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Highroad Living wage preemption act by Jim Hightower
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he governors of many states are boldly stepping forward these days to stop grassroots democracy. Yes, noting that local citizens and officials have been passing local laws to govern themselves, a flock of rightwing governors are asserting an autocratic power called “state preemption” to overrule democratic decisions made by locals. Why do these governors hate democracy? Because their corporate
funders don’t like some of the laws local people support — so democracy must go! This is not a matter of a rogue governor here or there, but a coordinated effort by corporate interests to get governors to usurp local authority. The main coordinator of this power grab is ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. For example, in 2014, when Fight for 15 and other activist groups began winning city campaigns for minimum wage hikes, ALEC responded by holding a corporate forum on how state officials can stop such local actions. ALEC circulated a model bill called the “Living Wage Preemption Act,” and sure enough, it’s already been passed by nearly half of our states. Ohio was the latest. By a large margin, people in the Buckeye State favor raising the wage floor, and Cleveland
enacted its own increase last year. But a small group of corporate profiteers howled in fury. So, last December, the state’s Republican leaders rushed to appease them by adopting the ALEC preemption bill and ramming it into law. It was a political mugging of the people’s will, retroactively negating Cleveland’s increase and outlawing increases by any other locality. Used sparingly and properly, preemption can be a democracy-enhancing tool to serve the common good. But when governors pervert this power to use it as a cudgel against the people, We the People must rise up against the governors. To learn more, visit MayorsInnovation.org. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 3 , 2017 5
dyertimes Secrecy on Messinger firing is hiding BOE’s own guilt by Joel Dyer
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f you’re still confused over the firing of former Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) superintendent Bruce Messinger, it really isn’t your fault. The BVSD Board of Education (BOE) has been so concerned with secrecy in the matter that nobody would know anything if this newspaper hadn’t gotten at least some of the information out (see “Inside the Turmoil at BVSD,” July 13). There are good reasons for why discussions that take place in executive session are kept secret. The intention — in cases such as this one — is to help assure that the careers of accusers or those accused of wrongdoing don’t get negatively impacted by allegations that may or may not be true or completely accurate. But it is a process ripe with the potential for abuse when those calling to move an investigation behind the wall of secrecy provided by executive session may be guilty themselves. I believe that is what has happened in this case. As BW previously reported, the BOE’s investigation into Messinger was in response to a complaint brought to the Board’s attention by Leslie Arnold, a high-ranking BVSD administrator who has since left her position, though, as part of her settlement with the district, she will continue to be paid for the next year. But this was not the first complaint against Messinger that the BOE had been made aware of, nor was it the first time that Arnold had attempted to make her concerns known to the Board. For two years, members of this school board have been aware of very serious complaints regarding Messinger’s behavior. There were allegations two years ago by another highranking administrator, which the BOE chose not to investigate despite their own policy guidelines requiring an investigation even if the accuser refuses to file a formal complaint. In other words, the Board can’t pretend not to know what it knows once it has been made aware of a serious allegation. As previously reported, the Board failed to investigate these earlier claims, allegedly based on legal advice it received. Assuming that this legal advice was 6 August 3 , 2017
coming from someone presumably getting paid under the authority of the superintendent, the BOE should have considered this an obvious conflict of interest and sought outside advice. In July, Messinger told BW, “This is my 39th year in my profession, 20 years as a superintendent. I have never had any investigations, any allegations. I have had only glowing evaluations.” If that’s true, then the members of the 2015 BOE didn’t bother to question Messigner about, or even inform him about, the very serious allegations that had been alluded to by a woman described by multiple sources as credible but too afraid to file a formal complaint. As previously reported, her verbal complaints were made to some members of the 2015 BOE rather than in writing through the HR department. Her complaints were eventually made known to all the members of the BOE. Frankly, it’s hard to believe that not one member of the school board could even be bothered to share such information with the man heading the organization they were elected to oversee. It simply defies all logic, considering the very serious nature of the complaint. I won’t spell out the nature of the allegations here, not because I don’t know the information, but because it should be up to the person claiming to have been victimized to place their own story into the public sphere. And then there is the mysterious case of Messinger’s 2016 performance evaluation. As reported by BW, sources say that Leslie Arnold told the woman doing the evaluation for The Trispective Group, the vendor hired by the District to perform the evaluation, about Messinger’s behavior toward her. This was the same behavior Arnold eventually brought to the Board’s attention months later and that ultimately led to the full investigation, Arnold’s settlement and the District’s decision to part ways with Messinger. Sources also claim that the evaluator was told about the complaints from two see DYERTIMES Page 7
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hen I first saw the headline on strategy maven Edward Luttwak’s piece in the Times Literary Supplement — “Why The Trump Dynasty Will Last 16 Years” — I thought the guy had finally taken complete leave of his senses. Then I read the whole thing. The prediction of a Trump dynasty — Luttwak thinks not only will Trump be re-elected in 2020 but will be succeeded by Ivanka in 2024 — may be way over the top, but his take on why the 2016 election played out the way it did contains some of the more insightful analysis of the campaign to date. Including this remarkable observation: The key to understanding why Trump won may be that half the families in the U.S. can no longer afford to buy a new car. “None of the countless campaign reporters and commentators is on record as having noticed the car ‘affordability’ statistics distributed in June 2016 via www.thecarconnection.com,” Luttwak wrote. “Had journalists studied the numbers and pondered even briefly their implications, they could have determined a priori that only two candidates could win the Presidential election — Sanders and Trump — because none of the others even recognized that there was a problem if median American households had been impoverished to the point that they
could no longer afford a new car. “This itself was remarkable,” Luttwak said, “because four wheels and an engine might as well be grafted to Homo americanus, who rarely lives within walking distance of his or her job, or even a proper food shop, who rarely has access to useful public transport, and for whom a recalcitrant ignition or anything else that prevents driving often means the loss of a day’s earnings, as well as possibly crippling repair costs. “But even that greatly understates the role of automobiles in the lives of the many Americans … for whom a car provides not only truly essential transport, but also the intensely reassuring sense of freedom depicted in countless writings and films, which reflect the hard realities of labour-mobility imperatives even more than the romance of the open road,” he said. Luttwak also said that Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes’ book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign convinced him that Clinton “did not understand in what country she was running for election…” It’s not one populated by various racial, ethnic, and sexual factions, “but chiefly a country of car owners and bitterly frustrated would-be new car owners, a far better categorization than Clinton’s own ‘deplorables.’” Whether or not you can afford a new car is determined by the “20/4/10” rule, which says you should be able to make a see DANISH PLAN Page 8
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years ago as well. The glowing evaluation that was eventually made public did not contain anything about Arnold’s accusations or the accusations from two years ago. So was this very negative information scrubbed by the evaluator and/or her company for some reason, or was it provided to the BOE who then made the decision not to include it? I’d be able to answer this critical question if such information weren’t hiding behind the BOE’s wall of secrecy provided by its convenient and prolific use of executive session and its interpretation of policies on discussing personnel issues. It’s time for the mystery and finger pointing to end. Somebody has to pay the price for these two years of incompetent, irresponsible and potentially even dangerous oversight of BVSD. I think it’s time for all those who are still on the Board from two years ago and who chose not to even pursue an investigation into the alleged behavior issues concerning Messinger made known to them at that time, to step down. I think that an outside investigation into the legal advice that the Board received two years ago, which allegedly encouraged them not to launch an investigation of the superintendent at that time, needs to happen as soon as possible. In addition, an investigation into how complaints about Messigner were excluded or removed from his 2016 evaluation needs to be similarly conducted in a timely fashion and those responsible need to be held accountable and asked to step down. Why? Because in the end, the lack of action and concern for BVSD employees exhibited by members of this Board over the past two years may well be responsible for the pain caused to Leslie Arnold and who knows who else. Over the past three weeks, BW’s email and phone lines have been filled with BVSD employees describing what they claim is a system-wide atmosphere of fear and retaliation. The problems plaguing BVSD have not gone away and there is little evidence that those who were willing to overlook problems in the past will be able to see and solve them now. I’m not claiming that Bruce Messinger did anything wrong because only those who were included in the Board’s 14 rounds of executive session and who saw the final report from the investigators could possibly know and maybe not even them. Such things are rarely clear-cut. Boulder Weekly
What I am sure of is that the BVSD Board of Education, at least some members, are responsible for the current turmoil because they have repeatedly failed to take proper action on complaints known to them about the former superintendent’s alleged poor behavior. Would they have found any merit to the earlier complaints? Can’t say. But if so, could that have prevented
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the subsequent complaints? We will never know because nothing was done until this year when Leslie Arnold rallied the courage to come forward… again. BVSD is important to our children. The Board members who chose to do nothing two years ago and again in 2016 need to step down for the sake of the kids. They have no business being involved in the selection of the
next leader of this school district. The Board’s crime was not covering up what it knew. Its guilt stems from its choosing not to know. I’m confident the whole truth is going to come out sooner rather than later, and each member of the Board knows exactly what that will mean for them. I think it would be best for all involved to come out from behind the wall of secrecy before that happens.
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Boulder Weekly columnists ( Joel Dyer [also, Editor], Paul Danish and Dave Anderson) have spent lots of column inches demonizing Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia. The demonization of the leader of another nation is often a key part of a campaign to build up public support for an attack on the targeted nation. Russia is a target because it is a nation that can challenge U.S. Imperial designs. In particular, Dyer and Danish write as if they know why Putin takes the actions he does. They build their cases based on speculations and false claims while ignoring facts that don’t agree with their reasoning. These writers downplay another more obvious reason for Putin’s actions: the fear of an attack from the U.S. and NATO. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the U.S. along with West German leader
Helmut Kohl, pushed for the reunification of Germany. The Soviet Union allowed reunification based on the promise made by U.S. Secretary of State James Baker (under President George H.W. Bush). Baker said if the Soviets would allow reunification, that NATO would not expand “one inch” further east. This promise was key for the Soviets, who remembered previous devastating invasions by Western European nations. For example, during World War II, estimates are that the Soviet Union lost over 26 million people, about 13 percent of its 1939 population. The Soviet Union was thus understandably concerned about a possibly hostile military group coming closer to its border. After the breakup of the Soviet see LETTERS Page 9
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down payment of 20 percent, take out a loan for no longer than four years, and devote no more than 10 percent of your annual income to car payments, interest and insurance. In 2016 the average price of a new car in the U.S. was $33,300. There are dramatic differences in median household income among American cities. The median income in San Jose, California, is $87,210. In Cleveland, it’s $24,701. According to the 20/4/10 rule, residents of San Jose making the town’s median income can afford a new car costing a maximum of $32,855. For median income residents of Cleveland, an affordable car is one costing no more than $7,558. In Detroit, the erstwhile epicenter of the American auto industry, an affordable car for most of the population is one costing $6,174. “What made these seemingly obscure numbers nothing less than momentous,” Luttwak said, “was that the cheapest new car for sale in the United States in 2016 was the Nissan Versa sedan at $12,825, twice the level that [median income] households could afford in Detroit or Cleveland….” (California voted for Clinton. Ohio and Michigan voted for Trump.) The “mass exclusion of Americans from new car ownership” was due to two factors, according to Luttwak: Wage stagnation, in no small part due to the “de-industrialization” of the country, and the escalating price of cars due to safety, pollution, and fuel economy regulations that drive up manufacturing costs.
