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Also: Haircuts, whiskey drinking, sucky Christmas music, and tips on a cheap, last-minute Thanksgiving dinner

We’ve got plenty to be thankful for this year.

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Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!

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What’s inside Volume 1 Number 5

November, 25, 2015

Chief Executive Officer

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From the Editor

‘My biggest surprise was that it just [bleeping] worked’

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Love it or Hate it

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Beer

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Weed

Colorado Sticker Art’s Bryant Aucoin has one goal: ‘I’ll try to make a cool sticker.’

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High-Ass Recipes

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Sound

Douglas Bennett

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V.P. of Finance and Operations Bob Ganley V.P. of Advertising David Habrat V.P. of Marketing Kricket Lewis

Downtown Lowdown

Founding Editors Amy Maestas David Holub Katie Klingsporn Josh Stephenson Editor/ designer/ art director David Holub dholub@bcimedia.com 375-4551 Contributors Bryant Liggett Robert Alan Wendeborn

10 Get Smart: Whiskey drinking You may have noticed the weather.

It’s cold. Real cold. Oh sure, you could zip your puffy coat up to your ears, or you could let Lucas Hess, manager of El Moro Spirits & Tavern, teach you how to put a fire in your belly.

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12 The Ska story Without many road maps other than their own instincts and interests, the Ska Brewing crew developed its look, aesthetic and business culture in the same DIY spirit it brewed its beer. Perhaps the most genius part? They envisioned a comic book at the start, and its scenes and characters would be the basis of all their labels and marketing efforts two decades later.

Tell us what you think!

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Send everything to editor@dgomag.com

22 Your guide to a lastminute Thanksgiving for less than $25 It’s the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the fridge is empty, the pantry is bare, the slopes are calling. No worries.

We got some advice from Aaron Seitz, owner of College Drive Café, on a quick, delicious Thanksgiving without breaking the bank or interfering with fun time.

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Album Review 9 15 Student Life 16 Movies 17 Savage Love 20 Happenings 19 Pages 23 Horoscope/ puzzles/ Bizarro

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On the cover A photo illustration incorporating the current True Blonde six pack carrier and an early iteration of the design on a 1995 fax from Matt Rousseau to Dave Thibodeau.

Illustration by David Holub/DGO

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Foaming soap and Cardboard: Some days the world changes

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emember when foaming soap wasn’t a thing?

You’d be in a public restroom, go to wash your hands and have to, what, create the lather yourself ? I can’t imagine a world without it now, but back in 2003, I was in the bathroom of a devastatingly hip restaurant on San Antonio’s famed Riverwalk and I encountered foaming soap for the first time. I swear to you, the thought I had was this is going to change everything. And boy-howdy did it ever. Overnight it was foaming soap everywhere, to the point now, if you’re like me, you encounter non-foaming soap in a public restroom and you snort and guffaw and scream what is this horseshit?

I had another moment like that the other night at a friend’s party, a moment where something new was happening and I knew it was important and monumental, where I wasn’t sure if things would ever be quite the same.

Like any party, there were a halfdozen conversations going at once, a cube of cheap beer, people milling and mingling. And then the host produced what looked like cardboard goggles and slid his phone into one end.

He passed it around with the simple command to put it up to your eyes and look around. “What is it?” I asked.

“It’s the world changing,” he said. I laughed but he was kind of serious.

The contraption was Google Cardboard, which my friend had received unsolicited recently in his Sunday New York Times. After downloading a special app, Cardboard – consisting of two cheap plastic lenses and the aforementioned cardboard goggles that act as rudimentary blinders – transforms your smartphone into a no-joke virtual reality machine.

And it completely and single-handedly took over the party.

Using special cameras that shoot 360 degrees, the videos allow viewers on a computer to pan up, down, left and right, essentially allowing users

to control the camera. Viewing these 360-degree videos through Cardboard is an entirely different experience, allowing you to “look around” the scene as if you are actually there, immersed.

One video we took turns watching was a helicopter flying over New York City. Friends clamored for a turn with it, putting this thing up to their face, oohing, aahing, mouths agape, jaws on the floor. “Give it to so-and-so to try next,” I heard people bark. Some would look through it and just marvel motionless at what they saw. “Look up! Look down!” people shouted.

“It’s mind blowing ... it’s insane,” my friend said. But then he caught himself. No, it’s not really, he said.

It’s your phone, a cardboard box and a couple lenses, made so cheaply that The New York Times sent it out to more than 1 million people, giving virtually anyone the chance to experience people and places unlike they ever have before.

Putting virtual reality so easily into the hands of millions of people has plenty of implications. It will be interesting to see if it stays an aweinducing technological novelty, or if it is used for something bigger.

Already the Times is using 360-degree videos in its news reporting, and seen through a device like Cardboard, they have the power to put viewers as close to the story as you can get without being there. One video shows life at a Syrian refugee camp. The level of empathy achieved through such experiences will undoubtedly connect us to issues and people in more meaningful and transformative ways.

Maybe we’ll look back in 10 years and see that such personal VR was a passing fad. Or maybe such contraptions will be laughably rudimentary.

But the possibilities appear endless, territories uncharted. My guess is that we’ll be immersed, unable to remember what life was like before it.

David Holub is the editor for DGO. dholub@bcimedia.com.

Living in the small, western town of Mancos with its low-key, rural fashion, I’ve come to treasure my quarterly visits to the “Clip&-Curl,” as I like to call all hair salons. As far as I’m concerned, haircuts are gifts from the good sweet Lord above, heaven-sent mini chair vacations I greatly enjoy for the following reasons: 1. They feel hella good. Usually, a long fingernail-sporting stylist washes my hair like I’m a baby with expensive products I’m too cheap to buy for myself. These little hair baths tend to involve a vigorous scalp massage so divine that I nearly faint.

2. Somebody actually gives a shit. Bless her, my fashion-forward stylist tells me I look like Demi Moore and offers suggestions about how I can enhance the Demi-factor, carefully considering a style that actually leaves me feeling semi-OK looking.

3. I leave looking super fly. I don’t possess any of the accoutrements my stylist uses to tame my freshly-coiffed tresses, but DAMN does a skilled blowout make my hairs look good! After a really bangin’ cut and style, I feel a powerful surge of feminine mystique radiate forth from my lady parts. For the next week or so, until my hair falls back into a limp, greasy equilibrium, I walk around like I own all of your souls.

Having someone – anyone – touch my hairs and scalp, whether they be Paul Mitchell himself or a friend’s mom doing $15 cuts from her garage, it matters not – I loves me a haircut.

— Jaime Becktel

Hate it Confession: It’s been six years since I paid for a haircut. Yeah, I cut my own hair and not only because I’m a cheap bastard. I used to get so anxious at the thought of a haircut that I would procrastinate until I couldn’t put it off a day longer and then wait three more months before dragging myself in. Here’s why: 1. Strangers. I don’t like people I don’t know touching me for any reason. I don’t want pretty much anyone’s face that close to mine or to hear them breathe or smell anything emanating from their strange pores, and I definitely don’t want anything of theirs brushing up against anything of mine.

2. Childhood. I may have been traumatized from my first haircut. The barber was twice the size of most full-grown humans, and had glasses the size of airplane windows and the biggest set of horse teeth I’ve seen since. I cried ferociously. Things didn’t improve growing up.

My dad’s mandated haircuts conveyed one thing: military service, devastating during an era of mullets and Eddie Van Halen.

3. Small talk. I avoid any situation where some dude and I have nothing of substance to say to one another and then pretend to make it seem like we do. I don’t care about sports and you don’t care about my job. The only thing worse: awkward silence. It’s a lose-lose.

