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Highroad How bad public policy happens by Jim Hightower

f you inject a stream of raw ignorance into a vat of gaseous arrogance, then jolt the mixture with 1,000 megawatts of malevolence — what does it produce? Answer: Donald Trump’s Executive Order of April 12. King Donald the First has been in a deep pout over negative articles about him in the Washington Post newspaper, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, King of

the Amazon.com empire. King Trump fired off several rounds of angry tweets assailing King Bezos, including a potshot claiming that Amazon is “ripping off the post office” by underpaying for the millions of its packages the postal service ships. Tweets aside, Trump had the firepower of the federal government at his fingertips, so he’s now arrogantly using the government to escalate his personal spat with Bezos. By executive order, he set up a federal task force to conduct a pernicious political inquisition into “our money losing post office,” particularly looking at the “pricing of the package delivery market.” This reflects Trump’s vast ignorance. Far from being a money loser, the U.S. Postal Service has actually been earning about a billion dollars a year in profit.

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His false claim of “unsustainable” postal losses stems from a 2006 political ploy by right-wingers who want to destroy the public service. They passed a law dictating that USPS pre-fund retiree health benefits 75 years into the future — covering benefit costs for workers who haven’t even been born, much less hired and retired. This adds a totally hokey “expense” of up to $5 billion a year to the USPS corporate ledger, creating the fake “loss” Trump is now so bombastically citing as the rationale for his destructive inquisition. Sometimes public policy inadvertently turns bad, but when it’s based on ignorance and arrogance, policy inevitably goes bad. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 23 , 2018 7

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n 1968, the world turned upside down. There was political upheaval on all continents. Rebellions were almost entirely unplanned and unorganized. Popular historian Mark Kurlansky wrote: “What was unique about 1968 was that people were rebelling over disparate issues and had in common only that desire to rebel, ideas about how to do it, a sense of alienation from the established order, and a profound distaste for authoritarianism in any form. Where there was communism they rebelled against communism, where there was capitalism they turned against that. The rebels rejected most institutions, political leaders and political parties.” In Paris, a student revolt led to a general strike by almost 10 million workers. Student strikes in Italy forced the prime minister and his cabinet to resign. In Mexico City, peacefully demonstrating students were massacred by government forces. Was it dozens or possibly several hundred? In the communist country of Czechoslovakia, a palace revolt produced a reformist government promising “socialism with a human face.” Suddenly, there was freedom of the press. Previously taboo subjects were publicly discussed. Former political prisoners confronted their torturers in the media. In Poland, students and young workers were inspired and demanded change. They were brutally suppressed.

In August, the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring. A resistance arose and persisted for quite awhile. While Soviet tanks rolled into Prague, anti-war protesters were beaten on the streets of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. Protesters renamed the city “Czechago.” That year, America seemed to come apart at the seams: A horrific escalating war in Vietnam; huge anti-war demonstrations; the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy; riots in countless cities. History seemed to be speeding up but toward what destination? Revolution or fascism? Those extreme options seemed plausible... at least to us lefties. In 1968, I wasn’t old enough to vote but supported third-party candidate Dick Gregory for president. He was a black stand-up comedian who had become a civil rights and anti-war activist as well as a perceptive social commentator. He gave a mesmerizing performance at CU’s Macky Auditorium which featured a grimly serious political narrative dramatically interspersed with jokes. I vicariously identified with the Yippies or the Youth International Party. Historian David Farber notes that they “began as a dope joke, as a half-cocked combination of hippie ethos and New Left activism, only the real joke was that the inventors meant it.” They engaged in street theater and see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 9

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political pranks like throwing dollar bills from a gallery onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. When the anti-war movement started organizing for demonstrations during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the Yippies got a lot of attention because of their wild tongue-in-cheek threats. They were going to put LSD in the water supply and send the city on a “trip.” They would paint cars to look like independent taxis that would kidnap delegates and take them to Wisconsin. They would dress up like Viet Cong and walk through the city handing out rice. The law enforcement response was massive — 12,000 Chicago cops, 5,000 soldiers from the Army and 6,000 National Guardsmen. Some 10,000 anti-war demonstrators came out, many from the Chicago area. This turnout was disappointing to the organizers. Chicago SunTimes columnist Mike Royko wrote, “Never before had so many feared so much from so few.” The city refused to grant permits for people to protest legally. What followed was a “police riot,” according to a report by a federal government commission. The report stated that there was “unrestrained and indiscriminate police violence on many occasions, particularly at night. That violence was made all the more shocking by the fact that it was often inflicted upon persons who had broken no law, disobeyed no

order, made no threat.” This violence was broadcast live on national TV. “The whole world is watching,” the demonstrators chanted. But a Gallup poll showed that 56 percent approved of the police behavior while 31 percent did not. In a Harris survey, 66 percent agreed that Mayor Daley was right in the way he used police against the demonstrators, against only 20 percent who disagreed. Historian Clay Risen says that the riots that shook 125 American cities after Dr. King’s assassination had a big impact. “Law and order” became “the single most important domestic concern in the 1968 presidential race (after April). Polls repeatedly put it at par with, and even above, the Vietnam war.” Meanwhile, Hubert Humphrey was heckled nearly everywhere by antiwar protestors. Nixon became president in a close election. Since the 1930s, Americans shared a common sense about the world coming out of the New Deal. This was now ending. 1968 had been a year of rebellion across the planet. At the end, the rightwing triumphed. It has been 50 years but the spirit of ’68 still haunts us. Todd Gitlin points out that in 1968, people didn’t sing the songs or debate the politics of 1918 half a century before. He says, “Yet ’68 — and the 1960s in general — have played a part in virtually every presidential election.” This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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recent article in the Daily Camera, the biannual Trends Report published by the Community Foundation of Boulder County, and the 2013 report by the Latino Task Force all point to the fact that, in Boulder County, there continues to be an education achievement gap between white students and minority students. These reports have also shown that achievement gaps closely reflect the differences between students receiving free and reduced lunches and those not eligible for that type of assistance. A smaller percentage of minority students attend college than white students. The Colorado Department of Higher Education set a goal to close the gap by 2025 and to raise attainment to 66 percent for Hispanics, Native Americans and African Americans. Both the Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley School District (BVSD and SVVSD) have worked hard to close the achievement gap. For example, SVVSD has been offering full-day kindergarten. There are several reasons why the achievement gap exists in the first place, and it will continue to be difficult to eliminate this unfortunate condition that not only harms students and their families but all of us — an educated population benefits society as a whole, as well as, businesses and our economy. Poverty plays a crucial role as parents working two or more jobs have less time to support their children’s learning, and inability to provide adequate housing and nutrition are well documented to reduce the ability of children to perform well in school. Racism and white privilege also play a part that we have hoped would diminish. Learning requires self-confidence that is hard to come by when you are frequently harassed because of the color of your skin or other factors. There are too few teachers of color and even fewer people of color in administrative roles. This discourages young student from seeing a path forward for themselves. Adequate financial resources for education from preschool through college are a significant problem in Colorado. Often school resources, including teacher pay, are less in areas where significant percentages of families live below the poverty level. These are

areas that need more resources not less. With the complex mixture of state constitutional amendments, especially TABOR, it is hard to see these conditions being resolved any time soon. Fortunately, there are several nonprofits that continue to contribute to reducing the achievement and college attendance gaps. Some help students to continue on to post-secondary education, give hope to younger students and often produce community leaders. One such organization is the Hispanic Education Foundation (HEF), a board I served on. HEF has been awarding scholarships available to any graduate of the St. Vrain Valley School District since 1989. In total about $500,000 has been provided to award approximately 600 scholarships. As mentioned above, low family income has been a barrier to reducing the achievement gap and thus it has been HEF’s practice to select students first on the basis of needs but also on a number of other criteria. Go to heflongmont.com Another example is the Northern Colorado Immigrants United (formerly the Northern Colorado Dreamers United). This non-profit is unique in that it has raised money to provide scholarships for its own members. In five years it has raised $27,000 to support mostly DACA recipients as they attend college, work and provide community service. The Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition (CSPC) trains home day care providers to prepare children in their care to be ready for kindergarten and first grade as documented by an independent study. Low-income families depend on home day care facilities because they cannot begin to afford more formal day care. CSPC will provide this training in Longmont beginning in fall 2018. CSPC is currently providing Parent Leadership Training at seven Title I elementary schools in Longmont. This program brings teachers and parents together to improve communication and education results. Go to coparentcoalition.org. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Bob Norris has been a Longmont resident since 2000 and served on the board of the Hispanic Education Foundation. Boulder Weekly

letters Solutions for climate change Last week, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication reported that 68 percent of U.S. adults support a revenue-neutral carbon tax. This is heartening news. And, it increases prospects of passing legislation in Congress to address our climate crisis, evidenced by all the recent fires, floods and extreme weather events happening in our state and in our world. We are approaching the tipping point for the political will to enact a market-based solution to climate change like a revenue-neutral carbon tax, also known as Carbon Fee and Dividend. If there is a good time to contact Senator Cory Gardner about this, now would be it. Solutions exist at both the local and national levels. Let’s use them. Randy Compton/Boulder

Support the Northwest rail This is an important moment for the Northwest rail. There is a potential to use a portion of the local and multi-modal shares of the transportation initiative being proposed for the 2018 ballot as seed money to leverage funding for our FasTracks corridor. This ballot initiative, if passed, is proposing to fund multimodal projects throughout the state. Since we will be spending this tax money on transportation projects anyway, shouldn’t it be used for the transit that we really want? Positive movement has already been made in developing a more attainable, lower cost start-up plan for the NW corridor — the Peak Service plan. This plan would provide three trains each in the morning and evening rush hours. The FasTracks plan for the full buildout of 55 runs a day was estimated to cost $1.1 to $1.5 billion. On the other hand, this start-up plan’s construction cost as per RTD’s estimate would instead be approximately $300 million. We are urging that this much more attainable, startup figure become part of the focus of the local and multi-modal shares of the initiative. Your voice needs to be heard on this issue. Please contact your local elected officials and County Commissioners. Let them know that you want a portion of the local and multi-modal funding shares from the proposed transportation ballot initiative to be committed to funding the NW corridor Peak Service Plan. We deserve our rail. Judy Lubow, RTD Director and Joan Peck, Longmont City Council member

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omething about the City of Boulder’s agricultural land leasing process is unsettling some of the area’s local food farmers. The process is neither objective nor transparent enough, they say. According to them, it can be opaque and exclusive, and it needs amending. Back in May 2018, a number of these farmers gathered at the Boulder City Council Chambers to address the Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) Board of Trustees about these concerns. “I own a lot of pitch forks, but we didn’t bring any of them,” said Andre Houssney, drawing some nervous laughter from the boardroom. “That’s because we don’t want to burn anything down or get anyone fired, I just want us to be better about following through with what we say we want to do.” Houssney, who owns and operates a local regenerative food farm on east Arapahoe, was referring to OSMP’s 2017 Agricultural Resource Management Plan when he said that. Among many other objectives outlined in the plan, OSMP committed to establishing and restoring diversified vegetable farms, pastured livestock farms, and micro dairies