In 1977 the average price of a new car was $4,317 ($17,544 in 2016 dollars), compared to $33,300 today — almost twice as much. America is an auto-centric civilization. The country’s cities and neighborhoods are designed around the automobile. It has sunk trillions of dollars into automotive-related infrastructure. But because of wage stagnation and regulation-driven price escalation, about half the population is being reduced to second class citizens in that civilization. And then along comes Trump. All of his issues touched on the loss and, more important, were solutions to the predicament. Bring back jobs that were sent overseas. Replace rigged trade deals with great trade deals. Rebuild the country’s infrastructure (especially roads and bridges). Drill here, drill now, and build the pipelines to move the oil and gas, and build them with American steel. Slash regulations that are killing jobs and strangling the economy and driving up the price of everything. Cut everyone’s taxes (which is like giving everyone a raise). And so on. Luttwak’s genuinely original insight is that it all centered around the car and automotive civilization. I can’t recall a time when America’s automobile culture has ever been a wedge issue in a federal election, even indirectly. Going forward, there probably won’t be a cycle in which it isn’t an issue for a long time to come. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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Union, the U.S. had unchallenged military power. Given this situation, the Washington establishment increased the risk of a new Cold War and the possibility of an eventual war with Russia. President Bill Clinton started this process when, in violation of the promise made to the Soviets, he supported the eastward expansion of NATO. In 1996, George Kennan, architect of the U.S. containment policy towards the Soviet Union after WW II, warned that NATO’s expansion into former Soviet territories would be a “strategic blunder of potentially epic proportions.” The U.S. continued the expansion of NATO and subsequently also dropped out the the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The U.S. also supported the illegal coup in Ukraine on Russia’s border, a coup that ousted a democratically elected president who wanted to be on friendly terms with both Russia and the European Union. The U.S. has also shipped weapons systems for placement close to the Russian border, including anti-missile weapons. Recent history clearly demonstrates that one country, the U.S., has been responsible for causing incredible devastation and killing through its illegal attacks on non-threatening countries. These U.S. attacks also laid the foundation for groups like ISIS. Thus Russian fear of an unwarranted and illegal U.S./ NATO attack seems very reasonable. Ron Forthofer/Longmont
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It is reprehensible to me that the GOP keeps repeating that, “We promised the American people that we would repeal Obamacare” even as thousands of their own constituents line the streets begging to keep the critical components of the ACA alive. Since its inception, the GOP and the right-wing media have relentlessly pounded into their voters’ heads that the ACA was a failure and that it should be repealed. Follow the money. Who is financing the Republican congressmen? Big Pharma and Big Insurance companies who know if they supply the money to elect right-wingers that almost to a man they will do their bidding. Sure, they need the public to vote them into office but most politicians need big business to supply the cash. Why would these enormous entities wish to finance Republicans? Because they don’t want to insure people with pre-existing conditions, they don’t want limits on their profits, they don’t want government scrutiny and they surely don’t want to compete with publicly funded Medicare Boulder Weekly
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GOOD ’TIL THE LAST DROP Opponents prepare for final showdown over Gross Dam
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n July 6, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved a project by Denver Water to raise the dam at Gross Reservoir by 131 feet. If it gets built, the dam at Gross Reservoir would be tallest in the state. It would constitute the biggest construction project in Boulder County history. Denver Water says the expansion would increase the reservoir’s capacity by about 25 billion gallons, or about six times the size of Boulder Reservoir. They say the dam needs to be expanded in order to meet the needs of the one million new people they project will be in their metro Denver service area by 2040. But opponents say if the dam is expanded, it will effectively kill the Colorado and Fraser rivers, and other smaller waterways, by diverting up to 80 percent of the water in the Upper Colorado River basin. The area in question is in and around the Fraser Valley and the water would be pumped through the mountains into Gross Reservoir in Boulder County by way of a tunnel. Critics of the plan point to studies that indicate global warming will sap the entire Colorado River of up to 30 percent of its water by mid-century, making it impossible to divert the planned amount of water. And, they say, Denver Water doesn’t need more supply: the company has reduced consumption by 22 percent since 2002 despite a 10 percent increase in population, according to its own data. Denver Water says it has a plan to mitigate the environmental effects of the project. Opponents don’t believe it and the two sides disagree on population and environmental impact studies used to justify the expansion. They even disagree on whether or not Denver Water needs to receive a permit from Boulder County to expand the dam. So, who’s right? And what obstacles remain in Denver Water’s way before shovels hit the ground at Gross Reservoir? Kirk Klancke is the president of the Colorado chapter of Trout Unlimited, a national river conservation group. He’s worked for decades to protect the state’s waterways, particularly the Fraser River, where 10 August 3, 2017
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he’s lived with his family since the ’70s. Klancke says the current iteration of the dam expansion is the best of a bad situation — Denver Water has the right to take up to 90 percent of the water out of the Fraser River, and would be unlikely to lose a lawsuit challenging that, he says. “We were in the worst negotiating position possible,” Klancke says, adding that there were no initial plans for any kind of mitigation. He says it was only through the efforts of Trout Unlimited and other parties that support conserving the Fraser River that they were able to were to “get a foot in the door” and find a compromise that would save the Fraser River. “Anything we got is more than we were [originally] offered. So maybe it was a bad deal but we clawed our way into everything we have,” Klancke says. That deal includes wrangling the widespread Fraser River into one concentrated stream during low-flow periods which will at least save the aquatic life. But turning a wild river into a steady creek isn’t really saving it, says Gary Wockner, president of Save the Colorado. “‘Concentrating’ is an Orwellian euphemism,” Wockner says. “They’re going to make a river that used to be 40 feet wide into a creek that’s 20 feet wide. ... They’re going to bring bulldozers into a natural river basin and turn the river into a ditch.” Mitigation on the Front Range side of the mountains will include construction of a 5,000-acre-foot environmental pool to support Boulder Creek in times of low flow. But, Wockner says, with a deeper dam comes colder water that would be released, water too cold for existing river wildlife. In light of what he says are the plan’s failures, Save the Colorado and a coalition of other environmental groups are planning to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for violation of the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act. The Corps violated those acts, Wockner says, because by granting approval for the dam expansion, they did not adequately consider less environmentally impactful alternatives — or any alternative that didn’t involve taking water out of the river, he says. The lawsuit is expected to be filed this fall. Adequate alternatives to dam expansion, Wockner says, include conservation efforts. For instance, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) paid up to $450 million in collective rebates to users who switched out their lawns for drought-tolerant landscapes. The plan Boulder Weekly
saved 80,000 acre-feet of water in one year, according to MWD, more than the entire increased capacity of the Gross dam expansion. But when asked if conservation alone will meet the area’s projected water needs, Denver Water President Jim Lochhead says, flatly, “No, it can’t.” He adds that the Corps already settled this in its environmental impact study. “Bullshit,” Wockner says. Thus, the lawsuit. Although the project will draw
water from the Fraser River, Lochhead and Klancke say looking at the scope of the project — channeling Fraser River, the environmental pool, and payouts to Grand County communities — provide the flexibility necessary to adjust to the realities of a growing population. “The projections do show an increase in population within our service area,” Lochhead says. “We look at planning 50 years ahead, and we factor in conservation, we factor in efficiency. We factor in reuse. We factor in addi-
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It’s worth noting that Denver Water, as well as the Walton Family Foundation, who supports the privatization of water, are financial sponsors of Trout Unlimited. The Waltons, of Walmart fame, also fund American Rivers, Colorado Water Trust, Conservation Colorado, Environmental Defense Fund, The Nature Conservancy and more. In total, the Waltons have invested tens of millions of dollars into the Colorado River, while simultaneously promoting private water markets as a way to conservation. In exchange for small concessions from the powers that be, environmental groups sometimes sign off on environmentally harmful projects and agree to, for example, not file lawsuits, say Bahr and Wockner. Bahr calls Denver Water’s approach to compromise “a little slimy.” “They’re buying off all the entities one by one,” he says. “All these communities that have accepted these arrangements from Denver Water are kind of making the best of a bad situation but that doesn’t do anything to solve the climate change problem.” As another case in point, Bahr cited the connection between Denver Water and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) — Denver Water gave the USFS funding for forest management initiatives near Gross Reservoir and is considering an extended contract. Consequently, Bahr says, the USFS withdrew all of the concerns it previously had about the dam expansion. Residents in the region near the dam are also concerned about increased traffic, noise, light pollution and disruption caused by what will be a massive construction project that won’t be finished until 2025. Lochhead says Denver Water has worked with local residents to determine concerns, and they’ve recently found a quarry that’s closer to the site to limit some transportation effects. So with the Army Corps, government agencies, municipalities and several environmental groups in support of the project, opponents have three hopes to stop the dam expansion: The lawsuit Wockner mentions; a rejection from the Federal Environmental Regulation Commission (FERC); and intervention from the Boulder County Commissioners. FERC has solicited comments on the project and has yet to issue the hydropower license amendment needed to expand the dam. There is no timetable for the ruling, but the application has been filed and all comments have been solicited. Boulder County, meanwhile, informed FERC that Denver Water needs to complete a land use permit (a 1041 permit) from the County before it can start construction. Denver Water, however, claims it doesn’t need to do that. It’s because the local impacts that would be addressed in Boulder County’s permit would be covered by FERC’s permit, Lochhead says. Boulder County Commissioners declined to comment for this story, citing that they’ve yet to take a public position on the issue, however Commissioners’ Public Information Officer Barb Halpin laid out what could happen pending FERC’s decision on the permit. If Denver Water submits a 1041, Halpin says the Commissioners will then hold a public hearing and decide whether or not the project meets the County’s land use codes. Those codes require projects to prove their importance to the state and if local impacts outweigh those benefits. If Denver Water does not submit a 1041, “the County will review its legal options,” Halpin says. When it comes to matters of “state interest,” local control hasn’t earned many key victories lately. That’s why opponents of the plan are concerned about what lies ahead. Klancke, however, says there should be hope in the “adaptive management” plan hashed out with Denver Water; that if water becomes scarce in the future, all interested parties will meet again to come up with a mutually beneficial solution. Too, Klancke says Denver Water will only sell to people within its boundaries. “The only way they could screw up is by providing water to other people who screwed up,” he says. But with water figuring to become scarce either from diversion or global warming, there could be a time in the near future when agencies that have secured water rights are forced — or enticed — to sell water outside their historic boundaries. And the claim that groups throughout the West are working locally to secure future water sources is a dangerous assumption, Wockner says. The folks chattering about historic collaboration on the Colorado River represent a very narrow band of interests that generally supports new dams and diversions,” Wockner wrote in an email to supporters. “The stories of ‘collaboration and compromise’ and about how ‘we are all in this together’ are not accurate.” But when it comes to water, we kind of are all in this together. We all need it. The politics of water, however, are decidedly divisive, and the future resolutions of those divisions — including those on Gross Reservoir — will impact millions of lives from here to California. Boulder Weekly
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In addition to these states, hundreds of local governments have also pledged commitment to enacting climate policy aimed at achieving the warming thresholds laid out in Paris, including Boulder County and cities throughout the region. While this may be a step in the right direction, critics of these public declarations are wary of how much can actually be accomplished through them, given emissions around the state are projected to increase in the coming decades as the population grows and the state continues to pursue oil and natural gas development. “There would need to be a lot of work done to put measures in place to get there from where we are and where we’re headed. That much is clear,” says Kevin Cross, spokesperson for the Fort Collins Sustainability Group. “If we go with the U.S.’s commitment to Paris for the next five years we can make some progress, but after that it’s important to
According to the latest Though Colorado Colorado has agreed to follow Paris Accord Greenhouse climate goals, Gas Inventory, activists question the state’s actual conducted in commitment. 2014, greenhouse gas emissions have actually increased since 2005 and are projected to continue to rise. Transportation, residential and commercial fuel use — spurred by dramatically increasing population growth throughout the state — largely accounts for the rising emissions according to the inventory. Without curbing population growth, it will be hard to curb emissions, Wockner argues. “As long as you have more and more people — 100,000 a year pouring into the state — we see basically no way that emissions are going to go down,” Wockner says. Furthermore, according to the
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need to make significant changes. An Inconvenient Truth struck a chord with people on both sides of the debate. Writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert represented the prevailing view of most critics reviewing the movie: “You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to.” An Inconvenient Truth went on to win two Academy Awards — for Best Documentary and Best Song, “I Need to Wake Up” by Melissa Etheridge — but was also met with a sizeable amount backlash. Climate change deniers and lobbyists on the side of oil and gas fought Gore’s doc, the science he relied on and the very notion of global warming. The battle was far from over. Now, 11 years after An Inconvenient Truth, a new documentary about Gore’s fight for the planet hits theaters just two months after President Donald Trump decided to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement. Aptly titled, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power follows Gore as he continues his lecture series, works with grassroots organizations
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t’s been 21 years since the death Playwright Greg Moss focuses on the archetypal of JonBenét Ramsey; 21 years elements of JonBenét’s story, rather than the since her body was found in the details in House of Gold. basement of her Boulder home. In all that time one would hope she’d have found some peace from her resting place in northern Georgia. see JONBENET Page 22
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But the ghost of JonBenét lives on, the haunting image of the blue-eyed, blonde-haired girl in a cowgirl costume still popping up on the cover of magazines in newsstands around the country, staring out like an otherworldly reminder of the macabre end of one family’s American dream. Her story and the enduring media frenzy it inspired calls us to gawk, time and time again, when offered the chance. Like a car wreck on the highway, it’s as if in simply driving past the spectacle we are somehow complicit. It was the phenomenon of society’s fascination that first attracted playwright Greg Moss to write House of Gold, currently in production by Boulder’s square product theatre. To him, the details of JonBenét’s case are only important insofar as they contributed to the archetypal elements of her story. And, as the play travels to audiences around the world, the details don’t seem to matter as the societal issues at play come to life on the stage. At its best, theater is like magic, allowing audiences to suspend their
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Emily K. Harrison plays JonBenét (on screens) in the square product theatre’s production of House of Gold.
