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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: A health care system for people, not just for corporate profit 6 THE ANDERSON FILES: Fascism, American style 6 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 27 ARTS & CULTURE: ‘Frozen’ opens its preview in Denver before heading to Broadway this spring 31 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do 40 SCREEN: ‘mother!’ is ham-fistedly irritating 41 FILM: Authenticity and imagination swirl together in ‘Woodpeckers’ 43 THE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in Boulder County this week 45 NIBBLES: A little pickle-ish 52 DRINK: Tour de Brew: Endo Brewing Company 57 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: The true color of a leaf 59 CANNABIS CORNER: Local marijuana users just want a good night’s sleep 60 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 61 SAVAGE LOVE: Dicks deluxe Bouder Weekly
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Highroad A health care system for people, not just for corporate profit by Jim Hightower
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merica is number one in health care! But before erupting in proud chants of USA! USA! — note that we’re only number one in health care spending. Ouch. America spends more per person on medical bills than any other advanced nation on the planet — nearly $10,000 a year for each of us. Germany, Canada, Australia, England, Japan and all other advanced democracies pay only a fraction of that — yet their people get far better care, are healthier and live longer than our people. That’s because they have public health insurance systems providing comprehensive coverage for everyone, while eliminating the 25-30 percent of every healthcare dollar that profiteering insurance corporations waste on overhead, advertising, paperwork, profits and executive pay.
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Why don’t we Americans have such an efficient and effective system? We do: Medicare! It’s a proven, no-hassle system delivering quality care to each of America’s senior citizens. It works! But what about children, young people and the middleaged — the majority of our people? Glad you asked. Sen. Bernie Sanders, along with 16 co-sponsors, has just introduced the Medicare for All Act, extending this successful, commonsense program to everyone. Sanders’ proposal (like Rep. John Conyers’ bill in the U.S. House) will cut the health care costs paid by typical working families from some $5,300 a year to $844. It’ll also cut out the complexity and stress of getting the care you need — just go to any private doctor you choose, show your public insurance card and — Bingo — you’re in! No more co-pays, deductibles or fighting with corporate insurance bureaucrats trying to keep you out. To learn more about Bernie’s Medicare for All plan to create a people’s health care system, go to www.sanders.senate. gov/newsroom/press-releases/17-senators-introduce-medicarefor-all-act. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. September 21 , 2017 5
the anderson files Fascism, American style by Dave Anderson
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acially tinged fear mongerissued by Obama only months earlier ing about crime was crucial to “phase out” their use. In May, for Donald Trump’s camSessions instructed federal prosecutors paign and now his presito seek the harshest possible penalties dency. In his inaugural for those found guilty of violating the address, Trump talked about how law. “crime and gangs and drugs” are causIn August, Sessions announced a ing “carnage” in America’s cities. roll back of the Obama administraHis dark view clashes with reality. tion’s restrictions on the transfer of According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime surplus military equipment to police Reporting program and the Bureau of departments across the nation. That Justice Statistics’ National Crime includes grenade launchers, bayonets, Victimization Survey, rates of violent high-caliber guns, camouflage gear and crimes like murder, sexual assault and armored personnel carriers used on the robbery have all declined sharply since battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. 1993. The restrictions Before Trump came in 2015 in ran for president, response to the it seemed that a controversy over fragile bipartisan the militarization by of law enforcement elite consensus was provoked by imagemerging for a less the actions of the es from Ferguson, punitive criminal Trump administration Missouri. After an justice system. For in its dissemination of unarmed 18-yearseveral years, we old black man, have seen an misinformation and Michael Brown, alarming number development of uninwas killed by a of cellphone videos formed policy initiawhite cop in that on TV of unarmed black men being city, peaceful protives.” killed by police. testers were con— American Society of There have been fronted by large Criminology large demonstraarmored vehicles tions against police and police in riot brutality, and a gear carrying new civil rights assault rifles. movement called Black Lives Sessions has ordered the Justice Matter has emerged. Department to launch a comprehensive Nevertheless, public opinion polls review of all police reform activities, reveal a deep divide between blacks/ including any existing or planned conLatinos and whites on attitudes toward sent decrees. The edict comes at a cruthe police. Trump has exploited this cial time for several major cities, situation. He has claimed that proposincluding Baltimore and Chicago, als for police reform are “anti-law where the Justice Department deterenforcement.” He claims the reformers mined that the police had engaged in are waging a “war on police.” unconstitutional patterns of racial disIn July, Trump spoke to an audicrimination and excessive force. ence of police officers on Long Island. In a number of cases during the He told them it was OK to rough up Obama administration, the Justice suspects and said “please don’t be so Department negotiated formal reform nice.” His remarks drew significant agreements with the cities, usually in applause and some laughter. The the form of a consent decree, which White House insisted he was just were then overseen by a federal court. clowning around. Nevertheless, many In Newark, a consent decree resultpolice officials across the country critied in a big reduction in crime. Its cized Trump. monitor, Peter Harvey, said reform can Attorney General Jeff Sessions is help cops do their jobs. turning Trump’s positions into policy. “Remember, it’s the community In February, the Department of Justice that helps you police,” Harvey said. reinstated the use of private prisons for federal incarceration, reversing an order see ANDERSON Page 8
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Hope in municipalization
As a 23-year-old living in 2017, I am often weary about the state of the world that my generation is inheriting. At the top of my list of concerns is a destabilizing climate system that will intensify problems of social and economic inequality across the globe for decades to come. My weariness is rooted in a simple calculation; each year that our economic machine trudges forward powered by fossil fuels, the more suffering and loss we will inevitably endure in our lifetime. So, what can we do about it? I invite young people who also feel uneasy about our collective future to support the creation of a local electric utility in Boulder by voting yes on 2L, 2O and 2P at the ballot box this fall. Why? Because we need local solutions that are as bold and comprehensive as the climate crisis is grave and life-threatening; because this initiative is our best hope for averting the worst effects of climate change. Sticking with Xcel Energy, which plans on burning coal until 2070, will prevent Boulder from achieving 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030. To the contrary, separating from Xcel will remove barriers that restrict the emergence of a decentralized, democratically governed electricity system powered by renewables. Making haste in removing such political and market
barriers is crucial to letting the future unfold. Boulder is on the verge of achieving something pretty incredible with its efforts to municipalize its electric utility. I urge my generational cohorts, who understand the dire need for bold, paradigm-shifting solutions, to support Boulder’s efforts to liberate our power from Xcel and create a city-run electric utility. Within these types of local, concrete solutions, we might find respite from fear of what is to come, and a good reason to be hopeful. Duncan Gilchrist/Boulder
Think broadly about environmental action
Thank you, Boulder Weekly, for the thought-provoking articles related to our environmental predicament in your August 3, 2017 issue. The piece on the Gross Dam controversy [RE: “Good ‘til the last drop,” News] in particular, encouraged reflection on the hard choices and inconvenient truths we are faced with. The questions left in my mind are: Where are we going? Where is subservience to population and economic growth and the mega-project mindset leading us? What would be the consequences of turning away from the dominant paradigm and making decisions that are, to the best of our capacity and collective wisdom, aligned with the truth of our interrelatedness with nature and a sense of the sacred? When will we come together to look clearly at the depth of our predicament? see LETTERS Page 8
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The predictable and flawed reactions to Harvey and Irma
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“Very few cities have enough cops to patrol a city 24-7 effectively, 12 months a year. You need the community to help you.” He pointed out that won’t help if you “place community residents in chokeholds where they die, and then turn around and say, ‘Well, we want to be your friend.’ Those are inconsistent messages.” Trump’s and Sessions’ fear mongering and lies have alarmed criminologists. In an unusual move, the executive board of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) — the nation’s leading academic organization in the field — issued a statement declaring that the administration’s early actions and assertions on criminal justice “demonstrate an incongruity between administrative policy efforts and wellestablished science about the causes and consequences of crime.” The group’s board said it is “concerned by the actions of the Trump administration in its dissemination of misinformation and development of uninformed policy initiatives. Not only are these initiatives unscientific,
they are likely to engender further cynicism about and discontent with the criminal justice system that is harmful to citizens, to members of law enforcement, and to other sources of social control.” It’s unlikely that Trump will listen to them. His law enforcement hero is Joe Arpaio, the lawless former sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County, who has a long record of sadistic and racist behavior. He rushed through a pardon of Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt for willfully disobeying a judge when she ordered him to stop racially profiling Latino drivers and detaining them without charges. Arpaio detained Latinos in what he called a “concentration camp” with inhumane conditions and torture. This was, as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman put it, “Fascism, American Style.” Trump would like to do to America what Arpaio did to Maricopa County. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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ceived notions. We rationalize how we know certain things by constructing arguments, often flimsy ones. Finally, and of huge importance, we dismiss evidence that runs counter to our preferred explanation. This behavior isn’t sinister, and, moreover, we’re usually not even aware that we do it. In response to Harvey, some of my devout Christian friends state that what happened in Houston was a result of the wickedness in that city. While I’m sure that there’s wickedness there, and I do believe that it’s possible — if highly unlikely — that societies suffer disasters due to their sins, I stop far short of ever concluding as much. From the “science” side, people are also concluding things that they have no business doing, claiming that the hurricanes were caused by climate change that was caused by human activity. They so much want it to be true that they dispense with intellectual rigor. In an effort to offer some disclaimer, or to limit the extent of their claim, you will undoubtedly hear introductory statements like, “Of course, climate change cannot account for any specific storm.” Then, as though they’ve not even made such a statement, they proceed to draw unsubstantiated conclusions that fit their worldview. Such as: “It’s a fact: climate change made Hurricane Harvey more deadly.” “With global temperatures rising, we should expect more such storms.” And, my favorite, “This is the new normal.” As if we’re patient enough to look at events over long enough of a timescale to determine what “normal” is. Employing confirmation bias, they’re sure that this year’s storms provide proof for global warming’s effect on hurricanes, while they dismiss the fact that not one major hurricane made landfall in the U.S. in the previous 12 years. Is it possible that hurricane Harvey hit Houston because of the sinful behavior of its inhabitants? Sure, it’s possible. Can we conclude as much? No way. Is it possible that Harvey occurred due to humans driving cars? Sure, it’s possible. Should we claim that human activity caused it? Not if we want to be taken seriously. With most interesting timing, on August 30, NOAA issued a report titled, “Global Warming and Hurricanes” that covered more than 100 years of Atlantic hurricane activity. The summary statement starts, “It is premature to conclude that human activities — and particularly greenhouse Boulder Weekly
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these storms should remind us of how powerful nature can be, and how humble and cautious we must be when we inhabit regions prone to such natural phenomena. If we claim to be rational beings, and are dedicated to progress and honesty, we must make a clear distinction about what we know, and about what we only suspect. Charlie Danaher/Boulder
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he consequences of Houston’s historic inundation, in deaths and dollars, are nowhere near fully tallied. Indeed, the economic costs — which will include everything from thousands of ruined and uninsured homes to higher national gasoline prices to lost business activity in the country’s fourthlargest city — will take months to calculate, and years to overcome, said Kevin Simmons, an economist at Austin College focused on storm impacts. “In the Houston metro area alone, there is more than $325 billion in residential value at risk,” Simmons said in an interview. “Most damage to residential property will be flooding and if people don’t have flood insurance they are on their own.” (Most don’t, in part because the floodwaters reached so far beyond established danger zones.) Add in damaged cars, commercial property, lost business and the damage outside of Houston, “The bottom line will likely exceed Katrina,” he said. Other economists surveyed by The New York Times earlier this week projected somewhat lower losses, but it is still early. While some aspects of Houston’s agony are likely anomalous, a similar set of risk factors threatens hundreds of communities from coast to coast and in
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between. The natural hazards and geography vary, but the dominant dynamic leading to unnatural disasters is the same everywhere: Growth and development continue to put people and property at risk, from overdeveloped inland floodplains to fire-prone Western woodlands, to crowding coastlines, to homes and businesses built in America’s Tornado Alley. Some of the meteorological threats, like extreme downpours and heat waves, are sure to worsen in a human-heated climate. Many climate scientists see warming from elevated levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse as already contributing to the severity of rains like those over Texas in recent days and Louisiana last year. But some scientists worry that squabbles over the evolving field of “attribution” science — parsing what portion of a storm is due to global warming — distract attention from the utter clarity around the role of on-the-ground decisions, or indecision, in worsening damage when bad weather strikes. “What gets lost in climate change debates is that society is changing, too,” said Stephen M. Strader, an assistant professor of geography and environment at Villanova University. Strader has done a series of analyses and visualizations with Walker S. Ashley, a geographer and atmospheric scientist at Northern Illinois University, showing vividly how development, over time, creates an “expanding bull’s-eye effect” that exacerbates losses even if a storm’s parameters are not changed. They have done such assessments for floods, fires and tornadoes, and each holds the same lesson: hazards are natural, but disasters are unnatural. One of their studies, published in 2015, examined how population growth and development amplify exposure to tornadoes, using as their template the devastating tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma, in 2013. That tornado was the third deadly twister to strike that unlucky community since 1999.