Plus, haircuts leave me to the whims of someone brandishing sharp instruments haphazardly around my dear and vulnerable eyes. No thanks.

— David Holub

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First Draughts | Robert Alan Wendeborn

This holiday wish list is, let’s be honest, mostly about booze

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s much as I hate to admit it, it’s shopping season, and I think I’m pretty good at picking out gifts for other people, but I’m not the easiest person to shop for. Actually, most people know that I’m really picky about what I wear, what I listen to, what TV and movies I watch and what kind of gear I use. This really aggravates people when it comes time to shop for me. Sadly, I end up getting a lot of gift cards.

What a lot of people don’t realize, and what most people who know me forget, is that I value experiences over things. If someone said I could have a new iPad or a plane ticket to Vermont, I’d take the plane ticket in a heartbeat. And this carries over to my holiday wish list (which, let’s be honest, is mostly about booze).

Anyone who’s read this column a few times knows that, for me, beer isn’t just a flavor or a beverage, but an experience.

And when it’s a new beer, it’s an adventure. Brewerji Von Honsebrouck, a Belgian brewery, makes a three pack of wild and sour ales that would give me something to unwrap on Christmas day and something that’s a bit of an adventure.

I normally detest getting gift cards, but a gift card to El Moro would be a great beer adventure. With around 100 beers available at any given time, El Moro has an amazing cellar. They have everything from bottles of rare sours over $40, to tall boys of Hamm’s (the flavor is in the second “M”). And with a very educated bar staff, they’ll be able to pair whatever beer you’re drinking with anything on the menu. And don’t forget to buy the

kitchen a round of PBRs (it’s $5 on the bottom of the menu, and they definitely show you some love when you do it).

Though I love beer and can nerd out with the best of any beer nerd, I also have a fondness for bourbon. It’s easily my favorite spirit, but I’m pretty ignorant about why I like what I like, and I’m not ready to find out [editor’s note: When you’re done here, check out page 10].

I want to continue with my ignorance and bliss, so I would love a bottle of Four Roses. One of the reasons I love Four Roses is its current strategy of intense customer relations (if you’re a wholesale customer, you can pick the barrels you want your bottles to come from), interesting “barrel strength” releases (they don’t blend the whisky with other barrels before bottling, which means variation in the alcohol content and character in each bottle), and they make 10 different bourbons using five yeast strains and two mashbills (these are some of the only whisky terms I know because they’re also beer terms), and all of this to me equals an adventure when I’m drinking Four Roses.

And if you want to go ahead and pick one of these up for me, you can drop them off at Steaming Bean, and Erica will put it under the tree for me.

Robert Alan Wendeborn puts the bubbles in the beer at Ska Brewing Co. His first book of poetry, The Blank Target, was published this past spring by The Lettered Streets Press and is available at Maria’s Bookshop. robbie@ skabrewing.com

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[ weed ] Seeing Through the Smoke Christopher Gallagher

Spiritual and cellular: How growing weed changed me

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s my boy Chocolate Duck likes to say, “There’s levels”: Jimi and Jerry and James Brown, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, Christopher Columbus, Walt Whitman, Kerouac, Kesey – some people are seekers, pushing things until they’re reshaped, until the boundaries are redefined and everyone who comes later on lives in a different world.

We all walk around carrying our own personal boundaries, our interpretations of the world and our individual places in it, our judgments of who we are and are not, of what we can and cannot do. Sometimes these limits are sensible, there for our safety; sometimes they’re rooted in fear and limit what we might become.

Sometimes we need to re-examine our vantage point, to see things differently – if you’re 5’1”, you might never dunk a basketball, but you could climb a Fourteener and feel like the lord of all you survey.

When we started growing weed, Charlie D. and I drove a dozen and a half plants from his place, where they were smothering in a closet, to my basement (the furnace room, actually) and surrounded them with T5 shop lights. It was a pretty basic setup.

As it turns out, we might be seekers. We dropped that first crop and got a couple proper grow lights. We added another dozen plants to our next run. Tubs for mixing soil, tables full of clones, more lights, fans to move the air and strengthen the stalks, other fans to bring in air and vent out heat from the lights, HPS bulbs, a visit from an electrician, another dozen plants, clone pods, cloning medium, peat moss, veg nutrients, bloom nutes, flat white paint, four-day trim sessions, scissor hash, metal halides, bubble bags, HEPA filters, squirrel fans, new strains, pallets and dirt and green, car rides to drop pounds, $600 electric bills, gallon

jugs, 50 clones at a clip, clotheslines, mason jars, soup cauldrons full of glycerin tincture (with blackberry brandy and Mountain Dew Throwback for flavor), scribbled-up calendars, staggered trimming cycles, and a couple years down the line, a new me.

I’d developed a whole new territory. I involved my mind and my body every day with this new thing. I was down in the garden every night, pinching and tying and snipping, pouring gallons, smoothing soil, getting dirty, stinking like a skunk from the terpene-laced oils and resin, smiling like a little kid as the breezes made the leaves dance a slinky little dance. It got into me at a cellular level. It became spiritual. I had a vision one night as I camped under the stars. I dreamed of oceans of healing water. I went home after that weekend and spent extra time every night pouring water through pots until I saw it leak out the bottom, then circling through dozens of other plants to circle back and do it again, pouring gently, looking closely, making adjustments as I went – a quarter turn, a piece of string, another bamboo stake: anything for those girls.

On one level, it was the simplest of things: Some little bushes, light, wind, water, dirt.

But at the same time, it was everything.

Growing included every part of me. It pushed my limits and changed my boundaries by bringing with it whole sets of knowledge and questions, challenges and answers that forced me to look both outward and inward for solutions while it helped me to find a place of health and happiness. Life is full of these opportunities; here’s hoping one crosses your path as you travel through the next week. Be well ’til then.

Christopher Gallagher lives with his wife and their four dogs and two horses. Life is pretty darn good.

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Broccoli mac and cheese You don’t have to be high to enjoy this ... but it sure doesn’t hurt The main ingredients here are two things that should be in every kitchen at all times: A box of macaroni and cheese for those times you need a quick, go-to comfort food, and a package of frozen broccoli, something that’ll keep forever that you can toss into pretty much any dish to make it instantaneously healthy (or healthier, at least). Combine the two and, along with some slight stonerfication, you have a pretty complete, somewhat healthy meal in about 15 minutes.

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Amnesia Haze What is it?

This skunk-type strain was first bred in The Netherlands, and is a mostly sativa-feeling hybrid from a mixture of an Afghani Hawaiian hybrid and sativas from Jamaica and Laos.

What you need: 1 box macaroni and cheese (I like the M&C with the crazy-orange cheese paste pouch – there are even organic options! – as opposed to the envelope of cheese powder. For one, if you’re making this one high, fewer steps are a plus.)

1 package frozen broccoli 4 tablespoons butter

The effects Amnesia Haze is the perfect name for this energizing Sativa because you instantly feel the cozy, hazy cloud that fills your consciousness, but she’s definitely non-functional after 15 minutes. You’ll lose short-term memory when the amnesia side kicks in, but most people find themselves laughing in social situations and can’t remember why. The high is super chill but only lasts about an hour.

½ cup grated cheese (the sharper, the better) 2 tablespoons sour cream Salt and pepper Optional items if you got ’em: 2 to 18 strips of bacon, crumbled 2 green onions, chopped

Directions: Cook macaroni to desired tenderness. While noodles drain in a colander, keep the stove a-roarin’.

