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Games aren’t always about the shiniest weapons I picked up a game recently that I never finished called “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl,” and found that new perspectives on life, not skill, would help me finally complete it.

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Donald Trump didn’t invent the term ‘fake news.’ I did. A long time ago.

So, last month on the Trinity Broadcast Network, Donald Trump claimed he created the term “fake news” and even took credit for coming up with the word “fake.”

Because I know you need my reassurance, I will tell you that this is, indeed, untrue. I know, because it was me who came up with the phrase. At least that’s what I’ll tell myself: Back in 2011, acclaimed writer and editor Roxane Gay published my piece of satirical fiction “Fakiness” in the magazine PANK. Clearly, it changed the world.

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ou watch fake news. You say it’s because you hate the real news. And you claim the real news is faker than the fake news, the fake news being the only news that tells the truth.

You ask, “But what is The Truth?” waiting for the other person to shrug their shoulders, at which point you plan to say, “Exactly. It’s all just someone’s opinion.” But instead of shrugging her shoulders, she takes a huge bite of a 25-cent fruit pie and complains about how they don’t put as much fruit filling in them as they used to. And then she wipes her mouth on her pants, which are plastic but made to look like leather. It’s funny because they match the seats in your car. You laugh.

You have two laughs: Your real one and your fake one. These are indistinguishable to both your real friends and your fake friends, all who know one another, getting together and laughing it up at your expense when you excuse yourself to the bathroom to snoop through the medicine cabinet.

While snooping you say “Hey, this is my medicine cabinet; no need to feel guilty. But whose herpes medication is that?”

It’s suspicious. Just like the potato chips with the claims that they’re “Made with Real Cheese.”

And the funny thing, the thing that keeps you up late into the night giggling and hooting and sometimes vomiting is that you actually prefer the potato chips made with fake cheese. Why? Because you were raised believing that fake cheese tasted more like real cheese than real cheese.

But that doesn’t change the fact that your watch is made of fake gold. You know it’s fake because you bought it for $10 from an old guy on the street who you inadvertently referred to as a Chinaman when retelling the story, the story about how he said it was water-resistant up to 100 meters and you said, “Why would I wear a solid gold watch that far under water?” and he said, “And even if you did, would you really need to

check the time?” And then the two of you shared a moment that seemed genuine, but it couldn’t have been because you’re you and he’s just an old man that you inadvertently referred to as a Chinaman.

But not to his face. That would have been a faux pas, which, as you know, is French for “false step.” How do you know this? Because your grandfather had false teeth. And he was French.

Or at least he wanted to be. How else could you explain that tiny little mustache and those goofy hats and those skinny cigarettes he put in your mouth as a youngster? Not to mention the French accent, which was as fake as his teeth. Some said he was just being funny, but these were the same people who said fake teeth hadn’t been funny since George Washington’s slave, Clarence, made audiences howl with his 1762 one-man show, “Ye Olde Falsies.”

You thought it would be even funnier if your grandfather set up a Facebook profile – Look!

Grand-Père’s on Facebook! – but then he died and you wept every time you saw his sad, jokey, fauxFrench profile picture (the one with the pipe) piled amongst your other 896 Facebook friends.

Un-friending a Facebook friend is always hard, but un-friending your dead grandfather is plain heart-breaking.

But not as heart-breaking as when you found out that your uncle’s “friend” Jerry was more than just a friend. It turned out that everyone had been putting “friend” in quotes for years, unbeknownst to you. Upon learning this, you spent hours in your room, dejected and deceived, devising ways to make punctuation more apparent in speech so this would never happen again.

And ever since, when talking about your uncle you always mention how “he’s ... you know” and then you do that wavy thing with your hand and then that thing with your mouth that sounds like a muted trumpet if it were played by a homosexual.

Sometimes mothers and fathers see you doing hand gesture/trumpet thing and hustle their children away while shielding their eyes and covering their ears, which always prompts you to shout, “You can’t run from reality.” But they do, straight inside a careening new house, whose mortgage rate was so good it wasn’t true.

But those mothers and fathers wouldn’t know anything about that. Because they watch the fake news; the real news being too real. Unlike their homes and cherry wood furniture and all those flowers. Those are made of plastic.

Making party playlists Love it I was once at an untoward jumble of a college house party that, for some reason, I drove over two hours from Chicago to southern Illinois for. It was absolutely not worth wheeling to except for one moment wherein the ENTIRE HOUSE stopped what they were doing and ecstatically sang “We Are the Champions” with Freddie Mercury on the hi-fi.

I don’t think I needed to hear 90 people from all reaches of a two-story revelry belting out Queen to know that music makes a party, but from then on, I enjoyed the idea of finding The Perfect Song to create The Perfect Moment.

I love being in charge of party playlists. I love mashing unexpected but connected tunes together. I love being the cause of hot closet groping to Howlin’ Wolf or blitzkrieg kitchen boppin’ or low-toned, deep-life convos near summer bonfires to the deliberate lyrics of Joseph Huber.

Music is a powerful magic, and I’ll ever love being a conduit for its propagation.

—— Patty Templeton

Hate it Apparently, I’m not good at reading the room or gauging the moods of party guests or which sounds are appropriate for an occasion at any point. Or maybe my music is simply unlikeable.

The music I have played at parties has been described as “too depressing” (Nick Drake), “too hokey” (The Statler Brothers), “too folky” (First Aid Kit), or sounding “too much like Herb Alpert” (Herb Alpert).

I don’t like the pressure of being in charge of the music, and hence (apparently), whether the party lives or dies. I’m a people-pleaser by nature, and trying to please five to 20 people at the same time is too much pressure. Whatever the music I pick, it’s always too fast, not fast enough, too bluegrassy, too loud, too soft, too much disco, not enough disco. You can’t please all the party people all the time, so I’ve learned.

I’ll joyfully turn over party-playlist-picking to others.

You know, criticizing their choices is so much easier.

—— David Holub

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Extra Life | Brett Massé

Games – and life – aren’t always about the shiniest weapons

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picked up a game recently that I never finished called “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl,” and found that new perspectives on life, not skill, would help me finally complete it.

You might be able to guess, based on the title, that it takes place in the post-disaster exclusion zone around Pripyat, Ukraine, where the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted down in the spring of 1986. The title of the game draws from the 1979 Tarkovsky film “Stalker,” which itself is based on the 1971 sci-fi story “A Roadside Picnic,”

by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

The film “Stalker” became something of a bizarre classic after the Chernobyl meltdown forced the Soviet Union to close off a thousand square miles surrounding the power plant and dedicate an exclusion zone that exists to this day. The eerie parallels between the film and the reality of a traumatic event and a government-sanctioned exclusion zone in the middle of Ukraine struck a chord for many. After the hasty and somewhat slipshod construction of the sarcophagus around the melted-down power plant, the engineers sent in to investigate the interior were referred to as “stalkers.”