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It took that third blow to prompt the municipality centrations of houses in California, Texas and Florida. in 2014 to bolster its building codes, said Simmons, The growth rate in these combustible zones is the Austin College professor, who has extensively similar to that in Gulf Coast floodplains, even as clistudied tornado damage. With Paul Kovacs of the mate change, invasive species and other factors boost Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, Simmons fire risk. As the land management group Headwaters studied whether the tougher code hurt Moore’s comEconomics has shown in detailed maps, there is a vast petitiveness with the neighboring community of amount of developable land that, without new poliNorman, Oklahoma. Their paper found that the slight cies, will greatly expand a disaster’s bull’s-eye. added costs and complexities of having the tougher But only 18 communities — out of thousands in standard “had no effect on either home sales or price fire-prone regions — have signed up for a planning per square foot for new homes in Moore.” assistance program for living with wildfire that the Norman still has no such building code, even Headwaters Economics group developed in 2015 with though it is home to the federal National Severe several partners. Storms Laboratory — the lead- Wikimedia Commons/Tomas Castelazo As for the ing center for tornado research. dangers posed Tornadoes, to be sure, by rare, but remain an enigma. One 2016 inevitable study found signs of a relationfloods of the ship between clusters of tornasort swamping does in violent outbreaks and Texas, they climate change. But broader have been more discountreviews have shown no clear ed than other relationship to global warming, storm threats with the frequency of the like wind, said destructive categories of twistJ. Marshall ers in the U.S. unchanged or Shepherd, slightly declining since the director of the 1950s, according to federal climate scientists. atmospheric In regions prone to wildfire, sciences prothe same dynamics and tensions gram at the are in play. A comprehensive University of 2015 federal report found that, Georgia and a as of 2010, the vulnerable past president “wildland-urban interface” of of the the lower 48 states includes American about 44 million houses — one Meteorological in every three houses in the Society. This is country, with the highest conthe case Boulder Weekly
despite floods causing far Above: Numerous more deaths and damage, wells and Shepherd said. production platforms in Colo. The discounting of flooded during the flood risk in favor of historic rains in Sept. 2013. This development continues one was in Erie. even after disasters, said Below: When it isn’t raining, the Craig E. Colten, the Carl devastation can O. Sauer Professor of be just as bad. Geography at Louisiana State University. People have a discouragingly predictable tendency to forget a disaster’s lessons — sometimes within months of a cleanup. Colten has been studying the impact of heavy rain events across states abutting the Gulf of Mexico, but particularly the August 2016 deluge that damaged or wrecked some 60,000 homes in or around Baton Rouge and killed 13 people. He said that Houston’s flood is a chart-busting anomaly that will be studied for many years, but noted that rains approaching that scope — 48 inches accumulating over a few days — were within the realm of what is possible almost anywhere along the central Gulf Coast. More such disasters are inevitable. For any big urban areas in regions prone to such rains, whether Houston with 4 million people or Baton Rouge with 300,000, he said: “If you have one of these exceptional rainfalls that become a new record, you really have to take that into account in development plans.” In practice, even around Baton Rouge, which was so devastated just a year ago, that’s not the case, he said. “Across the Gulf Coast in areas of low topography, we have completely built beyond what’s reasonable in terms of rain events of this scale,” Colten said. “We’re still seeing municipalities resisting safe planning in the See DISASTERS Page 12
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interest of economic development and a more robust tax base.” Increased development in While several organizations around Baton Rouge areas prone to are pursuing a “Rebuilding with Resilience” initiative, wildfire create more possibilities some local governments appear to be headed in the of property opposite direction, Colten said. damage and loss of life. “The remarkable thing here since the floods,” he said, “is that three parishes in the Baton Rouge area hit hardest have all backed off ” on policies related to flood resilience. “Baton Rouge has already approved a couple of subdivisions in the footprint of flood from last year,” he said, adding that city officials also rejected making the most recent, and most severe, flooding event the threshold from which minimum elevations for various classes of buildings are calculated. Frank Duke, the Baton Rouge planning director, disputed whether explosive suburban growth everywhere amplified the flood damage, according to an article on Nola.com last fall. In that article, one local mayor said if everyone had to build new homes and businesses to new standards of elevation the community would become a ghost town. Colten said he could sympathize, to a point. “The compulsion was to rebuild on site,” he said. “They want to rebuild their schools at the size they were. They didn’t want people to leave. But safety needs to at least be on a par with economic development.” At the national scale, the tensions over balancing development, safety and environmental quality were on display earlier this month when President Donald Trump, in the name of accelerating infrastructure improvements, revoked a 2015 executive order from President Barack Obama establishing reviews of flood risks before the approval of federal funding for housing or other construction projects. The move was widely criticized as threatening the very infrastructure the president claimed to be trying to revive, including comments by the R Street Institute, an organization pursuing Reagan-era approaches to cutting disaster risk and preserving the environment. The most vocal group cheering Trump’s decision was the National Association of Home Builders, which had fought the Obama plan. R.J. Lehmann, a senior fellow at R Street Institute, noted that when Harvey came ashore northeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, on Aug. 25, as a Category 4 hurricane, it first struck barrier islands that are part of a 273-million-acre zone estabBoulder Weekly
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ach fall, for the past 11 years, the feelings of isolation that many Spanish-speaking women immigrant women face. from around Boulder County It’s similar to what Aranda experiand the region have gathered enced moving to the U.S. more than 30 at the University of Colorado years ago from Guadalajara, Mexico. “I for the annual Cumbre de Mujeres was home alone, I didn’t speak the lan(Women’s Summit). Presented by El guage, I didn’t have a car. It was winter Centro AMISTAD and the Programa so there was snow. It was too much,” Compañeras, the one-day event feashe says. tures guest speakers, discussion pan- Liliana Aguilar els and an information expo for the Latina members of our community. “It’s to honor these women who [often] don’t have access or the privilege to go to conferences. They can come [here] and understand in their own language,” says event organizer Elena Aranda. “It’s a lot about them, their emotions, their culture. If we have it in the maternal language, we understand or feel it more.” The summit provides a safe place for the women to come together, learn from one another and share their stories. “It really is a space where Spanish-speaking women can have a place to feel safe and be themselves and talk about issues that they care about and have conversations among each other,” says Boulder City Councilwoman Mary Young, who has attended the summit since 2013 And now, she continues, a lot of and will be one of the panelists this immigrants, regardless of how long year. they’ve lived in the U.S., are more isolat“When you’re bicultural, you’re ed than ever, seldom leaving their homes always kind of shape-shifting to see in fear of the backlash from national which you you should be and it’s chalanti-immigration policies and rhetoric. lenging,” she says. “So to have a place The theme this year, chosen by the where you don’t have to do that is very Compañeras, is Más allá del Bienestar comforting.” (Beyond Well-being) and the guest But, unlike years past, this is the speaker is Jeanette Vizguerra, commufirst time some of the panels will offer nity organizer and activist who has English interpretation for non-Spanish been publicly sharing her immigration speakers. story for years as she’s battled deporta“For years, I’ve heard people wanted tion orders. She attracted national to join us and especially women who feel attention this past year when she spent that they are allies to Latinas,” Aranda several weeks living in a Denver church says. “And they wanted to also know and has been central to building the about what’s happening and be included.” recent sanctuary movement. Cumbre de Mujeres started as an “We want to [talk about how] welloutflow of the Compañeras program being is not only about feeling healthy. AMISTAD has run for the last 16 It’s living with peace, with opportunity,” years. Every week, Latina women gath- Aranda says. As many Spanisher together to share life, listen to differ- speaking women and families feel ent speakers from the community or threatened in the current political clipractice yoga and meditation, all in mate, Vizguerra’s story, Aranda says, is Spanish. It’s “a solidarity group among relatable to so many of the summit parwomen,” Aranda says, a way to combat ticipants and she represents a moveBoulder Weekly
ment of solidarity in uncertain times. The theme of well-being is a thread running through the panels, including Resiliencia para todos (Reslience for all), focused on the resiliency of Latina women and their role as cultural brokers, presented with English interpretation. “Cultural brokers are people that can bridge or link or mediate between groups of people with different cultural backgrounds to help reduce conflict or produce change,” says panelist Carmen Ramirez, community and neighborhood resources manager for the City of Longmont. “Cultural brokers exist at all levels and it’s not just race or ethnicity. If you think about folks who work with homeless, or work with youth or work with elderly, they know how to navigate two worlds and within those worlds.” It’s a role that’s become increasingly important and challenging in recent years, says panelist Martha Loachamin, especially for bicultural Latinas. “There’s a high demand for cultural brokers but [also] the demands [on brokers] are very high,” she says. “It’s excruciating, really exhausting.” In order to build a more resilient community, Loachamin continues, we need to develop programs and practices throughout our community and government systems to include and accommodate Spanish-speakers, rather than simply focus on reactionary measures. “If the hospitals, clinics, everyone has best practices that offer some type of forum or way to dialogue or action that included Spanish speakers then we wouldn’t be reacting every time there’s some type of crisis,” she says. Cumbre de Mujeres is just that: Latina women and their allies finding a place they can be themselves and finding camaraderie in a supporting community. As women sit around tables, without preference given to any high-profile attendees or any one social class, they discuss important issues facing the community while offering and receiving support. “We feel the solidarity of everybody and the companion[ship] of everybody,” Aranda says. “Everybody is important and everyone has a seat.”
