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HUNTER Paleontologist Dr. Jon Powell discusses dino media depictions, dream fossil finds, and the fossil scene in Southwest Colorado

Also: Fiery robots in Telluride, video performance art at DAC, beers you should always have on hand, and loving and hating toxic waste

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I ‘didn’t get’ an entire art form before realizing my foolishness

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t all started when I heard the words, “I don’t get video art” come out of my mouth.

Then I caught myself. I don’t get it? All of it? Have I seen enough of it to make such a broad assessment?

Could I ever see enough of it to write off an entire art form?

Admittedly, my experience with video art is limited compared with other mediums, primarily confined to (1) a piece at the Art Institute of Chicago showing a solitary vulture hopping and flying around a cluttered office, (2) an artist friend back East who filmed himself wearing a fireman’s suit while paddling a raft and (3) the goofy art teacher in “Ghost World” and her esoteric dollparts-in-toilet film titled “Mirror, Father, Mirror.”

My broad-brush statement about video art came after merely hearing about the Durango Arts Center’s new exhibit, “Vision All Together: Performance Art for Video,” and it reminded me of statements I’d heard from others claiming to “not get” modern art or proclamations akin to “I could’ve done that.”

Luckily, I caught the ignorance of my statement before coming off as too terribly unsophisticated and apologized to those around me. It did make me think back to the time in my early 20s when modern art (such a broad term, I know) not only began to resonate with me but became the school of art that resonated most and inspired me in the most important aspects of my life: Creativity, curiosity, and the imagination for what could be.

It happened with two works primarily. The first was Marcel Duchamp’s “Bicycle Wheel” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The piece is one of Duchamp’s readymades, essentially found objects reappropriated as art. His most famous and influential was “Fountain,” a porcelain urinal Duchamp inscribed with “R. Mutt 1917.” The readymades are exactly what they sound like, everyday ob-

jects presented as art. And that was Duchamp’s point: Art is what I say it is. Taste, he said, or judging something as good or bad, “is the enemy of art.” Yes, you could have done it, but you didn’t, and neither had anyone else before Duchamp.

The second was an out-of-the-way piece I saw in some far-off nook in London’s Tate Modern called “An Oak Tree,” by Michael Craig-Martin.

The piece is a glass of water placed on a glass shelf 253 centimeters off the ground. Craig-Martin claims that, while the piece looks like a glass of water, it is actually an oak tree. At eye level is a placard with a Q&A with the artist that describes and explains the work.

“What I’ve done is change a glass of water into a full-grown oak tree without altering the accidents of the glass of water,” he says, referring to “the colour, feel, weight, size” of the glass of water. When asked if he is merely calling a glass of water an oak tree, he says, no: “I have changed its actual substance. It would no longer be accurate to call it a glass of water. One could call it anything one wished but that would not alter the fact that it is an oak tree.” Asked if it took him long to transform the glass of water, he says it did not: “But it took me years of work before I realised I could do it.”

His explanation goes on: His intention precipitates the transformation. It’s not something he can teach.

Now, I’m not under the impression that this is anything other than a glass of water, but the impact is in the conceptualization, the magic is in the imagination, the inspiration comes from what seems impossible.

The best art pushes me to question what is known and accepted, it challenges what I think is possible in terms of message, concept, and medium. It opens up new ways of understanding the human experience.

To dismiss any of it outright because of time, place, school, or form would be foolish.

Toxic waste Love It Thank ye, gods of industry, for toxic waste. Without your neon ooze, the state of American comics and horror wouldn’t be nearly as interesting. We wouldn’t have mutagenic plot points!

Do you want a world without Alan Moore’s Joker? A vat of chemicals creates the most psychopathic supervillain in comic book history. We can even go with good guys here, the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” Sure, they got sucked-up by Michael Bay, but TMNT have a long history of defending the streets from petty criminals, evil overlords, and space invaders through cartoons, live-action films, pop music, and comics.

There is a trope – “toxic waste can do anything.” It sure as heck birthed midnight movie classic “The Toxic Avenger.” Poisonous, erosive – and transformative, hazardous waste has given us the horror comedy “8 Legged Freaks,” the Troma apocalypse of “Class of Nuke ’Em High,” and the near destruction of Springfield by nuclear plant waste in the “Simpson’s Movie.”

That’s not even getting into most of the United Nations Environment Programme’s 11 key toxic substances. “Arsenic and Old Lace,” anyone?

Would “Goodnight, Irene,” sound as good if it wasn’t sung by a man named Lead Belly? Would “Fight Club” be as interesting without medical waste? Without asbestos, we’d miss out on tension in every episode of “Property Brothers.”

Those are all totally worth the river spills, immune diseases, contaminated drinking water, birth defects, brain damage, and cancer – right?

– Patty Templeton

Hate it Well, no doy. How could you not hate toxic sewage and how it finds its way into the water we (and other fellow animals) drink, killing the fish that live in it, poisoning everything it touches?

Though that’s enough to hate right there – and is all rather obvious (maybe?) – what I hate most about toxic sewage are the corporations or other pass-on-the-externalities entities that profit from manufacturing and then leave people, animals, and the environment with a deadly and costly mess.

For the past seven years, I have lived by rivers that are the lifeblood of their communities – the Animas (I think we all know what happened there) and the Housatonic, which runs through western Massachusetts and Connecticut and has been polluted with PCBs for decades thanks to General Electric, which has been ever so sluggish in its efforts to clean up the mess it made and profited from. The victims of pollution like this are often at a major disadvantage to the rich and powerful.

The time is near when a this-is-not-normal administration seems rather antsy to roll back the progress we have made as a country in almost every conceivable way: civil and human rights, health care, foreign affairs, etc. etc., and, yes, environmental protection. Hating toxic sewage, I’m afraid, is no longer something we all can agree on (sad!). I’d say it’s time to start really hating it.

– David Holub

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Fiery robots descend on T-ride fest »» The art

of Justin Gray combines robotics, sculpture ... and fire

Glass blowing, fire spinning, aerial silks, and blazing robots – these wonders and more are at the 3rd annual Telluride Fire Festival. From Jan. 20 to 22, the adventurous and artistic gather to create and view different forms of fire art, with free performances and art installations from 5 to 8 p.m. each evening of the fest at the Oak Street Gondola Plaza and a hellton of affordably-ticketed workshops, music, and events to attend.

Justin Gray, a featured artist at the 2017 Telluride Fire Festival, is owner/operator of Graywrx, a machining and fabrication shop in California’s Bay Area. He works in prototyping, robotics, sculpture, and fire art. This year, he’ll display a family of fiery robots that range from shorter than a ukulele to bigass, fire-belching behemoths.

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How often do you go to festivals?

3rd Annual Telluride Fire Festival

Once a year, at minimum. [The roving festival] Maker Faire for sure. Then, if we get lucky, Maker Faire will bring us to other events. Really, it’s one big, knock-downdrag-out-all-in event and that’s Maker Faire San Mateo. We bring everything that runs and drives from the shop and they give us this huge 60-foot by 60-foot sand-filled arena to do absolutely anything we want.

We can fly drones. We can set things on fire. We can crush things. Whatever the hell we want and they absolutely love it, and we love it.

When: Jan. 20 - 22 Where: Downtown Telluride Cost: Free fire performance from 5-8 p.m. each night at Oak St. Gondola Station. Costs vary per workshop or event.

