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The fantasy of inflation increasing rents by Mark Fearer

t seems that locally and nationally, housing prices may have peaked, in that there are fewer bidding wars over units for sale, and houses/condos are staying on the market a bit longer than 48 hours. Perhaps outrageous housing prices won’t be in the headlines every week. So, to us boiling frogs, that may seem like a slight relief. But, regardless, housing prices are still at staggeringly record highs. And there’s little sign they will come back down to earth anytime soon, let alone to “normal” levels (which were already inflated). Almost the same thing can be said about rents, even though the housing market doesn’t directly impact existing rental housing. And here in Boulder, as CU students return, they and other renters can expect to see new unJULY 28, 2022

affordable levels. Landlords have a tradition of increasing rents in the late summer/fall, and it will likely be worse this year. Other than a “hot” housing market, another excuse for rent increases is inflation—especially with the highest inflation in 40 years. Prices are going up for most goods right now, and sometimes there’s legitimate reasons: shipping or manufacturing increases, workers finally get paid closer to a living wage, etc. But there’s a whole lot of profit padding going on—witness gas prices. Rents have always been that way. Obviously there are legitimate costs involved with rentals: mortgages, taxes, maintenance, utilities (sometimes), management (sometimes). But the big elements are fixed (mortgage)—and the others are generally budgeted into the rental price. Some other costs do see incremental increases. Property taxes—generally not affected by inflation and regulated by the county and/or voters—sometimes increase. When landlords are willing to justify their rent increases (most aren’t), many either say inflation or unspecified “rising costs” are the main culprits. Honest landlords BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

will admit in hushed voices that true as it’s true: The Front Range rental costs are only a minor (if at all) part market (and almost all non-rural of their rent increases. They are simply markets nationwide) is inelastic. There following the commandment “Thou is little-to-no evidence that more shalt charge what the market will housing will lower prices. It is not bear.” affected by supply and demand, so no Nothing compels a landlord to matter how much affordable or rental raise rent beyond housing gets actual costs. It is a built, it will do choice to exploit nothing to bring “market condidown rents. tions.” Or, more Look at the plainly, a choice Denver housing to exploit people market; record rents were whose earning numbers of units power continues were added this to deteriorate, last year, but continually raised for just especially in the prices did not face of inflation. come down. They one reason: It’s what the Oh, and rents went up. often jump well And what’s Holy Market will bear. above existing rarely meninflation, even tioned in polite though it’s not company is connected. the fact that tenants are financing Even in low-inflationary years, most/all of the mortgages for their rents were continually raised for just landlords. Of course we get the use one reason: It’s what the Holy Market of our home for the duration of our will bear. residency, but tenants accrue no To be clear, housing prices are a ma- equity, often don’t get positive credit jor part of inflationary pressure, but in history for making on-time rental reverse: They are a significant factor in payments, and too often walk away inflation, not the consequence of it. Eswithout some/all of their deposits. pecially for renters. While homeowners We can rent our home for 10 years, have a very predictable mortgage that but we have no financial stake once doesn’t rise with inflationary pressure, we move out, despite having paid tenants are always facing increasing tens of thousands of dollars over housing costs. time. But the owners do accrue No doubt inflation will come equity, and especially now, profit down, but renters won’t see their rents handsomely from selling our former come down. In capitalism, economic homes. priests tell their congregations that This opinion column does not housing prices are mainly determined necessarily reflect the views of Boulder by supply and demand. Weekly. I will keep saying this as long Email: editorial@boulderweekly.com

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power imbalance in virtually all aspects between tenants and landlords. I was lucky enough to have a fancy lawyer friend willing to waste his time on piddly friend cases. I also tend to think that helping tenants assert their rights better could be very financially viable for “small potatoes” lawyers—the actual (Colorado Revised Statutes) and local rules are short and simple. The other aspect would be providing low cost moving, storage, and housing assistance for people who are retaliated against maliciously. Travis Wehner/Boulder

JESUS WASN’T A CAPITALIST The mingling of religion, politics, ethics, legality, and government, particularly in the pursuit of power, weaves a labyrinthine path across the globe. (The Islamic State group) clings to the militant history of Islam, the Taliban to its submission of women to men. The Medieval Crusades were to reclaim the Holy Land. Israel claims a God-given destiny. Vladimir Putin has re-sanctified the rule of the Tsars. Chinese Emperors were regarded the equal of gods, and ruled with an iron hand. Confucianism formulated a hierarchy for social and political stability (as has the Communist Party) that bypasses Buddhist pacifism. Our own Founding Fathers, skeptical of the dictates of both the Anglican and Catholic churches, codified the separation of church and state. In a similar move, the Dalai Lama has stepped away from his role in Tibetan Buddhism and endorsed a “secular humanism” removed from religious dogma, a proposal our “originalist” Supreme Court members have chosen to ignore. Within Christianity in America, the debate should be: “Was Jesus a Libertarian, a socialist, or perhaps even a Marxist?” In the Sermon on the Mount, he was definitely not a Capitalist nor a Conservative politician. Robert Porath/Boulder

DOGS AND MOOSE Just a few weeks ago I found myself leaning out of an open car window in Yellowstone National Park to better watch a special spectacle. A large adult male wolf ’s attack on a female elk backfired spectacularly. The wolf now ran for his life as the elk chased after the predator, down a steep slope, at 30 miles an hour. Healthy prey animals can easily outrun wolves or turn on the predators and attack with their sharp hooves and antlers. Indeed, in my 8 years of yearly wolf watching I have seen only three wolf hunts, all of which involved prey successfully chasing wolves. A few days earlier during my trip I saw wolves feed on a moose carcass not far from the park road. Moose, just like elk, are common prey for wolves, and will similarly defend themselves when necessary. However, unlike elk, moose often react aggressively to the predator-like scent of dogs. This fact came into tragic focus on June 8th 2022 as an encounter between hikers and a moose resulted in serious injury to a hiker, minor injuries to another hiker and their dog, and the killing of the mother moose by local authorities. Unlike wolves, dogs have neither the stamina or the speed to escape moose, so they often return to their owners when threatened. Unfortunately an aggressive moose will often follow the dog, endangering both the dog and the human. Wildlife safety professionals agree that by keeping your dog on leash you can prevent your dog from getting close to a moose and leading the moose back to you. We can reduce our impact on the local wildlife by choosing to use extra caution in areas inhabited by Colorado’s incredible wildlife. Anyll Markevich/Boulder Email: letters@boulderweekly.com

RACE TO THE BOTTOM FOR SLUMLORDS I’ve really enjoyed the articles. I’m a relatively recent local tenant (10 years), and have dealt with landlord stupidity that boggles the mind. In most cases of needing a landlord to do anything that costs money it’s like pulling teeth—the place I’m moving out of this weekend wonders why I didn’t pay this rent this month.....had to remind them that I paid 1st, last, and deposit on move-in. (That’s just the tip of the iceberg.) Unfortunately, my best stories have an NDA—but I won. It seems a race to the bottom in terms of slumlord activity, which has become accepted due to the fact that MANY landlords are seen as “upstanding members of the community”—highly moral, highly ethical people. In this day and age, I’m of the opinion that openly and publicly shaming them may be the best strategy. The problem is the enormous JULY 28, 2022

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are herded by a BLM-contracted helicopter pilot into a corral set up on HMA rangeland. OPPOSITE: Horses lured into a corral with food and water drink their fill.

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he truck rolls to a stop overlooking the basin and the herd of mustangs grazing within it. Inside the vehicle, volunteers peer through binoculars, identifying mares (female horses) one by one, checking them against spreadsheets and photos from years’ past, determining which ones need to be given “primary doses,” which ones get “boosters,” and which ones to leave alone. Then the truck doors open and the volunteers climb out. Slinging dart guns over their shoulders, loaded with a nontoxic contraceptive vaccine known as porcine zona pellucida (PZP), they begin their slow approach. “The mares are very wise and they know what we’re doing. If they’ve been darted before [they know] it hurts a little when it hits them,” says Stella Trueblood, a wild horse activist and volunteer who founded the Sand Wash Advocacy Team (SWAT). “You can approach them all day long with a camera, but as soon as that dart gun pops up, they’re gone.” The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) provides SWAT volunteers with PZP doses, which SWAT administers to female horses in Sand Wash Basin. They navigate the 160,000 acres of the Basin by truck and on foot, sometimes firing on their targets from as far as 50 yards away. It’s challenging work. But Trueblood and the others who spend their free time and personal resources doing this know it’s essential for preserving Colorado’s wild horse herds. As far as population control goes, PZP is by far the JULY 28, 2022