CUÍDATE HOY PARA DISFRUTAR MAÑANA — con Dra. Marcela Serrano. 9:30 a.m. Salon 1 MUJER PODEROSA, MUJER CREADORA. EL PODER DE ELEGIR TU CAMINO — con Coach Yolanda Lucas Bravo. 9:30 a.m. Salon 3 PANEL: SALUD, EQUIDAD Y ACCESO “EL MODELO DE PROMOTORAS Y JUSTICIA SOCIAL” (Access, Health & Equity, The Promotora Model and Social Justice, with simultaneous English interpretation) — para Promotoras AMISTAD, CREA, Vida Sana & American Diabetes Association. 9:30 a.m. Salon 2 EL IMPACTO DE IR ACUMULANDO AÑOS EN LAS MUJERES LATINAS Y CONTINUAR SALUDABLES — con Yoli Casas and Diana Pineda. 11:15 a.m. Salon 1 RESCATANDO EL DISEÑO ANCESTRAL — con Michelle Gabrieliff-Parish, Ángela M. Ortiz y Isabel Sanchez. 11:15 a.m. Salon 3 PANEL: RESILIENCIA PARA TODOS. MUJERES RESILIENTES Y CULTURAL BROKERS (Resilience for all, resilient women and cultural brokers, simultaneous English interpretation) — para Carmen Ramirez and Martha Loachamin. 11: 15 a.m. Salon 2 COMIDA, Expo de Recursos. 1 p.m. Glenn Miller Ballroom CULTURA, IDENTIDAD Y GENERO — con David Brena. 2:30 p.m. Salon 3 PANEL: LOS HILOS INVISIBLES DE LA OPRESIÓN Y DISCRIMINACIÓN INTERGENERACIONAL (The invisible strands of oppression and intergenerational discrimination, simultaneous English interpretation) — para Manuela Stewart Sifuentes, Mary Young, Jennifer Pacheco y Karla Gonzales Garcia. 2:30 p.m. Salon 2 PRIMEROS AUXILIOS PSICOLÓGICOS — con Aracely Mena Salazar. 2:30 p.m. Salon 1 PRESENTACIÓN DE LA CUMBRE JUVENIL LATINX. 4:15 p.m. Glenn Miller Ballroom CLAUSURA DE LA XI CUMBRE COMPAÑERAS. 5 p.m. Glenn Miller Ballroom. Visit cumbrecompaneras.org for more details as well as info about the simultaneous LatinX Cumbre Juvenil (Youth Summit.) September 21, 2017 15
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Cassini was able to interrogate Saturn, its moons and rings with a host of sophisticated scientific instruments, allowing for unprecedented discoveries. Dr. Larry Esposito of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado and principle investigator for the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) on-board Cassini has been with the project since its inception, nearly 30 years ago. “I am proud of the Cassini mission accomplishments, but sad to see it end,” says Esposito who has led the team of scientists and students who work with UVIS data. Esposito adds, “The UVIS team has had great accomplishments” and “produced many [scientific] papers and trained many students.” The UVIS instrument has allowed for spectroscopic analysis of Saturn, its moons and rings. An imaging spectrograph examines light (in this case ultraviolet light) in many different wavelengths. You can think of these wavelengths as different colors of light. Unlike your digital camera, which reads red, green and blue light, a spectrograph can examine hundreds or even thousands of colors at once. These data are collectively called a spectrum and can provide clues about the composition of the material that the instrument is investigating. Think of the spectrum as a fingerprint. Each material has its own spectral fingerBoulder Weekly
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tecting the natural environment,” she says. After graduating and searching for a way to further her passions, Tupper moved to Boulder and got her master’s degree through the building systems engineering program at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering department. “That’s when I realized that Boulder was a significant upgrade in terms of mountains compared to New Hampshire, with way better weather,” she says. But before she could settle in Boulder, Tupper took her first job at an engineering firm in San Francisco, where she designed energy-efficient HVAC systems for commercial buildings. “It was a great experience, but I always sort of wanted to find my way goals. back to Boulder,” she says. Most of Tupper’s Whether or not the measure passes, Her wish came true when a posigoals as CSO reTupper is preparing for either scenario. As tion opened up at the Rocky Mountain volve around the City’s Climate one of her short-term goals, she intends to Institute. There, she served as a princiCommitment. implement a five-year strategic plan that puts pal of building processes for seven the City on the path to achieving the years before joining the City of Climate Commitment goals — 100 percent Boulder in 2014. renewable electricity by 2030 and an 80 percent emisTupper hopes to share Boulder’s broadened view sions reduction by 2050 — no matter the November of sustainability with local and national leaders by ballot outcome. maintaining the City’s participation in national and As for long-term plans, the Climate Commitment international sustainability organizations. Her role goals themselves are at the top of her list. As an outalso includes speaking at conferences and sharing with doors enthusiast, Tupper is passionate about the enviother cities Boulder’s emphasis on solving environronment and protecting the city she loves. mental issues and addressing the social and economic Growing up in urban Massachusetts, Tupper fell aspects of sustainbility. in love with nature and the outdoors when she Although she never dreamed of working in any attended bucolic Dartmouth College in New local government, she thinks that being Boulder’s new Hampshire. A self-described avid cyclist who current- CSO is her ideal job in her ideal city. ly keeps five bicycles in her garage, Tupper loves walk“I always said that I would dream of working for ing the trails around Boulder with her 9-year-old the City of Boulder because it is very unique in that Australian cattle dog, Isaac. there’s a huge amount of support for climate work “I really connected with the outdoors a lot [when I that you’re not going to see in other communities,” got to Dartmouth] and wanted to find a way to blend she says. “There’s so much energy and passion around my love of math and science with my passion for pro- making Boulder the best city it possibly could be.”
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n the ancient Gaelic world, Mabon was the time to celebrate the autumn equinox, that mysterious day on the calendar when sunlight and darkness get their equal share. Traditionally, it was also a time to relax and reflect on the hard work of summer, celebrate a successful harvest and look ahead to the slower pace and long nights of fall and winter. In the modern world of Planet Bluegrass, Mabon is all that accompanied by an amazing soundtrack. Most Guinness drinkers on the Front Range will recall that in the early days of this still-young century, Planet Bluegrass was home to a full-fledged Mabon festival that brought many of the world’s best known Celtic musicians to the Lyons venue’s main stage along with the usual assortment of festival vendors. In 2007 the Mabon festival gave way to a different kind of celebration, and for nine years the arrival of fall was accompanied by a leisurely day along the banks of the St. Vrain river, followed by an evening of 20 September 21 , 2017
music provided by Adam Aijala and Ben Kaufmann of Yonder Legendary Celtic musician Seamus Egan and Mountain String Band. a few of his musical But now it’s 2017 pals are headlining the revival of Lyons’ and Mabon is back. Mabon celebration. Planet Bluegrass will be celebrating the equinox this year by pulling together the best parts of its previous fall offerings. This year’s autumnal celebration is both Celtic to the core and a chance to relax, camp out, do a little pickin’ along the river before dancing headlong into fall around the Mabon bonfire. “For five years in the early 2000s, we held a full Celtic ‘festival,’” says Brian Eyster of Planet Bluegrass. “The Festival of the Mabon was beloved by our staff and the Festivarians. Then in 2007, we built the Wildflower Pavilion, and our priorities shifted from producing one major fall event, to producing lots of Boulder Weekly
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Takács Quartet and Boulder Phil deliver a classical double-header The missing composer in both concerts? Beethoven. by Peter Alexander
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The Takács goes first, at 4 p.m. in Grusin Music Hall on the CU campus with a program of Haydn, Mendelssohn and Brahms. And at 7 p.m. in Macky Auditorium, the Boulder Phil will open their 60th anniversary season with the music of Dvorák, Schumann and Christopher Theofanidis. The Takács will repeat their concert on Monday at 7:30 p.m. That Takács program, and later programs during the year, are noticeably missing one composer. There are classical works during the fall (Haydn, Mozart), Romantic works (Mendelssohn, Brahms), and one new piece (Carl Vine). But there is no Beethoven. That’s because the Takács played the full cycle of Beethoven quartets several times last year, and they decided enough was enough. “We’re definitely taking a breather from Beethoven this year,” Boulder Weekly
the quartet’s first violinist, Edward Dusinberre, says. “There’s so much drama in [Beethoven’s] music all the time that it does sap you of energy, physically and mentally. So it’s nice to have a break.” Instead, the quartet will, as Dusinberre says, “stretch out a little bit and add some repertoire. We’ve been wanting to do some more Mendelssohn for a while, so I’m really enjoying learning the new stuff. “Lots of notes, and it’s really interesting.” The Sept. 24-25 program opens with Haydn’s Quartet in D minor, op. 76 no. 2, known as “The Fifths” from the use of that musical interval in the opening movement. In the classical period, the key of D minor was reserved for particularly dark and dramatic expression — think of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, which opens in that key — and this quartet conforms to that convention. “It’s a more dramatic work than many of the Haydn quartets,” Dusinberre says. “It’s a bit more troubled than some.” This stern D-minor mood is relieved occasionally by a turn to the major key, and the quartet ends on a happier note. Dusinberre says that learning the quartet now is “a little bit odd” for him. “That’s the very first quartet that I learned in its entirety when I was a high school student, and I literally haven’t played it or heard it since then,” he says. “I go back to my music and I don’t even recognize my handwriting.” Sharing the Grusin stage with CU faculty is something that the Takács does every year. This gives both faculty and the members of the quartet the chance to perform larger chamber works, something that is difficult for the quartet to do on tour where there is see CLASSICAL Page 24
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rarely time to rehearse with potential guests. For the Sept. 24-25 program, the Takács will welcome CU faculty for two pieces: violist Erika Eckert for Mendelssohn’s String Quintet in B-flat major, and then Eckert and cellist David Requiro for Brahms’s Sextet in G major. In this case, they will take both works on the road with Eckert and Requiro for performances in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York in October. Mendelssohn’s quintet is an energetic work with a contrasting slow movement. Dusinberre describes the work as “very upbeat, cheerful, virtuosic, very virtuosic writing for the first violin — actually all of us — but with quite a tragic slow movement. It’s very easy to respond to.” But it is the Brahms Sextet that string players particularly relish. “The first movement is such an object lesson in simplicity of means,” Dusinberre says. “The rhythms are not complicated, and it’s such a beautiful piece. It’s completely gorgeous. I think it’s one of the truly wonderful pieces.” • • • • Music director Michael Butterman and the Boulder Philharmonic will open their 60th season with a work cocommissioned with orchestras in all 50 states, Dreamtime Ancestors by Christopher Theofanidis. Other works on the program are Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor with pianist Jon Nakamatsu, and Dvorák’s Symphony No 7. in D minor. Dreamtime Ancestors was commissioned by New Music for America, a consortium of smaller-budget orchestras around the country. It premiered in 2015 and has been played by member orchestras since. Based on Australian Aboriginal spiritual beliefs about connections with past and future generations, it is arranged in three continuous movements titled “Songlines,” “Rainbow Serpent” and “Each Stone Speaks a Poem.” The Boulder Phil played Theofanidis’ Rainbow Body a few years