Information: http://telluridefirefestival. org/

Do you sell any of these robots?

I absolutely keep every single one of these.

These particular robots are not built for sale.

Where do you find your materials?

I’ve always been a scrapper. When I was a young teenager, I was in the dumpsters all over Berkley and Oakland. When I was 18 years old, I moved to Oakland, and my neighbor, Custom Alloy Scrap Sales, was storing junk in public spaces. I thought it was just garbage. I would raid those bins.

Come to find out, years later, I was stealing, but I thought it was scrap and weird objects that had no value. Now, I’m good friends with the owner and we still work together.

Your robots look like they each have different personalities. Do you plan that out?

It is 100 percent organic. There is no planning of the personality besides a quick sketch of the overall look.

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»» Justin Gray’s fire robot Boreus Hymalis (top) is almost 8 feet tall and weighs 3,000 lbs. His Charlie the Turbine Robot is 7 feet long and weighs 1,500 lbs.

What is an unusual source of inspiration for you?

ation process?

The problems with robots like this are ultimately me. I am so particular about the way things are built that a simple job like “How do you connect a 12-volt battery to an aluminum box that is 4 feet away?” Well, that can take me days. It has to be just right. If I have to dig through a mountain of trash to find the one goddamn thing that finishes the picture, I’m gonna do it.

I am a nerd. What can I say? I’m into science and bugs. Biomimicry is a huge thing for me. I am deeply obsessed with the way that bugs look and the way that they work. Their exoskeletons and coolants ... I’m covered in tattoos that I designed with a friend that are all these sci-fi interpretations of scientific drawings of bugs.

How does one get into the biz of creating fiery robots?

What’s a challenge in the robot cre-

When I was 18, I went into a full-time apprenticeship

with a master metal sculptor who was a fine art professor at Bauhaus. He took me on as an apprentice for about five years. Three of those years were dedicated to solely working for him full-time. From there, I developed my kit welding skills, my MIG welding skills, and my fabrication. During that time, I also had my own, personal metal shop and was developing my own art. I met a group of people who were doing fire sculpture in the area. We all came together through the Crucible art school in Oakland. In 1999, we formed a group called Therm. Therm specializes in forced-air, combustion fire sculpture ... It’s a form of sculpture that can be very intense and overwhelming, but it can also be quite intimate, like sitting next to a fireplace ... I ended up combining my obsessions. I basically built a machine that drove around and had a forced-air, combustion fire sculpture built-in to it. That was my first fire sculpture robot. I still have that robot. His name is Darwin.

What’s a work project you’d love to do?

My fantasy is to have a beautiful piece of property with a dozen or so of these creatures living there permanently and a giant shop to create more.

There would be a few people who tend to the robots.

They would be part of a recycling program where they crush and destroy unwanted items that need to be recycled.

This interview has been edited and condensed for space and clarity.

—— Patty Templeton DGO Staff Writer

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Style Fetish | Heather Narwid

Aging doesn’t have to be unfashionable

Tavi Gevinson and Iris Apfel lead the way on the ends of the young-old spectrum

As we live and gain experience, we should allow our personal styles to evolve as we do. We wear lots of different things for different reasons. We tell these stories through our clothing, and there is potent style value in both youth and maturity.

Growing up with the internet as an easy, ubiquitous source of information has given young women early sophistication – unlimited, globe-spanning access to street style, high fashion and influencers. There is so much to be inspired and validated by, no matter what your age or specific style. Having access to everything in the known universe is a wonderful situation that earlier generations missed out.

Women young and old get plenty of shade thrown for the stereotypical and unfortunate fashion choices common to certain ages, common for the older dressing “too young,” or vice versa. When we challenge ourselves to evolve in our styles, we can best reflect the beautiful women of whatever still-relevant age we happen to be. Leaving certain cuts and styles behind with our younger selves frees our mature selves to take full advantage of the attributes available and appropriate to our particular ages.

Youths can get away with trendiness more; their innocence allows for pop trends to fill space where experience and knowledge will later make the style decisions. There are almost no youthful Fashion Don’ts that can’t charm their way out of looking tacky by the freshness of the young person wearing it, and almost no styles that are disallowed by younger, tighter figures.

Maturity brings the confidence and self-awareness earned by time and experience. After years of critically looking at clothing on ourselves and others, we know our body types and what to wear and what to avoid to feel our best. Having gone through style and trend cycles more than once, we can see that one piece of seasonal trendiness per outfit is probably enough. We can tell the difference between good quality and poor quality garments and material, and the discernment to know when it matters. We have lived so long to know that our styles can communicate volumes, even while our advancing age begins to render us ever-so-slightly invisible to the eyes of Western society’s youth obsession.

The internet holds wondrous and inspiring examples of incredibly stylish “regular” women of all ages.

Two are Tavi Gevinson and Iris Apfel, solid examples of both youthful and mature perspectives on fashion and style. They also show us how they holistically and artfully blend their enjoyment of fashion, work, music, writing, art and culture to influence and hone their personal styles.

Style blogger wunderkind at 12 years old, Tavi Gevinson is probably the most influential young fashionista to date, showing the world that a tweener with a keen and creative sense of style could become a highly respected tastemaker at a ridiculously young age. She snagged invites and tickets to the best couture shows at New York and Paris Fashion Weeks while still a kid, and caught jealous shade from industry insiders threatened by this prodigy of fashion commentary. Gevinson now writes more on culture and feminism and her online magazine thestylerookie.com is rarely updated while she currently collaborates with musicians and acts in theater productions at the fresh age of 20. Check her out on Instagram @tavitulle.

maker of a certain age I recently discovered and now love is the Accidental Icon, a woman in her 60s with intense and relevant ideas, links, reading lists, essays and beautiful photos. Read her empowering list of proclamations on the “about” page at accidentalicon.com and follow her @iconaccidental on Instagram.

Heather Narwid owns and operates Sideshow, a vintage and modern clothing store for men and women, located in northeast Durango at 208 County Road 250. Sideshow is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Find Sideshow on Facebook and on Instagram @Sideshow411Vintage.

Iris Apfel is a wunder-elder of style and the subject of films and books, and garners worldwide fascination and respect. At 96, Apfel’s experiences in art, textiles, international imports, interior design, and fashion leaves her an enviable and award-winning fashion icon with a wardrobe of museum quality.

She is the glorious subject of the much-recommended 2014 documentary “Iris,” by Albert Maysles (who directed the docs “Gimme Shelter” in 1970 and “Grey Gardens” in 1975). Apfel is also featured in interviews and photos in the new book “The Eccentrics,” by Dallas boutique Forty Five Ten. Follow her @Iris.apfel on Instagram.

Another style taste-

»» Iris Apfel

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is performance art for video?

Performance art can be seen as the art world’s weirdo kid sister.

It’s a live performance by an artist (sometimes with collaborators) presenting an action that challenges traditional art forms.

Physical action becomes art. If you’re unfamiliar with performance art, a Durango Arts good place to start is the documentary, Center hosts “Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present.” Video performance art takes it to video exhibit the next level. Those live actions are “Vision All recorded so that a performance can Together” extend past a singular moment.

The Durango Arts Center is hosting “Vision All Together: Performance Art for Video,” which is is up now.

The opening reception is from 5 – 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19 We spoke to Adam Forrester, exhibit curator, and Stacey Sotosky, exhibit artist, via email for details.

Durango is fairly new to video performance art. What is it?

