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Trump puts a horse head in the Ayatollah’s bed By Paul Danish

t’s easy to over-think Trump’s motives in greasing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. What he really did was plant a horse head in Ayatollah Khamenei’s bed. In Mario Puzo’s classic novel, The Godfather, mafia don Vito Corleone intimidates a powerful Hollywood mogul by having a lieutenant kill the mogul’s thoroughbred racehorse, his most prized possession, and place the horse’s severed head in the mogul’s bed while he’s asleep. The message was “we can get you, you are vulnerable” and “don’t fight with us unless you are prepared to put I

everything you have and value at risk.” That’s pretty much the message Trump sent by assassinating Soleimani. The late general, said by some to be the second most powerful man in the Islamic Republic, was an intimate friend of Khamenei — who, ironically, used to call him “a living martyr.” Soleimani was the Islamic sword with which the Ayatollah intended to project — and was projecting — Iran’s and Shia Islam’s power from Tehran to the Mediterranean and beyond. In other words he was Khamenei’s thoroughbred. And Trump offed him. Without fuss, bother or warning. Bang dead. The message was the same as Vito Corleone’s to the mogul: You are vulJANUARY 16, 2020

nerable. Don’t mess with us unless you are prepared to put everything you value at risk. Trump’s comments after the attack also laid down a simple but blindingly bright red line. The Iranian action that prompted the assassination of Soleimani was the killing of an American in a rocket attack by an Iranian-sponsored Shiite militia. Up until then, the U.S. had chosen to ignore Iranian attacks on American allies — like last year’s attack on Saudi oil infrastructure and tankers — and confined its retaliation for rocket attacks on its own bases in Syria and Iraq to air strikes on the Iraniansurrogate Shiite militias that carried them out. But Trump laid down a new redline: Kill an American, even one, and the United States will target the things you value most highly. Like Soleimani. see DANISH PLAN Page 6

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Trump also said he had a list of 52 sent 100 Marines and a couple of heliIranian targets picked out — one for copter gun-ships). each of the 52 American diplomats The threat Soleimani posed was taken hostage during the Nov. 4, 1979 persistant, ongoing, chronic, a clear and take-over of the American embassy in present danger — take your pick. That Tehran — including some of “cultural alone was sufficient reason to kill him. significance.” One of the reasons Democrats Progressives were horrified by the hate Trump is that they believe he lies targets of “cultural significance” refera lot. Which he does, in the same way ence, but the truth is the most “culturthe guy selling weight-loss pills in ally significant” targets on the list aren’t internet infomercials lies. Most of it is the ruins at Persepolis or even self-promoting puffery. Democrats Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s tomb. believe Trump’s habitual hyperbola is a They’re Iran’s oil refineries. Somewhat corrupt assault on the integrity of the surprisingly, English lanwhile Iran has guage and the massive oil commonly reserves, it has understood Trump’s habitual hyperbola is a meaning of limited refining capacity and is a They, on corrupt assault on the integrity words. net importer of the other hand, gasoline. Its gasoof the English language and the think of themline supply has selves as the commonly understood meaning party of truth been squeezed by Trump’s sancmade manifest of words. They ... think of tions. The recent, through linguisand ongoing, tic precision. themselves as the part of truth protests in Iran So what are made manifest through were triggered by we to make of the regime’s decithe fact that on linguistic precision. sion to slap a Election Night 50% price 2016, after it increase on gasobecame clear line and impose gas rationing. that Trump won the election, the Since the Soleimani hit, “unidentiDemocrats, the party that speaks fied aircraft” (probably ours) have been truth to power, declared themselves bombing those militias nightly. The “The Resistance?” At the time I militias have aimed a few rocket volleys thought it was a graceless thing to at American bases in response, causing say; the losers in American elections damage, but not causing any American usually declare themselves “the loyal casualties, interestingly enough. Just opposition.” (An exception occurred lucky maybe. Coincidence maybe. Or in 1860, with unwelcome consequencmaybe a new-found prudence. es.) Democrats are making a big deal But in the three-plus years since over Trump’s unsubstantiated claim the Democrats rebranded themselves as that Soleimani was plotting “immiThe Resistance they’ve behaved like it nent” attacks on four U.S. embassies. was more than a metaphor, launching a But whether the latest plots of the non-stop campaign to oust Trump late Soleimani targeted four U.S. from office that stretches from the embassies or 40 or none and whether Steele Dossier, paid for by the Clinton the threat was “imminent” (whatever campaign, to the flaccid articles of that means) is beside the point. We impeachment. know Soleimani plotted, and his surTrump said he didn’t tell the rogates executed, an attack on one Democrats in Congress he intended to U.S. embassy, the one in Baghdad that kill Soleimani because they’d leak it. Given their past performance, he has occurred on Dec. 31 when the excitample reason not to trust them and to able boys of the Iranian-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah militia tried to take no longer take the loyalty of the current “loyal opposition” as a given. over the place in an escapade reminisThis opinion column does not necescent of the takeover of the Tehran sarily reflect the views of Boulder embassy in 1979. (They decided it Weekly. wasn’t such a good idea after Trump

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Congress recently passed the U.S. Mexico Canada Trade Agreement (aka NAFTA 2.0). Thanks to efforts by local, state and national labor unions, environmental organizations and consumer protection groups, including our own Colorado Coalition for Fair Trade, the outcome is better than both the original and the 2018 revision signed by Trump. While NAFTA 2.0 does reflect a marginal improvement, it is still far from a good trade agreement. Perhaps the most important improvement is elimination of corporations’ ability to sue nations in private international tribunals in order to negate domestic laws protecting the public, workers and the environment from corporate neglect and abuse. However, there is one huge exception. Several big U.S. oil corporations were exempted, so they can still sue Mexico for passing laws protecting Mexican citizens and their local environment from predation by fossil fuel giants. This exemption plus the agreement’s failure to mention, much less address, climate change, its failure to significantly improve inadequate environmental protections and a notable failure to eliminate provisions that enable corporate challenges to local environmental regulations led most environmental organizations to oppose the agreement. Another important change was the insertion of language strengthenBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Most of us want to see a future free from fossil fuels. That’s a given. How we get there is another matter. How we wrestle with the oil and gas industry elephant in the room is key. They hold political sway. They also hold a key scientific advantage: beneath the surface where oil and gas fields exist, temperatures in the rock range between 300 and 700 degrees Fahrenheit. Why is that an advantage? Because of the co-produced water which comes to the surface along with the oil and gas extracted. The problem is, the 25 billion barrels of co-produced water across our country, water hot enough to drive geothermal turbines, is discarded and not harnessed for its energy potential. According to university studies conducted in Texas, there is enough co-produced water in coastal Texas and Louisiana to run all power plants in Texas. That is the magnitude of what I am talking about. Colorado? How about putting a huge dent in the power requirements for Tri-State electric from all the co-produced water from oil and gas wells across Colorado? Paul Brown’s article “Politicians, not markets, slow new energy dawn” (Re: Boulderganic, Jan. 2, 2020) points out “there have to be positive policies from governments to switch from fossil fuels.” While working at the Department of Energy’s Golden Field Office for Renewable Energy, I was witness to the best of those policies. One of the technologies funded there develops abundant super-hot water that is traditionally discarded by the oil industry in the Texas Permian Basin and in the geological formation running between Eastern Texas and Western Louisiana. How do we expand this effort? Start by providing the right incentives in Colorado and nationwide, to make the industry do something environmentally responsible that they’ve avoided. Co-produced water has always been treated like a pain in the ass by them. It’s up to us to make them see the error in their ways of discarding the fluid (reinjecting it into the ground, sending it to cooling ponds, etc). The fluid often has a high salinity and/or heavy metals I

content. In the DOE-funded efforts, when geothermal technology is incorporated, thermally driven processes, such as forward osmosis, are utilized to purify the water, which after cooling can be used for irrigation or industrial uses. In the process, electricity is generated to power not only oil and gas rigs nearby (instead of using fossil fuels to do the work), but the energy generated is sent to the power grid. Bottom line: Less fossil fuel is burned to meet our energy needs. When oil and gas at the well dries up, hot rock underground will remain. With naturally occurring or injected water, oil and gas companies will continue to have a clean power reservoir to exploit. With all the tax breaks the industry has received, no tax breaks have gone for such a venture. It is time that changes. Since those of us who champion renewable energy sources have been so busy bashing the oil and gas industry, we’ve not taken notice of this “loophole” in thinking. It is time for a paradigm shift on both sides of this issue. With the right tax policies, maybe we can determine how much petrol is being used, versus how much super-heated water is utilized to meet our power requirements. How much are we all willing to sacrifice to make this work? Pete Simon/Arvada

