Unlike Chaplin, a sentimentalist, or Lloyd, America’s everyman, Buster Keaton was always tenderly, tragically Keaton. It’s all there in the face. Boulder Weekly

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lackbelly Market has a plethora of sandwiches to choose from, each one featuring one (or more) of Blackbelly Butcher’s cured and fresh meats. And while the classics, such as the chicken club and Blackbelly bologna are appealing (and undoubtedly delicious), the barbacoa quesadilla caught our eye one recent lunch, and it did not disappoint. First of all, there was more meat than anything else. The slow-cooked beef pours out of each slice. The asadero cheese adds flavor but is really more of a garnish than the main event. The roasted pepper and onion add just the tiniest bit of crunch. You almost don’t need the salsa picante and sour cream that’s served on the side because the flavor is already so robust. $12

amen done-up (that is, with all the fix-ins as it’s traditionally served and not the sad collegiate version) is officially past trend stage and now just a solid staple. My Ramen & Izakaya is but one of several places to get quality ramen in Boulder County, but their curry ramen is a unique treat. A coconutmilk curry base is sweet, creamy and spicy. It provides a rich foundation for the earthy wood-ear mushrooms, the tangy shredded cabbage and the punchy green onions. Fall-apart pork loin spreads meaty goodness throughout the dish, and chewy, medium-thickness noodles are easy to lap up. A hard-boiled egg, made sweet by the curry base, is the icing on top. $11.50

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he Organic Sandwich Company has enjoyed a ton of success since opening its first location on Pearl Street in Boulder two years ago. Now it’s taking on a strip mall spot on the nowbooming McCaslin strip in Louisville that’s chewed up and spit out a few restaurants. Something about the Company’s sandwiches, though, indicates it’s got a good shot to stay. The special this week is a shaved roast lamb sandwich. The lamb is fresh, moist and just a hint grassy. It comes with an herbed chickpea and tzatziki spread, which is salty and loaded with citrus. Fresh arugula gives light crunch and a burst of pepper, and a few slices of red onion dole out necessary bite. The pretzel roll is also perfectly made — crispy on the outside, dense and chewy on the inside. $11.25

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ou have to appreciate any food truck that has it’s own brick pizza oven built in. Such is the case with Wheels on Fire, and the oven produces thin-crust, burnt-edged, really great personal pizzas. The Palisade peach variety, available while Palisade peaches last, has only good things on it: fresh Colorado peaches, slices of raw jalapeno, prosciutto, housemade burrata cheese and a balsamic drizzle. That may sound like a lot of competing flavors, and acid, and it certainly is, but it totally works. The burrata, peach and balsamic drizzle add a sweet structure. The jalapenos and light tomato sauce add punch. The prosciutto brings salt and an outsized pigness, which goes a long way. The crust is a solid spine — sturdy, yet crispy, and the bites of char are the best ones. $12

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Finding a place for a treasure trove of Boulder and Colorado food books

he first Colorado cookbook I acquired was probably the Colorado Cache cookbook published by the Junior League. That was about 30 years ago. The most recent addition to my library of Colorado and Boulder cookbooks and food-related books is The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas by Denver author Adrian Miller. As a longtime newspaper food editor I ended up with hundreds of cookbooks, which I have vastly reduced recently, but I have never let go of any food or beverage cookbook, nonfiction, murder mystery, beer book or guidebook that had anything to do with Colorado, and the collection has reached 200 or more books. My oldest Colorado cookbooks include a hardbound volume from Kings Daughters of Grace Church in Denver, circa 1891-92, including recipes for shirred eggs, suet pudding and molasses candy and helpful household hints such as “To Stop the Flow of Blood” and “How to Take Out Mildew.” Published in the early 1900s by Federal Gas Company, The Boulder Cookbook by Mrs. F. W. Leland (“A Boulder Woman”) includes formulas for everything from curried rice to strawberry tarts. The Nathaniel Lyon Cook Book published in Boulder in the late 1800s includes snippets of advice such as: “It has been ordained that man shall earn the bread, and woman bake it.” Copious ads include many for Lily White Flour from Boulder Milling and homemade candies from Wachter’s Confectionary Store, 1910 12th St. Some of the recipes have an alarming lack of detail because they assumed that readers/cooks knew how to cook: “Lemon Pie: Yolks of two eggs, one cup of sugar, the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one tablespoonful of cornstarch; then add a cup of boiling water, use the whites of the eggs for frosting; bake in a slow oven.” I have restaurant cookbooks from The Fort, Vesta, Rioja and 100 spiral-bound fundraising cookbooks from the Chautauqua Association, Boulder County Democratic Women, Jarrow School, St. Louis Parish and many others. Finally, there is my own contribution to this one-of-a-kind collection: Denver Dines, a restaurant guidebook I wrote a few years back. I’m downsizing my residence this week and moving from Lafayette to Louisville. This has also meant downsizing my stuff, but I’m still left with some significant piles of books. I need to find a permanent home for my Colorado cookbook collection so I’m appealing to my readers to crowdsource an answer. I know I can donate the collection to a historical society or library but these historically imporsee NIBBLES Page 44