Stacey Sotosky: Video performance art combines traditional performance art with the moving image.

Performance art is an ephemeral form of fine art that became popular in the early 1960s with artists like Yoko Ono and Allan Kaprow. Video art emerged during this same time when portable video cameras became available to artists. So, video performance art is time-based and interdisciplinary; it uses cinematic tools and the human body in the production of fine art.

What are your backgrounds in performance art for video?

Adam Forrester: I was quite frustrated with making conventional photography and film work, and I eventually began performing labor intensive actions in an abandoned lot at the end of my street, things like digging a hole and filling it back in or chopping wood and nailing it back together. It was refreshing and fulfilling. Then I began taking a camera along, added a wardrobe, and hired a few crew members. The actions then became performance-based narratives codified by the camera and some editing. I continued to refine the work until it became my thesis work, a series of performance videos entitled “Adopted Obstacles.”

Sotosky: My first video art piece was exhibited at Fort Lewis College in 2002. I went on to receive an MFA at the University of Denver in Electronic Media Arts and Design in 2008. While I also make documentaries, my art pieces explore the intersections of performance and cinema.

How is an interaction to video performance art different than experiencing an exhibit of stationary art?

Courtesy of Durango Arts Center

»» Stills from “New Descendents,” by Scott Rhea (top) and Jillian Meyer’s “I Am Your Grandma.”

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the show? Why is it a favorite?

Vision All Together: Performance Art for Video opening screening

Forrester: I’d have to say Lilly McElroy’s “A Woman Run Through a Pastoral Setting.” For the first 25 seconds, the only indication we are given that this is a moving image are a few subtle movements and flickers within this idyllic landscape. In a flash, the image we see completely changes as the artist enters the frame, and as a result the work immediately becomes more complex. We see what we thought to be a pastoral setting interrupted by McElroy. She playfully challenges our understanding of what we thought we were seeing. With her entry into the work and in turn the landscape (real or imagined), our relationship to the setting depicted as well as our understanding of sublime nature is reconfigured. Within less than a minute McElroy woos us into a cliché, then turns it upside down. It is a fascinating experience as a viewer.

When: 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19 Where: Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave. Cost: Free Information: http://durangoarts.org/vision-all-together-performance-art-for-video/ Forrester: The biggest difference is the time investment required by viewing video performance art ... When viewing a fixed artwork such as a painting or a photograph, a viewer is confronted with a single image, and often the single image needs to be actively investigated by the viewer. In the case of a moving image, the viewer is asked to absorb the rapidly changing images, and the investigation almost occurs naturally. The moving image actively broadcasts its meaning to any audience member willing to listen, and the fixed image or artwork patiently awaits a viewer’s investigation.

Where does video art end and traditional cinema begin?

Sotosky: Traditional cinema most often attempts to tell stories to large audiences in conventional ways, while video art is free from the standards of mass media. Video art has the liberty to explore duration, pieces can be extremely long or play in a continuous loop. Video art is not required to have a narrative structure like traditional cinema. Visual, time-based media arts have blurred the lines between traditional practices, opening the door for emergent forms like dance film and new media art.

What is one of your favorite pieces in

What emotions or experience do you hope visitors walk away with?

Forrester: As a curator, artist, and educator, I always hope that an audience leaves an exhibit, screening, or lecture with a greater understanding of contemporary life.

We live in a complex time, and it is somewhat comforting knowing that there are other people (in this case, performance video artists) in the world interested in proposing difficult questions. If nothing else, it’s a collective admission that we’re still trying to figure this out ... all together.

This interview has been edited and condensed for space and clarity.

For more information, visit http://durangoarts.org/vision-all-together-performance-art-for-video/ —— Patty Templeton DGO Staff Writer

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Downtown Lowdown | Bryant Liggett

For Lebeau, it’s less about show and more about subtlety

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t’s a simple approach to making music.

No tricks. No frill. Just honest songs void of flash with zero studio enhancement or digital trickery. This is still THE approach to making music. For every teen pop star or major label con artist, there are thousands of in-the-trenches musicians who are navigating their way through an unpredictable business where the rules of success are being written song by song and show by show. This includes Garrett Lebeau, purveyor of the genre of “Super-soul.” It’s a style of slight tempo, hushed lyrics, and blues guitar that nods to early R&B and soul while weaving itself into the fabric of American roots music.

Lebeau and his band will return to Durango Wednesday (Jan. 25) with a performance at El Rancho. Along with Lebeau, who sings and plays guitar, the band is John Duran on drums, Ben Geise on bass, and Ryan Howard on keyboards.

The Austin-based musician, who made his way to Texas after growing up on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, doesn’t pigeonhole himself into a specific genre. He’s a fringe musician, toying with blues and soul yet disguised and delivered in a slight, electric folk package and mellow vibe.

The space between the notes is important. Knowing when to ease back on your instrument is as important as knowing when to lean in. It’s often what is left out that is appealing about a musician like Lebeau. Look at the jam-band world. There’s a presumed necessity of nonstop showmanship, a chest beating “look what I can do with my instrument” approach for every song that is all technique. It’s full-blown musical masturbation, a whole lot of sounds and musical tricks that’s void of any life, feeling and soul. When there’s no practice in personal restraint, the product is a whole lot of hype that at times is enjoyable ear candy, but with very little to sustain the fan.

Lebeau remains similar to musicians like Van

Bryant’s best Saturday: Blues, soul, rock with Welshly Arms, 7:30 p.m. $26/$36. Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive. Information: 247-7657.

Wednesday: Soul music with Garrett Lebeau, opening is Erez, 6 p.m. No cover. El Rancho Tavern, 975 Main Ave. Information: 259-8111.

Morrison or J.J. Cale, players that walk a line that dabbles in the genres that make up American roots music without shoving it down your throat.

“A lot of musicians just focus on their skills on their instrument, which leads to some pretty hollow music, I think, a lot of the time,” Lebeau said.

“I wasn’t enjoying music when that was my goal.

I was playing out and playing gigs, but the music wasn’t feeding me because it was more about me

showcasing my guitar skills. “The music I make now represents many years now of me moving away from that, and playing music for the sake of music. I still use my skills, but that’s not the point of the music.”

“All my favorite artists are somewhat subtle, and that’s the thing about a great artist is there’s some subtlety to what they’re doing. They’re not going to hit you upside the head. It’s me trying to become more nuanced, and write better tunes, and I think that is the normal trajectory of somebody who is serious about what they’re doing and really trying to get better.”

2016 was a busy year for Lebeau. He continues to write, record, and release. Those releases include a live recording from a performance in Durango from summer 2016.

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

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So, you can imagine the anticipation when I read that the band was set to release its sophomore record on one of my favorite mid-independent labels,

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Jan. 20 1.AFI,“The Blood Album” Confession time. Ya boy, Mr.-Hardcore-Makes-Fun-of-Jam-Bands here was pretty big into emo music in middle school. My Chemical Romance, AFI and even Pg. 99 were my jam for a long time. I remember back when Davey Havok looked like a punk rock elf and I loved it. I was sad and I loved it. The sadness has been replaced by more of a annoyed eye roll, and, apparently for AFI, they have been replaced by five copies of Jared Leto pretending that Thirty Seconds To Mars still matters. The new songs are good in an inoffensive punk rock kind of way, but with the resurgence of the pop punk I loved as a teen, I was hoping for something more.