least invasive and most humane method BLM employs for maintaining herd numbers. “The population does need to be controlled,” Trueblood says. “The simple thing would be to say, just leave them alone, and see what happens . . . but it’s more complex than that.” Sand Wash Basin is one of several areas in Colorado where mustang herds have grown so large they’re severely impacting the environment, other native wildlife, and the horses themselves are becoming malnourished from a lack of available food and water. These parts of Colorado can sustain small horse herds, but their current sizes are many times the regions’ capacity, according to BLM. That’s why this summer, BLM is yet again conducting mass roundups of Colorado’s mustangs using BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

some controversial methods, and shipping them off to federal holding facilities. Neither BLM nor mustang advocacy groups take any joy in these operations, but BLM says it’s absolutely necessary for the horses’ survival. “If we don’t manage wild horses at the appropriate management level, you will have a devastated landscape,” says Steven Hall, communications director for BLM. “You will have the dislocation of wildlife, and eventually you will have horses starving.” Hall is very supportive of using PZP contraceptives on these herds, and has respect for the volunteers who administer it for BLM. It’s a great tool for maintaining mustang populations, he says—but on its own, contraception isn’t going to reduce the herds’ numbers by hundreds. That requires roundups. “Bait and trap” roundCOURTESY SWAT ups are preferred by almost everyone, where food and water are used to lure horses into corrals. It’s a slow process that usually only traps a handful of horses at a time, and requires help from volunteers with organizations like the Wild Horse Warriors (WHW), who oversee Colorado’s herd management areas (HMA) like Sand Wash Basin, Spring Creek Basin, Little Book Cliffs and PiceanceEast Douglas. But BLM’s most widely implemented approach is a point of contention. More expensive “drive trap” roundups—often called helicopter roundups—are used by the BLM across 10 Western states to manage more than 96,000 mustangs and burros roaming federally managed land. The loud, low-flying aircraft herds the animals as they follow what’s called a “Judas horse,” trained to lead herds straight to BLM corrals. A single day of helicopter roundups can gather well over 100 horses. In a month, they can gather over a 1,000. “It’s a humane way to bring horses out of the wild,” Hall says. “[It’s] safe for the horses and safe for people.” “Yeah, we disagree that helicopter roundups are humane,” says Suzanne Roy, executive director of the American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC). “They go out and they stampede horses out of their habitats. They force them to run at generally high speeds across really rugged terrain and then into traps.” Roy says these roundups are cruel and traumatic for the animals. That’s a view shared by Trueblood and others among wild horse advocacy groups. They describe how the horses have to run for miles across the desert in 90 to 100 degree weather, into crowded pens where many of them panic, biting or kicking one another and thrashing wildly around. It’s not uncommon to see horses come out bleeding, with broken bones or fractured skulls. Some die of injuries, from overheating or exhaustion. “I literally lost the strength in my legs when I saw the helicopter chasing those horses [the first time],” Trueblood says, still clearly shaken by the memory. “I don’t want to ever see that again.” Many times, Roy says, mares and their foals are separated in the commotion—especially if the foals are too young or malnourished to keep up. Hall with BLM confirms this, explaining that it’s a huge problem and something BLM actively tries to avoid. But it does happen. “You can hear [the foals and mares] screaming for each other when they’re

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doing this,” Roy says. “It’s horrible.” Last September, BLM conducted two helicopter roundups on public land in Colorado; one in West Douglas and another in the Sand Wash Basin HMA, where Trueblood and other SWAT volunteers help BLM administer PZP. More than 680 of 896 mustangs were removed from Sand Wash Basin and transported to a holding facility in Canyon City. At present, BLM has 58,517 wild horses and burros in similar facilities across the Western U.S. The agency adopts out as many of the horses as possible, seeking homes for them where they’ll be taken care of. But some horses remain with BLM for months, and if they aren’t adopted, they’re moved indefinitely into long-term holding facilities. In May 2022, at the Canyon City facility, over 140 of the captured Sand Wash Basin mustangs died from an influenza outbreak that the understaffed facility had neglected to vaccinate them for. It infuriated many animal activists and caught the attention of Gov. Jared Polis. “I am deeply concerned about the tragic death of these iconic animals,” Polis said in a statement following the incident. “We have long advocated for the health, safety, and wellbeing of Colorado’s wild horses, and will continue to do so as we seek a humane future for our mustangs.” Ahead of this year’s roundups in the Piceance-East Douglas HMA, Polis wrote BLM a letter compelling it to find another “more cost effective and humane” plan for these horses, asking the agency to pause roundups out of concern that BLM’s holding facilities were “ill-equipped to take on the hundreds of additional horses scheduled to be removed from the [Piceance-East Douglas] range” in September of 2022. But BLM did not pause roundups. Instead, it rescheduled them from September to July. Because, as Hall explains, 80% of the Piceance-East Douglas forage was already eaten and gone, the area was still in a severe drought, and coming out of winter, 45% of those horses were exhibiting serious symptoms of malnourishment. “[That’s] on the edge of an absolute catastrophe when you see those numbers,” Hall says. Unless Colorado wanted to see mass herd starvation in Piceance-East Douglas, or mass migration of the mustangs from public land onto private land, Hall says the only viable option was to expedite the helicopter roundups. “The horses out there will never be in better condition than they are right now,” Hall says. The animals are only going to get weaker as the summer wears on into fall. So BLM moved up the roundups. “When the BLM pushed the start date of the roundups, they basically foreclosed the opportunity to have any discussion of alternatives, besides sending over a thousand horses into the holding system,” Roy says. She contends that July is one of the worst times of year to do helicopter roundups. It’s the tail end of peak foaling season, she says, and the baby horses won’t be able to keep up with their parents like they would later on in September. Piceance-East Douglas is currently home to about 1,380 horses. According to BLM, that area can sustainably support just 350. Meaning this year, it aims to remove 1,050 mustangs through a combination of both bait and trap and helicopter roundups. The estimated cost is $1.2 million, Hall says. The bait-and-trap portion of those roundups lasted from June 29 to June 30, according to the BLM tracking website. Over those two days, 18 horses were trapped without a single death. Then, on July 15, the helicopter phase of the roundups began and has been ongoing since. So far, 715 horses have been rounded up (as of July 26) with three horse deaths occurring over that time. That leaves 335 horses that still need to be removed to meet the target population of 350. When all’s said and done, and that number’s been achieved, the gathered horses will be shipped to Utah (not Canyon City) to Axtell holding facility. Asked if Axtell is better staffed than Canyon City’s facility, Hall says it’s “adequately staffed.” Though information obtained through FOIA by AWHC shows that 80 horses died at Axtell in 2021 from ailments ranging from failing body conditions to neurological disorders, castration evisceration or hemorrhages, fractures, colic or “strangles”—a bacterial disease that’s both deadly and highly contagious to horses. “Horses are dying in these facilities because they’re not an appropriate place l

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to keep wild, free-roaming animals,” Roy says. Hall disagrees. He says historically, mustangs have been very safe in BLM facilities. The Canyon City outbreak was an exceptional case—an anomaly that BLM has been very transparent about and which it’s already making efforts to rectify. “Any time domestic animals like horses or cattle are penned,” Hall says, “there is a risk of disease.” And make no mistake, Hall notes: These horses are domestic. Contrary to popular perception, Colorado’s horses aren’t native to the area. These are not the same as deer or elk; they’re all descendants of horses brought over by Europeans, which were either released or escaped into the wild. “Feral” is a more accurate term for Colorado’s horses than “wild,” Hall says. Semantics aside, the one thing everyone seems to agree on (BLM included) is the fact that the STELLA TRUEBLOOD helicopter roundups have to stop. Gathering hundreds of horses in one helicopter-driven push every couple of years overtaxes the animals and sets the stage for populations to explode all over again. “They could make the removals gradual over time with bait trapping, instead of this sledgehammer approach of bringing in helicopters and hauling off a thousand horses,” Roy says. In tandem with PZP administration, gradual bait trapping would allow BLM to easily and humanely maintain smaller populations. Large scale helicopter roundups would become unnecessary and it would significantly reduce the number of horses in BLM holding facilities like Canyon City and Axtell. But it would require resources. BLM would have to hire people to take over for PZP volunteers like Trueblood. The agency would have to invest in yearround bait-and-trap operations and recalibrate its own management of HMA rangeland. Cindy Wright, a co-founder of WHW, goes even a step further. She thinks that advocacy for these animals needs to be centralized. “When you have 15 different advocacy groups going to Washington and asking for different things, there’s no way Washington can come together and make anything happen,” she says. “We need to have an organization that’s equal to the Cattlemen’s or the Wool Growers or the Wheat Growers [associations], then a department in Washington that is solely about wild horses.” But Wright admits that would take a literal act of Congress to accomplish. Hall says BLM is actively looking for alternatives to these large scale roundups. BLM would “absolutely prefer to find other ways to manage horse numbers besides helicopter gathers,” he says. But for the time being, it’s either helicopter roundups or mass starvation—a choice between the lesser of two evils. As someone who works with BLM through SWAT, Trueblood wants to believe that what the agency is doing has to be done. She and the group of SWAT volunteers she works with administering PZP all care deeply about the animals and want what’s best for them. But it’s hard, even for someone like her, to know for sure what that is. “I really don’t know what’s worse, leaving them to starve or rounding them up by helicopter,” she says. “I think it’s starving. But I’m not sure. I don’t know anymore, to be honest with you.” Email: wbrendza@boulderweekly.com BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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to broke,” Brian says, when a local woman named Betsy Morgan lent the Finns $12,000 of her JP Morgan inheritance to buy both the inn and the lodge. “They opened up the restaurant kind of with the same style menu that we have today, where you get everything,” Brian explains. “It was truly in the middle of nowhere—we had four families up in Gold Hill. There were no all-wheel drive cars. There were no Subarus. What really helped them was the University of Colorado and NCAR—all those scientists and teachers stepped foot in the place and were like, ‘Real Colorado!’ A lot of them tended bar here, and it was just this instant community of pretty bright people. It was very unique, and that’s how they got it going.” Brian’s father passed away in 2010, three years after his mother. His brother Matthew, also a Gold Hill Inn fixture, passed away a few months ago, but another brother, Chris, is still a keystone in the restaurant’s operation, and their sister, Debbie, is part owner. Countless Finns have “dabbled” at the inn, and Brian says at least five Finns have been married there. “People have likened it to a European experience,” he says. “It’s a natural thing that evolved with small places, where the proprietor is proud of the place. It’s not just our job; it’s our life.”