ago, so his music is known by Boulder audiences. Butterman describes Dreamtime Ancestors as “melodic, with tunes that you can clearly hear and identify. That makes it the sort of thing you can hear and appreciate and understand on first hearing.” Nakamatsu is looking forward to playing the Schumann Concerto, even though he has played it many times before. “People say if it’s really familiar to the audience, it’s more difficult to play because everyone has an opinion,” he says. “But I find if you don’t have to win people over with the piece, you just have to play. Playing something everyone loves already, you have happy people in the hall. That’s a good place to start.” Another pleasure of repeating a familiar piece, he says, is that it can be different every time. “I think every performance alters in ways that I don’t necessarily intend at the outset. It’s a nice thing to do this piece with different conductors, different orchestras, people who feel it differently than I do. All of those things make my job really interesting.” A little farther off the beaten path than the Schumann Concerto is Dvorák’s Seventh Symphony, performed far less often than the Eighth or the “New World.” “It’s a substantial work, one that feels like you really have gone through a journey by the time you are through it,” Butterman says. “In some ways it’s the most intense and the most tragic piece in Dvorák’s body of works. The opening is dark and slow and spare, and it’s really only at the very end that we get the turn to major. It’s got a lot of weight to it, and I love the unpredictability of the second movement — the really beautifully unfolding melodies in that one — and the infectious rhythm of the scherzo. “It has a lot of the qualities of Brahms’ music that many people love. So people may not know [this symphony], but they know Dvorák’s name and I hope they trust that it’s going to deliver. “It’s a great piece.” Boulder Weekly
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village. As she’s never learned to master her Princess Elsa inherits the power, Elsa eventually throne, but her ability to manipulate ice at her whim loses control in front causes the village to fall into of the royal court. a state of perpetual winter in Frozen, now playing at the She’s branded a monBuell Theater. ster and flees to the mountains, but her suppressed power sends the village into a state of perpetual winter. Anna, with a cadre of whimsical companions, sets out on a journey to bring Elsa back and save their village. The stage production of Frozen is a fun jaunt that will please audiences. The show has moments of ingenuity that illustrate why its a good fit for the stage. But overall, the production feels more like a sugar high than a substantive meal. On the positive side, the show boasts a strong cast of major and minor characters. Many of the show’s supporting cast stand out, even with limited time on stage. These include see FROZEN Page 29
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Steep Canyon Rangers 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. North Carolina Grammy-winning modern bluegrass group Steep Canyon Rangers have hit the road to promote their ninth studio album, RADIO, a project produced by Bluegrass legend Jerry Douglas. The Rangers are best known for their work backing musician and comedian Steve Martin, who has taken them on a “world bluegrass tour” to venues such as Carnegie Hall. In 2013, the Rangers won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album for Nobody Knows You. Tickets: $23-$38. —Eliza Radeka
Longmont Oktoberfest 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22 and noon. Saturday, Sept. 23, Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont. Eddie Clark Ready to celebrate fall? A good place to start is Longmont’s annual Oktoberfest at Roosevelt Park. This two-day festival will feature live music from Reel Big Fish, Rapidgrass, Bonnie & The Clydes and other popular bands. Enjoy adult beverages from 10 different breweries and two cideries, and when you’re hungry, there is plenty of food from local restaurants. The celebration includes brat-eating and stein-holding contests, water activities, best-dressed awards, the world’s longest bratwurst and more. For additional Oktoberfest info check out lefthandbrewing.com. Tickets for Friday: $10. Saturday tickets: $5. Youth tickets are also available. —Eliza Radeka
Surviving Auschwitz’s Angel of Death: An evening with child Holocaust survivor Rabbi Nissen Mangel
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7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, Arvada Center’s Main Stage Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Rabbi Nissen Mangel will share his survival story as Auschwitz’s youngest inmate at the Arvada Center. After imprisonments in seven different concentration camps and three encounters with Dr. Mengele, also known as the “Angel of Death,” Mangel not only managed to survive, but flourished, becoming a worldrenowned philosopher, speaker and scholar. The event will also include a writing of the first several letters of a new Torah scroll dedicated to Holocaust victims. Tickets: $25$35 or $10 for students. —Eliza Radeka
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Andrew Luecke — Cool. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Tommy Caldwell and Gabriel Tallent —The Push: A Climber’s Journey of Endurance, Risk/Going Beyond Limits and My Absolute Darling. All day. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Mary Powell — Innisfree Resident Artist. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Cool is equal parts historical chronicle and handbook of the myriad subcultures that have influenced style. Hear author Andrew Luecke at Boulder Book Store.
So, You’re a Poet: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.
Friday, September 22 Ella Longpre — How to Keep You Alive. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Sunday, September 24 John Rocco & Sherri Rinker — Big Machines. 11 a.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Tuesday, September 26 Tara Dairman,The Great Hibernation; Jeannie Mobley, Bobby Lee Claremont and the Criminal Element; and Melanie Crowder,Three Pennies. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore &
Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Wednesday, September 27 Albert DeSilver — Writing as a Path to Awakening. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
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Thursday, September 21 Music Andy Frasco and the U.N. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Ben Hammond. 6 p.m. Crazy Mountain Brewery Tap Room, 471 Kalamath St., Denver. Benny Green Trio. 8:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.
Thursday, September 21 Faculty Exhibition: 2017-In Gallery Dance Performance.
5 p.m. Visual Arts Complex, CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Based on Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, The Inferno, Megan Odom and Erika Randall’s performance reimagines the featured characters Paolo and Francesca as Paula and Francesca.
Black Table/Hexis. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder.
Puzzled and Perplexed by Populism? An Evening of Expert Wikimedia Commons/Cloe Traylor Guidance.
Brad Parsons Band featuring members of Grant Farm and Sophistafunk (late set) —with Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Celebrating Life in Recovery. 7 p.m. Twin Peaks Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 9696 Paschal Drive, Louisville. Flatfoot 56. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Urban Elevation DJ Series: Lea Luna (Free). 6 p.m. 54thirty Rooftop, 1475 California St., Denver. Happy Abandon. 7 p.m. Syntax Physic Opera, 554 S. Broadway, Denver. Harry Tuft. 6:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Igor & the Red Elvises. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Joscho Stephan Gypsyswing. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder. Live Music. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder. Paramore. 7:30 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver.
6 p.m. Eaton Humanities, Room 150, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. In a conversation with Center of the American West Faculty Director Patty Limerick, American historian Michael Kazin will share his distinctive understanding of populism in the past and present.
Our Feathered Service Providers
7 p.m. Hale Science, Room 270, 1350 Pleasant St., Boulder. Dave Leatherman will offer an overview of ecological services provided by Boulder area birds, including pollination of plants, distribution of plant seeds, and regulation of other organisms often labeled by human society as “pests.”
Guest Recital: ÓNIX Ensamble
7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. This award-winning group of young Mexican musicians, dedicated to the newest trends in contemporary music, has given more than 180 world premieres.
Friday, Sept. 22 New Perspectives on North Korea — Dr. Suzy Kim (Rutgers) and Dr. Dafna Zur (Stanford) ATLAS Center, Room 102, 1125 18th St., Boulder. Suzy Kim will speak about gender and sexuality in North Korea and Dafna Zur will speak about the story of data in postwar North Korea.
Guest Recital: ÓNIX Ensamble
5:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.
This award-winning group of young Mexican musicians, dedicated to the newest trends in contemporary music, has given more than 180 world premieres.
Sunday, September 24 Doctoral Student Recital: Jonathan Morris, piano.
7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. Pianist Jonathan Morris presents his first degree recital with works by Haydn and Liszt.
Monday, September 25 Music Lecture: Struggle and Revelry in the Chicago New Music Scene 2 p.m. Imig Music, Chamber Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.
IFS Showing: Woodpeckers (Carpinteros)
Muenzinger Psychology & Biopsychology, Auditorium, 1905 Colorado, Ave., Boulder. Based on real events, Woodpecker is about finding love in an unexpected place: prison. Tickets are $8 for general admission, $7 for CU Boulder students.
Tuesday, September 26 Faculty Tuesdays: Chopin on the Viola
7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. Robert Schumann: “Adagio and Allegro;” David Carlson: “True Divided Light;” Frederic Chopin: Sonata in G minor, Op. 65.
Wednesday, September 27 Guest Recital: Christopher Buckholz, trombone, and Luke Gullickson, piano 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. “Crossing Over” is a half-classical, half-jazz recital by University of New Mexico trombone professor Chris Buckholz.
Thompson Jazz Combos
Old Main Chapel, 1600 Pleasant St., Boulder. The Thompson Jazz Studies combos explore the rich repertoire of jazz, including traditional, swing, bebop, fusion and tunes by new artists, along with presenting original student compositions.
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River Rendezvous. 6 p.m. Space Gallery, 400 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.
Guerrilla Fanfare. 9 p.m. Angel’s Landing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver.
Brad Shepik & John Hadfield. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.
Slaves (UK). 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Gypsy Swing Revue. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver.
Josh Abbott Band. 7 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver.
Steep Canyon Rangers — with The Steel Wheels. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.
Haley Reinhart. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
King Cardinal, Clouds and Mountains, Anthony Ruptak. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.
Third Thursday. 5:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
Happy Hour — with DOTSERO. 5:30 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver.
Late Night Radio. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.
Vagabon. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. West Flanders Brewing Co. Five Year Anniversary Celebration. 5:30 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder.
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Anything Goes. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Oct. 1.
Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Oct. 22.
Appropriate. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Oct. 14.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame —presented by The Evergreen Chorale. Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen. Through Oct. 8.
An Overview of Islam, the Religion of Love and Mercy. 7 p.m. Center for Spiritual Living Boulder Valley, 107 E. Geneseo St., Lafayette. Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — presented by Miners Alley Children’s Theatre. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Oct. 28.