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Senator Cory Gardner is up for re-election. Time to watch his impeachment vote. Anyone who thinks this careless president is “OK” should have his funding checked. Is Gardner reaping the benefits of Trump’s changing our Environmental Protection Agency to Environmental Destruction Agency, for instance? Something to consider in Colorado with both energy industry and tourism: dirty air and dirty water are cheaper for the bottom line. Who funds Gardner? Most of all, does Gardner think a president is above the law? What will the Senate trial’s new witnesses provide for facts, if the Republican-heavy U.S. Senate actually fulfills its duty and has a trial? Watch Gardner’s impeachment vote. Help protect our democracy and freedom of all kinds. If he votes that President Trump is “OK,” replace Gardner with his challenger, come election time. Lynn Rudmin Chong/via internet BOULDER WEEKLY

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ince taking office nearly three years ago, President Donald Trump and his administration have been steadily undermining some of the nation’s key environmental protections, threatening to exacerbate the effects of climate change on communities and ecosystems around the country. They took it one step further on Thursday, Jan. 9, by announcing potential changes to the nation’s foundational environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Unsurprisingly, the proposed changes caught the ire of environmental lawyers, conservation activists and some lawmakers around the nation as NEPA has guided almost every major infrastructure and construction project — airports, highways, bridges and pipelines — for the last 50 years. The proposed changes are particularly concerning for those in the West, as it could weaken environmental review for activities on public lands such as grazing, wildlife management and fossil fuel development. “We knew there was a prospect that NEPA was in the crosshairs the moment that Trump won the White House in November 2016,” says Erik SchlenkerGoodrich from the Western Environmental Law Center based in Taos, New Mexico. “Bottom line, the proposal is reckless because it would allow the federal government to stick its head in the stand

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and essentially hide the consequences, the true magnitude of federal government action from the public.” NEPA was first created by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and passed into law by Richard Nixon in 1970. It’s remained largely untouched since. In its passing, NEPA established a national framework that ensures all government agencies consider the environment before undertaking federal action, mostly through a review process that includes Environmental Impact Statements and Assessments. It requires agencies consider indirect impacts, transparency through draft documents and public comments and participation. Trump announced the proposed changes at the White House, surrounded by industry leaders, trade and trucking unions. The group included Jennifer Houston, president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association based in Centennial, and Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, among others. Proponents of the changes have argued the law is in need of updating, as many federal projects have been bogged down “by an outrageously slow and burdensome federal approval process,” according to Trump, as a result of a “dysfunctional bureaucratic system.” The changes, he explained, would expedite major infrasee NEPA Page 12

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structure projects, a key priority of the Trump administration. “If they’re so concerned about infrastructure investment, why is it that the Trump administration has proven utterly incapable of advancing any kind of infrastructure policy beyond gutting environmental rules?” Schlenker-Goodrich counters. “It’s revealing. It’s essentially a concession that they really do not care about infrastructure. What they do care about is paying back their supporters within the fossil fuel industry and on Wall Street.” On the heels of Trump’s energy dominance policy, withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, controversial rollbacks of national monument designations, loosening regulations on off-shore drilling and weakening methane emission regulations, to name a few, the NEPA proposal is especially concerning in light of the climate crisis. “The NEPA rules in some respects are showing their age,” Schlenker-Goodrich concedes. “But improvements [shouldn’t be] essentially getting rid of all the best components of the NEPA regulations. The way to improve NEPA is to, in fact, strengthen the core requirements. ... If they wanted to improve the rules, they would embrace robust analysis of climate impacts.” The proposed changes would significantly alter the environmental review process by instituting strict deadlines of no more than two years; weaken the consideration of alternatives clause; allow for greater industry involvement in determining environmental impacts; and cut out the consideration of climate change altogether. In some cases, these reviews could no longer be required. All of which could make it more difficult to legally challenge largescale projects in the courts, which have traditionally sided with conservation groups that sue the federal government over non-compliance with NEPA. For example, the Western Environmental Law Center has used NEPA to successfully combat several large-scale oil and gas projects in the West recently, arguing that Trump’s energy dominance policy doesn’t appropriately account for climate change.

“The Trump administration, because they have been so hostile to the climate crisis, has been approving and defending all oil and gas decisions by giving short shrift to climate analysis,” Schlenker-Goodrich says. “If these rules are finalized, those cases are more difficult [to win] by virtue of making it more difficult to contend that there are very clear requirements” to approve projects. The proposed regulations also nix the requirement to consider the combined impacts of all projects in a given area or what is known as the “cumulative effects analysis.” This could have dire consequences for minority and low-income communities, which already experience higher levels of air and chemical pollution according to the EPA. (The residents of Denver’s Elyria, Swansea, Globeville and Chaffee Park neighborhoods, among others, used NEPA to push back against the current expansion of I-70 through the city.) It could also severely impact those living near oil and gas developments, where each project would be considered independently, regardless of cumulative emissions and hazardous air pollutants being released. All of this leads to decreased public scrutiny and participation, SchlenkerGoodrich argues. “If you’re not fully disclosing impacts, you’re not robustly considering alternatives, then you are undermining public involvement,” he says. The proposed changes cut the public out of the process, says Talasi Brooks, the staff attorney for Western Watersheds Project, a conservation group focused around education, public policy and legal advocacy of watersheds and wildlife in the West. “It’s essentially cutting out the broader public in natural resource decisions and really getting rid of some of the environmental considerations that have typically guided decisions,” she says. Western Watersheds is particularly concerned about how the proposed changes will affect wildlife management in the West, everything from grazing permits to vegetation treatment projects to predator control plans, which could in turn increase the fire risk in the already arid Western climate. “Cutting the public out of these environmental reviews and eliminat-