“in accordance with city values, community demand and land availability.” Essentially, OSMP stated an intent to phase out commodity farms as ag-leases on open space turn over, and phase in more local food producers, to “respond to the community’s desire for locally grown food.” And indeed, even on the City’s agricultural leasing webpage, where farmers can apply to lease land from OSMP, it says that preference is given to operations that produce and sell food locally. Between that, and Boulder’s recent carbon sequestration pilot project, it seemed that the City was taking steps to make Boulder a paradigm of local food production and sustainable farming practices. But Houssney and other farmers don’t see it happening that way. To them, it doesn’t seem like the status quo is changing at all. To them, it seems like OSMP is still giving preference to the same livestock and commodity farmers to whom they have been leasing for decades. Before getting into that, though, it’s important to understand why OSMP’s agSee OPEN SPACE Page 14

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leases are so vital to Boulder’s food farmers. This isn’t just a matter of wanton business expansion or land greed for these agriculturalists. It’s a matter of having the option to grow at all. “[OSMP] essentially now has a monopoly on affordable access to farmland,” explains Karel Starek, who owns and operates The Golden Hoof farm with his wife, Alice. They too attended May’s Board of Trustees meeting to express their own concerns about the leasing process. “One of the only options is to work with the City or the County,” says Karel. The land OSMP owns and leases represents the only affordable option for growth for most of these farmers (besides leaving Boulder County outright and starting fresh somewhere else). It is a situation borne from over 50 years of OSMP acquiring land — an initiative that has generally benefitted this community. Since its establishment in 1967, OSMP has acquired over 45,000 acres in and around Boulder, buying property when it becomes available and receiving property through donations, in order to “preserve and protect it for future generations.” Just over 14,000 acres of that City-owned land is designated for agricultural use. This is what OSMP leases out to local farmers. John Potter, the resource and stewardship division manager of OSMP, explained that most City ag-leases are three-year leases valued usually between $5,000-$10,000. And considering that the average price for purchasing a farm in Boulder is $1.9 million (18 percent higher than the average anywhere else in Colorado), the ag-leases are essentially land subsidies from the City to the farmer. It’s a subsidy that OSMP decides who to grant to and for what purposes; a subsidy that most local food farmers cannot expand — or sometimes even survive — without. That shouldn’t be any cause for doubt, though. Especially in light of the County’s and the City’s recent carbon sequestration pilot project that aims to establish large-scale carbon farming on OSMP land, and the Agricultural Resource Management Plan that resolves to expand local regenerative food operations. Given these circumstances, it would be reasonable to assume that the tide is turning for Boulder’s local food farmers. That they, not the conventional commodity farmers, might soon operate a much larger portion of OSMP’s agricultural land. This, however, appears not to be the case. Not yet at least — as Houssney has become painfully aware. His farm, Jacob Springs, sits on the corner of 75th and Arapahoe. It is a small family-owned and -operated regenerative food farm specializing in grass-fed protein, dairy, fruit and vegetable produce. It is exactly the kind of operation that the City committed to expanding through OSMP leases in their Agricultural Resource Management Plan. Nevertheless, Houssney, who has the necessary equipment, capitol and aspirations to expand his farm, has been denied land 11 times by OSMP over the last few 14 August 23, 2018

years. Despite attempts to improve his lease proposals each time, and despite outbidding some of the other proposals, Houssney has had no success. Slowly but surely, he says, Jacob Springs is being boxed in — surrounded on all sides by privately owned land he can’t afford and City-owned land he can’t seem to access. “We’re regenerative farmers, we care a lot about this and yet we’ve never been awarded any land to rent,” he says. Houssney’s frustration is easy to understand when you look at some of the proposals that have beaten him out. Take for instance, the King-Hodgson property, adjacent to Jacob Springs. Houssney’s proposal to OSMP

was filled with long, thoughtful answers to the questions; answers that included banquets of applicable information, photos and an offered bid amount of $10,600 annually for the property. Which, for one of these City agleases, is a relatively high offer. The winning bid, by contrast, can only be described as low-effort: short, hastily answered and, perhaps most curiously, it bids only $5,500 for the property. In another winning proposal, a local hay farmer who was awarded a lease explicitly suggested spraying a controversial polymer known as polyacrylamide (PAM) directly into a ditch on the property. According to an analysis of acrylamide in field crops published in the Journal of Chromotographic Science, PAM is both a “neurotoxin and an animal carcinogen.” That farmer did not respond to an interview request or return phone calls. While the City remains adamant that PAM’s have never been used on any of their properties, the suggestion to use them did not stop OSMP from granting the lease, leaving Houssney scratching his bearded chin in confusion. Houssney’s story of rejection has other local regenerative food farmers like Golden Hoof ’s Karel and Alice

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Starek worried. Their farm could eventually face a similar challenge. Ag-lease bids are “We have 75 acres of City Open Space adjacent to more likely to be our farm,” Karel says. “And I have no idea what it’s accepted if the farmer can going to take for me to get a lease on that property demonstrate ability when it goes to bid.” and experience with the land in question. And considering how seldom these leases turn over, that is a disconcerting prospect. Once a farmer is granted a lease by OSMP, it is almost always renewed and almost never revoked. Turnover is both very low and very slow. Over 80 percent of the farmers who have managed to lease land from OSMP have renewed their leases for over a decade, some for more than 40 years. That means that when OSMP decides whom to grant an agricultural lease to — be it a conventional commodity farmer or a smaller-scale organic or regenerative food farmer — it is sowing the future for this farming community. It establishes an agricultural trajectory that will define the farming scene in Boulder for years to come. So, in understanding why they are so important, how hard they are to obtain for regenerative food farmers, and how long these leases tend to last, what is it OSMP looks for in a lessee? What is the criteria for deciding which proposal gets the property? Potter, from OSMP, explains, “It really depends on the situation ... often it’s kind of specific to the property.” Generally, though, Potter says, the City takes into account the quality of the proposal, if the potential lessee has the necessary equipment, whether or not that person already has an agricultural operation, how close that is to the property up for bid, and what the status of that prior operation is. OSMP’s proposal submission page for ag-leases confirms this: “Bids are evaluated on their feasibility, compatibility with OSMP management goals, the bidder’s ability and experience, and the bid amount.” Trust also plays a large role in these decisions, though, Potter admits. Often times OSMP awards agricultural leases to farmers they know, and who already have at least one agricultural lease from them; never mind how subjective a value like “trust” can be. “Because these leases are so small in value typically, there’s no City procurement policy or anything that applies to them,” he says. “So, it can really just be a lease negotiation between the ag staff and a prospective candidate.” A direct negotiation, in other words, between City officials and the farmer to whom they intend to lease land. This cuts out the proposal process, significantly reducing the number of farmers who even have a chance at obtaining access to affordable farmland in Boulder. That might seem unfair to some of these potential lessees, and even the people of Boulder at large: City-owned land is a public resource. Distributing it directly to farmers who already have a relationship with OSMP might be easily misconstrued as favoritism by some. Potter did clarify, though, that while these direct negotiations do happen, it is not how the majority of lease proposals are decided. The majority of leases are Boulder Weekly

news granted based on the lease proposals, he says. Regardless, whether through direct negotiation or through the proposal process, all of OSMP’s agricultural leases are overseen by the same two employees. They are the ones responsible for managing all of OSMP’s agricultural properties, and they are who decide which farmers get leases, which is apparently a lot of work for that twosome, who, Potter says, feel “stretched thin” a lot of the time. “We have two ag-resource coordinators that oversee up to 30 agricultural leases and 50,000 acres,” says Potter, adding, “Their time is very limited as you can imagine.” So, naturally, those two ag-resource coordinators often follow the path of least resistance when it comes to choosing a lessee: they select farmers they already know. Farmers they already lease to and who, more often than not, are conventional commodity farmers. “The status quo is the easiest,” Alice Starek of The Golden Hoof says. “But if their stated goal is local food, then why can’t they put more of their budget towards supporting it?” Potter remains confident in OSMP’s progress toward their stated goals, though. He explains that since 2010, OSMP has leased 17 properties to farmers throughout the area. “Around half of those ended up with existing tenants and half with new tenants we had no prior experience with,” he says. Of the nine leases that went to new tenants, four were certified organic food operations. So, some new local food farmers are in fact getting their shot, instead of being shut out. But to Houssney, the Stareks and other farmers like them, that isn’t enough. They want to see changes to the proposal process itself. “Take everything on a bid-by-bid basis,” Houssney suggests. Put forth the criteria, he says, then actually score those proposals blindly, objectively and award the property to whomever fits that criteria the best. “Then, even without the ag-management goals we’ll be moving in the right direction.” Without that kind of objectivity, direct negotiations and decisions made behind closed doors (by just two people, no less) understandably warrant scrutiny, and are subject to doubt. To be fair, it is also true that between 2011 and 2016, 19 out of 24 organic farming operations in Boulder County failed, despite significant investments to support them. That is an 80 percent failure rate, and could be seen as a reason for the City to be wary of leasing to such operations. Houssney, however, doesn’t think that failure rate is reflective of the process of organic food farming, so much as the farmers to whom the City chose to lease land. “The City is often very gun shy. And they’re gun shy of farm failures. And there have been a few leases they’ve given out to local food farms that have failed, but that’s not necessarily justification for just not giving the leases to [local food farmers],” says Houssney. “If [the City] did a better job of picking the qualified farmers, they maybe wouldn’t fail as often.” Potter and the City seem to be open to refining the process, though. At the Board of Trustees Meeting in May, Potter agreed that there are opportunities for “continuous improvement” and said that they would be looking at the feasibility of things like transparency and open bidding. “Before we put out any additional bids for any lands, we’re going to go through this effort to look at what we’re doing and make sure we’re doing it the right way,” he told the Board, after the farmers had said their peace at the meeting. It’s a goal Potter reaffirmed in later discussions. “We’re committed to continuous improvement on our process for how we negotiate leases,” he says, restating that the process is actually in review right now, since there is a lull in lease turnover. “It gives us the chance to make any kind of improvements that might make sense or that we might have the capacity to handle before we put any [agricultural leases] out at the end of this year or early 2019.” What that means remains to be seen. On Potter’s authority, it could mean a more transparent and objective bid and proposal process for leases on OSMP’s agricultural land. Or, it could mean doing away with the proposal component altogether, shifting entirely toward a direct negotiation model. If it’s the former, Boulder’s bounty of local food farmers might be able to rest easy, working with a fair and unambiguous ag-leasing process. If it’s the latter, however, then the status quo is unlikely to erode — and their frustration might just come to a boil. Boulder Weekly

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fter more than a year of planning, the first stage of a single-track, nonmotorized multi-use trail connecting Boulder to Winter Park is ready for public input. Known as the Indian Peaks Traverse, the proposed 60-plus-mile uninterrupted trail — open to people on foot, equestrian riders and mountain bikers alike — will link travelers from Boulder to the Marshall Mesa Trailhead, then west through Eldorado State Park and into Walker Ranch. From there it’ll connect with Nederland’s West Magnolia trail system, linking the Peak-to-Peak trailhead to the School Bus Trail near Eldora’s Ski Area, then up Corona Pass, and from there, into downtown Winter Park. Most of these trails and trail systems are already in place, and most travelers can already get from Boulder to Winter Park with some creative finagling. But at the moment, many extended road segments interrupt the wilderness experience and have created issues with route finding and ease of access. Streamlining and improving the connecting trails will capitalize on such infrastructure and improve the long-distance backcountry travel access and experience for folks. The Indian Peaks Traverse project began in early 2017 when a group of volunteers assembled to set the uninterrupted trail’s vision into action. The project has support from Boulder County Parks and Open Space, the Boulder Ranger District, U.S. Forest Service, City of Boulder Open Space, Mountain Parks Department, and Eldorado State Park, in addition to non-governmental organizations including the Headwaters Trails Alliance, the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance, Boulder Trail Runners and the Colorado Mountain Club. The first stage of the project — a bike-able connector between Eldorado State Park and Walker Ranch — will be discussed at the project’s first public open house, scheduled for Aug. 28 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Boulder’s Meadows Branch Library. Staff will discuss the “Eldorado to Walker Connector” and answer any questions, though no formal presentation will happen; the public is welcome to drop by anytime to provide input.