Toss in butter and broccoli and saute on mediumhigh until it’s no longer frozen. The goal here is to prepare the broccoli so that it would taste ridiculously amazing if the macaroni and cheese didn’t exist. So when it comes to the butter, salt and pepper, extra cheese, etc., add whatever amounts you deem to be amazing. If you are frying up some bacon, be sure to add a tablespoon of bacon grease to the brew, which should be added to pretty much everything anyway. Combine the rest in the pot and stir. With any high-ass dish like this, I recommend immediately portioning out half in a reusable container if you’re the type who would crush the entire thing if left to your own high-ass devices. Fill up a bowl, grab a spoon and go to town.

Got a go-to high-ass recipe? Send it to editor@dgomag.com

The smell Like all great sativas, this little lady hits the tip of your nose with a floral sweet candy smell along with some peppery afternotes.

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The final verdict This is one of my all-time favorite Cannabis Cup-winning Sativas. Everyone I’ve shared it with was impressed with its ability to erase their short-term memory like a late night alien probing without the following day soreness.

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Downtown Lowdown | Bryant Liggett

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’Tis the season for sucky music (and the few who get it right)

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elcome to the holiday season and all its baggage that makes this equally the most joyous and most despised time of the year. Its false sentiment, bloated political correctness and attempts to get you to spend go hand in hand with good ol’ drunken gatherings, a snowy walk through a neighborhood strewn with holiday lights and maybe some longing thoughts about your youth and the perfect gift you received once.

And with the false sentiment, good times and other drudgeries that begin Thursday and end in five weeks comes the inescapable onslaught of holiday music, a series of sounds and songs that you can’t escape lest you insert an ice pick or two in your ears.

I’m not sure where holiday music took the dive. Perhaps it was when watered-down rock and country musicians with too much money and too much cocaine thought it would be a ripe idea to cut a holiday record.

Maybe it was when Zooey Deschanel was born. I don’t claim to be an ethnomusicologist, I’m just a well-read music fan who will claim the best Christmas music came from the golden age of radio and recorded audio, and has only been done correctly in the modern sense by a handful of musicians. Let this be your road map for holiday audio-cheer, starting with what’s unacceptable.

The bad »» Some music executive at one point told Rob Thomas and Matchbox 20 they’re important. They’re not. His song “A New York Christmas” is a disservice to the city of New York and anyone with ears and a brain. »» Mariah Carey hired Justin Bieber for “All I Want for Christmas is You” and the same idiots who are in line right now for Black Friday sales purchased this on iTunes. Shame on you. »» Sir Paul McCartney is one half of the greatest songwriting duo of the latter part of the 20th century, but no-

Bryant’s best Friday: Rock music with Jelly Belly Boogie Band, 8:30 p.m. No cover. Billy Goat Saloon, 39848 Highway 160, Bayfield. Information: 884-9155.

Sunday: Jazz Church Jazz session, 6 p.m. No cover. Derailed Pour House. 725 Main Avenue. Information: 247-5440.

body’s perfect. “Wonderful Christmastime” is his get-out-of-jail-free card. »» David Hasselhoff recorded something called “The Christmas Song.”

When I hear this I’m laughing at, not with. »» Any holiday song by U2.

There is so much more for the “bad” category. But there’s also some that’s acceptable, and dare I say, “good.”

The good »» “It was Christmas Eve babe, in the drunk-tank” is how The Pogues

“Fairytale of New York” begins.

I’m all for sordid tales of drunken debauchery and junkie-love in my holiday songs; some say Shane Macgowan’s masterpiece of a Christmas song is the best this side of “White Christmas.” »» Vince Guaraldi Trio and the soundtrack to “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is a jazz masterpiece. It’s the Christmas album of all Christmas albums, a hip dose of American music enjoyable in December or July. »» “Christmas with Dino,” by Dean Martin. When you’ve got Dean Martin hitting all the classics, there’s no need to listen to anything else, ever.

Toss in the Los Straitjackets record of instrumental holiday tunes, Bing, Sinatra, Nat King Cole and RUNDMC’s “Christmas in Hollis,” and you’re on your way to some acceptable holiday audio.

Bryant Liggett is a freelance writer and KDUR station manager. liggett_b@fortlewis.edu.

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WHATCHA DOING?

What’s new Ty Segall, “Ty Rex” »»Release date: Nov. 27 »»Label: Goner Records Ty Segall is, hands down, one the best and most prolific artists currently shaping the landscape of underground/fringe rock ’n’ roll today. If you are a fan of contemporary garage rock and its many, many tendrils and tangents, you are likely already a fan and are well aware. Maybe you picked up the latest Fuzz record reviewed right here in DGO, on which Ty plays drums, synthesizers and offers up backing vocals. Or maybe you heard the stellar sophomore record from Pacific Northwest surf rock outfit La Luz, which was produced and mixed by Mr. Segall and released this past August. Perhaps you swooped his double 7” vinyl EP early in 2015.

If you answered “yes” to any of the above, then chances are better than likely that you’ve already heard some or most of these T. Rex covers. They had been previously released on Record Store Day in 2011 and 2013, but are collected here for the first time in one concise release, plus a previously unreleased take of “20th

Century Boy.” Segall has been long making music with T. Rex in mind, crafting songs of his own that pay homage to the glam rocker with ample amounts of fuzz, hum and nostalgia.

No signs of slowing in 2016, look for a brand new LP titled “Emotional Mugger” in January and two new bands with albums TBA: “GØGGS” is a project with Chris Shaw of Ex-Cult, as well as Fuzz bandmate Charles Moothart. “Broken Bat” is a collaboration with members of OFF! and Melvins. Busy busy.

Recommended if you like throwback psychedelia and garage-punk, T Rex, Fuzz, White Fence, Jay Reatard, Thee Oh Sees.

— Jon E. Lynch KDUR_PD@fortlewis.edu

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[Get Smart: Expert Advice on Trivial Affairs]

Whiskey Drinking You may have noticed the weather. It’s cold. Real cold. Oh sure, you could zip your puffy coat up to your ears, or you could let Lucas Hess, manager of El Moro Spirits & Tavern, teach you how to put a fire in your belly.

With so many choices, it’s altogether too easy for a whiskey virgin to quickly become totally overwhelmed. Where should the first-timer begin?

Well, everyone has to decide what sort of whiskey they like first, and the only way you do that is by trying them and beginning to give your palate a memory. I usually recommend bourbon to start with. Then, maybe make your way to an Irish whiskey, and then to Scotch.

What makes bourbon bourbon and Scotch Scotch, etc.?

Bourbon has rigorous production standards and has to follow a certain process to be called bourbon. Besides being made in America, one of the defining characteristics is that bourbon is aged in new American oak barrels.

Once a barrel has been used, it can’t be reused for bourbon again. Irish whiskey has a bit more leeway in production and can be made in sherry or wine barrels, but it’s made 100 percent in Ireland. Scotch, similarly, is made 100 percent in Scotland. Its taste differs depending upon where in the country it was made and distilled.

A few adjectives to describe each type’s taste. Go. Scotch is described as peet-like and smoky, powerful. Bourbon has hints of leather, vanilla and molasses. Irish is smooth, mellow and well-rounded.

And so I say to the bartender,“Barkeep! Whiskey!”, or what?

There are a few ways to enjoy whiskey.

You can order it neat, which is just whiskey in a glass to sip. Or, have it on the rocks, which is whiskey poured over small cubes of ice. Here at El Moro, you can also order whiskey on the rock, which is whiskey poured over a single large cube of ice.

What’s the difference?