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ing some of the environmental concerns that are supposed to spur deeper analysis is a serious problem,” Brooks says. For many, the proposed NEPA changes only add to a long series of actions taken by the Trump administration to reduce government transparency and cut out the public from major decisions. For example, the Department of the Interior (DOI) has gutted land management plans aimed at protecting the greater sagegrouse and sagebrush habitat, and it’s pushed through oil and gas leasing on public land with decreased public input. Weakening NEPA is just another egregious step under Secretary Bernhardt to rollback environmental protections in favor of industry interests. “The Interior Department in particular, they’ve really been doing kind of death by a thousand cuts when it comes to public participation,” says Jesse Prentice-Dunn, policy director at the Center for Western Priorities (CWP) based in Denver. “Under Bernhardt, one, the Interior Department is systematically looking for ways to suppress public input, so [for instance] eliminating certain public comment periods, sidelining advisory committees. And then, second, when the Interior Department does get public comment and they oppose a proposal, that’s largely ignored.” A new analysis from CWP reveals that in eight out of 10 recent major policy proposals, the DOI moved forward with the changes despite widespread opposition (as much as 95% of public comments). “What this shows is that if you’ve got money, if you’ve got lobbyists, if you’re an extractive industry, then your comment means a hell of a lot more than a general member of the public,” Prentice-Dunn says. “And that’s been true for the last three years.” Bernhardt’s previous work as a lobbyist with strong industry ties is also a matter of concern. Before joining the Trump administration, Bernhardt worked for Denver-based law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck (BHFS) representing fossil fuel and other extraction companies that often opposed NEPA review. “When you fill your cabinet with the very lobbyists who have worked for the majority of their career trying to undermine this 50-year-old bedBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

rock environmental law it raises a lot of questions about essentially what the intent is and then also what the outcome [will be],” says Jayson O’Neill with Western Values Project (WVP), a watchdog group based in Montana that focuses on special interests groups and public lands. WVP has documented more than 10 cases where former and current clients of BHFS will benefit from the proposed changes to NEPA, including the Jordan Cove pipeline project, which would transport natural gas from Western Colorado for export out of Oregon. “These are complex issues in a complex world that to arbitrarily say that you can’t take the time to study the impacts and the long-term ramifications of these multimillion, if not billion, dollar projects is short-sighted,” O’Neill says. “If we’re going to have this discussion about revisions to America’s bedrock environmental law, we should have those discussions in the open, in the public and really with the consideration of Congress, who originally passed it.” A few Democrats have publicly expressed their concern about the proposed changes, but by and large, with Trump’s pending impeachment trial and escalation of tensions with Iran, the news of NEPA changes seem to have gotten lost in the shuffle for most members of Congress. It’s safe to say that if these regulations are finalized as written, they will be immediately challenged in court by a variety of environmental organizations and even states, especially those with aggressive climate commitments. Before it comes to that, however, the proposed changes to NEPA are open for public comment until March 10 and the CEQ is holding public hearings around the country, including at the EPA Region 8 headquarters in Denver on Feb. 11. Whether or not the Trump administration considers public comments opposing the changes is yet to be seen. “It’s still worth raising your voice, making a comment,” Prentice-Dunn says. “But I think in addition to raising [concerns] in the formal comment period, talk to your representatives, talk to your senators. This is still, at the end of the day, a democracy and action counts.” I

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Guillory joins six other formerly incarcerated people to share their stories as part of Motus Theater’s newest project, JustUs: Stories From the Frontlines of the Criminal Justice System. Brandon Wainwright lost a full-ride scholarship to college after, homeless and desperate, he was charged with robbery. Cierra Brock spent time in jail after unknowingly taking over someone else’s slot machine at a casino (a crime in Colorado). Brian Lynch was arrested during a traffic stop for speeding, while officers filmed the whole thing, “like we were some trophy animals he caught,” he says in his monologue. With performers from Texas, New York and Colorado Springs, the stories presented are complex and nuanced. Too often, society tends to generalize and oversimplify the issues in its attempts to understand and develop sweeping policy decisions. “This whole problem is not one-dimensional,” says performer Juaquin Mobley. “There are so many different facets to it. We’re just trying to dig out some of these layers.” The idea behind the JustUs monologues has been in the works for some time, says Motus’ Artistic Director Kirsten Wilson, a continuation of the organization’s mission to amplify the voices of marginalized groups and create dialogue around critical issues. But since the 2016 election, and “the escalation of dangerous rhetoric focused at the undocumented community,” she says, Motus has remained focused on its UndocuAmerica project, bringing the stories of young undocumented people to the national stage through performances and a podcast. Then last year, the National Association for Community and Restorative Justice commissioned the JustUs monologues ahead of its annual conference, where Motus performed in front of 1,600 people. As with the UndocuAmerica monologues, law enforcement officers, including Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty, read alongside the performers, adding weight to their stories and a sense of collaboration rarely seen in public. “We want to talk to the DAs and the cops so that they can understand how to separate the two. At the end of the day, they see us for whatever they arrested us for. But they don’t know what led up to it. They don’t know what we are going through. And they don’t know the culture and the communities that we come from,” Mobley says. “By them getting to sit down and talk with us and converse with us, I think they could start getting some understanding and start trying to figure out how to attack mass incarceration.” JustUs is not to be confused with justice, Mobley says, from the stage. Too often it feels like “just us,” he says, as justice is an elusive concept for many in the criminal justice system. The son of a Dominican immigrant and an African-American mother from Kansas City, Mobley grew up between Colorado Springs and New York City in what he calls “for lack of a better term, a blue collar, hardworking” environment. But the neighbor18

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hoods in which he lived exposed him to a different way of life. “I was, I guess, seesawing between the streets and school,” he says. “As you know, you can’t really do nothing lukewarm, you gotta be committed one way or the other.” He graduated high school and started college, but after losing most of his savings in a bad investment, Mobley was involved in an armed robbery on a visit to Colorado, sentenced to twice the time in prison two white men who committed the same crime received. “My intention was to just get a couple dollars so I could go back to New York and pay my bills,” he says. “I was just like, I can just run into the streets, grab this money and get right back on my feet. The universe had different plans and as a result I was sentenced to 15 years in the DOC (Department of Corrections).” He didn’t act alone and most of his friends who were involved came from similar backgrounds and faced similar sentences. One friend had even recently graduated with a double bachelor’s degree, but struggled to find a job before they were arrested. As Mobley explains in his monologue, research from the Brookings Institute shows that a white man who checks the felony box on a job application is more likely to get called back than a black man with no criminal record. The JustUs monologues are a mixture of personal experience and research, drawing from some of the most alarming statistics about our criminal justice system and exposing the systemic racism that underlies it. “The system doesn’t make sense and we don’t understand it,” Astro Allison says in his monologue. “And if you think about it, outside of a lens of racist justification that says it’s normal for one out of three black men to end up going to prison, then you won’t understand it either.” Allison, whose monologue focuses around the concept of family, from his mother who raised him as a single parent, to his cousin that he was charged with, says there’s no better time to be talking about these issues. “It’s a nice mesh of storyteller and then fact-speaking, at the same time: just getting out the whole truth,” Allison says. There are many misperceptions about the criminal justice system the performance seeks to expose. As many performers are quick to point out, the term “rehabilitation,” although often used, is rarely experienced. “I think some misperceptions about the criminal justice system is that it’s corrective. It’s actually the antithesis of that,” Mobley says. “A lot of my friends that were incarcerated, I’m willing to say 90% of them returned with worse charges.” Like a career network built from college friends and connections, prison, Mobley says, exposes people to a network of criminals. “You learn to become more criminal because you’re like, OK, this person over here is a con artist. This guy is a safe tapper. You can just put them all together. That’s the state of mind that’s in there.” I

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release of their first LP, Young, in 2017, landing on NPR’s All Things Considered Top 10 albums that year, curated by Bob Boilen. While their first project is very much a retrospective — exploring childhood, relationships and femininity by straddling the folk and electronic divide with whimsical harmonies set to dance beats — their latest work is a collection of genre-bending songs expressing anger and frustration at the world, with a little hope mixed in. Politics isn’t the only factor that inspired the new songs, not all of which have been released. Other tragedies the two have experienced in the last few years, related to systemic issues like gun violence and mental

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health, also contributed to the harsher sound. Mitchell says the newest Overcoats work is “somewhere in the pop-rock-folk-electronic-punk scene,” although still anchored in the rich harmonies that first garnered them attention. “We try to let the experience and the message that we’re trying to portray dictate what instrumentation we use, and whatever genre we fall into, that’s fine by us,” she says. “It’s always just been the two of us and our sound evolves, as we do, but, simultaneously, what’s at the core is always our two vocals creating one voice.” Songwriting is really just an extension of the friendship the two formed in college, bonding over their shared vulnerability in deep conversation and singing together. But it wasn’t until their last year at school that they began to write their own music. “It made the process of sharing with each other and our friendship that much more profound for both of us because we could take our suffering, our angst, and turn it into something beautiful,” Elion says. Watching them write together would be like “a musical of Broad City,” Mitchell adds. There’s a palpable tension in all that the duo portrays — a certain vulnerability in subject matter and verse while also keeping the listener at an arm’s length. They perform for the audience, but often face each other while on stage. Theirs is a sacred friendship, Elion says, one that enables the music and not the other way around. “It’s a push and pull, I think,” Mitchell adds, “of letting people take what they can, what would be helpful for them, from our music. But at the same time, I don’t think we’d be doing music in other capacities.” As Elion puts it: “There’s always been kind of a magic to it for us and we just keep following that.”