The game pulls concepts and details from both the film and actual

events to create a world filled with radioactive beasts, mercenaries, and stalkers who venture through “the zone” to collect curious artifacts and search for any evidence of a fabled “wish-granter” that may exist within the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl core. The world is bleak and desperate and supplies you need to survive are scarce.

It is that last detail that I believe stopped me from playing further, years ago.

The idea of playing a game where I was stressing about my inventory, the condition of my weapons, the amount of radiation poisoning I had, was too much for me. The game teases you by showing what is possible but is never quite within reach – a utopian fantasy never realized. I was able to continue into this nightmare zone when I decided to give up measuring my success based on how well my desires

were met.

The same happens in the material world: We seem to measure our success based on how well our material desires are fulfilled. We compare cars and phones, how fit and healthy we are, what our social statuses are, and even compare our relationships with others. But is this wildly unreliable method of measurement the most effective way of quantifying our self-worth? This is not to say it’s ineffective to have desires. Indeed, our desires are what drive us to accomplish great things and decorate our short time here with beautiful experiences.

Our drive for accomplishment enables us to pursue many different goals – goals to be happy, to be healthy, to be skillful, or to at least survive radiation poisoning long enough to get to the next stronghold.

It is arguably imperative that we have desires that drive us, but perhaps we shouldn’t let the outcomes determine our self-worth. Perhaps we should feel success through how our actions and intentions reflect who we are. In “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.,” I started this by giving a wounded mercenary my last medkit instead, even though I could have used it myself. There is an endless amount of potentiality that we cannot see; the interconnectedness of cause and effect is beyond our control and we are only able to make our own moves, act on our own intentions.

The circumstances that we will find ourselves in will only be opportu-

nities for us to learn and grow.

My friend, Poleposition, argued with me on this one, saying, as gamers, we pride ourselves with our achievements and trophies, showing off our accomplishments, our armor builds, our sweet legendary swords. But I think these are just byproducts of our actions and accomplishments. Alone, they are useless. The things we remember and value aren’t the trinkets and treasures, it’s the stories that came before them. I’m not going to care much about this crate of expensive vodka I just found in some bandit hideout. I will, however, remember how I scouted around this place, trying to find the least-obvious entrance only to be chased by rampaging, radioactive, wild boar into a booby-trapped campsite packed to the gills with explosives and machine-gun-wielding bandits firing wildly in every direction while I sprinted, desperately consuming every form of health in my inventory, until the shooting died down and I miraculously survived.

As the brilliant physicist Richard Feynman said, “Nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax.”

We will rarely be in control of the circumstances that are handed to us, but we can at least choose our own actions. Assuming responsibility of our own actions and intentions can be empowering, but does not give us full control of the outcomes and that can be difficult to accept. We can, however, feel good about who we are when we don’t have the shiniest weapon, the best gear, or the healthiest body. It feels enlightening to know that we can find satisfaction, even triumph, when focusing on who we are based on our character and intentions, and not how we are restricted and limited by circumstances beyond our control.

Brett Massé is currently playing Giraffes Volleyball Championship 2016 by Sandwich Puissant

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Inaugural Something Wild Film Festival has it all »» Heavy-hitting

international festival circuit to Durango

The Something Wild Film Festival hits Durango’s Stadium 9 Nov. 10 through 12, and they have something for everybody. Want a crass comedy about addicts falling in love? Check out “Assholes.” How about the winner of Cannes’ prestigious Palme d’Or? That’s the Swedish satirical drama “The Square.” There’s over 10 films spanning three days, plus a section of shorts.

DGO spoke to festival founder and program director Derrick Casto about why Durango needs another film fest, must-see movies, and how the death of cinema will never happen.

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Why throw another film fest in Durango aside from the Durango Independent Film Fest (DIFF)?

Get your movies on at the first-ever Something Wild Film Festival.

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There’s a lot of festivals all over the country in the springtime and Casto their focus is on independent movies. In the fall, it’s when big hitter, award-contender films come out. Fall festivals versus spring festivals have very different feels. They’re two different creatures that can showcase different styles of cinema.

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winner (from the Cannes Film Festival). It has Elisabeth Moss, from “Mad Men” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” in it.

Durango has a large enough population that we can have two film festivals and they can both be here without competing against each other. We have events in the fall, but early November is a weird time in Durango where not as much is happening. I thought this town deserved a fall film fest.

How do you hope to make your audience feel by the end of the fest?

We are going to bring you up, show you some funny stuff, get you thinking, bring you down, turn you inside out, and then put you back together by the end of the weekend.

Are the films at Something Wild all new?

Why should someone come to a film fest when they can stream movies they’ve never heard of on Netflix?

All but one are 2017 films. We pulled a handful from South by Southwest, several films that played at Tribecca, some that recently premiered at Cannes, and one film that was at Toronto International Film Fest. The movies are all pretty new.

There’s something to be said about watching a movie with a large group of people. Equally so, watching something with a large group of strangers. It’s a deeper, more aware experience versus sitting on your bed with your laptop.

We’re in an age of disconnecting from one another. How can film and fests like this connect people?

Then there’s the large screen experience itself. Some films don’t translate to small screens well. Also, a lot of these films, they may not pop up streaming. It can be years if they do.

Movies can make you realize that there are universal truths. A movie can show you that So you don’t think streaming will parts of life you thought were only specific kill the cinema experience? to the U.S. or to your part of the country, are No. People have been crying about the Courtesy of Something Wild Film Festival happening in faraway places. Film can make death of cinema since sound was introduced »» Artwork from the Something Wild Film Festival poster. you go, “Oh, they’re dealing with racism in Gerto films. There have been more than 80 years many, too.” It brings an awareness of people of people saying, “It’s the end!” But people and our imperfections and how we face similar (Laughs) That’s a loaded question. Gosh. I would remember going to the theater. They want struggles. Film helps us do that. It teaches you more say “The Landing” is going to be really fun and trips physical experiences, a night out. about yourself than you might have realized was there. you up, and the director will be there.

What are a few of your must-see movies at the fest?

“A Taste of Ink” is a really powerful French drama.

And “The Square,” which was the Palme d’Or

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—— Patty Templeton

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THE GRIT. THE GLAM. THE FUNK. THE GO! DGO Magazine is hiring a Multi-Media Sales Representative to join our dynamic sales team.

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Jazz in a church? Linda and the Jazz Monsters are ready

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reat music towns showcase musicians that get around from band to band, genre to genre.

