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Four legs to stand on Furniture as Art funnels creativity to raise funds for KDUR p8

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Life in the singles line & other nondating fears debunked p11

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The Montana-tini Like a trip to the tropics, without the plane fare p16

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4 La Vida Local

Hands-on KDUR’s annual Furniture as Art a fund-raiser with function

Ear to the ground: “Next year, we should start a race called the ‘Silverton Blackout.’”

– One local’s not-so-great idea for Silverton’s newest winter event

4 Thumbin’ It

by Zach Hively

5 Word on the Street

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6 ReTooned

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Local First on dating – and undating – plus Outlier Cellars and Denise Leslie

10 Mountain Town News

Patient Zero

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Monica Lewinsky became a household name in the late-’90s, perhaps not under the best circumstances. But Lewsinky, 45, who was 22 at the time of the Clinton affair, has proven it’s possible to rise above anything. After making a conscious effort to leave the spotlight and earn her master’s degree in psychology, Lewinsky has re-emerged as a social activist. Lewinsky is now touring the country to share her tale of overcoming cyberbullying of the worst kind.

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15 Day in the Life

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16 Flash in the Pan

Bird’s eye view Taking to the friendly skies for a scenic aerial tour of the Four Corners

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photos by Stephen Eginoire

18-20 On the Town

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21 Free Will Astrology

Winter vacation Grapefruit martinis refresh like a beach breeze, all without boarding a plane

22 Classifieds

by Ari LeVaux

22 Haiku Movie Review

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23 Ask Rachel

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On the cover: An alpenglow view of Babcock Mountain in the La Platas on Wednesday morning./ Photo by Stephen Eginoire

Indie-rock icon Martha Scanlan, Delfeayo Marsalis and El Ten Eleven

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Lewinsky will bring her story, “Post Positive: Change the Content,” to Durango on April 23-24 as part of the Community Foundation Serving SW Colorado’s “Making a Difference” series. She will address such social topics as survival, resilience and digital reputation. “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously,” Lewinsky said in a recent Ted Talk.

There will be two chances to hear Lewinsky: • 7 p.m., Tues., April 23 – talk followed by a panel of local experts, Community Concert Hall.

Tickets $35-$55, at durangoconcerts.org • 12 noon, Wed., April 24 – talk and luncheon, Henry Strater Theatre. Tickets $100, at sw communityfoundation.org.

Can’t stop, won’t stop Seems Gwyneth Paltrow took a break from dry-brushing and avocado toast recipes to hit the slopes. Unfortunately, according to a Utah man, that’s not all she hit.

Dr. Terry Sanderson recently filed a $3.1 million lawsuit alleging he was struck from behind by none other than the golden girl of glamping while skiing at Deer Valley in 2016. The complaint states that Sanderson suffered a brain injury, broken ribs and other serious injuries as a result of the crash.

It also alleges that GP skied off and “accepted no responsibility” for skiing “out of control.”

Sanderson’s lawyer also said Paltrow’s instructor failed to notify emergency responders of the incident and filed a false report to protect Paltrow (and possibly his tip).

Paltrow called the lawsuit as frivolous as the rose-quartz facial massage roller ($45) or flowerdyed silk eye-mask ($275) on her website. While she does not deny the accident occurred, she insists she was downhill of Sanderson, making him the one at fault. “The lawsuit is completely without merit,” the Goopy one said in a statement.

Her public affairs team said eyewitnesses can corroborate her statement and are calling the lawsuit a “sad attempt to get a payout.”

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LaVidaLocal The Satisfaction of Hanging onto Absolutely Everything In this column, I have summed up how to fill your space with items in a way that will change your life forever.

Can’t be done? I bet I’ll get that a lot, and it makes sense, considering that almost everyone has experienced a relapse into zealous attempts to get organized.

Have you ever hoarded fiendishly, only to find that all-too-soon your conscience or your spouse has cleared your home again and taken who-knows-what to the thrift store donation center? If so, allow me to spill the secret of mastery. Start by gathering. Then utilize your space, haphazardly, entirely, in one go. If you subscribe to this practice – the HiveZac Approach – you’ll never see your floor again, sparing you untold hours cleaning it.

Although this method runs counter to current popular trends, everyone who completes my universally applicable training will likely keep their house attached to the earth by sheer force of gravity, with other magical results, too. Filling their houses with items probably will touch all other facets of their enviable lives, such as their ability to keep a job and custody of their children. Having dedicated more than some percentage of my week to this subject, I know that hoarding can transmogrify your existence.

Does it still sound too good to be truly free of Hantavirus and other rodent-borne maladies? If your idea of hoarding is collecting one scrap worth something, someday, in a pinch, each day, or stocking under your bed one found object at a time, then you’re right. It won’t have much effect on your life expectancy. If you dedicate yourself to this approach, however, hording can have an uncatalogueable impact. In fact, not even knowing what you have or where you keep it is the truest spirit of hoarding.

I have never read a single home or lifestyle magazine. That’s how I’m able to tackle hoarding so seriously. Now is the best time to begin your own life of hoarding under my tutelage, visiting homes and offices where all of a sudden everyone is getting rid of so much stuff. I can give hands-on advice (with rubber gloves on) to people who find hoarding difficult, who hoard but suffer bouts of spring cleaning, or

who want to hoard but don’t know how to acquire things indiscriminately.

The number of items my clients will acquire, from clothes and remnants of undergarments to other people’s photos, dried-up pens, waiting-room magazines with the addresses cut out, and makeup scraps, easily surpasses health-code regulations. I do not exaggerate. I have envisioned myself assisting clients who have scored two U-Hauls’ worth of unwanted goods (including the trucks themselves) in a single go.

From my meditations upon the craft of acquiring and my dreams of helping functioning humans become packrats, I can say one thing with undeserved confidence: A drastic disintegration of the open spaces in a home causes proportionately drastic changes in personal hygiene and neighborhood property values. It is life transforming.

I mean it. Here are some of the testimonials I will soon start receiving on a weekly, even monthly, basis from future former clients: “With your help, I lost my job and found undocumented work doing something I never dreamed of doing. Your course taught me to see that I need absolutely everything I can get my hands on. So what if I’m now divorced? I’m much happier this way. Someone I have been stalking on Facebook for years recently contracted tetanus from my front yard. I’m delighted to report that since stockpiling my property, I’ve been able to keep the meter reader from accessing my meter. My dogs and I are having a great time, even though I don’t know how many dogs I have anymore. I’m amazed to find that just bringing things home has changed me so much. I finally succeeded in losing 20 pounds, now that I cannot reach the kitchen.”

The results of the HiveZac Approach will inevitably change the future. Why? Because the ripple effect states that every action has an equal and opposite legal action. We don’t live in a vacuum, after all. Nor do we need to use the vacuums that we have stashed around here somewhere. Even if you can’t see anything else after completing my course, you will see quite clearly that you need all that you can get in life. This is what I call the satisfaction of hanging on to absolutely everything. By putting your house in disarray, you will see your furniture and decorations come to life. Literally, with mold and mushrooms and such. This – this is the satisfaction I want to share with as many people as possible.

This Week’s Sign of the Downfall:

Thumbin’It Local wholesale energy provider Tri-State showing signs of getting on the renewables bus and announcing plans to add 204 megawatts of wind and solar projects in 2019

Checks and balances at work, with Colorado and New Mexico joining 14 other states in a lawsuit challenging Trump’s asinine border “emergency declaration” and his authority to pass sweeping autonomous measures Possible relief from skyrocketing health insurance costs, with a bill introduced this week that would cut premiums on the state exchange for rural residents by as much as a third

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– Zach Hively

Local residences and especially businesses that don’t shovel their downtown sidewalks, making an already sketchy journey even more fraught with peril Last week’s targeted hate graffiti incident at Fort Lewis College, in which slurs about a female student were painted on dormitory walls and personal vehicles

What’s turning out to be one of the deadliest avalanche seasons in recent memory, with a skier missing and presumed dead Tuesday from a slide in Bear Creek outside Telluride ski area, and two skiers also believed dead in an avi north of Crested Butte

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The Cheesiest I don’t know which is worse: the fact that Costco recently started selling a 27pound bucket of preserved macaroni and cheese that lasts for 20 years, or the fact that Americans loved the idea so much that Costco sold-out in the first week.

The bucket costs $90 (which comes out to $0.50 per meal), so start saving now if you’re a prepper, but if you’re in a hurry for a heart attack, Costco still has their 7-pound tub of Nutella in stock.

WordontheStreet With epic snowfalls this winter, the Telegraph asked, “How are you surviving the snowpocalypse?”

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“Enjoying the snow as much as I can.’”

Anna Marie McCorvie

“Barely surviving – this is the first time I’ve left my house in three days.”

Sam Latham

“Just wearing a lot of warm clothes.”

Tristan Way

“Special layering – hoodie, puffy, then windbreaker.”

Cherie Hughes

“Shoveling.

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Picking up on the green bag saga To the editor, I surely applaud all the dog owners who get outside and exercise their dogs along the public trails. I love seeing so many dogs enjoying Durango, either along the river or up on the hills.

However, seeing the little ubiquitous green bags dotting our landscape is not nice. Dog owners should not leave them! Take it with you! Perhaps we need more garbage receptacles on the trails, but it is your responsibility to not only pick up the poop but take it with you.

– Galen Carpenter, Durango

Standing up for the CORE values To the editor, Tracy Chamberlin’s excellent article “Going Public – Support for public lands, voiced in new polls, comes to life in legislation” (Telegraph, Feb. 7) captures just how important protecting our public lands is to the public, and especially to those of us who live in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West. It is encouraging to see that our lawmakers are taking these voices to heart and championing legislation that would permanently protect many of our most cherished lands.