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here’s an overflowing stockpot of synonyms for “intense” that would describe most chefs and restaurateurs — “laid-back” is not in the pot. In a sea of peers who log 15-hour days and shoulder the stress that accompanies them, there floating in the shallows on an inflatable crocodile and sipping a vermouth cocktail is Cafe Aion’s Dakota Soifer. His laid-back is the kind that allows him to operate a successful Boulder restaurant while logging maybe four lunch shifts a week, spending more time “hanging out with my bros.” His is the kind of laid-back that affords him the ability to spend time with his family and go rock climbing. And his kind of laid-back is why Cafe Aion stands apart as an actually casual European-style bistro, instead of a carefully curated and heavily financed imitation of one. Soifer’s easygoing nature — and how that connected to food — was born out of lessons learned in his childhood. “My dad actually was a chef and manager at some restaurants. My mom was a college professor, but they decided to check out of the city life and move to rural Maine to be hippies and raise kids,” Soifer says. “We had chickens and goats at various times and a really huge garden and all these dogs and cats. “A lot of picking rocks out of the garden and weeding and helping with the chores was part of growing up, but also canning and baking. Food was

central to home life,” he says. Food became a way to make money, too. During summers, Soifer worked for his uncle’s catering company in New York City. When he came to Boulder to attend the University of Colorado and study architecture, Soifer says Dave Query (of Big Red F) hired him to work through college and became “a really wonderful mentor.” Continuing to work in the restaurant business made sense, Soifer says, because he could work at night and “it didn’t interfere with going to school or going rock climbing or whatever, which I thought was important.” When Soifer graduated college, he realized he wasn’t too excited about “what it takes to become a professional architect” — graduate school, internships, tests. “I was ready to be done academically for the time being,” he says. So he moved west to San Francisco, where Query advised him to get a job at the James Beard Award-winning Zuni Café. He lived on his cousin’s couch while indulging this itch to “see more and learn what was going on” in the food scene. It was a brief, but fruitful time, it turned out. “It was an amazing experience but I was 22 or 23, and I was there for maybe six months and I thought I

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deserved a raise and to become a manager, so I got a job up in Napa Valley where I got more money and a fancier position,” Soifer says. The experience in Napa provided the counterpoint to what Soifer’s cooking interest (and Cafe Aion) would become. Though he appreciated the toughness and athleticism of high-end kitchen cooking, he saw the many obstacles in the way of producing at that level. “I had never worked in a kitchen where it was ‘Oui, chef ’ and everything was copper. It was really serious,” Soifer says, adding that he lamented “all these really little details that if they went wrong could make a huge impact.” So Soifer returned to Boulder and got a job at The Kitchen. There, working in the Upstairs restaurant, he was able to experiment with flavors and dishes that would eventually comprise parts of Cafe Aion’s menu. Eventually he switched over to Burnt Toast, the restaurant that preceded Cafe Aion in its Hill location, and when rumors of the owners’ interest in selling the place reached his ear, Soifer got three friends and a loan from the bank and bought the restaurant. Early success did not come as easily as the group had hoped. “We were so naïve,” Soifer says. “We were all like, ‘Yeah, we’ll make like $100,000 a year. Just four dudes and we’re all going to be driving Audis and wearing fancy jeans. It so didn’t happen. “So it was a big learning experience. I felt very comfortable cooking and had a lot of experience there, but none of us really had a business degree. We had see SOIFER Page 48