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ON THE BILL: ‘Brutal Realities,’ featuring work by Annette Isham, Michael Theodore, Regan Rosburg, Natascha Seideneck, Déesse, Jon J. Satrom, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Melanie Clemmons, Ryan Wurst, Rick Silva, Nicholas O’Brien and Mariana Pereira Vieira. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Jan. 17-Feb. 23. Opening reception 5 p.m. Jan. 17.

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he Amazon rainforest was ablaze last year as artist Mark Amerika and curator Jessica Kooiman Parker began to conceptualize a new media exhibition for the Dairy Arts Center. In fact, the whole world seemed to be on fire, with the impeachment inquiry reaching Planck temperature, the U.K. smoldering under the heat of Brexit, and the U.S. wilting in the hellfire of the highest rate of income inequality ever recorded in the country. Reality looked harsh, too sharp, like the glare of fluorescent light on cheap laminate flooring. “We’re looking at a pretty challenging environment right now, literally V’ and figuratively,” Amerika SI ITA N A says. “Politically we’re in a crisis mode, environmentally, economically we’re in a crisis mode. The concept of reality, truth, fact, fiction, how these things are manipulated, how just the nature of reality is being manipulated before our very eyes and really challenging us. “It’s brutal reality.” Brutal Realities became the name of the exhibition, opening on Jan. 17 at the Dairy. With Kooiman Parker scheduled to take maternity leave late in the year, she tapped her former collaborator and fellow artist Drew Austin to co-helm curation. Together, Austin and Amerika curated the work of a dozen artists creating in varied media — video, sound, animation, photography, performance and digital manipulation — to share their vision of the turbulent cultural and political world in which we live. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Of course it’s digital technology that has set the world on fire: digital disinformation campaigns wreaking havoc on democracy, cyber behemoths like Facebook making data-sharing deals with other cyber behemoths, social media diluting and warping our notions of what’s normal or beautiful or attainable. Still, the manipulation of data is nothing new; in a post-internet world it just dons more convincing disguises. In a meta move, the art in Brutal Realities is created through data manipulation — whether that’s by layering and distorting images, or by intentionally breaking algorithms, or by remixing gifs and memes. Sometimes the work is dark — like the mixed media photographic works by Regan Rosburg and Natascha Seideneck that speak to the destruction of the natural world — and sometimes it’s playful — like the video works of Laura Hyunjhee Kim, who satirizes online platforms by reworking gifs and tweets into actual laugh-out-loud music videos and commercials. “As artists, we can go dark,” Amerika says. “Or we can go satirical, we can go abstract and we can go humorous and really challenge the perception of reality I

or push back against the brutal realities and get folks to rethink it, to see it differently.” Dominican-born, Colorado-raised artist Annette Isham challenges perceptions of reality by creating worlds that don’t obey the laws of space and time. In her series “Unfolding,” Isham explores how she, as a woman of mixed race, fits into the American West — land that was forcefully appropriated and settled by white men. By bending and folding photographs of Western landscapes, Isham creates a kaleidoscopic version of the West, using what’s already there to create something new. Chicago-based artist Jon J. Satrom similarly bends reality, but in a virtual way. Satrom’s video work is more like performance art, exploring common computer failures: the unstable and confusing “glitch,” the time before the computer goes black or blue... or off. “Maybe that’s one romantic way of looking at the glitch,” Satrom says in a video about his work on his website, “which is that you’re trying to inhabit this cliff that you don’t want to fall off of but you might be able to peer over and see some interesting secrets.” Indeed all of the work in Brutal Realities stands at the precipice looking out and down, searching for answers in a world where reality feels subjective. It acknowledges that digital technology is here to stay; our imperative is to keep asking ourselves how it can best serve us, and what we can learn about ourselves as we push deeper and deeper into the information age and beyond. The opening reception for Brutal Realities is free and begins at 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 17. Co-curator Mark Amerika promises an “experimental, noisy, avant garde, live audio visual performance” from five of the artists with work in the exhibition. JANUARY 16, 2020

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8:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Suzannah Powell’s music as Boyfriend has been called “raunchy feminist” rap and “high-concept booty bass” by music journalists whose opinions on these sorts of things matter. Both are accurate descriptions. But Powell perhaps best categorizes her on-stage work as “rap cabaret,” emphasizing the highly choreographed and costumed performance-art aspect of her shows. An unabashed provocateur, Powell waxes crude and clever on capitalism run amok, late-stage patriarchy and hetero-normative double standards, all while dressed as a tarted-up Marie Antoinette. It’s better than eating cake. —CR

FRONT COUNTRY — WITH FOXFEATHER.

‘INCESSANT HUM’: GALA AND PERFORMANCE.

Front Country COURTESY FRONT COUNTRY refashions Americana into something new, something that perhaps more accurately depicts modern America. This is progressive, pop-tinged bluegrass with hints of rock and nods to global rhythms. Lead singer Melody Walker started out performing roots-rock and world music, while bassist Jeremy Darrow studied jazz. Leif Karlstrom studied classical violin and Adam Roszkeiwicz, who plays mandolin in Front Country, studied classical guitar. Guitarist Jacob Groopman spent half a decade touring with an Afrobeat group. Their varied interests and training make Front Country an enthralling experience, especially live, with Walker’s powerful vocals driving a clear path between and around — but never above, always in tandem — dizzying fingerpicking. Tickets are $12 at foxtheatre.com. —CR

Colorado Chamber Players presents a world premiere of a new music/theatre hybrid, as the world celebrates the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven. In ‘Incessant Hum,’ the Colorado Chamber Players explore the emotions Beethoven experienced as he lost his hearing and ability to perform as a pianist and conductor. Two actors, Chris Kendall and Chelsea Frye, perform Jeffrey Neuman’s script, along with excerpts from late works by Beethoven. The performance is a fundraiser for the Colorado Chamber Players with a performance, heavy appetizers and wine. Appetizers will be served at 6:30 p.m., with the performance beginning at 7. Tickets are now available from Brown Paper Tickets; more information at coloradochamberplayers.org.

8:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

CIRQUE MECHANICS.

7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17, University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder. Cirque Mechanics’ latest theatrical invention brings the lore of the one-ring circus to historic Macky Auditorium. With exhilarating thrills, death-defying feats and a bit of clowning around, ‘42FT – A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels’ introduces modern audiences to the world of strongmen, acrobats and aerialists. Tickets are $20-$80 at cupresents.org.

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6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, Opus Two Hall, 9167 Davidson Way, Lafayette.

arts Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), 1750 13th St., Boulder: Adriana Corral: ‘Unearthed/Desenterrado;’ Gretchen Marie Schaefer: ‘Folding and Thrusting,’ through Jan. 19; Paul Gillis: ‘When Kingship Ascends to Heaven,’ through May 1. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Build a Better Book: Stories for Your Senses,’ Canyon Gallery, through Feb. 2.