An “open relationship,” where you can play with whom you want and when you want and whatever genre you feel like playing. It bolsters the “scene” chock-full of badasses and up-and-coming badasses with a diverse palette that suits their ears and their various desires of what they want to play, resulting in plenty of musicians that hold it down as permanent members in established bands while playing with other various groups or musicians when the need fits. Some of these relationships may have come about from serendipitous situations, while others may be more formal.

Either way, it makes for a hardy dose of music.

Some of the players that practice the open relationship idea of music make up Linda and the Jazz Monsters. A true super-group, its members, which include Linda Baker on vocals and flute, Evan Suiter on bass, Clay Lowder on drums, Ryan McCurry and Jack Maynes on keyboards, and Chris Ross on trumpet, also do time in the Durango Funk All-Stars, High Rollers, Sky Pilot, Afrobeatniks, Missy and the Bluetones, and The Chills. Many of its members have come out of the highly touted music department at Fort Lewis College, and most members also teach at Stillwater Music.

Linda and the Jazz Monsters will perform Friday, Nov. 10, at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Durango.

The venue is an open-minded church, and just because it’s a church doesn’t make this a religious event, as it is sometimes used as a hall for musical performance. There should be more churches doubling as music venues; there’s usually good sound systems and, perhaps, because it is a church, it will cut down on the percentage of degenerates, or the people

Bryant’s best Friday: Linda and The Jazz Monsters, 7 p.m. $15. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 419 San Juan Drive.

Information: bgriffithla@gmail.com Friday: Surf and psych-rock with The Crags, 8:30 p.m. No cover. Billy Goat Saloon, 39848 U.S. Highway 160 in Gem Village. Information: 970-884-9155. who feel the need to babble incessantly while the band is playing. You’re in a church, the band is on, shut up.

Linda and the Jazz Monsters formed three years ago, a band put together to play house concerts in Dolores. The players are all seasoned musicians, a loose outfit adept at familiar jazz from all eras while zipping through swing, Latin, Afro-Cuban, and funk. There’s also some loose improvisation.

Jazz may not be showcased as much as other genres in Durango, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some musicians capable of playing it right. This band features musicians that are all students and teachers of the genre, playing the original hipster party music; it’s safe to say that this is a chance for a bunch of dedicated-to-the-genre musicians to rip through some straight-up jazz (and then some) in a more formal setting far from resembling a bar gig.

“This town is blessed with a concentration of high-level musicians like no other town this size. Many are jazz players, but most are versed at many styles, which is what it takes to make a living,” said Jazz Monsters drummer Clay Lowder. “We always wish for more jazz gigs. It’s special when you can bring together musicians and an audience that is there for the music. It doesn’t happen often.

When it does, we love it.”

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

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A limited-edition colored Vinyl version is long sold out. Also included is a 108page or 144-page hardcover book with a linen-finished slip case, flyerography, 40 previously unpublished photographs, and a 12,000-word essay by Chicago-based music critic, author, and badass Erin Osmon. Both versions are available direct

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Nov. 10 Taylor Swift,“Reputation” I’m really gonna try here, guys. Taylor Swift has never been on my radar; the country artist persona or the newer arena-pop face that she has worn doesn’t particularly appeal to my sensibilities. She seems to work in cycles, with each album hitting the same notes over and over. I would be remiss not to say that she is a talented musician or songwriter.

Her voice has a lot of range on this release, from subdued performances to the firebrand of those singles.

What I ended up finding lacking was the instrumentals. As Swift has moved away from country music, the instrumentals have become drab and flat electronic beats with no real soul.

Believe me or not, I actually enjoy the lead singles, but you have to have wool over your eyes or in your ears to not hear how similar all these songs are. Give me more “Look What You Made Me Do” and “...Ready for It?” and drop anything that sounds like the cliche-pile “Gorgeous.” I find hope in the progression on this record that we may see something actually interesting on the next record. There are baby steps toward something special.

Let’s see a Bjork collaboration on the next album.

from the label and at your favorite local independent record store.

Hüsker Dü was one of the most influential bands of all time. The trio of Bob Mould (guitar, vocals), Greg Norton (bass), and Grant Hart (drums, vocals) formed the band in their hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1979 and released six studio albums, a couple live ones, a few EPs and a smattering of singles until their contentious breakup while on tour in 1987. Stylistically, the band

Greta Van Fleet,“From the Fires” The fact that there is a young, new rock band very quietly rising on the billboard charts is almost astounding.

After releasing a pretty killer single a year or so back, Greta Van Fleet show up with an EP chock-full of swagger and dirt that the charts have not had to deal with for a long time.

They wear their inspirations on their tattered sleeves to the point where I could probably play “Highway Tune” and most of you would think you were listening to a deep Zeppelin cut. Being honest, the band is carried almost entirely by the energy of the frontman.

These guys have a bright future ahead of them, and I look forward to them becoming a part of the mainstream music scene.

(along with SST label mates and contemporaries, the Minutemen) challenged the notion of what punk and hardcore music was, while paving the way for what would later become underground, college, indie, and/ or alternative music. Savage Young Dü is the first band-approved release in 25 years and spans their entire career, containing 69 songs remastered from the original analog tapes, 47 of which are previously unreleased.

This is an absolute must-have for fans of the band, for the newly initiated and turned-on, or for any music fan wanting a first-hand glimpse at the legacy of one of the greatest trios in American punk and rock ’n’ roll history. Also? This would make a righteous gift for the music lover in your life, the end all be all of music-related gifts, and damn near impossible to top. So there’s that.

has somehow masterfully channeled his searing vocal delivery into an even tighter package, clearing out just a tiny amount of the vocal fry to let his beautiful words actually be audible, and it makes the record all the more

powerful for it.

Recommended for fans of iconic, canonized college- and punk-leaning music of the ‘80s and ‘90s and bands such as Minutemen, Descendents, The Replacements, Meat Puppets, Black Flag, Mission of Burma, or R.E.M. —— Jon E. Lynch KDUR_PD@fortlewis.edu

Other releases this week include: Entheos, Electric Wizard, Elton John, Seal, Evanescence, Quicksand, and Four Tet —— Cooper Stapleton

Converge,“The Dusk In Us” Converge has been the pinnacle of metalcore for so long now that I almost forget they have been putting out almost perfect records since 1994. Seriously, looking back on their discography, there is not one album that isn’t one of my top 10 for that year. “The Dusk In Us” is no exception.