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Suggesting a remedy Pinatubo ejected a spectacular 20 million tons of sulphate aerosols into the upper atmosphere to reduce sunlight by 2.5 percent and to lower global average temperatures by around 0.5 Celsius (approximately .8 degrees Fahrenheit). Such eruptions seemed to suggest a possible method for managing global warming. The deliberate release of aerosols into the stratosphere could, some scientists argued, counter the threat of global warming from ever greater emissions of greenhouse gases as a consequence of the ever more extensive combustion of fossil fuels. And global warming certainly presents a global danger to food supplies: Researchers have repeatedly shown that, as temperatures soar, crop yields suffer. The researchers then asked the question: What happens to crops when sunlight is scattered back into space? They analyzed the levels of aerosols, all the available data for solar irradiation, and the statistics for crop yields for 105 countries from 1979 to 2009, to find that

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as the sunlight bounced back into space in 1982 and 1991, yields from rice, soy, wheat and maize all suffered. A bit more work with computer simulations showed them that losses from reductions in sunlight would match any benefits crops might gain from a cooler climate. Intentional geo-engineering would fail to deliver the hoped-for extra food on the global table. “Shading the planet keeps things cooler, which helps crops grow better. But plants also need sunlight to grow, so blocking sunlight can affect growth. For agriculture, the unintended impacts of solar geo-engineering are equal in magnitude to the benefits,” said lead author Jonathan Proctor, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. “It’s a bit like performing an experimental surgery; the side-effects of treatment appear to be as bad as the illness.” Researchers have repeatedly examined geo-engineering solutions to the challenge of climate change. Humans have inadvertently warmed the planet, so surely they could intentionally cool it again with some ambitious technology, the reasoning goes.

Recurrent snags But almost every examination of the potential benefits and handicaps of such an approach has been discouraging: either the technology won’t deliver benefits, or it could prove harmful in unexpected ways. Partners in the latest study include Solomon Hsiang of UC Berkeley and Marshall Burke of Stanford University. In the past few years the two have looked closely at the economic and social consequences

of global warming, to find that temperature increases are likely to affect many people’s incomes; that as the thermometer rises, so does the danger of social conflict, depression and suicide. “Unknown unknowns make everybody nervous when it comes to global policies, as they should,” Hsiang said. “The problem in figuring out the consequences of solar geo-engineering is that we can’t do a planetary-scale experiment without actually deploying the technology.”

Learning from nature “The breakthrough here was realizing that we could learn something by studying the effects of giant volcanic eruptions that geo-engineering tries to copy,” Hsiang continued. Sunscreen by sulphate aerosol is not the only possible geo-engineering solution; and food security is not the only thing threatened by rising temperatures. The latest study is unlikely to be the end of the debate. The authors suggest more research into the human and ecological consequences of geo-engineering, both good and bad. “The most certain way to reduce damages to crops and, in turn, people’s livelihood and well-being, is reducing carbon emissions,” Proctor said. And Hsiang added: “Perhaps what is most important is that we have respect for the potential scale, power and risks of geoengineering technologies. “Sunlight powers everything on the planet, so we must understand the possible outcomes if we are going to try to manage it.” This story originally ran on Climate News Network.

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arryl Purpose isn’t used to failure. He’s recorded eight stunning albums of folk music, enjoys a close relationship with his daughter, owns two beautiful homes overlooking Nederland, can call more than a handful of interesting folks close friends, and holds a place in the Blackjack Hall of Fame — that last accomplishment a fortunate result of being one of the fastest card counters in the world. Success is really more Purpose’s style. But today, on a blazing early afternoon in the first week of July, Purpose sits at a table at Salto Coffee Works with an somber look on his face. “We’re canceling Camp Ned,” he says. Camp Ned is Purpose’s baby, an intimate songwriter retreat he’s held for the past four years at his property in Nederland. Some of the best songwriters in the country — many of whom Purpose counts as friends — come and teach workshops for students. There’s hiking and home-cooked meals, impromptu jam sessions and late-night talks about life and songwriting. It brings together all of the things Purpose loves: songwriting, Nederland and his friends. But things just didn’t work out this year, he says. He hasn’t slept well, worrying himself sick the night before over whether canceling is the right choice, but in the end he knew it was. He’s told his daughter, Kari, and a few other people involved with the retreat, but he’s got more phone calls to make. “I’m not used to failure,” he admits. Purpose is the kind of person who’s never believed he couldn’t do something, not because he thinks so highly of himself, but simply because it never occurred to him to limit himself with doubt. He was able to pick up the guitar again after a growth on

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his pituitary gland wreaked havoc on his hormones and left his hands bound in splints; he survived being chased by Russian mobsters after a blackjack game in Moscow; separated throughout her childhood, Purpose repaired his estranged relationship with his daughter. In the end, Darryl Purpose always finds a way to win the day. So the evidence is overwhelming: Purpose will find a way to host Camp Ned again, even if it has to wait a year. “I hope so,” he says, but the wound is still fresh, his frustration palpable.

A world-class card counter, Darryl Purpose took to wearing disguises, like the one pictured at left, and using aliases to play blackjack at casinos around the world.

Pulling no punches The first time I met Purpose was almost a year ago. Sitting in plump leather chairs in a different corner of Salto — a favorite morning haunt of his — he talked about losing his sister and mother earlier in the year, just weeks apart from one another. Together, he and Kari navigated the loss the best they could. Purpose and his three siblings grew up in Southern California with a doting, “movie-star beautiful” single mother. A smart kid with a mind for mathematics and raw talent on the guitar, Purpose liked to play cards in his spare time. For Christmas when he was 16, his mom slipped a paperback copy of a blackjack strategy book called Beat the Dealer into her son’s stocking. “I’ve since forgiven her,” Purpose likes to joke. Though the strategy of blackjack fascinated Purpose, his passion was music. After high school he enrolled at California State College as a classical guitar major, but it wasn’t long before persistent pain in his left hand sent him to the doctor where he was ordered to wear a splint. Undeterred, Purpose continued to practice until pain in his right hand sent him back to the doctor for a second splint. His hands were tied, so to speak; Purpose made the only decision he could and dropped out of school. It would be years before he picked up the guitar again, and several more before a doctor he’d never met walked up to him after a concert one night to tell him he showed all the signs of a rare hormonal disorder known as acromegaly, caused by a mass of cells pressing on the pituitary gland. Always a big guy, the diagnosis finally explained his oversized hands and feet, his protruding brow, and the joint pain Purpose had known his whole life. (After endless trips to endocrinologists, the benign mass was finally removed in 2007.) But at 19 years old, his college career cut short, Purpose headed for Vegas in his ’62 Chevy with nothing but his guitar, $50 and an extra shirt. It seemed like as good a time as any to try out those blackjack strategies he’d read about. “I’d like to say blackjack is the only real job I’ve ever had,” Purpose says, but it wouldn’t be true. He had one other “real job:” selling ballpoint pens over the phone. It wasn’t glamorous, but it supported eve-

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ning outings to play blackjack. “I got a paycheck each week, went out and played blackjack — the kind of blackjack I’d learned in this book — met some people, learned more, practiced a lot. I got my 10,000 hours in well before I could legally gamble, and one thing led to another and all of a sudden I was on the biggest, baddest, most famous blackjack team of all, Ken Uston’s team.” Uston ruled the blackjack world in the ’70s and ’80s by developing and fine-tuning techniques for team card counting. His teams were so good they were banned from casinos across the globe and often had to don disguises and use aliases to play — Purpose included. “Oh, I wouldn’t be allowed into any casino in the world under my own name now,” Purpose admits. “By the time I was 21 I was banned from most casinos in the world.” With Uston’s team, Purpose acted as a spotter, counting cards using the high-low strategy (every card is assigned a value of +1, -1 or 0) and signaling to another player — the “big player” — when the count was good, i.e., favorable to the player. Purpose was capable of counting an entire deck in 10 seconds, placing him among, if not atop, the fastest card counters on the planet. It’s not illegal to count cards in the U.S., but casinos object to the practice, if you can believe it. Card counters whose games are “too hot” will often be asked to chose another game in the casino — anything but 21. “There’s this myth that people who can count cards are geniuses and once they know how to count cards they have like an ATM card with casinos,” Purpose says. “It’s exactly the opposite. I could teach you to count cards in an evening, but to go into a casino and make it work, as a career... it’s the opposite.” (Purpose did try to teach his daughter and me blackjack a few weeks later, the three of us seated at his kitchen table with a high-low chart between us so we could determine the value of the cards. Purpose patiently answered our questions, only looking slightly annoyed once, maybe twice. The plan was to go to

Black Hawk and actually play a game of blackjack, but Kari and I just couldn’t get comfortable with it, so we abandoned the idea, to the extremely mild disappointment of Purpose.) He traveled the world with Uston’s team, winning and losing thousands of dollars a game — sometimes tens of thousands of dollars (he once won $150,000, which was, for a while, the largest win in a blackjack game in history). But Uston’s ego and drug addiction made him difficult to work with and within a couple of years Purpose was running his own blackjack teams. He was taken to many a back room by casino owners, saw his teammates take beatings and was once questioned by Scotland Yard — all in a hard day’s work. “It’s very much a job,” Purpose says. “I don’t see the people in casinos as humans at all. I see it all as a cartoon and I’m stepping into the cartoon and I know my role in the cartoon and I have to play it out and do what I’m supposed to do to win.” Purpose even brought his mom to work from time to time. “At one point we used her as big player for when we were too well known to bet large amounts of money. We would often bring in someone else and we would signal them across the table how to play, so my mother had a stint in that. And she loved it,” he says, drawing out the O for effect. “Loved, loved, loved it. I think it was a highlight of her life.” Purpose never fought any demons when it came to gambling; it was a job. One he was good at. One that took him around the world and let him randomly purchase a motorcycle and ride it off into the sunset. Casinos weren’t playgrounds, and they weren’t his office. In some ways, they were more like a battlefield, Purpose a professional soldier. “I see what casinos do and I see people’s lives ruined from them. And I see no usefulness in what a casino does and I kind of hate them and I kind of use that [as motivation],” he says, “and to put an exclamation point on that, on the last night of my sister’s life she walked into a casino with $1,000 and she had written a note that if she had won a certain amount she would have paid her bills and started her life over — and she didn’t win. So she took her life that night. “Just another reason why I don’t pull any punches when it comes to casinos, to beating them.” see PURPOSE Page 26

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Darryl Purpose never totally abandoned blackjack, not even to this day, but he says he was “always leaving” blackjack “back then,” always looking for the next challenge or adventure. It wasn’t until 1986 that he took his first sabbatical from professional blackjack to focus on nuclear disarmament activism. From March to November he marched alongside hundreds of other people from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., in the Great Peace March. In 1987 he joined a two-week Soviet-American peace march from Leningrad to Moscow, where his band, Collective Vision, played the first Western rock concert in the Soviet Union, sharing the stage with James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, the Doobie Brothers, Santana and several Soviet bands. “To this day it’s my biggest show ever, although it happened years before I started a career in music,” Purpose says. It was during his walk across the U.S. when Purpose first experienced the beauty of Colorado — Nederland, to be exact — and he told himself he would live here someday. After he began his music career in earnest, he would stop by venues like Swallow Hill in Denver and Avogadro’s Number in Fort Collins while on tour, and he knew Colorado was his heart’s home. Never one to just talk about things he wants to do, Purpose sent an email to his fanbase asking if anyone had a room to rent in Colorado, and sure enough, a fan in Manitou Springs was able to help. By this time he had been back in the music game for nearly a decade, proudly living the life of a “starving artist,” recording his first record, Next Time Around, with little more than a guitar to his name. “I had just been music, music, blinders on, everything was all about the music,” Purpose says. “And yet at the end of 10 years I was like, I’m not sure I can do this for the rest of my life because I hadn’t...” He pauses to arrange his words. “If I had made it a little higher, if my career had gone just a little better, maybe.” So it comes as no surprise that when he got a call from a friend saying there was money to be made in online blackjack, Purpose jumped at the chance to go back to a game he knew he could win. “We didn’t even have an internet connection at the house I was living at in Manitou Springs, but I went to the Starbucks in Colorado Springs,” he says. “Now this was the Starbucks run by serious right-wing Christians, sort of like being in Salt Lake City with the Mormons, a little Stepford-y but very nice. I set up my computer in there and all of a sudden I was making a couple hundred dollars a day, and then a couple thousand a day and towards the end of it I had set myself up with three computers and I remember so well in the beginning of it I only had money for one soy latte — I couldn’t get a second. “At the end of that year I had won a million dollars in that Starbucks.” It was success that allowed Purpose to buy a house in Nederland — one he still lives in today — and focus on music.