Whiskey neat gives you the whiskey’s full flavor profile. On the rocks chills the spirit and also dilutes it a bit, which makes it a bit easier to drink. On the

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»» El Moro manager Lucas Hess presents an Old Fashioned, made with house-made aromatic bitters, Old Forester Straight Bourbon Whisky, a little sugar, a little water and an orange twist.

rock chills the spirit, but doesn’t dilute it quite as quickly, so you still get the flavor. From here, you can start to figure out what you like. If the taste of Scotch has too much stank when you’re having it neat, try it on the rocks to dilute it. If you want, say, a bourbon neat, but chilled, go with a rock. And, if none of those work, you might try it in

a cocktail like an Old Fashioned, where we mix the spirit with sugar, bitters and a bit of water to give the whiskey more balance.

Say you’re drinking with your buddies, but you’re on a budget. Which whiskey do you choose to share?

Well, to begin with, I prefer bourbon. I like the profile and I like it neat. I would recommend Old Forster or Four Roses (yellow label). Either of those have great flavor and are particularly good in a hip flask.

And if you were going to treat yourself with a whiskey – a

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really special occasion or something?

eryone ought to try at least once?

Pappy Van Winkle has cultivated this outrageous fanatical following for good reason. They’re part of a family of brands that includes Buffalo Trace and WL Weller, and they’re spoken of with a sort of mysterious reverence. It’s made in limited quantities and nearly impossible to find, but man, if you can find it and you can afford it, you ought to treat yourself to a glass.

Boy, I feel like I should choose something odd, but the WL Weller that’s been aged for 12 years would be as good as anything out there.

What’s a whiskey that ev-

— Cyle Talley Cyle Talley got to sample Scotch, Irish whiskey and bourbon during this interview (he preferred the Irish, thank you) and was pretty pleased about it. You can read his short stories on cyletalley.com or on Instagram, @borderlineobscene.

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Why ska?

When we started the brewery, we were really into ska music and really into comic books and really into beer. When we were home brewing, we had to do two things for a particular batch to turn out: We had to drink the previous batch of beer while we were brewing and we had to listen to ska music.

What’s with the black and white checkers?

David Holub/DGO

»» Ska co-founder and president, Dave Thibodeau

The history of

Ska’s design and Courtesy of Dave Thibodeau

»» Mockups and feedback for early Ska Brewing design and labeling.

marketing

motif The story of Ska might best be told by its unofficial slogan: “It takes characters to brew beer with character.” When Dave Thibodeau and Bill Graham turned their home-brew operation into a legit beer company in 1995 (and when Matt Vincent bought in a year later), craft beer was all but a novelty still, save for your Sam Adams’ and Sierra Nevada’s, to name a couple. Without many roadmaps other than their own instincts and interests, the Ska crew developed its look, aesthetic and business culture in the same DIY spirit it brewed its beer. Perhaps the most genius part?

They envisioned a comic book at the start, and its scenes and characters would be the basis of all their labels and marketing efforts two decades later.

Here’s a brief history of Ska and its visual aesthetic, as loosely told by Thibodeau.

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Ska went through three different waves.

It started in Jamaica in the ’50s and then made its way over to England in the late 1970s with working-class white (bringing a harder-edged punk influence) and black kids (bringing a Jamaican ska influence) forming bands together. An influential record label started called 2 Tone and the second wave of ska was called the 2-tone era, in part promoting the spirit of racial unity. The two tones are black and white and that’s where all the checkers came from. It’s a unity thing with the black and white kids. So that’s where the checkers come from, and it’s been carried through our motif everywhere.

Black and white? Even better!

When we started in ’95, there wasn’t really digital printing. It was cheaper to print black on white. Anything we did, from ads to business cards, we could do everything black and white. Whenever we did use color, we’d use one color and it would really stand out.

Developing the look and marketing motif I got the idea to write a comic book and all the labels and packaging should be piecemeal parts of the comic book. The comic was a classic David versus Goliath story. We invented a fake brewery – Rotgutzen Intergalatic – that was a big, evil, global conglomerate. Our roommate at the time, Brian Stevens, wrote the script to the comic book for us (which remained only in written form for a couple decades). We told him that we wanted to tell our fake story through a comic book and let that drive all marketing efforts. All the characters that we still use – True Blonde, Pinstripe, Buster, etc. – existed before we even opened.

So, one friend wrote the comic book and the best artist we knew was (future Your Flesh Tattoo owner) Matt Rousseau, who I knew from Denver. Matt was a fantastic artist before he was ever doing any tattoo stuff.

He helped draw the first few labels based on characters from the comic. These were all punk-ass kids, as were we.

Combining the script for the comic with Rousseau’s drawings Our first three beers were True Blonde, Pinstripe and Ten Pin Porter. In the comic, True Blonde is the heroine, she saves us from Rotgutzen, the evil brewery. Pin Stripe is the evil CEO. She ends up kicking his ass in the end of the comic book in the 10-Pin Bowling Alley. You can see on the Ten Pin Porter packaging it’s the final big brawl at the bowling alley and she’s kicking the head, the skull, off the skeleton.

All the Ska characters ever since have been parts from the comic. Like, Buster Nut Brown is one of Pinstripe’s thugs, a leg-breaker. We’ve just kept the characters going.

More on labels Matt (Rousseau) did first True Blonde label, the original Ska logo and the Pinstripe logo in 1995. All the original drawings were done on torn tracing paper because Matt was a tattoo artist. Pretty much what he gave us stuck. Originally, we just did 22ounce bottles, but with our first six packs, we had a chance to draw more of the comic on the carriers. That’s when we started working with another artist, Dorn Roberts, and did for the next nearly 20 years. He was working at Basin Printing and just walked in and asked for freelance work, asked if we had an artist and if there was anything he could do. Matt just got too busy and was slammed with tattooing. Dorn knew us from the print shop where we brought our printing work.

Dorn walked in and we spent the whole day together, explaining the comic book and what ska music was. He came back with two black and white posters of ska scenes. It was all retro and cool looking. We hired him right there.

Ska’s character and quirks I’ve always felt like if you have something a little strange or esoteric in there that people can grasp that there’s a little more to the story than they can understand, I’ve always thought people would find that intriguing. I’ve probably overdone that over time. If you look at any of our things, there’s always something you

Courtesy of Dave Thibodeau

»» Early iterations of Ska Brewing’s logo, circa 1995.

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Design of craft beer labels: The good Ever find yourself staring at a massive refrigerated case full of craft beer, wanting to try something new, trying to make a decision? If you’re like us, label design – color, typography, visual imagery – factors in on levels big and small. We caught up with Tim Kapustka, artist and graphic designer at Studio & and Cabbage Creative, about which craft beer labels jumped out to him for their design.

Uinta To me, as someone who values design, this stuff jumps out at me. This is a beer I know nothing about and I bought it two or three times because of the design.

»» In 2014, Ska finally produced the comic book that founders Dave Thibodeau and Bill Graham conceived with the help of their friends in 1995. The comic and its characters have been the basis of Ska’s design and labeling for nearly 20 years.

It’s just clean. This is design not functioning in the vacuum of “design for beer.” If this illustration for this Detour was on a poster, I would like it. (The vector and woodcut imagery resonates) because it’s a craft, too. You have to learn it; it’s a trade. Your woodcutting isn’t just slapping on a sticker. It’s an old trade.

Courtesy of Dave Thibodeau

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can’t explain. And you’ve got to Google it or whatever. There’s been a lot of inside jokes over the years, things we know no one’s going to understand but us, but it kind of keeps it fun. That kind of stuff is what makes it cool, just making it kind of weird, knowing there’s a little more going on.

When I look at stuff and I can’t quite understand it but I know somebody did it for a reason, it’s just intriguing.