The Colorado Outdoor Recreation & Economy (CORE) Act, which was recently introduced by Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Joe Neguse, is among the most broadly supported and significant efforts to protect and preserve Colorado public lands in a generation. As the owner of Mountain Trip, a mountain guiding service in Telluride, I am among the hundreds of Southwest Colorado business owners who ardently support passage of this bill. I’ve often said that I am the luckiest person on the planet to have chosen a career as a mountain guide exploring some

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of the wildest places on the planet. I am luckier still, that many of these special wild places are right in my Colorado back yard. I have been able to experience – and help others to experience – many of the spectacular places that the CORE Act will permanently protect. I am

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also keenly aware that this legislation could limit my ability to partake in some of my personal passions, such as riding dirt bikes on high country trails, but for the sake of my children and their future generations, I view that limitation as relatively minor when compared to the 4

prospective rewards of protecting these wild spaces.

In Southwest Colorado alone, the CORE Act will protect 61,000 acres of land in the heart of the San Juan Mountains, including two fourteeners, Mount Sneffels and Wilson Peak, that are popular with climbers from around the world. The bill adds thousands of acres to the Lizard Head Wilderness Area and designates nearly 8,900 acres surrounding McKenna Peak as a new wilderness area in San Miguel County. Between the towns of Ophir, where my family and I reside, and Silverton, the bill creates the 21,633-acre Sheep Mountain Special Management Area, and above Telluride it establishes the 792-acre Liberty Bell East Special Management Area. The Colorado Recreation & Economy Act is Colorado’s passport to a vibrant, ecologically and economically sustainable future in Southwest Colorado and throughout our state. I urge Sen. Cory Gardner and Rep. Scott Tipton to get onboard with the vast majority of Coloradans and support this vital legislation.

– Todd Rutledge, Ophir

Separation anxiety on the border To the editor, It’s a typical Saturday morning at the entrance to the U.S. from Tijuana. We are there at 7:30 a.m. to witness, understand and support those who wait in line to either get a number or have their number called. This number process has been self-organized and somewhat efficient. They have a hand-written sign showing the latest number “1870” in one corner of this plaza next to the letters spelling out “MEXICO” running along the slats leading to the entrance to San Diego. Every number represents up to 10 people. A name and number is called, and we wait to see if someone is still there. Maybe they gave up and decided to stay in Mexico or return home. Maybe they are at a shelter and don’t realize their number is being called. Maybe they are sick and can’t come. But then someone comes to claim their number and they go and line up. This number brings some form of hope to people from El Salvador, Honduras,

Haiti and other countries who are seeking asylum – safety for their families, relief of fear of persecution in their home countries, an end to the oppression they have lived on a daily basis and an escape from fear for their lives. I stand in that plaza that is the entrance for those white folks like myself who can walk through from Tijuana to San Diego with not an ounce of resistance. But these folks don’t get to walk through … they are taken away in vans.

I am watching the hopeful faces, the tired and weary faces of those who are seeking asylum. I watch as a woman who I’ve met through a volunteer group, World Central Kitchen, waits and hears her number called. She is excited because she has found a sponsor who will assist her once she gets into the United States – helping her with legal representation, a living situation and possible work. She hugs us all ... those who have met her, those who have worked with her at the Kitchen. The excitement and anticipation is written all over her face. I watch as another woman who is 9 months pregnant who I witnessed pass out in line while waiting, returns after being examined by a doctor, to hear her number called.

I watch as they are told to line up, to go inside a parking lot to be taken somewhere else in this process. I ask questions of the support people – volunteers, lawyers and translators who are there every day to help these asylum seekers.

No, they don’t know where they are being taken, most of these folks waiting in line don’t have any idea what’s next.

But I’ve heard … detention centers, ankle monitors, being sent back. Their fate is unknown but their faces are hopeful – something better, something safer, finally.

I watch as the border agent has a small group (20 or so) of mostly women and children line up inside the border parking lot and then asks the women and children to go into one van and the men into another. And so the separation begins. I watch and wonder if they will ever see each other again. Will these fathers ever see their daughters again, will these wives and mothers ever spend another day with their husbands again? They are all so trusting that they are coming to a more accepting and better world than

the one they came from. I want to warn them. This is going to be really hard, not better … maybe worse because they may be in detention for a long time instead of free.

But then, the next day I volunteer as a therapist at what is called a “pop-up medical clinic” in Tijuana. I experience the stories of why people are so desperately fleeing their homes – disappeared children, families being kidnapped and tortured. I learn that 95 percent of women experience some form of sexual perpetration on this journey to freedom. I understand why they feel like anything is better than where they are from, where they have been.

I understand the hope, but why do I feel so sick to my stomach at what their future might be?

– Joanie Trussel, Mancos

Winter Warrior 10k soldiers on

To the editor, A humble thank you to our c(om)munity who stepped up to save my 9th annual Winter Warrior 10k Snowshoe Race after i initially cancelled it due to my sudden caregiving responsibilities for my 89-year-young M(om). It was Shaun Burke, my much younger yet ongoing rival in the Purgatory Twilight Race Series, who said to ilg after yet another crushing effort in freezing temps under headlamps, “Ilg? We gotta keep your race on the calendar.”

So, on Sun., Feb. 10, after a whirlwind effort by Brett Sublett of Durango Running Co., Shaun, Helen Low at Durango Nordic Center and my sponsors at Tailwind Nutrition, we pulled off an amazing race that saw nearly 50 racers giving it their all knowing that there were no age groups, no awards, no raffles, no prizes as per the past.

Yet? Upon the sacred snows we raced and showed our genuine love of sacred sweat upon even more sacred snows! Snowshoeing is a Native American creation and is the original winter sport and thus deserves ongoing honor. Big changes higher next year for the Winter Warrior 10k! Stay tuned via FB. – Steve Ilg, Durango

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TopStory Lisa Pedolsky works on her piece for KDUR’s Furniture as Art, which is Feb. 28.

Photo by Stephen Eginoire

Four legs to stand on: Furniture as Art raises creative support for KDUR

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onet mastered oil paints. Michelangelo marble.

Virginia Woolfe was a wordsmith. And Durango artists are about to show off their formidable skills in working with home furnishings. And it’s all for a good cause: as it does every year, proceeds from the Furniture as Art auction will benefit KDUR, the community radio station housed at Fort Lewis College.

As far as eclectic fundraisers go, the premise for Furniture as Art is pretty straightforward: artists make, decorate, convert and morph entirely functional pieces of furniture, which then go to auction at the Durango Arts Center. Proceeds benefit KDUR, and auction winners go home with one-of-a-kind pieces.

Only, Furniture as Art isn’t your typical art auction. At least, not if Christie’s is your idea of a typical art auction.

There’s good reason that Furniture as Art is an annual happenin.’ It’s been providing entertainment and furniture in equal measure for going on two decades now. And in a town that values annual traditions and festive parties, it’s become a mainstay of the arts and fundraiser circuit.

In fact, contributing artist Lisa Pedolsky called it the “most raucous” KDUR fundraising event of the year. Considering that KDUR Cover Night also comes once a year (this time in mid-March featuring the Talking Heads), that’s

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JusttheFacts What: KDUR’s 18th annual Furniture as Art auction When: Thurs., Feb. 28. Doors at 5:30 p.m., auction at 7 Where: Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. Tickets: $30, includes heavy appetizers, drinks and live music. Available for purchase at Maria’s Bookshop seriously saying something.

“The energy on stage is amazing,” Pedolsky, a clay artist represented locally at Diane West Jewelry & Art, said. “It’s live entertainment, with an unlikely group of people.

Calvin Storey, the strapping cowboy auctioneer, shows up in full regalia with his rodeo belt buckle and cowboy hat.

He has wry humor and plays off whoever the other KDUR folks are on stage.”

Other long-time participating artists, such as tattooer Tom Kipp and sculptor and painter Amy Felker, talked about the inevitable bidding war on at least one item, the jokes going on between auctioneer Story and his wife, Pat, working the audience, and the usual boisterousness that happens when you feed a community heavy appetizers and drink tickets.

All in all, it’s pretty action-packed for an auction. And if live bidding isn’t your cuppa, there’s a silent auction too,

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with lots of donations that aren’t necessarily furniture: gift certificates, gift baskets, radio schwag, and so on.

Of course, it’s the art that doubles as furniture that ostensibly brings people through the door.

“This is something that’s marked on the calendar weeks ahead of time,” Kipp said. “You see the creativity. Year after year, I always like seeing what people bring to the stage, whether it’s a newcomer or someone whose piece I look forward to seeing because I love their style. It’s a joy to see actual, functional pieces of art.”

For Felker, whose work can be seen in the window at No Place Like Home on Main Avenue, half the fun of the event is finding her canvas for each year’s artwork. When the event used to be held later in the year, she’d comb the alleys during spring cleanup looking for the perfect discarded table or chair. Now, she’s surfing the thrift stores, and she’s found something out of the normal to push her creativity for the auction.

“You can get some really awesome pieces that you can redo, repurpose and put back out there and make some money for KDUR, which is the best part of all,” she said.

“I’ve never bought a new piece. My piece this year, I have kept with that. I’ve done thrones, I’ve done tables. Usually Day of the Dead has something to do with it. This year, it’s a mirror.” (Spoiler alert: it has adorable dogs all over it.)

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the always-necessary pledge drive week. KDUR could hold a simple art auction where artists donate pieces and everyone eats small cubes of cheese. But instead, the station has kept with the artistic constraint of making functional furniture art.

Art often emerges from limitations. Having the challenge of creating furniture keeps artists like Pedolsky energized.

“I love a prompt,” she said. “It helps the wheels start turning. Being an artist, I immediately want to think outside the box. How can I work it to my creative advantage, comply with the theme of the show and run with it?”