disbelief to play with concepts lying just under the surface of “real” life. House of Gold, although crude and jarring in its delivery, is successful in harnessing its brutality to invite such introspection. It raises themes about whiteness, sexual fantasy and the quest
for immortality. But most disturbing is the way it challenges the innocent nobility of what it means to rear children in America. “Thorny as this play is, I was drawn to it because I have always been attracted by notions of the American
dream,” says Emily Harrison, producer of the play and artistic director of square product theatre. “It’s this idea that if you work hard enough you can be anything you want, that you can be a black woman born into poverty and, if you are willing to work hard enough, you can rise up and achieve success for yourself. “But the American dream is an ideological ploy designed to keep the rich people rich and the poor people poor. We delude ourselves into thinking that it’s true, so we pass down these crazy notions and expectations to our children and our children’s children. But theater is a democratic art form, and one that I believe can empower people to change that relentless inheritance.” When Harrison first read the
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script of House of Gold she knew it was capable of inspiring introspection from audiences, but to produce the play in Boulder presented a risky proposition — can a Boulder audience stomach such a focused return to JonBenét’s narrative? Is the play abstract enough to avoid inciting local traumas? Will the community that experienced the tragedy be willing to look at their own complicity? Harrison and Moss explored ways to make the play successful so close to home. The duo decided to keep the script as is, leaving in potentially problematic references to Boulder and Colorado. Instead, they would distance the audience another way — through an extreme abstraction of set design and narrative structure. The result is a fantastical set, an abstracted version of a house that is sparse but heavily dressed in red, white and blue, serving as a firm reminder that JonBenét’s is an American story and not just a local one. The props add to the mirage, most of them toys or at least toy-like. In part, this supports the audience’s imagination of JonBenét as a six-yearold girl, even though she is played by the full-grown Harrison. But the toys also serve to conjure a sense of fantasy, as if JonBenét is replaced by Alice, having dropped down the rabbit hole into a bizarre tea party in Wonderland. Director Gleason Bauer contributed an inventive way to help keep a critical distance with the audience by bringing a heavy media presence into the play. Several scenes are broadcast live, projected onto the blinds of the house as metaphorical movie screens while the live action happens on stage — a directorial decision that undoubtedly strengthens the play as a deconstruction of modern day spectacle, i.e., news and reality TV. Square product theatre is successful in creating a fictional world out of a very real story and does so with plenty of creative talents. The cast seems at home playing their roles in the fantasy land and deliver their lines by striking a precarious balance between fiction and reality. The male characters are especially effective — as JonBenét’s father (Man) and a pedophile ( Joe) express the psychology of the male perspective and male gaze with vulnerable artistry. Nonetheless, and especially as a woman, the play is not easy to watch. It is, as Greg Moss says, “thorny” and viewers aren’t likely to feel any sense of relief or resolution. But then again, maybe that’s not the point. “This play isn’t a reenactment and it’s not meant to bring resolution. This play is a reckoning and one I think is overdue Boulder Weekly
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“There’s nobody I love more than my wife. If it wasn’t for her I wouldn’t be doing this, but she believed in me,” he says. So, thanks to his wife, Janeway’s gainfully employed now, lending his sweet-as-Southern-tea and fiery-as-a-freewill-Baptist’s voice to the Southern soul-revival outfit St. Paul and the Broken Bones. It didn’t take long for folks to notice the band after their debut album, Half the City, was released by Alabama label Single Lock Records in 2014. By the summer of 2015, St. Paul and the Broken Bones were opening for The Rolling Stones. Janeway, with his penchant for stage diving and rolling around like a man possessed, made sure folks walked away from a Stones’ show remembering the opening act. On the phone on this particular day, Janeway is back home in Birmingham, having just wrapped up a run of gigs through Europe: the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, where his wife joined him for a few extra play days in Prague. Europe’s rich art scene captivated Janeway, who credits his wife, as he does often when mentioning positive aspects of his life, for his appreciation of art. “For some reason I love getting to see paintings, because it’s stuff you don’t... ” Janeway pauses. “Well, I sure as hell didn’t see it in Alabama. “I find more inspiration from art than I do music,” he admits. “It’s a very odd thing.” It’s not, really, when you begin to understand Janeway’s inclination to explore life. He was working at a mechanic’s
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he economy had just rushed headlong into the recession when Paul Janeway met his future wife, Caroline; he was unemployed, living in his dad’s apartment with three other people. And he was about to go on a date with her roommate. “It was one date,” Janeway says, his warm Birmingham drawl melting into laughter. “There’s nothing weird.” Janeway was nervous to ask this girl out; Caroline was “an amazing person,” working for a nonprofit that provided a variety of resources, like vision screenings and tax prep, to low-income families. And she was cute. So he stayed in touch with her, and over the course of a few months the two began dating — and then Caroline got accepted to Georgetown University. “One of the great things about this relationship is that we don’t stand in each other’s way; this was a lifetime opportunity [for Caroline],” Janeway says. “We thought well, it’s not gonna work out, but a week went by and we couldn’t stand [being apart].” The two finally got hitched in 2015.
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ust like with land, they ain’t making more Shakespeare plays. With a finite canon from which to pull, Shakespeare festivals face the very real and terrifying possibility that audiences will (gasp!) tire of ol’ Will’s works. That is why many such festivals, including our own Colorado Shakespeare Festival, now routinely add one non-Shakespeare play to the program each year. Sometimes that play dovetails thematically with one or more of the Bard’s plays on display. Even more frequently, the Shakespeare-adjacent play concerns itself with Shakespeare himself or reinterprets one of his classics. Such is the case with Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Rosencrantz (Michael Bouchard) and Guildenstern (Sean Scrutchins) appear in Hamlet. They are old friends of Hamlet’s whom the new King summons to spy on Hamlet in the hope of learning why he (or she as is the case this year at CSF) has become so melancholy. Like Tweedledee and Tweedledum or Jay and Silent Bob, the two somewhat bumbling, vaguely wellmeaning goofballs are a matched set. One never appears on stage without the other. They even share the same fate when they become ensnared in the murderous machinations of the King. Their demise is reported to what’s left of the court in Act Five with the matter-of-fact line, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.” Often and rightly celebrated playwright and author Tom Stoppard took that line as inspiration and title for his supremely clever, masterfully written comic romp Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, which provides one version of the answer to the question, “What happens to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern when they are off stage during Hamlet?” For Stoppard at least, the answer is that they, like most of us, try to understand their place in the universe, why they’re here and what it all means. Which makes Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead a surprisingly philosophical theatrical bauble. And no spoiler here: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, again like most of 28 August 3 , 2017
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us, fail miserably at unearthing any universal truths, but they are hilarious to watch in the trying. Perhaps Director Timothy Orr was drawn to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead after reading about the increasing number of Silicon Valley billionaires who are convinced that the world as we know it is merely a hyper-advanced simulation, that we are all of us, in fact, living in some version of the Matrix. Exposure to that theory, maybe combined with a latenight rereading of Macbeth’s famous lament, “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more,” could easily have motivated Orr to produce Rosencrantz & Guildenstern. Regardless, as CSF’s producing artistic director, it was a stroke of genius for Orr to pair Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead with Hamlet during the same season. Both productions take place on the same stage using elements of the same set. Bouchard and Scrutchins play the ill-fated duo in both shows, so intrepid theatergoers may enjoy a double dose of two of the most interesting and talented younger actors working the Front Range today. Similarly, getting to see Hamlet (Lenne Klingaman), Polonius (Rodney Lizcano), the Player (Sam Gregory), Ophelia (Emelie O’Hara) and the other principals from Hamlet playing those same roles in the alternate universe of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern is not only terrifically effective dramatically but also a hoot and a half. Like a modern day Laurel and Hardy or Abbot and Costello, Bouchard and Scrutchins make an excellent comic duo. Whether they’re flipping quarters, forgetting which one of them is Rosencrantz and which one is Guildenstern or delivering Stoppard’s sterling dialogue — like, “Who is the English King? Depends on when we get there.” — they are more than a pleasure to watch. Whether you consider Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead the fourth course entrée or merely the amuse-bouche of this year’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival, it is guaranteed not to disappoint. Boulder Weekly
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unique and enlightening. Boulder Weekly is proud to be presenting a few of the panels in the dome this year, and BW editor Joel Dyer will be playing moderator once again from time to time. So consider this an invitation from us to you, our readers. If you are attending ARISE, come join us under the dome for lively discussions about what’s going on in the world and how we can work together to make it a better place. And just so you don’t miss any of the great dome programing, the following is the Big Sunrise Dome schedule for the entire festival.
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Come be a part of an intimate performance and discussion with multiinstrumentalist and music producer David Satori of Beats Antique on electronic music production.