Trouble with labels We have to get all our labels approved by the federal government – the Tax and Trade Bureau. On the Buster Nut Brown label, Buster is kicking through the door and in the top right panel of the comic, True Blonde is lying on the floor, dreaming.

Before they approved the label, they had to know why this girl was lying down and this thug was busting through the door.

They thought it was a domestic violence thing that we were into.

She’s dreaming. She didn’t just get punched.

Design challenges Sometimes I think our labels are too busy. With the new cans we try to narrow down the colors we throw on there. At the same time, you kind of want to convey the lifestyle we lead. That’s kind of weird because you got these thugs, this big corporate brewer, and then you’re kind of tying in an outdoor lifestyle or whatever somehow, and that we’re just funloving people. That gets a little confusing. It’s a lot to think about.

Would we ever change the look?

We talk about switching it up almost every day. It would still be the comic book thing, we would just freshen it up. With coming out with enough new products and getting rid of older ones, it gets fresher and fresher. We haven’t done a total rebrand, and I don’t know quite what that would look like. We talk about it all the time because we’ve been doing the same thing for 20 years.

— Interview and editing

by David Holub

I think it’s really refreshing when you come across both (good beer and good design). I’m going to try Baba because of the design. And then it’s good, and you’re like, oh this is just good. They’re doing it right on making beer and all the peripheral stuff. They’ve employed a designer; there’s someone there that’s conscious about design and they’re treating it with the respect that they treat making beer.

Odell I like all their design in this woodcut illustration and that’s been consistent for at least the last eight, 10 years. As a family of design, Odell sticks out to me. I like the woodcut look. I like the color palette.

They’re muted, they’re earthy. They get it.

You’d make a print like that. They’re either using woodcuts or they’re evoking woodcuts, which is cool because there’s craftsmanship in that. There’s craftsmanship in making (beer). That’s an easy parallel to make.

New Belgium (Retro imagery) is super hot and kitschy ... It looks like all their cans are going to be twotoned with an illustration on them. It’s kind of simplifying, which is important because (the beer case) is overwhelming. You don’t need noise, you need to stand out and be clean.

They’ve got the standardization of “this is our family.”

Evil Twin Brewing This stuff is interesting. It looks like “The Dude.” It’s clean. As a designer, I would try that. If I came to get one of my standards, that wouldn’t change my mind, but as a designer that comes into my realm.

— Interview by David Holub

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[student life]

Half-past Delinquency | Ryan Yaseen

Durango is groovy, but here’s one thing it doesn’t have

W

ith thanksgiving around the corner, I’d like to give a little thanks. Words can’t describe how fortunate we all are to call a place like Durango home. But there is room for improvement. We are missing a crucial piece that any well-established town has: a quality dance floor.

While chatting with Flow, an exchange student from Germany, I asked what he thought of Durango, and, in particular, what it is missing. The first thing that came to Flow’s mind was a “club.” Other students who come from around the country (and around the world) also agree that there is a lack of a quality groovy room.

All over campus I hear whispers of the need to dance.

For one, concerts and smaller clubs provide camaraderie between people.

Everyone assembles for one reason, to have a good time. Dance unifies strangers. It bridges the gap between the heart and the head in one outward expression that ultimately says, “I love my life, I love tonight and I love you.” These things are communicated by one’s movement to the music. If you dance your night away instead of sitting around a bar, I guarantee you’ll walk home buzzing and wake up with a sense of accomplishment instead of a pounding head and empty wallet.

There is only one place where people dismiss the combination of sweat and claustrophobia. And that is the dance floor. Music is magical.

It convinces your body to do things it

otherwise would not. The beat creates an entourage of emotion, while the lyrics spread a single idea through the crowd’s mind. The result is a room full of people, all in agreement.

In the summer there are a handful of family-oriented festivities that provide music and a place for the town to get funky. But with the change of seasons, people need a new place to socialize. There is one venue, Animas City Theatre, that offers the opportunity to enjoy a dance floor. But the ACT hosts a very limited number of shows each month, genres of acts jumping from The Infamous String Dusters one week, to Dirt Nasty the next. Its space is very limited and can only support a small crowd.

As a town, we are grateful for the attempt at providing the one thing missing from our community – but we can do better (though, not even Farmington offers a good place to dance).

Don’t even get me started on the Wild Horse. They pack it in, but the fact that it is a cowboy bar leads me to believe that it appeals more to Bayfield’s fighting and farming demographic than Durango’s fun-loving, adventurous types.

The creation of a club would do more than just make money, but allow the police department to – I don’t know – stop wasting their time busting college house parties.

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Ryan Yaseen is a Durango boy by birth, currently a sophomore studying communication at FLC. Outside school, his preoccupation’s involve world travel, mountain biking and adventure sports.

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Spotlight

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Victor Frankenstein Playing at Durango Stadium 9

Playing at the Gaslight Rating: R

Rating:

Genre:

PG-13

Mystery & suspense, drama

Genre:

Drama

Directed by: Tom Mc-

Directed by: Paul

Carthy

McGuigan

Written by: Tom Mc-

Written by: Max Landis, Mary Shelley

Carthy, Josh Singer Runtime: 2 hr. 7 min.

Runtime: 1 hr. 49 min.

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 97%

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: Not available

Synopsis: The riveting true story of

Synopsis: Radical scientist Victor

the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions.

When the newspaper’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their yearlong investigation uncovers a decadeslong cover-up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world.

The Good Dinosaur Playing at Durango Stadium 9 Also available in 3-D with surcharge Rating:

PG Genre:

Animation Directed by: Peter

Sohn, Cynthia Slavens Written by: Meg LeFauvre Runtime: 1 hr. 40 min.

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer:

83% Synopsis: What if the asteroid that

forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? Pixar Animation Studios takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of.

Barry Wetcher/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP

»» Michael B. Jordan, left, is Adonis Johnson and Sylvester Stallone is Rocky Balboa in “Creed.”

‘Creed’ adds to ‘Rocky’ canon Creed

By Richard Roeper The Chicago Sun-Times

When we met Rocky Balboa in 1977, he was a rough-edged, punchdrunk Philadelphia club fighter who worked as an enforcer for a local mobster.

Rocky’s only friend was Paulie, a brute and a drunk. He had a thing for Paulie’s sister, Adrian.

He worked out at a gym run by an old salt named Mickey. He had a couple of turtles named Cuff and Link, he eventually acquired a dog named Butkus – and, of course, he was plucked from obscurity to fight Apollo Creed, the greatest boxer the world had ever known.

Cut to present day. Rocky Balboa is almost 70 now. Just about everyone he knew or cared about is gone. He spends his days and nights quietly tending to business at Adrian’s, the cozy Italian restaurant named after his beloved late wife.

Rocky had a good run. A great run. And with the exception of the unfortunate “Rocky V” (Tommy Gunn is the Mister Freeze of “Rocky” villains), we had a fantastic run with one of the most memorable movie characters of our time.

Was there anything left for Rocky to say, to experience?

With “Creed,” the answer is a resounding yes.

Frankenstein and his equally brilliant protégé Igor Strausman share a noble vision of aiding humanity through their ground-breaking research into immortality. But Victor’s experiments go too far, and his obsession has horrifying consequences.

Only Igor can bring his friend back from the brink of madness and save him from his monstrous creation.

Playing at Durango Stadium 9

Die Hard

Creed Rating: PG-13

Playing at Animas City Theatre

Genre: Drama Directed by: Ryan Coogler Written by: Ryan Coogler,

Tuesday only

Aaron Covington Runtime: 1 hr. 35 min.