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someone who was a great front-of-house guy, but no one had ever really, I think, looked at a payroll.” The menu originally consisted simply of 15 rotating tapas, and the restaurant was open only four nights a week. That didn’t attract as many people as was hoped, and one by one, the three partners backed out of the restaurant. What ensued was a learning process that produced a varied menu, a more accommodating schedule and a relaxed staff structure. “Now we’ve found a happy medium,” Soifer says. “We have a burger on the menu, we’ll do a pasta sometimes and things that seven years ago, when I was a young chef starting his own place I was like, ‘No, I

will not,’ and I had this idea that the restaurant would serve what I want. And that’s totally ridiculous.” Now, Cafe Aion is best known, probably, for its paella — a big rice, tomato, saffron and protein (or vegetable) dish that’s made for communal eating. The rest of the menu features Moroccan and Spanish dishes tweaked to accommodate local palates and to feature local ingredients. And, more than anything, what binds the dishes on Cafe Aion’s menu is the casual approach that creates “older, rustic things… burnt edges over sous-vide.” The menu, now, doesn’t change much. That may cause some folks to lose interest, Soifer says, but he says his approach was validated on a recent trip to Spain and Morocco. “It was cool to see these restaurants and cafes where we had these awesome experiences and there weren’t waiters,” he says. “The bartender would come out and be like, ‘What do you want?’ There were no white tablecloths and the silverware wasn’t polished. And it was great to have an experience that didn’t necessarily correlate to a high level of service or, you know, a really advanced technique in the kitchen or something like that.” Another clarifying experience for Soifer’s approach to running a restaurant was his time on Food Network’s cooking show Cutthroat Kitchen, in which chefs are required to cook three meals despite being dealt obstacles. Though he won his episode, the experience soured Soifer on what was an initial desire to become a celebrity chef, while also confirming that, no, he doesn’t want to lead an actually cutthroat kitchen. “It’s a huge set, and you go through it, and you’re cooking and they’re yelling Celebrate your year-round love at The Melting Pot of Louisville with our at you because just standing there cookHalfway to Valentine’s Day. Join us for an evening that celebrates that ing doesn’t make good television,” Soifer says. “They’ll be like, ‘Oh, what do you special bond the two of you only have. Take a two hour vacation while think of Jim over there?’ Like encouragyou enjoy a four-course meal with us and don't forget to add a little ing some shit talk. It was fun, I mean it was a positive atmosphere, but it was table-side romance. We have flower packages from rose petals for $6 up definitely… it didn’t come naturally to to a dozen roses with a keepsake vase for $35. me.” To that end, Soifer says he thinks it’s impossible to both strive to be a celebriReally want to make it a special night? ty chef and also be a successful kitchen We have created an all-inclusive package including private seating, bottle chef. He cites Judy Rodgers from his time at Zuni Café as a case in point; of wine (or $40 cocktail credit), three roses with a keepsake vase and a Rodgers, the chef and owner, was at the restaurant every day, never left for popfour-course meal for $160, mention "Lover's Lane Package" for this up or guest chef appearances and always exclusive offer. tasted everything. That said, Soifer still prefers his pulled-back schedule. He trusts and values his small team. And he says with no plans to move off the Hill (and appease RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED CU-phobic Boulder diners), he’s content with where he and the restaurant are. (303) 666-7777 “We don’t get listed in 5280’s top 732 MAIN STREET, LOUISVILLE ,CO restaurants anymore. For a few years we did,” Soifer says. “But we’re also a little MELTINGPOT.COM more, business-wise, successful now. And I’m a lot happier now, you know what I mean?”

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the next three weeks, you will be immune to what psychoanalyst Joan Chodorow calls “the void of sadness, the abyss of fear, the chaos of anger, and the alienation of contempt and shame.” I realize that what I just said might sound like an exaggeration. Aren’t all of us subject to regular encounters with those states? How could you possibly go so long without brushing up against them? I stand by my prediction, and push even further. For at least the next three weeks, I suspect you will also be available for an inordinate amount of what Chodorow calls “the light of focused insight” and “the playful, blissful, all-embracing experience of joy.”