2. Tycho,“Epoch” The culmination of a trilogy built in the last six years, “Epoch” treads territory similar to “Awake” and “Dive,” while bursting with new energy and darkness. The most notable difference in sound here is the prevalence of percussion. In the past, drums were subdued and mellow, but now they careen off each other, breaking, starting, stopping, all faster than the ear is prepared to hear. Tycho does a brilliant job of eschewing the new synthwave trend while feeding off the nostalgia that so

much electronic music fails to capture.

Also, the album cover is so simple yet evocative, conjuring the warmth that Tycho’s sound captures so effortlessly, while still allowing for a hint of darkness.

3. Austra,“Future Politics” Pop with character is one of the strongest forces in all of music. And Canada’s Austra has character in droves.

Austra is the goddess of light in the Latvian pagan belief system, and the group’s name could be no more fitting.

They masterfully blend folk, pop, synthesizers, and ambient music to make something truly special. The album seems to stray from the folk side to sit comfortably at the pop table, but still brings enough intrigue to keep someone like me (the uppercase Opposition to pop music) enthralled.

4. Aversions Crown,“Xenocide” The self-dubbed “Australien Core” deathcore act is back. These guys are one of my favorites from this new era of deathcore, bringing in dynamic harmonies to their chuggy guitar lines and strangled water buffalo vocals. Seriously though, their vocalist has some chops. If you admire the art of the gurgly scream, you will find something special here. If you’re into fast drums and headbanging you will like it. If you like the idea of the entire population of Earth being converted into fuel for omnipotent alien overlords, then you’ll probably like it.

5. Foxygen,“Hang” Foxygen’s new album is so full that I

Secretly Canadian, home to artists such as Suuns, The War On Drugs, Jason Molina, Here We Go Magic and, once, Yeasayer.

Upon first-throughthird listens, the production step-up was obvious, as the album was “recorded at Hollywood’s iconic Sunset Sound studio with acclaimed producers Joe Chicarrelli (The Strokes, My Morning Jacket, The White Stripes) and Carlos De La Garza (Bleached,

M83, Paramore).” Their downtrodden darker pop was still present, but with the obvious sheen one expects when production budgets (presumably?) quadruple. This record is a grower, to be sure, so give it a few spins before you make any judgments. While it may sound as though I don’t dig the album, you’d be wrong. If you don’t believe me, believe Iggy Pop, who claims Cherry Glazerr is “right up there with the best America has to offer today.”

was baffled to discover that only two people make up this band. The album sounds like it was recorded on the set of a spy movie with a live orchestra; it’s so vibrant that listening to it kind of hurts my eyes. The half-whispered vocals started to irk me by the end,

but that is more personal preference than anything. This sounds like music that people who like Wes Anderson films would listen to. If that idea makes you smile, then good! You will like Foxygen.

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First Draughts | Robert Alan Wendeborn

Here are the beers you should always have on hand

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he more time I spend in the beer world, the more I end up with rare beer, beer that doesn’t feel appropriate opening on any casual beer drinking event. They feel special or something. Maybe this is what they call a cellar, but I don’t know. Most of it I’d say is sentimental: It’s the anniversary beer the first year I worked at Ska; a bottle given to me by a brewery worker on a tour that I’ve since stayed in touch with; the first beer that I filled the barrels for and saw the beer all the way through to its packaging the next year. Some of that will age well, and some of it will be special to open, but will taste like hot garbage when I eventually open it.

I don’t really know if “building a beer cellar” should be a thing for anyone but the most diehard beer nerds. Sure, there are some beers that absolutely should be aged, but I think most beer should be drunk as fresh as possible. Building a beer cellar then, becomes not about what beers you should age, but what beers you should always have around. Here are my picks:

Something Light You should always have something that is cold and yellow and refreshing.

No, I’m not talking about the urine of a high-class Russian prostitute, I’m talking about lawnmower beer: Miller High Life, PBR, Pils World, Mama’s Little Yella Pils, you know the drill.

This is beer that will change relatively little as long as it’s kept cold in the back of your fridge. It’s also a style of beer that, in a pinch, no one will turn down.

Something Dark There will always be room and time for a Guinness, a dark lager, or a stout or a porter, or anything dark really.

Roasty malt character lends itself both to pairing with desserts as well as with spicy entrees or grilled meats.

Plus, nothing says breakfast like a nice, dark milk stout.

Something Hoppy Keeping something hoppy in your fridge is kind of a burden: You have to drink it all before the hops fall off. The

expiration date for hoppy beers is usually a little bit longer than non-hoppy beers, as the hops help preserve the beer. But the hop flavor itself falls off relatively quickly, so the canned-on date (or expiration date) can be seen as more of a challenge to drink the beer quickly, than as a guide to getting rid of it.

Something Big Here’s where we get into the type of beer that can be aged (not necessarily that it should be, but that it can). The higher alcohol content will preserve the integrity of the beer from potential contamination, thus making it last longer. Look for anything “Imperial” Continued on Page 11

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and something around 8 percent alcohol. This doesn’t mean that you’re getting Steel Reserve or Colt .45, but styles like Belgian Dubbels, Tripels, Quads, Old Ales, Imperial Stouts, Barley Wines and Double IPAs. I’m particularly fond of aged Double IPAs because it’s always interesting to see how the hops fall off and what “skeleton” is left of the beer.

Something Sour Much like the big beer, the lower pH of a sour beer allows the beer to last longer. Thus, it can be aged, though may not necessarily change or improve over time. Plus, having a good sour in your fridge/cellar is a good way to add balance of flavors for any potential food pairings or taste preferences for any guests. Any style sour will last longer than a regular beer, but if you want one that is going to evolve over time, you’ll want something that is NOT pasteurized. The pasteurization is not bad for the beer, it just locks in the flavor by killing any potential microbes in the finished beer.

Something Bottle-Conditioned Bottle-conditioned beer is beer that undergoes a secondary fermentation in the bottle, which means that there are microbes intentionally left or added to the beer at or before packaging. Usually the microbes are Brettanomyces, but sometimes wine or champagne yeast, or even just normal brewer’s

yeast are used. The added microbes add a layer of defense against foreign microbes and help fight off oxygen for the life of the bottle. Bottle-conditioned beer will continue to evolve indefinitely, because as long as the microbes are in the bottle, they will continue to metabolize sugars, proteins, enzymes, and anything they can get their hands on until they are killed with heat.

My favorite combinations of beers to cellar are actually beers that are a combination of the above: Hoppy sours, dark sours, dark hoppy beers, etc., because as the beer ages, one of the characteristics will actually David Holub/DGO start to fade and the other characters start coming out in super interesting ways. Anyway, this whole idea of cellaring beer is fairly new. It’s not like wine where, you know, you gotta love those ’61 Bordeaux’s or whatever.

Robert Alan Wendeborn is a former cellar operator at Ska Brewing and current lead cellar operator at Tin Roof Brewing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Colorado used to be a “dinosaur highway.” What does that mean?

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TRAILING COLORADO’S

DINOSAUR HIGHWAY Paleontologist Dr. Jon Powell discusses unlocking secrets of the past that benefit today

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Well, when you go back in time, one of the things you discover is that North America didn’t always look like it does today. At one point, North America was divided in two by this interior seaway. It divided the east coast from the west coast. If you were a big dinosaur and you are trying to find food to eat, you won’t stay in one place. You’ll eat everything in sight and then starve to death. Migration patterns start.