Rating: R

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 94%

Although “Rocky Balboa” had to stretch plausibility to the sky to get Rocky back in the ring in a legit fight (we know from the tragic Drago-Creed fight of “Rocky IV” that “exhibition bouts” can get serious in a hurry), I thought it was a strong, respectful, fitting farewell to the champ – and I was worried “Creed” would be more gimmick or spinoff than faithful next chapter.

But thanks to a charismatic, natural performance from star-in-themaking Michael B. Jordan, a script from writer-director Ryan Coogler that expertly navigates paying tribute to the franchise while creating an effective stand-alone film, and fine work from Stallone, whose work as Rocky through the years has often been underrated, “Creed” is a terrific addition to the “Rocky” canon.

Genre:

Mystery & suspense, action & adventure Directed by: John McTiernan Written by: Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de

Souza Runtime: 1 hr. 54 min.

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: 92% Synopsis: It’s Christmas in L.A., and

there’s an employee party in progress in the Nakatomi Corp. building. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage.

Meanwhile, New York cop John McClane has come to L.A. to visit his estranged wife, who happens to be one of the hostages. Disregarding the orders of the authorities surrounding the building, McClane, who fears nothing, takes on the villains, armed with one handgun and plenty of chutzpah.

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[love and sex]

She’s mad that I’m not mad. What to do about the girlfriend?

Savage Love | Dan Savage

My girlfriend of six months hooked up with one of my buds. They were both drunk at a party, and I was out of town for a sports thing. I wasn’t angry when she “confessed.” I thought it was hot and said we should maybe have a threesome with the dude. I’m not interested in being with a guy, but I’d be down with a M/M/F threesome. So now my girlfriend is furious with me for not being angry. She literally just texted to say she’s not sure she can stay with me because she doesn’t want to be with a guy who wouldn’t care if she slept around on him. What the (bleep) am I supposed to say to that?

The Wronged Party “Bye.” A couple of months ago, I got candida (a fungal infection) under my foreskin. I went to the doctor, picked up some cream and used it as directed. The infection went away for about a week and then returned.

I got this idea that maybe the cream didn’t work the first time because it’s so naturally moist under the foreskin.

So I used the cream a second time – but this time, after each application I would “air out” my penis, i.e., pull back the foreskin and leave the head exposed to the open air for a little while. The candida cleared up, apparently for good. What surprised me, though, was that I really enjoyed this twice-a-day airing out. I’ve continued doing it. I have no idea why I find this enjoyable. I’m not masturbating while I’m doing it. I just use that flap on the front of my underwear to help keep the foreskin back and leave my glans exposed for about 15 to 20 minutes.

(This is likely the first time in history

position,” said Dr. King, “trapping blood in the head of the penis like a tourniquet, causing severe pain – we call this ‘paraphimosis.’” Paraphimosis is some serious shit – gangrene can set in, and the head of the penis might have to come off.

that anyone has actually used that flap on the front of men’s underwear.)

I’m wondering if, by airing out my cock in this way, there’s any risk of causing damage. From reading the all-knowing Internet, it seems that this amount shouldn’t cause any problems, but I’d like to get an expert opinion. I have noticed a slight decrease in sensitivity, but that has been a positive thing, as I’ve always been quite sensitive.

This airing out of my penis seems to accomplish a slight desensitizing that I find beneficial. Can I continue to do it?

“I don’t think this is an issue for AIR,” said Dr. King, “so he can continue as desired. ”

Apparently Into Retraction

They’re not glamorous or groundbreaking, BUTT, but the old reliable butt plug is still the best bet for anal-play newbies – gay, straight or bi. They look like tiny lava lamps, they fit neatly in butts, and anal sphincters hold them firmly in place – freeing up your hands for other things, from jacking yourself off to swiping left or right to writing advice columns.

“This shouldn’t be a problem,” said Dr. Stephen King, a urologist and one of my go-to guys on all things dick. “It sounds like he found a unique solution to a couple of issues: infections and sensitivity.”

So you can continue airing out your cock with Dr. King’s blessing – and congratulations on coming up with a successful foreskin hack, AIR. But Dr. King wouldn’t recommend you foreskin hack to uncircumcised/intact dudes with a very particular medical condition. (I’m using “hack” here in the “life hack” sense, obviously – perhaps a poor choice of slang, considering that humanity has been needlessly hacking away at foreskins for millennia.)

“The only time keeping a foreskin pulled back for a prolonged period of time becomes a problem is when someone has phimosis,” said Dr. King.

Adults with phimosis either can’t retract their foreskin over the head of their penis or has a very difficult time doing so – a condition an adult may develop as the result of an infection or some other trauma that scarred the foreskin. “In patients who are elderly or demented, the foreskin can get stuck in the retracted

Let’s D G O !

Gay 20-year-old boy here. I want some ideas on what kind of anal toys are best for beginners like myself. I’ve already used my fingers, but I want to move up to an actual toy before moving on to an actual boy. A recommendation from you would be great!

Boy Undertaking Tushy Toys

I love that you use the term “cocksucker” only in a non-pejorative way. I don’t know if you’ve said so explicitly, but I imagine your aim is to remove its negative connotation. As the owner of a cock, I think cocksucking is WONDERFUL! Therefore, cocksuckers are wonderful as well. Following your example, I am trying to use the term only in its literal sense and only in a positive light. Do you have a good substitute word for a person one is not pleased with?

Changing Language Is Terrific How about “kochbrother,” CLIT? Same number of syllables, same explosive/percussive “K” sound at the start, same “er” ending – and our democracy

(and our environment) would be a lot better off if there were more cocksuckers out there and fewer Koch brothers.

I would like some clarification.

Does my situation fall into the “when it’s OK to have an affair” category or am I just looking for you to absolve me of guilt? I got divorced a year ago, and I’m 100 percent focused on being a mom during the time my son is with me and helping him through the divorce transition. I met a man who has been married for 20-plus years and I’m having an affair with him. He and his wife spend all of their time taking care of their adult disabled son. He said they have nothing in common but caretaking.

He’s never said anything bad about her except they’ve grown apart and he can’t (or won’t) leave because of their son.

It works for me because he’s the most incredible lover I’ve ever had and he doesn’t bother me or demand attention when I’m busy being a mom. I do have strong feelings for him but no expectation of him leaving his wife. Does this meet your “OK to cheat” criteria?

Loving Isn’t Always Really Simple Indeed it does, LIARS. Your situation is a good example of the kind of affair people rarely hear about and advice professionals pretend don’t exist, i.e., the affair that saves a marriage and improves the lives of everyone involved, whether directly or indirectly. Your marriage is over, of course, but you’re getting your sexual needs met by someone who doesn’t distract you from your son’s needs. And the time your lover spends with you has doubtless helped to make him a kinder and less resentful companion/partner and a better father/caretaker. Here’s hoping your lover’s wife is getting the kind of intimacy, affirmation and release she needs, too.

Contact Dan Savage at mail@savagelove. net or @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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[people]

»» Stickers from Durango resident Bryant Aucoin’s company, Colorado Sticker Art. Courtesy of Bryant Aucoin

‘My biggest surprise was that it just [bleeping] worked’ »» Colorado Sticker Art’s Bryant Aucoin has one goal: ‘I’ll try to make a cool sticker.’

In gas stations, convenience stores and tourist shops around the world, travelers and passersby can usually find a rack or two featuring little pieces of adhesive paper to help them remember their journeys. In 2014, Durango’s Bryant Aucoin went on a climbing trip to Yosemite, and, with an entrepreneurial epiphany, returned the proud founder of Colorado Sticker Art. His mission is simple: “I’ll try to make a cool sticker.” Here, we chat with him a little about his outdoor sticker endeavor.