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lot of people who play Red Rocks started off at the Gold Hill Inn,” says New Orleans blues and jazz musician Washboard Chaz, who was a Gold Hill icon in the ’70s and ’80s. “You’re up there in the mountains at 8,000 feet in a place that’s been happening for 60 years, and the community was around long before that. It’s a little magical place where music is encouraged and appreciated, and the Finns do a great job with dinner and entertainment. They’ve made it a popular place that people like to come to and play.” Chaz (originally from New York and now well-known in New Orleans—and around the world—because of his appearances in television shows and movies) recalled his time at the inn by phone recently, and the conversation always returned to the Finn family, which has owned and operated the Gold Hill Inn since 1962. “They accommodate everybody coming through up there,” Chaz remarks. “The Finns are accommodating people. They were really good to people who were outside the norm.” Co-owner and manager Brian Finn’s parents bought the inn, built in 1925, on his third birthday—after it had sat vacant for years. The adjacent Bluebird Lodge, built in 1872 and originally known as the Wentworth House, was part of the deal. Brian’s mother and father had been social workers and ranch caretakers, and his father even worked as a mailman. The couple was “real close

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The generosity of the Finns, and how much they care about the inn and everyone who visits, has also attracted some of the best musicians in the world and made it, according to many Colorado musicians, second only to Red Rocks as a beloved local venue. Brian says music at the inn was originally spontaneous. A group of professors and scientists would come up on Friday nights in the 1960s and play jug band music. That attracted other local musicians, but it wasn’t until the late 1970s that the first “set-up shows,” including some by the popular bluegrass band The Dillards, started taking place at the inn. Over the next few decades, heavyweights such as Peter Rowan and John Hartford played the inn, but concerts were few and far between. “It really kicked in as a more regular thing with the Left Hand String Band, which was the beginnings of Leftover Salmon,” Brian says. “That was Drew Emmitt, and they were kind of our house band for that first summer they played in the ’80s. Vince Herman moved to Gold Hill, COURTESY BRIAN FINN and it evolved into a regular music thing.” Gregory Alan Isakov later began a legendary December tradition at the Gold Hill Inn, and for the last decade there has been music just about every weekend there every summer and fall, with the big New Year’s Eve show putting a bow on the music calendar until May. “We wanna be on the musicians’ side,” Brian remarks. “When we hire a HOOK IT: Blues muband it’s an invite up to our sician Washboard place, and we try to take care of the musicians and feed Chaz (center) was them and make them welcome. It creates a much better mayor of Gold Hill live-music atmosphere. It creates better music—happier mayor for a short musicians, happier us, and then the crowd is a lot better spell. Here he plays too.” with Drew Emmitt, Brian—who often serves bands a fabulous six-course Vince Herman meal—has bottomless memories of extraordinary concerts and Glenn Keefe, at the inn, from Guy Clark to Commander Cody, and will flanked by inn never forget the night a packed house of dancing Gasoline owners Frank and Lollipops fans stomped its way into Gold Hill history. Barbara Finn. “That all started way back with the Left Hand String Band days,” he remembers. “It didn’t really break the floor then, but it got kind of a trampoline effect going, and it finally gave through at a GasPops show. It was a hoedown and broke the floor.” This year’s concert calendar at the inn is full of local talent, from Meadow Mountain to Chain Station, along with exciting touring bands. Brian sounds most excited, however, about the return of Washboard Chaz for “Chaz Fest West” on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13 and 14. He says that when Chaz moved to Gold Hill 40 years ago, “nobody had seen anything like it,” and the eclectic musician (who has played with everyone from John Hammond to Hot Rize) even became mayor of Gold Hill for a time. “I’m looking forward to coming back,” Chaz says. “I really can’t wait. I’m gonna play with some of my old pals who I played with from the mid-’70s to the mid-’80s. Some of these people I haven’t played with in 30 or 40 years and this is the opportunity to do it. I’m getting old. People are dropping like flies.” Chaz says some of his favorite memories of music at the Gold Hill Inn are “just the early days of sitting around the fireplace with locals who came in,” and that seems like the essence of the business Brian Finn’s mom and dad started 60 years ago in the former mining town that slowly became a unique haven for artists, writers, musicians, hearty mountain folk and spirited eccentrics. “The 60 years seems fast, and spectacular,” Brian says. “When we start talking about it like this, I start thinking back, and you remember those great moments and how long the ride has been. It’s our life. As far as what the future holds, that’s really up in the air. It’ll change when it’s gonna change. We just go by feel, for the most part. It would be very cool if it does stay in the family. I hope so, but that’s just a complete unknown.” Email: editorial@boulderweekly.com l

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The Mimesis Documentary Festival returns

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he film What We Shared, playing the 2022 Mimesis Documentary Festival (MDF) on Aug. 5, follows seven inhabitants of Abkhazia, a de facto independent state located along the Black Sea. What We Shared is an auto-fiction. In it, an unreliable narrator (Kuc) lets fractured and manipulated images collide with faded memories and vivid dreams of displacement. What We Shared is like a spiritual sibling to the works of Maya Deren and Firouzeh Khosrovani’s 2020 Radiograph of a Family. And that it’s playing in MDF’s doc block, Upstream, alongside Echolocation—fractured still images about a family picnic and the death of a mother—and Water & Wall, which observes the previous civilization’s artifacts found on the island of Manhattan, speaks to the depth of MDF’s line-up. Everything here falls under the umbrella of documentary. Some are memoirs, others investigations. A few are essays. Most use observation as a primary tool, but a few aim for impression. Some are linear. Others are so fractured it’s hard to tell where the story ends and begins. And if any of that matters. Back for a third year, MDF screens Aug. 2-7 at the Dairy Arts Center and CU Boulder’s B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance. The festival is a nonprofit project of CU’s Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media. The aim is to promote Colorado’s place in the documentary community. They do good work, and it’s getting better with each festival. This year’s fest opens with Emma Baiada and Nicolas Snyder’s debut feature, Song of Salt (Aug. 2), about the small community of Trona, California. Tro-

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na used to be larger: Established in 1913 as a mining town, Trona grew to nearly 7,000 residents, most of which worked for the mine. But then came the 1980s, and with it, automation. The first round of layoffs happened in ’82, and Trona has since shrunk to 1,200. Those numbers continue to dwindle into a town so small you can’t even fart without everyone knowing—as one resident puts it. The vanishing of America’s small towns and the displacement of the residents, with many living on the margins of financial stability, shouldn’t be news to anyone. But Baiada and Snyder’s coup isn’t a “ripped from the headlines” story but an empathetic observation of people and their challenges. It’s a humbling piece of work, beautifully photographed and presented. Others to check out: Belgrade-born Iva Radivojević is this year’s artist-in-residence and will conduct a masterclass and present her 2021 work, Aleph. Pas de Deux, Elie Aufseesser’s direct cinema study of an Olympic hopeful, will close out the festival on Aug. 7. But the majority of MDF is given over to documentary blocks, 14 in all, exploring connecting themes through a collection of short and feature-length subjects. Of these, I have seen about a dozen, and they are some of the best works I’ve encountered all year. The Upstream block is a must (Aug. 5), but Forked Tongue (Aug. 6) also has plenty to dig into—including a short from CU’s Kelly Sears, which is always cause for celebration. For more movie reviews, tune into After Image Fridays at 3 p.m., on KGNU: 88.5 FM and online at kgnu.org. Email: editorial@boulderweekly.com.