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PROPULSION GOES GREEN

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder: ‘Brutal Realities,’ Jan. 17-Feb. 23. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver: ‘Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature,’ through Feb. 2; ‘Shantell Martin: Words and Lines,’ through Jan. 31; ‘The Light Show,’ through May 2020; ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through January 2020; Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont: ‘Locavore:’ Katie Thompson, Paula Fitzgerald and Megan Morgan, through Feb. 2. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont: ‘Front Range Rising,’ permanent exhibit

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16

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Music

Andrew Santino. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Jan. 18.

Music

‘Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth.’ 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Ben Dixon, Wild Faith. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Drive-By Truckers. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Dueling Pianos. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Front Country and WhiteWater Ramble — with Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Gunbarrel Monthly Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732.

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Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Archive 75: Multilayered Stories Told Through a Boulder Lens,’ through January; ‘Drawing a (Blank) in Boulder,’ through Jan. 27.

University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder: ‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June 2020;

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MONUMENTAL — coproduced by Black Cube and the Denver Theatre District. Through Jan. 31, 2020. For times and locations, denvertheatredistrict.com/ event/monumental.

NCAR/UCAR Community Art Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive: Acrylic on canvas by Monica Tymcio and ‘Chapters,’ fiber art by six artists, through Jan. 25.

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver: ‘Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation,’ through April 5; ‘Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Flora,’ through April 5; ‘Stacey Steers: Edge of Alchemy,’ through April 5.

Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons: ‘40 years/40 artifacts’; ‘All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons’; ‘Lyons Newspapers: A History,’; ‘125 Years of Distinctive Cameras’; ‘Tiny Stories: Art of the Dollhouse’; ‘The Flood of 2013’; ‘Native

Danny Shafer Duo. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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American Artifacts,’ and more, lyonsredstonemuseum.com

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Henderson Building,1035 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Feathers and Flora,’ Henderson Building, through Jan. 31; ‘Fossils: Clues to the Past,’ Paleontology Hall, ongoing exhibit; ‘Ground Level Ozone,’ McKenna Gallery, ongoing exhibit; ‘Life in Colorado’s Freshwater,’ ongoing traveling exhibit; and more.

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ANNETTE ISHAM, “UNFOLDED III”

CO-CURATED BY DREW AUSTIN and Mark Amerika, ‘Brutal Realities’ exposes how contemporary artists confront their shifting nature of reality in digitally mediated culture. This manifests through various artistic mediums but focuses on artists working in the field of new media art. Presented primarily through video, sound, animation, photography, performance and digital manipulation, the exhibition features artists who have shown their work nationally and internationally, all of whom have developed their work while living in Colorado. Showing at the Dairy Arts Center Jan. 17-Feb. 23.

Muscle Beach, Church Fire, Grief Ritual, Vexing. 8 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Ragged Union. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 512-563-9821. Terrapin X: Ten Year Anniversary featuring Joey Porter & Friends and Shakedown Street. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Events 3rd Law Dance / Theater Immersive Performance. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder,

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Angus Bull Sale Parade. 11:30 a.m. National Western Stock Show, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver, 303-296-6977. Dance For Parkinson’s Program. 11:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568. Also on Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. Cost is $5. Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452. An Evening with Fritz Sperry. 7:15 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway, Unit A, Boulder, 303-499-8866. Jake Johannsen. 7:30 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 720-274-6800. Through Jan. 18. Kelly Cordes: The Stories We Tell. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Old School Film School New School Film School. 9 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Boulder. 7 p.m. 2132 14th St., Boulder. Spirit Nia Dance Class. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. Teen Advisory Board (R-TAB). 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Boulder Contra Dance. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Felonious Smith Trio. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Finn O’Sullivan. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Fruition — with The California Honeydrops. The Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver, 720-577-6884. Happy Hour Chamber Concerts presents Viol Extravaganza. 6 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-451-6381. Hats & Boots Extravaganza. 6 p.m. The Grizzly Rose, 5450 North, Valley Highway, Denver, 303-691-6095. Howie Day. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Jeff Lambert and J.C. McKim, Lonely Whale, Rodney Rice. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Laser Radiohead. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Live Music Fridays. 7 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002. Mandolin Orange — with the Colorado Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

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Mojomama — with Funk Knuf. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Morgan Heritage. 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. The New Deal — with Ben Silver of Orchard Lounge. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

COURTESY DAVID C. PYROOZ

‘COMPETING FOR CONTROL’ pulls apart the bars on prison gangs to uncover how they compete for control. While there is much speculation about these gangs, there is little solid research. Drawing on interviews with 802 inmates, the authors explore how gangs organize and govern, who joins gangs and how they get out, the dark side of gang activities including misconduct and violence, the ways in which gang membership spills onto the street, and the direct and indirect links between the street and prison gangs. David C. Pyrooz will speak about and sign his new book, ‘Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons,’ on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at Boulder Book Store.

A Shadow Of A Jaguar (Album Release). 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Soldier of Love “The Sade Tribute” & Paizley Park “The Prince Tribute.” 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Strangebyrds. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Too Modern For Me - Gary Wittner/Bill McCrossen Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. The Music Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-974-8387. Ultimate ’80s Party featuring Tiffany. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Events Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 7:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Buku, Supertask, The New Deal, Autonomix. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Colorado Indian Market & Southwest Art Fest. 10 a.m. Denver Mart, 451 E. 58th Ave., Denver, 303-292-6278. Through Jan. 19.

THURSDAY, JAN. 16 Colorado Public Radio. 11 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Dana Fisher — American Resistance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

SATURDAY, JAN. 18 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

TUESDAY, JAN. 21 Nathaniel Riley. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. David C. Pyrooz — Competing for Control. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22 From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub — Clock Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Scott Ortman — Painted Reflections. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Games @ Meadows. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18 Music 20th Century Dance Party/DJ Jason Heller. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. ’90s Night. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Bluegrass at the Audi: Jeff Scroggins and the Scroggdogs — with Turkeyfoot. 7 p.m. Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, 303-888-4627. Hairball. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Colorado Cello Summit. 9 a.m. Metropolitan State University Denver Arts Building, 1150 10th St., Denver. George Nelson Trio. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Howie Day. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Jenn Cleary Duo. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Laser Schism TOOL. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Longmont Symphony Family Concert — ‘Carnival of the Animals’ and ‘Peter & The Wolf.’ 4 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium,

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600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796. Maddy O’Neal and Nobide + theNEWDEAL — with Ben Silver (Orchard Lounge). 9 p.m. Cervantes’ and The Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Mark Farina. 8:30 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023. MidWinter: A Colorado Night’s Dream. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

Taylor Shae Duo. 5:30 p.m. BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder, 720-204-8767. A Tribute to Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Women in Song hosted by Shanna in a Dress. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Your Smith. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

The Mighty Twisters. 10 p.m. Dark Horse Bar & Grill, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Events

Monk Gyatso (Single Release), Envy Alo (Album Release). 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Bubble Masterpieces. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Pioneer Mother Trio. 1 p.m. Eldora Mountain, 2861 Eldora Ski Road, Nederland. Planina: The Contemplation Concert. 3 p.m. The Chapel at St Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 2425 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-329-6242. Stumble Monkey. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Super Diamond: The Neil Diamond Tribute — with Petty Theft. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Supersuckers. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Anime Club. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Drop-In Tech Help. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Ilan Bluestone. 8 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Mary Russel and the Robb Candler Americana Blues New Year Extravaganza. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. see EVENTS Page 28

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FILMS UPCOMING AT eTOWN HALL

Green Screens at eTown Hall

Jan

The Pollinators

The Pollinators presents a fascinating and untold story and warns that the bees are in serious danger.

