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They both had their 15 minutes of fame in 1212 AD, 807 years ago.

Etienne de Cloyes and Nikolaus von Koln, or Stephen of Cloyes and Nicholas of Cologne in English, were the leaders of the Children’s Crusade. Or more precisely, of the Children’s Crusades: there were two separate crusades, one originating in France led by de Cloyes and one originating in the Rhineland in Germany led by von Koln.

Like Stephen and Nicholas, Ms. Thunberg emerged seemingly out of nowhere to become the face and titular leader of a latter-day Children’s Crusade, and a lot of what she’s

The Children’s Crusades, then and now

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t’s enough to make you believe in reincarnation.

Etienne de Cloyes and Nikolaus von Koln seem to have come back as Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish high school truant who started cutting class on Fridays in order to stand in front of the Swedish parliament and demand that it “do something” about climate change.

If the names Etienne de Cloyes and Nikolaus von Koln don’t ring a bell, well, they lived a long time ago.

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doing could be taken out of the de Cloyes/von Koln playbook.

Both Stephen and Nicholas were 12-year-old shepherds who believed they were on a mission from God. Ms. Thunberg believes she is on a mission from Gaia, or at least from the International Panel on Climate Change.

Stephen took up the cause after he was visited, while tending his flock, by a pilgrim with whom he shared bread. The pilgrim told Stephen stories about his participation in a crusade, which eventually climaxed with the pilgrim revealing himself to be Jesus Christ. He then gave Stephen letters addressed to the King of France, Phillip II, urging him to lead a new crusade. see DANISH PLAN Page 8

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Colorado’s scripted environmentalism is an impostor for the real thing

By Cliff Willmeng

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y 2011, when my family came face to face with fracking, Colorado was already 40,000 wells into “responsible oil and gas development.” At that time, politicians, industry and various Democratic Party front groups tightly controlled how people and communities were allowed to object. That tight control allowed wells to be drilled in a predictable and orderly way under a grand project former Governor Bill Ritter and the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) called the New Energy Economy.

Around 2012, a few communities broke from that scripted model of environmentalism. Longmont enacted a fracking ban. Although primarily a ban on a drilling technique, many of us in Lafayette misinterpreted Longmont’s ban as expansive, community-led civil disobedience for the environment and took off from there. Nonetheless, this first shot across the bow drove new ballot initiatives, organizing and protest that the political class just wasn’t used to. The situation got bad enough that then Governor John Hickenlooper, after joining the COGA lawsuit against Longmont in 2013, was effectively run out of that town by a group of 300 angry residents.

The place was never the same again. That said, the political forces behind oil and gas attempted to rein in rebellious communities and force them back to the original script.

At every stage, little grassroots efforts like our own East Boulder County United were attacked over and over for pointing out how this process of political weakening, aka scripted environmentalism, works and to what effect. Behind it all is the state’s compulsion to force people back to the political class’s original definition of “environmentalism”: 1) A subservient and codependent relationship with the Democratic Party 2) Activism dominated by professionals, who are in continual need of funding sources 8

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4) An acceptance that environmentalism is a negotiation between the political class, industry and communities around the terms by which environmental exploitation will take place.

These elements are as much the nature of scripted environmentalism today as they were in 2011. In fact, 2011’s version of state-sanctioned environmentalism, which was referred to as the “Colorado Model” by political and industry insiders, was and still is being exported nationally.

Nearly all environmental groups now work within this model. And now that the state is turning the corner on approving another 6,000 drilling permits, the “important” people are once again acting from a pre2012 script. “The Colorado oil and gas wars are over,” is the new refrain of current Colorado Governor Jared Polis and Boulder Representative K.C. Becker. Unfortunately, it’s a line from a play about promoting the free flow of investment money and oil profits — not saving the environment.

There is deep political toxicity on the shale. The Boulder political class and its allies need to erase their long partnership and complicity with the oil and gas industry. That is why grassroots groups like East Boulder County United are so deeply opposed to what is happening. We are informed by history, educated by it, and must now act because of it. It’s my opinion that there’s no turning back for the Democrats or the rest of the world, Colorado included. The political class better get used to losing the narrative and make way for the people. The global environmental apocalypse is only going to make this battle far sharper.

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Stephen and several fellow shepherds set out from Cloyes to deliver the letters to the king in Paris, some 90 miles away. Along the route Steven preached — it turned out that like Ms. Thunberg the kid was a charismatic preacher — and attracted thousands of followers.

By the time he got to Paris his procession had grown to 30,000. The letters were delivered to the king — who told the kids to go home.

Instead, Stephen and his followers repaired to the Abbey of Saint Denis, now a suburb of Paris, where Stephen continued his preaching. From there he took the show on the road, traveling around France promising to lead a march to Jerusalem. He attracted a number of adult followers as well, including several hundred clerics.

The idea was for the crusaders to convert Muslims to Christianity peaceably by the force of argument and by the purity of their passion and faith. Ms. Thunberg seems to be following a similar strategy in her crusade against climate change.

Toward the end of June, Stephen and about 15,000 of his followers set off for Marseilles, about 500 miles from Paris.

Meanwhile, over in the Rhineland,Nicholas was attracting followers with similar preaching and a similar message. He didn’t have letters from “Jesus,” but he did have a father who was serving as his agent.

Like Stephen, Nicholas was a charismatic speaker, who quickly attracted a following of thousands, and in the early spring they set out for Jerusalem — by marching south

over the Alps to Italy.

In late August about 7,000 survivors arrived in Genoa.

Both Stephen’s and Nickolas’ bands believed that when they got to the Mediterranean God would part the waters allowing them to walk dry shod to the Holy Land.

When Nicholas’ party reached Genoa, they went immediately to the port to await the parting of the waters. Which didn’t part. But the Genovese were impressed by the kids’ spunk, and offered citizenship to any of them who wanted to stay.

A lot took them up on it. Others, including Nicholas, pushed on to see the Pope. Who told them to go home. Nicholas is thought to have died trying to re-cross the Alps.

When the few survivors returned to Germany, the outraged parents who had lost children tried and hanged Nicholas’ father.

Stephen’s march also ended badly.

While he probably didn’t have as many casualties on the march, he had more drop-outs. And as at Genoa, the waters at Marseilles weren’t parting.

But then some kindly ship owners offered to give the crusader kids and the adult hangers on free passage to the Holy Land.

Several ship-loads set sail. Three sank in a storm. The surviving vessels reached Muslim North Africa, where the kindly ship owners sold the crusaders into slavery. A crucial parallel of the Children’s Crusade of 1212 and Ms. Thunberg’s is that while Stephen, Nicholas and Greta were/are charismatic, they were all manipulated by

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Recently in Boulder Weekly, Gary Wockner submitted a guest opinion titled “Bicyclists Against Density,” (Re: Guest Column, Sept. 12, 2019). Rather than focusing on how people and bikes can create a great city, Gary continues the theme found in his other writing, that we “should build a wall of nature” to prevent more people from moving to Colorado, and that Boulder should “stop luring more people, more cars and more businesses” to make biking better. In laying out his vision for Boulder, Gary forgets that the joy of riding bikes is about people, places and community.

The safety of people on bikes is the highest priority. Given the steady rise of death and serious injury across the country to people

biking and walking, Boulder and most American communities are not doing enough to make people safe. Increases in vehicle size, distracted driving and the number of miles driven all contribute to a dangerous environment for anyone not in a car.

But Mr. Wockner’s assertion that a lower-density city would fix the problems of automobiles are at odds with the evidence. American cities of all shapes, sizes and densities have seen huge increases in traffic fatalities. Low traffic rural roads did not prevent the killing of my friend Mark Jilka, who was hit by a distracted driver in Kansas in 2014. Low density roads did not prevent the serious injury of Bernie see LETTERS Page 11

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adults: Stephen’s phony Jesus, Nicholas’ father, and the environmental groups that are paying the bills and handling the logistics of Greta’s appearances.

In all three cases people were/are expected to forego critical examination of kids’ beliefs because they are children. And pure.

At the U.N. earlier this week, a number of the world’s leaders spoke about what their countries were doing to combat climate change.

Greta accused them of speaking “empty words” and claimed they had “robbed her of her childhood” by not having solved the climate crisis yesterday.

A further parallel was that the programs of all three are ludicrously unrealistic. Even in 1212 AD, it didn’t take a genius to recognize that the waters of the Mediterranean weren’t going to part for kiddy crusaders or anyone else, never mind that Muslims weren’t very likely to be converted to Christianity by child evangelists.

And it doesn’t take a genius to recognize that the adults who run 21st century nation-states don’t have the luxury of taking the demands of a 16-year-old for de-carbonization yesterday seriously. Not when the grownI

ups are expected to keep their economies functioning and their cities warm next winter, even if it takes burning coal, oil or natural gas.

The truth is that the world is going to keep dumping billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere for at least 20 or 30 years — until the present multi-trillion dollar investment in fossil fueled powered global infrastructure wears out and is replaced by nonCO2 producing energy technologies. This will happen because the non-CO2-producing technologies are surpassing CO2-producing ones in terms of both performance and cost.

James Watt invented the first practical steam engine in 1763. The industrial revolution it began and the civilization it birthed has been under construction, and pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, for 256 years. That civilization can and will be retooled and repowered with wind, solar and nuclear energy sources.

But it will not happen on teenage standard time, no matter how much Ms. Thunberg and her fellow crusaders might wish it.

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Bernstein, a Boulder resident left for dead in a hit-and-run while returning from his bike commute to Erie earlier this year. Boulder’s built environment has perpetuated deadly automobile-centric design for decades and we must find the will to fix it.

What makes Boulder a good city for biking are places nearby you can ride. Our urban growth boundary has greatly reduced the city from sprawling, creating a compact and intimate place that’s ideal for biking. Whether it’s riding bikes downtown for happy hour, to the grocery store or to go on a hike, putting people close to the places and services they need makes biking a great choice. I grew up in the spread-out suburbs outside St. Louis where people did not live close to where they worked, shopped or played.

Everyone drove.

Lastly, people and community are the bond that makes bicyclefriendly cities amazing. Not a week goes by when I don’t see several of my friends around Boulder while on bike. Whether stopping to chat or riding together to our destinations, community is what makes biking so great. That many of my friends live a short distance away by bike is such a pleasure. Imagine how much healthier our community would be if we invested in safe bike infrastructure for everyone, so that time spent in cars was minimized and more people could get around by biking and walking.

Rather than trying to exclude people from living here, Boulder needs to grow in a way that includes families, teachers, young and old people who can live nearby and ride bikes daily.

Let’s focus on the problem we agree upon: that a city full of automobiles is not a city that is good for people. In order to move forward, we can’t continue with the same type of thinking that built Boulder’s auto-oriented past. The way forward has little to do with density and everything to do with putting people first. If we want a better city for bicycling, then we have to create that better city.

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I applaud Boulder’s perseverance in exploring a public utility. The last 10 years have shown that the monopoly utility, Xcel, will vigorously oppose any endeavor that does not benefit their real customers — their shareholders. This is why Boulder isn’t already done with the process, and at less expense.

It’s not just Boulder: last year Xcel made half a billion dollars in profits in Colorado alone and is still asking the Public Utilities Commission for a rate increase.

And just 10 years ago, against opposition, they spent a billion dollars on a coal plant that they knew would become prematurely obsolete and didn’t care because they could just charge their ratepayers and not take on any of the risk themselves.

If Boulder doesn’t become a public utility, it’s a promise of what our future holds: roadblocks every time we want to pursue a benefit to our residents or the environment that doesn’t keep Xcel in control and let them make money off of it.

Instead, we could be getting more renewable energy faster than Xcel is willing to do, for less cost. And the money we save will go back into our community instead of being siphoned off to Wall Street.

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Thanks for featuring Sen. Sherrod Brown and his great question of “Whose side are you on?”

(Re: “The myth of the center-right,” The Anderson Files, Aug. 29, 2019) No question this Senator is on the side of the people, whether in supporting tax fairness ladders out of poverty like the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit, or battling global diseases to protect us locally by supporting the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Senator Brown’s actions show he cares. Our job is to speak up to those who represent us, requesting their support for these life-saving and life-changing initiatives, and of course to vote. Together we CAN make a difference.

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rom weakening vehicle emissions to blocking warnings about how coastal parks could flood or the impact on the Arctic, the Trump administration is accused of muzzling climate science.

Here, six whistleblowers and former government scientists describe being sidelined by the administration — and why they won’t be quiet.

JEFF ALSON Role: A former senior engineer at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s vehicles lab in Ann Arbor, Michigan What did the work involve?

“I was an engineer at the EPA, working for 40 years in a very technical job. In 2009, after the election of Barack Obama, the EPA started working on greenhouse gas standards for vehicles for the first time. It felt like we were making history.

“There was a team of around 25 people producing thousands of pages of analysis for the standards. We knew it would be controversial but it was a very big deal, the first critical steps to address the climate crisis.”

What changed under the Trump administration?