Picking up perfectly after 2012’s “All We Love We Leave Behind,” it follows in its footsteps, adding some moments of levity and deliberate pacing to offset the onslaught of aggression that flanks either side. What astounds me about this release is that even after 25 years of making music, the band continues to improve. Most notably on “Dusk,” frontman Jacob Bannon

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My two loves unite: Coffee beer is all the buzz

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any of my friends in Durango know that I love coffee. If I was not in a bar or a brewery, I was definitely in one of Durango’s many awesome coffee shops. I love the life, the vivant, the atmosphere of a coffee shop, just as much as I love the life of a bar. The sights, sounds, smells, and people taking up space and time make a good bar or coffee shop what it is at the core. Many might not know it, but my first real beverage love was coffee. I worked for a good chunk of my undergrad as a barista at the start of what is now the third wave of coffee.

Working in coffee was my first job where my senses were fully engaged in my daily work life. What does this coffee look like, smell like, taste like, and feel like? What components will heighten or diminish my experience of this beverage? What food will pair with it? What’s the proper vessel, temperature, and presentation for the serving of this beverage?

How do I prepare this beverage in a way that is respectful of the precious raw ingredient, and deliver a flavorful and memorable experience to the one enjoying the beverage?

Not only did those skills and experiences carry over into my career in beer, but coffee is literally getting into beer. Coffee Beer is its own category at the Great American Beer Festival. The majority of the entries and winners are still stouts and porters and brown ales that are obvious pairings with coffee, but there are also very adventurous brewers brewing with adventurous coffee ingredients.

New Belgium has a beer, La Folie Grand Reserve Geisha, that is a dark sour ale with Geisha Hacienda La Esmeralda. Geisha is an incredibly rare and sought-after coffee bean grown only in a few select coffee farms around the world. Its flavor, aroma, and color is closer to a tea than a coffee. It’s also incredibly expensive. I recently had a 16-ounce pour of this same coffee, Geisha Hacienda La Esmeralda,

roasted by Sey Coffee in Bushwick, New York, and it cost $16. It was the most expensive coffee I’ve ever had and it was easily the single best coffee I’ve ever had. It’s an incredible coffee to experience by itself, I can’t even imagine it in a dark sour ale. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to coffee beers: there’s an entire festival dedicated to coffee beer, called Uppers and Downers. At the festival there are all kinds of crazy collaborations between coffee roasters and brewers. Oskar Blues is so invested in coffee beers that they started their own coffee roastery, Hot Box Roasters.

Even with all of this great collaboration and innovation, most coffee beers don’t attempt to elevate their beer this way. Most coffee beer is just coffee plus beer. Brewers do it in all kinds of different ways: adding cold-brewed coffee, steeping the coffee in finished beer, “dry beaning” the fermenting beer Continued on Page 11

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Barfing from Glasgow to Denver I was about an hour and a half into my flight from Glasgow to Denver when I knew something was wrong. As the flight attendants started serving our delicious inflight meal, all I could think was, “This is the worst thing I’ve ever smelled.”

The sky waitress came closer with her cart of hot meals to bring me a Chana masala dinner and the churning inside my guts continued to get worse. I knew I was going to be sick on this airplane.

Like all episodes of sickness, I tried to fight the urge to vomit for a whole hour before succumbing to the idea that I would feel better if I just let it out.

bathroom) when the flight attendant asked if I wanted to Travel stories worth telling sit on one of their jumpseats so they could keep an eye on me. I followed her to the back of the plane and she gave me her seat, turning away other travelers if they came to use the restroom so I could have sole access – my own private “barfroom.”

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With an uncontrollable urge, I grabbed the tiny barf bag, wondering how my seat neighbors would respond to my retching. Images of the whole plane being triggered into a complete and total barf-o-rama entered my mind.

After a few good retches, I felt better, but it wasn’t long before the overpowering nausea returned and I realized the barf bag was getting full. Out of barf bags in the seat-back pocket, I’d have to make my way to the bathroom to discard my chunks and get a new bag.

After still barfing into a nearly full bag while walking down the aisle, I stood in line behind a callous, old man who gave me a dirty look as I barfed behind him in line.

I was filling up my second barf bag outside the bathroom (because the callous man took the next open

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with coffee beans, or any combination of the above.

The results are usually mixed and have all kinds of different shelf stability and flavor qualities. Because coffee beer is so driven by maltiness, most coffee beers are dark, malty beers. There are some coffee IPAs and coffee blondes and kolschs, but you’d be hard-pressed to find one in a store.

Doing a recent tasting of random coffee beers I found at a local bottle shop, I tasted beers that showed the range of quality, the importance of freshness, and a fair representation of what you can expect when picking a coffee beer.

Fuel Cafe, an organic coffee stout, Lakefront Brewery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Five hours into the flight, I had vomited every 30 to 45 minutes and it was apparent this was not going to stop.

One motherly flight attendant called the cockpit and asked to open the on-board medical kit so they could give me their most potent anti-nausea medicine.

Thirty minutes later, after I signed my first-born child away, I swallowed some Phenergan and kept them down for nearly an hour before the barfing resumed. The pills didn’t work.

The longest flight of my life finally landed in Denver, eight hours after departing Glasgow, and during de-planing, my only thought was how I could get myself through customs and pick up my luggage without vomiting on myself. I puked one last time after passing through customs before collapsing at my friend’s house. I spent the next 24 hours in a restless stupor.

— Stephanie Gall

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It poured a light creamy tan head that fell pretty quick (coffee with too much oil or acidity will do this). A slight ashy note on the nose with burnt nut background and a smudge of vanilla and cola. Because of the low-foam, this beer had a surprisingly rich mouthfeel and solid coffee flavor with a strong finish of vanilla.

Espressway Stout, Two Roads Brewing Company, Stratford, Connecticut Pours dark with light tan foam that also falls flat.

Nose of cigarette and vanilla. I could be polite here and say “smoky” or “tobacco” but this is an ashtray with a vanilla bean in it. Very acrid old coffee flavor, but the vanilla really hits and tells me this was a good beer at one time. Despite the initial flavor, it

Indigenous Comic Con 2017 The Second Annual Indigenous Comic Con is upon us! Lee Francis, founder of Native Realities Press and owner of Red Planet Books and Comics, has spearheaded another year of pop culture and glorious geekery at the Isleta Resort and Casino, 11000 Broadway Blvd. SE, Albuquerque.

Indigenous Comic Con lasts from Friday, Nov. 10, through Sunday, Nov. 12. Each GET OUTTA day is stacked with panels and TOWN events to atQuirky & cool spots in the tend, aside from Four Corners and beyond cruising the sold-out vendor hall. A few of the standout panels that DGO sure as heck wants to catch are “Indigenous Horrorshow” about Indigenous macabre creators, “Showrunners 101,” where Native folks involved in film and television talk about the biz, “The Pocahontas Problem,” where panelists will discuss Native women in popular media, and “Queer Comics.”

Bonus: There are epic guests attending the con, like Eugene Braverock (you recently saw him as The Chief in “Wonder Woman”), models/gamers the Baker Twins, and Daniel Wilson, author of “Robopocalypse.”