Radio Show Taping

26 Allen Stone & Nikki Lane Jan

Feb

Boulder Opera Presents

in Boots 1 & 2 Puss by X. Montsalvatge

Before the Syrian Civil War in 2011, an estimated 2 million souls called Ghouta home. Less than 20% now reside in the suburb of Damascus. The rest either fled, were evacuated or killed. A few remained to help those left behind, but constant bombardment from Russian warplanes forced them underground. Doctor Amani Ballour is among those who stayed and now lives an almost entirely subterranean life. ‘The Cave,’ from Syrian documentarian Feras Fayyad, follows Amani as she makes her rounds and deals with a constant crush of injured civilians without any of the necessary resources. The hospital cannot afford anesthesia, so one doctor plays classical music from a smartphone to soothe his patients. Another attempts to cook food for hundreds, but the only available stove is on an exposed side of the hospital. Stirring the rice while scurrying to safety is all part of the cooking process. It’s those moments of levity that keep ‘The Cave’ from being hopeless. It’s one of the five documentaries nominated for this year’s Academy Award, and IFS hosts a free showing on Sunday, Jan. 19 at 4 p.m. —MJC

BOULDER:

Century Theatre, 1700 29th St., 303-444-0583: ‘1917’ ‘An American in Paris,’ Jan. 19 & 22. ‘Bad Boys For Life’ ‘Bombshell’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Frozen 2’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘Just Mercy’ ‘Knives Out’ ‘Like a Boss’ ‘Little Women’ ‘Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood’

‘Parasite’ ‘Spies in Disguise’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ ‘Uncut Gems’ ‘Underwater’ Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., 303-4447328: ‘Ayurveda Unveiled,’ 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21. ‘Becoming Nobody,’ Jan. 15-18. ‘The Day Shall Come,’ Jan. 22-25. ‘Frankie,’ Jan. 15-18. ‘Kinetta,’ 8:45 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17. New York International Children’s Film Festival Shorts, Jan. 11-25. ‘The Woman Who Loves Giraffes,’ Jan. 22-25. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., 303-4438696: ‘The Pollinators,’ 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22. International Film Series, University of Colorado Boulder, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., 303-492-8662: The 21st Annual Animation Show of Shows, Jan. 18-19. Free show: ‘The Cave,’ 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19. ‘Fantastic Fungi,’ Jan. 21-22. ‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,’ Jan. 16-17.

DENVER:

Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., 303-744-9686: ‘Apollo 11: First Steps’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Superpower Dogs 3D’ ‘Turtle Odyssey’ Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, 303-744-6799: ‘Harriet’ ‘Honey Boy’ ‘Invisible Life’

Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., 303-595-3456: ‘Little Women’ ‘Parasite’ ‘Uncut Gems’ ‘Varda By Agnès’

LONGMONT:

Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1230 S. Hover Road, 844-462-7342: ‘1917’ ‘Bad Boys For Life’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘Just Mercy’ ‘Knives Out’ ‘Like a Boss’ ‘Little Women’ ‘Spies in Disguise’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ ‘Underwater’

LOUISVILLE:

Regal Cinebarre Boulder, 1164 W. Dillon Road, 844-462-7342: ‘1917’ ‘Bad Boys For Life’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘Just Mercy’ ‘Knives Out’ ‘Like a Boss’ ‘Little Women’ ‘Parasite’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ ‘Underwater’

NEDERLAND:

Backdoor Theater, 243 W. Fourth St., 303-258-0188: ‘Little Women’

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Woman Up Music Festival Feat: Mojomama, Kerry Pastine and the crime scene and The Cass Clayton band A night of Funky Blues Rock, Rockabilly, and Roots Rock.

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Saturday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

‘In Paradisum’ by Voices of Light Chamber Choir. 3 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-2383.

Tween Time. 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Kate Farmer. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Longs Peak Chorus Guest Night. 6:30 p.m. St. Stephens Episcopal Church, 1301 S. Bross St., Longmont, 281-380-9837.

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Magnolia North. 1 p.m. Eldora Mountain, 2861 Eldora Ski Road, Nederland.

Zoofunkyou. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Events

National Shorthorn Sale Cattle Parade. 5 p.m. National Western Stock Show, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver, 303-296-6977.

2020 Martin Luther King Day Talent Showcase. 6:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 720-317-3170.

Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-7672863.

First Session: Everything before you hit record. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

A Night of Stars: Musical Theatre Edition. 5 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

MONDAY, JANUARY 20 Music

The Valleyfolk. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21 Music

JustUs (Unplugged): Stories From the Frontlines of the Criminal Justice System.

The Almost . 6 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Music 5th Annual Sammy Mayfield Blues Band Show. 7 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Charlie White, Square One. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Colorado Chamber Players ‘Incessant Hum:’ Beethoven 2020. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Girls Night Out the Show. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. A Human Named David. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

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6:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-432-2004.

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theater Boulder Drum Circle. 7:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 707-599-1908. Cantabile Singers. Noon. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Chance The Rapper. 7 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Chris Farren, Retirement Party, Macseal. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Faculty Tuesdays: The future of music, a century in the making. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. GZA. 7:30 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Logo Ligi-West African Drum, Song & Dance. Noon. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Purple Hulls, Tom Pevear. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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— and Ruby wants to empower them to do so. With semi-automatic weapons. ‘The Secretary’ is an explosive black comedy that takes aim at the trope “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” with an allfemale cast. Ruby’s gun manufacturing business fuels her small town’s economy, so when a local high school secretary takes down a shooter with six bullets, Ruby honors her by naming her newest firearm ‘The Secretary’ and sales boom. But soon enough, the secretary and her namesake come under scrutiny as bullets and the truth ricochet through the community. Curious Theatre Company in Denver presents ‘The Secretary’ through Feb. 22.

The Addams Family. Jesters Dinner Theater, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Jan. 26.

Mamma Mia! BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder. Through Feb. 22.

Disney’s Beauty & the Beast (youth production). Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Feb. 16.

The Secretary. Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Feb. 22.

Holiday Inn. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Jan. 19.

Some Enchanted Evening. Longmont Theater Company, 513 Main St., Longmont. Through Jan. 19.

“A book worth reading is worth buying.” —John Ruskin

Events Anime Club. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. Boulder Arts Commission and Panel 2020 Grants Training. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 Music Back2School Haus Party featuring Derdy Harry B2B Foundry & More. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Bourbon & Blues — with Eef & The Blues Express. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Cold War Kids. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. An Evening of Dancing Horses. 7 p.m. National Western Stock Show, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver, 303-296-6977. Meat and Potatoes, Mellowpunk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Paul Selig: The Way Forward — A Channeled Workshop. 7 p.m. Unity Spiritual Center Denver, 3021 S. University Blvd., Denver. RE:Search feat. Moody Good — with Effin and Special Guests. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

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After Hours Networking Event. 5 p.m. Salon Nové, 765 E. South Boulder Road, Unit 200, Louisville.

Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Anime-niacs: Anime Club for Adults. 6 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470. BeeChicas: First Aid From the Hive. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. BoulderReads Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Spirit Nia Dance Class. 9 p.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. STEAM Storytime: Sand Art. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Code for Boulder. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Wednesdays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

The Wonder of Winter Slide Program. 7 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

High Crimes Book Group. 5:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder,

Sunday, Jan. 19 Open Jam. 4 p.m. Dog House Music Studios, 525 Courtney Way, Lafayette. LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

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Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Li-Mech_2.3x3.6_BW.indd brary, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wobblers & Walkers. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100; 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120.