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speech where he said he’d look at the standards, that they hurt economic activity and jobs. That was an obvious sign, really.

“In August 2018 the administration proposed an eight-year freeze of the greenhouse gas standards. It was unbelievable, really — for the first time in the history of the EPA the political leadership decided to change pollution standards that were doing well without allowing the career staff and experts to play any sort of role. We were completely locked out.

“There was no scientific or technical rationale to rolling back the standards, the analysis they used was the most biased thing I’ve ever seen. They cooked the books and changed every assumption they could to get the answer they wanted. It was so bad that some EPA career staff asked their bosses to take the EPA name off it all.”

How do you feel about your experience?

“It broke my heart. I’d had this wonderful career, playing a small role in making the world a better place. Then we had a political leadership making decisions on ideology, denying science, basically being climate deniers. It felt horrible.

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“I was 62 years old and there were a few family things going on, but the Trump administration made a difficult decision to retire much easier. I felt I could do more good on the outside, educating the public on what’s going on. By the time I left, the morale was the lowest I’d seen in 40 years. Our work had become irrelevant.”

Asked by The Guardian about the concerns outlined by four former EPA scientists, EPA spokesman Michael Abboud said in a statement: “The EPA under President Trump has strived to create an agency that is responsive to the American people.”

The statement said this included “proposing the SAFE (Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient) rule that will save lives and produce savings for American consumers, working on the first major update to the lead and copper rule in nearly three decades”.

It added the agency was also “on track to become the first administration to complete an ozone NAAQS (National Ambient Air Quality Standards) in the five-year review cycle envisioned

by Congress,” and had deleted 22 sites from the national priorities list of those eligible for Superfund cleanup, the most since the financial year 2005.

MARIA CAFFREY Role: Worked on climate change at the National Park Service (NPS) What did the work involve?

“I was studying how climate change will affect 118 coastal parks in the U.S. for the National Park Service. I started this work in July 2013, it was my baby.”

What changed under the Trump administration?

“My study went through peer review and was ready to be released but I was told by the NPS a few days after Donald Trump’s inauguration that they were ‘waiting for messaging’ first. I thought that was no big deal but then nothing happened and I started calling up every few weeks to say, ‘We’ve got to get this out, it’s getting stale.’

“The excuses varied but became ever more vague, such as ‘we are ever so busy’ or that it would worry people during hurricane season because it mentions storm surge in coastal areas.

A superior said they wanted to keep a low profile on climate change for four or maybe eight years while Trump was around, which really upset me because we don’t have four to eight years to do nothing. I felt I was being silenced.

“I went on maternity leave around Christmas 2017 and the report still hadn’t been released. I got an email from a colleague saying, ‘Congrats on the baby, by the way you should know they are editing your report.’

“We had a conference call and it became clear that any mention of human-caused climate change had been taken out. I was asked how I would feel if they didn’t release the report at all, which felt like a threat. I stood my ground and was told ‘they aren’t going to be happy about this from above.’ It was never clear who ‘they’ were – perhaps Trump himself or Ryan Zinke [the then secretary of the interior].

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“I then had a meeting with a senior NPS official who came out from Washington D.C. The other report co-authors were there, too.

That’s when it all unravelled, it became incredibly hostile. I was told not to attribute changes in public lands to human actions.

“I felt like we worked for the American people and I didn’t want to lie to them. But a superior said that we in fact work for the executive branch of which the president is the head. The president is the boss and we are going to put our heads down and put out the line of the administration.

“A journalist did a freedom of information request and saw all the emails of us fighting over this and asked me for a statement. I ended up going on the record because I thought it was a very important issue. I was aghast I was being asked to lie.

These people were violating the mission of the NPS. “After I came back from maternity leave I was demoted to be an intern on $25,000 a year.

And then in February this year they said there was no money left at all and that I would have to leave. It was devastating. I offered to work for free as a volunteer but was turned down, which shows that it wasn’t a money issue really.

I packed up my office and I was gone. I filed a whistleblower complaint in July.”

How do you feel about your experience?

“I have faced retribution, I was threatened and placed in a hostile work environment. It’s clear in some agencies there’s a culture of fear where scientists are being intimidated. When I wrote this report, politics was the last thing on my mind, I was thinking about climate change and these coastal parks.

“It’s very frustrating, it’s not where I pictured where my career would be at this time in my life.

I don’t even know if I have a career anymore.

What’s left is in tatters.”

The National Park Service did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment.

CHRIS FREY Role: A professor of environmental engineering at North Carolina State University, Frey was chairman of the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and a member of the agency’s Science Advisory Board. He left in 2018.

What did the work involve?

“The Clean Air Science Advisory Committee (CASAC) is required to inform the EPA administrator over air quality standards, if they are sufficient to protect public health or not [under the Clean Air Act]. The EPA’s Science Advisory Board is a much larger committee that takes on all sorts of things — clean water rules, vehicle greenhouse gas standards, rules about transparency and so on.”

What changed under the Trump administration?

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were the first signs of the ideological assault on scientific advice at the EPA. “Scott Pruitt [then administrator of the EPA] wrote a memo that said that researchers that have received grants from the EPA aren’t allowed to serve on panels because of a perceived conflict of interest. But there was no prohibition on industry people serving and the number of them on the panels has increased. It’s been a way to kick qualified people off the boards and get cronies in their place.

“There was a complete turnover of CASAC and it shows in meetings. They now bumble through things because they don’t understand the process and the Clean Air Act. Political appointees are interfering with the selection of candidates, essentially picking those sympathetic to the agenda of the administration, even if they have fringe views like climate change isn’t happening, that kind of stuff.

“I was on a panel looking at the risks posed by particulate matter. We had a lot more work to do but we were disbanded four days before the EPA released an assessment that we would’ve reviewed. The timing was mind boggling. I found out by seeing a press release on the EPA website, which was followed by an email saying out services were no longer needed.

“I was also a nominee for a panel on ozone but then they said they wouldn’t go ahead with that. It was a little frustrating for me personally, but it’s more of a loss to the American public. The EPA has always been thought of as a science-based agency, what we see now is no basic respect for science.”

How do you feel about your experience?

“There’s not even lip service to the science. Science can’t be controlled like ideological spin, so the administration is afraid of that. They don’t want scientists and their evidence-based opinions — they’d rather have cronies trot out the same tired talking points on fringe scientific views.”

JOEL CLEMENT Role: An expert on the impact of climate change on the Arctic at the Department of the Interior What did the work involve?

“I was at [the department of the] interior for nearly seven years. I started on Jan. 3, 2011 — I know the exact date because of how excited and inspired I was at the thought of serving in the federal government. I was hired as a senior executive to run the office of policy analysis, which sits in the office of the secretary.

“One of the main areas of focus was addressing the impacts of climate change in the Arctic, which is warming two to three times faster than the rest of the planet. Entire Alaska native villages are threatened by rapid coastal erosion and storms because they no longer have a sea ice curtain to protect them from fierce Arctic storms in the fall and early winter, and the ground beneath their feet is falling away as the permafrost thaws.”

What changed under the Trump administration?

“The new Trump team was very thin and most of them knew very little about the agency mission — they were mostly oil and gas lobbyists and some campaign workers. Whatever they were talking about up on the secretary’s hallway, it sure wasn’t being shared with the career staff at the agency. So you basically had 70,000 employees scratching their heads and getting back to doing 14

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their jobs while a couple dozen political appointees tried to get their act together to lead them. It was surreal.

“But this neglect soon turned into scorn, characterized by comments from the new secretary, Ryan Zinke, that the staff were disloyal. Morale began to quickly plummet as the political ranks showed not only ignorance of, but disdain for the wide-ranging agency mission. Here you had tens of thousands of people working hard in public service and being told what they do is not important.

“The National Park Service and Fish and Wildlife Service had it worst because they didn’t have anything to do with oil and gas or mining permitting process, and the lobbyists in charge had no interest in wildlife, conservation or biodiversity.

“But every agency suffered, because the mantra of the administration was to drain the swamp — and it quickly became clear that the swamp was not the high-paid lobbyists, but the rank and file government professionals who serve the country.

“On a Thursday night in June, just a week after I’d been in New York to speak at the United Nations about climate change adaptation issues, I received an email that said I was being moved to a new position.

“It was quickly obvious that this was a retaliatory action, as I was moved away from any climate change work to the office that collects royalty income from oil, gas and mining companies — an auditing position for which I had zero expertise. The email explained that because I had economists on my policy staff that I must clearly know about numbers, so I’d be good in an auditing office.

“I’d heard that they were looking for a job that I would not want, in hopes that I would quit. It’s not unusual for senior executives to be reassigned, it’s part of the job, but reassignment can’t be used to get people to quit — and secretary Zinke testified to Congress a week later that he was using reassignments, among other methods, to trim the workforce. Sadly, I was only one of dozens of executives who were reassigned that night, many of us for clearly retaliatory reasons.

“I found legal counsel and eventually filed a whistleblower complaint and went public with an op-ed in the Washington Post. I wasn’t worried too much about my job at that point, I was worried about the work I’d been doing on behalf of Alaska Natives and it was clear they had no intention of continuing to work to help those frontline communities.

“A couple months later I decided that they’d already taken my job, but there was no way I’d let them take my voice, so I resigned and continued to speak publicly about these abuses and the implications for American health and safety.”

How do you feel about your experience?

“The Trump administration is threatened by evidence, by science, and by expertise. These things interfere with their ability to hobble government agencies and reduce oversight. It’s mind-boggling and a profound threat to democracy but it also increases risks to American health and safety. Every American should be concerned, regardless of political stripe.”

A Department of the Interior spokesperson said in a statement to the Guardian: “The department works to ensure that the scientific activities that it carries out uses the best science and are the result of robust and independent processes.”

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BETSY SOUTHERLAND Role: A long-term water quality official at the EPA What did the work involve?

“I was at the EPA for 33 years, starting in 1984. I worked in the water program and on superfund clean-ups, working on the criteria for drinkable water.”

What changed under the Trump administration?

“I left in August 2017 and made a very public retirement statement about how bad this administration is and its assault on science. It went viral and since then I spend 20 to 30 hours a week helping the press and Congress understand the impact of what the Trump administration is doing.

“We’ve never seen anything like this complete abandonment of science, solely to maximize corporate profits. Everything changed after the election.

The climate change section of the EPA website came down and Scott Pruitt came in and brought in a bunch of political appointees who didn’t need Senate confirmation.

“I was working on a chemical safety rule that was rewritten by Nancy Beck, someone from the American Chemistry Council (an industry lobby group) who Pruitt brought in. It basically repeated the talking points she used on the chemistry council.

“Pruitt never spoke to any of the career staff before he made decisions on replacing rules. I worked on a rule that would require coal-fired power plants to treat toxic waste rather than simply dump it into leaky ponds. Pruitt met with Bob Murray (head of coal mining firm Murray Energy Corporation) and decided to postpone the rule and the first we knew about it was when we were asked to check a draft press release about the rollback.

“Scientists are really irrelevant at the EPA now, their input isn’t requested. They are simply directed by the political team to help fulfill the desires of political donors, no matter the cost to Americans. At the moment it’s just a logistical question of how fast they can go on this.

They have something like 70 regulation repeals underway and because it will be hard to do this with legal challenges they want to undermine the underlying science.”

What happened after you left?

“Within a couple of days of me leaving an opposition research firm did a freedom of information request for all my emails and the EPA immediately handed them over. I found out they made a big effort to connect with all the right wing media to trash me. They made up this lie that I was being paid more than a Congress member for every year of my retirement. It got really ugly, so I got off social media.

“The same opposition group then tried to find out if any EPA employees donated to [Bernie] Sanders or [Elizabeth] Warren. It’s stunning to target federal employees like that. I’ve never seen that before.”

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JACOB CARTER Role: Worked on climate change impacts upon Superfund sites (toxic areas requiring federal clean-up) at the EPA What did the work involve?

“I was brought in by the EPA to do climate change work for the office that oversees the Superfund site program, which are toxic areas that require a federal clean-up.

“I was specifically working on the Superfund site program because President Obama had issued an executive order for any federal agencies that would put forward new federal dollars into infrastructure. Essentially, he wanted those agencies to incorporate climate change into flood risk for that infrastructure.

“The model essentially looks at how much sea level rise is expected over the next 100 years. Plus what did the extreme floods look like in those areas? And I combine those two sets of data to create a model that is predictive of these future extreme floods that we’re seeing more of currently and are expected to see more of in the future.”

What changed under the Trump administration?

“I knew from President Trump, then candidate Trump’s campaign, how he felt about climate change, that I was likely on the chopping block because I was a postdoctoral fellow and my contract was sort of on a yearto-year basis.

“And so after the transition occurred, I was there for a couple of weeks and then one day my boss came to my office and said, “I think you should probably start looking for another position.”

How do you feel about your experience?

“It was a very difficult time for me, absolutely. I was extremely sad and depressed. I really liked the work that I was doing. I felt like I was doing research that was really going to have a significant impact.