Camp Ned When we first met a year ago, Purpose called his reasons for starting Camp Ned “selfish, wanting everything; wanting to bring music and songwriting to Nederland. Putting together all these things I love: friends, music, songwriting, the Rocky Mountains.” His friends see it a different way. Paul Zollo is a songwriter, perhaps best known for his comprehensive book Songwriters on Songwriting, a collection of interviews with greats like Bob Dylan and Paul Simon talking about their writing process. Zollo has co-written dozens of songs with Purpose, including all the songs on Purpose’s latest album, 2016’s Still The Birds. “In this business, I’ve known so many songwriters, super famous songwriters, but I have never met anyone quite as generous as Darryl,” Zollo says over the phone on a recent Sunday morning. “It makes him really happy to be generous. He’s been so generous to me, bringing my son and me [to Nederland] so many times, but also in terms of working. He has so much respect for songwriting, for the craft of it.” Zollo says writing with Purpose is a “joy,” an experience he sought out when he met Purpose back in the ’90s on the L.A. singer-songwriter scene. “He’s a great composer of melodies, a remarkable guitarist and a wonderful singer — he’s got that James Taylor voice. It’s just so tender.” For Purpose, co-writing with folks like Zollo is a part of his appreciation for the craft, a way to sharpen his own skills. “I can be lazier with my own work than I can with a co-write,” he admits. “With a co-write I’m all in and I make it as good as it can possibly be and I get very inspired. I love teamwork and being on a team. That’s the way we play blackBoulder Weekly

jack and that’s the way we write songs.” Apparently it’s a family thing. Last year Zollo co-wrote with Purpose’s daughter, helping Kari rework a song her father had originally written for her called “Child of Hearts.” “Not only did she ask us for help, but she was a tough task master,” Zollo says. “One or two nights before we premiered the song [at Camp Ned’s closing concert], it must have been 2 a.m. I was exhausted and she was like, ‘no, no, no, we’re not going to bed yet.’” Zollo helped rearrange the melody and harmony while other songwriters — Tracy Grammar, Kevin Faherty and Peter Mulvey — helped mold the lyrics. The end result, Zollo says, “was without a doubt one of the most poignant and beautiful moments at Camp Ned. “Darryl is a guy with a lot of passion and emotion, but being a blackjack player he doesn’t always show it on the surface. I wasn’t sure how he would react to [the song]. Darryl was so moved; I could see it bubbled inside him. There were tears in his eyes.” Purpose was the only person at Camp Ned who didn’t know Kari had reworked her dad’s song. She called her version “King of Hearts.” “You will walk me down the aisle/ You’ll tear up and start to smile/ It wasn’t really all that hard/ For both of us to show our cards. “The mystery of a gambler’s grace/ Has brought us here face to face/ So what you never pushed me on that swing/ This lucky girl has found a king” Purpose says hearing it was “the best moment of my life.” It took a while for him to play it live (it felt a little like “sacrilege” to share it with strangers), but last December he played “Child of Hearts” and “King of Hearts” back to back as his closing number during a show at Avogadro’s Number in Fort Collins. “We planned it last because I knew I wasn’t going to be able to play anything after it — and I just barely got through it,” Purpose says. “Since then I’ve played it at every show and I still barely get through it.”

“It’s not a failure,” Zollo says of canceling this year’s gathering. “Songwriters are sensitive people, hypersensitive... “Darryl Purpose has had such tremendous success not only with music but with blackjack playing. Any perceived failure just doesn’t work for him.” Purpose says he has new ideas, new projects to help him move forward; maybe a new album working with a new producer and some fresh local talent. “I always thought with music, maybe someday — and I still have that idea — maybe someday I’ll write a song that will change the world,” he says. In a life of millions won and millions lost, relationships broken and rekindled stronger than ever, it’s easy to argue that Darryl Purpose has already changed the world for everyone he’s ever met.

A song to change the world A few weeks after he tells me he’s canceling Camp Ned, Purpose and I chat on the phone. He’s in better spirits, though he admits he’s “taken a few steps back.” He got a call from a friend and spent six weeks in casinos playing blackjack. He seems a little sheepish about it at first, but there’s also a hint of satisfaction in his tone. Before he hit the blackjack tables, a few of the regular teachers from Camp Ned still got together at Purpose’s to develop a plan for a Camp Ned gathering next year. Things aren’t “100 percent,” Purpose says, but they’ll know before the end of the year whether Camp Ned will live again in 2019. Boulder Weekly

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Swimming in a deeper pond The welcome unpredictability of Shakey Graves by Angela K. Evans

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don’t really wear a lot of suspenders anymore,” Alejandro Rose-Garcia, aka Shakey Graves, tells me from a small town in British Columbia with “a pretty dramatic landscape.” While out touring with his latest release, the selfdescribed “gentleman from Texas” admits his musical moniker is a character he’s built, an image he’s projected out into the world. And his musical endeavors under the alias are, or at least should be, just as malleable as the image itself. Rose-Garcia made a name for himself as a oneman show, playing the guitar while simultaneously using his heels to play a kick drum embedded in an old suitcase. (The contraption has inspired a plethora of DIY videos and instruction blogs so people at home can build their own.) And while he still brings it on the road, and plays some of those old songs with it during his live show, the suitcase drum is no longer the cornerstone of his sets, or the persona of Shakey Graves. Neither are the suspenders. “Of course there are the people who are like, ‘I want you to play a suitcase drum for an hour and a half in front of me,’ but I’m just not going to,” Rose-Garcia says. “Not that I can’t, but I wouldn’t.” Fans shouldn’t be too surprised, however. He announced his newest album, Can’t Wake Up, via a December 2017 tweet admonishing his followers to “sell your suspenders” in anticipation of a “new sound.” The record is a surreal, dreamlike exploration of fantasies and fears, backed by a full band and replete with a distinct rock-pop sound that stands apart from his earlier folk-Americana roots. “We’ve been playing old songs for many, many, many moons,” Rose-Garcia says, somewhat sarcastically, the tone of his voice changing, and I think I hear him smiling. “It’s nice to have some variation. It’s a deeper pond.” There’s a natural evolution to the Shakey Graves catalogue — perhaps the product of a certain maturity that comes with playing the older songs a lot, or maybe the predictable progression of an artist shedding his skin. Musicians, like people, are apt to change after all. “I’m not trying to be dramatic and throw away stuff; it’s more of just integration,” Rose-Garcia says. “I figured if I didn’t do it sooner, it would be much harder to do it later. If I just farted out [another] folk album I didn’t really want to

make, it would just end all of it.” The new work is a concept album, Rose-Garcia says, albeit a rather impressionistic one. It pulls on the strings of the imagination, testing the thin veil between reality and fantasy, belief and despair. It’s meant to challenge the listener to question their own perception of the world and themselves. “I’m not not trying to step on toes,” he says. “If music pushes your buttons maybe you should check out why?” The new songs explore endless existential topics from God to monotony to self-deprecation to depression, “which I think are all constant talking points for everybody, especially in this weird world,” he says. “I don’t find sadness something to stay away from. In the same way, it can be a happy-sounding record about depression. There’s plenty of room for that.” Inspired by his artistic parents, both involved in the local Austin theater scene, Rose-Garcia was a theater kid himself in high school, then an actor in Los Angeles, before devoting himself to music and breaking into the Austin scene in 2011. “They’ve always made a career in the arts seem like an obtainable life, be it just surviving or whatever. I think it takes a lot more for some people to wrap their mind around [that],” he says. “[But] what else am I going to do? Play hockey? I don’t know how to play hockey. I’m not a lawyer, I’m not very good at math. I build stuff. I like building things with my hands and creating things and music is just as fun and malleable as clay or any other medium.” His skills as a builder are prominently displayed on the cover of Can’t Wake Up — a dreamlike city scene of purples and pinks features the artist shadowed in the foreground donning a bathrobe. It’s a miniature diorama Rose-Garcia built himself, reminiscent of a Meow Wolf installation and using what he knew of glass and cel animation, along depth of field techniques, to make the surreal landscape. “I thought it sounded like a fun hobby project so I went for it,” he says, explaining the idea was pitched to him by a film director friend after he couldn’t quite get the effect he was looking for through traditional photography. It’s this willingness to explore new realms of his own creativity, and the confidence that it will yield something worthwhile, that serves Rose-Garcia well on Can’t Wake Up. Shakey Graves, like its creator, is anything but predictable.

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rt has come full circle for author Tod Davies, at least a portion of it has. This month, the fourth book in her History of Arcadia series, Report to Megalopolis: or The Postmodern Prometheus, hits shelves and a tiny voice Davies heard nearly 20 years ago finally gets a bullhorn. “Arcadia is about trying to maintain a small world of happiness and partnership in the midst of an enormous world that insists on rolling over everything and being dominant no matter what it destroys,” Davies tells Boulder Weekly. “We have reached the end of being able to dominate nature,” Davies continues. “At a certain point, it’s either give it up and die, or figure out how to work with it.” Davies started working on the Arcadia series roughly 18 years ago; around the time she was producing two documentaries for Britain’s Channel 4 with partner Alex Cox, a filmmaker and former University of Colorado Boulder professor. First was 1999’s Kurosawa: The Last Emperor, a survey of the famed Japanese filmmaker and his films. Or, as ability of violence, while either dismissing Davies puts it: “The great individual or censoring sex, became repulsive. genius documentary.” At the center of this repulsion: James Davies says she and Cox had no issue Ferman, the director of the British Board finding filmmakers and cineastes rhapof Film Classification. As Davies recounts, sodic about the genius of Akira Ferman sought to censor Emmanuelle Kurosawa. But it was not their voices that once he discovered young women were changed Davies’ approach. routinely attending the films. “[Kurosawa] “He said he is all about this wanted to protect one individual these young genius,” Davies women,” Davies ON THE BILL: Tod Davies Reading & recalls, “with this recounts. “Well, Signing. 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, BookBar 4280 Tennyson St., Denver, one little tiny why didn’t anybookbardenver.com voice, his daughbody say there ter, going: ‘You was nothing but Kurosawa: The Last Emperor with extracts from Emmanuelle: A Hard know, whenever young men going Look. 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27, he would go away to see the spaInternational Film Series, Muenzinger for a film, me and ghetti Westerns?” Auditorium, University of Colorado Boulder, internationalfilmseries.com my mother and For the documy siblings would mentary, Davies Reading and author reception. 7 p.m. enlisted Nadine go: Hooray! Tuesday, Aug. 28, Inkberry Books, 7960 Niwot Road, Suite B-3, Niwot, inkberryStrossen, then Hooray! He’s books.com president of the gone! He’s gone!’” American Civil Davies would Liberties Union, learn to hone in to debate Ferman. on that little voice. With her next docu“Strossen wiped the floor with him,” mentary, 2000’s Emmanuelle: A Hard Look, the lens wasn’t focused on the one individ- Davies says with pride. ual genius, but on the workers, all women, As Strossen pointed out, Ferman’s who were just trying to make a buck. censorship was just another way of conEmmanuelle was a popular French trolling the women in the audience. softcore series, initially starring Sylvia “Do these women have to be proKristel. Cheaply made, the Emmanuelle tected from this?” Davies says, recalling series was sneered at by cinephiles and Strossen’s argument. “It’s their choice to academics; the same people, Davies points go watch a rape scene. ... It’s not the out, who praised the low-budget spaghetti same as being raped. Any more than a Westerns. For Davies, the cultural acceptboy going to see somebody cutting off

The end of domination?