Also on the docket, COSPLAY and LASER TAG! Possibly, probably, joined together.

Never been to a convention? Well, here’s yer perfect chance to jump on the fandom wagon. A day pass is as low as 20 bucks, with a three-day pass costing $60. Kids’ passes cost half that and VIP shenanigans start at $95.

For more info on Indigenous Comic Con, hit up www. indigenouscomiccon.com.

For DGO’s interview with Lee Francis about Native Realities Press, check out http://bit.ly/2z2iF7S. —— Patty Templeton

finishes smooth. (Note: I didn’t realize until after I wrote all the notes on this beer, but it was bottled on 2-10-17, so please, check dates!)

Hotbox Coffee Porter, Oskar Blues Brewery, Longmont Dark tan foam (a little too dark for a porter?) that sits super firm on the top of the glass and laces all the way down. Aroma of cocoa, vanilla, dark roasted coffee, and a hint of tobacco.

Full-bodied and a rich flavor of chocolate milk and vanilla with a dash of espresso that makes it feel like a boozy latte.

Robbie Wendeborn is the head brewer at Svendæle Brewing in Millerton, New York. He is also a former beer plumber at Ska Brewing.

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THE WORKING LIFE OF A TRIBUTE BAND

‘TO ME, IT’S LIKE ACTING.’ I »» Matt

Jernigan of ZoSo, discusses devoting 22 years to Led Zeppelin’s music

f you’ve never heard of Led Zeppelin, you don’t know much about rock ’n’ roll. Go stream “Immigrant Song.”

Thunderous drums, provocative vocals – basically, it’s everything exquisite that came out of the ’70s.

Regrettably, you’re never gonna hear Zep live. Lead singer Robert Plant has turned down offers of over $14 million for one-night reunions.

Enter ZoSo: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience, the best damn, world-traveling Zeppelin tribute band out there. ZoSo, named after Zeppelin’s fourth album, personify the classic Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham lineup. They’re hitting up Animas Theatre on Friday, Nov. 10.

DGO talked to lead singer Matt Jernigan about what creative life is like being on the road in a tribute band.

How obsessive do you get over mimicking Zeppelin?

You get the clothes custom-made, so that is as close as it can be. What is far more important is the execution of the music.

That comes first. Emulating or acting comes second. If the music isn’t there, nothing else matters.

When you go on stage, are you you anymore?

We’ve been doing it so long, 22 years now, that it is like a light switch. I am conscious that I am supposed to be in character, but I would say I’m like any other musician. I am focused on the musical aspect of thinking ahead to the next song but carry a double focus of staying in character.

Have ZoSo’s after-parties ever reach Zeppelin magnitude?

(Laughs) Well, probably not that level.

So no mudshark-groupie-sex?

Zeppelin is in a league of their own on that one. That’s a legend that can’t be matched or Courtesy of ZoSo; Wikipedia

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»» Members of “ZoSo: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience (left) and legendary band Led Zeppelin.

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beat.

Do you think your band builds on history or showcases it?

People tell us, “You’re keeping this music alive.” I think it already has a life of its own. Rock ’n’ roll is such a departure from everything that came before it, that once it was ingrained on the publics’ psyche, it wasn’t going to go away. It is still here. I do feel that we get to expose it to two or three generations that didn’t get to experience it.

I think that what we are doing and the whole genre of rock is a vanishing art. People, especially the younger generation, have no idea of what they’ve lost. They hear myths and stories, but they really don’t have the kind of music heroes that I had coming up. There’s no bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Beatles, The Stones,

GO! Catch ZoSo: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience Where: Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr. When: 8:30 doors, 9:15 p.m. show, Friday, Nov. 10 Cost: $20 to $25 Age: 21 and over Info: www.animascitytheatre.com Black Sabbath. There aren’t rock gods anymore.

Arena rock has kinda disappeared. It’s more arena pop or hip-hop now.

If you think about it, the last band that I think reached arena status and then stayed there for decades was U2. There’s not a whole lot of bands,

rock or of any genre, that once they reach that level, they can maintain that popularity.

It’s sad for me in a lot of ways because those renaissance men, they’re dying or not active anymore and there’s no one to fill that void, not like that.

How do you insert your own creativity into a moment when you are embodying somebody else’s music?

To me, it’s like acting. An actor is never playing themselves, but they bring deep parts of themselves to a role.

How did ZoSo start?

When we started this, it was the record companies who didn’t want new music. They still don’t. The writing was on the wall back in ’95. A management company suggested this to us.

We thought about it for four months

before we undertook it.

I looked at it and said, “It’s a nostrings gig. It’s Led Zeppelin, man.” If it was a band that was a drag to make a paycheck with, I would’ve said no. I love the music. You adopt it. You have to embody it in so many ways that it becomes a part of you.

What were the downsides that made you deliberate the gig for four months?

It wasn’t standard practice back then. You had Beatlemania and Elvis impersonators. There wasn’t anything like this. The first thing was, “Could I even do that?” when thinking about the acting involved.

The main thing that overshadowed the idea was the critiquing we would deal with. Rightfully so, but still, people saying, “This music is sacred,” or “How could you do this?” or “This is Led Continued on Page 15

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Zeppelin, man. You’re not supposed to touch this.” That is similar to the way we thought before we started the band. People hold the music in such high regard. Because of that, you will have a lot of people, a lot of the time, with their arms crossed staring at you saying, “Impress me.”

Those were the two main things, getting into an area we had never been in and the critiquing. If it was a bar band playing a song, that’s one thing. People don’t take it to heart. When you want to recreate a band completely, that is a different thing.

What’s the difference between ZoSo and other Led Zeppelin tribute bands?

Some of these Zeppelin bands that are out there have six members and say, “We do the studio cut.” Well, Led Zeppelin had four members. They say, “But it’s so hard.” It is hard to recreate it with four guys and make the sound that full.

There might be a slight difference in us to Zeppelin, but the sound is where it should be, and it’s hard to do. Zeppelin is a tough band. It is a band with massive dynamics. We can go from 90 dB to 102 in two notes.

Why pay 40 bucks to go see a band that has six to eight people and isn’t true to the original? That natural flow of things, the performance, the live, raw energy, it isn’t the same as the original. You might as well go see the symphony version of Led Zeppelin or listen to the album at home.

Was starting a tribute of Led Zeppelin different than starting an original band?

We had no connections in the business. We didn’t have money ... Our band is from the ground up like any other band that would go out there and live out of hotel rooms with two rooms and four band members, eating one meal a day, a hamburger or whatever, for two years at a time. You’re on the ramen noodle diet. Plus beer. It’s no different. You’re still a band new to most people every town you go to.