“I had worked really hard on it. To see something like that just get sort of tossed out the window was really disheartening to see. And the fact that they were just going to completely dismiss this climate change work altogether, was also really disheartening.

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“There’s a ton of different scenarios that have occurred that show that this administration really does not care about progressing climate change or climate science, in general.

“I mean, any time you see some sort of report come out of the agency that even mildly mentions climate change and maybe its impacts to national parks, or something to that

extent, the administration tries to downplay human connection to climate change. They try to downplay the role of climate change and federal scientists’ work in press releases.

“They try to downplay the role of climate change and research that they’re funding. So even in grants that the agencies are receiving, they’re now being vetted by political officials to essentially make sure that climate change is not mentioned in those proposals. It’s not a great time to be a climate change scientist in the federal government.”

Additional reporting by Oliver Conroy.

This story originally appeared in The Guardian. It is republished here as part of Boulder Weekly’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

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he climate crisis has been making headlines recently, spurred by the worldwide youth climate strikes on Sept.

20 and U.N. Climate Summit on Sept. 23. Whether it’s been Greta Thunberg chastising U.N. leaders over inaction or the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report documenting the strain climate change is having on the Earth’s oceans, every day it’s something. But maybe that’s a good thing, says Max Boykoff, environmental studies professor and director of Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado Boulder. “[Media] saturation has shown itself to change cultural perceptions in significant ways,” he says. “It’s really important to look back through time, look at the gay rights movement, look at movements for racial justice, look at women’s rights, looking at perceptions of world war, look at support for the Vietnam War — that saturation through the media forced sets of conversations, reflections, reconsiderations.”

For the last 20 years or so, Boykoff has been researching how the media covers climate change and what effect it might have on public and political opinion and action.

His work led to the creation of the Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) at CU Boulder, which tracks climate change coverage in roughly 100 news sources across TV, radio and print in 43 countries around the world.

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by Angela K. Evans economic, ecological and meteorological stories as well.

“Science is this really well worn pathway to knowing and learning and understanding climate change.

And you know, we’ve made a lot of great progress scientifically understanding the changing climate and humans’ role in it,” he says. “But science is just a part of the stories that are told increasingly in the media landscape.”

Boykoff and the team at MeCCO track the stories coming out of news outlets and publish their analysis in monthly reports. As of August 2019, coverage of climate change was up 83% around the world over a year ago. In the U.S., coverage has increased by 32% in that same time frame.

Overall, Boykoff says, MeCCO has documented increasing coverage of climate change during the Trump administration, although not all of that coverage is positive.

News reports of Trump’s environmental rollbacks and skipping out on climate talks accounts for at least some of the spike. While any coverage that mentions the climate crisis raises awareness, Boykoff ’s research shows it’s not all effective in actually creating change.

In his most recent book, Creative (Climate) Communications, Boykoff explores the effectiveness of certain storytelling techniques and ways of discussing climate change in the hopes that productive communication around the topic will lead to more constructive engagement.

Based on his research, Boykoff says the alarmist approach — “freaking people out” — has proven to raise awareness but falls short of compelling action. Books like The Uninhabitable Earth may sell well, he says, but they haven’t proven useful in moving the needle.

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mon ground, move productively forward on confronting this issue, that’s shown to consistently not be helpful,” he says.

Take, for example, coverage of the 2018 U.N. IPCC report warning that we have 12 years to reverse course to avert the worst impacts of climate change.

“The report itself was very constructive,” he says. “Media accounts of it, though, are a different story.”

Whereas the report detailed not only the severity of the climate situation but also actionable steps that will move us forward and bend the curve away from complete destruction, media reports were and continue to be more fatalistic.

Reporting, appropriately, that we are in the middle of a climate crisis may be alarming, Boykoff says, but he makes a distinction between that and the alarmist approach which often leaves people feeling alienated and hopeless. In fact, it may even lead to a sort of boomerang effect whereby people are overwhelmed by the enormity of the issue in such a way that paralyzes them from doing anything. This is where different communication strategies are key, Boykoff says — being authentic, accurate, trustworthy and aware of your audience is critical.

The conversations around climate change might be different if you’re talking to a group of environmental activists or you’re talking to hunting and fishing or more conservative communities, for example. But that doesn’t make these conversations less effective.

“It’s about smartening up the way that we discuss these things,” Boykoff says. “It’s not dumbing it down for the public, it’s smartening up.”

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And it’s about addressing the issue through a variety of avenues, including performance art, music, fine art and even comedy.

“You may not necessarily be into climate change or too preoccupied with the science, but if you’re a fan of comedy, increasingly you might start to hear about these things through comedic acts,” he says, citing examples like Trevor Noah and Samantha Bee. Boykoff has been researching this specifically through his work with Inside the Greenhouse, a project at CU Boulder that seeks to create interactive theater, film, fine art, performance art and television programming inspired by climate change.

When it comes to comedy, Boykoff says, the results have been largely positive.

“It’s lowered defenses,” he says.

“It’s opened up kind of common ground for people to point out the incongruencies that we can then share and start to work on together.”

As the public becomes more engaged on a variety of levels with the climate crisis, the hope is that we can start to reverse course and avert the worst possibilities of our current trajectory. According to Boykoff, the media plays a role in that, and if media continues to grow its coverage of climate change, hopefully in both quantity and quality, then we might just reach a level of saturation that actually makes a difference.

“I’m less worried about fatigue than I am about not discussing it enough,” Boykoff says. “Put simply, the scale of our response to date is nowhere near commensurate to the scale of the challenge that we face.

We have a ways to go on that.”

This story was published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

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Deforestation intensifies warming in the Amazon Rain Forest

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ires raging across the Amazon in recent weeks have gripped the world’s attention and renewed concerns over deforestation in this iconic ecosystem. The widespread use of fire to deliberately clear the rain forest not only endangers its rich biodiversity but also releases carbon into the atmosphere, ultimately contributing to global warming. Now a study has found that deforestation adds to warming in the Amazon region — which could ultimately hurt the very farms for which the rain forest is being destroyed.

Forests have a natural cooling effect for myriad reasons: they cycle water from the ground to the air, where the water takes heat with it as it evaporates (a process called evapotranspiration); their canopies provide shade; and their trees create a rough terrain, which dissipates heat more efficiently than smoother, clear-cut fields. So when forests disappear, the denuded land heats up. But this effect is not limited to the deforested areas, according to the new paper, published last month in Environmental Research Letters.

The researchers analyzed a combination of satellite data and weather station records from more than 2,000 sites in Brazil’s Amazon-Cerrado region and found temperatures also rise in the “immediate neighborhood” of a deforested area — up to 50 kilometers away — says study co-author Sally Thompson, an ecohydrologist at the University of Western Australia.

“This was very clearly indicating that there is a mechanism by which the biophysical warming from deforestation is being transported in space to the area around it,” she says.

Thompson and her colleagues do not yet know what causes this effect, but she thinks it may be as simple as wind pushing warmer air outward from deforested sites.

Paulo Brando, a tropical ecologist at the University of California, Irvine, and the Woods Hole Research Center, who was not involved in the study, cites reduced evapotranspiration as another possible contributor. He says the cumulative effect of the patchwork of clear-cutting is enough to impact the entire region. “As you slow down the capacity of this system to cycle water, you cause regional warming,” he adds.

Thompson and her colleagues found that deforestation has caused an overall increase of 0.5 degree Celsius in the Amazon between 1985 and 2017. Since 1975, greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere have caused the Earth’s average temperature to rise at a rate of about 0.2 degree C every decade. The entire Amazon has warmed more than 1 degree C, and in some places, it has done so by as much as 2 degrees C.

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“It’s safe to say that the majority of warming in Brazil is from greenhouse gas emissions. But the warming from deforestation is considerable and is meaningfully worsening and hastening climate change in Brazil,” says Avery Cohn, an environmental scientist at Tufts University and the study’s lead author.

The “slash and burn” agriculture (in which vegetation is cut, left to dry and then burned) driving much of the loss of the Amazon has a long history in Brazil, where dense jungle makes clearing land by other means extremely difficult. Although the country had made major strides to curtail deforestation in recent decades, Jair Bolsonaro, who became president earlier this year, has promoted agriculture and resource extraction in the rain forest. In 2018 Brazil’s supreme court upheld changes that softened laws protecting the Amazon, a move environmentalists said would promote illegal deforestation. Last month a sharp increase in fires in the rain forest, as compared with the previous year, set off an international outcry. Under pressure, Bolsonaro sent troops to fight the blazes and temporarily banned slash-and-burn practices. Within 48 hours of the ban, however, Brazil’s National

Institute for Space Research had recorded about 2,000 new fires that had broken out in the Amazon.

According to NASA experts, the timing and location of many of the fires detected so far this year are consistent with land clearing.

The researchers say their results could help convince farmers that clearing forest may not be in their own best economic interests, because agriculture is particularly susceptible to temperature changes — last year a rash of heat waves damaged crops around the world.

Brazilian farmers are influential in environmental politics and have a strong lobby in the national government, Cohn says. Showing them that deforestation nearby can significantly increase surface temperatures in their fields — potentially killing crops as a result — could coax them to consider conservation measures.

“Protecting the environment can have private returns to the landholder,” he says. “Understanding the future of agriculture and how it relates to conservation is incredibly important to help farmers make informed decisions about the right balance between production and protection.”

This story originally appeared in Scientific American. It is republished here as part of Boulder Weekly’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

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ART WORK BY GERDA ROVETCH, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

A little of the absurd

A century of whimsy with artist Gerda Rovetch

by Caitlin Rockett

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old on just one moment,” Gerda Rovetch says over the phone, “I just need to fortify myself with a pen.”

She wants to take down my name and note the time we’ve set to meet the following week to talk about a retrospective of her work that’s currently on display at Bricolage Gallery at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center in Boulder. A quiet moment passes; and then another; and another before the 95-year-old artist reassures me all is well.

“Don’t worry — I’ve got my faithful walker to help me.”

It’s clear what Art Parts executive director Denise Perreault meant when she wrote to me that Rovetch has an “incorrigibly playful mind.”

“I’ve been following her ever since seeing her in numerous Open Studios [events] since the early ’90s,” Perreault says of Rovetch. “That’s where I really fell in love with her collages, and especially the ones that she calls ‘potato people.’”

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Flights of Fancy, offers a taste of Rovetch’s penchant for the unconventional, of her love of whimsy and poetry and life’s simple pleasures.

“There is just this lovely playfulness and yet something deeper going on there, too,” Perreault says. “A balance and a symmetry and a sophisticated asymmetry.

There’s an intellectual quality to it that I just found captivating.”

Rovetch’s art delivers poignant messages about the absurdity of life — from balancing the many facets of our lives to laughing in the face of loss — in deceptively playful code... for those interested in scratching the surface.

The retrospective comes right on time, as the nonagenarian has just self-published her second book of playful poetry and drawings, Uncles.

Long live Gerda Rovetch.

• • • • A few days after the phone call, Rovetch — faithful see ROVETCH Page 24

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walker at her service — invites me into almost each and every one with silk flowthe streamline moderne home on ers. These bring color all year long, she Highland Avenue she shared with her tells me, which makes her happy. husband, Warren, for decades, up until “One of my mottos is: If it works, his death just two years ago. The couple don’t knock it,” she tells me between moved to Boulder in the late ’50s and bites of pie. have called it home ever since. Warren • • • • was an artist in his own right, creating a Rovetch forged her laid-back attitude series of travel books over the years in the face of global upheaval as an adowhen he wasn’t busy penning significant lescent growing up in WWII-era Europe. research papers on economics or pedaHer family left her hometown of Leipzig, gogy; his memoir, according to Wikipedia, Germany, in 1938, when Rovetch was GERDA ROVETCH IN HER OXFORD POTTERY GALLERY “looks back just 14. over 70 “It was years, from just a few managing a weeks high school before [the nightclub to Nazis] would the 1946 start the World kristallnacht, Student the ‘crystal Congress in night’ in Prague, then Germany,” on to she says.

Belgrade and “My father a confrontahad planned tion with Tito, that we escape out of would leave.

ON THE BILL: a train window He had talked to somebody who said ‘Potato People and Other Flights of Fancy: in Ljubljana, [Hitler’s regime] seem to be hugely A Gerda Rovetch turning down enlarging some camps of some kind and Retrospective.’ the general’s he wanted us out of the country.”

Bricolage Gallery at Art Parts Creative Reuse mistress in Rovetch’s mother packed two suitCenter, 2870 Bluff St., Trieste, living cases for the family and ushered them Boulder. Through Oct. 5. with El Greco aboard a train for Switzerland one evein Rome and ning soon thereafter. Gerda Rovetch other advenwouldn’t return to Germany until 1981. tures in Paris and London, ending with a A couple years later the family settled degree from Oxford and happy marriage.” in London, where Rovetch’s father had “I’ve got an idea,” Rovetch tells me business, right as The Blitz began. as we head to the kitchen for drinks. “Do The young Gerda and her sister you like pie?” spent much of their time in bomb shelters There are photos of Warren and at school.