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Les Liaison Dangereuses — presented by Miners Alley. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Avenue, Golden. Through Oct. 15.
Comedy Night at Vision Quest. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder.
The Little Dog Laughed — presented by Vintage Theatre. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Oct. 22.
Naughty Pierre’s Burlesque & Comedy Show. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. REI Movie Night: Expedition Alaska. 6:30 p.m. REI Flagship Store, 1416 Platte St., Denver, 917-842-5723. Third Thursday Improv. 7 p.m. Wesley Foundation, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
The Marvelous Wonderettes — presented by Performance Now Theatre Company. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway. Through Sept. 24.
When newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn her town into an infinite winter wonderland, her sister, Anna, teams up with a mountain man, his reindeer and a snowman to melt the icy tundra. Frozen is now showing at the Buell Theater. See page 27 for a review of the musical.
Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder.
August: Osage County — presented by Vintage Theatre. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Oct. 15.
Music
A Chorus Line. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Oct. 1.
Black Uhuru. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.
Frozen. Buell Theater, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Oct. 1.
Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder.
Girls Only — The Secret Comedy Of Women. Garner Galleria Theatre, Denver
Friday, September 22
The Music Man. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Nov. 5 My Brilliant Divorce. Avenue Theater Group, 417 E. 17th Ave, Denver. Through Oct. 14. The Mystery of Love and Sex — presented by Firehouse Theater Company. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Oct. 7. The Outgoing Tide. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont. Through Sept. 24. The Revolutionists — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Grace Gamm Theater, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 8. The Snowy Day. Conservatory Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Nov. 18. Rock of Ages. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Nov. 11.
Bonnie & The Clydes. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Boom Twang. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Brian Hornbuckle Band. 10 p.m. Baker Street Pub & Grill, 8101 E. Belleview Ave., Denver. Eef and the Blues Express, Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette. Equinox Concert — with the Ariana Saraha Ensemble. 7 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder. An Evening With Greensky Bluegrass. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. 34 September 21 , 2017
The Healing Market: An Alternative Health Fair. 6 p.m. The Integral Center, 2805 Broadway, Boulder.
The Lituation. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.
Hiss Golden Messenger. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 20, Boulder.
Hit and Run: Musical Improv. 9 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.
Manchester Orchestra. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
IGOR and The Red Elvises. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder.
The Mansfields. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Joe Purdy. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.
Marco Antonio Solis. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.
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Latin America: Endless Transformation. Redline, 2350 Arapahoe St., Denver. Through Oct. 29.
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MaryLynn Gillaspie Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder.
Makeshift Shakespeare. 8 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.
Dead Cross. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver.
Masta Ace featuring Wake Self & DJ Element — with WindchILL, Proximity, Buddhakai, Lingo. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.
Saturday, September 23 Music
Dotsero. 9:10 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver.
Barrel of Blues. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Co., 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette.
Feast of Fermentation. 6 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder.
Beginning Harmonica. 10 a.m. Southern Hills Middle School, 1500 Knox Drive, Boulder.
Fleetmac Wood. 11 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Mondo Cozmo. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Rail Breaker. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver. Ronnie Shellist Blues. 9 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Ski Mask The Slump God. 9 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. The Soulful Sounds of Michael C. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. They’re Back! Party with Larry & Kathie J to Celebrate Blazin’ Hit Radio Launch. 7 p.m. Tracks, 3500 Walnut St., Denver. Thumpin’ Band. 9:30 p.m. Jazz@ Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver. Warner Drive. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Events Ancient Spiritual Law of the Dreaming. 7 p.m. The Caritas Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1A, Boulder. Harwood & Woodward the Magical Duo. 7:30 p.m. Historic Elitch Theater, 4677 W. 37th Ave., Denver. L’Estrange Menagerie: A Sexy Circus. 11 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Lucha Libre & Laughs: Smash The Glass Ceiling! 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver.
Gasoline Lollipops. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. 20th International Poster Exhibition at CSU “Greed,” by Scorsone and Drueding
The biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition is the only exhibition of its kind in North America featuring the world’s top poster artists and designers. Head up to Fort Collins for the 20th installment of this exhibition featuring nearly 150 posters by more than 70 artists from over 40 countries. The main opening for the exhibit, hosted by the Department of Art and Art History, will be held Sept. 22 in the Lory Student Center’s Curfman Gallery and the Visual Arts Building, where posters will be on display until early November. An associated panel titled “Picturing Human Rights” will be held Sept. 21 at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art.
Brunch with DJ boyhollow — Is there brunch on Mars? Bowie Brunch. 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. City of Union. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. The Colorado Sound 105.5 Presents: Stanton Moore. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Dave Fulker Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder.
GOODING — Live In Concert! 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Ground Up Reggae Fest featuring Jon Wayne, P432, Inna Vision, Tropidelic, Project 432 (Album Release) and Willis. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Joelchella 2017: Jt & The Indecision, Tyler Stanfield, Ben Kultgen. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Eddie Turner and the Trouble Twins. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.
Louisville Sings: A Night of Vocal Jazz. 7:30 p.m. Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Luzcid. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Ninja Sex Party — with Special Guest TWRP. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver. Patty Stevenson & Craig Siemsen. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Peter Bernstein, Larry Goldings, Bill StewBoulder Weekly
events art. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Peter Bradley Adams. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. Pianist Stuart Simon. 3:30 p.m. Rosemark at Mayfair Park, 833 Jersey St., Denver. Prude Boys. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Random Rab + Dimond Saints. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Rockin 4 Katie’s Cause featuring Arise in Chaos. 5 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.
Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Sleightly Impossible: Comedy Magic Show. 4 p.m. Lumber Baron Mystery Mansion, 2555 W. 37th Ave., Denver. Spark Story: Ignite your Badass of the Heart. 6:30 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder.
Guests. 6:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.
Defunkt Railroad. 4 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont.
A Benefit for The Trevor Project featuring Instant Transmission. 6 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver.
Dinner with Lief Sjostrom. 6 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.
Big Band Swing Dance Night. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Espresso! 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder.
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Fullscreen Live Presents: Karina Garcia. 11:30 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.
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Brunch with DJ boyhollow. 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.
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Saturday Songwriter Spotlight at Trident Cafe. 7 p.m. Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder. Shelly Rollison (Single Release Show). 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. Sister Winds Fall Festival. 10 a.m. Vali Soul Sanctuary, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder. Slaves with Secrets. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Sleeping Lessons. 9 p.m. Lion’s Lair Lounge, 2022 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. The Strange Parade. 8 p.m. Angel’s Landing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver. Taylor Shae. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Thee Commons. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Tom Paxton. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Whitewater Ramble. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Events 3MCS Stand-Up, Sketch, and Live Comedy. 9 p.m. Blackbird Pub, 305 S. Downing St., Denver. The Agency: “Bits and Pieces.” 8 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. Blush: A Burlesque Fantasy. 8 p.m. The Clocktower, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Children’s Carnival: Celebrating 100 Years of BDN. 4 p.m. BDN, 1518 Spruce St., Boulder. Community Fall Equinox Gathering. 4:30 p.m. Elevated Yoga Studio, 324 Main St., Suite A, Longmont. The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show. 6 p.m. Embassy Suites, 1420 Stout St., Denver. Fall Color Paint Session. 10 a.m. Caribou Ranch Open Space, 1521 County Road 126, Nederland. Geology and Landforms of Hall Ranch. 8:30 a.m. Hall Ranch, Lyons. Lott Of Laughs Drag Show. 8 p.m. Mile High Hamburger Mary’s, 1336 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Louisville Farmer’s Market. 9 a.m. Downtown Louisville, 916 Main St., Louisville. Mike Finoia. 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Boulder Weekly
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Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. 1 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver.
Glass Animals. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Ghostland Observatory. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
Insane Clown Posse — The Great Milenko Tour. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
Gospel Music Concert. 3 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder. Henhouse Prowlers. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. HomeVibe Presents: Caitlin Canty with Holly Lovell. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder. minihorse. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.
Tank and the Bangas. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Events Black & Blu — Comedy/Variety Show. 7 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver.
music@theJ: Jazz Crossings. 7 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder.
Oktoberfest. 4 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont.
Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.
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RAC. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
303 Family Presents: Reflections! A Birthdonk Party! 8 p.m. Lincoln Station Bar, 776 Lincoln St., Denver.
Rock The Clock: Mothraship + Stone Deaf. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.
Adam Ant: The Anthems Tour. 8 p.m. Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver.
Silent Bear. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder.
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.
Sun Seeker. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Black Uhuru — with Selasee & The Fafa Family, Onesty. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.
Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.
Boulder Phishin. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder.
Vinyl Sundays with the Denver Kush Club. 12 p.m. Spangalang Brewery, 2736 Welton St., Denver.
Champagne & Cordial Tasting. 5:30 p.m. Park Hill Golf Course, 4141 E. 35th Ave., Denver.
Young Artist Competition Winners Concert. 2 p.m. Longmont Museum Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.
Face. 5:30 p.m. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.
Events Autumn Heritage & Vintage Base Ball Game Day. 10 a.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999 Flagstaff Mountain Road, Boulder. Boulder Comedy Show. 6 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder. Film Screening of The Unruly Mystic: St. Hildegard of Bingen. 2 p.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder. Love and Gravity. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver. My Brilliant Divorce. 4 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Small Business Sunday. 10 a.m. 17th Avenue Event Center, 478 17th Ave., Longmont. Monday, September 25 Music Andy Mineo Friends & Family Tour — World Vision Volunteer. 4:30 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder. 38 September 21 , 2017
Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder.
Fat Tuesdays — A Tribute to New Orleans Funk. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Free Concert/Discussion with the American String Quartet and poet Tom Sleigh. 6 p.m. Syntax Physic Opera, 554 S. Broadway, Denver. Gabrielle Aplin. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. James Blood Ulmer. 6 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Tony Rosario. 6:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder. Open Mic — with the Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. Post Malone. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Spicy Lounge Music and Dancing. 7:30 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. Boulder Weekly
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Black Uhuru. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Black Uhuru was formed in Kingston, Jamaica’s, Waterhouse district in the early ’60s. Considered to be one of Jamaica’s toughest neighborhoods, it’s produced several other reggae singers and musicians. It was here that founding member Duckie Simpson grew up and learned to sing from boyhood friends Winston “Pipe” Matthews and Lloyd “Bread” McDonald of Wailing Souls and Bob Marley. Though the band has gone through numerous lead singers and musicians over the years, Black Uhuru has remained one of the most recognized and prolific reggae bands. Tickets are $20.
Tuesday Bluegrass Open Jam. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont,. Tuesday Tapping and Live Music at Upslope. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 South Flatiron Court, Boulder. Events Doppelgänges! Improv Showcase. 8 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.