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: The coming days would be an excellent

time to celebrate (even brag about) the amusing idiosyncrasies and endearing quirks that make you lovable. To get you inspired, read this testimony from my triple Gemini friend Alyssa: “I have beauty marks that form the constellation Pegasus on my belly. I own my own ant farm. I’m a champion laugher. I teach sign language to squirrels. Late at night when I’m horny and overtired I may channel the spirit of a lion goddess named Sekhmet. I can whistle the national anthems of eight different countries. I collect spoons from the future. I can play the piano with my nose and my toes. I have forever banished the green-eyed monster to my closet.”

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Your education may take unusual

forms during the coming weeks. For example, you could receive crunchy lessons from velvety sources, or tender instructions from exacting challenges. Your curiosity might expand to enormous proportions in the face of a noble and elegant tease. And chances are good that you’ll find a new teacher in an unlikely setting, or be prodded and tricked into asking crucial questions you’ve been neglecting to ask. Even if you haven’t been particularly street smart up until now, Cancerian, I bet your ability to learn from uncategorizable experiences will blossom.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: “If you love someone, set them free,”

said New Age author Richard Bach. “If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.” By using my well-educated intellect to transmute this hippy-dippy thought into practical advice, I came up with a wise strategy for you to consider as you re-evaluate your relationships with allies. Try this: Temporarily suspend any compulsion you might have to change or fix these people; do your best to like them and even love them exactly as they are. Ironically, granting them this freedom to be themselves may motivate them to modify, or at least tone down, the very behavior in themselves that you’re semi-allergic to.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: In 1892, workers began building

the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. But as of August 2017, it is still under construction. Renovation has been and continues to be extensive. At one point in its history, designers even changed its architectural style from Neo-Byzantine and Neo-Romanesque to Gothic Revival. I hope this serves as a pep talk in the coming weeks, which will be an excellent time to evaluate your own progress, Virgo. As you keep toiling away in behalf of your dreams, there’s no rush. In fact, my sense is that you’re proceeding at precisely the right rate.

own personal Amnesty Holiday. To celebrate, ask for and dole out forgiveness. Purge and flush away any nonessential guilt and remorse that are festering inside you. If there truly are hurtful sins that you still haven’t atoned for, make a grand effort to atone for them — with gifts and heart-felt messages if necessary. At the same time, I urge you to identify accusations that others have wrongly projected onto you and that you have carried around as a burden even though they are not accurate or fair. Expunge them.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: How many countries has the United States bombed since the end of World War II? Twentyfive, to be exact. But if America’s intention has been to prod these nations into forming more free and egalitarian governments, the efforts have been mostly fruitless. Few of the attacked nations have become substantially more democratic. I suggest you regard this as a valuable lesson to apply to your own life in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Metaphorical bombing campaigns wouldn’t accomplish even 10 percent of your goals, and would also be expensive in more ways than one. So I recommend using the “killing with kindness” approach. Be wily and generous. Cloak your coaxing in compassion.

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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: You know about the Ten

Commandments, a code of ethics and behavior that’s central to Christianity and Judaism. You may not be familiar with my Ten Suggestions, which begin with “Thou Shall Not Bore God” and “Thou Shall Not Bore Thyself.” Then there are the Ten Indian Commandments proposed by the Bird Clan of East Central Alabama. They include “Give assistance and kindness whenever needed” and “Look after the well-being of your mind and body.” I bring these to your attention, Sagittarius, because now is an excellent time to formally formulate and declare your own covenant with life. What are the essential principles that guide you to the highest good?