Thursday, Jan. 16 Open Mic. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

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davE waTT’s bday bash wEdnEsday January 29 rE: sEarch

borahm lEE, kEvin donohuE & colby bucklEr w/ lapa & nadasound

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hen François Truffaut penned his revolutionON THE BILL: Cinema noir et blanc. Jan. ary essay, “A Certain Tendency in French 24-26, Sie Film Center, Cinema,” the up-and-coming critic laid waste 2510 E. Colfax Ave., 303to what he saw as a national tradition of 595-3456. ‘My Journey Through French Cinema’ is quality: A stultifying funeral procession of available to stream at moviemaking that could barely keep up with the unherKanopy. alded auteurs of the French cinema or advancements abroad. Truffaut wasn’t entirely wrong, and his lance put the French cinema down far enough to let La Nouvelle Vague in. Soon Truffaut and his compatriots from Cahiers du cinéma picked up cameras, took to the streets, and produced images that are still revolutionary 70 years later. But, there was a downside to Truffaut’s declaration, and many excellent French films from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s were seen as prologue at best. Most cineastes don’t even bother with them, preferring to view the advent of French cinema occurring sometime around 1959. Thankfully, our collecTHE CRITERION COLLECTION tive notion of history grows more inclusive with each passing year, and many of these pre-New Wave films are getting the attention they deserve. French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier’s 2016 documentary My Journey Through French Cinema is a love letter to these movies, a letter KUNC film critic and CU-Denver film professor Howie Movshovitz clutches close to his chest. Working with the Sie Film Center, Movshovitz will program seven films from this forgotten period for a three-day weekend, Jan. 24-26, of black and white cinema, or Cinema noir et blanc: The Grand Illusion, Le jour se leve, L’Atlante, Un carnet de bal, A Man Escaped, Casque d’or and La poison. Of the seven, The Grand Illusion, L’Atlante and A Man Escaped (pictured) are the most familiar of the bunch — and bona fide masterpieces. From 1937, The Grand Illusion (Jan. 24, 7 p.m.) is a comedy of manners set amid the inhumanity of The Great War. The spectacular ensemble features the great Austrian filmmaker/actor Erich von Stroheim and France’s equivalent to Humphrey Bogart: Jean Gabin. Gabin also stars in Le jour se leve (Jan. 25, 1 p.m.), a movie that rarely graces the big screen these days. Same for Un carnet de bal (Jan. 25, 7 p.m.), the story of a woman reflecting on the men she could have had, and the different lives she could have led. Same for Casque d’or (Jan. 26, 4 p.m.), the story of three criminals set during the Belle Epoch. And same for La poison (Jan. 26, 7 p.m.), a black and bitter comedy of a man and wife who, after 30 years of marriage, have decided to do the other one in. Then there’s Robert Bresson’s transcendent and masterful A Man Escaped (Jan. 26, 1 p.m.). Set in a prisoner-of-war camp, A Man Escaped draws undeniable spirituality through ordinary observations — partly from André Devigny’s memoir, on which the movie is based, and partly from Bresson’s experience as a prisoner of war while a member of the French Resistance. For each one of the films, Movshovitz will provide introductions and lead postscreening discussions. Long forgotten movies projected once more on a screen is a thing of beauty. So, too, are a little context and an enjoyable conversation. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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ere’s what you do with the peasant loaf from Kim & Jake’s, the Boulder bakery that specializes in baked goods for those with dietary restrictions: Take the crusty, flat loaf home, pop it in a 400-degree oven for about 10 minutes, slice it up and slather it with some kind of fat, maybe extra virgin olive oil or, in our case, butter with shallots and herbs. It makes a wholly satisfying snack, quick breakfast or dinner side, and what’ll be even more satisfying is the knowledge that it’s gluten-, dairy-, egg-, soy- and GMO-free and still tastes great and feels like traditional bread when you chew. A savvy mixture of oat, cassava and sorghum flours, flax meal and canola oil create this loaf. Prices vary.

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ace it: If you are what you eat (and you cook and you order from Grubhub), then you are a yawn. Your menu is not only boring, it’s bad for your gut and brain health. If you read an accurate diary of everything you ate last year you would be absolutely appalled at what did and didn’t end up in your body. When was the last time you mastered any new kitchen skill or area of food knowledge that you actually use every week? It’s about time that you got off your pork butt and got your food life in shape. Not to be apocalyptic, but given the precarious state of the world don’t you think a few old-school food-crafting skills might come in handy? Now that I’m through giving myself a resolute pep talk, you can ask yourself the same questions. There are worse ways to spend the next few months than learning the following 20 things in 2020. 1. Shop, taste, learn, cook: Chef Chris Clarke, host of the Something About Food? podcast, is leading new local grocery tours. Denver Ethnic Market Tour, Jan. 18; Boulder Ethnic Market Tour, Feb. 1; somethingaboutfood.com 2. Kids help kids grow: Volunteer to plant lettuce seeds at a Boulder greenhouse for 21 local school gardens on Jan. 25. airtable.com/shrqqBxUzjq7bi8ph 3. Grow something edible: It is incredibly satisfying to grow something you can taste, even if it’s just herbs and peppers on your patio. Growing Gardens offers Gardening 101, March 21; growinggardens.org. Denver Botanic Gardens hosts New Gardener Boot Camp, Feb. 29. catalog.botanicgardens.org 4. Man, woman, chef vs. chef: Get out and experience some man chef vs. woman chef battling at Cinechef during the Boulder International Film Fest, March 5-8. Featured chefs: Carrie Baird (Bar Dough), Natascha Hess (The Ginger Pig), Linda Hampsten Fox (The Bindery), Becca Henry (ChoLon Modern Asian), Laurent Mechin (St Julien Hotel & Spa), and John Platt (Riffs). biff1.com 5. Shoot better food photos: The food photos you post are mostly terrible. Trust me, I see them all see NIBBLES Page 36