A prompt like furniture could hardly be more removed from Kipp’s daily art. He owns Conductor Tattoo and spends his days inking people. But for Furniture as Art, he turns to wood, which he says is akin to skin.

“The prompt is there to have that motivation, to be able to do something,” he said. “A lot of what I choose to make is out of necessity. I want something, like a shelf or a spice rack, and I like the idea of making rather than buying. So a lot of times, what I’ll put in (to the show) is something that I wouldn’t mind having at my own house.”

Working with the challenge of making furniture also helps each of these artists grow as creatives. Kipp credits his annual creation with helping him build more skills and become a better artist. It furthers Felker’s innate passion for making crazy things out of everyday objects. And it helps Pedolsky feel connected to the greater world outside her studio.

“It’s an artist-slash-personal growth experience,” she said. “I get to come out and really feel what it is to be part of the community, the KDUR community and the greater community.”

In the end, those communities are what this night is all about. Sure, it seems like public radio stations are always raising funds. In fairness, they have to in order to stay afloat – stations like KDUR do not air commercials, meaning listeners get more of the music and program-

A mirror by Amy Felker sits on display in No Place Like Home. The mirror will be up for auction next week at Furniture as Art./Photo by Stephen Eginoire

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ming they tuned in to hear in the first place. Furniture as Art reminds artists, art lovers and radio listeners alike of the reasons why the community in “community radio” is so important.

“Public radio is the voice of the people,” Felker said.

KDUR serves as a political, artistic and musical resource for Durango and beyond. Essentially, the all-volunteer DJs curate information and insights through their own knowledge, experience, perspective and preferences.

Shows aren’t mediated by sponsors (though plenty of local businesses underwrite programs on the station), so the airwaves broadcast genuine expression. And listeners reap the benefits.

Pedolsky said that the talk shows on KDUR feed her mind while she is working in her studio. Kipp, who also hosts a late-night music show once a week, loves the constant change that’s built into a radio station that works on the collegiate semester model.

“Some (shows) stay static, and they’ll be the same for years to come, they have been that way for years in the past,” he said. “I love the fact that it changes, though.

You’re going to get different variety and maximum variety.

Yet the people who contribute to this station really know what they’re doing, and they love to share that with the community. There is no other radio station like this that I have ever experienced.”

Felker feels the way many of us feel when our favorite stations ask us for money: we aren’t made of cash. But she finds that participating in something like Furniture as Art allows her to contribute to her artistic community by offering her talents and her time. Guests can participate even without bidding, for a ticket price that bests most any night out on the town. And everyone gets to leave feeling more connected to the station, and to each other, than when they arrived.

“It’s just passion, and the heart, that it is real people doing real things, making a real difference,” she said. “Even if you don’t get a piece, you go away with something.” n

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MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. – Snowfall records have started toppling at Mammoth Mountain, which is often the snowiest ski area in the United States.

Mammoth Mountain by mid-February was already nearing its annual average of 400 inches of snowfall. Ski and riding season has been extended to July 4.

Mammoth had several rough years of drought. Now, it’s like the good old days – except more. February had produced several 10-foot dumps. “You can ski onto our third-story sundeck here at Main Lodge,” reports Lauren Burke, communications officer for the ski area.

February alone has been the snowiest on record. At the summit, 548 inches of snow has fallen.

This winter has challenged patience and equipment. The highway to Los Angeles six hours away has been closed often. Winds up to 170 mph accompanied a storm last week. Even a device used to measure snow got buried.

In Mammoth Lakes, the town at the foot of the ski area, streets are lined with banks 15 feet high. The town is buried, without sufficient space to dump more snow until the spring shrink begins.

Three hours to the north and 1,600 feet lower, Lake Tahoe got drenched with rain before yet another storm. The Tahoe Daily Tribune reports that several ski areas in the Tahoe-Truckee area have received 7 feet or more of snow in recent storms.

If not on the same scale, Sun Valley has also had a storm that produced 35 inches in 36 hours, this coming off a winter that the Idaho Mountain Express describes as hitherto distinctly unmemorable.

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ASPEN – Emissions associated with the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport rose nearly 31 percent over a three-year period during which air traffic grew 19.8 percent.

The Aspen Daily News explains that emissions resulting from both commercial and private jets accounted for almost 95 percent of the total. Airport operations were responsible for about 2 percent. The final 3 percent was attributed to limousines, taxis and other ground transportation.

John Kinney, the airport director, told Pitkin County Commissioners that not only have the number of flights increased both during peak season and in the shoulder seasons, but corporate jets have become bigger. Too, more long-haul flights have been added.

Will biofuels help dampen this carbon footprint? Possibly, but it’s far off into the future, he said. The Wall Street Journal had the same assessment, calling biofuel use “a drop in a very big bucket.”

Transportation surpassed electrical production two years ago as the leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

The Environmental Protection Agency reported CO2 emissions from U.S. commercial aviation increased 6.2 percent from 2010-16.

Passenger-car emissions increased 1.2 percent during the same time.

Globally, air travel is believed to account for 2 percent of carbon emissions.

Teaching climate change not mandated WHISTLER, B.C. – Teachers in British Columbia need not specifically teach about climate change. Most do, and those in Whistler and elsewhere along the corridor from Vancouver think it’s just fine to leave it to the discretion of teachers about how to approach the subject.

“I don’t feel we’re giving short shrift to this very important topic,” Chris Nicholson, a school district assistant superintendent, told Pique Newsmagazine.

Cynthia Higgins, a trustee representing Whistler on the same school board, defended the need for teacher autonomy. “We have to trust that our teachers in the Sea to Sky (corridor) will cover climate change, along with all the other topics related to the environment, and do that in an appropriate fashion,” she said.

The lack of mandatory coverage of climate change was criticized last year by several teachers in the greater Vancouver area in a story published by Tyree, a local magazine.

Major housing construction to begin WINTER PARK – Reflecting the boom of the last few years, developers in Winter Park plan to begin construction this summer on a project that will ultimately yield more than 1,000 residential units

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and 70,000 square feet of commercial space, reports the Sky Hi News.

This is to occur on 165 acres near and on the site of the aging Beaver Village Lodges, once an icon for Winter Park in the postWorld War II boom of skiing, but now housing for service and other personnel. The 40 residents have been told they will have to vacate at the end of ski season this year.

Jackson weighs trash-by-the-bag pricing JACKSON, Wyo. – Teton County has a waste diversion rate of 34 percent now but hopes to increase that to 60 percent in roughly the next decade. How to get there?

One idea is a pay-as-you-throw program. In other words, you pay for how much trash gets hauled away instead of a flat fee. Employed elsewhere, the concept has slashed volumes of trash. In New Hampshire, for example, Concord reduced waste hauled to the local landfill by 44 percent.

In Jackson and Teton County, residents pay the same amount for trash pickup regardless of the volume of their garbage. There’s no financial incentive to recycle, points out Heather Overholser, the supervisor of Teton County’s integrated solid waste and recycling program.

Pay-as-you-throw pricing “creates waste collection as a utility, the same way you would treat electricity or gas service,” she said in the Jackson Hole News&Guide. “Basically you pay for the amount of service that you use.”

A survey of 180 communities cited by the News&Guide found that the 34 that used pay-as-you-throw reported waste reductions of 42 to 54 percent.

One complication for Teton County is the need to dovetail payas-you-throw programs with bear-proof containers.

Even where pay-as-you-throw has been used, residents and trash haulers have pushed back initially.

Banff offers language, cultural program BANFF, Alberta – A K-12 language and cultural program will be developed in Alberta, which is home to 170,00 Filipinos, including 900 in Banff and Canmore.

The announcement was welcomed by Ericson Dizon, founder of the Filipino-Canadian Association of the Bow Valley. He told the Rocky Mountain Outlook that development of the program would help bridge the cultures. “We try to break the barriers, break the language barrier, and we see it as a way to connect people and also a way to celebrate friendship and connection,” he said.

“We don’t want to create cultural pockets,” he added. “I want us to one day simply be called the Canadian Association of the Bow Valley, because in heart and mind, eventually we will all see each other as one.”

Native Filipinos speak both Tagalog and English. In 2012, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported that the number of people speaking Tagalog in Canada rose 64 percent over the prior five years, making it the fastest-growing language in Canada. At the time, Filipinos had surpassed Chinese and Indians as being the nation’s largest immigrant group.

The Calgary Sun reports this is to be the ninth international language covered by provincial curriculum in Alberta, joining Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, German, Italian, Japanese, Punjabi, Spanish and Ukrainian.

In addition to English and French, provincial curriculum is also available in Blackfoot and Cree.

New approaches to cutting suicide rate ASPEN – Suicides continue to perplex Aspen and Pitkin County, where the rate over a three-year period stood at 22.6 per 10,000 residents. That compares with 19.1 for Colorado altogether.

Mountain towns tend toward higher suicide rates for reasons still unclear, and Western states tend toward higher rates than those in the East, again for reasons unclear.

The Aspen Daily News reports that local officials have decided to push in two realms. One effort involves getting the citizenry – everybody from lift-ops and bartenders to bank officers and, perhaps, county commissioners – trained in mental health first-aid.

The idea, explains Greg Poschman, a county commissioner who has taken a keen interest, is to train lay people on identifying people in need.

– Allen Best

yocal Dating Locally

A LOCAL’S GUIDE TO DATING YOURSELF

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alentine’s Day was a week ago, and many of us have questionably strong opinions about the holiday. So much so that Christmas may be passing the baton for the holiday that is most passionately and dichotomously loved or hated. And that’s fine, because the fact of the matter is, love stinks. But only if you’re a local single.

I say this as someone who has, on occasion, been in love but is currently solely smitten with my dog. Yes, I have Tindered in this small city to the tune of that guy who used to bartend at my favorite bar, and also swiped left on the gentleman I just ran into in the cereal aisle at the grocery store; yes, you also look familiar, yes, you also dated my friend in college and/or fixed my computer last week. I’m glad we figured that out.