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Here’s a definition of “fantasizing”

as articulated by writer Jon Carroll. It’s “a sort of ‘in-brain’ television, where individuals create their own ‘shows’ — imaginary narratives that may or may not include real people.” As you Capricorns enter the High Fantasy Season, you might enjoy this amusing way of describing the activity that you should cultivate and intensify. Would you consider cutting back on your consumption of movies and TV shows? That might inspire you to devote more time and energy to watching the stories you can generate in your mind’s eye.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: In 43 cartoon stories, the coyote named Wile E. Coyote has tried to kill and devour the swift-running flightless bird known as the Road Runner. Every single time, Wile E. has failed to achieve his goal. It’s apparent to astute observers that his lack of success is partly due to the fact that he doesn’t rely on his natural predatory instincts. Instead, he concocts elaborate, overly-complicated schemes. In one episode, he camouflages himself as a cactus, buys artificial lightning bolts, and tries to shoot himself from a bow as if he were an arrow. All these plans end badly. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: To reach your next goal, trust your instincts.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: You temporarily have cosmic permission to loiter and goof off and shirk your duties. To be a lazy bum and meander aimlessly and avoid tough decisions. To sing off-key and draw stick figures and write bad poems. To run slowly and flirt awkwardly and dress like a slob. Take advantage of this opportunity, because it’s only available for a limited time. It’s equivalent to pushing the reset button. It’s meant to re-establish your default settings. But don’t worry about that now. Simply enjoy the break in the action.

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Dear Dan: I’ve been wondering: Since there are lesbians out there who occasionally crave cock, does the reverse also happen? Are there gay men who occassionally crave pussy? — This Possible? Dear TP: There are gay men who watch football — hell, I have it on good authority that some gay men play football, TP. So anything is possible. (Also, there are lots of lesbian-identified bisexual women out there, a smaller number of gay-identified bisexual men, and a tiny handful of bisexual-identified football fans.) Dear Dan: I’ve been seeing a lot of articles in the media about men “dropping out of the dating-and-marriage game,” and the conclusions always point to porn as the culprit. This seems like a simplistic explanation. Do you have an opinion on the effect of porn on men? — Pondering Porn Dear PP: I dropped out of the forming-opinions-about-porn game — far too busy consuming porn these days, PP. It’s the only way to keep myself sane here in Trumpsylvania. Dear Dan: I have only one concern about Donald Trump getting impeached: Do we get Mike Pence? Is he not just as bad? Or worse? On a more personal note: I don’t think I’ve gotten a good night’s sleep

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since Trump got elected. I wake up every morning next to an avid, Fox News– watching Trump supporter. I’m married long-term (35 years!) to a man who pulled a political one-eighty. This is about to make me crazy. Really. I’m not kidding. Do you have any suggestions for me? I don’t want to DTMFA. Although after a most nauseating discussion over dinner, I did actually give it some thought. — Liberal Grandma Dear LG: Mike Pence, as awful as he is, oscillates within a predictable band of Republican awfulness. The reason no one is getting any sleep these days — not even folks who don’t wake up next to Trump supporters — is because no one can predict what Trump will do next. Not even Trump. That’s what makes his presidency such an existential nightmare. As for your husband, LG, your choices are binary and rather stark: Either you divorce his ass and spare yourself the grief of listening to his bullshit, or you stay put, learn to tune out his bullshit, and cancel out his vote

in 2018 and 2020. Dear Dan: I’m a 26-year-old woman. I started dating a fantastic guy a month ago, blah blah blah, we’ve already talked about marriage. The problem is that his dick isn’t up to par size-wise or stayinghard-wise. He was aware of this before I came along, and it made him an enthusiastic and skilled oral performer to make up for it. So for now everything’s great, plenty of orgasms, and we’re lovey-dovey. But eventually I’ll need that filled-up feeling and I’ll have to ask for some dildo/extender/strap-on action. The question is when to ask. He’s a secure guy, and we’ve both been honest about our flaws. If I wait too long to ask, it might make him think I’ve been faking the whole time. And if I ask too soon, I could scare him off or make his performance anxiety worse! How do I know when the right time is? — Half Full Dear HF: If you were talking about marriage after a month, HF, odds are good this relationship is doomed anyway. So go ahead and ask for dildo/

extender/strap-on action now. Don’t say, “Circling back to your subpar dick, darling, I’m gonna need some compensatory dildo action soon.” Instead say, “I’m into penetration toys, and I’m looking forward to getting into them with you — getting them into me, getting them into you. Anything you want to put on the menu, darling?” Dear Dan: Two friends can hook up with a girl or two girls from a bar and have a threesome or a foursome. But can two brothers — with opposite sexual preferences — hook up with a girl and a guy from a bar? Would this be considered wrong? No touching between siblings would occur. — Basic Bros Dear BB: It would be considered wrong by some — but those people aren’t you, your brother, or the girl and guy you hope to pick up together. Personally, BB, I can barely get an erection if one of my siblings is in the same zip code; I can’t imagine getting one with a sibling in the same room. But if you’re comfortable doing opposite-sexual-preferencey things in close proximity to your brother, go for it. On the Lovecast, Dr. Samantha Joel on the psychology of ending relationships: savagelovecast.com. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.