Do you mind that you’re portraying a 1970s character and there are smartphones across your audience breaking the vibe, recording you?

It doesn’t bother me. In the old days, people used to take an 8MM to the show. They would bring their tape recorders. I think big-time artists don’t like it because people can see them for free, that’s what it’s all about ... Why should they get mad if people who have already paid to see them decide to record? Everyone in the world can’t

see you on a 40-date tour. They say, “Oh, well, we’ll release a live DVD and phones recording us ruins that.” That is absolute greed. In the old days, when bands were in their prime, people still recorded them. Not as much, the technology wasn’t as available, but it existed. They didn’t care because they sold out the show and sold albums.

Why care about it now?

Have you ever met anyone in Led Zeppelin?

Unfortunately, no. We’re always playing and they’re more elusive guys now.

Would it be terrifying if they came to a show?

I would love it. I would love to meet them. I don’t think I would be as intimidated as when we first started. We’ve been doing it so long. I hope I do get to meet at least one of them.

People come up to us all the time and say, “Hey, man, check out this picture of me and Robert!” And I wanna be like “Come on! Get away from me, man!” [Laughs] I’m always working and I can’t go to events they do.

After 22 years and over 2,400 shows, what still charges you up about ZoSo? I love being a musician. I love being a performer, period. I love it. I loved it before I knew the corruption of it, the drugs, the drinking. I’m a purist at heart with it.

I am fortunate, very, very fortunate and I’ve worked to put myself in the position of being fortunate, that in the year 2017, I am playing in a rock band. This is an anomaly. I get to be in a rock band and play great music with great musicians in front of receptive people. One night it is in front of 2,000, the next night 500, the next 1,000. It doesn’t matter the size; I get to be a musician. I am living something a lot of musicians don’t get to, the dream of making a good living out of music that I enjoy playing ... What’s there to be an asshole about? You get to play rock ’n’ roll every night. It’s awesome.

Interview edited and condensed for clarity.

—— Patty Templeton

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How did you know you had the swagger to become Zeppelin?

We didn’t know what we could do until we tried doing it. There is always second-guessing yourself – “I don’t know if I can do that.” But we tried, skinned our knees, and got up and tried again. You go until you feel like it is what it is supposed to be.

Is there competitiveness or community within the realm of tribute bands?

(Laughs) It’s never been a damn community. Even the big-time guys.

They would pal around, but in the end, it is about who is or can get bigger.

Competition is rampant, but we didn’t pay attention to other bands, especially when we were coming up. We just wanted to play.

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[ weed ] Seeing Through the Smoke Christopher Gallagher

There’s such a thing as Too High. Here’s what happens.

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friend of ours told me a tale not long ago of his reunion with cannabis after a couple decades-long break.

“Chris,” he said, “this isn’t the same old grass (my favorite name for it, by the way) we used to smoke,” as he recounted his evening at what began as a lovely outdoor evening concert and ended with him transmuting into a puddle. “I didn’t know what to do with myself. The stuff hit me and I was ... Whoosh! ... I was just ... gone.”

He got himself Too High.

Then, there was the incident from this Fourth of July in which I left what I described as a “very strong” homemade cannawhat can be done when that condibis chocolate chip cookie with one of my favorite livtion lands on a cannabis consumer like a boulder descending upon ing humans. The decision Too High is a very was made, following my Wile E. Coyote. I have been there difficult place to be myself – I distinctly remember a departure, to eat the whole and it is a place from green room upstairs from a music edible before leaving the which it can be venue in Beverly, Massachusetts, safe confines of his front difficult to return. where my boy Danny the Drumporch to attend an Indemer rolled a joint of God Bud that pendence Day barbecue. left me talking to myself and hugA short while after his arrival at the party, the THC ging a tiny plastic cup of water as hit, an Irish exit was executed, and the 10-minute if it were the only available flotation device in the walk home has been described as the “Bataan Death middle of the Too High Sea. March.”

Once you find yourself in that Too High state, The edible got him Too High. things fall apart quickly. A flood of cotton takes So, I have been sitting here today trying to figure over your mouth, expanding by way of some horout where the boundary for “Too High” lies and rible magic to your throat and threatening to take

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over your entire ventilation and irrigation systems; your heartbeat raises its volume and intensity to a level that you are certain will soon vault your tragic human experience to the next phase of existence where you will meet the angels and/or demons that you have karmically self-selected to inhabit whatever heaven or hell that you are rushing toward; and then there is the chatter of the mind – the most horrifying element of this nightmarish experience, for my two cents – akin to the “Ghostbusters” scene in which the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is conjured from the depths of Ray’s psyche to serve as the embodiment of a Sumerian god bent on destroying the physical realm.

Too High is a very difficult place to be and it is a place from which it can be difficult to return. Most of the remedy needs to come before consumption, in the form of cautious testing of boundaries with new strains, preparations, and products in order to understand your personal limits. Because once the horse is out of the barn, that horse may indeed drag you through some rough terrain before it decides to give you a rest. Next week, we will examine a few of the substances and practices that may mitigate a Too High experience. Take things slow til then, DGO. 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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Learning to box and save the world Set in South Africa during Apartheid, “The Power of One,” by Bryce Courtenay, is an inspiring coming-of-age tale.

“Peekay,” a precocious, British runt, is ruthlessly bullied at boarding school.

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Life Hax | Carolyn Hax

so embarrassed about my behavior. I worry I could lose long-term relationships if I come clean. Any advice?

Have to Tell?

A college lesson in saying ‘No’ to an overbearing friend I’m a college sophomore and I am close with a group of girls from my freshman dormitory. One of them, “Allison,” relies on me too much and I can’t handle it anymore.

Allison is constantly asking to borrow my car (she can afford an Uber), get my help planning her class schedule, or for support in a crisis. Recently, she texted in a panic at 2 a.m., and I arrived breathless and worried only to realize she was overwhelmed because she loved her boyfriend so much.

A mutual friend, “Alex,” is equally close and yet Allison only burdens me with her problems. I’ve tried to gently explain to her that acting as her security blanket is emotionally draining for me and that she should try to reach out to Alex or others as well as me, but she acted deeply offended and was angry with me for being “selfish.”

I can barely remember the girl I befriended and can hardly stand to be around her. She has yet to get the hint that she needs to back off.

If I just cut off this friendship, this would cause a huge rift in my other friendships. This would also be devastating to Allison, and I still care for her. Any advice?

Burned Out Thank Allison profusely for teaching you that saying no is an essential skill, though she has no idea she’s doing it.

This could be the most valuable thing you learn in college.

If you don’t want 2 a.m. crisis texts, then turn off your phone.