Tod Davies returns to Boulder with one book, two movies, three talks and an essential provocation by Michael J. Casey

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somebody’s head [in a spaghetti Western] means that the boy’s going to go cut off somebody’s head.” Channel 4 made Davies cut the debate between Ferman and Strossen. But a specific idea had taken root in Davies’ mind, one that would encourage her to keep listening to those tiny voices. “In a lot of ways, that turn-of-thecentury thing [Kurosawa released in 1999, Emmanuelle released in 2000] is what’s interesting to me,” Davies explains. “We’re coming out of the great individual man period, and we’re in the period of #MeToo, and we’re in the period of #TimesUp.” Davies plans to address this period of change on Aug. 27, when she visits the International Film Series at CU for a free show. Kurosawa will be screened, as will extracts from Emmanuelle. And for those wanting to hear more about Arcadia and Return to Megalopolis, Davies will be doing readings Sunday, Aug. 26 at BookBar in Denver and on Tuesday, Aug. 28 at Inkberry Books in Niwot. Both readings include a presentation on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a key reference point for this installment in the Arcadia series. “[Frankenstein] is a cry for partnership and a cry for humanity,” Davies says. “For recognizing the humanity of other people rather than using them for your own greatness.” To borrow a commonly misquoted phrase: History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. August 23 , 2018 31

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7:30 P.M. FRIDAY, AUG. 24, DAIRY ARTS CENTER, BOEDECKER THEATER, 2590 WALNUT ST., BOULDER, 303-440-7826.

6 P.M. SATURDAY, AUG. 25, HIGHLAND CITY CLUB, 885 ARAPAHOE AVE., BOULDER, 303-443-4430.

5 P.M. MONDAY, AUG. 27-SUNDAY, SEPT. 2, BLOCK 1750, 1750 30TH ST., BOULDER, 303-618-9778.

We are now deep in the Grapes & Grass Wine + Bluegrass Festival heart of music festival season, and Boulder sure knows how to make a music festival intimate. The Grapes & Grass festival combines wine and bluegrass in the beautiful surroundings of downtown Boulder at the historic Highland City Club. After the success of last year’s inaugural Grapes & Grass, this year’s festival is going to be even better, including kids activities from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., a larger main stage for musical performances, more food options, better bathrooms and an after party at Boulder Theater featuring hometown heroes the Gasoline Lollipops. General admission tickets start at $35 at grapesandgrassboulder.com.

Get ready to shake your Block 1750 groove thang and meet your community at Block 1750’s Block Party International Week. Every day of International Week offers workshops on dance, Colorado adventures, meals, parties, cyphers and performances. Guest teachers from around the world will teach workshops on all sorts of dance, from breaking to hip-hop to popping and locking. Head up to Estes Park with your new friends for an adventure on Aug. 29, or go on an epic night hike that same evening. After a week of dance and adventures, enjoy some food at the block party on Saturday, Sept. 1. And throughout all that fun, just remember: Block Party is about hugs, laughter, love, sweat and tears, all shared with diverse people from all over the world.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s The Dairy Arts Center will Office via Wikimedia present a gun violence Commons panel to inform and discuss the issue of gun violence from multiple perspectives, followed by a screening of the film Newtown. Released in 2016, Newtown looks at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut, came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history. The panel is a collaboration with Colorado Ceasefire, whose mission is “working for freedom from gun violence.” Panelists include Tom Nauser, a gun control activist and father of a Columbine shooting victim; David Kaufman, Boulder Police public service officer; Andrew Romanoff, president and CEO of Mental Health Colorado; and artist Deborah Nahman.

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Deborah Nehmad

Deborah Nehmad is based in Hawaii and describes her practice as a way to visualize and raise awareness of the enormous human cost of violence, war and injustice in our country. Nehmad will exhibit two bodies of work in the HandRudy and MacMillan Family Gallery with an emphasis on gun violence. What’s Wrong With Our Country shows Aug. 24-Oct. 7 at the Dairy Arts Center.

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location Art in Action: The Process of Design. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through September.

THURSDAY AUGUST 23

AIDEN BEATTY 8PM SYNC 9PM THE BEES TREES 10PM

Daisy Patton: This Is Not Goodbye. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 17. Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019.

FRIDAY AUGUST 24

THE JOSH GLENN EXPERIMENT 8PM WARREN KENNISON 9PM

Elements of Peace — by Marlene Siff. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Aug. 24. Through Oct. 7. Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.

SATURDAY AUGUST 25

FRANK MOORE 8PM COLLAPSING STARS & KLONE MANOR 9PM

Fragments of Places — by Yuge Zhou. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Aug. 24. Through Oct. 7.

SUNDAY AUGUST 26

Fuzzy Logic — by Jordan Vinyard. Firehouse Art Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Sept. 1.

DAVID HAKAN 8PM SHAY MARTIN 9PM NICK AUSTIN 10PM

Highlights from the Collection. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19. Honey — by Kristen Hatgi Sink. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. Hungry Birds: The Photography of David Leatherman. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 15th and Broadway, Boulder. Through Dec. 1. A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19. Lisa Oppenheim: Spine. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. A collection of early newspapers, restored cameras, artifacts and old-time commerce. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit. Mai Wyn Schantz: Magnetic North. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Oct. 21.

Nature Photography by Kirk Fry. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31. New Territory: Landscape Photography Today. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 16.

Paintings by Vivienne Douglas. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31. Patrice Renee Washington: Charts, Parts, and Holders. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. Processing — by Roberto Juarez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 16. Small Wood Sculptures — by Charles Counter. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 6. Transmission — by Derrick Adams. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. Terry Maker’s Magic Marks. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Sept. 23. What’s Wrong With Our Country? — by Deborah Nehmad. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan & Hand-Rudy Galleries, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Aug. 24. Through Oct. 7.

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Thursday, August 23 Music Aiden Beatty. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. The Bees Trees. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. David Booker. 6 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Fourth Thursday Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732. FreeMan Music Festival 2018. 7 p.m. Event Horizon Badlands, 32151 E. 88th Ave., Denver. Through Sunday, Aug. 26. Happy Hour — presented by Fox Theatre and Boulder Theater. 3 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-7465. The Higgs. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Ladies Night featuring Boogie Lights. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. MZG. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. NateWantsToBattle. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Night Spaces: An Evening of Chamber Music. 7 p.m. Boulder Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-442-1522. Ripe, The Other Black (free concert series). 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver.

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

Dan Cummins. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

Teresa Storch and Jenee Halstead. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

David Cross. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Highlands Comedy Show. 7:30 p.m. Sushi Hai, 3600 W. 32nd Ave., Denver.

Araby. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

High Plains Comedy Festival 6. 7 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Through Saturday, Aug. 25.

Back to Back Karaoke. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

I Killed the Cow. 7:15 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-6530. More show times at boulderfringe.org.

Becoming Who I Was. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. BoulderReads Tutor Orientation. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Chaos Theory (as it relates to family). 7 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-6530. Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 970-302-7130. Comedy Open Mic. 9 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017. Conversations in English Thursdays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Mindful Cinema. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Musical Storytime. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Nirvamlet. 7:30 p.m. Galvanize, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder, 810-569-1908. More show times at boulderfringe.org. Red Shoes. 6:45 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-6530. More show times at boulderfringe.org. Ruins of the Mystic Temple. 1:30 p.m. Rabbit Hole Recreation Services, 1156 W. Dillon Road, Suite 1, Louisville, 720-890-4242. Thursday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Tiles That Bind. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 720-749-2531.

Cultural Organizations Summit. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandoori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 970-302-7130.

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So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

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‘Monster Hit: 200 Years of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,’ a talk by author Tod Davies on why this classic fantasy horror story has kept its hold on enthralled audiences for two centuries and counting, is coming to Inkberry Books, in Niwot, on Tuesday, Aug. 28, at 7 p.m. Davies will also read from her latest book, the fourth in The History of Arcadia series, Report to Megalopolis or The Post-modern Prometheus, a worthy descendant of Shelley’s classic. See more on page 31. Thursday, August 23

Saturday, August 25

Jeanne Winer — Her Kind of Case. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.

An Evening of Fiction Book Talks & Signings — with Amanda Skenandore, Eldonna Edwards and Diane Byington. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 Colfax Ave., Denver.

Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver.

Friday, August 24 Teen Authors Panel — with Kelly Devos, Lisa Brown Roberts, and Rebekah Crane. 1 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Amber Tamblyn — Any Man. 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Sloan’s Lake, 4255 W. Colfax Ave., Denver. Historical Fiction Panel — with Amanda Skenandore, Eldonna Edwards and Diane Byington. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

Dan Hampton — Chasing the Demon. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 Colfax Ave., Denver. Sunday, August 26 Jack C. Buck. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Lija Fisher — The Cryptid Catcher. 3 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. James “Murr” Murray and Darren Wearmouth — Awakened. 4 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 Colfax Ave., Denver. Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver. Monday, August 27

Priscilla Costello — Shakespeare and the Stars. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 Colfax Ave., Denver.

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Jo Weldon — Fierce: The History of Leopard Print. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. Tuesday, August 28 Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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Kristen Iversen — Full Body Burden: Rocky Flats. 5:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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Tod Davies — Monster Hit: 200 Years of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. 7 p.m. Inkberry Books, 7960 Niwot Road (Cottonwood Square), Niwot. Hilary Jacobs Hendel — It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and more. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 Colfax Ave., Denver. Poetry Open Mic — Read your own poetry or from your favorite published works, sign up at 6:30 p.m. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 Colfax Ave., Denver. Anne Waldman — Trickster Feminism. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Wednesday, August 29 Summer Bookclub Night. 7 p.m. Boulder Book store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

FRIDAY AUGUST 24 8:00 PM

BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY 9:30 PM

LIQUID SKY: PORTUGAL THE MAN 11:00 PM

LASER QUEEN SATURDAY AUGUST 25

The Two-Step. 8:45 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-6530. More show times at boulderfringe.org.

The Foggy Tops Bluegrass Band. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Silent Disco Fundraiser: Centaurus Cheer Squad. 7:30 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-997-9548.