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The long strange trip abides

“You can't ride the rails anymore in this country, but you can follow the Grateful Dead.” —Jerry Garcia.

uring the first half of the ’80s, I jumped on the Grateful Dead “bus” and took off on a ride that was enlightening and, sometimes, a little dangerous. Following the band allowed for travel, mind-expansion, and what felt like a kind of counter-cultural consciousness. I attended my first Dead show at 17, in June of 1984, and after that, caught the legendary ensemble whenever I could—during summer vacations, while in college, and even for a few years post-graduation. The pull of the group’s not-always-controlled chaos was strong. In the Grammy-nominated documentary A Long Strange Trip (directed by Amir Bar-Lev), New Yorker writer and longtime Dead fan Nick Paumgarten speaks to the unique rite of social-cum-musical passage that is Deadheadism, sharing his observations as a young fan of the band: “In 1984 . . . the [Grateful Dead] still were a strange, forgotten, almost ’60s cult that was sort of shambling around America pretty much ignored by the culture at large,” Paumgarten reflects. “It was a pretty intense, small scene. It was overwhelming, and it was kind of scary. The sense of menace was always there. Bikers would go, rough guys, and there were drunks . . . And sometimes it was just a madhouse. I remember survival sort of being part of the experience.” Paumgarten’s take is spot-on. The element of danger at Grateful Dead shows was no joke; there were heavy drugs, rowdy crowds and even some untimely deaths among band members and fans. This darker aspect of the group and its culture was reflected in its artistry. Where

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many found spiritual awakening and pastoral idylls, the Dead’s shifts in sound and tempo to the group’s well-loved oeuvre, songbook also spoke of addiction, emotional despair and the the fans still appear to revel in the scene and the music, which hollowness of the American dream. The band’s origins are rootremains alive in the hands of those who continue to play it. Weir ed in the social experimentation of the ’60s, when intellectuals has inherited Garcia’s mantle as the current outfit’s gray-beardand artists mingled with members of the Hells Angels, and the ed leader, and he, along with the Grateful Dead’s original young musicians provided a kind of interactive soundtrack for drummers, deserve respect for admirably soldiering on. The the anything-goes Acid Tests on the West Coast. It was a strong younger members of the tribe have learned from the elders and and volatile brew that birthed them. have committed themselves to the language of the music, the In the years following its modest beginnings, the band and demands of the tour, and the legacy of the tradition. Seven years its growing audience slowly gathered force, eventually snowball- into the act, the latest manifestation of the Dead, if a bit self-coning into a musical and social juggernaut. In the ’70s, ’80s and scious at times, carries the venerable torch for a new generation even part of the ’90s, when the Grateful Dead was hitting on of listeners as well as the old. Dead & Co. strives to keep the all cylinders, there was genuine devotion in the air, along with storied fires burning and the crowds still gather to witness it. everything that comes with rearranging the consciousness of Rumors that the band might call it quits this year are plausible, thousands of people from night to night. As a result, the group’s although the overall organism seems loath to expire. fanbase proliferated and diversified. While the hard-core freaks and the wild-eyed “The Grateful Dead were about a radical fanaticism of yore are mostly gone or melinclusivity,” notes Long Strange Trip director lowed, nothing is ever completely out of the Bar-Lev. “There was no one way to be a question at a Dead-related show. The Deadhead. Everybody was welcome— occasional scuffles among “wookies" in motorcyclists, newbies, gate-crashers, the parking lots still crop up, and naked Aspen Film is hosting a drive-in psycho right-wingers. They’re like the dancing is apparently a thing again; screening of the documentary musical Statue of Liberty,” he muses. although now, one is more likely to 'Long Strange Trip' in SnowPerhaps the most appealing encounter weekend warriors chanreflection of the culture was Jerry neling their glory days via this latest mass Town Park on Aug. 7 Garcia himself. Standing somewhere and ever-morphing iteration of the (beginning at dusk). between a well-worn teddy bear and a band. There’s nothing wrong with the Cost will be $40 per car. friendly biker, the reluctant band-leader, new strain, though it isn’t quite the original who was once described as looking like article. The Dead scene, along with society, “an unmade bed,” became a globally recoghas evolved to what appears to be a slightly nized symbol of hippiedom and a musical giant in safer and slicker version of the type of adventure that his own right. Garcia was said to be the sun around which the Garcia once described. other members of the band revolved, or the glue that held them All of this might beg the question: Were the Grateful Dead together. Whatever the metaphor, he carried the kind of authensimply societal misfits looking for an in? The answer is partly ticity that inspired cult-like passion. Jerry had the uncanny ability yes, but also that they were genuine cosmic trailblazers to unite the band, the audience, and what occasionally seemed who gave a certain portion of America what it wanted. Jerry like the cosmos in a whirling, almost forbidden celebration. His famously quipped, “We were always selling, it’s just that wry wit and innate talent were part of the group’s allure. Garcia’s people weren’t buying.” How things change. Some speculate fabled solos ran the gamut of emotional spaces and stylistic that there are more fans of the music now than when Captain borrowings, inspiring other musicians and rearranging listeners’ Trips passed to the great jam in the sky in 1995. The distance minds along the way. Dead & Company member John Mayer from real art to banal commercialization is never far and the has remarked, “It would take six guitarists handing off the guitar clichéd refrain of “It wasn’t what it once was” is always readily to each other to accomplish what Jerry could play in one solo.” at hand; but the continuation of the long strange trip provides Enter present-day Dead & Co., an ensemble that seeks to affirmation and fresh experiences for aging veterans while serve up some of the legendary magic from the Grateful Dead’s also creating an opportunity for new seekers to step into the cauldron. Longtime devotees of the Dead might boggle over how tie-dyed continuum. a group that once choppered in and out of Woodstock and the At its best, the Dead might be a conduit for America to sort eerie fields of Altamont morphed into a health-conscious outfit out its tribal struggles and learn its own mind. There are the fronted by a sometimes pop-crooner in designer sneakers and moments for which the fans live—the unpredictable instances in an expensive watch. Yet as the lead guitarist and co-front man, which the stars align and the group-consciousness reveals itself Mayer, while no Jerry, appeared to have found firm footing in the as the band and crowd blows its collective top. This is why peomix this summer; and Bob Weir, despite the wear-and-tear on ple continue to join the party and why the remaining acts, with his body and vocal cords, has held up impressively for someone new members coming in as the old ones go, keep playing. What who has logged almost non-stop stage time spanning more than the Dead have created over the years is no small feat. Sure, you half a century. Bassist Oteil Burbridge stands in gamely for the can buy a Steal Your Face shirt at Target these days, and the perhaps irreplaceable Phil Lesh (a subject of controversy among music of Dead & Co. can be more sluggish and softer than the some fans, as Lesh continues to field his own projects on the days of Garcia, but on the right night, the beast still rears what’s side); and due to occasional health concerns, original drummer left of its psychedelic head and the dance continues. Bill Kreutzmann began sharing his drum duties this summer with Jay Lane (formerly of Weir’s side project RatDog and the Nick Hutchinson is a freelance music writer and the author/ alt-rock group Primus). The historically cursed keyboard slot has editor of Channeling Jerry: How The Music Plays his Fans and been filled by the stable and well-considered Jeff Chimenti (also High on a Mountain: An Oral History of Jamgrass in Colorado— a RatDog alum). Despite its naysayers, and the questionable both are available online through BookBaby Book Shop.

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t’s winter of 2015: CJ Kjolhede and Joe Schramm, a two-piece rock outfit going by the name of The Patient Zeros, recently invested in a van. This is a necessary step, considering their former mode of countrywide touring was a Volkswagon Jetta, and the pair had grown tired of having their equipment take up the bulk of their vehicular space. But the luxury of legroom is short-lived—the only thing on their minds is a batch of new songs under the title Slow Motion Sickness. It’s a working name that—a couple of months earlier—popped into Kjolhede’s head at a stoplight on Park and 20th, right next to Denver’s La Pasadita Inn. “It was this weird feeling,” Kjolhede explains, “like having this thorn in your side.” The duo was in a Sisyphean rut of sorts, pushing and working hard to get their music out, but still feeling as though nothing was getting done. It didn’t help that both had just come off breakups. As soon as Kjolhede could get his hands on pen and paper, he scribbled down the three words and got to work writing with Schramm four days a week for an entire fall. The band added bassist Michael Raymond in early 2016, cementing the current trio that is The Patient Zeros. They began work on a new collection of songs, Sirens Calling, with help from Jamie Hillyer at Module Overload Recording Studio in Aurora—an album that’d be released later that year. Time flew by—more shows, recording exciting new ideas—and it seemed the band had found its stride. Still, Slow Motion Sickness remained a phrase on a page and a fading idea. It wasn’t until fall of 2018 that—after the dust had settled on Sirens Calling—the trio decided to lay down drum sessions for a few of the tracks Schramm and Kjolhede had manifested three years before, particularly “Vigilante Anne & Vigilante Andy,” a Bonnie and Clyde tale featuring trains in Amsterdam, strong cocktails and a relationship turned on its head. Slow Motion Sickness was once again in production through 2019, but it was tough to refocus aging, unfinished tracks. A pandemic made it even more difficult. “After the initial lockdown,” Kjolhede says, “we started rehearsing again in November of 2020.” But it had been close to a half-decade since they’d begun working on many of the songs. “It’s like, everytime we work together, we have this whiteboard with ‘purple stuff’ [old records] and ‘green stuff’ [new records] on it. Don’t get me wrong, I still love playing the purple stuff, but do I think I’m going to care about that by the time the album’s finally out?” Despite all the quarreling between old and new, the trio was locked in on Slow Motion Sickness, and ideas were steadily coming to fruition. “When we introduced a MIDI program—being able to write out parts and pass them along—you can just kind of knock it out in a day,” Schramm says. “It was just never something we were able to do in the past. We were adding piano sequences and cellos, getting to play with different options.”