Gerda, their three children and several “I’ll tell you what I learned from the grandchildren on a counter in the kitchen, war,” Rovetch says. “The sirens will spanning black-and-white to color, across always go on again, and there will always 58 years of marriage and beyond. Walker be an all-clear, and the silence will at her side, Rovetch pushes a button on always go on again, and that’s life.” an electric kettle to heat water for tea, In London she discovered a bit of then stretches upward to pull two mugs herself in the off-beat humor and childlike down from a cabinet. art of James Thurber’s cartoons. Thurber “This is my favorite,” she says of a would go on to be known for his work cracked mug decorated with blooming with The New Yorker. His art was an affirroses. “The fact that it’s cracked makes it mation to Rovetch, a sign that it was OK all the better, as you never know when it to be silly — something that was often might break.” hard to do during war-torn years in Her daughter Lissa, in for a visit from Europe... and something that could be her home in San Francisco, joins us just hard to do as a German. as we’re about to sit down with ample Rovetch tells me a joke to make her slices of cherry pie at a wrought-iron point: “A German man is walking across a patio table overlooking the backyard. bridge and a drowning Englishman Flower pots surround us near and far, shouts from the river below: ‘Help me, I and Rovetch has fortified, if you will, 24

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She studied academic art for a while at college before being called to help in the war effort. As an 18-year-old woman, she worked as a draftsman, drawing up schematics for a machine that could make underwater repairs to ships.

“I was just totally alone at this huge drafting table,” she says. “Some days I didn’t see anybody at all. It was a horrible, horrible, horrible time, but it was OK. I survived it. I lived with my family, because since I was only a refugee, they didn’t have to pay me for much.”

Some stories never change, it would seem.

After the war Rovetch returned to school, studying pottery at Camberwell Art School before opening Isis Pottery gallery. She soon met Warren Rovetch, a Denverite at Oxford studying economics on a Fullbright Scholarship. These were good days, Rovetch tells me, full of friends and laughter. Soon, Warren would ask Gerda to marry him and move to the States.

“He said, ‘If you marry me, you can have all the children you want. ... We’ll have a sailboat with red sails and you can have a room of your own. And I knew what that meant,” Rovetch says. “It meant you can do your own stuff.”

And that sounded pretty good to Gerda.

• • • • The newlywed couple lived in New York for a few years, where Rovetch spent much of her time at the Arts Student League, creating mixed media collages under the creative eyes of painter Richard Pousette-Dart and collagist Leo Manso. Through these artists she learned to be “bold as a burglar” and to always trust her instincts.

After the couple settled in Boulder in 1957 and got their three young children into school, Rovetch got involved in art classes at the YWCA, serving on the board of directors and the programming BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

committee for years.

“They were not really classes,” Rovetch says. “They were like the Art Students League, you know; we would get some good artists from Denver to come and we would all do whatever we wanted.

“The thing that drove me crazy was … I have so many facets [to my art] that sort of wanted to come up all at once and I couldn’t figure out what on earth did I want to work on,” she says. “It was uncomfortable for me ... and then I started to compartmentalize and essentially three different things surfaced.”

With no pottery wheel at her convenient disposal, Rovetch began to work on Japanese-style watercolors that honored her love of the land, oil pastels that paid homage to her love of color, and collages that tapped into her childlike wonder of the world.

Over the years she helped establish the Mustard Seed Gallery, a cooperative of artists that functioned on Pearl Street for nearly a quarter of a century. Her art rarely stayed on the walls long.

“I would argue she is perhaps the best-selling collage artist in Colorado during her lifetime,” says Art Parts’ Perreault. “It’s almost a certainty that if you show art with Gerda in a gallery she’s going to outsell you.

“I do feel like she’s a secret,” Perreault says. “Is it because she’s female and female artists rarely get the accolades they deserve? Is it because she’s humble?”

Humility is Rovetch’s secret weapon.

It disarms you when you realize how lucid she is, how independent, how active and social.

Ask Gerda and she’ll tell you it’s the child inside.

“It keeps the wonder alive,” she says as she finishes her slice of cherry pie.

“Often I feel abandoned because my husband died, or distraught about the state of the world and of the country and whatever, but very little things delight me, little things I discover. I’m very grateful. I love the unexpected, a little of the absurd.”

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Getting it off your chest Tom Snider returns to folk roots

by L. Kent Wolgamott

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odd Snider may have, of late, been garage rocking and singing in Hard Working Americans, the band made up of members of Widespread Panic and the Chris Robinson Brotherhood.

But he’s always remained a folk singer at heart. That’s evident in his new album, recorded in Johnny Cash’s Tennessee cabin, Cash Cabin Songs Vol. 3 — there are no volumes one or two.

“I even have a talking blues song on this record,” he says in a recent phone interview. “I’ve always thought of myself as a folk singer. That’s never changed, even in the band. I wasn’t playing guitar or anything. I was just the singer.”

Snider’s folk lineage goes back to his earliest influences, including Jerry Jeff Walker who he saw playing in an Austin club and helped Snider realize he didn’t need a band to be a musician.

“John Prine was probably my first one, back in the ‘80s,” Snider says. “Then there was Jerry Jeff Walker and Guy Clark. There was that bunch of Townes Van Zandt people, Steve Earle was young then, Lyle Lovett was young then.

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is probably the father of what I do. It feels like this is a family I ended up joining.”

Snider made his name and wiseguy reputation within that folk family with the topical, tongue-in-cheek hit “Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues,” and the wryly funny, autobiographical, “Alright Guy” on his 1994 debut album Songs for the Daily Planet.

He’s now got 19 albums that include 2012’s tribute album Time as We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker and his original-filled Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables that landed on many best-of-theyear lists and got him praised by Rolling Stone as “one of the sharpest, funniest storytellers in rock.”

Then came his two-album foray with Hard Working Americans and his 2016 garage rock excursion, Eastside Bulldog.

So why go back to folk?

“It’s just the songs, I think,” he says.

“A lot of it was I’d been playing with the band and learning so much about guitar, even though I wasn’t playing guitar. When these songs came, the closer I got to finishing them, the more they seemed folkie.

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just sounded folkie.”

But, he says, it’s better folk than he could have played before getting schooled in Hard Working Americans.

“I’ve gotten a lot better at guitar,” Snider says. “I’ve finally got an ability to play not just chords and strum. I wouldn’t say it’s great guitar playing, but it’s good for me.”

The lyrics on Cash Cabin Vol. 3 are as incisive and entertaining as any that Snider has written, telling a he-swearsit’s-true story of Loretta Lynn dancing with “The Ghost of Johnny Cash,” detailing the songwriter’s life on “Working On A Song,” and, on “Talking Reality Television Blues,” taking a tour through television from Milton Berle to Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, from MTV’s The Real World to The Apprentice and the line “an old man with a comb-over had sold us the moon.”

That song comes right out of the folk tradition, from Woody Guthrie through Bob Dylan, as do “A Timeless Response to Current Events” and “The Blues on Banjo,” pointedly topical songs that Snider says aren’t aimed at convincing anyone of anything.

“I definitely don’t think that learning to play guitar makes your opinion better than someone else’s,” he says. “It does give you a place to put them. For me, a lot of it has always been getting it off your chest. It lets me get it off my chest.”

For most of the rest of 2019, Snider will be getting things off his chest in clubs and theaters across the country on a solo tour that’s literally solo.

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That me-and-my-guitar approach makes for a, shall we say, loose show.

Snider will try to work in some of the new songs, but most of the night will be “whatever somebody yells for.

“I usually try to go back and hit something from all the records. But I’ve got too many records now to guarantee I’ll hit all of them,” Snider says. “So a lot of it is what people yell for. I don’t have a collective ‘Free Bird.’ The songs they yell out come from all over the place. “BEER RUN” is probably the closest. But I don’t do it every night unless someone calls for it.”

And he’ll be happy that he’s able to play the show. Snider suffers from arthritis in his neck and back — he was hurting when we talked — but there’s no way he’s not going to go out and play for people.

“Some nights it hurts, but I wouldn’t know what I could do without touring,” he says. “I’m grateful for every show I get to do now. I don’t take it for granted. Some days the show is the only thing that gets the pain away. You’re running on adrenaline for those two or three hours around the show and the pain goes (away). I’ve had other musicians, like Willie Nelson, tell me that the show is the most healthy three hours of the day.”

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Dark spaces

Boulder’s Stacey Steers creates worlds of endless interpretation with her collage-based filmmaking

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tacey Steers’ films are far from straightforward.

She uses collage to stitch together found imagery like Victorian illustrations and silent movie heroines to create a loose narrative. The films are textured and sensual, evoking an ominous feeling — bugs crawl throughout the frame, vials of red blood stand stark against black and white pictures, characters interact with each other — all set to a haunting soundtrack. It’s unclear how everything’s related, yet, the end result is a film that feels almost like a dream, maybe sometimes like a nightmare “I like these dark spaces,” Steers says.

“They feel very dreamlike, very nighttime in a positive way — the places that you can go that aren’t a part of the mundane reality of daily living. It’s imaginative space essentially, and that’s a world that I enjoy being in.”

Now at MCA Denver, Steers’ latest film, Edge of Alchemy, is playing along with an exhibit featuring some of Steers’ sculptures and collages that appear in it.

Edge of Alchemy (2017) is the third film in a loosely related trilogy that includes Night Hunter (2011) and Phantom Canyon (2006).

Steers studied fine art with an emphasis on film at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she has been an adjunct professor in the film department since the early ’90s. Steers started in animation and then turned to collage in the next decade as a way to push her films into new territory.

To make her collages, Steers pulls from illustrations, woodcuts and engravings, mostly from the 19th century. She uses what she’s inspired by and what’s available, which she says tends to be “creepier” animals like insects, bats and snakes, which all feature BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

by Amanda Moutinho

ON THE BILL: Stacey Steers: ‘Edge of Alchemy.’ MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver.

Through April 5.

prominently in her films.

For the characters in her first collage film, Steers used Eadweard Muybridge’s Human and Animal Locomotion series that was published in 1887 and features thousands of photos of figures in motion.

For her following two films, Steers used scenes featuring silent film actresses Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor. Her source material helps Steers with the emotional landscape she tries to convey.

“I’m definitely looking at the whole spectrum if I can. I’m not trying to sugar-

says. “She was just living through a transition she doesn’t understand but she has to accept. And to some degree, I was thinking about physical changes that you just can’t stop, and you just have to figure out how to live with them.”

In Edge of Alchemy, Steers pursued the themes of creation, science and restoration. In the film, Mary Pickford’s character lives in a barren landscape full of dead bees, and then she creates Janet Gaynor as her own Frankensteinian creature, who then brings life back to the desolate world.

In all her films, Steers displays the interiority of womA STILL FROM ‘EDGE OF ALCHEMY,’ BY STACEY STEERS en’s lives and emotions. She examines desire and what that leads her characters to do.

“The women in my film — they’re yearning for something; they’re looking for something,” she says. “Often that initial motivation ends up taking them in the place where the outcome is not what they would have predicted and ... it sets in motion a sequence of events where they have to figure out how to respond and coat experience,” she says. “And that’s often another thing: Silent films do have a how to relate.”

By keeping her stories loose, Steers lot of darkness. There’s a lot of pathos, which is one of the reasons that the char- invites endless interpretation. MCA curaacters are fun to use because they had to tor Zoe Larkins sees more political messages in Steers’ films. In Edge of express all that in their faces.”

Alchemy, Larkins notes environmentalism Steers’ films are made up of thousands of collages, each second made up and an exploration of gender roles.

“There are no male figures in the film, of eight or so. She calls it a good day [and yet] she’s able to produce life on her when she can complete 25 collages — own, seemingly without influence from which ultimately amounts to about three seconds of footage. The films take rough- anything male,” Larkins says. “I love the narrative. It’s very righteous.” ly five years to complete.

Larkins detects hints of Alice in None of Steers’ films have a concrete narrative. The trajectory of each is guided Wonderland and H.G. Wells in the films, plus a connection to early surrealist filmby her impulses. When making Night making — all inspirations that Steers Hunter, she realized her heroine was slowly turning into a bird. Steers then had didn’t consciously use.

As the name of her film suggests, to adjust the film to create a build-up to Steers performs a sort of alchemy in her this notion, which alluded to themes like work. By blending together a series of transformation that she could then follow images she concocts a numinous elixir. more consciously.

The final effect of the potion is up to the “People say Night Hunter is a really dark film, but for me it wasn’t really,” she viewer when they take a sip.