Over time, I’ve discovered that what’s more fun than sitting in front of a stranger spending 10 minutes trying to figure out why we both look kind of familiar is just going out and doing things alone. Which isn’t super congruent to the recent lists popping up of the “best local Valentine’s gifts for your boo” and the “best local restaurants to woo her,” so I’m happily planning my own local date that I’ll go on by myself any day of the week.

The best local date to go on by yourself: The day starts with coffee, as any day should. Preferably at 81301, where you’ll probably come face to face with another one of your Tinder swipes. Next, you’ll want to grab a breakfast burrito from Backcountry Gourmet, but wear your stretchy pants—the burritos are so huge they are obviously meant to share with someone else, but since it’s just you, you can guiltlessly eat it all by yourself.

A trip to Purgatory is on the agenda, and being a single person means you get to go through the express “singles” lane on Lift 1. Yep, there is a designated lane just for us lonely folk. I suggest going immediately to the back side and riding any four-pack, which we all know is just a tightly squeezed three-pack, and then sitting right in the middle of a couple. This is both good for meeting new friends and safe, because safety is third, especially when you’re the third wheel.

When you get off the lift and tell your new friends “goodbye,” you’re in for a day of skiing whatever the heck you want, however many times you want. If that means putting your headphones in and lapping Boogie all day, so be it. If you want to ride the rickety two-pack on the front side by yourself and race children through Animas City just for giggles? Doesn’t matter one bit. Just be careful, be respectful, and don’t forget to wave to the park rats.

Soaking at Amaya is next. As a single person, this one gets tricky because you’re literally getting yourself into hot water with a bunch of love birds.

Don’t look up, you might accidentally stare deep into the soul of a half-naked stranger who is probably somebody’s boyfriend. If you wander into the dark sauna, that rule gets even more serious. Just keep your eyes closed while at Amaya—always.

Dinner and drinks at, say, Eolus or Ken and Sue’s is my favorite part of my single gal nights because this I generally do with friends—and since most, if not all, of my friends are either married or in committed relationships, I get to tag along while they argue over who forgot to get milk at the grocery store or what Netflix series was accidentally watched without the other person present.

This leads me to the end of the night. As a single person, you get to go home and watch whatever you want to on Netflix or Hulu or Nickelodeon or whatever. It doesn’t matter if it’s the third time you’ve watched “New Girl” and you can quote the whole third season—the only person who cares is your dog and maybe your ex because you’re still using his Netflix password.

Valentine’s Day is, thankfully, long gone by now, and the next holiday is St. Patrick’s Day. So why not call this “How to Take Yourself on a Local Date on St. Patrick’s Day”—it doesn’t matter when, just wear green and keep it local.

-JENNAYE DERGE

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Durango Creative District

LOCAL ARTS ACTIVIST, DENISE LESLIE TELLS US WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CREATIVE

LF: HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN THE CREATIVE DISTRICT? DL: I have always seen Durango as a place full of cul-

ture and art. We moved here from Austin, Texas where we were heavily involved in the arts around town.

When we moved to Durango we were thinking we would have a little less “craziness” in our work, but what we found was a thriving arts scene in Durango!

We got involved because my husband, Charles and I are extremely passionate to be surrounded by arts in our work and in our personal lives. We noticed there wasn’t an arts council or a creative leadership on the organized level.

WHO CAN BE INVOLVED IN THE CREATIVE DISTRICT? DL: Anyone who is a creative or even a supporter of

Denise Leslie speaking at Sorrel Sky Gallery during The Creative Connect Hour recently / photo by Scott DW Smith

LF: TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOURSELF AND HOW YOU’RE INVOLVED IN THE ARTS COMMUNITY. DL: Upon my arrival to Durango, I started working at

Music in the Mountains as the Communications Director. Then I started my own business publishing playbills for arts groups and soon after purchased the Arts Perspective magazine. After we closed the magazine, I picked up the ukulele for therapeutic reasons and boom, I started the Rocky Mountain UkeFest now in its 5th year. In August of last year, I joined Sorrel Sky Gallery as an arts consultant and I handle community relations. I’m in the best job ever and I get to be surrounded by amazing artist work everyday. It’s quite the “coo” in my book. I coordinate community events taking place in the gallery as well as our own events - including the 17th Anniversary of Sorrel Sky Gallery featuring one of our artist, Peggy Immel on April 5th. I also just became the coordinator for the Durango Art Galleries Collective (formerly the Durango Gallery Association) who present the Spring and Fall Gallery Walks in Durango. So I have a lot going on and I’m lovin’ it.

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the “creative” industry can be involved. Most folks think of the arts as visual, performing, music, theatre, ballet, opera, etc. Or in a corporate environment, it’s usually the marketing department. However, this initiative has been developed by the Colorado Creative Industries (the former Colorado Council on the Arts and Arts in Public Places program) and so a lot of emphasis is on the creative culture in our community. That can include everything from visual and musical art to beer brewers or a cultural experience like a trip through the mountains on a historical train. So you can see how everyone can have a place in this creative process.

LF: HOW WILL THIS HELP DURANGO? DL: The Creative District will create that missing piece

and bring recognition of Durango not only being a great place for outdoors and nature, but also for the arts and other creative areas of our community. It is exciting and I love seeing all of us coming together, working on ideas and changes to make a strong thriving creative “town”.

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Outlier Cellars

ONE-YEAR-OLD CIDERY SERVES UP LOCAL, CRAFT CIDER AND WINES

The crew at Outlier Cellars give a toast to a successful first year of making local ciders and wines in the Outlier Cellars’ HQ in Mancos.

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1798, Johnny Appleseed (a.k.a. John Chapman) was busy working the American frontier giving the gift of apples. It was said that Chapman would walk around the country (yes, walk) selling seedling apple trees to the pioneers. His trees were in high demand because they were used to create a tasty alcoholic beverage that turned out to be much safer, and more delicious, than water. For that reason, Johnny Appleseed has become an American legend and a modern-day hero.

But there’s another modern-day apple hero planting seeds in our neck of the woods. Outlier Cellars, also known as Fenceline Cider, has been slowly growing its hard cider business in Montezuma and La Plata counties, and on February 22 the company will be celebrating its one-year anniversary.

The cidery in Mancos has spent the last year in a fury of collecting 120,000 pounds of apples from 36 different area orchards and backyard trees. All of these apples were turned into cider, creating a whole new sort of local craft beverage.

The co-partners in crime, Sam Perry and Neal Wight, have spent a lot of their time, energy, and sweat this last year in business making sure that the ciders they’re creating are hyper-local and remain uniquely delicious.

They can thank an amazing community for its help and support, and also the high altitude, dry climate, and short growing season that produces smaller, astringent apples, adding bountiful and complex flavors to the beverage.

The cider, which has been described on a whole as “dry,” is so much more than that, Perry says. The world of craft cider is relatively new, so folks don’t know quite how to put a name to what they are tasting, but Perry and Wight

aim to end that. What they’re looking for are folks who can appreciate the subtle, complex layers of a quality cider as much as they do.

“If people are ciderphiles or cider aficionados, they should definitely come check out our lineup, because we have put together some world-class ciders from the region’s best cider apples,” Perry said. And with 8 to 10 different and rotating varieties of cider on tap at any one time, it’s easy to join the club.

But you don’t have to be a cider connoisseur to truly appreciate Outlier Cellar’s line of Fenceline ciders, and to be totally honest, you don’t even have to like cider to enjoy the company’s riverside patio and bar. Of course, they hope you do, but the Mancos taproom’s larger aim is a bit more complex.

The crew also wants to create a space to connect with the community and for folks to feel welcome to gather with friends and strangers.

“I feel like we’ve generated a really cool place for people to gather and come together from all walks of life. I’ve met a lot of really interesting folks that I didn’t even know lived in Mancos because there was nowhere really for us to connect previously, and now if feels like people are coming out of the woodwork,” Perry said.

That could be thanks to the warm atmosphere and the super-friendly staff, or it could be because of Tasting Room Manager Ansley Livingston’s knack for bringing in weekly live music and local food trucks.

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Outlier Cellars (Continued) and it’s really nice,” Livingston said.

It helps that the taproom is along the route to places like Denver, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and Austin, so Livingston is able to rope up and lasso in musicians on tour who are passing through—and that’s a pretty big deal for such a small town. Live music paired with rotating art exhibits from local artists and a variety of local food trucks, it’s the perfect place to gather with friends.

If you can’t make it out to the taproom, though, the Fenceline ciders are making moves to restaurants and liquor stores. Currently, there are two cider varieties, soon to be three, offered on tap at various restaurants and bottled ready for purchase at most area liquor stores.

And while you’re out, don’t be surprised if you see the Outlier Cellars name on wine bottles, too, because also hitting the stands is wine made by the cider powers that be. The crew at Outlier has brought wine out of the woodbarrel-works and recently bottled two varieties: a table red and a table white made from local grapes and bearing labels designed by local artist Jon Bailey.

“We’ve been happily surprised at how supportive people have been, especially the liquor stores and restaurants that want to carry artisan cider and wines made from local fruit,” said Wight.

Perry mirrors Wight’s sentiment: “We couldn’t be in business without those relationships. It’s a super important part. To be able to stay in business going forward, we depend on those wholesale accounts,” Perry said. “A humble thank you to all our patrons and everyone who has supported us through this first year, and we want to thank the community at large for making it all possible. And a special thank you to The Ore House. Ryan Lowe was super accommodating and open to working with us.”

Love and appreciation are obvious key ingredients of Outlier’s success in the last year. Whether it be from the locals or Perry and Wight’s love and appreciation for everyone involved, it’s a combination of those ingredients that makes Outlier Cellars our modern-day cider heros.