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‘n’ roll like us.” Since then, a lot of those bands have disappeared. “The scene now feels broken up into wings, if you will, like corridors,” Schramm says. “We’ve definitely made a lot of friends, but there’s a lot of coming and going. Denver is a transitional town.” It’s a city of hard work and consistent grind for musicians. One moment, The Patient Zeros are in the mix, and then a couple of months go by and they feel like they’ve been forgotten. “People will forget very quickly, so you gotta shake hands and kiss babies, but stay genuine,” Schramm says with a laugh. Whether they’re struggling to get back into the Underground Music Showcase due to ownership changes, sending out tapes to every radio station in town, or even fielding George Strait requests at Star Bar on Larimer Street, The Patient Zeros understand that catching ears is of utmost importance. The long buildup for their opus One song in project could perhaps—and most particular, “Summer’s Under,” likely—be attributed to life and its many embodied all the advancements happenings. An album whose birth t atien P e The Patient Zeros had made. Kjolcame on a page at an intersection in h T t s ’s r ve ande r g ir hede, whose influences include the Den the heart of Denver has seen mare h t ase orchestral bliss on tracks by Sufjan riages, breakups, three presidents, a Zeros rele te—seven years Stevens and Radiohead, came to pandemic, countless shows, writing, a d o t rk life in his own music. The trio invited wo rewriting, new instrumentation, and g kin cellist Natalie Marowa to the studio ideas big and small. That same in the ma with intentions of getting strings on page slowly filled with song titles, “Reckless” and “Anesthetics,” but chord progressions, themes about when they played “Summer’s Under,” love, seasons, pain and despair, something clicked. Marowa played two criminals and cocktails. harrowing notes repeatedly on the intro, Nearly seven years since a decision that snowballed into a number its conception, on June 29, of experiments—like adding vocals from 2022, inside the crowded Raymond’s wife Elise to the end of the Mercury Cafe on California Street near track—on what is now a standout track for Capitol Hill, The Patient Zeros string guitars, screw in both Kjolhede and Schramm. cymbals and play Slow Motion Sickness in its entirety “It was years in the making,” Schramm says. “All ahead of its official release later that night. these different ideas started flooding in, and Michael’s “We’ve been swinging at the piñata for so long,” really good with other instrumentation, so it opened up. Schramm says. “When that happens, you kind of lose That’s my favorite record—I feel like I’m in Lord of the that magic a little bit—you feel like you’ve been let down Rings when it plays.” over and over again when the timeline and date keeps The group even went to garage sales around getting pushed back.” Denver, picking up cassette tapes no matter the content. About halfway through the show, Schramm takes a Background voices and applause heard on parts of the moment to breathe and look around. People are buying album are from a cassette titled “TOWN HALL MEETthe album, smiling and looking intently at the artwork. ING — 1990,” a lost blip in time from some windowless Schramm’s overwhelmed with joy, initially, and then a building in middle America that The Patient Zeros wove flood of relief. into their grand project. But the relief is short-lived, like it was in the days At last, Slow Motion Sickness was finding form, but after they bought the van. the music scene around Denver had changed. Kjolhede “All we can really think about,” Schramm says, “is recalls that, between 2012 and 2015, when it was just this new batch of songs we’re putting together.” Schramm and himself, the community felt pretty “at home.” He remembers “a lot of bands playing louder rock Email: editorial@boulderweekly.com ON THE BILL: The Patient Zeros (supporting DarkArts). 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Tickets: $20, globehall.com

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n Mimesis Documentary Festival 2022

If your organization is planning an event, please email the editor at crockett@boulderweekly.com

n Author Talk: Ari Rabin- Havt —‘The Fighting Soul’

6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Tickets: $5, boulderbookstore.org Bernie Sanders inspires fervent love and, even among his enemies, a measure of grudging respect—yet, curiously, we know little about who the man really is, with Sanders deliberately keeping the focus on his policies. Now, with The Fighting Soul, Ari Rabin-Havt takes us where no profiles or televised interviews have been able to go. As a close advisor and deputy campaign manager on Sanders’ most recent—and likely last—presidential campaign, the tireless Rabin-Havt spent more hours between 2017 and 2020 with the Vermont senator than anyone else. The Fighting Soul, an unforgettable chronicle of life on the road with Sanders and the first in-depth portrait of this fiercely independent, and famously private, left-wing firebrand.

n The Soundpost Sessions presents Jazz at The Times featuring Charles Blenzig Trio

7 and 9 p.m. Saturday, July 30, The Times Collaborative, 338 Main St., Longmont. Tickets: $15-$75. Tickets at Eventbrite: bit.ly/3vkhQn0 Jazz at The Times is an upscale, New York jazz club-style experience at The Times Collaborative in Downtown Longmont. Join for an evening of jazz featuring the Charles Blenzig Trio, with Hunter Roberts on bass and Harold Summey on drums. A menu of small plates imagined by Chef Rising Tiger will be available by table service, as well as signature cocktails by Abbott & Wallace Distilling and a selection of wine and beer. Two seatings (7 and 9 p.m.) are available.

7-8 p.m. Aug. 2-7, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. See page 17 for more about the festival. Artist-focused, community-oriented, and committed to showcasing the infinite potential of nonfiction media, the third annual Mimesis Documentary Festival, Aug. 2-7, is an immersive theatrical and virtual slate of movies, workshops, and more with artists, producers and scholars from around the world. The festival brings together six days of screenings, installation-based documentary art pieces, workshops, and conversations with some of the most dynamic voices in documentary media exploring contemporary international culture.

n Steve Earle & The Dukes with special guests The Whitmore Sisters

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3, Chautauqua Auditorium, 198 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder. Tickets: $35-$45, chautauqua.com Steve Earle is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of his generation. A protege of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, he quickly became a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, The Pretenders, and countless others.

n Fundamental 5K

n Original Practices presents ‘The Alchemist’

7:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, July 30, Boulder Reservoir, 5565 51st St., Boulder. Tickets: $25-$35, fundamentalneeds.net Join Fundamental Needs, a local nonprofit, in a 5K charity run where proceeds go toward raising money for the Marshal Fire Relief efforts and assisting Fundamental Needs’ operations on the Navajo Reservation.

6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, 277 UCB, Boulder. Tickets: $25-$56, cupresents.org Lovewit has left his London home in the care of his trusted servant Jeremy, who promptly changes his name and transforms the property into headquarters for an elaborate criminal enterprise. A laugh-out-loud satire from the slick wit of Shakespeare’s rival Ben Jonson, the Original Practices performance of The Alchemist is a one-night-only event.

n Opera in the Park—Eras of Opera

7-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 29 and 30, Glen Huntington Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. Tickets: $5-$10, thedairy.org Tracing the musical form back to the 16th century, classical period, romantic period and all the way to the contemporary era, enjoy the history of opera under the stars. This family-friendly concert will feature some of Boulder’s most talented rising artists performing classic arias and scenes from Handel, Mozart, Bellini, Verdi, Floyd, Heggie and more! There will be a fenced beer garden and food trucks.

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES

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and love “the music of the world.” She says that praising and giving attention to the good things “are as important and necessary as witnessing and naming and holding the grief and sorrow that comes with being alive.” This is always a crucial principle to keep in mind, but it will be extra essential for you in the coming weeks. Your ability to attract the influences and resources you need most will thrive if you focus on and celebrate the music of the world. PS: I encourage you to sing more than usual, too.

for you Librans. However, there are many interpretations of what balance entails. Here’s how I define it for you during the coming weeks: 1. an openness to consider several different ways to capitalize on an opportunity, but to ultimately choose just one way; 2. the ability to see and understand all sides of every story, while also knowing that for pragmatism’s sake you must endorse a single version of the story; 3. the capacity to be both constructively critical and supportively sympathetic; 4. the facility to be welcoming and inviting while still maintaining healthy boundaries.