Dinosaurs cross the land, eating as they are go, then turn around, and eat on the way back. In the eastern planes of Colorado, we have this fantastic site, Picketwire Canyonlands, with thousands and thousands of dinosaur tracks that show this migration pattern.

The tracks are still visible today?

r. Jon Powell has a stack of stunning exploits. The man helped substantiate the theory of plate tectonics through finding the first vertebrate fossils in Antarctica – before he had even finished college! He had a near-30-year career in the U.S. Air Force and now forgoes retirement to teach geosciences at the Fort as an adjunct.

A damn charming paleontologist, you can meet him yourself at the Powerhouse Science Center’s Pub Science night on Friday, Jan. 20, beginning at 5:30 p.m. With free admission, a cash bar of craft beer, and open conversation, Powell will share his decades of dinosaur knowledge – hell yes.

Most folks know that dinosaurs roamed Colorado, but did you know that you can find fragments of fossils as close as two miles from downtown Durango? Southwest Colorado has a high likelihood of a significant find. Powell is searching for that extraordinary discovery, and training future generations to do the same.

Yes, the sediments that were on top of them were eroded away and it is in a shallow river valley so all these tracks are exposed. What is really cool is that you see not only these tracks but evidence of these big, long-necked dinosaurs traveling in a herd. Then of these dinosaurs being trapped by meat-eating dinosaurs that were following them. Now, we haven’t seen any chewed up skeleton remains in there, but who knows? Maybe someday someone will find that.

This site is fully accessible to the public?

Anyone can hike into that area. In fact, we really encourage amateurs who are interested in paleontology to go there.

Many, many discoveries have been made by amateurs. There are restrictions about picking things up or collecting them. We want to make sure that these things end up in a museum or a university where they can be studied.

What’s the fossil scene like in Southwest Colorado?

We haven’t been quite as fortunate as some of the other areas in the state. For example, the state dinosaur, the stegosaurus, has been found in other areas and so has the diplodocus and the allosaurus.

But, we have found scrappy little pieces of bones here and there, and in some locations we’ve found several bones that are articulated together. One sight that my students have been involved in, as well as the Colorado State Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, is a site where bones have been weathering out for a while. There is a hip bone, tail bone, vertebrate, pieces of ribs, and a long leg bone that is currently on display at the Center for Southwest Studies. So, that is kind of like a promise.

“Here’s a bunch of fossils. We promise you’ll find more.” When any animal dies, the bones gradually become more and more scattered. It is unusual when you find them all stuck together. We are hoping that one of these days someone will stumble across a complete skeleton.

How’d you become a dinosaur hunter?

Like many people who got into paleontology, I got interested in the field when I was a little kid and read books about dinosaurs. I first became fascinated by a book that my friend had that showed pictures of dinosaur eggs. I was always interested in pursuing Continued on Page 14

This artist rendering from the journal Science shows the dinosaur lineage, which evolved into birds, shrank in body size continuously for 50 million years.

From left, the ancestral neotheropod, the ancestral tetanuran, the ancestral coelurosaur, the ancestral paravian and Archaeopteryx.

Scientists have mapped how one group of dinosaurs evolved from the likes of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex and primitive Herrerasaurus to the welcome robin and cute hummingbird.

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that. I was very, very fortunate when I was a senior in college. I got picked to go on an expedition to Antarctica. We were trying to find the first vertebrate fossils that would help prove and tie together the theory of plate tectonics.

We were really fortunate and we found the very first fossil evidence of that.

That was a fantastic expedition. Then I had a little bit of a hiatus. I worked for the U.S. Air Force for 27 years. I traveled, made lots of friends all over the world and collected fossils all over the world in my free time. When I retired from the Air Force, I moved out here and I began teaching.

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Does the media ever get depictions of dinosaurs correct?

PBS and National Geographic have both put together some wonderful shows that try to portray dinosaurs as they really were and how they died and how they became fossils. One interesting thing is that the more we know, the more even good programs become dated. If you look at images of dinosaurs from 10 to 15 years ago, they are scaly animals running around. Now we know that a lot of dinosaurs had feathers.

Not necessarily feathers that allowed them to fly, but they could be feathers for warmth or to say, “Hey, here I am. Let’s have a date this weekend!”

The more we learn about dinosaurs and their behaviors, the more we can portray them accurately. The most accurate depictions are always the ones that came out last week because the science changes so fast.

paleontology?

Someone with a natural curiosity.

Someone who has a background not only in geology, but it’s more and more important for a background in biology, too. Maybe to know a little bit of climate and weather sciences. All of these things really tie into paleontology.

What would you say to someone who says “Why waste money on digging up fossils? We have enough fossils to study.”

From a paleontologist’s standpoint, we never have enough fossils. One of the favorite sayings of geologists and paleontologists is, “The present is the key to the past.” Without geology and geoscientists, we would have no idea what past climates were really like on Earth.

History can be a really eye-opening experience, to observe what climate is doing, not day to day weather patterns, but long-term climate patterns. How does today compare to what we see in the past? When we look at climate from a paleontological standpoint and a geological standpoint, and look at the meteorology involved in it – it is pretty horrifying. The Earth is warming up much, much faster than anything we have seen in the past.

Did all dinosaurs have feathers?

We’re still trying to figure out if all dinosaurs had feathers.

We have some very rare dinosaur mummies that do preserve some skin.

There are other dinosaurs in China – some small and some a little bit larger – that have been found, where skin and these feathers have been preserved.

So probably no, not all dinosaurs had feathers but enough of them did to make it really, really interesting.

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Did cannabis exist at the time of dinosaurs? Would they have eaten it?

We have found evidence, not of cannabis in dinosaurs, but of general stomach contents. You can find, on very rare occasions, a dinosaur that has been preserved completely – even its internal organs. When you find that, you can take it apart and find out that they eat things like palm, pine cones, all kinds of tough vegetation. In the time of the dinosaurs, there was no grass. Small shrubs, but no grass. In carnivorous dinosaurs, we find fragments of other dinosaurs. We’ve found some dinosaurs that have even scarfed up seashells on the beach. We see those sort of things ... The best estimate is that cannabis first appeared about 34 million years ago, long after the dinosaurs. But who knows? Maybe they had their own favorites!

What’s your favorite dinosaur?

I should be diplomatic and say it’s gotta be stegosaurus, the state dinosaur of

[poetry] Colorado. But, I think small dinosaurs like Deinonychus, one of these little raptors, are fascinating animals. They have larger brains than most other dinosaurs. They’re very speedy and look intelligent.

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Why is the stegosaurus our state dinosaur?

I don’t know the complete story, but what I heard was that a group of elementary school kids who really liked stegosaurus proposed it to the state legislature. And why not? It was first discovered here and it is a very cool looking dinosaur with these big triangular plates on it. That’s another thing: We look at that dinosaur and we say, “What were those triangular plates used for?” and some people have suggested maybe they were armor ... I’ve looked at the actual fossils of those plates. There are so many cavities for blood vessels to run through that they really look like a sponge. They are fragile. They wouldn’t have been good for armor.

If somebody hit that, you’d bleed all over the place. But here’s an interesting idea: One of the ways that chameleons change their colors is by pushing blood into certain cells and warming them up. The temperature changes as blood goes into those cells and that causes the color change. So what if the stegosauruses plates are giant neon signs that say, “Hi! Here I am!”?