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Oktoberfest. 4 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont. Wednesday, September 27 Music Ben Hammond. 4:30 p.m. Viewhouse Eatery, Bar & Rooftop, 2015 Market St., Denver. CaraTrom at The Laughing Goat. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Company Of Thieves (Meet and Greet). 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. Shake, Schimmel and Shout! 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
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Adam Cayton-Holland. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.
Friends of Chamber Music presents “Lyric in the Time of War” — with the American String Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver.
Backpacks Full of Cash Film Screening. 7 p.m. Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
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Grateful Bluegrass Boys featuring Tyler Grant + New Family Dog with Timber! 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. HuMPday Dance Party — with The Hot Lunch Band. 8:30 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver. Hundred Waters. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Boulder Weekly
Chasing Coral Movie and Discussion. 6 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Free Introductory Night: Watch it, Try it, Eat chili, Make friends.. 7 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver. Comedy at Tandoori. 8 p.m. Tandoori Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Community Harvest Festival. 4 p.m. Growing Gardens, 1630 Hawthorn Ave., Boulder.
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riter/director Darren Aronofsky’s mother! is a dense, gorgeously made, challenging, total piece of shit. It is every bit the treatise on feminism and modern misogyny you’d expect from a guy who once made a movie where two women are forced to share a large sex toy in order to get drugs. There’s no doubt Aronofsky will say he welcomes intense criticism and embraces strong negative reactions; there’s also no doubt, given the film’s content, he actually just wants everyone (especially women) to tell him he’s a special little artist boy. Jennifer Lawrence plays the titular character, a woman who has personally rebuilt the charred remains of her husband’s burned-down home in a remote garden location. He ( Javier Bardem) is a poet struggling with his next creation, until the arrival of a man (Ed Harris) and his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer). Soon that couple’s sons show up (Brian and Domhnall Gleeson), and a violent confrontation leads to the poet producing a text that quickly becomes inspiring to the masses. From there, the metaphors and allegories get even more literal until they become absurdly silly, horrifyingly meta-aware and infuriatingly self-indulgent. Because there is no conceivable way the film could be sold on its actual merits, the marketing has crafted the illusion of a spoiler-laden, twist-filled endeavor. It is no such thing. However, discussing it in any meaningful way requires violating the lame “veil of secrecy” Aronofsky and his co-conspirators sewed. So, be warned: “Spoilers” ahoy. mother! is an explicit condemnation of what religion, specifically Christianity, does to women and what human beings have done to the planet in the name of faith and general assholery. That symbolism is just so hilariously ham-fistThis allegorical, frused, with Bardem and Lawrence delivering George trating endeavor sees Jennifer Lawrence Lucas-esque dialogue like, “I guess I’ll get started as a woman whose on the apocalypse.” What’s worse is that this is also writer husband (Javier Bardem) invites a movie in which it is categorically impossible not people into their to see Aronofsky inserting himself into the “God” home with catastrophic results. role. That’s where things go from “misguidedly pretentious” to “well, this guy is a world-class douchenozzle.” Bardem’s character, the artist, harvests the love and support of Lawrence’s character, literally shucking her heart from her body as he repeats the cycle of creation. mother! is thus an ersatz confession, a cinematic invitation by Aronofsky to view him as a prick who uses women for solace and inspiration and then replaces them with a younger, sexier version. Except, self-flagellation is not a substitute for actually improving as a person. Given the context of Aronofsky’s current personal life, which is unavoidably and maddeningly relevant here, mother! is not a brave display of painful personal growth but an attempt to be praised while having changed nothing. Had he been interested in a meaningful disavowal of misogyny on a global, religious or interpersonal level, he could have invited a woman to join him in writing or directing mother!, because even here, he still can’t write or direct a woman as wanting anything more than to be a homemaking wife loved by a dude. What is often lost in discussions surrounding the importance of art is the existence (and, yes, importance) of bad art. mother! is bad art of the highest degree, destined to incite anger and launch substantive and heated conversations, making it a valuable and worthwhile truly terrible pile of garbage. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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The power of the real
Authenticity and imagination swirl together in ‘Woodpeckers’ by Michael J. Casey
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ON THE BILL: here is no shortage of ways to celebrate Woodpeckers, with lead National Hispanic Heritage Month — actor, Jean Jean, in person. Monday, Sept. 25, observed from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 — in the 7:30 p.m. International Centennial State, but celebrating with a Film Series, Muenzinger movie is always a good start. Auditorium, University of Colorado Boulder, interDown in Denver, the Sie Film Center hosts nationalfilmseries.com CineLatino, a three-day celebration of Latino culture now in its fourth year, with another slate of diverse offerings. Can’t make it to Denver? No worries. Woodpeckers — one of the best at this year’s fest — is coming to Boulder for a one night only showing at CU’s International Film Series on Sept. 25. And to sweeten the deal, the star of Woodpeckers, Dominican-Haitian actor, Jean Jean, will be there in person. Set inside the notorious Najayo prison of San Cristobal, Dominican Republic — a place where the prisoners outnumber the guards roughly 266 to 1 and the right bribe can get you just about anything — Woodpeckers (Carpinteros) intimately follows Julián ( Jean Jean), a petty criminal who falls under the tutelage of Manaury (Ramon Emilio Candelario), a cook with a temper and a need. Manaury is being moved to a remote quarter of the prison, which means he can no longer climb the cage that overlooks the all-women prison next door and communicate with his girlfriend, Yanelly ( Judith Rodriguez Perez). To communicate, the male and female inmates have developed a highly sophisticated form of sign language called “pecking.” Banned from the cage, Manaury teaches Julián to peck on his behalf and relay messages to Yanelly. Julián complies, and for a brief time, he is in good with both Manaury and Yanelly. But then Yanelly starts to fall for Julián, and the two conspire to make sure Manaury, a violent criminal with a mean streak, doesn’t find out. Simply put, Woodpeckers is a miraculous film. Written and directed by José María Cabral, a 29-year-old with talent, Woodpeckers was shot on a tight budget in real prisons with real inmates and real guards as background and extras. But Cabral doesn’t let the docudrama aspect of Woodpeckers get in the way of his imagination — some scenes feel like they were lifted from a 1970s science-fiction film and made real. This allows Woodpeckers to move easily from comedy to romance, to a stunning musical performance where Julián and Yanelly flirt in the prison’s most public arena, to drama and, finally, to the horror of a prison riot and the high cost of betrayal. Drawing the audience in and helping us navigate these unfamiliar waters are the outstanding and naturalistic performances from Jean, Perez and Candelario; their faces guiding us from pain and humiliation to redemption and purpose. That is one of the many reasons why IFS’s screening of Woodpeckers is essential: Here is a chance to hear Jean Jean’s account of navigating that narrative while working in a prison surrounded by inmates and guards. Not exactly something you come across every day and certainly not something you’ll want to miss. Boulder Weekly
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ithout pretension, Farm & Smoke takes the ordinary and elevates it to the sublime. Take, for instance, their version of mac and cheese. Firm pasta is smothered in white cheddar cheese and black pepper, and topped with little bits of fresh jalapeno. They encourage you to add more to it, so we threw on some bacon. It was a good choice. The bacon is fall-apart tender, savory and earthy. The jalapeno, expertly apportioned, adds only a slight hint of heat and all of the fruitiness that’s so often lost in the pepper. Each bite is indulgent, to be sure, but each hits all areas of the tongue and pleases the palate with balanced texture. Farm & Smoke does a variety of American staples, and the menu is merely a suggestion; the cooks in the truck kitchen are happy to accommodate all palates and try out new combos on your plate. You can catch them often at the Rayback Collective in Boulder. $6, with upgrades available.
he folks at Hana Japanese Bistro in Louisville’s Colony Square are masters of balance. From the tranquil interior to the menu of various sushi and Japanese dishes, everything is done in perfect proportion. Nowhere is that more on display than in the Iron Chef ’s Roll, a specialty sushi roll made of lobster tail tempura, cucumber, avocado, flying fish roe and spicy sauce. The lobster, as you might imagine, is the star, buttery and unctuous on the inside, crispy and salty on the outside. The accoutrements of avocado and roe thicken up the roll with fat and texture, and the spicy sauce is understated and simply heightens the senses. $12.50.
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Colorado is a hotbed of pickled, canned and fermented goodness benefits, look on the jar label for the term “naturally ferAbove, Tony Jara, mented pickles.” a Denver resident and true connoisIf you want to learn how seur of fermentato make pickles, there is a tion, drove to the Ozuké facility in slew of local fermented order to replenish events and classes coming up, his batch of pickles. including: • The fifth annual Feast of Fermentation Sept. 23 at Boulder’s Avalon Ballroom will feature local canned, pickled and fermented foods and beverages with proceeds benefitting Boulder Food Rescue. (boulderfoodrescue.org/feast) • Ozuké’s Mara Jane King will conduct a pickling demo and introduce A Journey through the People’s Republic of Fermentation, a documentary about Chinese fermented food traditions Sept. 29 at Boulder’s Flatirons Food Film Festival. (flatironsfilmfest.org) • Hatch Lab hosts a hands-on class, “Field to Jar: A Fermentation Collective,” Oct. 1, 15, and 29 at Boulder’s Cure Organic Farm. Bring your knives. Leave with jars of pickled vegetables. hatchlab.net • Cooks can learn to make pickled vegetables, preserved lemons, gravlax and confit tuna Oct. 23 at Food Lab’s Pickling and Preserving workshop. foodlabboulder.com. If you want to make pickles and taste them today, see NIBBLES Page 46
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2 medium red onions, very finely sliced Preparation: In a large saucepan, combine the vinegar, water, sugar, allspice berries, peppercorns, cloves, bay leaves, cinnamon sticks and salt. If you don’t have these spices on hand you can also pick up small quantities of each at a store that sells bulk herbs or buy a premade pickling spice mixture. Heat over mediumhigh and simmer five minutes to infuse the vinegar with the spices. Toss the onions in the hot pickling liquid. Cook about two more minutes. Turn off heat. Make sure onions are submerged in the liquid. If needed, weigh the onions down with a pan or plate. Let the mixture cool completely. Refrigerate until served. Makes about six to eight servings, depending on use. Note: This recipe can also be used with skin-on pickling cucumbers, English cucumber slices, whole peeled garlic cloves, chile slices, fresh herb sprigs (including dill), and thin carrot and other vegetable slices. Scobie Do: High quality scobies and starters are essential for making fermented foods at home. Many folks acquire these microbial items from friends who introduce them to the craft, but, if not, then experts I talked to recommend these websites as good sources: • kombuchakamp.com • gemcultures.com • culturedforhealth.com 46 September 21 , 2017
Local Food News McDevitt Taco Supply restaurant is open in The Meadows at 4800 Baseline Road ... Some of the most exciting buzz in food and drink locally is happening outside Boulder’s city limits. Be sure to fill out the Food and Drink categories for the 2017 Best of Boulder East County survey by Sept. 30 at boulderweekly.com. Results appear Oct. 26. ... Plan ahead: The Whiskey Summit on Oct. 7 in Estes Park features bourbon, single-malt, rye, vodka, gin, rum and other artisan sips from 40 producers in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. whiskeysummit.org.