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Aries poet Ada Limón advises us to notice

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Here’s my hope for you in the coming months: You will cultivate a specialty for connecting people and situations that need to be affiliated but aren’t yet. You will regard your flair for blending as a gift you offer generously. Can you picture yourself doing that? I think it will be fun and will also benefit you in unexpected ways. So here’s my proposed plan: Conspire to heal fragmentation and schisms. Unite heavenly and earthly things. Keep the far side and the near side in touch with each other. Never let the past forget about the future, and vice versa. One more thing, Taurus: Be gleefully imaginative as you mix and conjoin and combine.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: In a play by Gemini philosopher Jean-Paul

Sartre, a character says, “Hell is other people.” What did he mean by that? One interpretation is that our fellow humans always judge us, and their judgments rarely align with who we really are and who we imagine ourselves to be. Here’s my solution for that problem: Choose allies and companions whose views of you match your own. Is that so hard? I suspect it will be easier than usual for you in the coming months, Gemini. Take advantage of life’s natural tendency to connect you with cohorts who appreciate you. Be picky as you avoid the hell of other people.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: The people most likely to succeed as entre-

preneurs are those with a high degree of analytical intelligence. Right? Well, it’s more complicated than that. Reasoning ability and problem-solving skills are key skills, but not as important as emotional intelligence: the power to understand and manage feelings. I mention this, Cancerian, because the coming months will be a favorable time to advance your ambitions by enhancing and expressing your emotional intelligence. Here’s some reading to foster your powers: 1. tinyurl.com/EmotionSmarts 2. tinyurl.com/SmartFeeler 3. tinyurl.com/WiseFeeler 4. tinyurl.com/BrightFeeler

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: In the coming weeks, Leo, I urge you to always be confident that YOU ARE THE PARTY! Everywhere you go, bring the spirits of fun and revelry. Be educationally entertaining and entertainingly educational. Amuse yourself by making life more interesting for everyone. At the same time, be kind and humble, never arrogant or insensitive. A vital part of your assignment is to nourish and inspire others with your radiance and charm. That formula will ensure you get everything you need. I foresee bounty flowing your way! PS: Regularly reward your admirers and followers with your magnanimous Chesire-cat grin.

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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “Life is enchanting for me because I have so

much control over what I think,” my Scorpio friend Daria told me. “If I decide to flatter myself with comments about how attractive I am, I can do just that. If I would like to imagine a good fairy visiting me while I sleep and giving me a dream of having an orgasm with my lover while we fly over the Serengeti Plains, I can.” I asked her about the times when worries gush forth unbidden from her subconscious mind and disturb her joy. She said, “I simply picture myself shoving those worries in a hole in the ground and blowing them up with an exploding rose.” I bring Daria’s mind-management expertise to your attention, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to raise your mastery over what you think.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: People might impatiently advise you to relax

and settle down. Others might tell you to stop dreaming such big visions and formulating such adventurous plans. Still others might give you the side-eye because they imagine you are having too much fun and brainstorming too wildly and laughing too loudly. If you receive messages like those, give the complainers a copy of this horoscope. It will tell them that YOU WILL NOT COMPLY WITH ANY INHIBITING DIRECTIVES. Your astrologer, me, authorizes you to be as vast and venturesome and enterprising and spontaneous as you dare. In doing so, I am speaking on behalf of the cosmic rhythms. Your plucky audacity has been heavenly ordained.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: In accordance with astrological omens, I hereby

authorize you to worry, worry, and worry some more. Stew and simmer and ferment as you weigh all the options and mull the correct actions. But when the time is right, end your fretting with crisp decisiveness. Shake off any residual doubt that still clings to you. And then undertake robust action to transform the situation that provoked your righteous brooding. In my astrological opinion, what I have just described is your best plan for success in the coming days.

AQUARIUS

love or my sister’s love or the love on a foreign kitchen floor,” writes Rebecca Dinerstein Knight in her novel The Sunlit Night. “I wanted to forgive my mother and father for their misery and find myself a light man who lived buoyantly and to be both his light and his dark.” I offer you her thoughts, Aquarius, in the hope of inspiring you to expand and deepen your ideas about the love you want. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to revise and reinvigorate your definitions of intimacy and togetherness. You will have extra power to see new truths about how best to create maximum synergy and symbiosis.

have inscribed about Virgos: You may not always find the perfect solution, but you are skilled at finding the best solution available. This will be an especially valuable knack in the coming weeks, both for yourself and others. I trust you will scan for practical but compassionate answers, even if they are partial. And I hope you will address at least some of everyone’s needs, even if no one is completely satisfied. You can be the master of creative compromise that we all need. Thanks in advance for your excellent service!

SCORPIO

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “I was looking for a love unlike my parents’

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: In my Astrological Book of Life, here’s what I

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Everyone knows that “balance” is a keyword

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “Even raw and messy emotions can be

understood as a form of light, crackling and bursting with energy,” writes Jungian psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés. For example, “We can use the light of rage in a positive way, in order to see into places we cannot usually see.” Likewise, confusion might be a healthy sign that a long-held misunderstanding is dissolving. Disappointment may herald the demise of an unrealistic expectation. So let’s unleash a big cheer for raw and messy emotions, Pisces! I suspect they will soon be your gateway to clarity and renewal.

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BY DAN SAVAGE This is a preview of this week’s Savage Love. The full version is now exclusively available on Dan’s website Savage.Love. Dear Dan: A friend hooked me up with a much younger guy for weed. Let’s call him “Pretty Boy.” He knew something about me—Pretty Boy had been to a party at my house—and I knew something about him: he’s a burner, like our mutual friend. Consent is supposed to be a core burner value and before we hook up, Pretty Boy asks if he can bring his paddles. So, we had a talk and I tell him I’m open to a little pain, but I’m mostly meh about it. (Except love bites. I love me some love bites.) Long story short: Pretty Boy thinks he’s a great fuck cuz he’s got a great big one and can pound long and hard. My pussy ain’t been touched in almost three years but so far as I know “OUCH” is the universal safe word! Maybe I should’ve picked a better one because I had to say it so many times! I figured it was heat of the moment stuff, so I wasn’t mad, and agreed to hook up again. Much more OUCH, but on both sides this time. (Love bites!) Next day I’m figuring out how to manage this. I find a thing called an Ohnut and I tell Pretty Boy I’m willing to plunk down the money. Whatever it takes to make his PIV pounding less OUCH. And then we have this conversation: Sore Lady: “So, surely this has happened before, yes?” Pretty Boy: “Of course it has. LOL.” Now I’m mad. This motherfucker knew! He did it on purpose! I ask him point blank if he got off on it and he won’t answer. Which means he did. Now I want to set him on fire. But here’s the thing: Pretty Boy is the finest thing I’ve ever had the pleasure of putting my hands on in my entire life. I warned him that I have a history of channeling my rage into intricate revenge plots, most too crazy to carry out. I did rat him out to the dude who hooked us up. As for Pretty Boy, I could tell him to sit down, shut up, and hear my truth, but I already delivered that message. (See: OUCH.) I should probably slam the door and lock it, but he is the finest thing! And I’ve never had a hookup that wasn’t a little bit sketchy. But this is too much, right? RIGHT? —Boys Are Supposed To Ask Right, Dan? P.S. I didn’t even cum either time! Dear BASTARD: So, Pretty Boy doesn’t care if you come or not, he

ignores your feedback during sex, and he engages in rough sex knowing it’s sometimes painful—in a bad way—for his sex partners. Fuck that guy. By which I mean, of course, don’t fuck that guy. But you’re obviously tempted to fuck that guy again, BASTARD, as you make clear in your letter. (A letter I spent an hour editing for, um, clarity.) You wanna fuck Pretty Boy again because he’s the “finest thing” you’ve ever gotten to touch. Pretty Boy is so hot, BASTARD, that you’re tempted to fuck him despite wanting to set him on fire—in a bad way—after you spoke to him about the sex being painful. Look, BASTARD, having a hot FWB is great, but having a hot FWB—or boyfriend or girlfriend or enbyfriend—who’s a shitty, selfish, inconsiderate lover is a lot like owning a house with an amazing view that happens to be right next door to a trash incinerator. Sooner or later you get used to the view and start taking it for granted, BASTARD, and the only thing you really notice after that is the stench. Still, if you’re inclined to extend Pretty Boy the benefit of the doubt, BASTARD, it wouldn’t be hard to whip one up. He’s young! It’s entirely possible all the women he’s fucked up to this point in his short life liked his style, i.e., long and hard pounding! It’s also possible the woman he’s fucked hated his style and, like you, hoped Pretty Boy would hear “OUCH,” stop, solicit their feedback, and correct course. Seeing that’s not something he’s either able or inclined to do, you’re gonna have to use your words and the actual leverage you have over him—your pussy, not your mutuals—to get him to fuck you without physically hurting you. If he wants back in your pussy, tell him he has to do it/things/you differently. More foreplay, going slower, using lube, not going all the way in (with or without an Ohnut)—whatever he needs to do to make sex more comfortable and pleasurable for you, that needs to be a clearly-stated (by you!) and enforced (ditto!) condition of him getting anywhere near your pussy ever again. And if he laughs it off, BASTARD, set him on fire*. P.S. What happened to the paddles? Email questions@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage. Find columns, podcasts, books, merch and more at savage.love.