Friday, August 4 1:30 p.m. ARISE Dialogue - Regenerating Communities Through Ethical Food A thought-provoking conversation with industry specialists about the organic food industry. 3 p.m. Songwriters in the Round with Chloe Smith (Rising Appalachia), Dustin Thomas, and Anna Moss (Handmade Moments) The focus is on the song in this intimate dialogue and performance by and with these ARISE favorites. 4:15 p.m. ARISE Dialogue - The Hip Hop Panel: Words Boulder Weekly
7 p.m. ARISE Dialogue - The Wisdom Panel A conversation among thought leaders of various backgrounds in the geodesic spiritual center of Sunrise Ranch.
That Matter A discussion with acclaimed hip hop artists and activists about the power of words. 5:45 p.m. Breaking It Down: Unveiling Electronic Production with David Satori (Beats Antique & Dirtwire)
Saturday, August 5 9 a.m. DEEPSØNØS Meditation - HÄANA Experience the depths of your meditation potential. Integrating synths, electric violin, vocals and sonic bass, DEEPSØNØS is a beautiful full-spectrum sound meditation experience. see ARISE Page 30
PLANETS AND LASER: GALACTIC ODYSSEY 2:30 PM
SUPERVOLCANOES 9:00 PM
LASER: BEATLES 10:30 PM
LASER: GORILLAZ SUNDAY AUGUST 6 1:00PM
DOUBLE FEATURE: WE ARE STARS / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA 2:30 PM
STARS AND LASER: GALACTIC ODYSSEY 4:00 PM
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10:15 a.m. ARISE Dialogue - Right Livelihood: Living & Working Mindfully After the Festival Ends This panel shows there are many ways that one can live a mindful, creative, climate-conscious life, both socially and professionally. The panelists will detail how their working or professional lives were inspired by their hearts’ passion, and they will offer tips on how to “take the festival home” with them by practicing “right livelihood.”
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11:30 a.m. ARISE Dialogue - Women in Cannabis: Powerful Pioneers of a Growing Industry A multi-faceted discussion led by cannabis businesswomen. 1 p.m. World Music Embodied: Joining Disparate Instruments to Create Cohesive Sound with David Satori (Beats Antique, Dirtwire), Sidecar Tommy (Beats Antique), Evan Fraser (Dirtwire), & Chris Berry (Bana Kuma Orchestra) This playshop will explore the wide variety of intriguing instruments and traditions that artists are bringing to ARISE from cultures across the world. 2:15 p.m. ARISE Dialogue - Behind the Art, Behind the Artists - Android Jones and more A discussion of art with artists. Can’t beat that. 3:45 p.m. Songwriters in the Round with Elijah Ray, Kat Wright, and Shane Burke An intimate dialogue and performance by and with these ARISE favorites. 5 p.m. ARISE Dialogue - Boulder Weekly Presents: The Resistance Panel Join us for a conversation with regional and national filmmakers, journalists and activists for a conversation of what’s possible when you RESIST. 6:15 p.m. “Humanity: Arise!” with Honored Guest Barbara Marx Hubbard Join us for this special interactive, musical, and spiritually enriching conversation.
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Barbara Marx Hubbard will be joined by Bridget Law of Elephant Revival to provide the musical backdrop to this enlivening conversation. Sunday, August 6 9:30 a.m. Reconnecting with our Primal Spirituality Connect with the Sunrise Ranch for an open invitation Sunday morning service. 12:30 p.m. ARISE Dialogue - Boulder Weekly Presents “WTF… Where are we going and how did we get in this hand basket?” Today’s news can leave us with even more questions than before we hear it. What in the world is really going on right now, and how can we be ready for what’s next? Join in this exciting conversation, facilitated by ARISE Festival producer and activist Paul Bassis. 1:45 p.m. Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock Join us for a screening of the new film Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock. There will be a conversation with the filmmaker(s) following the film. 4:15 p.m. Songwriters in the Round with Jeff Austin, Sage Cook (We Dream Dawn), and Andrew Sturtz Join the pickin’ and a ginnin’ with this amazing group of musicians. 5:30 p.m. “Humanity: Arise!” with Honored Guest Barbara Marx Hubbard Another special interactive, musical and spiritually enriching conversation. Barbara Marx Hubbard will be joined by Bridget Law of Elephant Revival to provide the musical interweaving to this enlivening conversation. 7 p.m. A Live Interaction Improvisation with Sasha Brown & Friends featuring Neal Evans, Chuck Jones (Dopapod) and Elijah Ray What you get when great musicians spontaneously create. Don’t miss it.
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ALT-J — WITH TOVE LO, SOHN Monday, Aug. 7, 7 p.m., Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison. Leftapalooza. Noon. Saturday, Aug. 5, Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont. Leftapalooza Mile High Tribute Band Competition is back for its seventh year, Courtesy of Left Handing Brewing Co. showcasing eight tribute bands to help raise funds and support for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Left Hand Brewing Foundation. This year’s musical lineup will inlcude the music of AC/DC, The Grateful Dead, David Bowie, Gov’t Mule, Primus, Jethro Tull, The Rolling Stones, the Beatles and Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Don’t miss Hell’s Belles, the world famous all-female AC/DC tribute band, as well as Shakedown Street, Colorado’s Grateful Dead tribute band. Kids under 5 free; Pre-sale youth (5-12) $5; Pre-sale $12.
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Demolition Derby. 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, Jack Murphy Outdoor Arena, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. If you’re in the mood for Bill Lowenburg/Wikimedia some car-crashing, engine- Commons revving, dirt-flying fun — and who ain’t, really? — head to the Boulder County Fairgrounds for the Demolition Derby. The Demolition Derby is a part of Boulder County’s 148th annual fair — the oldest in Colorado. While the derby has a small ticket fee, entrance to the fairgrounds is free, so you can enjoy the day leading up to the derby by checking out some prize-winning livestock and foot-stomping local music. Tickets: pit passes $35 (available at arena only, with waiver); Adults $20; Kids $10 (4-10 years old); 3 and under free.
see EVENTS Page 34 Courtesy of Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance
Heil 2 Trails Grand Opening — hosted by the Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance. 4 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 9, Heil Valley Ranch picnic pavilion. Join the Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance (BMA) for the public opening of the new Overland Loop trail. Following a ribboncutting ceremony hosted by the Boulder County Commissioners and Parks & Open Space staff at Heil Valley Ranch, BMA will provide snacks and adult beverages. The ceremony will mark the addition of 210 acres to Heil Valley Ranch and 2.5 miles of new trail. A temporary parking lot will also open for increased access to the new trail. Members of the public are encouraged to attend the event.
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Stan Meyer “Propelled,” paper, paint and wood; 2016/ Photograph by Wes Magyar
Poetic Presence, a solo exhibit by Stan Meyer, features his largescale cut, woven, and pigmented paper works. The exhibition will take place in the Arvada Center’s Upper Gallery through Aug. 6.
Art Inspired by the Land. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Begins Aug. 5. Through Sept. 10.
COSTUMES FOR
Dasha Shishkin: Tram Pam Pam. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 10.
CONCERTS
Derrick Velasquez: Obstructed View. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 27.
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FESTIVALS
Jenny Morgan: SKINDEEP. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 27. Mauro Giaconi: Cae a plomo/falls to lead. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 10.
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Mi Tierra. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 22.
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Paper on Paper: The Art of Chine-Collé. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 20.
(between Moe’s BBQ & Gameforce)
Paper.Works. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 20.
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Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 20.
NEW HOURS: 10AM - 7PM DAILY
Stan Meyer: Poetic Presence. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 6. Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 31. The Western: An Epic in Art and Film. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 10.
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August 3 Music ARISE Festival. 8 a.m. Permaculture Orchard at Sunrise Ranch, 100 Sunrise Ranch Road, Loveland. Through Aug. 6. Arty. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver. Barrel of Blues. 8 p.m. Ziggie’s Live Music, 4923 W. 38th St., Denver. Ben Hammond. 4:30 p.m. ViewHouse Eatery, Bar & Rooftop, 2015 Market St., Denver. Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder. CFX Project (Album Release). 6 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Chocolate Diamond. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.
A Unique Dining Experience Jai Thai & Sushi combines the bright, vibrant flavors found in traditional Thai cuisine, with rich, savory Japanese spices and ingredients.
Colorado Brazil Fest’s Brazilian Jazz Night. 7:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Dwight Yoakam. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver.
Glovebox Money. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.
Outback Saloon Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder.
Granny Tweed. 8 p.m. Lost Lake Lounge, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Phiilo, Chewy&Bach featuring Tucker Riley, Mammoth Water, West Hues, BabyBaby. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.
The Head and the Heart — with Grouplove. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison. Kat Wright & Thunder and Rain — with The Broadcast - Official Arise Pre-Party. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.
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Shiverz & Obey. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.
Kyra Gordon. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.
Summerfest Concerts: Strangebyrds. 7:30 p.m. Hempel Auditorium, YMCA of the Rockies, 2515 Tunnel Road, Estes Park.
Levitt Pavilion Concert Series. 7:30 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver.
Sunny Sweeney. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.
Mad Pow (Album Release Show). 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.
Thursday Nights with Franklin & Friends. 9 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver.
MXXNwatchers. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
Zeitouni Conducts Mahler’s Ninth. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.
Open Mic Night hosted by Brian Rezac. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.
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Friday, August 4 Elettra Wiedemann — Impatient Foodie. 4 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
2055 Ken Pratt Blvd Longmont, CO 80501 Tues - Sun: 11am - 9pm Monday: Closed
Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Blues. 7 p.m. The Por Wine House, 836 Main St., Louisville.
Monday, August 7 So, You’re a Poet: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Tuesday, August 8 Between the Covers — A Summer Evening for Bookclubs. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Wednesday, August 9
Elettra Wiedemann is the founder of Impatient Foodie, a food site that navigates her desire to marry Slow Food ideals with the realities of fast paced, urban life. The book Impatient Foodie provides the ideal foundation for thoughtful eating in a hectic world.
Benjamin Teitelbaum — Lions of the North. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
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events Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Dance Class Registration. 9 a.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Suite 111, Lafayette.
Postcards (EP Release Show). 7 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver. René Marie - Experiment in Truth. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.
Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.
1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder.
Events
Colorado Brazil Fest’s Choro and Forró Night. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder. Dancing With the Stars. 8 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver.
2017 Bull Fighting/Bull Riding. 7:30 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.
Denver Burger Battle. 6:30 p.m. Tivoli Quad Park, Denver.
Saliva. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.
Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.
Steve Earle & The Dukes. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
Mountain Kids Storytime. 12 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette.
Vaud and the Villains. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.
Stephen Agyei. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.
The Wooks. 9 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St. Gold Hill, Boulder.
Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont.
Under the Stars Film Nights. 6 p.m. A-Lodge, 91 Fourmile Canyon Drive, Boulder.
World Famous Johnsons. 7 p.m. Herman’s
BJDW Performance 2017. 8 p.m. Irey Theatre,
Adult Gymnastics. 5:30 p.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont. Argentine Tango GroundSchool Classes. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder.