Tastes Like a Cow I found Castle Wood Reserve “artfully crafted,” fully cooked, “Angus Flavored” Roast Beef in the deli aisle of King Soopers. What does “Angus” taste like? Is it anything like “ranch” flavor? Is this cow-totable cuisine?
Taste of the Week You’ve heard of thumb drives. How about thumb pies? Hostess’s new snack-size fruit pies are bigger than a pizza roll, smaller than an eggroll, with 12 pies per box. Each is a miniaturized Mara King displays the version of the produce used in familiar hand pies the pickling process at the Ozuké except that whole facility. cherries are hard to find in the tiny amount of red slurry filling. The taste is identical down to the familiar Hostess sugar-fat glaze coating on your tongue. Each 100-calorie, three-bite “pie” contains 10 percent of your daily recommended saturated fat intake. Hostess says that four of these pies constitute a serving.
Words to Chew On King Alonso: “How camest thou in this pickle?” Trinculo: “I have been in such a pickle since I saw you last that, I fear me, will never out of my bones.” — The Tempest, William Shakespeare John Lehndorff has hosted more than 1,000 episodes of Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, streaming at kgnu.org). Comments to: nibbles@boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly
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ric Lee has done a lot in the food industry. He’s worked every restaurant position from dishwasher to owner; he’s written a cookbook; and he’s managed catering companies, nightclubs and even the kitchen at a University of Colorado sorority house. There’s something within Lee that calls him to do so much.
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year later to run a nightclub. “I mean I’ve always had fun jobs, but I was responsible for a party five days a week,” Lee says. Eventually, Lee got burned out on Detroit and his girlfriend (and future wife) mentioned she’d heard Colorado was nice. So they packed up the car
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From Detroit to Boulder, Element Bistro’s Eric Lee on making a life in the food industry by Matt Cortina “I remember my mom, I was at home and I was talking about going on a rafting trip, a five-day trip on the Yampa River, talking about the rapids and falling in, almost dying. And she says, ‘Our son, he just does everything,’” Lee says. “My dad was like, ‘That boy’s got a short attention span.’ And they’re both right. I do what I feel called to do.” Lee, now the general manager at Gunbarrel’s Element Bistro, says although he’s had his hat in a number of rings throughout his career, food has always been the motivating factor. When he was a senior in high school in Detroit, Lee got his start in the industry via a job in the kitchen at a country club. “I just absolutely fell in love with [restaurants] in moment one,” Lee says. From there, Lee worked at the Pontchartrain Hotel in Detroit, where he moved his way up from room service to serving tables to tending bar. He then took a job with one of the hotel’s managers on a new project in Chicago before moving back to Detroit a Boulder Weekly
and went for a visit. “It was just beautiful. I remember thinking originally before we got here, that if we move out here it’s going to be Denver because I’m a city guy, and so we poked around Denver and toured it, and it was kind of OK,” Lee says. “Then we came up to Boulder and I had never seen a mountain before, so we’re coming up 36 and came over that hill and... that almost got me. “But then we got into Boulder, we’re driving Baseline checking out houses and next thing we know, we’re up Flagstaff and we’re looking out, and it was like, OK. So we got to the turnoff, we said, ‘Let’s turn around, get a newspaper and find a place.’ That was the first 15 minutes in Boulder.” In Boulder, Lee got a job serving tables at Flagstaff House before the stint at the Tri Delta sorority house at CU, which Lee says was “a blast.” Soon, though, there was an opportunity to buy into a restaurant, and Lee and his wife bought half of what
would become Lefty’s Gourmet Pizza in Top: Salmon and Niwot. risotto dish from Element Bistro in That relationship Gunbarrel. Bottom: didn’t work out, Lee General Manager Eric Lee says, but it launched a new enterprise, which saw him and his wife bring Sweet Tomato, a pizza and sub shop, to Lafayette and Boulder, Platinum Grill to Boulder and Portobello to Longmont. Eventually though, the strains of running those businesses took their toll on husband and wife. They ended up liquidating everything and separating. That life event put a few choices before Lee: start off in the food business again on his own or transition into something else. He chose the see LEE Page 50
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latter. “I’d done everything I’d wanted to do in the restaurant business. I had three little kids, so I said, ‘I’m done with restaurants for a while.’ That’s when I became a personal trainer,” Lee says. “It was kind of a struggle at first because I was going from one occupation to something completely different. I was fit and a former athlete, but it was a completely different businesses. “When [Element Bistro] came along, I was doing pretty good in the physical training business, I was cruising along,” he says. What brought him back in was the unique opportunity that Element presented — a location in growing Gunbarrel, a rooftop deck, an interesting sports bar meets fine dining concept. But more than anything, it was faith that brought Lee back to the restaurant business — that he was born to be in hospitality regardless of any obstacles that may be in the way. Lee says owning a business in an abundantly white community hasn’t posed additional problems, at least from what he’s seen. That doesn’t mean that Boulder County doesn’t have a problem with diversity, Lee says, particularly in leadership roles. “I have debates with people about minorities and opportunity and oppression and all this kind of stuff, and I think if your purpose and destiny is in this industry or in whatever, that you taking the steps is going get you there, and there’s nothing that’s going to stop you. It’s divine providence for me; that determines what we become more than what the market’s dictating,” Lee says. “I had a friend who was in Detroit and was having a hard time,” he continues. “I gave him a job, gave him a place to live, supported him until he got on his feet. He was here for like a year and a half, and he was like, ‘Look, dude. Ain’t no brothers, ain’t no sisters. I’m out.’ I understand that, and I don’t understand it at the same time. Boulder’s fertile ground, with a lot of different opportunities for everybody, especially minorities — if you stick around and pursue them. “But it’s almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy,” Lee says. “Unless you reach a critical mass of minorities that you can see [in town], then minorities feel like this place is really white and [will] say, ‘I don’t know if I want to be here.’ I’m not that way, but a lot of minorities are.” Lee says that his experience is that “people really pull for you because they don’t see minorities” in Boulder. However, Lee recalls meeting a former Denver Bronco at a car dealer convention in Detroit, and the player, who was black, told him, “Denver’s an awfully interesting place, because blacks don’t get the brunt of the ire that whites who are racists bring; it’s the Latinos. Because black is only 2 percent and Latinos are 18, 19, 20 percent and cause more fear, I guess, than blacks. So we kind of fly under the radar and do our thing.” It’s all a matter of perspective, Lee says, when it comes to the extent of racism in Boulder County. In Detroit and Chicago, Lee says racism was “blatant,” and he had experienced being denied access to certain clubs and was passed over for promotions at work. When Detroit came out, a movie chronicling the 1967 Detroit riots, Lee realized the disparity in perception even between he and his son. “My kids are mixed, and they grew up in Niwot, and they gangsta, they think,” Lee says. “So we went and saw Detroit, and the Detroit riots, the epicenter was where my grandmother lived. I saw troops coming up the streets and the city on fire. That was happening when I was 6 — what’s happening in Niwot? My son is 6-foot-6, a strapping guy, he just collapsed in tears ... that picture was painted so vivid that that really touched him where I’m from and where we’re at and where he’s at. “So when you talk about, do I encounter barriers here? This is Boulder, man,” Lee says. Boulder Weekly
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THE TRUE COLOR OF A LEAF people talked about the ways they’d become more themselves over the years — finding their hidden passions, getting married, having children, figuring a niche in their various careers. Becoming... it’s an enchanting idea isn’t it? We all know change is inevitable; how we ride it is up to us. The comparison inherent in such reunions of people makes me wonder if there’s a right way to grow up and a wrong one. In this country at least, it seems best to self-actualize, which requires a relentless effort in selfimprovement. It’s the old “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” technique to life, the kind that rewards activities that keep our sense of self intact and preserve our identities as we improve them. And so, eventually, someone asked, “What are you up to?” And I answered, rather bluntly, about having spent quite a bit of time immersing myself in the world of drugs, specifically in cannabis and psychedelics. Before I could fill in the blanks, a look of horror struck my friend’s face. At first I thought it was concern, but as the conversation suddenly fell to silence, I realized it was something else — we didn’t
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know each other anymore. Sure, he recognized me as someone he once knew, but he seemed either incapable or unwilling to recognize that the woman standing in front of him in the Airbnb’s backyard was the same woman he knew in college, as if the fundamental self at play had been betrayed. As puzzling as it was for him it was for me. I stood there in the midst of an existential crisis. My development, which my friend saw as deterioration, has always been informed by happenstance and intentionally so. I’ve always been more interested in subversive questions and experiences, the kind that dissolve my sense of self, than I have been in ones that bolster or preserve it. At first I thought my friend and I had come across an impassable difference and might be better off, like
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the rest of the country, in bitter rebuke than in commendation. I leaned back in my lawn chair, took a sip of beer and looked up to the changing leaves. Someone once told me that the true color of a leaf is the color that it turns in fall, as if the shade of yellow-orange it happens to be when it finally falls to the ground is somehow more real than the chlorophyll-green it donned most of its life, more real than the dusty-brown that is to follow. But that’s absurd, isn’t it? That the leaf is more true to itself in one phase than it is in the next? Would a yellow leaf, lying on the ground, ever look up at a canopy of green and call it inauthentic? Would it reflect on itself and bemoan the ways it has changed? Some of us will preserve the self we inherit, whether that self is conceived of as a string of selfconfirming ideas or experiences. But for me, well I guess I’m more interested in the idea of anatta or no-self. At least such has been my interest in cannabis and psychedelics, substances that literally violate ideas about the self, including our sense of individuality. It is said that THC produces a three-hour-long inebriation characterized by a feeling of detachment that enables meditative absorption or a surrender to sensory stimuli. To me, to become that present is a beautiful idea, akin to more sober iterations like losing oneself in nature or looking up at the night sky and imagining ourselves a part of the stars. Whether drug induced or not, there is a fear in succumbing to immersive states. Maybe we are afraid that in letting the self exist in wholeness with the world it will cease to exist in any meaningful way. What if we become indistinguishable from the world around us? But then again, isn’t that inevitable? Psychedelic experience, no matter how you find it, is an unbecoming, a dissolution, a process of death. In this small, spinning pyre, the husks of delusion that entwine us burn away. And so we return to waking life — perhaps more foolish, perhaps wiser, perhaps a dusty-brown shadow of our former chlorophyl-green self. All I know is there is no true color of a leaf.