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or as long as people have cooked food here, cooks have probably complained about the altitude. After all, Boulder is the place where “a three-minute egg is actually a fiveor six-minute egg,” according to The Art of High Altitude Cooking, a 1960s Public Service utility booklet. Reduced atmospheric pressure at altitude means water boils at a lower temperature. Cooks can easily work their way around the elevation, but for newcomers who bake it can be kitchen hell. Émigrés from distant sea level states and lands have arrived in Boulder with cherished family biscuit, cookie, bread and cake recipes that fail miserably the first time they are attempted. Just know this: It’s not you, it’s Colorado. It’s the altitude as well as the humidity. Worse yet, a quick bread recipe that works in Boulder has to be tweaked again for Nederland (8,228 feet) and Gold Hill (8,300 feet). There’s even a culinary term for that recipe-adjusting process: It’s called “altituding.” Jennifer Mesinger knows altitude. She grew up baking in Jamestown before her career as pastry chef and operator of Lucky’s Bakehouse and Lucky’s Cafe in Boulder. “The No. 1 challenge for bakers is moisture,” Mesinger says. “We live high and dry. Sometimes just a little bit of water in a cake recipe is helpful, but don’t go crazy. Because dry ingredients may be dryer than expected, it’s always better to weigh than measure them.” Make sure your oven temperature is accurate, but don’t become dependent on technology. “Keep an eye on those baking times and

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Boulder bakers reveal their secrets to successfully ‘altituding’ beloved sea level family recipes by John Lehndorff

what you’re baking,” she says. “Rather than using a timer, pull the baked good out the second it is done!” Delphine Gauvain, owner of Chez Delphine, a home-based French bakery and pastry school, came to bake here from her birthplace in Provence, France, by way of China and Arizona. “My parents would send me to the local patisserie for pastries,” Gauvain says. “When I moved to Superior, I wanted to make the breads and pastries I grew up with, but baking was much more difficult. The baguette crust was not crunchy.” “When I was first baking cookies, I sat in front of the oven and watched because I was so stressed out about overbaking them. You have to be vigilant until you figure it out,” she says. Basically, you’ll have to experiment. Gauvain says she has learned to always add a little more liquid than sea level recipes call for, and to slightly increase the baking time. “One of the big problems is the lack of humidity,” Gauvain says. “I fill a tray with water in the oven when I bake bread.” She “proofs” her loaves using her microwave as a chamber, placing a cup of hot water alongside to create a warm,

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humid environment where the bread can rise. Gauvain produces a menu of madeleines, caneles sacristains, pain au chocolat, baguettes, boules, fougasse and French cookie classics such as sables, “cats’ tongues,” butter cookies and sugar-crunchy palmiers for online orders. “Cookies have a tendency to spread out here,” she says. “I give them a little more space on the baking sheet and shorten the baking time by about two minutes. For big cakes, I add more eggs or use bigger eggs.” To fight cookie sprawl, the Colorado State University Extension Service formula suggests a slight increase in baking temperature, reducing leavening and sugar slightly, along with a slight increase in liquid ingredients. Free information from CSU is available online. Mesinger recommends checking with the volume The Joy of Cooking. Another good source is Susan W. Purdy’s Pie in the Sky Successful Baking at High Altitudes. The Art of High Altitude Cooking pamphlet offers a cookie tip that remains true—although it doesn’t have anything to do with the altitude. Shiny cookie sheets are less likely to burn your cookies than dark or blackened sheets.

Local Food News: Ginger Pig Returns

Sweet Bites Panaderia is open at 100 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette . . . The Diner Bar is open at 160 E. Main

St., Lyons . . . Coming soon: On Aug. 1, Louisville’s former Precision Pours, 1030 E. South Boulder Road, becomes the second location of Longmont’s stellar MECO Coffee Collective. . . . Denver’s The Ginger Pig restaurant, which launched as a Boulder County food truck in 2016, will open a takeout location at 1203 13th St., formerly La Choza. . . . Fluffernutter Imperial Stout—aged on Reese’s Peanut Butter and marshmallow creme—is being poured at Uhl’s Brewery in Longmont. Bring a Fluffernutter sandwich for a proper pairing.

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Dogged Dining: Yes or No?

Creatures of the canine persuasion are showing up with great frequency at local restaurants . . . not to mention supermarkets, cafes, bakeries and brewpubs. Most seem not to be official service animals. Do dogs belong inside restaurants? What about cats? Readers and restaurant workers, email: nibbles@boulderweekly.com.

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“Cooking teaches you that you’re not always in control. Cooking is life’s biggest comeuppance. Ingredients can fool you.” —Celebrated Mexican food authority Diana Kennedy, who died this week at the age of 99. John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:20 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, kgnu.org). Comments: nibbles@ boulderweekly.com

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her crew at Ironton hold dear. A trio of whiskeys—American straight malt, Colorado straight rye malt and a Colorado bourbon—offer some alternatives to botanical spirits. To celebrate Ironton’s fourth anniversary, the distillery is releasing a new batch of the bourbon aged four years on Aug. 13. Each of the whiskeys are made with grains grown and malted in Colorado, partnering with local stalwarts The Whiskey Sisters Supply and Troubadour Malting. Though I admit to being partial to rye whiskey in general, the straight rye is a standout in the category. Pale and chocolate malted rye offer a robust body and spicy finish balanced out by the smoothness of the two-row barley. Walters joined Ironton when the distillery was just starting out, bringing years of experience to Ironton, from studying wine and fermentation in college to spending a few years working at Stranahan’s Whiskey in Denver. “(Stranahan’s) looks really shiny on paper, but when you get back there it’s all scrubbing floors, scrubbing tanks,” she says with a laugh. The experience at Stranahan’s was a positive one for Walters though. Beyond the hands-on experience gained in Colorado’s first and largest distillery, Walters says the people she’s met through the distillery and surrounding industry have been a boon. “Even after I left Stranahan’s, I kept a close-knit group of people that worked together and are now off doing their own things,” Walters says. “We’re all so supportive of each other and come to each other for help all the time. It’s the best thing to have in my back pocket.” There is a patience required in distillation that often

The award-winning spirits of Denver’s Ironton Distillery

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hat goes into an award-winDETAILS: Ironton’s ning gin? Juni4th Anniversary per, ponderosa and Straight pine and a lot Bourbon Whiskey of passion, according to release. Saturday, Ironton Distillery’s head Aug. 13, Ironton distiller, Laura Walters. Distillery and “The Ponderosa Gin Crafthouse. 3636 is definitely our flagship Chestnut Place, spirit,” Walters explains. Denver, “It’s actually the first spirit irontondistillery.com I made.” The gin stands out with strong flavors that evoke Colorado’s mountain forests, full of sage, ponderosa pine, lavender and rosemary grown in the distillery garden. Supported by botanicals like citrus and coriander, the result is a delicate balance of earthy and floral qualities that refresh but don’t overwhelm the palate. “It’s very floral but also still a dry gin,” Walters says. “There’s a lot of cinnamon, more than I remember to mention, but that’s where the sweetness and earthiness comes in.” After a taste or three, Ironton’s Ponderosa Gin definitely earns its latest accolades—a trifecta of Double Gold, Best in Class and Best Signature Botanical Spirit from the 2022 American Distilling Institute Awards. Though the Ponderosa Gin may be the spirit garnering attention for Ironton right now, it’s certainly not the only artful libation in its portfolio. A pair of Genievre spirits—both aged and unaged—offer alternative gins, accompanied by botanical cousins like the rye-based and carraway-forward aquavit and a pleasantly potent absinthe show the love of herbaceous spirits Walters and

starts before the first barrels get stored or a bottle hits the shelf. Walters joined the distillery early on, but it took around three years to start seeing the fruits of labor. With the help of the all women-led staff, Ironton germinated for years before opening its doors to the public in 2018. Ironton took over a series of warehouses that were part of an art collective called Ironton Studios, located in Denver’s RiNo neighborhood next to the Blue Moon Brewery. Walters honed the recipes for gin and whiskey while the space was built out from an art studio to a tasting room and functional distillery. Part of the property includes Ironton’s impressive 10,000-square-foot patio space, which also hosts the gardens that grow gin botanicals. According to Kelsey Bigelow, Ironton’s marketing director, the idea was to turn it into a space that didn’t seem as close to I-70 as it actually is. “We wanted it to be somewhere people could come and relax, have a good cocktail and be outside,” Bigelow says. “We want to be an approachable distillery.” Keeping in line with RiNo’s art district and its roots as an art studio, Ironton’s patio features sculptures from artists who previously used the space to create. The distillery also keeps one space open to showcase the works of local artists, Bigelow adds. The artist even gets to collaborate with Ironton’s bar staff to develop a cocktail featured for the month. “Every month there is a different local artist and they can do the show however they want,” Bigelow says. “A lot of them are artists that have never shown before or it’s their first solo show.” Ironton’s spirits can be found in liquor stores throughout Colorado, but the distillery is definitely worth the visit. Scope out some art, order a tasty cocktail or three and round it off with some pizza made from spent whiskey mash.