What would be a fabulous fossil find?

I would love to have one of my students find the tail of a dinosaur. We could dig the whole thing up from the tail to the head.

That would be fantastic. We have enough talented students going out and surveying the countryside and enough wonderful amateurs out there that we hope to eventually find something that scale. That would be ideal. I would love to see a mounted dinosaur skeleton up at Fort Lewis College.

This interview has been edited and condensed for space and clarity.

— Patty Templeton DGO Staff Writer

Durango artist Dan Groth first moved to town in 1998, but bounced around a bunch before moving to Portland in 2004. He has been back in Durango since 2011. See more of his work at dangroth.com.

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[ weed ] Seeing Through the Smoke Christopher Gallagher

Sessions confirmation reminds us: Legalization is precarious

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he confirmation hearings of Jeff “good people don’t smoke marijuana” Sessions unearthed one nugget on which he and I agree. The senator from Alabama-cum-United-States-Attorney-General proclaimed on Day 1 of his congressional vetting that, “One obvious concern is that Congress has made the possession of marijuana in every state an illegal act. If that is not desired any longer, Congress should pass a law to change it.” He may have an attitude on the whole issue that makes me disinclined to listen to another single thing he ever says, but the guy has a point on this one.

I’m of the mindset that cannabis prohibition ranks among the most cunningly odious decisions made by those in power during the last century. First and foremost, it never should have happened.

The reasons behind it include racial bias, desire to vilify and arrest groups who were political opponents to the establishment, and faulty science. The outcomes that have proceeded from these laws have included the strengthening of the prison industrial complex, our dangerous reliance on petroleum products and the denial of access to medicine to millions who could have benefited from it.

It’s a dirty, dirty game.

The only proper resolution, in my mind, is the

complete removal of any and all laws that govern its cultivation, distribution, and use. Treat it like tomatoes or basil or any other thing you can bury in the dirt, water, tend, and, when the season comes, reap and benefit from your loving labor. I’m a dreamer ...

I know, I know.

Here’s the reality: 44 states and the District of Columbia allow the medical use of cannabis in some form. NORML classifies Texas’ statute as “non-functional” due to its provision calling for doctors to “prescribe” rather than “recommend” its use. Regardless, we are left with over 80 percent medical legality nationwide, according to the individual states. After the November elections, we now have eight states (and D.C.) that allow recreational use and Gallup polling from October 2016 registered an approval rating of 60 percent in favor of cannabis legalization. The only demographic within this poll that was not in statistical favor of legalization in any form was the 55-and-older crowd who came in at 45 percent in favor. Just to up the ante, a recently released Pew Research Center survey of 8,000 American law enforcement officers shows that nearly 70 percent are in favor of relaxing marijuana laws, with 32 percent in

favor of legalization in both recreational and medical, and 37 percent in favor legalization for medical use only.

At the end of the day, though, these numbers aren’t worth a bagseed. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is 100 percent correct: The way the laws are currently written, cannabis is completely and totally illegal on the federal level. The Cole Memo of 2013, as wishy-washy as it was, could turn out to be a high point in the fight for legal cannabis.

I present two options for us cannabis aficionados going forward. (1): Become more politically active; support your local NORML chapter, write and call your congressperson; hell, write and call every congressperson. They are the only ones who have the power to change the status quo. (2) Begin to educate yourself on guerrilla growing. That was the way things were done for a long time. If we are headed back in that direction, I will be here to help, mis amigos.

Christopher Gallagher lives with his wife and their four dogs and two horses. Life is pretty darn good. Contact him at chrstphrgallagher@ gmail.com.

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Playing in Durango Animas City Theatre Seasons. Winter had gone on for 80,000 years when, in a short period of time the ice retreated, the landscape metamorphosed, the cycle of seasons was established and the beasts occupied their new kingdom. Rated PG. Lion. Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train that takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family.

Twenty-five years later, armed with only memories, his unwavering determination and Google Earth, he sets out to return to his first home. Rated PG-13.

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»» “Pac Man” advertisement from the April 1, 1982, Durango Herald.

Pac-Man chomps through Colorado Atari 2600 popularized the idea of home video game consoles. Their most successful game cartridge was “PacMan,” a redesign of the popular arcade game selling 7 million copies. Unfortunately, the Atari 2600 version of “Pac-Man” was also a piece of crap: The ghosts flickered; the character control was awful. “Pac-Man” and the sucktastic “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” were rushed games that tried to capitalize on pop culture trends. These two games ultimately led to a downgrade in consumer confidence in Atari, which helped create the North American Video Game Crash of 1983. Downer.

Not a downer: The Japanese name for the game was Pakkuman. “Paku” means to gobble or chomp. The original U.S. name was “Puck-Man” but distributors wanted to avoid shithead teenagers vandalizing their arcade cabinets (i.e.: turning that “P” into an “F”). They argued a name change and that’s the origin of “Pac-Man.” In final notes from video game history, if you haven’t heard the song “Pac-Man Fever,” OH MY GAWD, what a lovely piece of WTF. It broke into the Billboard Top 100 in March of ’82 and though it never got to No. 1 (which belonged to “I Love Rock and Roll” by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts), it did sell 1.2 million copies that year.

—— Patty Templeton DGO Staff Writer

Sophie and the Rising Sun. (Wednesday only). Set in 1941 in Salty Creek, South Carolina, the film tells the compelling story of two interracial lovers, Sophie, an artist who also fishes and sells crabs, the other an Asian man, swept up in the tides of history. As World War II rages in Europe, Mr. Ohta, appears in the town badly beaten and under mysterious circumstances. Sophie quickly becomes transfixed by him and friendship blossoms into a forbidden courtship. Not rated.

Hidden Figures. The untold story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Rated PG. Underworld: Blood Wars. Vampire death dealer, Selene fights to end the eternal war between the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. Rated R. Passengers. A spacecraft transporting people to a colony planet has a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers. As a result, a single passenger is awakened 90 years early.

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Rated PG-13.

Sing. A koala has one final chance to restore his theater to its former glory. Rated PG. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. (See Gaslight listing) Moana. A teenager sails out on a mission to prove herself a master wayfinder and fulfill her ancestors’ unfinished quest.

Rated PG.

Manchester by the Sea. An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies. Rated R. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. Rated PG-13.

Durango Stadium 9 Live By Night. The saga of a young gangster, as he rises to power in Boston, does time in jail, and is released to start over in Florida, where he is caught between two rival gangs. Rated R. Monster Trucks. (Also available in 3-D with surcharge) Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp builds a monster truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars.

Rated PG. Patriots Day. An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis’ actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath.

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Savage Love | Dan Savage

What’s that you say? Sex in the ear? Come again?

About a year ago, I was pretending to read my boyfriend’s mind and jokingly said, “You want to put it in my ear.”

Since then, I have seen references to ear sex (aural sex?) everywhere!

There’s even a holiday (“Take It in the Ear Day” on Dec. 8), and I was reading a book just now in which the author mentions how much she hates getting come in her ear. So while I am honestly not trying to yuck someone’s yum, I do have two questions. First, is this really a thing? And second, how does it work? I mean, I like it when my boyfriend kisses my ears, but I don’t think I’d get that hot from him putting his penis there. It just seems loud. Can you enlighten me?

An Understanding Requested About Listeners Ear sex is a thing. But we need to distinguish between auralism, AURAL, and an ear fetish. People into auralism are sexually aroused by sounds – it could be a voice or music or sex noises.