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Through implicit trust in each other’s seemingly endless talents, the multihyphante trio that makes up Moonchild — Amber Navran, Andris Mattson and Max Bryk — produce a head-nodding, hip-swaying fusion of alternative R&B and neo-soul. Fans will find the band’s fourth album, ‘Little Ghost,’ built around the sounds of warm acoustic guitar and playful ukelele, bouncing horns and skittering beats. ­—Caitlin Rockett

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‘Interview with a Mexican’ is based on conversations with Gustavo Arellano, columnist and author of ‘Ask a Mexican’ and ‘Taco USA.’ Adapted for the stage by Anthony J. Garcia, executive artistic director of Denver’s Su Teatro, be prepared for a carnival of conversations and random perspectives about what it means to be a Mexican, inside or outside the U.S. Tickets are $20 for general admission, $17 for students and seniors and $5 for Naropa students.

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ENCHANTED FOREST: A MAGICAL FUNDRAISER FOR WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER.

A NIGHT OF MUSIC, ART AND PHILOSOPHY.

7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-296-0219.

Wild Bear Nature Center, Boulder County’s all-ages nature center, has a new property at Mud Lake just across from The Caribou Room. Head up the canyon and help the center get the funds it needs to continue educating young folks about the great outdoors. There will be goody bags for the children, costumes and performances and activities throughout the day. There’s live music all day, face painting, craft projects (like fairy houses and moose antlers) magic shows and forest tours where little ones can meet theatrical native animals. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 day of. All proceeds support Wild Bear Nature Center. See a full schedule of events at wildbear.org S VE

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Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver: ‘Eyes On: Erika Harrsch,’ Hamilton Building, through Nov. 17; ‘Eyes On: Jonathan Saiz,’ through Nov. 17; ‘Phantom Canyon: A Digital Circuit,’ through Oct. 16; ‘The Light Show,’ through May 2020; ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through January 2020.

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Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont: ‘Working Artist Project,’ through Oct. 6. Artist duo Lyndsey Webster and Cory McKague invite anyone to join them as a working artist. They provide the supplies, you do the work. Be part of the culminating exhibit.

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Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden: ‘Character and Narrative,’ East Gallery, through Oct. 20; ‘Evolving Perceptions, Studio Art Quilt Associations,’ North Gallery, through Oct. 6;

‘EDGE OF ALCHEMY,’ BY COLORADO FILMMAKER Stacey Steers, depicts silent film-era stars Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor as magicians of sorts working in a laboratory to produce life. Collaging together imagery of Victorian scientific instruments, plants and insects, Steers creates a surreal landscape. The result is a science fiction that is at once nostalgic and timeless. MCA Denver has created an exhibition around the film featuring individual collages — each one an eighth of a second of the film. Pseudo-scientific viewing apparatuses, each of which shows a clip from the film, will complete the exhibition. Now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver through April 5. See page 27 for more on the film.

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MONUMENTAL — coproduced by Black Cube and the Denver Theatre District. Through Jan. 31, 2020. For times and locations, denvertheatredistrict.com/event/monumental/.

Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Wild: Buffalo in Boulder,’ through Jan. 12; ‘Boulder Through The Decades,’ through Sept. 31; Google Garage, ongoing with changing activities; ‘PACK-IT-UP,’ through Sept. 23.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder: New exhibitions open at BMoCA on Oct. 3.

BMoCA at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., University of Colorado Boulder: ‘Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me,’ through Nov. 24.

Naropa University Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Fine Evident’ — by Cathy Ellis, Cube Gallery, through Sept. 29.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘A Passage from India,’ Arapahoe Ramp, through Sept. 30; ‘Under& Overstories,’ Canyon Gallery, through Sept. 29.

NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder: ‘Photography by Mark Shegda’ and ‘Pastel Paintings by Teri Hoyer,’ through Oct. 26.

Bricolage Gallery, Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder: ‘Potato People and Other Flights of Fancy: Gerda Rovetch Retrospective,’ through Oct. 5.

University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder: ‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June 2020; ‘Object: Color,’ through September; ‘Its Honor is Hereby Pledged: Gina Adams,’ through Nov. 2.

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Henderson Building,1035 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Feathers and Flora,’ Henderson Building, through Jan. 31; ‘Fossils: Clues to the Past,’ Paleontology Hall, ongoing exhibit; ‘Ground Level Ozone,’ McKenna Gallery, ongoing exhibit; ‘Life in Colorado’s Freshwater,’ ongoing traveling exhibit; and more.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 Music Biennial of the Americas. 9 a.m. Denver’s Civic Center Park, E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720201-1481. Through Sept. 28.

Boulder Chamber’s Battle of the Industry Bands. 5:30 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Fantastic Voyage Presents: Justin Jay DJ. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons: ‘40 years/40 artifacts’ includes objects, photographs, and documents detailing the museum’s 40 years of operation.

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver: ‘Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation,’ through April 5; ‘Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Flora,’ through April 5; ‘Stacey Steers: Edge of Alchemy,’ through April 5.

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder: ‘Modern Habitat: Building Energetic Spaces,’ MacMillan Gallery: Will Day; Polly Addison Gallery: Margie Criner; McMahon Gallery: Arch 11, HMH, HouseFish, Pyatt Studio, SopherSparn, Renée del Gaudio Architecture and Workshop 8; Hand/Rudy Gallery: Davis Arney, through Oct. 15.

Well Being

Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont: ‘Front Range Rising,’ permanent exhibit; ‘Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture,’ through Jan. 5, 2020.

Grupo Chegando Lá and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Guest Master Class: Luigi Attademo, classical guitar. 1 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

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Guest Recital: Adriana Zabala, mezzo soprano, and Kelly Kuo, piano. 7:30 p.m.

Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Hip Pop for Adults. 6 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 720-749-2531.

Lucie Silvas. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

A Night of Blues — with Deborah Stafford and the State of Affairs. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Oak Room, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

Printmaking, Pop Art, & the Front Range: A Conversation with Bud Shark. 7:15 p.m.

Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Shawn Cunnane. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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Toro y Moi — with Channel Tres (DJ Set).

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

Events 2019 Americas Symposium: The Business of Empathy, featuring Sir Richard Branson.

5 p.m. Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Brendan Schaub. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Sept. 28.

An Evening with the Author: John Branch.

6:30 p.m. Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-335-4815.

Growing Up Disney. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8472.

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High Plains Comedy Festival: Maria Bamford with guest Aparna Nancherla. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Through Sept. 28.

Month of Modern Wrap Party. 6:30 p.m.

Galvanize Boulder, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-8488.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Music Adrian Belew and Saul Zonana. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Babymetal, Avatar. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Band of Skulls. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Billy Shaddox. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Brandi Carlile — with special guest Courtney Marie Andrews. The Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver, 720-577-6884.

Darling West, Mercy Club. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

DeadPhish Orchestra — with Smooth Money Gesture. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Eminence Ensemble — with Dog City Disco and Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Georgia Boys BBQ Music Series. 7 p.m.

Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 3rd Ave., Longmont, 720-999-4099.

Guest Recital: Luigi Attademo, classical guitar. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Hang Rounders and Casey James Prestwood & The Burning Angels. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Homevibe & eTown Present Ryan Montbleau Band & The Copper Children. 7 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

theater ‘EVERYBODY’ — PRESENTED BY THE CATAMOUNTS.

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

A Doll’s House/A Doll’s House Part 2.

Denver Center Theatre Company, Ricketson Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver.

Through Nov. 24.

Public Talk: Marco Ramelli, classical guitar. 2 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Soul School. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

The Soundpost Sessions: Flint Creek Family & Jeanne McAdara. 8 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525. see EVENTS Page 32

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IN AN INTERVIEW with the New York Times in 2014, playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins divulged that his father had “been obsessed with his death for a very long time.”

“I think I get that fixation, constantly imagining the world after you’re gone,” Jacobs-Jenkins said. “But now I’m making peace with the notion that maybe no one will care when you’re gone. That this is what life in some way is about, not having a carbon footprint.”

Jacob-Jenkins addresses his own fixation — and humanity’s existential fears — around death in his 2018 Pulitzernominated play Everybody, now currently in production here in Boulder by The Catamounts at the Dairy Arts Center through Oct. 12.

Jacob-Jenkins’ play is based on the late-15th century morality play Everyman, which itself was based on an ancient Buddhist fable. Each of these stories uses allegorical characters to get us to ponder the meaning of life and the nature of death, but where ancient versions took a somber approach, Jacobs-Jennkins knows that humor is the oil of life’s engine.

Everybody is a natural fit for The Cats’ out-of-the-box approach to theater; the lead character, Everybody, is determined each night by lottery (an impossible-to-miss metaphor), giving rise to a possible 120 unique variations of the play. In an ensemble of nine, five cast members memorized nearly all of the play.

While Jacobs-Jenkins provides almost no parameters on casting (Death should be the oldest company member, while Time should be a young woman), director Julie Rada took great pains to ensure The Cats’ cast was diverse. Rada’s diverse cast plays into Jacobs-Jenkins’ witty (if minor) commentary about race and the way we talk about it, with the tone of the commentary changing depending on who fills the lead role on a given evening.

“Because we live in what I believe is a white supremacist culture that has taught us to see people differently, we do see [certain] bodies on stage differently when they’re playing these roles,” Rada says. “It’s really important to then have that person be saying, ‘This body is just meat.’”

But Everybody is about much more than race (a topic often foisted onto JacobsJenkins’ work, for better or worse, because he’s a black man). Everybody is about life, and ultimately death, and therefore it’s about everything in-between. Through humor, wit and honesty, Everybody takes on existential dread in the most charming way possible.

And not to spoil the ending, but everybody dies.

—Caitlin Rockett

Bright Star. Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Through Sept. 29.

Ponderosa. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

MICHAEL ENSMINGER (EDITH WEISS IN ‘EVERYBODY’)

Dairy Arts Center, Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 12.

John Bunzli Band. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Noche de Celebración: From Africa to the Americas. 7 p.m. The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-334-9524.

LIVE MUSIC!

Ghosted: A Paranormal Mystery. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Through Oct. 27.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Nov. 17.

I do! I do! Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Opens Sept. 29. Through Oct. 27.

Indecent. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through Oct. 6.

Nunsense. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees, through Sept. 29.

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Once. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Oct. 13.

Pass Over. Curious Theatre, 1018 Acoma St., Denver. Through Oct. 12.

The Quality of Life. Benchmark Theatre, 40West Arts, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood.

Through Oct. 6.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street — presented by Equinox Theatre Company. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through. Oct. 19.

Three Tall Women — presented by Firehouse Theater Company. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver.

Through Sept. 28.

Tiny Beautiful Things — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 12.

Universe 92. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through Oct. 19.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Tune Up at Full Cycle Friday, September 27 7:30-9:30 PM

1795 Pearl St., Boulder, Co 80302 www.tunupboulder.com

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26 7:00 PM

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: WORK AND SELF-WORTH IN THE AGE OF AI 8:30 PM

LASER THAT 90’S SHOW FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27 7:00 PM

BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY 8:30 PM

LIQUID SKY GRATEFUL DEAD ON THE DOME 10:00 PM

LASER QUEEN 11:30 PM

LASER FLOYD: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 28 1:00 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: LIFE OF TREES & PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA 2:30 PM

DREAM TO FLY 10:00 PM

FISKEDM: ILLENIUM 11:30 PM

LIQUID SKY: THE WALL SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 29 12:00 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: WE ARE STARS & LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY 1:30 PM

STARS AND MOONS 3:00 PM

CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 4:30 PM

INCOMING!

Fiske Planetarium - Regent Drive

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Three Dog Night. 5:30 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.

Woodshed Red. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Wylie. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Ziggy Alberts. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Events 4th Friday Fandom: 8-Bit Keychain Characters. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Art lunch break. 11:30 a.m. One Boulder Plaza, 13th St. between Canyon Blvd. and Walnut St., Boulder.

Black Americas Project Dinner & Ozomatli.

5:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720.

Denver Oktoberfest. 2 p.m. Ballpark Neighborhood, 2100 Larimer St., Denver. Through Sept. 29.

Interview with a Mexican. 7 p.m. Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-296-0219.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Music Adam Agee & Jon Sousa. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Brandi Carlile — with special guest Courtney Marie Andrews. The Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver, 720-577-6884.

Double Album Release House Concert. 7 p.m. Cesaro Studio & Gallery, 1294 Doric Drive, Lafayette, 303-926-9626.

FiskeEDM: Featuring the music of Illenium.

10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams. 8 p.m.

Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

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

Howdy Fest. Noon. The Post Brewing Co., 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-809-4742.

Jazz, Dada and the Music of Paris after World War I. 1 p.m. Imig Music Building, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-4471.

When writer Paddy Chayefsky penned the script for ‘Network,’ he stumbled onto something special. When director Sidney Lumet and actors Faye Dunaway and William Holden joined, it became mythical.

Released in 1976, ‘Network’ is a landmark of American cinema. For some, it’s an omen of sensationalism in the name of ratings. For others: an acknowledgment that, for better or for worse, it’s always been like this.

Where are we 40 years later?

Author Mathew Klickstein will moderate a discussion between Maeve Conran (KGNU), John Wenzel (Denver Post) and Shavonne Blades (Yellow Scene Magazine) following the Boe’s screening.

BOULDER:

Boedecker Theatre, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., 303-444-7328.

‘Aga,’ Sept. 26-28.