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his August, astrological wonders abound. With Perseid’s meteors whizzing overhead, Mercury in retrograde, a partial lunar eclipse behind us and a full solar eclipse yet to come, the sky is calling. It’s drawing us out of our routines, pulling “oohs” and “aahs” from our lips and bringing us into something like ritual as hundreds of thousands of people hop in their cars and lock up the highways on a pilgrimage to the path of totality. Perhaps it’s Annie Dillard who offers the best (and simplest) words to explain the compelling sense of wonder the sky can inspire, specifically a total solar eclipse, in her essay, “Total Eclipse,” offering several nuggets of poetic wisdom: “Seeing this black body was like seeing a mushroom cloud. The heart screeched. The meaning of the sight overwhelmed its fascination. It obliterated meaning itself … you find what our sciences cannot name or locate, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil.” Or, more simply, “the sun was going and the world was wrong.” A total solar eclipse is a remarkable reminder that the world is different than how we understand it, bringing a forced return to the Platonic truth that all we can know is that we know nothing. And, as the moon covers the sun and transient darkness falls, we are transported to a different reality, a moment as passing as the rest but somehow and obviously eternal. As our world is transformed, so are our thoughts and we become painfully and viscerally aware that the universe is full of wonder more than anything else. And yet, spectacular as such phenomena are, they are but one of innumerable astrological events that would blow our minds wide open day after day after day. On August 21, at the moment when the moon covers the sun, the stars will be revealed. If you let your eyes rove to meet them, you will see, among others, the luminous Dog Star (“sirius” in Latin) twinkling in the southwest sky. Also known as Sirius A, it is just 8.6 light years away from our sun, making

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it the closest star to the Earth and the brightest in its sky. For the last 70 days, Sirius A has been hidden from sight as its orbit coincided with the Sun’s — an annual concurrence that ancient societies around the world, namely the Egyptians and other African peoples, interwove with their lives both agriculturally and spiritually. Setting in the spring and rising at the end of the “dog days of summer,” the rise and fall of Sirius A marked the coming and going of the growing season. Its heliacal rise in the autumn was also seen as a moment of death, rebirth and resurrection, imbuing human spirit with the wisdom that links the lowly to the lofty — a lifecycle of a single seed to all of the heavens. For the Dogons of Mali, West Africa, Sirius holds the origins of the universe, but not in the bright star seen with our naked eye, rather in its invisible and adjacent white dwarf star, Sirius B. The Dogon possess specific knowledge of that star they call Po Tolo. They know it is dense, that it rotates on its own axis and can map its elliptical orbit, which they’ve been able to do for hundreds, if not thousands of years. They know because thousands

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of years ago the Nommos, beings from Sirius B, told them so. Ever since, generations of Dogon have lived to protect and pass on this knowledge. Invisible to the naked eye, modern science did not confirm the existence of Sirius B until 1970, although they had suspected its presence for about a century. The intense luminosity of its neighbor, Sirius A, makes it exceedingly difficult to spot Sirius B, but in the last 50 years of observation bolstered with modern technology, all of the Dogons’ astrological knowledge of the star has been confirmed. A goddess among the Nommos also brought a botanical gift to the people of Earth — cannabis. This, its Latin name, is an homage to this origin story, as the word translates to “the two dog plant.” As dog is man’s companion in this world, so too does dog accompany a Dogon to the afterlife, and, as such, cannabis is said to be man’s access to universal wisdom. There is speculation that cannabis is indeed otherworldly. With no genetic precursors, it seems to suddenly and randomly appear in the fossil record about 12,000 years ago. It is the only plant in existence that displays its gender physically. There is no near-genetic relatives to the plant — the closest being the strawberry; delicious, yes, but considerably less potent. Of course, science is unlikely to posit, entertain or investigate such speculations. But, in legend “you find what our science cannot name or locate.” For time immemorial ancient cultures and civilizations all around the world have told stories about the star origin of specific plants, including cannabis, that link us to a supernatural wisdom. Just as the total eclipse of the sun, these psychedelic star plants are likewise capable of returning our minds to a place beyond science and rational habit. Still rooted in notions of an ordered existence, it reveals our place in a universe that is much bigger than our comprehension — one in which the movements of the heavens can still surprise us, bring us to our knees in awe and reaffirm not our knowledge, but our connection with the rhythm of the universe.