(Sex noises can arouse almost anyone who hears them, of course, so technically we’re all auralists.) An ear fetish, on the other hand, is a kind of partialism, i.e., a sexual interest in one part of the body (often parts not typically found in pants). A foot fetish is a partialism, for example, as is an ear fetish or an armpit fetish.

Most ear fetish stuff – including the thousands of ear fetish videos on YouTube – is about tugging, rubbing, or licking someone’s ear and not about [bleeping] someone in the ear or coming in someone’s ear canal. Dicks don’t fit in ear canals, and blasting semen into someone’s ear could cause a nasty ear infection. So both are risky practices best avoided – but, hey, if PIE (penis in ear) sex is actually a thing, I invite any hardcore ear kinksters out there reading this to write in and explain exactly how that works.

I have a particular fetish that I’ve never fully disclosed to anybody. My ultimate fantasy is to be stripped of

my assets by a woman and then (most importantly) made homeless. I like dressing up dirty – face, clothing, and all – and even going so far as to look through garbage cans. My question is this: Is it moral to live out this fantasy, considering the plight of homeless people?

Desiring Interesting RolePlay That’s Yucky I’m not gonna lecture you about how homelessness is a tragedy for individuals and a national crisis that the administration of Orange Julius Caesar is unlikely to prioritize. Just like AURAL, DIRTY, I’m not here to yuck anyone’s yum. But this is definitely a fantasy – morally speaking – that can’t be fully realized.

You’re turned on by the thought of a cruel woman taking absolutely everything from you and leaving you homeless? Great. Find a woman who’s into findom (financial domination) and give her some or most of your money and play dress up on the weekends and sleep in her backyard. But don’t give her everything and actually wind up homeless, DIRTY, because then you’ll wind up competing for scarce shelter beds and other resources with men, women, and children who didn’t choose to become homeless because it made their dicks hard. There’s nothing moral about making their plight worse than it already is.

Finally, DIRTY, while you’re able to fantasize about being stripped of your assets and left homeless, there are real people out there who have nothing and don’t find anything about being homelessness arousing. Want to be poorer?

Donate a big chunk of your assets to homeless shelters and/or nonprofits that assist those experiencing homelessness in your area.

I’ve never admitted this to anyone: The idea of committing suicide turns me on sexually. I recognize how crazy that is, and I want to emphasize that I’m not suicidal. I’m not

depressed, I love living, and despite this sexual impulse, I don’t want to kill myself. I’m turned on by the fantasy of hanging myself, but that’s not really how I want my life to end.

(To be clear: Autoerotic asphyxiation gets a lot of press, but that’s not the situation here. Asphyxiation itself isn’t my kink, and other methods of committing suicide also turn me on.)

My question is this: Given that I don’t want these fantasy scenarios to ever become reality, should I indulge the fantasy through healthy, safe play with a responsible partner or should I try to repress it and shut it down? I’m worried that if I indulge the fantasies through safe scenarios, I might reach a point where the safety precautions interfere with the thrill. On the other hand, I know that trying to repress sexual desires is a hopeless endeavor and trying to keep these fantasies in check might result in a scenario where they boil over and I end up engaging in riskier behavior than I would have otherwise.

Horny And Nervous Guy’s Endangering Deeds You’re not actually suicidal, right?

I know you already said you weren’t, HANGED, but I want to double-check.

Because fantasizing about killing yourself – for whatever reason – technically counts as suicidal ideation.

If you or anyone else reading this is contemplating suicide, please reach out to someone you trust. Ask for help. Stick around. (Some resources: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1 (800) 273-8255; the Trevor Project, 1 (866) 488-7386; Trans Lifeline, (877) 565-8860.)

OK, HANGED, I’m going to take you at your word: You love being alive and don’t actually want to kill yourself any more than a sane person into master/ slave role-play actually wants to own a human being or be enslaved. But while I agree that repressing sexual desires is a hopeless endeavor, HANGED, “can’t be repressed” isn’t the only factor we have to take into consideration as

we contemplate acting on our sexual fantasies. There are two other important considerations (at least!): Can the act be performed consensually? Can the act be enjoyed with minimal risk of permanent harm?

Your kink can definitely be performed consensually, and there are ways to minimize the risks of harm – and I’m not talking about only sticking your head in an Easy-Bake Oven. I’m talking about finding a responsible/indulgent/macabre partner who’s willing to indulge/assist/monitor. Yours is a kink that can be explored only during supervised play, otherwise you run the risk of [bleeping] up and accidentally hanging yourself. You can never do this solo. So if you don’t have a responsible and unflappable partner, HANGED, you’ll have to stick to your right hand and your imagination.

Bi guy here, who’s way OK with the use of “fag” or “faggot” in the right context.

And what FAGS wrote in about last week – a boyfriend who wants to be called “faggot” while she talks negatively about his cock – is absolutely the right context. There’s an evolution in meaning taking place right now, Dan. These days, “fag” is less about sexual preference and more about sexual submission. A submissive man? Gay or straight? He’s a fag. I’ve been serviced by both hetero and homo faggots and have enjoyed myself, as have the fags who sucked my [rooster] or did my housework. Go onto Tumblr and see for yourself. (Also: I have a sneaky suspicion that sparks would fly if FAGS raised the subject of cuckoldry with her boyfriend.)

Bi Guy Into Faggots Thanks for sharing, BGIF. Dan Savage is a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist writing for The Stranger in Seattle. Contact him at mail@savagelove.net or @fakedansavage on Twitter and listen to his podcast every week at savagelovecast.com.

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From 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Smiley Building, 1309 East Third Ave., RESPOND: A Day of Free Classes will be held, addressing actions you can take to empower yourself and learn how to work for a more just community.

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Thursday “Photography from the Inside Out” art workshop, 10 a.m.-noon, Durango Arts

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Durango Rocks, 5-8:30 p.m., Fort Lewis

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City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive, 799-2281.

Saturday Cat Mountain Fibers trunk show,

10 a.m., Yarn Durango, 755 East Second Ave., 259-9827.

Moving image video art workshop,

“Glaciers Then and Now” snowshoe workshop, 10 a.m.-noon, Rapp Corral

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

And while the classes are free, you will have a chance to donate to local organizations if you want.

Weshly Arms concert, 7:30 p.m., Fort

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

Donny Johnson, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond

You don’t need to register; but space is limited, so plan to get there early. Oh, and don’t be that person who forgets a pen and notebook.

Robby Overfield, 7-11 p.m., The Office

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

Friday

The classes will break from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for the “Standing on the Side of Love” march, which will meet at the train station at noon and walk up to Buckley Park.

403-1200, www.thebean.com.

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understand others with nonviolent communication.

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Open Mic, 7-11 p.m., Steaming Bean, down-

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Super Ted’s Super Trivia, 6:12 p.m.,

Blue Moon Ramblers, 5:30-10 p.m.,

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Tango guided practica, 7 p.m., Cerda

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Useless Knowledge Bowl Trivia+, 7 p.m., Durango Brewing Co., 3000 Main Ave., 247-3396.

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

Tim Sullivan, 7-11 p.m., The Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.

Open Mic, 8 p.m., Moe’s Starlite Lounge,

937 Main Ave., 259-9018.

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Four Corners Arts Forum, 9 a.m.,

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Moving image video art workshop, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Room 2B, Reed Li-

1565 East Second Ave., www.durangogov. org.

brary, Fort Lewis College, www.durangoarts. org.