Urban Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, 1100 16th Street Mall, Denver, 720-272-7467.

Fusion Dance Party. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Spyscraper Album Release Party. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 716-785-7655.

Friday, August 24

Generations Sextet. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette.

Twentieth Annual NedFest Music and Arts Festival. 5:30 p.m. Jeff Guercio Memorial Ball Field, 151 East St., Nederland.

Music ABBA. 7 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 800-745-3000. Bonnie & The Clydes. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Butchering (album release show). 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. The CBDs. 6:30 p.m. Kathmandu Indian Restaurant, 110 N. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-1169. Charlotte Sass. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Chris Dismuke. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Cisco’s Kids & Black Water. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. The Complete Unknowns. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Culinary Hurly Burly. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 1624 Market St., Denver, 720-204-6082. Dixie Leadfoot. 7 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Harmonica Band. 10 a.m. Roosevelt Park, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-772-2094. John Mieras. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. The Josh Glenn Experiment. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Warren Kennison. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. You Knew Me When. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-396-1898. Events

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

Conversaciones en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Live Music! 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Conversations in English Fridays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Music & Movement. 10 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. ONDA. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Oracle Blue. 8 p.m. Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133. Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Jam Rock n’ Blues. 6 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St.,, Boulder, 720-606-1733. RTH (Rock the House). 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Dan Cummins. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Fun on the Farm: Cow-a-Palooza. 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Highway 66, Boulder, 303-776-8688. Grapes & Grass Wine + Bluegrass Festival. 6 p.m. Highland City Club, 885 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4430. see EVENTS Page 36

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New Kids on the Block: Beer, Spirits & Culinary Festival. 8 p.m. The Lobby, 2191 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-997-9911. Gun Violence Panel. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Playtime Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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The Producers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Sept. 30.

Teen and Tea Time. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4413120.

Boulder International Fringe Festival. Venues around downtown Boulder. Visit boulderfringe.com for a complete schedule. Through Aug. 26.

Reunion 65. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, University of Denver, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Through Aug. 29.

Disney’s The Little Mermaid. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 8.

Reunion ’85. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, University of Denver, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Through Aug. 25.

Music After Grass featuring Gasoline Lollipops. 10 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Akoma, Beat of the Heart; West African Drum and Dance. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 310-409-5821. Brothers Fortune. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Cody Sisters: White on the Blue CD Release Party. 7 p.m. The East Simpson Coffee Company, 414 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-652-7551. Collapsing Stars and Klone Manor. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Cosmic Mesa Live at Gunbarrel Brewing. 7 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732. A Day with Dexter Santos: Blues Workshop Edition. 1 p.m. Denver Turnverein Dance Center, 1570 N. Clarkson St., Denver. Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Frank Moore. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Grapes & Grass Wine + Bluegrass Festival. 6 p.m. Highland City Club, 885 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4430. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Joe Smith & The Spicy Pickles. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Josh Abbott Band. 8:30 p.m. The Grizzly Rose, 5450 North Valley Highway, Denver, 303-295-2353. Mojomama. 6:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Peter Sommer Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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Hit and Run: Musical Improv. 9 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver, 303578-0079.

Rooney, Mating Ritual (free concert series). 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. Woodbelly. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Yheti. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Events 8-Bit Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-997-9548. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

An Evening of Colorado Grown One-Acts — presented by Coal Creek Theater of Louisville. Coal Creek Theater of Louisville, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Through Aug. 25.

The Sunshine Boys. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Sept. 9.

Heisenberg — presented by Drala Productions. Dairy Arts Center, The Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Sept. 1.

Today Tomorrow and Forever: A Celebration of Patsy Cline. The Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont. Through Aug. 27.

The Lion in Winter — presented by Upstart Crow Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Aug. 26.

Vietgone. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Ricketson Theatre, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Through Sept. 30.

Newsies. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Aug. 26.

Waistwatcher, The Musical! Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Through Aug. 26.

Once Upon a Mattress. 7:30 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Sept. 2.

Woyzeck — presented by Germinal Stage. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Aug. 26.

Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863. Brew and Q. 2 p.m. Front Range Community College - Boulder County Campus, 2121 Miller Drive, Longmont, 303-678-3708. Create Your Own Monotype — with Professor Melanie Yazzie. 11 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Dahlia Flower Show. 10 a.m. Flower Bin Garden Center, 1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-502-4295. Dan Cummins. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. An Evening of Stand-Up Comedy. 6 p.m. 2300 Indian Peaks Trail, Lafayette. An Evening Under the Stars. 7:30 p.m. The Armstrong Center for Dance, 1075 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 303-837-8888. Flatirons Food Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-6530. How Did This Get Made? —with Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael. 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106,. Indian Peaks Comedy Night. 6 p.m. Indian Peaks Golf Course, 2300 Indian Peaks Drive, Lafayette, 303-518-4172. The Magic of Scotty Wiese. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Movie screening: Three Siblings. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Outdoor Cinemas. 7 p.m. Thompson Park, 420 Bross St., Longmont, 720-280-7228. Red Rock Ramblers Square Dancing. 7 p.m. Lyons Elementary School, 338 High St. (in back of School), Lyons, 303-823-5925. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Tour de Fat 2018 Denver. 12 p.m. Sculpture Park, 1736 Speer Blvd., Denver. Sunday, August 26 Music Ando Make Songwriter Showcase. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214770-9847. The Brevet, One Flew West. 4 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. Concert Series Presents: Classical Music of India. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. David Hakan. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-875-7514. see EVENTS Page 38

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Mandolin Orange. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing, 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

The Music Of Phish For Kids featuring Phour Point O. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Nick Austin. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. Open Mic/Jam — with Tom Kendrot, Jam and Jiggatones. 6:30 p.m. KCP Art Bar, 364 Main St., Longmont, 720-378-3292. Shay Martin. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Silent Bear Solo. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St. Gold Hill, Boulder, 303-443-6461. The Superheroes in Concert! 2 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 720-295-4866. Western Flyers. 6 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Events Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: National Theatre Live Encore. 1 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Free Aerial Open House. Noon. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle Unit 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272. Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Graffiti Art @ MAIN. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Monday, August 27 Music A Human Named David. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Jazz Jam at the Muse. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720352-4327. Kind Hearted Strangers. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Scott Martin CD Release Concert. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Piano Gallery, 3111 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-530-0398. The Singing Body — with Marta Aarli and Merlyn Holmes. 6 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Events Block Party 2018. 5 p.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-618-9778. Through Sept. 2. “Mis Pininos”/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Legit Knits @ MAIN. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Women of the West. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tuesday, August 28 Music eTown presents Amy Helm. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Taylor Maxwell. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. The Weird. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wednesday, August 29 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Finn O’Sullivan. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. A Human Named David: A Musical Evening Titled Peace: Thoughts, Expressions, Melodies. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Bluegrass Jam at Grossen Bart Brewery. 7 p.m. Grossenbart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave Unit A, Longmont. Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108. South for Winter. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Wednesday is Karaoke Night! 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. World Music Wednesday. 5:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-6715. Events Conversations in English Wednesdays — includes Beginner Group! 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Mad Scientist Day — with Tinker Art Studio. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Seed Saving Swap. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Support the Girls. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. No Man’s Land Film Festival. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Wednesday Night Square Dance. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020.

Wobblers & Walkers. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Jeremih. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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ere dies Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura). For 30 years he has been ON THE BILL: Ikiru on pushing pencils and stamping govern35mm. 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27, ment documents inside the cluttered International Film Series, offices of Tokyo’s City Hall. He has 75 Muenzinger Auditorium, days left to live (stomach cancer), a son who pays 1905 Colorado Ave., Boulder, internationalfilmhim no mind, and little more than a couple of series.com plaques to show for his life. Watanabe has nothing to lose and everything to gain. Ikiru, Japanese for “to live,” is one of the great existential masterpieces of the 20th century. Loosely based on Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich — but equally drawing on the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky — Ikiru asks if one can find meaning in a meaningless existence. Consider Watanabe’s place in Japanese bureaucracy: Show up on time and do no work. People come and go, they complain about rashes, unhealthy water, landfills and the like. They are shuffled from one department to the next, complaints are filed and, eventually, the problem goes away. Nothing is fixed, yet life moves on in the way only life can. Such is Watanabe’s life, day after day, for 30 years. And then one day, he doesn’t show up and, eventually, decides to do some work. Shimura, Japan’s greatest everyman actor, manages to give Watanabe a level of pathos rarely seen in such films. Griefstricken and terrified, Watanabe’s eyes stare into oblivion, wondering if anything awaits him on the other side. Then another thought: Was there any reason he was here, on this side, in the first place? Maybe not, and that’s far more terrifying. Ikiru is one of the The beauty of Ikiru isn’t that it sentimentalizes great existential masterpieces of the death; it’s how it looks critically at those who live 20th century. without contributing anything. If Plato supposed the unexamined life was not worth living, Ikiru wonders if a meaningless life is worse. That is more or less the emphasis of Watanabe’s wake two-thirds of the way through the film. In it, men drink heavily, wailing for Watanabe, enthrone his legacy and pledge to follow his lead and do more with their lives. The next day, the men sober up, go to work and return to their old ways. Director Akira Kurosawa presents these men with little irony. Disdain? Certainly, but it’s hard to hold too much contempt for people who are nothing more than a product of their environment. Working with screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto, who died at the age of 100 this year, Ikiru is a penetrating look at a society that has had too much humanity drained from it. It’s cold and bleak, and not even the pleasures of the flesh will help. Only selfless action will bring about a revelation, though even that will be shortlived. Epiphanies are always fleeting. They are just simple moments where we swing in a park and sing an old song to ourselves. We can’t ask for much more than that. And, maybe, we shouldn’t. After all, when we sober up in the morning, we have to go back to work. Boulder Weekly

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e appreciate any business that seeks to make vegan comfort food. For those who abstain from animal products, all too often that means abstaining from indulgence. But SOS Catering proves that need not be the case. Their jackfruit quesadilla is an exemplar of how to make vegan food please the soul. It starts with the seasoned jackfruit, which is commonly used as a substitute for pulled pork due to its slightly chewy consistency and earthy flavor. SOS adds that to a sweet BBQ sauce, and puts it between tortillas with a threecheese dairy-free blend and fresh jalapenos. The jalapeños are wickedly hot, adding more fun to the vegan party, and the cheese cools the palate off. $11.