If you get a crisis text at a more reasonable hour, then define “crisis” before you agree to go anywhere. If you get suckered, express your frustration and say you won’t rush there again. Then don’t.

If you don’t want to lend your car anymore, then say you’re not lending your car anymore. (Really – stop.)

If you don’t want to plan Allison’s class schedule, then say you have enough to manage with your own and suggest she see her adviser.

If you’re done being suckered, pick more mature friends.

This stress you’re under isn’t a matter of Allison’s asking too much, or her failure to spread it around by asking Alex sometimes instead. Your seeing it that way makes Allison the one who is in control of this situation, and of you – since you’re just asking and waiting for her to make changes for you.

But YOU’RE in control – of you, your time, your phone, your car, your definition of crisis, and your availability to help with one real or imagined. All you.

Slide a peek over at Alex; I’m as confident as I can be about a complete stranger that Allison doesn’t badger her for anything because her hysterics don’t work on Alex.

When Allison accused you of being selfish, that was manipulation 101. Do you see it? Allison spun her neediness into your fault.

Until you do see it, you’ll be dogged

by Allisons. They spot people more worried about losing their friends than about losing themselves, and latch on.

The powerlessness you feel is what losing yourself feels like.

Do you have to tell someone about your past to absolve yourself?

I spent my early adulthood lying constantly. The lies didn’t hurt anyone directly – except me, in hindsight – but perhaps hurt the world in an abstract way. I now realize I was just too afraid to be myself, that I was actually just trying to please people to assuage my fears about being inadequate.

I’ve put a lot of effort into becoming a more authentic person and I’m still working on it, but I wonder if I have to tell someone about my lies to actually overcome this character flaw. I’m

He is younger so he still is working on standing up to her. Any suggestions for me to help him put his foot down with her?

Unwanted Hosts

You don’t tell for absolution. That’s not something others have to give.

You do tell, though, as a necessary step in conquering your fears. You spent years making up a fake self out of fear that others would see your real self as inadequate – yes? So if you now deliberately withhold the truth about your past, then that will be, in effect, just one step up from lying: Instead of rewriting your true self, you’d just be hiding it.

Either way, it’s a capitulation to your fear of not being enough.

This isn’t to say you have to tell everyone everything you did. It’s not a binary choice between blabbing or hiding. You can be authentic as a work in progress while providing no or some or full detail, as circumstances warrant.

When you want to experience intimacy, however, you will have to risk being vulnerable, and that means telling your truth. Not just with romantic partners, but with good friends and close family, too.

There’s another, more practical reason to share. If you don’t, then you will just live in a new kind of fear: the fear of discovery. You will always have some awareness in the back of your mind that your most cherished relationships hinge on your ability to keep your secret. That’s torture.

You may risk losing people when you tell, yes. But the ones who know all about you and then choose to stay?

Those are worth the risk.

My boyfriend’s (of four years) parents do not like me ... or rather his mom doesn’t like me and is a very controlling woman so it’s hard to tell what his dad thinks of me. They just booked tickets to visit us for the second time this year in spite of my boyfriend saying it is a bad time because he is very busy again.

He is overloaded with work, so instead of confronting her when he found out, he has chosen to push the confrontation until later. Last time they claimed they would occupy themselves, but of course when they arrived, the “we paid all this money to see you” guilt trip started immediately.

No, I will not give you suggestions to help you become the next controlling person to whom your boyfriend outsources his uncomfortable decisions.

He is “younger” so he’s still “working on” it? No to that, too.

You’re clearing two different paths with that rationalization. One is toward taking over the decisions your boyfriend fails to make. This is how people wind up either exhausted and resentful for having to carry the entire mental load both for themselves and a partner – the role you’re training for – or detached and resentful for having little say in their day-to-day lives – the role he’s rapidly slipping into.

The other path leads to treating your boyfriend’s weakness not as a bad thing, but instead as a thing that will be good eventually and he just needs to fix it, yeah, no problem. This is how people find themselves mid-divorce 10 years later and marveling that the marriage-ending problem was one they’d known about all along and yet signed up for anyway.

You don’t want to be on either path.

Neither does he. You’re out of balance already.

So no more rationalizations.

Instead, speak only for yourself: “When you decide not to say no to your mom, I end up in the awkward spot of having to host them while you’re busy at work. That’s not fair to me – or to your parents, for that matter.”

Then, see whether (and how) he speaks for himself in response to your concerns.

Then see whether you, he, and the power balance in this relationship are healthy enough to hold up under the pressure of forceful moms and passive dads and overloads of work. Not when he “grows up” – now. When they are, in general, I suspect you’ll find your demeanor takes care of itself.

Carolyn Hax is a syndicated advice columnist for The Washington Post. She started her advice column in 1997, after five years as a copy editor and news editor in Style and none as a therapist. Email her at tellme@washpost.com.

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DGO’s picks in and around Durango Vivid art opening at FLC Durango artist Bethany Bachmann creates striking, bright pastels on watercolor paper that curve and delight with languid figures exploring the world and each other. Bachmann’s most recent show, “Outside In Inside Out,” will open in Fort Lewis College’s theater lobby. Light apps and bevs will be served.

Bonus: You can catch “Urinetown: The Musical” after the art reception in the same locale. Tix $10 to $18.

Details: Free art opening, all ages, 6 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 9, Fort Lewis College theater lobby, 1000 Rim Dr., www.durangoconcerts.com

Party for the pups Let’s face it. You are gonna drink. You might as well have the proceeds of your boozing go to a good cause.

Pongas is donating 25 percent of all beverage sales on Thursday to Death Row Rescues, a nonprofit that partners with overcrowded animal shelters to save innocent animals from being euthanized. Free pizza while it lasts and live music round out your thirsty Thursday.

Details: Free entry, 21 and over, 6 to 10 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 9, Pongas, 121 West Eighth St., www.facebook. com/DeathRowRescues

Indie pop at Balcony Whiskey Autumn, synth-infused ’60s pop rockers outta Boulder, hit the Balcony this weekend. Their buoyant, sometimes sweetly vulnerable tunes are perfect to dance to.

Details: Free, 21 and over, 10 p.m., Friday, Nov. 10, Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave., www.balconybarandgrill. com

High-energy bluegrass a-comin’ Montana’s Kitchen Dwellers play galaxygrass, whatever the hell that loveliness is. Something kin to funk country jamgrass. Experience it for yourself at the ACT. Details: $10 advance, $12 day-of, 18 and over, 8:30 doors, 9 p.m. show, Wednesday, Nov. 15, Animas City Theatre, 128 East College Dr., www.animascitytheatre.com

Free doc at the library “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election” is a doc by fedora-wearing investigative journalist Greg Palast. The flick focuses on how people of color were purged from voter rolls through a process called Crosscheck.