Denver Academy 2017 Summer Programs. 9 a.m. Denver Academy, 4400 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Enchanted April Viewing and Discussion. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Center for Conscious Community, 1637 28th St., Boulder. Family Films. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. see EVENTS Page 36
Friday, August 4 Music 40 Oz. To Freedom (Sublime Tribute Band). 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder. Citizen Dan. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Filthy Hearts. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Fruit Bats. 6:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Gil Shaham. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Golden Hour & The Raven and the Writing Desk: B-Side Music. 5 p.m. Museum Of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Jerry Garcia 75th Birthday Concert featuring Bob Weir & The Campfire Band. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison. Joan Osborne Sings the Songs of Bob Dylan. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Lawn Concert: Davina and the Vagabonds. 5:30 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Lea Luna. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Levitt Pavilion Concert Series. 7:30 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver. Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with John Moreland & Phoebe Hunt. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 20, Boulder. Live Patio Music — Brian Rezac. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Mr. Capone - E. 7 p.m. The Roxy Theatre, 2549 Welton St., Denver. Native Land. 9 p.m. Angel’s Landing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver. Nice Work Jazz Combo. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder. Noche Flamenca: A Night of Passion. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
UPCOMING SHOWS
Nocturnal First Fridays. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.
Fri, Aug 11 – 9:00-11:30 pm, Bittersweet Cafe/Por Wine House, Louisville – FREE
Papa Juke. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland.
Sat, Sept 30 – 1:00-4:00 pm, Boulder Art & Oktoberfest, Central Park Bandshell, Boulder – FREE
The Patient Zeros (EP Release). 8:30 p.m. Lost Lake Lounge, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Ponder The Albatross, Tejon Street Corner Thieves, High St. Collective. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Boulder Weekly
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First Friday Film Night: Modern America. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.
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Fun on the Farm: Chicken Scratch. 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway, Longmont. JW Marriott Denver Friday Family Film Series. 7 p.m. JW Marriott Denver Cherry Creek, 150 Clayton Lane, Denver. Wicket & Stick It Croquet Tournament. 2 p.m. Cherry Creek Shopping Center (outdoor area behind BRIO Tuscan Grille), 2500 E. First Ave., Denver. WonderLust: A Show for Dreamers. 7 p.m. C Squared Ciders, 2875 Blake St., Suite C, Denver. Saturday, August 5 Music 031 featuring Lenzman. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.
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The Mighty Twisters. 7 p.m. Element Bistro, 6315 Lookout Road, Boulder. Olde Town Swing Band. 6:30 and 9 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Phish Baker’s Dozen Live Stream. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
Saturday Breakfast with Pancakes & Biscuits. 10 a.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.
theater Anything Goes. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 1.
Asleep at the Wheel and Dale Watson: Texas Dancehall Tour. 7:30 p.m. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.
Broadway Bound. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Aug. 20.
BassWorks featuring Eptic — with Midnight Tyrannosaurus, Far Too Loud, Phase One, Ray Volpe, Stabby, Crystalize, Fury, Tyro & More TBA. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ and The Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.
Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Aug. 6.
Brick + Mortar. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Citizen Cope. 8 p.m. Elitch Gardens, 2000 Elitch Circle, Denver. Colorado Brazil Fest’s Sambalegria. 7 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. The Danny Masters Band “Evermore” Tribute to Led Zeppelin. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. Delta Rae. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Denver International Festival. 10 a.m. Civic Center Park, 101 14th Ave., Denver.
Avery’s 24th Anniversary Party. 3 p.m. Avery Brewing Company, 4910 Nautilus Court, Suite N, Boulder.
Best Worst Cantina Presents. 11 p.m. Voodoo Red Rock Ramblers — 59 years Lyons Square Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. Dancing. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Elementary School Gymnasium, 338 High St., Lyons. Emily K. Harrison
A(nother) Night of Grand Guignol. 8 p.m. The Bakery, 2132 Market St., Denver.
Batiste & Young Post-Phish Live Stream. 10 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
Adobe Premiere Pro Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8004647.
A surreal allegory about childhood trauma, House of Gold explores the American dream alongside patriarchal failures and the cannibalistic nature of celebrity, all through the eyes of JonBenét Ramsey. See page 21 for a review of the play.
Footloose: The Musical. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Sept. 3. Hamlet. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 13. House of Gold — presented by square product theater. Roser ATLAS Center 1125 18th St., Boulder, 800-838-3006. Through Aug. 12. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Aug. 19. Julius Caesar. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 12.
Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303856-7830. Through Aug. 6. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 13. The Taming of the Shrew. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303492-8008. Through Aug. 13. Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story — presented by Equinox Theatre Company. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo Street, Denver, 303-447-5977. Through Aug. 19.
The Little Mermaid. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-9353044. Through Aug. 19
Glass Top Bar. 5 p.m. Galleria at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Grant Sabin’s Juke Joint High Ball (CD Release) — with Nate Cook of The Yawpers. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder.
A HUGE SELECTION OF DOMESTIC, IMPORT & CRAFT KEGS!
Hellgrammites — with Giardia, No More Excuses. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. In The Company Of Serpents. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. John Moreland. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Keytar-Fest 2.0. 9 p.m. Skylark Lounge, 140 S. Broadway, Denver.
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LaSportiva Eldora Trail 10k. 7:30 a.m. 2861 Eldora Ski Road, Nederland. Leftapalooza. 12 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont. Live Music: Johnny Long Trio. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder. Live Patio Music — Molly Hardin. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.
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Second Acts. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder. Thievery Corporation — with DeVotchKa, That 1 Guy. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison.
Edwina the Great and Her Amazing Flea Circus. 10 a.m. and noon. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Fab Feb Comedy Kickoff. 8 p.m. Jakes Sports & Spirits, 3800 Walnut St., Denver.
The Summer Day Party Series. 2 p.m. Lincoln Station Bar, 776 Lincoln St., Denver.
Hard Rock Mining Tour. 9:30 a.m. Nederland Mining Museum, 200 N. Bridge St., Nederland.
Tyler Childers. 9 p.m. Lost Lake Lounge, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Loopr Mobile Cannabis Lounge Routes. 2 p.m. 1-Up Colfax, 717 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Wake and Bake Brunch — with DJ Imeh. 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.
Louisville Farmer’s Market. 9 a.m. Downtown Louisville, 916 Main St., Louisville.
Winehouse: An Embodiment of Amy (Amy Winehouse Tribute). 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Winger, Immortal Sÿnn.. 6:30 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Events 2017 Demolitian Derby. 5 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. 5 Points Brew & BBQ. 1 p.m. Spangalang Brewery, 2736 Welton St., Denver.
Meet in the Street. 11 a.m. 16th Street Mall, Denver. Punk Rock Flea Market. 11 a.m. The Fox Compound, 725 W. 39th Ave., Denver. Sanitas Taco Fest. 2 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Co., 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. Volunteer Fair at the Library. 10 a.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. see EVENTS Page 38
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Face Vocal Band — with Dearling, Mr. Majestyk’s 8 Track Revival, Spinphony. 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison.
Blues and BBQ with Silver and Smoke. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.
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BobbyrocK. 6 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Brunch with Solohawk (Acoustic Rock). 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.
Boulder-based all-vocal rock group Face will be headlining at the world-renowned Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Aug. 6. The show is not only the band’s debut performance at Red Rocks, but also a benefit concert. Face will donate $5 of every ticket sold to support Colorado music education. To-date, Face has already raised more than $15,000 for such grants. Face is also supporting the local music scene at the Aug. 6 show. The band held a competition to choose which local bands will join them as they face the iconic red rocks in Morrison. The winners are Dearling, Mr. Majestyk’s 8 Track Revival and Spinphony. Dearling delivers a blend of country, alternative and folk music, with soulful lyrics and melodies. Mr. Majestyk’s 8 Track Revival performs rock and pop masterpieces from the 1970s, including tunes from ELO, Alice Cooper and Led Zeppelin. Spinphony is a cutting edge classical pop fusion group consisting of four virtuosic string players and a DJ. The group creates fresh new takes on classics by mashing them up with rock and pop, while adding high energy orchestrated backing tracks from the DJ. Tickets are $15-$100, plus applicable service charges. All ages are welcome.
City Park Jazz. 6 p.m. City Park Pavilion, 1700 N. York St., Denver. Dan McGuinness. 7:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Dinner with String & Cord. 6 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Espresso! 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder. Face Vocal Band — with Dearling, Mr. Majestyk’s 8 Track Revival, Spinphony. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison. KC Groves & Erik Yates. 5 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, Boulder. La Maquinaria Norteña. 7 p.m. Elitch Gardens, 2000 Elitch Circle, Denver. Madchild - Darkest Hour Album Release Tour. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Melmo and the Middlemen. 7 p.m. Angel’s Landing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver. Peter Rowan — with Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland. Revolution Slut Style Now. 6 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Ryan Caraveo — with Travis Thompson, ROOKE5, Matty Jay. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Soul Diva Revue. 6 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Sunday BBQ Series. 3 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Sunday Spiritual Service. 10 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder. Taiwan Housing Project. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Truckstop Honeymoon. 7:30 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, Boulder. Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Vinyl Sundays with the Denver Kush Club. 12 p.m. Spangalang Brewery, 2736 Welton St., Denver. Who’s Hot Denver. 5 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.
Events 2017 Truck & Tractor Pull. 4 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Anime Club. 3 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Films @ Central. 1:30 p.m. Denver Central Library, 10 W. 14th Ave., Parkway, Denver. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Suite 64, Boulder.
Loopr Mobile Cannabis Lounge Routes. 2 p.m. 1-Up Colfax, 717 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Old Fashioned Playdate. 10 a.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999 Flagstaff Road, Boulder. Red Noses 2017: A Clown Variety Show. 7:30 p.m. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder. Monday, August 7 Music alt-J — with Tove Lo, SOHN. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison.
Boulder Weekly staff pick Colorado Brazil Fest. Aug. 3-6, various locations around Boulder.
Brazil is known for its picturesque beaches, beautiful people and bitchin’ parties, but that’s just the surface. The Colorado Brazil Fest is a four-day celebration of Brazilian music, dance and culture. Sponsored by the Boulder Samba School, the festival showcases samba as well as choro, forró and Afro-Brazilian styles of music and dance. Friday, August 4, 7 p.m. (Free event) Pearl Street Mall (between 13th and 14th St.), Boulder. Samba Percussion and Dance Performances on Pearl Street Mall: Bateria Alegria, Dandha da Hora, Samba Colorado, Bella Diva, and Capoeira Canavial
Arise After Party — with Yaima. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder.
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Tickets: $15/$22 + service fee available at Fox Theater. Paper tickets: $22 no service fee; cash or check only available at Little Brazil (Wheat Ridge) and Two Hands Paperie (Boulder Downtown).
Friday August 4, 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, Boulder. Choro and Forró Night with Ronaldo Andrade and Ginga Tickets: $15. Saturday August 5, 7:30 p.m. Fox Theater, Boulder. Colorado Brazil Fest’s Sambalegria Featuring Ginga, Ronaldo Andrade, Dandha da Hora, Bateria Alegria, Bella Diva, Samba Colorado, and Capoeira Canavial.
Sunday August 6, 1-5 p.m. (Doors open at noon) Boulder Beer Pub, Boulder. Outdoor BBQ and Samba Jam with Ronaldo Andrade and Ginga, with traditional Brazilian food (BBQ, feijoada) for sale by Brazilian Catering. Tickets: $5/$10 available at Eventbrite. You can learn more through a number of workshops that will introduce Brazilian drumming, samba, Afro-Brazilian dance, Orixás movement and the Candomblé religion. Visit www.coloradobrazilfest.org for more information.
Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder. C.Shreve The Professor. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Free Beginner Argentine Tango Class. 6 p.m. Boulder Dushanbe Tea House, 1770 13th St., Boulder. Gungor One Wild Life Acoustic Tour + LaPeer. 7 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver. Julien Baker. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. La Luz. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Luke Bell. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. see EVENTS Page 40
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Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder. Prospect Sound Bites presents Jakarta. 5 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont. Randy Newman. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens , 1007 York St., Denver. Events Black & Blu - Comedy / Variety Show. 7 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver. Le Ride (Documentary on the 1928 Tour de France). 6:30 p.m. Century Theater, 1700 29th St., Boulder.
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Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder.
Doppelgängers! Improv Showcase. 8 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.
Register for Dance Classes at Reverence Academy of Dance. 9 a.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Suite 111, Lafayette.
Farmstand Storytime/¡Cuentos y Cultivos! 5 p.m. Ollin Farms, 8627 N. 95th St., Longmont.
Tuesday, August 8 Music Brazilian Guitar Sensation Diego Figueiredo. 8:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. CMA Jazz Combos Concert. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette. Dweezil Zappa: 50 Years of Frank. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Emily Bell. 8 p.m. Lost Lake Lounge, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Envy Alo - Post Brewing Pint Night. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Plaza beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder. Happy Hour Bingo (Win Tickets To: Washed Out, The Growlers, DRI & More). 6 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Marbin. 6 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Miranda Lambert — with Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison.
The Next Stage NOW Presents: Sunset Cinema. 6 p.m. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Wednesday, August 9 Music Bahamas, Current Swell. 8 p.m. FMQB Free Outdoor Stage on the Hill, 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Boulder. Blackberry Smoke. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Brazilian Guitar Sensation Diego Figueiredo. 6 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. The Buttertones. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Cocordion. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. The Deltaz. 6:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Drop-In Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont.
Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder.
Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Lost Lake Lounge, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Open Mic — with the Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont.
Jazz Dinner with Rico Jones. 6 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.
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LGBTQ Drag Game Show featuring Evelyn Evermoore & Her Pearl Necklaces. 8 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.
Laurie D. 7 p.m. La Cour, 1643 S. Broadway, Denver. Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Miranda Lambert — with Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison. Rachel Baiman, Natalie Tate, Gabrielle Louise. 7:30 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder. RE:Search featuring Adam Deitch (Break Science) — with Ty Coomes (Lettuce), Prob Cause, Mikey Thunder, Jubee. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. The Rocketboys, The Whistles & The Bells. 8 p.m. Lost Lake Lounge, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Summer Splendor - 2017 FOD. 6:30 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette. Tantric. 8 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.
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Honeysuckle by Karla K. Morton
It sprang up wild along the chain link fence—thick, with glorious white and yellow summer blooms, and green tips that we pinched and pulled for one perfect drop of gold honey. But Dad hated it—hated its lack of rows and containment, its disorder. Each year, he dug, bulldozed, and set fire to those determined vines. But each year, they just grew back stronger. Maybe that’s why I felt the urge to plant it that one day in May, when cancer stepped onto my front porch and rang the doorbell, loose matches spilling out of its ugly fists. My boyhood home in Iowa was surrounded by honeysuckle bushes that my father sprayed with the hose on summer evenings, and we’d open the windows and have ‘forties air conditioning, a cool damp breeze. Here’s an entirely different stand of honeysuckle, from Karla Morton, poet laureate of Texas. It’s from her book Accidental Origami: New and Selected Works, from Texas Review Press. — by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2010 by Karla K. Morton, “Honeysuckle,” from Accidental Origami: New and Selected Works, (Texas Review Press, 2016). Poem reprinted by permission of Karla K. Morton and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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ith apologies to SNL’s Cecily Strong, during its first 40 minutes, Atomic Blonde is “the person you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with at a party.” Like someone who read talking points about the Cold War on Twitter and can’t wait to share them, the movie repeats big words it barely understands about complex international history to tell a story more confused than complicated. Then it shakes its head and says, “Sorry, I guess it’s all just too hard for you to understand. Hey, do you want to dance?” And then the dancing starts, everything is awesome and that’s all you’ll ever remember about the night. Set right at the fall of the Berlin Wall, Atomic Blonde does the thing where it twists itself into a narrative pretzel right away to make itself seem more sophisticated. All it boils down to is (A) a spy gets killed, (B) he had a list with the real identities of tons of spies on both sides of the Cold War, (C) there’s a double agent and (D) MI-6 agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is dispatched to retrieve the list and find the identity of the double agent. This requires consorting with Douchey the Bro spy, David Percival ( James McAvoy), and Frenchie the Lady spy, Delphine Lasalle (Sofia Boutella). Broughton sleeps with the latter and not the former, which is a wise move for many reasons. The story is told backwards, with Broughton locked in a room with her boss (Toby Jones) and an American CIA higher-up ( John Goodman) explaining “what had happened was...” Atomic Blonde is the kind of movie that thinks such a gimmicky device is sophisticated, like drinking a Bud Light Lime from a straw. In reality, the movie only succeeds because Theron plays a jaded, broken spy far better than Daniel Craig can and director David Leitch and cinematographer Jonathan Sela can shoot the living hell out of brutal fight scenes. And we’re talking brutal with a capital “Dear God, that man has a set of car keys dangling from a puncture wound in his face!” Everything that Craig has labored to do in most of his James Bond movies, Theron effortlessly outmatches here. Not just in terms of the fight sequences, which are as ghastly as they are captivating, but in terms of character beats. Although shot with a camera placed squarely in the male gaze, when Broughton seduces the French operative — who would have been given a “boy’s club” punny name like “Oui-oui Menage-a-trois” in a 007 movie — Theron gives the relationship tragic gravity. When she sighs in lament of her bloodied past, it feels inherently authentic. So too does the “jukebox on speed” soundtrack that shuffles frantically through ’80s classics and German covers of those classics, exposing Baby Driver’s lauded track-list as downright juvenile. What doesn’t feel authentic are the self-serious espionage subplots and obvious “twists” and reveals. Had Atomic Blonde sped up the pace of its glacial first hour, ditched the pseudo-intellectual bravado and focused on its lead and not the trappings surrounding her, it would have been an instant action-flick classic. Instead, it’s a mixed bag that proves the 007 franchise can be revitalized if the producers replace Bond with this blonde. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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hate to be a bummer, but there are only 144 shopping days until Christmas. More importantly, there are only four weeks left until summer is unofficially over on Labor Day. There will be some sunny days before summer really closes on Sept. 22, but they will be shorter and colder. In the months ahead you can cocoon with comfort foods and binge-watch Breaking Bad. Right now you need to eat that fresh corn out of doors. Almost anything tastes better al fresco with the vibrant visuals, breezes and piney aromas as appetizers. One of my most cherished possessions is an aluminum artist’s case from the 1950s that my mom used to pack sandwiches and fruit in to bring to the lake or the pool. Colorado has a plethora of fine eatery porches, patios, roofs and street corners where you can dine, but picnics are personal. Here are a few favorite change-of-pace picnic spots to enjoy before the season winds down. Picnics with bison: This is a big year for bison (or buffalo) in Colorado, home to more than 11,000 bison, according to the Westminster-based National Bison Association. It is the 100th anniversary of the death of Wild
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West showman “Buffalo Bill” Cody who is buried on Lookout Mountain, and the 50th anniversary of the first time Ralphie the buffalo charged onto the field at the University of Colorado. The all-female series of Ralphies will be celebrated Oct. 28 at Folsom Field at the homecoming game versus the University of California. There are only a few locations in the state where you can have a close encounter with a bison herd. The most famous spot is the Buffalo Herd Overlook on I-70 at Genesee Park, but that familiar pulloff is actually quite a ways from the bison pasture. Instead, keep going to the Chief Hosa exit and follow a dirt road to a second, much better site away from the highway, with picnic tables and grills and a pasture where the herd often gathers, especially early in the morning and late in the afternoon. Somehow, eating buffalo jerky here seems wrong. Head to the wonderful Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge near Aurora for a self-guided, 11-mile, 45-minute (or so) drive through a beautiful park. Giant cattle guard gates alert you that a bison herd lives here. So you drive and when you find the herd blocking the road, stop and pull out the PB&Js but stay in the car. Signs helpfully note: “Bison are wild, unpredictable animals — do not try to attract their attention.” There are also bison-free picnic tables available. The other nearby bison herd picnicing spot is Daniels Park near Sedalia. Watermelon and Bach: It’s tradition to grab a spot early just outside Chautauqua Auditorium on concert nights for the Colorado Music Festival. see NIBBLES Page 48
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For the Baroque era, I recommend counterpointing Longmont goat cheese and Denver salumi with a Boulder Riesling and a Louisville loaf. Urban world eats: On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, the largest gathering of food trucks in the state dishes everything from barbecue pork to dumplings in Denver’s Civic Center Park. Yes, it’s crowded and parking is hellish, but what a memorably intense out-of-Boulder food encounter. Portraits and picnics: Away from the shelters and picnics tables at the overlook on Flagstaff Mountain is a gem of a snacking spot, the west-facing Artist Point. Grab a rock for a seat. If you’re lucky, there will be an artist working to capture the changing panorama. It is contemplative there so don’t bring loud crunchy food like Cheetos and chicharron; slowly slurp a ripe Colorado peach instead. Nibbling by the pool: It still surprises me how many folks never head out to one of the chillest, prettiest escapes in the area, the Eldorado Springs Pool south of Boulder. I don’t recall the picnic menu from my first visit but I’ll never forget the feeling of that first plunge in ice cold water. P.S.: Check for any remaining seats to an epic dinner in the middle of Larimer Square: Dining Al Fresco at 5 p.m. on Aug. 19. larimersquare.com
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Get out of your backyard barbecue routine and grill some beets while they are fresh and cheap. The following recipe is based on one chef Jason K. Morse devised for enjoying Colorado yellow beets: Garden Beet Salad 8 yellow beets 3 tablespoons olive oil Salt, fresh ground black pepper, minced fresh herbs (to taste) 1/2 cup candied walnuts Vinaigrette dressing 10 tablespoons chevre (goat cheese), crumbled Trim the roots and stalks of the beets, remove any dirt and wash. Preheat your grill to about 250 degrees. Place the beets into a medium bowl, drizzle with olive oil and toss. Place the beets on the preheated grill and cook for about 90 minutes or until they are fork-tender. Remove beets from grill, place in a bowl, cover and let sit for 20 minutes. Remove from the bowl and carefully peel beets. Cut into small wedges and place into a bowl. Drizzle with olive oil, season with salt, pepper and minced fresh herbs. Allow to sit for 10 minutes. Arrange beets on a plate, top with dressing, chevre and candied walnuts. Chef Morse recommends pairing it with a 2016 Colorado Riesling from Boulder’s Bookcliff Vineyards. That wine and a 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve from Decadent Saint in Boulder are among winners in the 2017 Colorado Wine Governor’s Cup competition, which included 46 Colorado wineries. Other winners included Whitewater Hill Vineyards, Guy Drew Vineyards, Infinite Monkey Theorem and Evergreen’s Creekside Cellars. The wines will be poured Aug. 3 at the 2017 Colorado Governor’s Cup Winners’ Tasting Event at History Center Colorado. coloradowine.com.
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ric Skokan had no idea how difficult it would be to grow a carrot. “Literally something as granular as a carrot seed causes so many problems. How do you get them into the row spaced out well enough that you don’t spend the rest of your summer thinning them out?” he says.