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s I turned on Jay Road from 28th Street, I spied the small sign advertising the Diaz Farm and “artisan bread.” It seemed like an odd, out-of-way locale to find a new source of stellar dough. Jay Road is the divide where North Boulder urban starts to become rural. Other notable farms (including Black Cat) pop up as you drive east. When you walk, bike or drive onto the Diaz Farm dirt driveway, it doesn’t seem like a retail Pepe Diaz, destination. It’s owner of the Diaz Farm, the home of offers a variety Pepe and of produce to local customVeronica Diaz ers. and their family. Park near the farm store, a large room at the side of the house that is also the site of the micro Revival Bread Company. The patio full of picnic tables sits next to the newest addition, the Tierra y Fuego food truck. This is not your standard story of boy meets girl and they pursue their families’ agricultural and culinary traditions. Frankly, the couple knew nothing about farming, Veronica says. They also had little bread-making experience and had never operated a food truck. “I was an engineer for a gas equipment maker. We had never really gardened that

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much,” Pepe says with a grin. They moved from California and bought the acreage in 2015 to grow organic food for their family, but soon found they had a surplus. Diaz Farm was started to create community and offer sustainable produce grown in the neighborhood, not transported by truck. This year the bumper crop features organic kale, chard and tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic, summer squash, relleno-ready Anaheim chilies and salad mix. Step behind the house and you are on the farm, as more than 100 freerange laying hens and some geese move toward the visitor as one. Except for the background traffic hum, you’d never know you were only blocks from the hubbub at 28th Street and the Diagonal Highway. Most of the produce, eggs and bread goes to the CSA (community supported agriculture) members, and the remainder is available to the public. They started making bread three winters ago, taking advantage of Colorado’s recent Cottage Foods law. “Farming is slow in the winter so I started learning about bread baking,” he said. He studied the current bible of bread-making, Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza (Ten Speed Press) by Ken Forkish. Diaz uses clay baking dishes in his convection oven to craft a great crust for the real sourdough bread in several variations, including kalamata olive and jalapeno cheddar. I sampled an outstanding round loaf of walnut cranberry sourdough with a toothsome crust, a moist interior and a wonderful balanced flavor. He uses organic white flour with 30 percent ancient grains — kamut and spelt, which he freshly grinds as needed in a small mill. The bread undergoes a slow fermentation. “I start the dough out warm and then finish it cooler. That way it really develops more flavor,” he says. “We make 120 loaves a week in small quantities. When I shape dough in the morning it quiets my

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mind, almost like a meditation practice,” he says. Once the farm quiets in November, they start making crusty sourdough baguettes that some fans compare to the best loaves they sampled in France. On the day I visited, brisket, pork belly and chicken were in the smoker getting ready for tacos, tortas and burritos, which are sold every weekend. Tierra y Fuego is also open Tuesdays when most CSA members pick up their shares. “With the food truck we wanted to come full circle and cook with the food we grow and share our Mexican culture with our community,” he says.

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“Real tomatoes are an article of faith, a rallying point for the morally serious, a grail,” wrote Raymond Sokolov. If you take tomatoes seriously, you need to be at Boulder’s 2018 Taste of Tomato, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Aug. 25 at Growing Gardens, 630 Hawthorn Ave. This thoroughly homegrown event offers tastes of dozens of tomato varieties harvested that morning. You can be admitted free if you bring three or more medium to large tomatoes or 10-plus small or cherry tomatoes. They must be from one named tomato variety. Attendees taste and vote for

Bella La Crema Bistro and Butter Bar is opening soon in Lyons, serving 20 different flavored savory and sweet freshly churned butters along with buttermilk bread, ketogenic buttered coffee and small bites. ... Lunetta Italian Restaurant is open at 2785 Iris Ave., former location of Arugula, Laudisio and, long ago, A La Carte. ... Flower Child restaurant is open at 2580 Arapahoe Ave., much to the ironic amusement of actual Boulder flower children who frequented the Carnival Café, New Age Foods and other early natural foods eateries in Boulder. ... Sancho’s Authentic Mexican Restaurant is closing its Boulder location near the DMV, but their Gunbarrel location at 6545 Gunpark Drive offers the same menu. ... Denver’s Oskar Blues Grill & Brew hosts a Culinary Hurly Burly Aug. 24 starring Top Chef contenders Carrie Baird (Bar Dough), Brother Luck, and Ace of Cakes pastry whiz Duff Goldman. Proceeds will be used to purchase bikes and musical instruments for Denver school kids. bit. ly/thehurlyburly. ... Denver’s Call restaurant (which seats only 17 people inside) has been named one of America’s Top 10 Best New Restaurants by Bon Appétit.

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ew brewing nations hold a special place in brewers’ and drinker’s hearts quite like Belgium. From sour Flemish ales to high-octane Trappist brews, Belgium has an ancient and varied brewing history. None more so than lambic, a beer refined enough to gift over the holidays while being rustic enough to drink en masse in the warm of an autumn afternoon. Officially speaking, lambic is an appellation — like “Champagne” and “bourbon” — and the use of the l-word is strictly enforced and reserved for beers made exclusively in the Pajottenland region of Belgium. However, anyone can use the techniques of lambic brewing, and a recent American trend, called “Méthode Traditionelle,” emulates these Belgian brews in a New World setting. Frankly, the results are stunning and Susan France unlike anything else on the shelf. This is partly due to the strictures of lambic beermaking, which have remained relatively unchanged since the beer’s inception, notably “turbid mashing,” a labor-intensive process that tripled, quadruped and, in some cases, quintupled standard brewing times. The story of turbid mashing begins in 1822 with Belgian taxation on mash tuns, which drove brewers to buy the smallest tuns they could and jam-pack them with barley and wheat. Little water could be added, so a special siphoning system was created to brew the wort. It took a great deal of time, but this day-long brewing process produced long, nutrient-rich carbohydrates, the kind that could stand up to a long maturation process without spoiling. Once the wort was brewed, it was placed in a large open tub, called a koelschip, where airborne yeast would inoculate and ferment the wort. This makes lambic special from region to region, glass to glass. The brewers surrender control and let nature take its course; as it does in the next step, when the beer is racked into oak vessels for roughly a year. There, the all-important Brettanomyces chew on those long carbohydrates, rounding off rough edges and contributing subtle sour notes. The resulting beverage is something truly wild and fabulous. The ones produced by Primitive Beer in Longmont are smooth and tangy with a subtle honey note and a nose reminiscent of oaked Chardonnay; start with its Boulevard of Unbroken Green Lights. For those looking for slightly more carbonation and a gentle prickle of acidity, try Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales’ delicious Puzzle Palace 002. Produced in Belgium and easily found in liquor stores, Lindemans’ Oude Kriek (Flemish for “cherry”) adds lambic’s signature fruit to layer in flavors of sweet and sour, tart and tangy, vanilla and fruit-leather. Fruit is just another reason to explore these spontaneous ales. Both Primitive Beer and Black Project offer fruited variants, Primitive’s Mild Wizardry is made with plum, giving the beverage a slight brambly, earthy flavor. But the real beauty of these ales is how different they are from brewery to brewery, batch to batch, barrel to barrel. Hell, the beer even changes with each sip down the glass. Adventure is out there.

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hink of the things you take for granted in Boulder County. Have you ever been out driving or leaving the grocery store and stopped to look up at the Flatirons and realized, damn, that’s pretty? Have you ever been out on a run, lost in your own thoughts, only to realize that you’re, in fact, lost? Thanks for the miles of connected trails, Boulder County. Have you ever been away to visit friends and family and thought, holy hell, you guys are still drinking Miller Lite? If you’ve had any of those moments, you’ve probably also taken Modern Market for granted. Fast Casual™, as it were, has become so in vogue that it’s hard to separate the good from the bad anymore. But do you ever stop to think that Boulder’s own Modern Market has expanded across the country at lightning speed, yet has retained a menu that tastes good, makes you feel good and doesn’t hurt the wallet? It’s that exact feeling that Anthony Pigliacampo and Rob McColgran wanted to effect when they launched Modern Market (then Modmarket (long story)) in 2009. “(Rob) and I felt that there weren’t any options for fast food ... that wasn’t crazy expensive and that tasted really good,” Pigliacampo says. “We kept wanting it to be in the market. We said, ‘We’ll build it, and we know we’ll at least eat there.’ 50 August 23 , 2018

“We’ve grown a fair amount since then.” Anthony Pigliacampo That growth includes (right) and Rob McColgran started Modern 28 restaurants across the Market to bring good, country with two at local food to people at a lower price and in a Denver International comfortable setting. Airport. For two guys with no experience in the food industry, Pigliacampo and McColgran created their first restaurants with the guest experience in mind, while relying on quality, local ingredients to carry the menu. “Neither one of us had worked in a restaurant before,” Pigliacampo says. “When we first opened in Boulder, I would say we had a really good idea, and we didn’t know how to execute it. As time went on, we figured it out.” What helped, Pigliacampo says, is launching in Boulder. “Most people in Boulder live fairly full lives and are eating out a lot,” he says, adding that dining options at the time included only sit-down meals that took up an hour or more, or sitting at the Whole Foods cafeteria. Both are fine choices, but there was an obvious void of places to get local, healthy food quickly, affordably and in a nice setting, which appealed to that busy Boulder crowd. Now about that local, healthy food. Quality sourcing is what makes Modern Market work, but it presents a number of logistical challenges for the restaurant team, Pigliacampo says. “We were always buying whole ingredients, which aren’t challenging to get but you get a box of carrots, you Boulder Weekly

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sourcing and to giving employTweaking ees livable recipes requires months of testwages. It also ing and planallows Modern ning at Modern Market. Market to bring these high quality foods and practices to areas outside of Boulder County that don’t have the access to the repertoire of culinary offerings we enjoy. “Most of those places don’t have access to the kind of food we offer,” Pigliacampo says. “We feel strongly about the meals we serve. If you have our (food), you know you’re supporting a supply chain.” Part of the operations include a research and development test kitchen in Broomfield. There, Pigliacampo and company receive dozens of items every day from food suppliers. About 75 percent of the research done there is to improve recipes, Pigliacampo says. “Great example: we have avocado toast that’s about to roll out,” he says. “We had been using a specific seasoning blend — an everything seasoning blend we had custom-made. We found another vendor to take another stab. So this morning we were eating three different versions. That one has more garlic, etc., so we’re literally going through that level of detail on items all the time. “We buy enough stuff that even small changes are pretty complicated. We end up testing quite a bit.” The culinary team is able to test different greens against one another, for instance, and test food from different regions to see how, say, chicken will taste in Modern Market’s Washington D.C. shops versus their Texas shops. That constant testing extends to the eating habits of most of the people who work at Modern Market — Pigliacampo says he eats most of his meals there. “We’re all incredibly passionate about it. It’s one thing that makes our restaurant company really unique. We all really care about the food,” he says. “We care about it being as good as possible. If you eat it all the time you tend to notice areas where it could be better.”

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have for you may initially seem contradictory, but they are in fact complementary. Together they’ll help guide you through the next three weeks. The first comes from herbalist and wise woman Susun Weed. She suggests that when you face a dilemma, you should ask yourself how you can make it your ally and how you can learn the lesson it has for you. Your second burst of wisdom is from writer Yasmin Mogahed: “Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don’t repeat them.”

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APRIL 20-MAY 20: Speak the following declaration

aloud and see how it feels: “I want strong soft kisses and tender unruly kisses and secret truth kisses and surprise elixir kisses. I deserve them, too.” If that puts you in a brave mood, Taurus, add a further affirmation: “I want ingenious affectionate amazements and deep dark appreciation and brisk mirthful lessons and crazy sweet cuddle wrestles. I deserve them, too.” What do you think? Do these formulas work for you? Do they put you in the proper frame of mind to co-create transformative intimacy? I hope so. You’re entering a phase when you have maximum power to enchant and to be enchanted.

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MAY 21-JUNE 20: As you map out your master plan for

the next 14 months, I invite you to include the following considerations: an intention to purge pretend feelings and artificial motivations; a promise to change your relationship with old secrets so that they no longer impinge on your room to maneuver; a pledge to explore evocative mysteries that will enhance your courage; a vow to be kinder toward aspects of yourself that you haven’t loved well enough; and a search for an additional source of stability that will inspire you to seek more freedom.

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horoscopes for a while, you’ve gotten a decent education — for free! Nonetheless, you shouldn’t depend on me for all of your learning needs. Due to my tendency to emphasize the best in you and focus on healing your wounds, I may neglect some aspects of your training. With that as caveat, I’ll offer a few meditations about future possibilities. 1. What new subjects or skills do you want to master in the next three years? 2. What’s the single most important thing you can do to augment your intelligence? 3. Are there dogmas you believe in so fixedly and rely on so heavily that they obstruct the arrival of fresh ideas? If so, are you willing to at least temporarily set them aside?