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ntil April, Afghani food was hard to come by in Boulder. Silk Road Grill and Market opened at 2607 Pearl St., previously home to a couple of Middle Eastern eateries. It’s true that the cuisines in Central Asia and the Mediterranean overlap with dishes often labeled “Middle Eastern.” Silk Road deli dishes house-made hummus, gyros, eggplant-based baba ganoush and the excellent fresh falafel I sampled with yogurt sauce and the longest grain buttery basmati rice I’ve seen. This local family also dishes authentic home-

Boulder Recipe Flashback: Belgian cookies

oulder’s Belgian Bakery at 3267 28th St. was known for its great European-pastries, cakes, breads and especially authentic cookies from Belgium. The bakery shared this cookie recipe in the early 2000s. You’ll need to shop around to find real “sprinkles.” Belgian Bakery Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar 4 egg yolks 1 egg 1 tablespoon vanilla extract Salt, pinch 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup dark chocolate sprinkles (real, not chocolate flavored!) Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg yolks one at a time and then the whole egg, vanilla and salt. Scrape the bowl and add flour and mix until well blended. Stir in sprinkles. Drop rounded tablespoonsful on a buttered baking sheet, leaving room for cookies to spread. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for about 25 minutes or until cookies are golden with slightly browned edges.

Summer Hack: Grilled fava beans

nough already with the Dr. Lecter and Silence of the Lambs references! Fresh fava beans are one of summer’s great pleasures and ridiculously easy to cook. You don’t even have to free them from their long green pods first. Toss fresh fava pods with some olive oil, sea salt, crushed red chili flakes and lemon juice, and then toss them on your gas grill or, even better, in a smoker. Grill them until they are blistered on one side, about 5 minutes, then flip and repeat. Slip a fava from its skin and taste. It should be creamy, not crunchy and undercooked. Pods actually keep the beans cooking for minutes after they are removed from the grill.

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style Afghani fare starting with Kabuli palow. Rice is tossed with seasoned almonds, vegetables, raisins and halal lamb. Next up is a classic lamb shank, simmered with potatoes and carrots. The menu includes lamb tikka kebabs, kobeida (ground lamb and beef meat) kebabs and mildly sweet desserts like knafeh. The market area is well-stocked with teas (chai), spices and ready-to-use jarred condiments like grilled red pepper and eggplant spread.

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Afghani fare in Boulder, tamales to go, Belgian cookies and grilled favas (no Chianti)

Another Roadfood Attraction: Fast food tamales

ust because I love fine dining doesn’t mean that drive-thru fast food doesn’t have a place in my heart. Headed to a gig on a recent Sunday morning, an egg and sausage muffin or bagel just wasn’t going to cut it. Driving down Sheridan Boulevard in Westminster I saw the word “tamale” and said: “That’s it.” I’ve always liked the Tamale Kitchen, and this mom-and-pop, Colorado-born chain now boasts seven metro locations, including one shop just off U.S. 36. The menu includes the necessary chile relleno burritos, but I only had eyes for tamales. As I sat in the parking lot, I unwrapped the tamales steaming hot from their corn husk and paper wrappings. Such a simple, satisfying breakfast—cornmeal bundles middled with jalapeno and cheese, red chili pork, and spicy chicken and chili. It’s the very definition of “fine.” I’m unlikely to take advantage of it, but the Tamale Kitchen has a sale every Friday and Saturday from midnight to 3 a.m. offering $2.72 breakfast burritos and 92 cent bean tostadas, tamales and beef tacos.

Culinary Calendar: Soup and kindness

hef Paolo Neville and his brother, Ethan Neville, host Stone Soup of Kindness, July 30 at Longmont’s Farm 49. The event features organic flatbread pizzas, salad from farm vegetables, and asks participants to bring a vegan ingredient to add to the community “stone” soup. Proceeds benefit Feet Forward for Boulder County residents experiencing homelessness. Tickets at Eventbrite: bit.ly/3z6YsLm A summer guide to Boulder County’s Roadside Farm Stands is available at BoulderWeekly.com. Email: Nibbles@BoulderWeekly.com

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Closing the loop

CDPHE pilot proves breweries’ carbon dioxide emissions can be used to grow cannabis—now businesses need to get on board

by Will Brendza

s the environmental specialist and small business consultant for the Colorado Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE) Kaitlin Urso worked specifically with breweries in 2016 and 2017, and then with cannabis businesses from 2018 to 2021. Over those five years she learned a lot about Colorado’s brewing and cannabis industries, and two facts stuck out to her: one) that brewing beer produces a lot of excess carbon dioxide, and two) that the process of growing commercial cannabis requires a lot of carbon dioxide as an input. So, when she came across Earthly Labs’ system, which captures carbon off of brewery fermentation tanks, then compresses and stores it, something in her mind clicked. She decided to run an experiment. “At every single craft brewery in the state and across the nation, the default is to vent all of these CO2 emissions from the fermentation tanks to the atmosphere,” she says. With EarthlyLabs’ technology, though, that waste could be reused in a closed loop circular economy, connecting two of Colorado’s most iconic industries in a sustainable partnership. “It was a great way to take what would be a waste from the brewery and utilize it as an input commodity for the marijuana facility at a discounted rate,” Urso says. In 2019, Urso reached out to Denver Beer Company,

The Clinic, and Earthly Labs to bring the three small businesses together to plan a pilot project with the CDPHE. Using Earthly Labs’ system, Denver Beer Co would trap the carbon dioxide coming off of its fermentation tanks, keep some of it to charge kegs before distribution, and then sell the excess to the cultivators at The Clinic, who would use the locally produced carbon dioxide to feed plants. Currently, cultivators get carbon dioxide from traditional suppliers, who capture it as a byproduct from combustion at power plants. That’s still sustainably obtained, but it isn’t a perfect system. It has to be shipped from a power plant to a distributor, and then out around Colorado to the grow operations using it. By contrast, Earthly Labs’ technology allows a brewery just blocks away from a cultivator to provide that carbon dioxide, negating the emissions associated with distribution. And, Urso points out, it’s higher quality carbon dioxide as well. “The CO2 coming from the natural fermentation at the brewery doesn’t have the same hydrocarbon contamination as when it’s sourced from combustion,” she explains. “When we looked, it was more pure than medical grade or laboratory grade CO2.” The pilot officially lasted for one year and according to Urso, it was a huge success. The Clinic used Denver Beer Company’s carbon dioxide to grow a strain they called 93 Hoppy Trees that hit the shelves in July 2020

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(and sold out extremely fast). And the partnership didn’t end there. The Clinic continued to buy Denver Beer’s carbon dioxide and use it to feed their plants for almost another year. The only reason the dispensary stopped was because Denver Beer Co expanded its taprooms, and needed more carbon dioxide to charge kegs for draft beer and didn’t have enough excess to sell to The Clinic any longer. Aside from that, the pilot lived up to every expectation. Every party was a winner. “The brewery gets to go from just selling beer to selling beer and CO2,” Urso says. “On the marijuana side, they get to locally source one of their inputs and get it at a discounted rate.” She says The Clinic was able to undercut carbon dioxide costs by as much as 20%, and Denver Beer Co was able to pay off all the equipment costs in just 18 months. The only hurdle to implementing this system across Colorado is the upfront cost, Urso says—because it’s relatively expensive. “Businesses really just have to commit to doing it,” Urso says. “Both businesses need to commit to the costs and commit to a partnership and to recouping those costs.” She suggests that cultivators and breweries could split the upfront expenses of installing the Earthly Labs equipment. Then they could pay it off together; or the cultivator could front the money and get carbon dioxide from the brewery for free until it’s paid off. Alternatively, Urso suggests a third party could step in and create a service where multiple breweries and cultivators share the same equipment and the benefits of using it. “This pilot was a success and a repeatable success,” she says. “We really only need a couple of breweries to step up and install this equipment. There’s lots of cultivators in the area that would gladly purchase the carbon dioxide locally at a discounted rate if the supply was there.” Email: wbrendza@boulderweekly.com

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