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kling 50 percent sand and 50 percent carrots, thus spreading out the individual amounts of carrots, right? And of course once I did that, everything became a lot easier. “And you know, I then only had 1,500 tricks I had to learn over the next couple of years,” he says. Skokan is a lot of things. He’s a James Beard Award-nominated chef.
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Black Cat’s Eric Skokan on learning from mistakes and enjoying the successes BY MATT CORTINA So his first plan was to plant more seeds. Early in the season, he’d pick out the baby ones, which would create space for the bigger ones. The problem was that carrot seeds are so small, you can’t help but dump a lot of them in on each pass. “My rows of carrots looked like a Chia pet. Like a solid carpet of tiny, tiny carrots,” Skokan says. “And then on your hands and knees, you’re pulling out thousands of individual carrots to make space. Completely wrongheaded. It just doesn’t work that way.” That’s when an old farmer told him, “Oh, Eric. No one’s told you the carrot trick.” “The carrot trick. Of course,” Skokan jokes. “The carrot trick is to mix your carrot seed 50-50 with play sand. The grains of sand are the same size as the carrot [seeds], and so when you sprinkle them out, you’re sprinBoulder Weekly
He’s a farmer at the 130-acre, organic Black Cat Farm, likely the world’s largest farm-to-table enterprise. He’s an author, a student and a father. And yet despite those flaming chainsaws he manages to juggle every minute of every day, he speaks with such alarming patience that you can’t help but think he’s got something big figured out, even if it took a while to get there. “In years one, two and three, it was every bit as hard as you can imagine. Let your mind wander through a sea of disasters in terms of farming and restaurants and integrating the two, and pretty much every one of those happened and often multiple times,” Skokan says. Skokan didn’t know that he was “going to be a farmer, and have eight tractors and a combine,” when he began the Black Cat endeavor. But he remembers the moment out of which it
was born. On a trip to the Basque region of France, Skokan and his wife, Jill, sat down for a meal at a restaurant where the owner, chef and waitress was just one woman named Marguerite. “I saw her after our order leave the kitchen and go into her big garden,” Skokan says. “And then she came back 10 minutes later with an apron full of stuff from the garden, and then just a few minutes later the dishes started coming out of the kitchen. And at the time I was the chef at the Stanley Hotel, where when I needed to make a dish, I started up our forklift and I unloaded full pallets of premade things out of a tractor-trailer.” On American Airlines napkins he still has, Skokan charted out what would become Black Cat on the trip home. The business plan was to “get as close as I can to the experience Marguerite gave us.” Skokan had already turned the lawn all around his house into a big garden.
But farming on a large scale provided a bigger challenge, one where failure was as abundant and free-willed as the weather. “A big part of the success of the farm has been my determination to keep going despite the failure,” Skokan says. “My goal is when I grow a new crop, the first year, I hope to score a C-plus. I do a ton of research and give it a try, and if I score a C, C-plus, then I’m elated. And then the next year, I’m shooting for a B. And then maybe the third or fourth year, I’m shooting for an A.” Skokan is a self-proclaimed voracious reader and relies in part on the wide variety of guides from American agricultural universities on how to grow almost anything. He also relies on a team of farmers at Black Cat and institutional knowledge passed down from other farmers in the area. Collectively, see SKOKAN Page 52
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it provides solutions to the inevitable pitfalls on the farm. For instance: “At the end of the first year, I had grown a spectacular number of turnips which were inedible,” Skokan says. “They were about the worst thing ever and I had this massive pile of them, and I decided that I needed to raise pigs so that they could eat up all of my mistakes, which, in the end, it turned out to be a wise thing because I grow a lot of mistakes along the way. And a farming friend of mine
said, ‘Yeah, Eric, pigs are a farmer’s way of sweeping things under the carpet,’ and it’s true. “Pigs make me look very successful.” So do a staff of cooks that Skokan’s worked with for years, and a small team of farmers that he often relies on. Every day, crops are cut at the farm, where they’re cleaned and packed, and then shipped to the restaurant on 13th Street, where a team of chefs unpack the bounty and get to work. Within 14
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hours, Skokan says, what comprises up to 90 percent of your vegetables at Black Cat goes from ground to plate. (Contrast that, he says, with the average bunch of kale, which takes a month to go from farm to plate, and is thus grown for durability, not flavor.) The farm and restaurant team operate, out of necessity, with constant communication. After dinner service, the restaurant team will text the farm crew what they need; and the farm crew will provide it in the morning. In return, the farm crew will text the restaurant team what crops will be ready for harvest and when. (September, by the way, is when Skokan says the farm is at its most bountiful, so get ready.) Skokan says whether the dish or the crop comes first happens in both directions. For instance, he grew up in Virginia “eating [his] body weight in boiled peanuts” and thought it’d be neat to plant some in Colorado. It would at least be an interesting challenge, and he found his farm hands had experience growing the crop in Mexico. Conversely, the 14 varieties of carrots grown on the farm, for example, serve different purposes — from forearmsized carrots for asserting presence to sweet, baby carrots for roasting and cooing at. Some crops, like the hailstone radish, are efficient because the greens of the plant make for pleasant salads. Because Black Cat grows such a wide variety of plants on the farm, Skokan says cooking at Black Cat is daunting. Young chefs may know what to do with an artichoke, but can they manipulate a similar-tasting, but differently-constructed cardoon? Do they know that arugula goes from spicy to way too spicy after the first few 95-degree days of summer? “Often, when they seem frustrated, I’ll say, ‘Hey, you know what? … Hitting a target is hard, but we give you a moving target every day. That’s really hard. Keep that in perspective; you’re not supposed to be good at it. It’s going to take a long time for you to become good.” It’s abundantly clear Skokan loves what he does. He loves farming, it seems, more than anything else. After a while, that alarming patience with which he speaks comes off much more like joy, a quality that’s not getting a lot of press in 2017 America. Indeed, Skokan says he often feels “like Jimmy Stewart in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’” mostly because of the support from the community, but surely, too, because of his ability to find joy in the chaos itself, bad radishes and all. Boulder Weekly
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f you are a dedicated beer drinker in the Boulder scene, it is entirely possible you’ve never set foot in BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse. Sure, it’s hard to miss as you roll down 28th Street on your way to Trader Joe’s. Maybe you’ve even thought about how great pizza and beer would taste after a movie at the Century Theater. But with so many new breweries opening, the staples seem to get lost in the shuffle. Well, if you’ve never been, or haven’t been a while, do yourself a favor: stop in and order something off the R&D menu. Started as a Chicago-style pizzeria in Santa Ana, California, in 1978, BJ’s quickly expanded throughout the California Southland and got into the brewing game in 1996. Boulder’s first BJ’s, located on Pearl Street, soon ON TAP: BJ’s followed in Restaurant and Brewhouse. 1690 1997. In 28th St., Boulder, 2012, BJ’s 303-440-5200. left Pearl for bjsbrewhouse.com its current facility, a 200-barrel brewhouse that produces the beer for all Colorado locations. Currently, there are five BJ’s in Colorado — Westminster, Aurora, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and Boulder — and all five serve BJ’s classic lineup. Ranging from Lightswitch Lager (3.5 percent alcohol by volume), light and drinkable — BJ’s version of Coors Light — to the Nutty Brewnette (5.5 percent), loaded with chocolate malt and notes of almond, walnut and Brazilian nut, to Tatonka Stout (8.5 percent), a hoppy stout served on nitro. BJ’s core beers, 10 in all, are easy, accessible and designed with the casual drinker in mind. For those looking for a walk on the wilder side, BJ’s has just the menu for you: Aaron’s R&D Brews. Hailing from Wisconsin and educated in Scotland, BJ’s head brewer Aaron Stueck brings a wide variety of brews to the Boulder headquarters, one where even the most seasoned drinkers can expand their knowledge. Take the standard Berliner Weisse (2.8 to 3.8 percent): tart with an expected fizziness, this beer is a perfect summer sipper that can be found just about anywhere. But here you can order it with a hit of Waldmeister Getränkesirup, the syrup Germans commonly add to give it a sweet, melony brightness. If sweet and bright aren’t your thing, then try Shati (7.5 percent) or, as Stueck calls it, “A wild and crazy rye.” Shati is a
traditional Finnish beer full of spice and brewed with baking yeast, giving it a distinct sourdough flavor. If you need to go darker, Stueck has a Coffee Belgian Stout (nine percent) that is surprisingly refreshing and far too easy to crush for a nine-percenter. With
the distinct Belgian taste of banana and clove, this sweet stout brings enough coffee-roast to the table that a taster of it might be the perfect lunch dessert. Granted, BJ’s is famous for its Pizookie (a giant pizza-shaped cookie), but the Coffee Belgian Stout is substantially less
filling. In addition to BJ’s 10 core beers, Stueck has 10 R&D beers that come and go as fast as people drink them. A few favorites are sure to return, but what gems are next on the horizon has us thirsty already.
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have to be cleaned. Then crushed. Then macerated and pressed. The next phase is fermentation, followed by filtering. The aging process, which brings the grapes’ transformation to completion, requires more time then the other steps. At the end, there’s one more stage: putting the wine in bottles. I’d like to compare the grapes’ evolution to the story of your life since your last birthday. You are nearing the end of the aging phase. When that’s finished, I hope you put great care into the bottling. It’s as important as the other steps.
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MAY 21-JUNE 20: Writing in The Futurist magazine,
Christopher Wolf says that the tradition of eating three hearty meals per day is fading and will eventually disappear. “Grazing” will be the operative term for how we get our fill, similar to the method used by cavemen and cavewomen. The first snack after we awaken, Wolf suggests, might be called “daystart.” The ensuing four could be dubbed “pulsebreak,” “humpmunch,” “holdmeal” and “evesnack.” In light of your current astrological omens, Gemini, I endorse a comparable approach to everything you do: not a few big doses, but rather frequent smaller doses; not intense cramming but casual browsing; not sprawling heroic epics but a series of amusing short stories.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22: The RIKEN Institute in Japan
experiments with using ion beams to enhance plant growth. In one notable case, they created a new breed of cherry tree that blossoms four times a year and produces triple the amount of flowers. The blooms last longer, too, and the trees thrive under a wider span of temperatures. In the next eleven months, Cancerian, you won’t need to be flooded with ion beams to experience a similar phenomenon. I expect that your power to bloom and flourish will be far stronger than usual.
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JULY 23-AUG. 22: Leo actor Robert De Niro once
observed that most people devote more energy to concealing their emotions and longings than to revealing them. Is that true about you? If so, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to hide less of yourself and express more. There’ll be relatively little hell to pay as a result, and you’ll get a boost of vitality. Don’t go overboard, though. I’m not suggesting that you unveil every last one of your feelings and yearnings to everyone — just to those you trust. Most importantly, I hope you will unveil all your feelings and yearnings to yourself.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: It has almost become a tradition:
Each year at about this time, you seem to enjoy scaring the hell out of yourself, and often the heaven, too. These self-inflicted shocks have often had a beneficial side effect. They have served as rousing prompts for you to re-imagine the future. They have motivated and mobilized you. So yes, there has been an apparent method in your madness -- an upside to the uproar. What should we expect this time, my dear? A field trip to a crack house or a meth lab? Some fun and games in a pit of snakes? An excursion to the land of bad memories? I suggest something less melodramatic. How about, for example, a frolic with unruly allies in a future paradise that’s still a bit unorganized?