‘Fantastic Fungi,’ Sept. 26-28.

Manhattan Short Film Festival, Sept. 30-Oct. 6.

‘Network,’ 5 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 29.

‘One Cut of the Dead,’ 8:45 p.m., Friday, Sept.

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‘Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins,’ Oct 2-5.

‘Winterland’ — with whiskey tasting, 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 1.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., 303-441-3011.

Nature, Environment, Science & Technology Program — presented on 16mm, 5 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 26.

Century Theatre, 1700 29th St., 303-444-0583.

‘Abominable’ ‘Ad Astra’ ‘Brittany Runs A Marathon’ ‘Downton Abbey’ ‘Friends 25th: The One With All the Anniversaries,’ 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 29.

‘The Goldfinch’ ‘Hustlers’ ‘IT: Chapter Two’ ‘Judy’ ‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’ ‘Official Secrets’ ‘Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood’ ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’

‘Rambo: Last Blood’ ‘The Secret World of Arrietty,’ Sept. 29-30.

International Film Series, University of Colorado-Boulder, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., 303-492-8662.

‘Claire’s Camera,’ 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 2.

‘The Competition,’ 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 1.

‘High Life,’ 7:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 30.

‘The Raven,’ 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28.

‘The Return of the Hero,’ 2 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 29.

LONGMONT:

Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1230 S. Hoover Road, 844-462-7342.

‘Abominable’ ‘Ad Astra’ ‘Angel Has Fallen’ ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ ‘Downton Abbey’ ‘Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw’ ‘Friends 25th: The One With All the Anniversaries,’ 7 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 29.

‘The Goldfinch’ ‘Good Boys’ ‘Hustlers’ ‘IT Chapter Two’ ‘The Lion King’ ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ ‘Secret World of Arrietty,’ Sept. 29-30.

‘Shining: Remastered,’ 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 1.

LOUISVILLE:

Regal Cinebarre Boulder, 1164 W. Dillon Road, 844-462-7342.

‘Abominable’ ‘Ad Astra’ ‘Blinded By the Light’ ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’ ‘Downton Abbey’ ‘Friends 25th: The One With All the Anniversaries,’ 7 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 29.

‘The Goldfinch’ ‘Hustlers’ ‘IT Chapter Two’ ‘The Lion King’ ‘Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood’ ‘Ready or Not’

Joe Anderies Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Lil Duval. 8 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Logo Ligi West African Drumming/Dance Ensemble. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Of Mice & Men Earth Tour. 6:30 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

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

OzoKidz. 2 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720.

Rhapsody & Rhythm: The Gershwin Concert Experience. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall,

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Events

Ryan Montbleau Band — with Grayson Erhard and Special Guests. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

10 Things You Always Wanted to Ask Pussy Riot. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

SoBo Arts Fest. Noon. Martin Park, S. Broadway and Table Mesa, Boulder, 720-352-8194.

Steve Langemo Group. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

Still The Same. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Suave Agave. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Weekend Coffee Shop Jazz Jam. 11 a.m.

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4 p.m. The Celtic on Market, 1400 Market St., Denver.

2nd Annual Boulder Film and Brew Festival. Noon. Asher Brewing Company / Brewery & Taproom, 4699 Nautilus Court South 104, Boulder.

6th Annual Chili Cook-off. 2 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

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words COURTESY OF BOULDER BOOK STORE

GRIEF HAS TAKEN PATTI ASHLEY on a ride for the past 50 years. After losing her father at age 11, her marriage in her 30s, and the love of her life in her 50s, Ashley decided to go to graduate school to learn how to help others grieve.

Her new book, ‘Letters to Freedom,’ is a love letter to relationship, confusion and loss. It is about hope, surviving and, ultimately, thriving. Ashley will speak about and sign her new book at Boulder Book Store on Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 29 Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

MONDAY, SEPT. 30 So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, OCT. 1 Levi Marinucci. 6:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 26

2199 California St., Denver.

Ben Westhoff — Fentanyl, Inc. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 28

FRIDAY, SEPT. 27 Tom Watson — Stick Cat: Two Cats to the Rescue. 5 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe,

Artist Market. 2 p.m. Vision Quest Brewery, 2510 47th St., Suite A2, Boulder.

Booklover’s Ball ­­— Bard at the Ball. 6:30 p.m. Denver Central Library, Denver, 720-865-1111.

The Boulder Magic Showcase. 8:30 p.m.

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Comedy Open Mic Saturday Night. 6:30 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.

Fall Festival. 11 a.m. Peace Lutheran Church, 2790 Jay Road, Boulder, 720-315-0910.

FREE Gyrokinesis for the People Class. 1:30 p.m. Gyrotonic Bodhi, 3200 Valmont, Boulder, 303-506-3568.

Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

John Densmore Book Signing — The Doors: Unhinged. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

720-201-3731.

Appalachia On The Rocks — with The Wooks, Laid Back Country Picker, Chelsea Nolan and Special Guests. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Music The Ali Rose Band, The Simple Parade. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder,

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Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.

Elder Brother and Speak Low If You Speak Love. 6:30 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Events

LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Stabbing Westward. 7 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.

Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863.

University for a Day. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

John Aaron — Color Me Boulder. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Brandi Carlile — with special guest Lucie Silvas. The Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver, 720-577-6884.

Salsa Saturday. 12:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Tom Segura: Take It Down Tour. 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

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GriefShare Course. 6:30 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longs Peak Um, Longmont, 303-776-0399.

The Who: Moving On! 7:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

Shine’s New Moon Dance Party. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Potion Bar, 2480 Canyon Blvd., Suite M-1, Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Patti Ashley — Letters to Freedom. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Beer and Hymns Northern Colorado. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Pollinator Appreciation: DIY Bee Hotels.

11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

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

Events

Boulder Market. 11 a.m. Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-272-7467.

Colorado Aromatics Herb Farm Tour. 3:30 p.m. Colorado Aromatics Farm, 13651 N. 115th St., Longmont, 303-651-2062.

Double Feature: We Are Stars/Laser Galactic Odyssey. Noon. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Spitzer Space Telescope. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Music Adam Knight, Larisa Gosla. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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

Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Beginning Round Dance Class. 7 p.m.

Glenn’s Den, 10178 Empire Drive (Basement Entrance), Lafayette, 303-578-6588.

Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

National Geographic Live - Between River and Rim: Hiking the Grand Canyon with Kevin Fedarko and Pete Mcbride. 7 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Women of the West. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. see EVENTS Page 34

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Noon. Saturday, Sept. 28, Martin Park, S. Broadway and Table Mesa, Boulder, 720-352-8194.

Head to Martin Park for an afternoon of art and creativity. Admire the unique expression of local art cars, enjoy yummy food from local purveyors, art performers, live music and artists/makers vending their locally made items.

Bring the family, your friends and support your neighborhood arts culture in this fun afternoon event. Walk, bike or carpooling is encour-

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2

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Music

The Advisory: Networking + Live Music. 7 p.m. Galvanize, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder.

Ashe: Mom’s First Headline Tour. 8 p.m.

Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Billy Kemp, Flint Creek Family. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Faculty Tuesdays: Love and Death. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Dafna — with Fruta Brutal, Edden and Leah. 7:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Moon Boots Live. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Titus Andronicus. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Events

Saturday, Oct. 12: Lafayette Library, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 14: Boulder County Parks & Open Space, 6 – 8 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 21: Boulder County Recycling Center, 6 – 8 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 28: Erie Community Center, 6 – 8 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 2: Louisville Library, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

The workshops will cover the following fall-specific topics: • Cleaning up the vegetable garden • Getting perennials ready for winter • Winterize your backyard compost pile • Preparing for spring composting *soil saver compost bins will be available at cost for $55 (exact cash or check only).

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Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Jonas Brothers: Happiness Begins Tour.

7:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

Student Recitals: Undergraduate, Master’s and Doctoral musicians. 5 p.m. Imig Music, Music Theatre, Boulder, 303-492-6352.

FALL GARDEN CLEANUP

BJ the Chicago Kid. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-4870111.

Around the World Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100; NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group.

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

BoulderReads Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.

Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Oktoberfest at Upslope. 4 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Ct, Boulder, 303-396-1898.

Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777.

Snark Attack. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060.

The Pharcyde. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-9938023.

The Real Sarahs, Young Pine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

UndocuMonologues with Arturo O’Farrill. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 720-432-2004.

Events Girls Night Out the Show. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Lego Stor ytime. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Librar y Commission Meeting. 6 p.m.

George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Magic. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Musical Stor ytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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omewhere in a remote part of Japan, a film crew is ON THE BILL: ‘One Cut of the shooting a low-budget zombie movie in an abandoned Dead,’ 8:45 p.m.

World War II facility. The two leads are teen heartFriday, Sept. 27, throbs, and the director is of the megalomaniac variety.

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Then, zombies start attacking.

If that’s enough for you, then stop reading now and let One Cut of the Dead reveal its secrets on its own terms. The movie won the Audience Award at the 2018 Fantastic Fest — arguably the only praise you need if horror-comedy is your bread and butter.

For those of you needing more, One Cut of the Dead is a meta-zombie-comedy, and it’s not like anything you’ve seen before. Once zombies start attacking the cast and crew making the aforementioned low-budget zombie movie, they have to fight to stay alive.

All the while, the documentary crew refuses to turn the camera off, capturing the chaos and sticking close to the actors who must kill to survive. The result is one long, unbroken take lasting nearly 37 minutes. Then, the credits roll and the director yells cut. The movie we are watching ends, and now One Cut for the Dead truly begins.

Movies within movies, cameras watching cameras.

Made for the paltry sum of $25,000 (3 million yen), One Cut of the Dead is the brainchild of filmmaker Shinichiro Ueda. Employing mostly first-time actors, Ueda shot One Cut over eight days in 2017. In 2018, it grossed $29 million (3.12 billion yen).

Nothing returns on investment like genre cinema.

As that $25,000 figure should indicate, One Cut of the Dead is rough around the edges. The visuals have the soft haze of a TV movie and the actors broadcast their emotions with earnestness as big as billboards. One TV executive practically has a Cheshire cat grin plastered on her face while all her underlings nod along in awe.

Ueda leaves the nuances of One Cut to the material. As we see early on, the director (Takayuki Hamatsu) is the in-your-face, my-way-or-the-highway aggressive type. He’s the kind of director most envision when they picture the profession. But as One Cut reveals, he too is just a hired gun. He, just like all the rest of the cast and crew, is doing what needs to be done.

Everyone working on One Cut of the Dead does what needs to be done to get the shot. It’s not a celebration of a singular focus; it’s a celebration of the teamwork necessary to make even the smallest moment in a movie happen.

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ow fortunate we are to have a bake-toorder cookie place in Boulder County. Boulder Baked has a large menu of sweet and savory bites, but the cookies are the thing, in large part because of the variety on the menu. One of the house specials is the oatnut butterscotch chocolate chip. Served hot and gooey, fresh from the oven, the oats and walnuts are deeply satisfying, and the butterscotch veining throughout the cookie is irresistible. $1.50.

Wild Alaska Salmon Tartare Pepper the Noshery 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, peppernoshery.com

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radford Heap and the folks behind Salt recently transitioned their nextdoor seafood restaurant into Pepper the Noshery. The new spot features a globespanning menu of casual fare with a raw bar and an excellent happy hour menu.

We chose the wild Alaska salmon tartare off said menu, a plate of neatly arranged salmon, avocado, tamari, sesame, scallion and cilantro, served alongside taro chips. The salmon is fresh and cut thick, and the bright scallion and cilantro wake up each bite. $8.

OZO Coffee Co. Several locations in Boulder County, ozocoffee.com ZO pays attention to the details, from sourcing their coffees, teas and addins, to the preparation and service of those items.

Though there’s plenty to write about with their globally and responsibly sourced (and well-roasted) coffee, we appreciate the attention to detail OZO puts into a matcha latte. A barista carefully whisks and pushes through a traditional sieve matcha powder until impossibly fine. It’s then added to steamed milk, creating a thick, frothy texture and a pleasantly grassy and umami aroma and flavor. $4.20-$4.90.

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THE IMPLAUSIBLE

BURGER PLANT-BASED IMPOSSIBLE WHOPPER ISN’T VEGETARIAN OR TASTY

BY JOHN LEHNDORFF

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here was a Whopper to the left of me and an Impossible Whopper to the right as I sat at a local Burger King franchise. It’s fair to say that it wasn’t the ideal environment for an organoleptic analysis — appraising the look, aroma, taste and texture.

I had been pestered by ads promising that the plant-based Impossible was indistinguishable from the original Whopper. There was only one way to find out.

They look identical. Both the Whopper and its Impossible cousin feature fresh white onions, iceberg lettuce and tomatoes along with special sauce on a sesame seed bun with a pickle. The pinkish-grayish patties seem like an afterthought in this sandwich experience. Both versions fell apart as I tasted them.