“And all because of the apple,” added Livingston.

Upcoming events: One Year Anniversary Party: Friday Feb 22nd | 5pm-close Live music: You Knew Me When March 9th Dance Monkey Dance March 21st Birds of Play March 28th *For a full list of food vendors and events, visit www.outliercellars.com Phone number: 970.533.4005 Physical address: 141 S. Main St. Mancos, CO 81328 Website: www.outliercellars.com

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Earth tones

by Stephen Eginoire

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ired of looking at harsh, reflective white? Then feast your eyes on the gentler, subtler hues of winter. For most, winter brown is an acquired taste. Not unlike a smoky, peaty, mossy Scotch, the tawny shades of winter can soothe even the blurriest, sunburned vision with

The Hogsback, between Farmington and Shiprock, gleams with hues of tan.

tones that impart an earthy, unhurried calm upon the viewer. When viewed from the air, the long shadows of short days are sure to add just the right amount of contrast. Note: winter white has recently overcome much of the areas featured here. Approach with caution.

Mesa tops cast shadows along Highway 160.

The Four Corners Generating station does its part to add to the atmosphere.

Mother Nature’s pastels, as far as the eye can see.

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The Montana-tini

by Ari LeVaux

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ew methods of coping with winter are superior to sipping a grapefruit martini. Composed of grapefruit, mint, vodka and sugar, it isn’t your typical martini.

In fact, by martini standards, this drink would be disqualified on multiple counts.

I didn’t create or name it, but I am enthused by it. The combination packs a bright pizzazz that’s in short supply these days; if flavors were colors, this would be neon. The grapefruit’s bitterness softens the vodka, while the mint sprinkling a diverse aromatic bouquet, adding lightness to the drink. Some of the minty aromas and flavors combine with those of the grapefruit and vodka, creating altogether new ones.

In different ways, grapefruit and vodka are both in season in wintertime: grapefruit because it’s ripe and fresh; vodka because it is a known remedy for the winter blues.

The other key ingredient in this drink is mint, which can be a wildcard in winter. Fresh is preferable, but dried will do, providing it’s dried on the stem with leaves intact.

When I made my wife her first grapefruit martini, she took a sip and then regarded it with a mixture of awe and concern, as if it was a road she wanted to walk down, but shouldn’t. (She did). For people who don’t normally love the taste of vodka, mint and grapefruit do a masterful job at morphing its flavor. Everyone else: add more vodka.

I learned of the grapefruit martini at a local farm where I play hockey. There, the drink is as holy as hockey itself in the pantheon of winter delights. But alas, the vodka martini has also become a source of tension on the farm, thanks to that elusive mint.

The farm had a stash of properly dried mint, demand for which spiked with the rise in popularity of the grapefruit martini, pitting the martini drinkers against the tea drinkers – and against each other. One enterprising farmhand tackled the shortage by buying several living mint plants from the supermarket, where they come with their roots attached and immersed in a plug of soil. But the harvesting pressure on those freshly potted sprigs was too much. Leaves were picked as soon as they appeared, leaving a denuded miniature forest.

On the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where I’m cur-

rently on a short sabbatical, mint is called hierbabuena, which translates into “good herb.” The name is a nod to its many culinary and medicinal uses, which include antiseptic and antibiotic properties, as well as being generally good for the tummy.

As I sat in a wicker chair one evening, enjoying the sea breeze and faint scent of chopped onions, I sipped a local

drink called limonada de hierbabuena – or mint lemonade – and was hit with a spray of déjà vu that took me back to my wintry home and the grapefruit martinis.

Like the grapefruit martini, the lemonade is citrusbased, with mint dominating. It’s a powerful combo.

In Columbia, lemonade (limonada) is used as a base for an entire category of cold drinks, including limonadas made with mango, passion fruit, pineapple and other fruits, as well as coconut milk. I bought a bottle of vodka and began playing around with blended versions of the

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grapefruit martini, Colombian-style.

Consider the Colombian version to be an extremely vigorously shaken and chopped with whirling blades martini. My blended grapefruit martini has even less business being called a martini than the shaken or stirred martinis at the farm. But let’s face it, “spiked mint grapefruit-ade” just doesn’t have the same ring.

But, the blended version is mintier than the classic grapefruit martini because the blender releases more mint aroma and flavor. Thus, the blended version requires less mint. Back on the farm, this could be a game-changer) Most importantly, I have a hunch that my blended grapefruit martini will be as satisfying back in the Montana winter as it is in this land of endless summer. Something this quenching creates its own thirst. Something this cold creates its own heat. I might have to add some vodka, though.

Blended Grapefruit Martini, a la Colombiana 1 red grapefruit 6 cubes ice 1 Tablespoon fresh mint leaves, or a teaspoon dried 1 Tablespoon sugar or sweetener 1 shot vodka, or to taste 1 cup water Juice the grapefruit. If you don’t have a citrus juicer, cut the grapefruit in half, from the flower nub to belly button, and cut those halves into 6 sections each, for a total of 12 wedges.

Add the ice to a blender, followed by the rest of the ingredients. Taste, adjust with vodka, sugar and water as necessary. Strain out the mint particles, so it doesn’t separate.

Classic Lifeline Farm Grapefruit Martini 1 red grapefruit 6 cubes ice ¼ cup fresh mint leaves, or a tablespoon dried 1 Tablespoon sugar or sweetener 1 shot vodka, or to taste Splash of water or bubbly water Juice the grapefruit, as above. If juicing by hand, save the squeezed-out sections.

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Indie rock’n’roller, uptown jazz and math rock

by Chris Aaland

drummer Tim Fogarty, they’re touted as one of the best instrumental bands around by the likes of Spin magazine and the Dallas hen did you first discover Martha Scanlan? For me, it Observer. Now 10 albums into their career, El Ten Eleven (their was around 2001, when her old-time bluegrass outfit, name taken from the L-1011 aircraft) has weaved through experiReeltime Travelers, began appearing on the festival cirmental music from ambient to math rock to indie rock. cuit, playing the old Silverton Jubilee, the Durango Bluegrass MeltRock/funk/blues outfit the Missing Lynx opens. down, Telluride Bluegrass and RockyGrass. In the span of two years, Eufórquestra returns to the ACT at 9 p.m. Saturday. The Fort they released a pair of critically hailed albums and emerged at the Collins-based world/funk/jam outfit has an immensely loyal followforefront of the burgeoning string band revival, alongside such acts ing in these parts, thanks in part to nonstop touring and records as Old Crow Medicine Show, like “Soup” and “Fire.” The Foghorn Stringband, Freight latter features assistance from Hoppers and, closer to home, members of String Cheese InSweet Sunny South. A song cident, the Motet, John on the soundtrack to “Cold Brown’s Body and more.

Mountain” seemed to cement Dozens of local concerts and their reputation and point to festival appearances have inbigger and better things. Untroduced the band to countexpectedly, they broke up, less new fans. Pherkad opens. leaving behind a recorded Afrobeatniks – one of output of just 30 songs.

Southwest Colorado’s faScanlan was always the vorite bands – now has a stugroup’s resident sage, pendio record that reinforces its ning songs like “Hallelujah,” live reputation. The nine“Little Bird of Heaven,” piece group will release its “Raven” and “Higher Rock,” debut album, “Wontanara,” bringing something new to at 6 p.m. Saturday at Mancos an old-time scene where Brewing. The 10-song record most tunes were traditional features longtime favorites readings of Appalachian like “Multiple Origamis” standards. The freedom of a alongside new tracks. While solo career meant Scanlan other enduring local acts Martha Scanlan returns to the Hank at 7:30 p.m., Fri., Feb. 22. could release albums filled have toiled in North Ameriwith her award-winning songs, whereas Reeltime records concan roots forms like rock, alt-country, bluegrass and blues, tained just two or three. “The West Was Burning” dropped in Afrobeatniks have built their music around West African 2007 and signaled Scanlan’s transition from old-time singer to rhythms, incorporating Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, reggae full-on Americana powerhouse. Comparisons to Gillian Welch and funk along the way. It’s quickly become one of my favorite were made by the music press. A sparse 2011 EP called “Tongue local albums, ranking alongside recordings by Lawn Chair Kings, River Stories” was next, followed by a second full-length record in Beautiful Loser Society, Badly Bent, Farmington Hill and Broke 2015, “The Shape of Things Gone Missing, the Shape of Things to Mountain Bluegrass Band. Saturday’s Mancos Brewery bash also Come.” By this time, she was collaborating with Amy Helm features music by Samba Galactica. A Durango release party is (daughter of the Band’s Levon Helm, who drummed on Scanlan’s sure to follow in coming weeks. solo debut) and members of the Decemberists and Black Prairie.

Auditions for the fourth annual Durango Voice, a fund-raiser Guitarist Jon Neufeld left Black Prairie to become Scanlan’s musifor Manna, take place from 7-10 p.m. Saturday at the Henry Strater cal partner, and they’ve been inseparable ever since.

Theatre. Local singers of all ages will compete for a chance to strut Scanlan’s new album, “The River and the Light,” travels further their stuff at the Durango Voice finals Sat., April 6, at the Hank. down the indie-rock road, with Neufeld’s electric guitars replacing The ACT hosts the multimedia event “Live: Road to the the acoustic instruments that once accompanied her. Don’t think Stage” at 7:30 p.m. tonight that incorporates aerial and circus it’s a blaring, rock & roll affair, though. Scanlan’s voice is barely a acts with short video documentaries. Ten artists are collaborating whisper at times, with the spooky guitar adding ambient backing to to tell their stories of how they get ready for a performance. Each her words. The duo returns to the Henry Strater Theatre at 7:30 artist’s act is preceded with video documentation highlighting p.m. Friday in the first KSUT concert of 2019. the behind-the-scenes stories about fantasy and fear, power and If you’re going to dodge avalanches and ski the steep and deep sadness, rehearsal and financial struggles, production and money, up in Telluride this weekend, you can also catch Grammy-winand hurdles and successes. Performers include RubiStarr & ning Latino band Ozomatli at the Sheridan Opera House at 9 Vanessa Sirois (Secret Circus Society); PorterBleu; Emma Boone; p.m. Friday. The Los Angeles group has been at the forefront of Cadence Croll; Piper Lang; Ayla Falk; Willow Lott; Jesse Shavel; the city’s contemporary Latin scene for nearly 25 years. and the event’s producer, Val Russell.