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

People’s Practice in the Park, 12:30

Acoustic jam, 6-8 p.m., Irish Embassy

p.m., Buckley Park, 247-8395, www.turtlelakerefuge.org.

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

Beginning Tunisian crochet, 2:303:30 p.m., Yarn Durango, 755 East Second Ave., 259-9827.

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

Retro gaming afternoon, 4 p.m., Ignacio Community Library, 470 Goddard Ave., Ignacio, 563-9287.

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

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

Two-step and cha-cha lessons,

Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., www.skabrewing.com.

Joel Racheff, 5:30-10 p.m., Diamond

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

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

Terry Rickard, 7-11 p.m., The Office

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

Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Tango foundation class, 7 p.m.,

Pingpong and poker tournament,

Groove U Dance Studio, 26369 U.S. Highway 160, 903-5128, ljubalemke@gmail.com.

Spoken Word, 7-9 p.m., Steaming Bean,

downstairs at the Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.thebean.com.

Tuesday

Karaoke with DJ Crazy Charlie, 9

p.m., Wild Horse Saloon, 601 East Second Ave., 375-2568.

Submissions

“Cut Loose with Pastels” art workshop, 10 a.m.-noon, Durango Arts Center,

802 East Second Ave., www.durangoarts. org.

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

Acoustic jam, 6-9 p.m., Steaming Bean,

downstairs at the Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.thebean.com.

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Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19) For the next four weeks, you will be more popular. You might join a club, group or organization. Enjoy being friendly!

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) People in authority will admire you during the next four weeks. Because of this, you have an advantage. Go after what you want!

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) If you can travel in the next four weeks, do so. Do anything that will expand your horizons, because you want adventure and a chance to learn something new.

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LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Partnerships and close relationships will be a strong focus for you during the next four weeks. You will find that you can reflect upon your style of relating with others and learn something from it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) You will be eager to be productive and effective in everything you do during the next four weeks. That’s why you will want to do an excellent job!

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Fun vacations are tops on your menu throughout the next four weeks. If you can’t get away on a vacation, then enjoy the arts, social outings, parties, sports events and playful times with kids.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)

During the next four weeks, your focus will turn to home, family and domestic issues. Many of you will want to cocoon more at home as well.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) The pace of your days will accelerate during the next four weeks because you will be busy taking short trips, running errands, talking to people and reading, writing and studying more. Busy you!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Your mind will be on money, finances and cash flow more than usual during the next four weeks. Trust your moneymaking ideas!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Because the Sun in your sign for the next four weeks, you have a chance to replenish yourself for the coming

year. It also will attract favourable situations and important people to you.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Work alone or behind the scenes throughout the next four weeks because this will serve your best interests. It’s a good time to make goals for the year ahead.

BORN THIS WEEK You are enthusiastic, and you have strong opinions. You are honest and upright; you appreciate beautiful things. Your original ideas can inspire others. The year 2017 will be a year of choices for you. Start to get a footing on what matters to you. Reduce your overhead expenses so that you are financially strong in 2017.

Happiness is having alternatives. © 2017 King Features Syndicate Inc.

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On library-ing Need an escape from what is sure to be a “brave new world”? How about stepping away from the screen, and having a look at a book! Let Corinna Manion, librarian at the Durango Public Library, tell you about her reading goals and resolutions.

What are your personal reading goals this year?

Quality over quantity! The past few years I have set high goals for myself – 100 books, 75 books, 52 books. I found I was selecting books to read based on how short or easy to read they looked. This year I set my goal much lower – 30 books – with the hopes that I will read some of those denser books that have been on my to-read list for a long time. Another of my reading goals this year is to read some tried-and-true titles rather than focusing on new books. When you work as a librarian, you have to stay tuned into new trends and titles. There’s so many interesting books being released, it can feel overwhelming. I’m excited to go back and read some books that aren’t quite as new that people I trust have recommended to me over the years.

What resolutions, goals, and strategies do you recommend to people looking to read a bit more?

can’t help it! I’m looking forward to new books by George Saunders, Dan Chaon, Jesmyn Ward, Haruki Murakami, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Cormac McCarthy. 2017 should be a great year for literary fiction.

I also read a lot of young adult books and graphic novels. I recently really enjoyed Nicola Yoon’s “The Sun is Also a Star,” which tells a heartbreaking, yet uplifting, story of two teens in love navigating the immigration system in our country. I’m looking forward to a new one by Veronica Roth (of “Divergent” fame) in 2017 and I’ve also been meaning to pick up Ta-Nehisi Coates’ reboot of Marvel’s “Black Panther.”

What’s an overlooked genre or style that deserves more of the casual reader’s attention?

There are some amazing graphic novels out there that can easily get overlooked by people who think they wouldn’t enjoy them or just aren’t used to the format. Durango Public Library has an ever-growing collection. I would highly encourage folks to check it out. If you’re looking for suggestions for this or anything else, we have a personalized reading list service where you can get recommendations tailored to your taste.

Courtesy of Corinna Manion Everything is strengthened by habit. If you » » Corinna Manion read or listen to an audiobook for 30 minutes a day you’ll find you have an awesome foundation for being a more regular reader. to “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,” books helped me I go for a 30 minute walk every morning and listen make sense of the world when I was growing up and What’s the most memorable thing to an audiobook. I read for at least 20 minutes every helped me cultivate a sense of wonder and curiosity that’s happened at the library during night. It all adds up. For parents who are trying to that I hope never leaves me. When I was a teenager, your tenure there? encourage their kids to become independent readthe library was my second home. We didn’t have a ers, model that behavior! It really helps. Also, I’m a Making smoothies with teens during a program last lot of money growing up and I couldn’t believe that summer was equal parts hilarious and disgusting.

Goodreads junky. I love seeing what my friends are everything there was free!

We made ourselves a “smoothie challenge” and drew reading and getting ideas for what to read next.

How did you become a librarian? ingredients from a hat and mixed them all together.

Why look at a page instead of a I’ve always been driven to serve others and to try to The results were ... questionable. I still run into teens screen? help level the playing field by making sure everyone, who talk about that program.

I think it’s a myth that the internet and our smartregardless of their station in life, has access to books If you could recommend one novel to phones connect us. Sure, they do in a literal sense, and knowledge. Libraries helped me immensely the casual reader, what would it be but I find myself feeling more connected to the growing up, and I like to think I’m preserving that for and why? world around me and fellow human beings when I’m generations to come. Beyond this lofty goal, there It’s not a novel, but “Dragons Love Tacos,” by Adam unplugged and reading more books. I find that reading were lots of years of higher education involved. Fun Rubin. Dragons, tacos, and uproarious fun for all ages. fiction creates more empathy in me and reading nonfact: To be a librarian, you need a master’s degree!

What more can you ask for? fiction helps me feel more grounded and connected to Are there any recent or about-to-beour shared histories and experiences. released novels that you’re Cyle Talley made a reference to a piece of seminal fiction How did you become a reader? particularly excited about? in his byline. If you can name it, he’ll give you a high-five.

I’ve gravitated toward the written word for as long as Even though I said one of my reading goals this year If there’s something you’d like to GET SMART about, email him at: cyle@cyletalley.com I can remember. From “Babar” to “The Wizard of Oz” was to not focus on the new stuff so much, I kind of

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