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: “All the world’s a stage,” wrote

Shakespeare, “And all the men and women merely players.” In other words, we’re all performers. Whenever we emerge from solitude and encounter other people, we choose to express certain aspects of our inner experience even as we hide others. Our personalities are facades that display a colorful mix of authenticity and fantasy. Many wise people over the centuries have deprecated this central aspect of human behavior as superficial and dishonest. But author Neil Gaiman thinks otherwise: “We are all wearing masks,” he says. “That is what makes us interesting.” Invoking his view — and in accordance with current astrological omens — I urge you to celebrate your masks and disguises in the coming weeks. Enjoy the show you present. Dare to entertain your audiences.

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als. At this point, the apparent quest for a little extra readiness is beginning to lapse into procrastination. So I’ll suggest that you set a date for opening night. I’ll nudge you to have a cordial talk with yourself about the value of emphasizing soulfulness over perfectionism. What? You say you’re waiting until your heart stops fluttering and your bones stop chattering? I’ve got good news: The greater your stage fright, the more moving your performance will be.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: In all the time we’ve worked on diminishing your suffering, we may have not focused enough on the fine art of resolving unfinished business. So let’s do that now, just in time for the arrival of your Season of Completion. Are you ready to start drawing the old cycle to a close so you’ll be fresh when the new cycle begins? Are you in the mood to conclude this chapter of your life story and earn the relaxing hiatus you will need before launching the next chapter? Even if you don’t feel ready, even if you’re not in the mood, I suggest you do the work anyway. Any business you leave unfinished now will only return to haunt you later. So don’t leave any business unfinished!

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Are you ready to mix more business with pleasure and more pleasure with business than you have ever mixed? I predict that in the coming weeks, your social opportunities will serve your professional ambitions and your professional ambitions will serve your social opportunities. You will have more than your usual amount of power to forge new alliances and expand your web of connections. Here’s my advice: Be extra charming, but not grossly opportunistic. Sell yourself, but with grace and integrity, not with obsequiousness. Express yourself like a gorgeous force of nature, and encourage others to express themselves like gorgeous forces of nature.

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woman who got boobs but kept her dick. All that said, PTSA, discovering after years of bottoming that you enjoy topping certain types of men — masculine/muscular married guys who beg for your dick while wearing lingerie — doesn’t mean you’re “capable” of turning straight. Going from bottom to versatile isn’t the same thing as going from men to women. And being fascinated by a body part that typically comes attached to people, i.e., women, who fall outside your usual “erotic target interest,” as the sex researchers say, isn’t a sign that your uncles were right all along. In short, PTSA, you aren’t potentially straight — you’re gay and a little more complicated, interesting and expansive than you realized at first. P.S. On behalf of all the dudes who have objectified you with this “BBC” stuff and made you feel anything other than proud to be primarily a bottom, please accept my apology.

Dear PTSA: If you’re a regular reader, PTSA, you’ve seen letters in this space from straight-identified guys into cock. Many of these guys have described themselves as being fascinated by cock but repulsed by men; some of these guys seek out sex with trans women who’ve kept their dicks. Your thing for hot guys in lingerie and your thing for boobs might be the gay flip of this erotic script — boobs fascinate you, but you’re not into the genitalia most women have. Muscular guys in lingerie turn you on — big pecs can fill out a lacy bra just as alluringly as big boobs — and it’s possible you might enjoy being with a trans

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here are a lot of things I did in college that I that are constantly covered in layers of stinky black tar would turn my nose up at today, like going to makes you a trashy person. College students can get frat parties to drink jungle juice out of plastic away with being gross and dirty, but if you’re an adult tubs that everyone else has dipped their hands paying for your own Netflix account and have ordered in and sleeping with boys who ignore me. This avocado toast even once, it’s not cute. The quality and is mostly due to the fact that my standards for things care you invest into maintaining nice things is a direct like self-respect and hygiene have Polluxx/Wikimedia Commons reflection of who you are and risen significantly with age. I also your priorities. If you’re always have more refined tastes when it passing me a dirty dab rig or comes to my cannabis habit. I’m grimy bong, I’m going to assume not a total weed snob, but I defithat you’re lazy and unconcerned nitely have certain preferences and with everything else in life, too. things I’m not willing to comproIf the judgment of others mise on. Refusing to smoke out of isn’t enough to motivate you to dirty bongs is absolutely one of keep up with the daily maintethem. nance your glass requires, then When I was 19, my favorite maybe improving your health or method for getting stoned was a overall cannabis experience will. homemade gravity bong that was First of all, your weed deserves better. Each cannabis plant proessentially just a two-liter bottle duces its own unique tastes, aroof Sprite that we cut in half and mas and effects. As stale water, put in a trash can. After class, my oils, condensation, mildews and sorority sisters and I would spend ash collect over time, they drashours sticking our faces in that tically distort the flavor. So thing to inhale stale clouds of packing good weed into a dirty smoke and laugh at each other for bowl, where it will travel coughing our brains out every through even dirtier water, basitime. I don’t think we changed cally ruins the intended experithe water in that thing even once all semester, but it wasn’t someence, making it impossible to thing I concerned myself with or tell the difference between fancy even gave a second thought; I was top-shelf weed you brought never too good to take giant rips home from the dispensary and out of a plastic trash can filled the dried-out mids you bought with questionable water that from your high school dealer. In looked and smelled like a rotten soup of mold and ash contrast, buying artisan flower to smoke out of a and whatever else was floating around in there. Eight clean bong filled with ice and fresh water can feel years later, I have retired from nasty gravity bong hits; like a personal spa day or a little self-care retreat in that isn’t even something you could pay me to do your own living room. You’re much more likely to today. taste the subtle differences in the strains and their Now, I don’t know how old you are, but I also don’t effects. care because once you hit 25, smoking out of pieces When it comes to your health, you really have to

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consider the ways in which your bong happens to be the perfect environment for yeast, fungi, bacteria and pathogens to thrive. Have you ever left a glass of plain water out for a few days and noticed the shiny film that develops on the top? It’s called a biofilm, and it’s made up of colonies of microbes that live on the surface of water. In your bong, that biofilm is mixed with all of the resin and plant matter that ends up in the water. This allows harmful pathogens like streptococcus, E. coli and black mildew to grow and flourish in your bong, which can cause respiratory issues like strep throat, pneumonia and emphysema. Biofilm can form in as little as 24 hours, which is why it’s so important to clean your bong daily. As a rule of thumb, if it’s not something you would want to drink, then it shouldn’t be something you introduce to your lungs. I change the water in mine every day and try not to leave it filled when it’s not in use. Before bed, I rinse it out with hot water and let it dry overnight. I find that it looks cleaner for longer this way and makes the actual cleaning process a lot easier. On Sundays, I let it soak in rubbing alcohol and epsom salt and then shake it rapidly until most of the grime falls off. Sometimes there’s still some stubborn residue that doesn’t want to come off, but can be easily removed with a Q-tip, pipe cleaner or toothbrush (note: not the same one you use for your teeth). When it comes down to it, my motivation is simple: I love having nice things. Glass art is beautiful, and I didn’t spend $250 on my bong for it to sit dirty and hidden away. I keep my bong clean so it can be prominently displayed as the centerpiece of my coffee table. I get compliments about how pretty it is all the time, even from people who don’t smoke. Seeing it all clean and fresh makes me feel good, just like the same feeling you get from making your bed. It’s such a simple thing to improve your aesthetic and leaves you feeling centered. But really, it only takes one time of accidentally knocking your bong over and having the dirty weed water smell seep into your carpet to remember to never leave old water in it again.

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by Paul Danish

An ‘ethical pharmaceutical’ from a less-than-ethical company

TF?! GW Pharmaceuticals, the U.K.-based company that recently got the first marijuana-based medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration, has announced its price: $32,500 a year. The medication, called Epidiolex, is a cannabidiol (CBD)-based drug that was approved as a treatment for epilepsy. It’s price deserves a “WTF” rating for two reasons. The first is how it compares with the price of high-CBD marijuana strains that epilepsy patients can currently buy. According to the Colorado Epilepsy Foundation, the high-CBD pot strain Charlotte’s Web will cost an epilepsy patient anywhere from $100 to $600 a month ($1,200 to $7,200 a year) depending on the dosage. In other words, Epidiolex will cost a patient 4.5 to 27 times as much as high-CBD pot. For that price you would think that Epidiolex would contain some secret sauce that wasn’t present in plain old pot and takes it to another level. It doesn’t. According to the website drugs.com, Epidiolex’s only active ingredient is cannabidiol, a cannabinoid that, unlike THC, doesn’t get you high but has a number of medicinal benefits. Epidiolex’s inactive ingredients are dehydrated alcohol, sesame seed oil, strawberry flavor and sucralose. However, it “does not contain gluten (wheat, barley, rye),” drugs.com adds brightly. So GW Pharmaceuticals is producing a product that 1) has the same active ingredient as a low-THC marijuana, but 2) comes with sesame and 3) contains no added gluten, and 4) costs as much as 27 times more than pot? Wow. It’s kinda like McDonald’s setting the price of a Big Mac at 27 times the cost of the all-beef paddies, because it comes with a sesame seed bun. (At least McDonald’s has the decency to throw in the gluten.)

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In other words, the principal justification for the price differential is that Epidiolex has FDA approval and Charlotte’s Web does not. That alone rates a 44-caliber WTF. But wait, there’s more. The second reason Epidiolex’s $32,500-a-year price rates a WTF is the reason GW Pharmaceuticals gave for setting it. “We wanted to make sure we were pricing Epidiolex in such a way where the means to access this medication would be consistent with branded epilepsy drugs these patients already use,” GW’s CEO Justin Gover told the Wall Street Journal. I got my geezer card years ago, but there’s nothing wrong with my long-term memory. And the first

thought that came to mind when I heard Brother Gover’s pricing justification went way back to 1962: JFK and the steel companies. In April 1962, American steel companies, which had been fixing their prices for decades, decided to perpetrate another price increase. First one company — U.S. Steel, if memory serves — raised its price. Then the others matched the increase. But it was the reason U.S. Steel’s fellow colluders gave for doing it that 56 years later still floors me. They said they were raising their prices “to remain competitive.” You heard that correctly. The other steel companies said they were raising their prices “to remain competitive.” President Kennedy was not amused, and he wasted no time using the presidency’s bully pulpit to cut the steel industry a second asshole. And just to show he meant it, he told his brother Robert Kennedy, who happened to be Attorney General at the time, to start an anti-trust investigation of the industry. Big Steel blinked and cancelled its price increase. The reason it gave to cancelling the increases was — wait for it — “to remain competitive.” GW Pharmaceuticals justification for its obscene price gouging on Epidiolex is no different than the steel industry’s justification of its price fixing in 1962: It is claiming, in so many words, that it intends to “compete” by meeting its competitors prices instead of underselling them. There doesn’t seem to be much more in Epidiolex than in Charlotte’s Web-based edibles — CBD extract, vegetable oil, sugar, fruit flavoring — and chances are it isn’t much harder to make. But rather than pricing it to compete with marijuana edibles, the GW chose to price it to compete with existing epilepsy drugs, whose prices are also probably rip-offs. Drug companies like to call their products “ethical pharmaceuticals.” WTF squared and cubed.

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