The Community Concert Hall hosts world-class jazz at 7:30 The San Juan Symphony’s Energy in Action season continues p.m. Wednesday, when Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown with “Fantasy and Fairy Tale,” featuring symphonic storyJazz Orchestra come to town. Delfeayo is one of the famous telling on an epic scale at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Community ConMarsalis brothers, alongside Branford, Wynton and Jason. A cert Hall. Familiar showpieces include Ravel’s “Mother Goose trombonist, bandleader and producer, he toured as a member of Suite” and “Tales of the Arabian Nights.” bands fronted by Ray Charles, Art Blakey and Abdullah Ibrahim.

Finally, Mancos’ Outlier Cellars, makers of Fenceline Ciders, is He’s produced records by his siblings, Branford & Wynton, Harry throwing a first anniversary party from 5-10 p.m. Friday. The event Connick Jr., and the soundtrack to Spike Lee’s “Mo Better Blues.” features free pizza, raffles, new ciders and music by the Crags.

The post-rock duo El Ten Eleven visits the Animas City Theatre at 10 p.m. Friday. Formed in the Silver Lake community of She’s the color of my heart, the color of my jeans? Email me at Los Angeles in 2002 by bassist and composer Kristian Dunn and chrisa@gobrainstorm.net. n

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Thursday21 Yoga for Good, proceeds go to Great Old Broads for Wilderness, 8-9 a.m., Pine Needle Dry Goods, 858 Main Ave., Suite 101.

“Bouncing Back from the 416 Fire: Building a Strong and Diversified Economy,” part of Local First’s annual member meeting, 8:45-11 a.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. Colorado High School State Ski Championship: Slalom Race, start at 9 a.m., Pandemonium, Purgatory Resort. www.purgatoryresort.com.

Here to Hear: Office Hour with Councilor Dick White, 9-10 a.m., downstairs at the Irish Embassy, 900 Main Ave.

ture Series, 7 p.m., Noble Hall at Fort Lewis College, Room 130.

“Live: Road to the Stage,” presented by Alpine Aerial Acrobatics, 7:30 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive.

“Widows” screening, 7:30 p.m., Sunflower Theatre in Cortez. www.sunflowertheatre.org.

Open Mic & Stand-Up, 8 p.m., El Rancho Tavern, 975 Main Ave. Karaoke, 8 p.m.-close, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 E. 2nd Ave. Plursday featuring Mountain Menace, 9 p.m.close, Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

​Baby Meetup with Durango Café au Play, 9:30-11:30 a.m., 2307 Columbine. durangocafeauplay.org.

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Baby Meetup, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Columbine House at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 419 San Juan Dr.

21st annual Dave Spencer Ski Classic, benefit event for Adaptive Sports Association, Feb. 22-24, Purgatory Resort. asadurango.com or 259-0374.

Office Hours with La Plata County Commissioner Julie Westendorff, 10-11:30 a.m., Ignacio Community Library.

Durango Early Bird Toastmasters, 7-8:30 a.m., LPEA, 45 Stewart St. 769-7615.

Colorado High School State Ski Championship: Classic Cross-Country Race, noon, all afternoon event, Durango Nordic Center.

“Doc Swords,” PTSD Social Club for Veterans, 4-6 p.m., VFW, 1550 Main Ave. Rob Webster performs, 5-7 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St. Tim Sullivan performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Sitting Meditation, 5:30-6:15 p.m., Durango Dharma Center, 1800 E. 3rd Ave. Celebrating Shanta’s Legacy – a Shanta Foundation Founder’s Tribute Event, 6-9 p.m., Powerhouse Science Center, 1333 Camino del Rio. www.shantafoun dation.org.

Pub Trivia, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Powerhouse Science Center, 1333 Camino del Rio. www.powsci.org.

Laugh Therapy, stand-up comedy open mic, sign up, 7 p.m., show starts, 8 p.m., Irish Embassy, 900 Main Ave. “When and How Did We Become So Divided?

Can We Ever Heal?” part of the Life Long Learning Lec-

Free yoga, 8:30-9:30 a.m., Lively Boutique, 809 Main Ave. Colorado High School State Ski Championship: Giant Slalom Race, starts at 9 a.m., Pandemonium, Purgatory Resort. www.purgatoryresort.com.

Zumba Gold, 9:30-10:15 a.m., La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. Free Lunch at Turtle Lake, featuring locally grown and wild harvested foods, 11:11 a.m.-2:22 p.m., Turtle Café, 848 E. 3rd Ave. 247-8395 or www.turtlelakerefuge.org.

“Decoding US-China Trade,” part of the Great Decisions International Affairs Discussion Program, 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m., Durango Public Library. www.fpa.org.

Colorado High School State Ski Championship: Skate Ski Race, starts at 12 noon, Durango Nordic Center.

Durango’s emergency responders, 4-9 p.m., Season’s Rotisserie & Grill, 764 Main Ave. www.seasonsofdurango.com or 382-9790.

PLACE: An Invitational Art Exhibit, featuring 25 artists, opening reception, 5-9 p.m., exhibit runs thru March 2, Studio & Gallery, 1027 Main Ave. Outlier Cellars’ One-Year Anniversary Party, featuring live music from the Crags, new ciders and more, 510 p.m., 141 S. Main St., Mancos.

Greg Ryder performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Open Mic 5:30-8 p.m., sign up 3-5 p.m.; Smiley Cafe, 1309 E. 3rd Ave. Sign up at 335-8929.

PAWS for Celebration, benefit for Lisa Parkers Puppies featuring live music by the Lisa Blue Trio, silent auction and more, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Durango Elks Lodge, 901 E. 2nd Ave. 769-2584.

Joel Racheff performs, 6 p.m., The Office, 699 Main Ave. “A Star is Born” screening, 6 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

Devin Scott performs, 6-9 p.m., DJ Hakan, 9 p.m.close, Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave. “Doubt: A Parable,” a drama by John Patrick Shanley, presented by Merely Players, 7 p.m., show also run Feb. 23, and 2 p.m., Feb. 24, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. An Evening with Martha Scanlan and Jon Neufeld, 7:30 p.m., Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave. www.henrystratertheatre.com.

Wild Country, 8 p.m.-midnight, Billy Goat Saloon, Gem Village.

El Ten Eleven with special guest the Missing Lynx, 10 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive. www.an imascitytheatre.com.

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STEAM Lab: Perler Bead Tops, for ages 5-12, 3:304:30 p.m., Durango Public Library.

The Pine Needle Langlauf, part of the Southwest Nordic Race Series, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Durango Nordic Center. www.durangonordic.org.

Spanish Speaking Parents & Littles Fridays, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Durango Café au Play, 1309 E. 3rd Ave., Room 201. durangocafeauplay.org.

10th annual Diversity Dialogue, hosted by the City of Durango’s Community Relations Commission, 8:45 a.m.-3 p.m., Student Union Ballroom, Fort Lewis College.

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Henry Stoy performs, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-Pierre Restaurant & Wine Bar, 601 Main Ave. VFW Indoor Flea Market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 1550 Main Ave. 247-0384.

Story Tellers featuring writer, educator, motivational speaker and poet Tanaya Winder, 11 a.m., Southern Ute Museum in Ignacio.

“I’m Not Running,” screened by National Theatre Live Productions, 11 a.m., also shows 1 p.m., April 7, Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr. www.animascitytheatre.com.

Aztec Steampunk Convention, 1-11 p.m., Aztec Community Center, 101 S. Park Ave., Aztec. www.steamers anddreamers.com.

DJ CodeStar, 2-4 p.m., the Beach at Purgatory. djcode star.com.

Adam Swanson performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Kirk James performs, 6-8 p.m., Dalton Ranch Patio.

“Doubt: A Parable,” a drama by John Patrick Shanley, presented by Merely Players, 7 p.m., show also run 2 p.m., Feb. 24, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. The Durango Voice: Blind Auditions, a fundraiser for Manna, 7 p.m., Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave. Comedy Cocktail open mic stand up, 8 p.m., Eno Wine Bar, 723 E. 2nd Ave.

A feast for the ears: Manna’s ‘Voice’ semi-finals What: The Durango Voice semi-finals, a benefit for Manna When: 7 p.m., Sat., Feb. 23 Where: Henry Strater Theatre Tickets: $36, available at www.henry stratertheatre.com Who will be The Durango Voice of 2019? Well, we’ll all have a better idea come Saturday, when 18 hopefuls face off at the Henry Stater Theatre in the semi-finals for the 4th annual event, a fund-raiser for Manna.

Much like the wildly popular show of the same name, The Durango Voice features four local judges listening in a blind audition format. Each judge will be allowed to “turn their chair” on three contestants, for a total of 12 singers who will advance to the finals in April.

“We have four amazing judges/coaches again this year and the level of contestants keeps raising the bar each year,” Durango Voice Producer/Director Elaine Chick said. “It’s going to be an exciting competition, and of course it will be benefiting Manna.”

Before competing in the semi-finals, the 12 finalists will work with their judge to hone their craft with “Doubt: A Parable,” a drama by John Patrick Shanley, presented by Merely Players, 2 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.