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you realize. If you were standing on a mountaintop under a cloudless night sky with no moon, you could see a fire burning 50 miles away. Your imagination is also capable of feats that might surprise you. It can, for example, provide you with an expansive and objective view of your entire life history. I advise you to seek that boost now. Ask your imagination to give you a prolonged look at the big picture of where you have been and where you are going. I think it’s essential to your discovery of the key to the next chapter of your life story.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Love is your gritty but sacred duty. It’s your prickly prod and your expansive riddle, your curious joy and your demanding teacher. I’m talking about the whole gamut, Capricorn — from messy personal romantic love to lucid unconditional spiritual love; from asking smartly for what you desire to gratefully giving more than you thought you had. Can you handle this much sweet, dark mystery? Can you grow your intimacy skills fast enough to keep up with the interesting challenges? I think you can.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: There’s an eclipse of the moon coming up in the sign of Aquarius. Will it bring bad luck or good luck? Ha! That’s a trick question. I threw it in to see if you have been learning anything from my efforts to redeem astrology’s reputation. Although some misinformed people regard my chosen field as a superstitious pseudo-science, I say it’s an imaginative art form that helps us identify and transform our subconscious patterns. So the wise answer to my earlier question is that the imminent lunar eclipse is neither bad luck nor good luck. Rather, it tells you that have more power than usual to: 1. tame and manage the disruptive and destructive aspects of your instinctual nature; 2. make progress in dissolving your old conditioning; 3. become more skilled at mothering yourself.
PISCES
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DEAR DAN: I’m a 22-year-old nonbinary person and I’m debating whether to come out to my father as nonbinary. Complicating things is the fact that I tried to come out to him at 18 back when I thought I was “only” a hetero-leaning bi cross-dresser. He did not take the news well. Today we don’t talk about it, and I think he pretends it never happened. I’m wanting to move toward living in a less-gender-conforming way — including changing my name — and am considering making © Rachel Robinson a second attempt. Pros: not feeling I like I’m hiding who I am, maybe I get him off my back about kids, being able to be out on Facebook. Cons: screaming matches, strong possibility of being disowned and losing the modest amount of financial support I get from him, small possibility of him telling my mom (they’re divorced). Any advice? —One Foot Out DEAR OFO: What’s more important to you, OFO, living authentically or living off your dad? If being your authentic self means giving up the money he sends you and you don’t desperately need his money, the choice is obvious. But if his
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money is all that stands between you and gender-nonconforming homelessness, you might want to think through your options, the risks and the rewards, before going nonbinary official on Facebook. DEAR DAN: I’m a 25-year-old man who is mostly interested in women but I like to mess around with men sometimes. I also love wearing high heels and makeup — not to “pass,” but just because I love it. Most women seem to be instantly turned off by these two things. I usually do very well with women, but they bolt when I tell them, and some have been quite hurtful. My family is very understanding about the high heels and my sexuality — even my father — but the average woman doesn’t seem to like it when I do something that they deem “theirs.” Which is so unfair.
Women can do anything they please — wear pants if they like, have same-sex experiences — but I must submit or face the life of an outcast. Any advice on how to deal with this while also dealing with the bitterness and envy I feel? —Enraging Gender And Double Standards DEAR EGADS: Let’s start with those feelings of envy, shall we? While it’s true that women can wear pantsuits without causing alarm (or winning the White House), and while it’s also true that women can have same-sex experiences without freaking out the men in their lives (because straight men are likelier to be aroused than repulsed), women’s choices and their bodies are subjected to much more scrutiny, control, and violence than our male bodies are, EGADS. Until politicians legislate against your right to control your own body (and wear your own heels), you can note the few areas where women enjoy more latitude than men, but you aren’t allowed to bitch about them. And this should put your pain in perspective: According to a new report from
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than half the women murdered in the United States every year — 55 percent — are killed by their husbands, boyfriends or exes. It sucks to be dumped for your sexual orientation or gender expression, I know. And people kink-shaming is more painful than nonkinksters realize. But none of your exes have stalked and murdered you. Now the good news: There are women out there who dig men in high heels, there are women out there into bi guys, and there is a significant overlap between those two groups of women. If you succumb to bitterness at your young age because you’ve been dumped a few times — if you despise all women because you were dumped by women you wouldn’t want to be with anyway — you’re going to scare off the women who are genuinely attracted to guys like you. The women who bolted did you a painful favor, and you should be grateful. Because with those average women out of your life, EGADS, you’re free to go find an above-average woman who wants an above-average guy like you. Pro-tip: You’re likelier to find those women at a fetish party or club, or via a kink social-media site or dating website. Good luck. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
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en. Cory Booker of New Jersey has a plan of prohibition have languished inside the marble to do what no politician has done before: halls of Capitol Hill, a place that has learned how to reverse decades of failed drug policy that relegate such discourse to the fringe, if not to has disproportionately impacted communi- squash it all together. ties of color. With the Marijuana Justice A favorite example dates back to just last year Act (MJA), introduced on Aug. 1, Booker seeks to when Senate Democrats arranged for a literal sit-in end the federal prohibition of marijuana, expunge in hopes of inspiring a debate about gun control. federal marijuana convictions and penalize states The Republican-controlled Senate, led by Paul Wikimedia Commons/Senate Democrats with racially-disparate arrest or Ryan, directed the live-feed incarceration rates for marijuanacameras to turn away from related crimes. the protest and then called The bill is ambitious and there for a recess — an automatic is a palpable sense of excitement signal for the cameras to be (or disgust, depending on what turned off. Undeterred, the side you’re on) as it’s being herDemocratic Senators turned alded as the most comprehensive on their cellphone cameras marijuana bill to date, and yet... instead. The sit-in quickly Federal marijuana bills like garnered political and public attention and inspired a this tend to be doomed to a short conversation among and life and a certain death. Re: the betwixt both groups. Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol Booker is already a pro Act (HR-1841), a bill introduced when it comes to leveraging by Colorado’s own dear Rep. Jared social media to his political Polis in March of this year. ends, but saddling the HR-1841 was announced with introduction of the MJA some fanfare and also a lot of with a live announcement skepticism about its potential. In on Facebook is a modern the four months since, it has gained 15 co-sponsors and been referred to the day coup d’etat. No, he isn’t overthrowing the govHouse Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation ernment, but he is launching an aggressive offensive and Forestry, where it will likely live out its numeffort to circumnavigate political censorship of his bered days in peace and quiet. bill, and it’s all in the name of reparative justice. Given the Republican-controlled Senate and Trusting in the distributive power of Facebook decidedly anti-marijuana executive branch, it is like- Live, Booker took to the social media streets to ly that Booker’s bill has the same unfavorable destimake it clear this wasn’t just a bill about decriminalny. While the MJA may not defy it’s fate, there is izing marijuana, but one aimed at undoing the something different about this bill, something fresh, harms that the nation’s decade-long war on drugs something only the social media maestro Booker has inflicted on poor and minority communities. can provide — a real conversation. Of course, he mentioned all the relevant statisFor decades, conversations challenging notions tics. Since the 1980s, the federal prison population
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has gone up 800 percent, costing billions (and billions) of taxpayer dollars. There is no difference between marijuana consumption rates between blacks and whites in our country, but black people are arrested four times as often. For each arrest there are 40,000 collateral consequences that wreak havoc in poor and minority communities. Just as important, he appealed to American values and hearts, opening his talk with a patriotic call for “liberty and justice for all,” and then calling out the “rank hypocrisy” of politicians and frat boys who openly joke about marijuana consumption when this is no laughing matter. The Facebook announcement feels a bit rebellious, but it’s also a wise political gesture — a way to spark debate and fan the flame, to bring the issues of federal decriminalization directly to the people of the democracy, even if it’s unlikely to break through to the Senate floor. Yes, many political issues have launched from the annals of Facebook, finding a life of their own in direct appeal to and participation of the people. But, there is a unique compatibility in the combination of marijuana and social media, as both have served as major agents of change in the survival of democracy in the modern age. Both legal marijuana and the internet came about on the wings of the people. Cannabis was legalized one vote at a time and the internet became what it is through the contributions of individuals around the world dedicated to creating a free and open platform for the exchange of information and ideas. Together, these two have the potential to dethrone the long seated and power heavy establishment of the war on drugs. The Marijuana Justice Act may be a long shot, but it’s a conversation Congress has to have — one about federalism and about consistency, but also about liberty and justice for all.
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two-pronged assault was launched against the federal government’s insane marijuana laws last week, one in the courts and one in the United States Senate. The lawsuit, which names Attorney General Jeff Sessions as one of the defendants, really does target the insane nature of federal pot laws. It challenges the constitution- Wikimedia Commons/Raul 546 ality of the Controlled Substances Act as it applies to marijuana on grounds that the classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug is so irrational that it violates the U.S. Constitution. Schedule I drugs are defined as drugs that have no medical use and have a high potential for abuse, like heroin. The plaintiffs in the case, who include former NFL player Marvin Washington, argue that the federal government knows that marijuana does in fact have medical uses, because some time ago it obtained a patent on a medical pot product based on its assertion that cannabis is a safe and effective treatment for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and HIV-induced dementia, as well as several other conditions, and that it admitted in statements by the U.S. Surgeon General and a federal administrative law judge that cannabis does constitute medicine.
It further cites the fact that the feds have established a national policy of refraining from investigating and prosecuting medical and recreational pot businesses and users in the 29 states that have legalized marijuana in one form or another. The lawsuit also claims the Controlled Substances Act was enacted and implemented in order to discriminate against African Americans and to suppress people’s First Amendment rights. “The record makes clear that the Controlled Substances Act doesn’t make any rational sense, and the federal government knows it,” said Michael Hiller, the lead counsel in the case. He also said if the federal government “doesn’t believe in the rationality of its own statute, it’s unconstitutional to enforce it.” The assault in the Senate took the form of a bill that was introduced by Senator Cory Booker (DNew Jersey) that would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, retroactively expunge the records of those convicted of marijuana use and possession under federal law, and allow convicts currently serving time in a federal prison for use and possession to petition a court for resentencing. It would also use federal grants to incentivize states in which pot is still illegal to change their laws. And it would withhold federal funds for prison con-
struction or staffing in states that have disproportionate marijuana offense arrest rates for minority and low-income individuals. Tom Angell, who heads the legalization advocacy group Marijuana Majority, called the bill “the single most far-reaching marijuana bill that’s ever been filed in either chamber of Congress.” Removing marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act would effectively legalize it at the federal level. The provisions expunging convictions for marijuana use and possession under federal law and allowing individuals in federal prisons for pot use and possession would have little effect nationwide, since most use and possession violations are prosecuted under state laws. However it would have a major effect in Washington D.C., where only federal law applies — and where most of the defendants are likely to be black. Don’t get your hopes up for either the lawsuit or the Booker Bill succeeding. Both the federal courts and the U.S. Senate have long track records of being too chicken to address the obvious injustices and irrationalities in federal marijuana laws, notwithstanding the fact that, as with alcohol prohibition, their failure to do so breeds contempt for the rule of law and lawmakers. The importance of both the lawsuit and the Booker bill is that they attack federal pot prohibition head on, directly challenging its constitutionality and its rationality. At last the core issues — constitutionality, irrationality and racism — are being directly targeted in ways that will be hard for the country’s legislative and judicial poltroons to ignore. Hiller and Sen. Booker may not prevail initially, but, if the course of previous civil liberties and civil rights struggles are any guide, what they’ve begun will eventually end in victory. And given growing public support for legalization, that may be sooner rather than later.
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