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water, soy protein concentrate, coconut oil, sunflower oil and unspecified “natural flavors.” The secret to its taste mimicry is in the yeast extract, cultured dextrose and especially soy leghemoglobin, the key to a slightly “bloody” look and flavor.

Nutritionally, the Impossible Whopper is no dietary gem, packing 630 calories, 34 grams of fat, 10 mg of cholesterol, 1080 mg of sodium and 58 grams of carbs. That’s without the fries and a Sprite. The iron and protein levels are similar to beef, as are vitamins B1, Niacin, B6, B2 and B12, which are added in.

No doubt it would be better for the planet if most beef burgers were replaced by plants. The company points out that Impossible Burger uses less water and less farmland that beef and produces significantly lower emissions. However, when you are sit-

and then the other and I lost track and couldn’t tell which I was tasting. The bioengineered Impossible does tastes similar to the beef edition, but I’m not sure that’s worth bragging about. Both patties have Burger King’s distinctive flame-grilled flavor but lack the juiciness of a griddled Wendy’s burger.

Impossible has used science to add the memory of meatiness with a smidgen of umami and general savoriness. The original Whopper has a little softer, moister chew than the Impossible, which adds little nuggets in the grind to mimic hamburger mouthfeel. Each cost more than $5.

In the end, I’m not sure flavor matters much. You’re not really supposed to appreciate the nuances of a fast-food burger. It’s a familiar feeding opportunity.

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ting at Burger King observing the energy use, sugary drinks, the drive-thru lane and the landfill waste generated, including giant, plastic, one-use cups, it’s hard to view it as “green.”

Billed as “100% Whopper, 0% beef” by the company, the Impossible Burger is neither vegetarian nor vegan. “For guests looking for a meat-free option, a nonbroiler method of preparation is available upon request,” BK notes online. The “savory flame-grilled patty made from plants” is cooked on the same broiler used for the beef and chicken patties so it gets smeared with second-hand meat grease. You have to put in a special order to get it microwaved or baked separately to get it meatless.

MY FIELD OF DREAMS Back at the end of last winter I started growing random greenery that now fills the railing on my apartment patio and attracts bees and butterflies.

I was given a packet of organic heirloom seeds for Long Island Cheese winter squash “long remembered as a great pie squash by people in New York and New Jersey.” I started them one morning, and they sprouted rapidly. I picked up seeds for Heavenly Blue morning glories and Autumn Beauty sunflowers. A friend gifted me a basil plant, and I bought a yellow pear tomato plant at a farm stand along with a “mystery” chile plant whose variety tag had been misplaced.

I was cleaning the pantry when I found a few organic white popcorn kernels scattered on a shelf. I figured “why not?” and got the corn to sprout.

The harvest is happening. I discovered that the chile plant is cayenne.

Some of the spicy red pods have been roasted and are sitting in olive oil in the fridge. Others will get dried. Before the first freeze I’ll bring the chile plant inside for the winter.

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I’ve gathered basil leaves to freeze and use in roasted tomato sauce using overripe tomatoes I got at a farm stand.

When the basil plant started putting out flowers I clipped them and put them in a bottle of white vinegar in the fridge. It will make a fragrant salad addition. The handful of tiny golden plum tomatoes have gone directly into my mouth.

The winter squash has produced mainly blossoms. I stuffed some of the yellow flowers with whole milk ricotta, egg and basil. I dredged them in flour, fried them in olive oil and topped with tomato sauce. Finally, one tiny squash appeared so the season will persist. Two popcorn kernels survived to become short plants now bearing two tiny tasseled cobs. I don’t expect to harvest any popcorn on my patio but that’s OK. It’s my personal Field of Dreams.

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ASIAN STREET FOOD from Ginger Pig (above) and West African fare from Jacaranda (right) are two of the food styles available at the forthcoming Rosetta Hall, which opens in early October.

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n a couple weeks, you’ll be able to walk into a building in downtown Boulder, eat a West African peanut butter stew, wash it down with a craft cocktail, dip into some Asian street food or, maybe, satiate your sweet tooth with a hand-made bonbon, and then tango with 40 of your newest friends, or put on headphones and watch a movie, or sit in a rooftop cabana in front of a fire pit as the night grows old.

This is the vision for Rosetta Hall, one of two food halls opening this year in downtown Boulder. CEO Donovan Greene, who designed and built Rembrandt Yard 15 years ago, has been working on the project for two and a half years. That work involved visiting more than 50 food halls around the world to “see what was working and what wasn’t.”

“The first thing we found that works is good food, which I think people kind of overlook sometimes — the food’s got to be fantastic,” Greene says. “Number two for us was having successful chefs. [We wanted to] find the best chefs we possibly could and create an environment I

where they do well financially. … And then the third thing for us is sourcing sustainably. And that’s hugely important.”

The space still needs some finishing touches, but most of the stalls in the food hall are complete, and each has a chef

ready to occupy the space. Greene says he talked with local farmers and ranchers about the chefs they work with most often to try to find people who might be a good fit for the ethos of the food hall. That search turned up an array of chefs, and the lineup spans the globe.

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food and is helmed by former Stone Cup chef Modou Jaiteh, who was raised in The Gambia and learned to cook from his mother. Julia Wirichs spent eight years baking in Amsterdam and Paris before returning to Boulder to open the Petite Fleur patisserie in Rosetta Hall. Chef Dustin Brandt is bringing casual French food to his space, Confit, including a made-to-order soufflé program. The Folsom Foods stall will serve Colorado-cured charcuterie plates, breakfast sandwiches, burgers and more courtesy of Justin Brunson of Denver’s Old Major.

There’s a stall that sells dishes prepared with ancient grains and legumes (Eridu). Ginger Pig’s Natascha Hess is moving into less mobile digs with her Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and Japanese street food.

Alberto Sabbadini, formerly of Meadowlark Farm Dinners and The Kitchen, is serving Roman-style pizza and a particular sandwich from Bologna, the tigella (pictured on page 44), which is freshly fired bread stuffed with Italian see FOOD HALL Page 44

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meats, cheese and vegetables. And Chef Joe Lee is marrying contemporary Mexican fare with Korean elements at Tierra.

There’s a cocktail program and full bar, and Boxcar Coffee Roasters will be brewing drinks in the front of the space.

The business model of Rosetta Hall enabled Greene to find chefs from a wide variety of backgrounds that otherwise might not be able to afford to launch out into a brick-and-mortar location.

“Our job is to take care of everything that’s binary, that’s pass-fail, and for all the chefs to have as little to no risk as possible,” Greene says. “So nobody pays anything to be in here. Our whole motto is if the food’s great, and the person’s lovely to be around and they care about where they’re sourcing from, then we want them be a part of the project regardless of whether they can come up with $100,000 in capital or something.”

Rosetta Hall pays for all the equipment for the chefs, they maintain the equipment, and they do all the chefs’ accounting. They pay for food and labor costs. They wash the chefs’ dishes and pots and pans. Greene says the payoff for Rosetta Hall is a 22 percent management fee, which he says is one of the lowest in the U.S. “Radical transparency” of the financials is important for Greene, and he says any of the stall operators can ask how much any part of the Rosetta Hall operation is making at any given time. Chefs, meanwhile, have complete control over their menus and they determine pricing. And there’s no cap on how long a chef can stay in a stall — if it’s working for them, it’s working for Rosetta Hall, Greene says.

Greene says the coincidence that another food hall, Avanti, is opening in Boulder this year speaks to a larger need for the local food scene to accommodate I

chefs and restaurant owners.

“We hear a lot of the same complaints about [how] the barrier for entry is so high,” Greene says. “There are less mom-and-pop spots [in Boulder now] and more Norwegian conglomerates of outdoor clothing. We’ve got 10 spots and two bars here, but there’s so much good food that we’re missing.”

Greene borrowed elements from around the world to design the aesthetic of Rosetta Hall. The bar came from El Nacional in Barcelona, one of Greene’s favorite food halls in the world. Marble trivets that keep cookware and the food inside it warm came from Pizzeria Locale.

Millwork around the stalls came from Denver’s Union Station.

The signage came from a market in Lisbon, Portugual. It’s a unified, clean, high-end aesthetic, from the food stalls to the big wooden bleacher seating to the DJ booth and stage at the top of the bleachers to the pristine rooftop space, with glassencased firepits, a bar, turf, a bamboo forest and cloth-sheathed cabanas.

Greene says Rosetta Hall will also offer new entertainment options in downtown Boulder.

“Just like we’re a chef-driven food hall, we’re also dancer-driven nightclub,” Greene says, adding that the club program is curated by members of the Colorado dance scene, with rotating themes or styles of dance promoted on any given night of the week. There is also a massive screen that rolls down in front of the DJ booth, and guests can pop on a pair of headphones to listen to the movie being screened, or head to the rooftop for a second video screen. After all, the space used to be a movie theater.

It’s not every day 10 restaurants open at the same time in Boulder County — but you can expect that when Rosetta Hall opens in early October.

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by Michael J. Casey

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o business goes it alone. It takes a village, and few area breweries illustrate that point quite like Louisville’s first tap house: Gravity Brewing — which celebrated its seventh anniversary earlier this September. Seven years in the craft brewing world is an accomplishment, and Gravity isn’t showing any signs of slowing.

“We’ve been pushing up every year,” Taylor Kuck, Gravity’s head brewer says.

“We got a 20-barrel tank last year. We’re at capacity right now.”

Kuck, who joined the brewery in 2015, brews on a 10-barrel system, which produced about 750 barrels of beer in 2018. Though Gravity does package and distributes some, most of its beer goes over the handsome beetle-kill pine bartop at its taproom.

And if you haven’t had a chance to visit Gravity’s home base, now’s the time to indulge. Either for one of their beers — they have eight mainstays and eight seasonals on tap; give their Mexican Bock, Gasolina, a quaff — or for a nosh from sister company, Gastronauts Restaurant.

“It’s such a simpatico relaMICHAEL J. CASEY tionship,” Gastronauts owner Sheila Peck says. “I couldn’t be here without them, and I think we’re a benefit to them.”

Gastronauts, which serves a variety of handcrafted eats, celebrated their third anniversary this past July.

“When we came in, we really worked closely with Taylor, and with the brewery owners too, on developing the menu,” Peck says.

From pizza to buffalo cauliflower, Gastronauts features a menu that’s fresh and relevant to the seasonal brews Gravity proBREWERS Jen Wolf duces. They’ve also lent a hand when it comes to making and Taylor Kuck of them. For instance: Smokin’ Da Heat, a spiced grodziskie.

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Historic Polish oak-smoked wheat ales are already a rarity in the U.S. craft beer scene — a shame considering how delicious grodziskies are — but Gravity takes it one step further by adding roasted pastille and serrano peppers to the recipe. And the peppers they use come from Gastronauts small vegetable garden out back.

“It’s cool because that’s a collaboration between the restaurant and the brewery,” Kuck says.

“Representative of both,” assistant brewer Jen Wolf adds.

And that representative is headed to the Great American Beer Festival in October to compete for a medal.

But none of this would be possible if not for American Legion Post 111, located next-door. The Legion owns the building — the space Gravity currently occupies used to be their banquet hall — but they might have lost it all if not for Gravity opening up in 2012. And with Gastronauts running a food window on both sides, things are looking up for the Legion as well.

Which is something, considering Gravity isn’t situated along Louisville’s main drag — it’s a few blocks east, across the tracks. But the Legion plus Gravity plus Gastronauts gives the space a sense of place and a sense of community.

“Not only do we have the beer and the food dialed in, we’ve got the personalities dialed in,” Peck says with a smile. “People come in here because they love us.”

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Comedian John Cleese speaks of two different modes toward which we humans gravitate.

The closed style is tight, guarded, rigid, controlling, hierarchical and tunnel-visioned. The open is more relaxed, receptive, exploratory, democratic, playful and humorous.

I’m pleased to inform you that you’re in a phase when spending luxurious amounts of time in the open mode would be dramatically healing to your mental health.

Luckily, you’re more predisposed than usual to operate in that mode. I encourage you to experiment with the possibilities.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Upcoming adventures could test your poise and wit. They may activate your uncertainties and stir you to ask provocative questions. That’s cause for celebration, in my opinion. I think you’ll benefit from having your poise and wit tested. You’ll generate good fortune for yourself by exploring your uncertainties and asking provocative questions. You may even thrive and exult and glow like a miniature sun. Why? Because you need life to kick your ass in just the right gentle way so you will become alert to possibilities you have ignored or been blind to.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: Novelist John irving asked, “Who

can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.” That will be a helpful idea for you to contemplate in the coming weeks. Why? Because you’re more likely than usual to fall in love or imagine falling in love — or both. And even if you don’t literally develop a crush on an attractive person or deepen your intimacy with a person you already care for, I suspect you will be

inflamed with an elevated lust for life that will enhance the attractiveness of everything and everyone you behold.

have substantial power if you marshal your energy for real dilemmas and worthy riddles, which will probably be subtle.