Sunday24 Snowmobile Fun Days, hosted by the Silverton Snowmobile Club, 10 a.m., Molas Lake Park.

Henry Stoy performs, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-Pierre Restaurant & Wine Bar, 601 Main Ave.

7-8:30 p.m., Animas Brewing Co., 1560 E. 2nd Ave. Contiki Party with the Aussies, 9 p.m.-close, Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

“Fantasy and Fairy Tale,” performance by San Juan Symphony, 3 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College. www.durangoconcerts.com.

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Blue Moon Ramblers, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

“Decoding U.S.-China Trade,” part of the Great Decisions discussion series, 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m., Durango Public Library. www.lwvlaplata.org.

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Terry Rickard performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

DJ Affex, 9 p.m.-close, Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave. Euforquestra with special guest Pherkad, 9 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive.

a month of professional voice coaching.

Then, they will return to the Hank’s stage to battle it out for the finals, Sat., April 6.

From there, three winners will be crowned “The Durango Voice,” which includes gift certificates, prizes and singing engagements around town.

Proceeds from The Durango Voice support the efforts and mission of Manna, a local nonprofit that serves more than 60,000 meals a year. In addition to feeding the community’s hungry, it also provides job training through its culinary arts program and helps people become more self-sufficient with items such as clothing vouchers, transit passes, food bank referrals, prescriptions and emergency food boxes. Manna also provides backpacks of weekend meals for area school children in need and in the summer, produces more than 2,000 pounds from its on-site garden. Produce from the garden is used in Manna’s kitchen and is also given away to those in need at the Manna Market.

Tickets are on sale now at: henrystratertheatre.com. For more info. on Manna, go to www.mannasoupkitchen.org.

Yoga Storytime, 9:30-10:45 a.m., Smiley Building Studio 10, 1309 E. 3rd Ave. Watch Your Step class, 10:15 a.m., Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.

Rotary Club of Durango, presentation from Holly Zink with Sunnyside Meats, 6 p.m., Strater Hotel. 385-7899.

Super Ted’s Super Trivia, 6:12 p.m., Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave.

Joel Racheff performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle.

Traditional Irish Music Jam, 12:30-4 p.m., Irish Embassy, 900 Main Ave. “Antony & Cleopatra,” presented by National Theatre Live Productions, 1 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr. www.animascitytheatre.com.

Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Blondies in Cortez.

Rob Webster performs, 7 p.m., The Office, 699 Main.

Books & Brews, hosted by the Durango Public Library,

“Beyond the Chlorophyll: How Life in the Soil Influences Plant Growth in Changing Climates,” presentation by Michael Remke, 6:30-8 p.m., Center for Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, Lyceum Room.

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meets, 5:30-7 p.m., Durango Rec Center. www.localfirst.org.

from p. 19 The Trivia Factory, hosted by Ben Bernstein, 6:30-8:30 p.m., The Roost, 128 E. College Dr. Leah Orlikowski performs, 7 p.m., The Office, 699 Main Ave. “Spare No Pains: Zebulon Pike’s Adventures in the Rocky Mountains,” 7 p.m., Noble Hall at Fort Lewis College, Room 130. 247-7456.

Latin Social Nights, 8-11 p.m., Wild Horse Saloon, 601 E. 2nd Ave. 375-2568.

Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.-close, Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Wednesday27 14th annual Durango Independent Film Festival, Feb. 27-March 3, screenings around Durango. 375-7779 or www.durangofilm.org.

Beneficial Electrification, part of LPEA’s free community education series, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., La Plata Electric Association headquarters. Register at 247-5786 or dmay@lpea.coop.

Free Trauma Conscious Yoga for Veterans and Families, noon-1 p.m., Elks Lodge, 901 E. 2nd Ave.

Thank the Veterans potluck, Peter Neds and Glenn Keefe perform, 5:30-8:30 p.m., VFW, 1550 Main. 828-7777.

Terry Rickard performs, 6 p.m., The Office, 699 Main.

Loki Moon – Raw Experiments performs, 6-8 p.m., Eno Wine Bar, 723 E. 2nd Ave.

a.m., Saturdays and Sundays, Durango Mountain Institute.

Karaoke, 8 p.m., Thur-Sun, 8th Ave. Tavern, 509 E 8th Ave.

Upcoming Bonita Peak Mining District Community Advisory Group meets, 3-6 p.m., Feb. 28, Durango Rec Center. www.bonitapeakcap.org.

Joint Public Hearing on the Silverton Area Trails Plan, with the Silverton Town Board and San Juan County Board of Commissioners, 6:30 p.m., Silverton Town Hall.

The 416 Fire and Its Effects on Water and Forest with Mountain Studies Institute and San Juan National Forest, 6:30 p.m., Feb. 28, Animas Valley Grange Hall, 7271 CR 203. 385-5298.

Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College. www.durangoconcerts.com.

KDUR’s 18th annual Furniture as Art Auction, 7 p.m., Feb. 28, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.

Karaoke with Crazy Charlie, 8 p.m.-close, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 E. 2nd Ave.

Thee Fearless Peasants perform, 5:30 p.m., March 1, Irish Embassy, 900 Main Ave.

Ongoing

Women of Resolution presents a film featuring four women in sanctuary in Colorado, 7-9 p.m., March 1, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 419 San Juan Dr.

Art exhibit and silent auction featuring National Art Honor Society students, thru Feb. 28, Durango Public Library.

“Riders of the West: Portraits from Indian Rodeo,” exhibit runs thru Feb. 28, Southern Ute Museum, 503 Ouray Drive. www.southernutemuseum.org.

“Sands of Oman” photography by Margy Dudley, thru March 9, DAC Friends of the Arts Gallery, 802 E. 2nd Ave.

Greg Ryder performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

After-school program, 4:15-5:15 p.m. Wednesdays, Mancos Library.

Durango Creative District Shared Vision Group

Free Morning Yoga with YogaDurango, 8:30-9:30

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In December 1915, the California city of San Diego was suffering from a draught.

City officials hired a professional “moisture accelerator” named Charles Hatfield, who promised to make it rain. Soon Hatfield was shooting explosions of a secret blend of chemicals into the sky from the top of a tower. The results were quick. A deluge began in early January of 1916 and persisted for weeks.

Thirty inches of rain fell, causing floods that damaged the local infrastructure. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned, Aries: when you ask for what you want and need, specify exactly how much you want and need. Don’t make an openended request that could bring you too much of a good thing.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges are brothers born to parents who were also actors.

When they were growing up, they already had aspirations to follow in their mom’s and dad’s footsteps. From an early age, they summoned a resourceful approach to attracting an audience. Now and then they would start a pretend fight in a store’s parking lot. When a big enough crowd had gathered to observe their shenanigans, they would suddenly break off from their faux struggle, grab their guitars from their truck, and begin playing music. In the coming weeks, I hope you’ll be equally ingenious as you brainstorm about ways to expand your outreach.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to Edward Barnard’s book New York City Trees, a quarter of the city is shaded by its 5.2 million trees. In other words, one of the most densely populated, frantically active places on the planet has a rich collection of oxygen-generating greenery. There’s even a virgin forest at the upper tip of Manhattan, as well as five botanical gardens and the 843-acre Central Park. Let’s use all this bounty-amidstthe-bustle as a symbol of what you should strive to foster in the coming weeks: refreshing lushness and grace interspersed throughout your busy, hustling rhythm.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a poet myself, I regard good poetry as highly useful. It can nudge us free of our habitual thoughts and provoke us to see the world in ways we’ve never imagined. On the other hand, it’s not useful in the same way that food and water and sleep are. Most people don’t get sick if they are deprived of poetry. But I want to bring your attention to a poem that is serving a very practical purpose in addition to its inspirational function. Simon Armitage’s poem “In Praise of Air” is on display in an outdoor plaza at Sheffield

University. The material it’s printed on is designed to literally remove a potent pollutant from the atmosphere. And what does this have to do with you? I suspect that in the coming weeks you will have an extra capacity to generate blessings that are like Armitage’s poem: useful in both practical and inspirational ways.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1979, psychologist Dorothy Tennov published her book Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love. She defined her newly coined word “limerence” as a state of adoration that may generate intense, euphoric and obsessive feelings for another person. Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Leos are most likely to be visited by this disposition throughout 2019.

And you’ll be especially prone to it in the coming weeks. Will that be a good thing or a disruptive thing? It all depends on how determined you are to regard it as a blessing, have fun with it and enjoy it regardless of whether or not your feelings are reciprocated. I advise you to enjoy the hell out of it!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Based in Switzerland, Nestle is the largest food company in the world. Yet it pays just $200 per year to the state of Michigan for the right to suck up 400 million gallons of groundwater, which it bottles and sells at a profit. I nominate this vignette to be your cautionary tale in the coming weeks. How? 1. Make damned sure you are being fairly compensated for your offerings. 2. Don’t allow huge, impersonal forces to exploit your resources. 3.

Be tough and discerning, not lax and naïve, as you negotiate deals.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Sixteenth-century Italian artist Daniele da Volterra wasn’t very famous for his own painting and sculpture. The work for which we remember him today is the alterations he made to Michelangelo’s giant fresco “The Last Judgment,” which spreads across an entire wall in the Sistine Chapel. After Michelangelo died, the Catholic Church hired da Volterra to “fix” the scandalous aspects of the people depicted in the master’s work. He painted clothes and leaves over the originals’ genitalia and derrieres. In accordance with astrological omens, I propose that we make da Volterra your anti-role model for the coming weeks. Don’t be like him. Don’t engage in cover-ups, censorship or camouflage. Instead, specialize in the opposite: revelations, unmaskings and expositions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What is the quality of your access to life’s basic necessities?