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ome new surveys by Consumer Research data into actual numbers of people. Around Cannabis, a Houston-based market The survey found that among the 3.2 million research company, have turned up some fasadults over the age of 18 living in the Denver metro cinating data about Colorado marijuana area, nearly 58 percent approve of both legal recreusers. ational and medical marijuana. That works out to In one survey, the company asked 1,258 marijuana 1.87 million people. And nearly 19 percent, or users in the Denver metro area and nearby parts of about 602,000 people, approve of medical marijuaWyoming and Nebraska to list the reasons why they na but not recreational pot. Only about 11 percent, use pot. 354,000 people, disapprove of both legal recreationPartying hardy was not at the top of Torben Hansen/Wikimedia Commons the list. The survey found that the two most common reasons people gave for using marijuana were to help them sleep and to treat chronic or recurring pain. Each was listed by 47.2 percent of the respondents. In third place was using pot to help with depression or anxiety, with 45.7 percent saying they used it for that. Almost one-third of users, 32.8 percent, said they inhaled or nibbled for creative purposes and expanding perceptions and thought processes. Only 28.5 percent of users said they used marijuana to have a good time with friends. The survey also punctured the stereotype of marijuana users being unemployed losers. It found that most metroDenver area pot buyers had full-time jobs and lived in two-income families. Over half of them have household incomes of al and medical pot use. $50,000 or more. The research also found that 1.48 million of the Forty-two percent of them had IRAs or 401Ks, 18 3.2 million adults in the Denver metro area (45.8 perpercent had traded stocks and 19 percent have over cent) had tried pot at least once in their lives, that $100,000 in liquid assets. 908,000 (28 percent) had used it recreationally in the A second study asked how many adults in the past year, and that 671,000 (20.7 percent) currently Denver metro area approved of recreational and/or use marijuana recreationally. medicinal marijuana use and how many had used or The survey also found that of the 1.48 million currently use marijuana. What made the study particpeople who had used pot at least once in the past, ularly interesting is that it translated the percentage nearly 150,000 now disapprove of using it recreation-
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ally, according to Jeff Stein, vice president of Consumer Research Around Cannabis. “Those who now disapprove tend to be affluent, male baby boomers, who like country music, hockey, are on a diet, and go to church regularly,” he said. The third study compared attitudes toward pot in the Denver metro area with those in the Colorado Springs metro area. It found that despite their political differences, their attitudes toward marijuana weren’t all that different. Among the Denver area’s 3.2 million adults, 30 percent identified themselves as “liberal,” 31 percent identified as “conservative,” and 39 percent as “independent.” The comparable figures for the 725,000 adults in the Colorado Springs metro area are 20 percent liberal, 39 percent conservative and 41 percent independent. As mentioned above, 58 percent of adults in the Denver area approve of both recreation and medical use of pot. The figure for metro Colorado Springs is 52 percent, according to Stein. In both areas, roughly 75 percent of liberals, 60 percent of independents, and 35 percent of conservatives approve of legal usage, he said. “It is also interesting to see how remarkably similar Denver and Colorado Springs are when it comes to reasons for marijuana use,” Stein said. “The leading motivations in both markets are primarily to help people sleep, followed by dealing with chronic pain.” He added that “over the long run it will be interesting to see how marijuana use affects sales of traditional pharmaceuticals for these kinds of ailments.” Consumer Research Around Cannabis uses survey techniques designed to measure consumer behavior, which are different than those used by national public opinion surveys like the Gallup Poll, which are designed to measure voter behavior, so their results shouldn’t be taken as directly comparable.
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evidence that you tried,” declared comedian Steven Wright. My Great Uncle Ned had a different perspective. “If at first you don’t succeed,” he told me, “redefine the meaning of success.” I’m not a fan of Wright’s advice, but Ned’s counsel has served me well. I recommend you try it out, Gemini. Here’s another bit of folk wisdom that might be helpful. Psychotherapist Dick Olney said that what a good therapist does is help her clients wake up from the delusion that they are the image they have of themselves.
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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Author Barbara Ehrenreich has done extensive research on the annals of partying. She says modern historians are astounded by the prodigious amount of time that medieval Europeans spent having fun together. “People feasted, drank, and danced for days on end,” she writes. Seventeenth-century Spaniards celebrated festivals five months of each year. In 16th-century France, peasants devoted an average of one day out of every four to “carnival revelry.” In accordance with current astrological omens, you Sagittarians are authorized to match those levels of conviviality in the coming weeks.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22: What is home? The poet Elizabeth
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Kittens made French Emperor Napoleon III lose his composure. He shook and screamed around them. Butterflies scare actress Nicole Kidman. My friend Allie is frightened by photos of Donald Trump. As for me, I have an unnatural fear of watching reality TV. What about you, Capricorn? Are you susceptible to any odd anxieties or nervous fantasies that provoke agitation? If so, the coming weeks will be a perfect time to overcome them. Why? Because you’ll be host to an unprecedented slowmotion outbreak of courage that you can use to free yourself from long-standing worries.
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Corn pondered that question. She then told her lover that home was “the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.” I offer this as inspiration, Cancerian, since now is a perfect time to dream up your own poetic testimonial about home. What experiences make you love yourself best? What situations bring out your most natural exuberance? What influences feel like gifts and blessings? Those are all clues to the beloved riddle “What is home?”
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and writer Henry David Thoreau declared that “We are constantly invited to be who we are,” to become “something worthy and noble.” So which of these two views is correct? Is fate aligned against us, working hard to prevent us from knowing and showing our authentic self? Or is fate forever conspiring in our behalf, seducing us to master our fullest expression? I’m not sure if there’s a final, definitive answer, but I can tell you this, Libra: In the coming months, Thoreau’s view will be your predominant truth.
JULY 23-AUG. 22: You’re most likely to thrive if you weave together a variety of styles and methods. The coming weeks will be a highly miscellaneous time, and you can’t afford to get stuck in any single persona or approach. As an example of how to proceed, I invite you to borrow from both the thoughtful wisdom of the ancient Greek poet Homer and the silly wisdom of the cartoon character Homer Simpson. First, the poet: “As we learn, we must daily unlearn something which it has cost us no small labor and anxiety to acquire.” Now here’s Homer Simpson: “Every time I learn something new, it pushes out something old.”
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “The brain is wider than the sky,” wrote Emily Dickinson. “The brain is deeper than the sea.” I hope you cultivate a vivid awareness of those truths in the coming days, Aquarius. In order to accomplish the improbable tasks you have ahead of you, you’ve got to unleash your imagination, allowing it to bloom to its full power so it can encompass vast expanses and delve down into hidden abysses. Try this visualization exercise: Picture yourself bigger than the planet Earth, holding it tenderly in your hands.
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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: I got an email from a fan of Piscean singer Rihanna. He complained that my horoscopes rarely mention celebrities. “People love astrological predictions about big stars,” he wrote. “So what’s your problem? Are you too ‘cultured’ to give us what we the people really want? Get off your high horse and ‘lower’ yourself to writing about our heroes. You could start with the lovely, talented, and very rich Rihanna.” I told Rihanna’s fan that my advice for mega-stars is sometimes different from what it is for average folks. For Piscean mega-stars like Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Ellen Page and Bryan Cranston, for example, the coming weeks will be a time to lay low, chill out and recharge. But non-famous Pisceans will have prime opportunities to boost their reputation, expand their reach and wield a stronger-thanusual influence in the domains they frequent.
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Filmmakers often have test audiences
evaluate their products before releasing it to the masses. If a lot of viewers express a particular critique, the filmmaker may make changes, even cutting out certain scenes or altering the ending. You might want to try a similar tack in the coming weeks, Virgo. Solicit feedback on the new projects and trends you’ve been working on — not just from anyone, of course, but rather from smart people who respect you. And be sure they’re not inclined to tell you only what you want to hear. Get yourself in the mood to treasure honesty and objectivity.
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Dear Dan: A few months ago, I started dating someone. I made it clear early on that I didn’t feel comfortable being in a nonmonogamous relationship. They said that’s not usually what they’re into but they weren’t interested in seeing anyone else and they had no problem being monogamous. It’s not that I don’t trust them, and they’ve never given any indication that they’re unhappy with our arrangement, but I can’t shake the fears that, though they won’t admit it (maybe even to themselves), they’d prefer it if our relationship were more open and I’m taking something important away from them. Can someone who usually doesn’t “do” monogamy feel fulfilled in a “closed” relationship? Can it work out, or will they just slowly grow to resent me for this? — Deliriously Anxious Monogamist Nervously Inquires Today
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selor or therapist you see winds up taking your side? Is it possible that you’re not the problem? Are you truly awful, MESSY, or has your husband convinced you that you’re awful in order to have the upper hand in your relationship? (Yeah, yeah, you had an affair. Lots of people do and lots of marriages survive them.) If you’re not being manipulated — if you’re not the victim of an expert gas-
lighter — and you’re awful and all your efforts to change have been in vain, MESSY, perhaps you should stop trying. You are who you are, your husband knows who you are, and if he wants to be with you, as awful as you are (or as awful as he’s managed to convince you that you are), that’s his choice and he needs to take some responsibility for it. By “stop trying” I don’t mean you
should stop making an effort to be a better person or a more loving partner — we should all constantly strive to be better people and more loving partners — but you can’t spend the rest of your life on a therapist’s couch. Or the rack. If you truly make your husband miserable, he should leave you. If your marriage makes you miserable (or if he does), you should leave him. But if neither of you is going anywhere, MESSY, then you’ll both just have to make the best of your messy selves and your messy marriage. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.
Dear DAMNIT: If you stay together forever — what most people mean by “work out” — your partner will definitely grow to resent you. It could be for this reason, DAMNIT, or for some other reason, but all people in long-term relationships resent their partners for something. So if monogamy is the price of admission this person is willing to pay, let them pay it. There are a lot of people out there in closed relationships who would rather be in open ones and vice versa. And remember: What works for you as a couple — and what you want as an individual — can change over time. Dear Dan: My relationship with my husband is bad. We have been together for twelve years, and we were married for eight years before getting divorced last year. We have small kids. We reconciled four months after the divorce, despite the affair I had. I have a history of self-sabotage, but in my relationship with him, it has become near constant. Everyone thinks I’m a smart and kind person that occasionally makes mistakes, but I’m not that person with him. With him, I’m awful. I make promises I don’t keep and I don’t do the right things to make him feel loved even though I do loving things. We have been in couples therapy a number of times, but I always derail the process. I have been in therapy solo a number of times with similar results. I always get the therapists on my side and no real change happens. I want to change but I haven’t. I want to stop hurting him but I keep doing it. He doesn’t feel like I have ever really fought for him or the relationship. Why can’t I change? — My Enraging Self-Sabotaging Yearnings Dear MESSY: It’s unlikely I’ll be able to do for you in print what three couples counselors and all those therapists couldn’t do for you in person, i.e., help you change your ways — if, indeed, it’s your ways that require changing. Have you ever entertained the thought that maybe there’s a reason every counBoulder Weekly
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