CANCER

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “I just cut my bangs in a gas station bathroom,” confesses a Libran blogger who calls herself MagicLipstick. “An hour ago I shocked myself by making an impulse buy of a perfect cashmere trench coat from a stranger loitering in a parking lot,” testifies another Libran blogger who refers to himself as MaybeMaybeNot. “Today I had the sudden realization that I needed to become a watercolor painter, then signed up for a watercolor class that starts tomorrow,” writes a Libran blogger named UsuallyPrettyCareful. In normal times, I wouldn’t recommend that you Libras engage in actions that are so heedlessly and delightfully spontaneous. But I do now.

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “When you hit a wall — of your own imagined limitations — just kick it in,” wrote playwright Sam Shepard. That seems like a faulty metaphor to me.

Have you ever tried to literally kick in a wall? I just tried it, and it didn’t work. I put on a steel-toe work boot and launched it at a closet door in my basement, and it didn’t make a dent. Plus now my foot hurts. So what might be a better symbol for breaking through your imagined limitations? How about this: use a metaphorical sledgehammer or medieval battering ram or backhoe. (P.S. Now is a great time to attend to this matter.)

SCORPIO

AQUARIUS

for you as “taking a moral inventory” or you could refer to it as “going to confession.” I think of it as “flushing out your worn-out problems so as to clear a space for better, bigger, more interesting problems.” Ready? Take a pen and piece of paper or open a file on your computer and write about your raw remorse, festering secrets, unspeakable apologies, inconsolable guilt and desperate mortifications. Deliver the mess to me at Truthrooster@ gmail.com. I’ll print out your testimony and conduct a ritual of purgation. As I burn your confessions in my bonfire at the beach, I’ll call on the Goddess to purify your heart and release you from your angst. (P.S.: I’ll keep everything confidential.)

an untarnished 2,400-year-old royal bronze sword that was still sharp and shiny. It was intricately accessorized with turquoise and blue crystals, precision designs and a silk-wrapped grip. I propose we make the Sword of Goujian one of your symbolic power objects for the coming months. May it inspire you to build your power and authority by calling on the spirits of your ancestors and your best memories. May it remind you that the past has gifts to offer your future. May it mobilize you to invoke beauty and grace as you fight for what’s good and true and just.

JUNE 21-JULY 22: You know

your body is made of atoms, but you may not realize that every one of your atoms is mostly empty space. Each nucleus contains 99% of the atom’s mass, but is as small in comparison to the rest of the atom as a pea is to a cathedral. The tiny electrons, which comprise the rest of the basic unit, fly around in a vast, deserted area. So we can rightfully conclude that you are mostly made of nothing. That’s a good meditation right now. The coming weeks will be a fine time to enjoy the refreshing pleasures of emptiness. The less frenzy you stir up, the healthier you’ll be. The more spacious you allow your mind to be, the smarter you’ll become. “Roomy” and “capacious” will be your words of power.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: “We don’t always have a choice about how we get to know one another,” wrote novelist John Irving. “Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly — as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth.” This principle could be in full play for you during the coming weeks. For best results, be alert for the arrival of new allies, future colleagues, unlikely matches and surprise helpers.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: In North America, people call the phone

number 911 to report an emergency. In much of the EU, the equivalent is 112. As you might imagine, worry-warts sometimes use these numbers even though they’re not experiencing a legitimate crisis. For example, a Florida woman sought urgent aid when her local McDonald’s ran out of Chicken McNuggets. In another case, a man walking outdoors just after dawn spied a blaze of dry vegetation in the distance and notified authorities. But it turned out to be the rising sun. I’m wondering if you and yours might be prone to false alarms like these in the coming days, Virgo. Be aware of that possibility. You’ll

LIBRA

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: You could call the assignment I have

self in the next two weeks. Be extra lenient and merciful and magnanimous as you evaluate the current state of your life. In this phase of your cycle, you need to concentrate on what works instead of on what doesn’t work.

CAPRICORN

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: In 1965, Chinese archaeologists found

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “All human beings have three

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Two hundred years ago, Sagittarian genius Ludwig Beethoven created stirring music that’s often played today. He’s regarded as one of history’s greatest classical composers. And yet he couldn’t multiply or divide numbers. That inability made it hard for him to organize his finances. He once wrote about himself that he was “an incompetent business man who is bad at arithmetic.” Personally, I’m willing to forgive those flaws and focus on praising him for his soul-inspiring music. I encourage you to practice a similar approach with your-

lives: public, private and secret,” wrote Piscean novelist Gabriel García Márquez. I will add that during different phases of our lives, one or the other of these three lives might take precedence; may need more care than usual.

According to my analysis, your life in the coming weeks will offer an abundance of vitality and blessings in the third area: your secret life. For best results, give devoted attention to your hidden depths. Be a brave explorer of your mysterious riddles.

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—Previously The Primary It was just him and me when we first started dating, and then his old flame Dear PTP: I’m so sorry, PTP, but it came into the picture. This whole time would appear you’ve lost the unemployed he had said he was not guy with the drinking probROMAN ROBINSON interested in having kids lem to another. But take and a home and a primaheart: You’re young enough ry partner. Since he got to meet someone else, surgery in June and is someone who wants what now unemployed, he’s you want and doesn’t want had a lot of time to think, what you don’t. I’m certain he says, and now he’s that after meeting this perdecided he wants kids son — or even long before and a home and a primayou meet them — you’ll be ry partner. He knows I do able to recognize that your not want any of these ex did you a favor. things, so he says his old Sometimes we dodge the flame is the person he’s bullet, PTP, but on rare going to do this with. He has made occasions the bullet dodges us. jokes about being an “alcoholic” since I first met him, and I thought it was just Dear Dan: My 19-year-old younger a joke. But now he’s spending money brother is doing financial domination he simply does not have on alcohol. It online. He maintains a Twitter account worries me. Do I hang in there? Do I that’s mostly photos of him giving the fin-

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ger and looking smug. He also posts pics of his feet, videos of him urinating (no penis visible, just the stream), and lots and lots of “bitch shots,” i.e., crotchheight photos looking up at him from below. He uses a lot of homophobic slurs in the tweets that accompany these images. I would have exactly zero fucks to give about this if my brother wasn’t still a teenager and wasn’t posting photos of his face. I warned him that the internet is forever, and facial-recognition software is a thing, and people who don’t understand the role-play aspect of his use of hate speech will think he’s a bigot. This could come back to haunt him socially or professionally. Complicating matters somewhat, my little brother is a straight boy and I’m gay. He’s not making a ton of money doing this, but he’s making enough that my parents are wondering how he’s buying all those super-expensive shoes. What do I tell him? What do I tell them?

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—Falling Into Nefarious Doings Of Male Sibling Dear FINDOMS: You’ve already told your brother the internet is forever and the low-key, low-stakes pseudo sex work he’s doing could come back to haunt him, FINDOMS. Beyond that… well, there’s really not much more you can do. Your brother is an adult, as are the men paying “tribute” to him, as they say in FinDom/FinSub Twitter, and he’s free to make his own choices. As for your parents, why is explaining where your brother is getting all those new shoes your problem? If your brother is old enough to set up his own Twitter and Venmo accounts, he’s old enough to come up with a plausible lie about those shoes.

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ext month, the country’s first legal cannabis restaurant licensed to serve both weed and food will open in Los Angeles.

Lowell Cafe is opening on N. Le Brea Avenue in West Hollywood on Oct. 1, “serving farm fresh food, coffee, juice, and cannabis daily,” according to the cafe’s website, which features thumbnail black-and-white photos of celebrities smoking, presumably pot, but who knows, the pictures are really small.

In 2017, the City of West Hollywood created a licensing process to allow restaurants to serve marijuana. The 220-seat Lowell Cafe will be the first to open under the license, but certainly won’t stand alone for long as hundreds of applicants have sought licenses, according to a recent piece in The Washington Post.

However, California state law still requires all cannabis products be prepackaged and tested, meaning Lowell Cafe won’t be able to serve cannabis-infused fresh foods as originally planned. Instead, guests will be able to order cannabis goods like flower and concentrates on a bill that’s separate from their food order — a dispensary and restaurant under one roof. Staff will be able to guide guests, from beginners to pros, through their experience.

According to The Guardian, Lowell head chef

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Andrea Drummer is still finalizing the menu but it includes “traditionally healthy dishes like baby kale salad” as well as fancy shmancy (Drummer calls it “elevated”) mac and cheese bites, grilled cheese, fried chicken, and stoner dream desserts like ice cream sandwiches and s’mores.

While Lowell caters to the recreational user, Mint Dispensary near Tempe, Arizona, has been slinging fresh, cannabis-infused foods to medical card holders since fall 2018.

In June, AZ Central reported that Mint was serving an all-vegetarian menu of weed-infused burgers, cheese

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fries, hot wings, pizza and hatch chile macaroni and cheese “Customers can then choose to have their food made with anywhere from 25 milligrams to 1,000 milligrams of THC,” AZ Central writes. “Pricing varies according to the amount of THC added to the dish; a pizza dosed with 25 milligrams of THC, for example, costs $12.50, while the same pizza dosed with 1,000 milligrams of THC costs $75.”

Not a bad price, particularly if the pizza is good. We wouldn’t recommend eating the whole thing in one sitting, but if you know your limits, godspeed.

While there are some awesome edibles being made in Colorado (Wana, Love’s Oven, Cheeba Chews, Coda), there are no licensed marijuana restaurants in Boulder or Denver... or anywhere on the Front Range. While social-use lounges are legal as of earlier this year, there aren’t many of those, either.

However, Summit County-based Cultivating Spirits will cater a custom cannabis pairing dinner party for you, either in your home or at a venue. You can drop by a number of establishments in Boulder and enjoy CBDinfused coffees, cocktails and juices (Precision Pours, River and Woods and Wonder, to name but a few options in Boulder County), but if it’s a THC-laden meal you’re looking for, Colorado’s not quite there yet.

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olitics, like rust, never sleeps — and that’s a marijuana federally and to provide critical assistance good thing. and relief to individuals and communities that have By the time you read this, the U.S. House been disproportionately impacted by the racially biased of Representatives may have passed the war on drugs,” a statement from Nadler’s office said. “I marijuana banking bill. The operative word am therefore committed to marking up this bill and look here is ‘may.’ The House was scheduled to vote on forward to working with reform advocates and my colthe bill on Wednesday (Sept. 25). House leadership is leagues in this important effort going forward.” confident enough that the bill will pass that it has • • • brought it up under a ‘suspension of the rules’ — a Earlier this year the Democratic governors of New parliamentary procedure that allows bills with strong, Jersey, New York and Connecticut all failed to get recbut not unanimous, support to be brought quickly to reational marijuana legalization bills through their the House floor, so long state legislatures. Now as it can garner two-thirds U.S. HOUSE OFFICE OF PHOTOGRAPHY [PUBLIC DOMAIN] they plan to meet to dissupport for passage. cuss ways to create bills If passed, the banking for consideration by bill will allow marijuana their respective legislabusinesses access to tures that would be bank financing for operalegally consistent. tions and expansion.

“I want to talk to • • • Connecticut, and then I Meanwhile, Tom want to talk to Jersey, Angell of the Marijuana about having a regional Moment website is reportsymmetry on vaping ing that House Judiciary products and marijuaCommittee Chairman na,” New York Governor Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) is Mario Cuomo told saying that the vote on Marijuana Moment. “For marijuana banking legislaone state to do it (legaltion will only be the first ize pot), it makes no step toward reforming fedsense if the neighboring eral pot law. state has a totally differEarlier this year ent policy, because you Nadler introduced the then just incentivize Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and people to drive over the border and buy it there.”

Expungement (MORE) Act, which would remove pot That sort of coordination is good policy, and probfrom the Controlled Substances Act and allow at least ably good politics as well. When the legislators in a some of those convicted of federal marijuana crimes to state consider legalization, the knowledge that lawhave their records expunged. makers in one or more neighboring states may be “As the sponsor of the MORE Act, I also strongly about to pass identical legislation likely concentrates support additional marijuana reform — to deschedule minds wonderfully.

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Attorneys General from Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Washington, D.C., signed the letter.

The list includes 10 of the 11 states that have legalized recreational marijuana (no surprises there) with only Nevada missing. Connecticut, New Mexico and Rhode Island are considered good prospects for legalization in the next two or three years; Pennsylvania and Minnesota may be a harder lift, but possible.

• • • Speaking of Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania court has ruled that the odor of ganja is no longer probable cause for traffic searches. Since medical marijuana is now legal in Pennsylvania, the presence of a strong odor of pot in a car does not provide probable cause for a vehicle search, Judge Maria Dantos ruled.

• • • Speaking of medical marijuana, a survey of more than 165,000 people found that 46% of regular marijuana users were using it for a medical reason, compared with 22% who were using it to get high. “Adults with medical conditions, especially those with respiratory conditions, cancer and depression, were more likely to use marijuana,” the study found… It also found that roughly one in four 18- to 24-year-olds use medical marijuana, compared with just 2% of those 65 and older… The study was done at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. It was published last week at the Journal of the American Medical Association’s Open Network.

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