How well do you fulfill your need for good food and drink, effective exercise, deep sleep, thorough relaxation, mental stimulation, soulful intimacy, a sense of meaningfulness,

nourishing beauty and rich feelings? I bring these questions to your attention, Scorpio, because the rest of 2019 will be an excellent time for you to fine-tune and expand your relationships with these fundamental blessings. And now is an excellent time to intensify your efforts.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Michael Jackson’s 1982 song “Beat It” climbed to No. 3 on the record-sales charts in Australia. On the other hand, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s 1984 parody of Jackson’s tune, “Eat It,” reached No. 1 on the same charts. Let’s use this twist as a metaphor that’s a good fit for your life in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you may find that a stand-in or substitute or imitation will be more successful than the original. And that will be auspicious!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Space Needle in Seattle is 605 feet high and 138 feet wide: a tall and narrow tower. Near the top is a round restaurant that makes one complete rotation every 47 minutes. Although this part of the structure weighs 125 tons, for many years its motion was propelled by a mere 1.5 horsepower motor. I think you will have a comparable power at your disposal in the coming weeks: an ability to cause major movement with a compact output of energy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1941, the Ford automobile company created a “biological car.” Among its components were “bioplastics” composed of soybeans, hemp, flax, wood pulp and cotton. It weighed a thousand pounds less than a comparable car made of metal. This breakthrough possibility never fully matured, however. It was overshadowed by newly abundant plastics made from petrochemicals. I suspect that you Aquarians are at a phase with a resemblance to the biological car. Your good idea is promising but unripe. I hope you’ll spend the coming weeks devoting practical energy to developing it. (P.S. There’s a difference between you and your personal equivalent of the biological car: little competition.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Cartographers of Old Europe sometimes drew pictures of strange beasts in the uncharted regions of their maps.

These were warnings to travelers that such areas might harbor unknown risks, like dangerous animals. One famous map of the Indian Ocean shows an image of a sea monster lurking, as if waiting to prey on sailors traveling through its territory. If I were going to create a map of the frontier you’re now headed for, Pisces, I would fill it with mythic beasts of a more benevolent variety, like magic unicorns, good fairies and wise centaurs.

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Lost/Found Found Ski Helmet and Goggles Found ski helmet and goggles just south of Purgatory on Hwy 550 on Wednesday 1/30/19. Call 749-1589 to identify.

Announcements The Perfect Gift for your favorite dirtbag. Literature from Durango’s own Benighted Publications. The Climbing Zine, The Great American Dirtbags, American Climber, Climbing Out of Bed and Graduating From College Me are available at: Maria’s Bookshop, Pine Needle Mountaineering, the Sky Store, or on the interweb at www.climbingzine.com.

Wanted Turn Vehicles, Copper, Alum, Etc. Into Cash! at RJ Metal Recycle, also free appliance and other metal drop off. 970-259-3494.

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Chief Engineer The Elevation Hotel & Spa on Mt. Crested Butte is looking to hire a full time, year round Chief Engineer. Benefits include health insurance, paid time off, a winter ski season pass and 25% off hotel services. Possible onsite housing available for the right candidate. Must be able to work weekends and holidays. Apply online at www.boxerproperty.com/careers.

Phlebotomy Certifications (Blood Drawing) $350, Farmington, March 16-17, sw phlebotomy.net 505-410-7889 Seeking an Art Tutor Durango Academic Coaching is seeking to hire an art teacher who can work one on one with students interested in furthering their art skills and fostering their passion for the arts. sarah@duran goacademiccoaching.com

Classes/Workshops Back Bending Workshop with Props!

Back bends are nature’s mood elevators!

With Kathy Curran. Saturday, February 23, 9-noon drop ins welcome! Smiley Building, Room #32. 259-4794. www.4corner syoga.com

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Massage by Meg Bush 30, 60 & 90 min. Gift certs. avail. Meg Bush, LMT 970-759-0199. massageintervention.life Voted best massage in Durango 2018.

Couples, sauna, outdoor shower, cupping. Reviews on FB + Yelp. 970-9032984.

Massage with Kathryn 20+ years experience offering a fusion of esalen style, deep tissue massage with therapeutic stretching & Acutonics. New clients receive $5 off first session. To schedule appt. call 970-201-3373.

Harmony Organizing and Cleaning Services Home and office 970-403-6192.

Advanced Duct Cleaning Air duct cleaning specializing in dryer vents. Improves indoor air quality; reduces dust and allergens, energy bills and

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‘The Bill Murray Stories’ Good news - it turns out that Bill Murray is even cooler in real life – Lainie Maxson Isuzu Trooper 92 Isuzu Trooper LS 4WD 180,000 miles, new battery, new tires, including spare. Needs front axle & brake pads. $900 OBO 970-769-7200.

Reruns Home Furnishings Winter sales in both stores – Custommade midcentury, maple sideboard; rustic & Mission style consoles; coffee tables and lots of cool art, pottery and glass art.

New cool stuff and daily markdowns. 572 E. 6th Ave. 385-7336.

RoommateWanted RealEstate Radon Services Free radon testing and consultation.

Call Colorado Radon Abatement and Detection for details. 970- 946-1618.

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Free Intro to Pain Care Yoga Practices to manage chronic pain through gentle yoga. Tues. Feb. 26, 4 pm at Yogadurango. Contact Lynn for details: 799-5829.

Mommy and Me Dance Class Come join the fun! Now registering for classes. Call 970-749-6456. mom myandmedance.com.

Large Dog Wheels Wanted My name is Otis, I’m 12 and 110 lbs.

My legs aren’t working as well as they used to so I’m looking for some wheels. If you have a big dog, wheel rig that you no longer need, please call my mom @ 970903-0005. Thank you.

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Rustic Wide Board Dining Table New rustic contemporary virgin white pine wide board table and chairs, very unique, 22” wide boards, table 8’ x 3.5’, 10 chairs, 3000. Also 12’ table and 14 chairs 4000. 920-421-4644.

Rossignol Soul 7 Skis 163 cm, 106 cm under foot. Red and black 2014s. Drilled twice but skied minimally. They’re hole-y but will still work for the right person/set up. $50 OBO. Text for pics: 970-749-2495.

Roommate Wanted Female only 1 BR avail. Share great mobile home, Elmores Corner. Clean, responsible, quiet. No smkr, pets, partiers. $550 incl. util., plus dep. 970-553-1216.

CommunityService Looking to Give Back?

4 the Children is seeking volunteers to advocate for children and families in La Plata County. Duties include reuniting families through safe exchange and parenting time supervision. Join the 4TC Family today! Contact Alanda Martin at alandam@4tc.org or 970-259-0310.

Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition and Rocky Mountain Health Plans want to hear from you! Members of Health First Colorado (Medicaid), including parents are asked to come give their feedback on their experiences with Behavior Health Services & Substance Abuse Treatment in a confidential group setting and will receive a small gift in exchange of your time. Participants will be asked to sign a confidentiality statement and for their member ID# to keep identifying information in private. The meeting will be Wed, Feb 27, 2-4pm, along a bus line, & light snacks provided. The location will be given upon registration to 970-248-5020 or emailing RAEsupport@rmhp.org.

AskRachel Interesting fact: Hypoallergenic dog breeds might be a myth. Looks like allergens depend more on the individual dog than the breed. Stuff it, Labradoodles.

Dear Rachel, There must be a use for all of the fur that comes off of my shedding dogs. It feels like such a waste to throw it all away. In this age of sustainability and up-cycling, isn’t there some hipster weaving dog fur into gloves for orphan children? Or fleece linings for jackets purchased by tourists? Something, anything at all to make the world a better place?

– Hair-Brain Dear Furby, As a kid, I justified all kinds of small-time littering by telling myself that the birds would use it. Threads from shirts, fur from my dogs, baby teeth from neighborhood brawls. I was certain some bird somewhere would put it in a nest. But the birds never touched it. It all just piled up where it blew against the backyard fence. So if someone invents dog-wool weaving, have I got the raw supplies for them. And, weirdly enough, some teeth to use as buttons.

– Your million-dollar idea, Rachel Dear Rachel, My parents recently purchased their retirement home in the desert. It’s pretty sweet, and the surrounding areas almost guarantee I’ll visit them more than ever before. But their rural water smells like hot rotten eggs. All the time.

Brushing my teeth is the pits. And when I’m showering and I accidentally get some in my mouth? Dear God. I’m wondering, how many times must I visit as a dutiful child before I start staying in the yard with my tent and my own water?

– Sulfur So Good Dear Suckup, Zero times. You have every right as a grown-ass adult not to smell like the ass end of a hot springs. The human nostril can acclimate to amazing levels of stank, and your parents’ old sniffers probably don’t notice anymore.

But you don’t want to acclimate to stench like that.

Think of the effect on your psyche. It’s time to stick up for yourself.

– She who smelt it, Rachel

Dear Rachel, What is dry cleaning, exactly? I mean besides frigging magic, of course. I used to wash all my dress shirts in the washing machine, until one of my female friends insisted I take my nicer clothes to the cleaners. I have never felt nicer than wearing these shirts. Did you know that placket fronts can be re-flattened after you wear them? I, for one, did not know this. I had a question about the eco-friendliness of dry cleaning, but now I’m just happy that no one would guess I buy these clothes at the thrift store.

- Take Me to the Cleaners

Back on top.

Email Rachel at telegraph@durangotelegraph.com Dear Eco-warrior, Dry cleaning is probably the reason that fish are dying in our streams and parents think it’s a good idea to skip vaccinating their kids. There’s no way that a shirt coming out that clean, without the use of water, is anything but a deal with Satan himself. But I agree with you 100 percent that looking that fine is worth whatever price I have to pay. Besides, if I wash my dog-wool sweaters in the washing machine, the house will smell for a week.

– Pick up by Wednesday, Rachel

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