By Sara Knight | Special to DGO

So, stickers, huh?

I know it’s random as hell. I didn’t even like stickers before I started this.

What did you do before starting a sticker company?

For the last eight years I have been working for a retail company doing product development, fulfillment and shipping and wholesale and stuff like that. The company is called Theory 11 ... I was V.P. of operations of that company for eight years and was basically the second employee. That was really hard to quit.

Who does the artwork for your stickers?

I just got online and found these random artists in Denver ... I just give them paragraphs and pictures and drawings and I’m like, Hey make this into something really pretty, and they do.

What has been the biggest surprise about your sticker business?

The demographic surprised me for sure. I didn’t expect it to be a lot of women, especially a lot of older women. That was really funny ... I think I was actually surprised at how fast it

places, too. Lake Tahoe, California. The Northwest.

I got an Alaska request.

That’s pretty cool.

worked. And honestly, my biggest surprise was that it just [bleeping] worked.

Like, it’s honestly surprising, because I never was into stickers.

Where’s the craziest place you’ve seen one of your stickers?

Are there any downsides?

The BLM land has this thing online where if you give a dollar, they’ll plant a tree.

That’s something that I’m hoping to be able to work into our business model ... I’m just not thrilled with the fact that I’m printing so many damn silly stickers.

»» Bryant Aucoin

Nowhere crazy yet. I look forward to that! ... The coolest thing, though, is that I ship online, and thus far, I have shipped to a couple of places overseas like Mexico and Europe.

What is the ideal Colorado Sticker surface?

The space shuttle! ...

But seriously, a sticker of mine in space would be epic.

Have you gotten any weird suggestions for designs?

My dad gives me some really weird suggestions. He just wants a hot chick on a sticker. It’s really funny. But I have a lot of people asking me for their

bring in a lot of subcultures who would be stoked ... I did yoga outside, crack climbing, paddle boarding ... Yeah it should be cool. There are some pretty wicked stickers, actually. I’m pretty stoked about it.

Will you change the name for other states? Utah Sticker Company?

Nope, but I am simplifying the name I publish to “Sticker Art” more often now ... I want people to know that Sticker Art isn’t just about Colorado but anywhere that has inspirational landscapes.

What’s your favorite sticker so far?

Where do you see this going in the long run?

There’s a rock climbing sticker that I just submitted to print that’s inspired by crack (climbing) in Indian Creek. That place holds a special place in my heart so I’m fairly biased on that one.

I don’t know. I have the entrepreneurial mindset where I could do this in every state that I want to or that I feel like.

I want to buy a travel trailer and then move out of my house and live in this travel trailer for a few years and visit these places that I want to make stickers about and just be in that environment.

So I hear that you have some Utah stickers coming out soon?

I got inspired by Utah because we go there all the time ... I’m hoping to

What’s your girlfriend think about that?

I think she’s actually more excited than I am!

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[pages] This week’s Maria’s staff pick The Conquering Tide, by Ian Toll Books about the War in the Pacific are as common as seagulls on the beach. There seems no end to the fascination of retelling stories of America’s grueling island-hopping campaign against the Imperial forces of Japan from 1941 to 1945, a war that seems doubly compelling for taking place in otherwise idyllic tropical settings.

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Where Ian Toll’s The Conquering Tide stands out is the way the author adds real flesh and blood to the wellknown broad strokes of the conflict.

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[happenings] Thursday Salsa dance lessons followed by Salsa Night, 6:30-7:30 p.m., $10, Wild

Horse Saloon, 601 East Second Ave., 799-8832.

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Dustin Burley, 7-11 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Special edition of Beer Bingo, 8 p.m.,

699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Karaoke, 8 p.m., 8th Avenue Tavern, 509

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Latin music night, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937

Main Ave., 259-9018.

Monday

Moe’s, 937 Main Ave., 259-9018.

Four Corners Arts Forum, 9 a.m., KDUR

Karaoke with DJ Crazy Charlie, 9 p.m.,

91.9/93.9 FM, www.kdur.org.

Wild Horse Saloon, 601 East Second Ave., 3752568.

Karaoke, 9 p.m., 8th Avenue Tavern, 509

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Friday Winter Solstice Artisans’ Market, 10

Happy Hour Yoga, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Ska

Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., yoga and a pint of beer for $10, www.skabrewing.com.

Joel Racheff, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Jack Ellis, 7-11 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

a.m.-5 p.m., Durango Arts Center Barbara Conrad Gallery, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts. org.

Tuesday

Tuareg Jewelry Trunk Show with Moussa Albaka, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Plein gal-

a.m.-5 p.m., Durango Arts Center Barbara Conrad Gallery, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts. org.

lery gift shop, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts.org.

Winter Solstice Artisans’ Market, 10

Andy Janowsky, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond

Terry Rickard, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Super Ted’s Super Trivia, 6:12 p.m., free,

Greg Ryder, 7-11 p.m., Office Spiritorium,

Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., 247-5792.

699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Book signing: Author Mandy Mikulencak will present her book Burn Girl, 6:30 p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main

Saturday

Tim Sullivan, 7-11 p.m., Office Spiritorium,

Karaoke, 8 p.m., 8th Avenue Tavern, 509

Indies First/Small Business Saturday, featuring seven local authors, 10 a.m.-4

p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave., mariasbookshop.com.

Winter Solstice Artisans’ Market, 10

a.m.-5 p.m., Durango Arts Center Barbara Conrad Gallery, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts. org.

Tuareg Jewelry Trunk Show with Moussa Albaka, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Plein gal-

lery gift shop, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts.org.

Kevin Frazier, classic rock, 5 p.m., $3, Man-

Ave., 247-1438, mariasbookshop.com.

699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Open Mic Night, 8 p.m., Moe’s, 937 Main

Ave., 259-9018.

Wednesday Winter Solstice Artisans’ Market, 10

a.m.-5 p.m., Durango Arts Center Barbara Conrad Gallery, 802 East Second Ave., durangoarts. org.

Opening reception: Graduating Senior Art & Design Majors Exhibition,

4:30-6 p.m., Fort Lewis College Art Gallery.

Greg Ryder, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond Belle

cos Valley Distillery, 116 N. Main St., 946-0229.

Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

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Open studio figure drawing, facilitated Ed Bolster, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., www.durangoarts.org.

loon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Kirk James, blues, 6 p.m., 6512’ Restaurant

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Greg Ryder, 7-11 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Karaoke, 8 p.m., 8th Avenue Tavern, 509

Two-step and waltz dance lessons,

6:30-7:30 p.m., $10, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 East Second Ave., 799-8832.

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Geeks Who Drink trivia, 6:30 p.m.,

Sunday

BREW Pub & Kitchen, 117 W. College Drive, 259-5959.

Irish music jam session, 12:30 p.m.,

Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.theirishembassypub.com.

Informal Tango Practice, 5-7 p.m.,

Groove U Durango, 26369 U.S. Highway 160, tangodurango.info.

Jazz church (experienced musician drop-in session), 6 p.m., Derailed Pour

House, 725 Main Ave., 247-5440, www.derailedpourhouse.com.

Bluemoon Ramblers, 7-10 p.m., Dia-

Pub quiz, 6:30 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200.

Terry Rickard, 7-11 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Karaoke with DJ Crazy Charlie, 9 p.m.,

Wild Horse Saloon, 601 East Second Ave., 3752568.

Ongoing “RARE II: Imperiled Plants of Colorado,” Center of Southwest Studies Museum

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They’ve busted their humps for four years – give or take – and now it’s time for a little recognition.

Head on up the hill and check out the Graduating Senior Art & Design Majors Exhibition: Pixel Perfect, running Dec. 2 to 18 at the Art Gallery at Fort Lewis College.