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hat’s in a name? When it comes to marijuana strains, results vary — sometimes spectacularly. And according to a story in Marijuana Business Daily, the marijuana industry has about had its fill of it. There are thousands of marijuana strain names. Each one is supposed to refer to a specific type of pot, but frequently pots WikimediaCommons with the same name differ dramatically in terms of genetics and the types of cannabinoids they contain. As a result, increasing numbers of industry participants are starting to view strain names as “unreliable indicators” of a plant’s genetics and cannabinoid makeup. Moreover, plants — even within the same strain — “don’t always come out the same,” according to Autumn Karcey, president of Cultivo, a Los Angeles cultivation consultancy. “I can take Sour Diesel from four of my friends and I can take Mimosa or Clementine from multiple people, and if I genomically test it, it’s going to be drastically different from person to person unless they all have the same cut,” she added. Sean Myles, an agricultural scientist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and colleagues compared hundreds of pot plants and their breeds and found major inconsistencies, according to the paper. The study found that in about one-third of the cases where they had two producers offering plants

with the same strain name, the samples weren’t genetically identical. The problem arises because the marijuana business doesn’t have industry-wide codes or ways of enforcing them. And more and more consumers want to know what’s in their pot. So producers and vendors are attaching more importance to “cannabinoid profiles,” which state which cannabinoids are present and in what quantities, than to strain names. But what should go into a cannabinoid profile? For openers, they should tell you how much THC and CBD is in the product. Most strains sold in Colorado have that much on the label, and if they don’t, vendors will tell you if you ask. But there are dozens of psychoactive cannabinoids in marijuana, whose presence or absence can make a difference in the medicinal and recreational properties of a plant. Only a few of these are even tested for. Ditto for terpenes — aromatic oils that modulate the effects of cannabinoids, give various marijuana strains their distinctive odors, and play a role in defining the differences between sativas and indicas. There are more than 100 terpenes in pot, and many of them are also produced by other plants, which is why marijuana strains with “blueberry” in their names smell like blueberries, for example. These are rarely listed, tested for or mentioned on the labels.

As a consumer, I’d like to know the THC and CBD content of the marijuana I’m buying, as well as the content of any other cannabinoids that are present in less than trace amounts, especially if they have subtle psychoactive effects. I would also like to know what terpenes are present and in what amounts, also especially if they have psychoactive effects. Most important, I would like to see the industry agree on the cannabinoid/terpene profile that characterizes a particular strain. That way I could have some confidence in what I’m getting when I buy a particular strain. And, again as a consumer, I would be very disappointed if strain names were abandoned. I want to be able to buy pot by name, but I want the names to mean something. And I don’t want to be buying pot that’s using aliases — like privateers sailing under false flags — or named pot that varies from batch to batch. Today’s marijuana industry is largely made up of boutique producers and vendors, and most of us like it that way. But the industry worries about whether it will be displaced by “Big Marijuana,” which would be based on the business model of “Big Tobacco.” (Pot prohibitionists also routinely raise the specter of this happening.) Just guessing here, but if it were to happen, it would be because consumers would be looking for the sort of product consistency and quality assurance that a big company can provide — often by dumbing down their products. The way to prevent this from happening is for the industry to get together and form a trade association that can certify what’s in various strains with some precision. Producers and vendors can then label their products as meeting those standards. This need not be done on a national level to be successful. If the main players in the Colorado industry were to do it (or in any other state that has legalized) it wouldn’t be surprising if other states adopted the system.

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