Whatever your politics, it’s a hella of a conversation starter.

Details: Free, all ages, 6 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 15, Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., www.facebook.com/DemsOnTheMove

Thursday Montezuma County Republican Women, noon, Shiloh Steak-

house, 5 S. Veach St., Cortez.

Free pre-diabetes class, 3:30

p.m., Southwest Memorial Hospital, 1311 N. Mildred Road, Cortez.

Member-appreciation party, 4 p.m., Powerhouse Science Center, 1333 Camino del Rio, 259-9234.

“Dynamics of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault” training, 5:30 p.m., Four Corners

Child Advocacy Center, 140 N. Linden St., Cortez.

Community art show and artist reception, 5:30 p.m., Pine River

Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, 884-2222.

Quilters Guild trunk show and meeting, 5:30 p.m., First United

Methodist Church, 2917 Aspen Drive.

Kirk James, 5:30 p.m., Kennebec

Cafe, 4 County Road 124, Hesperus.

Adaptive Sports Association volunteer orientation, 6 p.m.,

Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave., 375-7300.

Introduction to Leather Work,

6 p.m., $20-$40, MakerLab, Powerhouse Science Center, 1295 Camino del Rio. Daniel David Dennis, 7 p.m.,

WildEdge Brewing Collective, 111 N. Market St., Cortez.

Fred Kosak and Alissa Wolf, 7

p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 375-7260.

“Urinetown: The Musical,”

7:30 p.m. $10/$18, MainStage Theatre, Fort Lewis College, http://bit. ly/2h7ueUr.

Friday Veterans Day breakfast and lunch, 7 a.m., Southwest Memorial

Hospital, 1311 N. Mildred Road, Cortez.

Something Wild Film Fest, 4

“Turkey Toss” disc golf tournament, 7 a.m., Health and Human

Performance Center, San Juan College, 4601 College Blvd., Farmington.

Playing with the Press, 9 a.m.,

Adult board game night, 6 p.m.,

Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave.

Annual Artisan Holiday Gift Show, 9 a.m., Strater Hotel, 699 Main

Conversation, 6:30 p.m., St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 110 W. North St., Cortez.

Ave. Henry Stoy piano, 11 a.m., Jean-

Pierre Bakery and Wine Bar, 601 Main Ave., 247-7700.

“No Return from Over There” World War I Stories of Jose Trujillo and Wiley Sheets, 1 p.m.,

Animas Museum, 3065 West Second Ave., 259-2402.

Library Park grand opening,

1 p.m., Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, 884-2222.

Courage in Creativity, 2 p.m.,

$75-$100, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

“The Art of Giving” scholarship fundraiser, 5 p.m., Smiley

Cafe, 1309 East Third Ave. Rob Webster, 5 p.m., Irish Embassy

Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200.

Six Dollar String Band, 5:30 p.m.,

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

Dustin Burley, 6 p.m., Border Rio, 356 E. Pagosa St., Pagosa Springs.

Greg Ryder, 7 p.m., Office Spiritori-

um, 699 Main Ave., 375-7260.

Sullivan Foundation for the Arts concert, 7:30 p.m., $50-$60,

Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave., 375-7160.

Sunday Something Wild Film Fest, all-

day event, $13-$100, Something Wild Film Fest headquarters, 288 Animas View Drive.

Courage in Creativity, 1 p.m.,

Saturday Something Wild Film Fest, all-

Pierre Bakery and Wine Bar, 601 Main Ave., 247-7700. $75-$100, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

Encore presentation: Burros of the Grand Canyon, 6:30 p.m.,

Dolores Public Library, 1002 Railroad Ave., Dolores, 882-4127.

“The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron” by Robert Dubac, 7:30

p.m., $10-$25, Mainstage Theatre, Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive.

Wednesday Morning meditation for all,

7:45 a.m., Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, 884-2222.

Story time, 10 a.m., Dolores Public Library, 1002 Railroad Ave., Dolores, 882-4127.

Fall Student Invitational, 4:30 p.m., Art Gallery, Art Hall, Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive.

“Dynamics of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault” training, 5:30 p.m., Four Corners

Child Advocacy Center, 140 N. Linden St., Cortez.

SMART Recovery Durango, 5:30

p.m., Suttle Street Clinic, 72 Suttle St., Suite M. “The Case of the Stolen Election” film, 6 p.m., Durango Public Li-

brary, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380.

“The Book Of Moron” by Robert Dubac, 7:30 p.m., $10-$25,

Mainstage Theatre, Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive.

Ongoing Mancos Winter Holiday Arts Bazaar call for artists, submis-

sion deadline is Dec. 9, contact Sarah Syverson, 903-8831, mcddirector@ gmail.com.

Unleash Your Muse, 5:30 p.m.,

Lily Russo “Mosaics, Mantras and the Moon” art display, Nov. 7-Jan. 7, Raider Ridge Cafe, 509 East Eighth Ave.

$80-$100, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

Submissions

Monday

day event, $13-$100, Something Wild Film Fest headquarters, 288 Animas View Drive.

Thrive! Living Wage Coalition meeting, 5:30 p.m., Commons Build-

Matt Sowash Medical Expense Benefit, 4 a.m., $20, Vallecito Com-

Reel Rock 12, 6 p.m., $18, Community Concert Hall, Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive.

munity Center, 17252 County Road 501, Vallecito.

Bean, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200.

$80-$100, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

Greg Ryder, 5:30 p.m., Diamond

Brewing Collective, 111 N. Market St., Cortez.

Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380.

Tuesday jam, 6 p.m., Steaming

Henry Stoy piano, 11 a.m., Jean-

Jackson Emmer, 7 p.m., WildEdge

Baby story time, 2 p.m., Durango

Annual Ski and Sport Swap, 8 a.m., Dolores Community Center, 400 Riverside Ave., Dolores.

p.m., $13-$100, Something Wild Film Fest headquarters, 288 Animas View Drive.

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

Tuesday

ing, 701 Camino del Rio.

Veterans Day breakfast and lunch, 7 a.m., Southwest Memorial

Classic Movie Monday:“Murder on the Orient Express” (1974), 7 p.m., Pine River Library, 395

Hospital, 1311 N. Mildred Road, Cortez.

Bayfield Center Drive, 884-2222.

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SoDown, book swapping, and smooches DGO contributor Lucy Schaefer was out and about last weekend in Durango.

Here’s what she scared up (pics taken at the SoDown show at Animas City Theatre, Durango Roasters, 10th and Main, a birthday party on Florida Road, the book swap at the Durango Public Library, sunset on La Posta Road, Durango Arts Center, 11th Street Station).

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For more photos from the Durango weekend, go to dgomag.com.

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