The cool thing is that students didn’t just create their advanced projects in graphic design and digital media and then someone else hung them on a wall – participating artists in the exhibition have designed, curated and installed the exhibition on their own.

Participating artists include: Sasha Cogswell, Andy Gallen, Nicholas Holbert, Tyler Jones, Zac Lawrence, Westin Mirner, Brynn Seitzman and Kira Smith.

To kick off the exhibition, there will be an opening reception from 4:30-6 p.m. Dec. 2 at the gallery, which is free and open to the public.

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at Fort Lewis College, 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, 1-7 p.m. Thursday, swcenter.fortlewis.edu.

Tayler Hahn art exhibit, through Dec. 3, Raider Ridge Cafe, 509 East Eighth Ave.

“The Up and Down of It” work by Becca Conrad-Whitehead, through

Dec. 18, Smiley Building, 1309 East Third Ave., beccaconradwhitehead.artspan.com.

“Secretive Beauty,” photographs by

Roman Loranc, through Wednesday, Open Shutter Gallery, 735 Main Ave., openshuttergallery.com.

Graduating Senior Art & Design Majors Exhibition, Wednesday-Dec. 18, Fort

Lewis College Art Gallery.Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, fortlewis.edu/art-design/Art-

“Colorado Childhood,” solo exhibit by artist Barbara Klema, through Dec. 24, Durango Arts Center Art Library, 802 East Second Ave., www.durangoarts.org.

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[eat]

Your guide to a last-minute Thanksgiving for less than $25

By Sara Knight | Special to DGO

It’s the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the fridge is empty, the pantry is bare, the slopes are calling. No worries. We got some advice from a pro on a quick, delicious Thanksgiving without breaking the bank or interfering with fun time. Aaron Seitz, owner of College Drive Café, former owner/kitchen manager at Carvers and self-proclaimed turkey, shared some tips on Thanksgiving staples.

Veggies Most would agree with Seitz that, “A lot of times, vegetables can be just boring.” Seitz points out though that, “roasted vegetables can be REALLY good.” And even more importantly, veggies are cheap. »» A couple of onions »» Some sweet potatoes and red potatoes »» And whatever (zucchini?)

»» A little water “You just let it stew on the stove.

It’s so much better!”

He also adds that, “If you want it to be savory, you just chop up some onion or put some garlic or something in and it comes out really nice. It’s more of a chutney that way.”

»» Enough salt »» Oil (Olive oil goes in everything) Seitz says, “You roast it in a 350-degree oven until the veggies are just soft, at which point the pan is a total mess.” That’s when it gets good.

“You’ve got all of those good flavors in the pan, and nine times out of 10 it’s a drag to clean out, so you clean it out yourself and make a sauce with that,” Seitz says. “A little splash of vinegar in there and then even some water to make a sauce with. It’s so simple and then you drizzle it over the vegetables!”

Total Cost: About $3.75 if you have to buy vinegar and about $2.75 if not.

Dressing

Bird(s) “Thaw the turkey in time,” Seitz advises. “You know, honestly, a couple of chickens are pretty great, too. They roast up nice … And they cook fast so you can go skiing all day and still have your dinner fresh. You can get chickens super cheap, too.”

»» A head of celery

Grab the hens before hitting the slopes. If they’re frozen, toss them in the sink with cold water and leave them there until it’s time to come home and cook. Dry them off and they’ll be ready to rub down with butter, spice up with whatever and toss in a 450-degree oven for 45-50 minutes. Phew!

»» A bunch of stale bread (about 4 cups)

Total cost: About $8 for 2 cornish hens

What’s Thanksgiving without the dressing? “Dressing is SO easy. A loaf of white bread makes the best dressing out there.” »» An onion

»» Chicken stock, or the juice from the roasted veggies could work, too (1.5-2 cups) Heat the onion, celery and chicken stock (or veggie juices) together in a pan until they are soft, then mix it all with the breadcrumbs and put it back in that 350-degree oven for a half hour.

Total cost: About $6.50 if you buy chicken stock.

About $4.50 if not.

Cranberry Sauce

Total cost: $3.49 per bag

Pumpkin Pie Yes, dessert! No, not more cooking? “I love pumpkin pie!” says Seitz. “It’s one of the easiest things ever!” »» Two eggs »» Some milk (or preferably a 12 oz. can of sweetened condensed milk) »» Pumpkin (the can has directions!)

Mix the eggs, the pumpkin and the milk in a bowl. Cinnamon, ginger and cloves are a good addition. Pour it in a pie crust and bake it at 425 for 15 minutes, then 350 for 40-50 minutes while other stuff is going on.

Done!

Canned cranberry sauce. Meh. Seitz recommends an alternative.

Total Cost: About $6.50 with frozen pie crust

»» 1 bag of cranberries (check the bag for directions, too)

Wow, only $25 and there’s a whole last-minute Thanksgiving spread with some leftovers to boot!

Man, shoulda stayed on the slopes longer.

»» A quarter cup of sugar

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Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19)

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)

it works. Try it.

If you feel confused about political, religious or racial issues, don’t commit to anything. And don’t let others push you into taking a stance for which you are not ready.

Domestic difficulties are not necessarily your fault. It happens. We all have problems. Suck it up and carry on because you are going to pull your act together this year.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20)

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)

Don’t beat yourself up if financial plans didn’t turn out how you’d hoped. Whatever happens, always remember that you are actually the financial wizard of the zodiac!

Negative thinking is so powerful. It can rob you of your energy and your confidence. By next autumn, you are going to be so stoked about life.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)

Difficulties with others might discourage you now.

The problem is that you want to take the blame for this. Hey, there are two people in every relationship.

Why is there always so much month left at the end of the money? Ain’t it the truth? You will get through these money worries. Relax.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)

Too often we criticize ourselves. This is what you’re doing today. Fortunately, it will be brief because Jupiter will give you optimism this year.

Physical activity and optimism are survival issues for you. Right now, you are down on yourself and self-critical. Forgive yourself and move on. We are all frail mortals trying to figure out life.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22)

Bizarro

Lately, you doubt your ability to be attractive to others. This is just a temporary dark cloud on your horizon. Don’t worry; you’re not a day over adorable.

You might be disappointed in a friend. Or worse, you might feel unworthy of a friend. Pshaw! You’re the same fabulous person you were last year.

Relax.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Do not give too much credence to bosses and parents if they are critical of you. The thing to stop is self-criticism. Give yourself a pat on the back because you deserve it.

BORN TODAY

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)

You have an original take on life and you have a great imagination. Your freedom and strong individualism can sometimes challenge partnerships.

Something you’ve been involved with for about nine years will end or diminish in order to make room for something new this year. It will be a year of service to others. This is a good year to travel.

The quickest way to turn around dark feelings is to practice a kindness. It can be the littlest thing, but

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[party game] What you’ll need A piece of paper for everyone playing and some writing utensils.

Directions 1. Fold the paper into thirds. On the top third, draw some sort of head and neck. Make sure to extend lines for the neck to the second third of the paper so the next person can see where you left off. Next to your drawing, write a line associated with the head in the convention of “Somebody did something.” For example, “Jenkins smiled nervously.”

2. Pass the papers to your left and do not, for the love of god, look at the top third. Next to your drawing, write a line associated with the torso, again in the convention of “and did something else.” For example, “and sweat profusely.”

Pass your drawing to the left.

3. The final person adds legs and feet and the line “while doing something else.” For example, “While wading in the polluted river.”

When you’re done Unveil the drawings. Laugh, ridicule, blush, whathaveyou.

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