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the time. To start improving, read some free, practical advice about shooting, framing and lighting. rootmarketingpr.com/2019/07/25/food-photography-tips 6. For serious soba students only: Japanese soba noodles are a sublime taste treat and few Americans have the skills to make them from scratch. Dry Storage hosts a hands-on workshop Jan. 19 with L.A.-based soba master Sonoko Sakai. bastaboulder.com 7. Make the mozzarella you melt: Participate in a full-day, hands-on workshop in home cheesemaking, March 28, at the BYO Boot Camp in Denver. byobootcamp.com. Also: Cheesemaking bootcamps, Art of Cheese, Longmont. theartofcheese.com 8. Attend famous food events finally: Stop sighing and schedule your first attendance at: Denver Restaurant Weeks, (Feb 2- March 3), denver.org/denver-restaurantweek; Taste of Vail, April1-4, tasteofvail.com. Aspen Food & Wine Classic, June 19-21, foodandwine.com; and Slow Food Nations, Sept. 11-13, Denver, slowfoodnations.org 9. You want to cook Italian? Francesca Giongo teaches simple Italian fare from starters to desserts and you get to eat afterwards. bvsd.org/lll 10. Love you some Colorado potatoes: Seriously, try following these simple directions for roasting spuds: thekitchn.com/jacket-potato-22943799. Also, Google “hasselback potatoes with cheese.” 11. Fight pollinator extinction! Watch The Pollinators, a film about the plight of the bee, Jan. 22 at eTown Hall. Two prominent bee authorities, Tim Brod and Sue Anderson, will speak. etown.org. Buy local honey only, replace your lawn with pollinator-friendly plants and enroll in Intro to Beekeeping, March 9, Growing Gardens. growinggardens.org. 12. Celebrate National Pie Day: January 23 is National Pie Day, the Boulderfounded national day of celebration. (Seriously, Google it.) You should host an all-pie dinner. Make it easy by using dough from Babettes in Longmont to make a pizza and fill buttery crust from Lafayette’s Tip Top Pies with fruit for a dessert pie. Sign up for Food Lab’s empanadas class Feb. 23. foodlabboulder.com 13. You can cook pad Thai at home: Bee Rungtawan Kisich teaches you how to achieve that Thai flavor balance of salt, sweet, sour, funk, fire and herbaceousness in her Lafayette home, and feeds you an authentic Thai meal. facebook.com/beesthaikitchen 14. Make food look appetizing: Attend a hands-on workshop in using garnishes, sauces and artistic plating at Seeds Library Cafe. boulderlibrary.org/seed-to-table 15. Recreate Saturday Night Fever’s opening scene. Stop in at Famous Original J’s, a take-out window at 715 E. 26th Ave. in Denver. The pizzeria next to the RTD Light Rail line is part of the stellar Rosenberg’s Bagels next door. The spot-on, foldable, thin, New York-style slices are simply topped with stuff like Taylor ham, wide pepperoni and fresh garlic. Get extra napkins and strut. 16. Smile. The market opens in three months: The Boulder County Farmers Market opens for the season in Boulder and Longmont on April 4. bcfm.org 17. Upgrade your dumpling knowledge: Visit the Flower Pepper Restaurant, 2655 Broadway, and order pork and cabbage dumplings, leek and egg dumplings, chicken and shitake dumplings and xiaolong bao soup dumplings. Take notes! 18. Learn to use a knife: If you are clueless about slicing and chopping, take the Knife Skills for Kitchen Rookies class Jan. 19 at Longmont’s Kitchen Co. kitchencolongmont.com 19. Be the Zen of fermentation: If you are a serious student of fermented foods, sign up for the Secrets of Fermentation workshop Jan. 15 at Dry Storage. bastaboulder.com. Also: Good for the Gut: A Fermentation Workshop, March 4. bvsd.org/lll 20. Make your love a truffle: Matt Collier, head chef of Seeds Library Cafe, teaches a hands-on class in making petit fours, cookies and truffles Feb. 13. boulderlibrary.org/seed-to-table LOCAL FOOD NEWS Wild Woods Brewery has closed at 5460 Conestoga Ct. … The Flagstaff House Restaurant will reopen after renovations on Jan. 22. … Doughnut news: The Farmstand Co-Op in the former gas station at Arapahoe and Broadway in Boulder is open weekdays dishing breakfast burritos and tacos, and house-made doughnuts and pastries. … The Bumbling Bee Vegan Junk Food shop has opened at 1100 28th St. … Bradford Heap’s Pepper the Noshery (formerly Wild Standard), 1043 Pearl St., will close at the end of January. WORDS TO CHEW ON “You don’t get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.” — Peg Bracken John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, kgnu.org) 36

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Knowledge, creativity, experience Dispatches from the 2020 Big Beers Festival

by Michael J. Casey

tarted by Bill and Laura Lodge 20 years ago in Vail, Colorado, Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines has become one of the year’s premier beer festivals. What started as a trade show to showcase legacy imports and burgeoning American experimentation — the first Big Beers festival had only one seminar, hosted by Adam Avery and featuring a vertical tasting of Hog Heaven — has since moved from Vail to the Beaver Run Resort in Breckenridge, expanded from one day to three, and now includes educational seminars, Cicerone examinations, brewmaster dinners, a homebrew competition and the festival’s signature commercial tasting — four hours with some of the best beers on the planet. Hands down the best beer poured at this year’s tasting was Samuel Adams’ 1994 Triple Bock from The Boston Beer Company. Aging beer isn’t exactly commonplace, and most drinkers don’t expect their beers to improve over time. Had you opened a bottle of Triple Bock 10 or so years ago, the pungent aromas of soy sauce combined with a viscosity hewing toward motor oil would have convinced you to dump the rest down the sink. But at 26 years old, Sam’s tar-black Triple MICHAEL J. CASEY Bock produced subtle nuances of almond, butter toffee and fig, the velvety texture of an aged port, and the welcoming madeira-like notes of oxidation. In a word: Phenomenal. Those handful of bottles served at Big Beers were reportedly the last in existence (unless a collector somewhere still has a few left in storage), fitting for a festival celebrating its 20th anniversary with the appropriate amount of reunion and reflection. But the past was not a point belabored: Big Beers is a forward-thinking festival with the future squarely in mind. And those vintage beers on the tasting room floor were potent reminders: Experimentation has long-reaching effects. No one panelist at Big Beers resembled this idea more than Peter Bouckaert of Purpose Brewing and Cellars in Fort Collins. The Belgian-born and -educated brewer worked for Rodenbach before coming to Colorado in the mid-’90s as New Belgium’s brewmaster. After two decades with the company, the iconoclastic Bouckaert left New Belgium to start Purpose in 2017. “There are three ingredients in beer,” Bouckaert told the audience, “Knowledge, creativity and experience. Beyond that, there’s nothing else.” Bouckaert balked at the notion that beer must include the four — and only the four — common ingredients (water, malt, hops, yeast), pointing out that you would never hold a chef hostage with only a handful of ingredients to work with. Fellow panelist Jeffrey Stuffings of Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas, concurred, saying he often looks to the wine world for inspiration. Big Beers commercial tasting further emphasized Bouckaert and Stuffings’ sentiments. Typical beer attributes like bitterness took a backseat to sour and sweet, and a stunning spectrum of complexity was commonplace. The look and flavor of beer isn’t just evolving, it’s exploding. Trying to predict where the market will go from here is a lot like that Triple Bock from ’94: You may not like it now, but give it time. Give it time. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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CHEF AND RESTAURATEUR Lachlan MackinnonPatterson will serve as executive chef of the new Centurion Loung at DIA. It’s just the latest big project in his culinary career.

Onward

Frasca Chef/Founder Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson on growing a food and wine enterprise

by Matt Cortina

ife is good, and busy, for Lachlan MackinnonPatterson. Frasca Food and Wine, which he co-founded with Master Sommelier Bobby Stuckey in 2004, earned its umpteenth nomination and third James Beard Foundation Award (JBFA) last year for Outstanding Service. His wine label, Scarpetta, and Neapolitan pizza spot, Pizzeria Locale, are growing. And a part-cookbook, part-guidebook on cuisine, wine and life in Friuli, Italy — on which the menu of Frasca is based — that he co-wrote with the Frasca team and author Meredith Erickson will be published this spring. But there’s even more on the horizon for the globally trained, JBFA Best Chef, Top Chef Masters participant and The French Laundry alum MackinnonPatterson. He’ll serve as the executive chef at the forthcoming Centurion Lounge (for American Express Platinum Card and Centurion members) at the Denver International Airport. We chatted with Mackinnon-Patterson recently 38

about maintaining quality in a growing food empire, building a high-end menu for the airport crowd and just what might happen if Donald Trump’s proposed 100% tariff on imports from the European Union come to pass. About that…

Lachlan MackinnonPatterson: It’s challenging obviously. We don’t know the outcome. If the tariffs are expanded to 100%, it’ll be a devastating outcome across many channels. The obvious, of course, is restaurants glean a lot of survival and success from constructing a wine by the glass program. When you lose that sort of anchor to perhaps raising costs by 2x there’s only so much [cost] you can pass on. So that leverage is gone and that sucks, but there are so many other things that are hard to pass along. Whether it’s things like parmesan or prosciutto, the more blended costs, it’s hard to isolate paying [double] for that. And then beyond that, even costs like crystal. Frasca invests a lot of money in ensuring guests [have] beautiful stemware, which are already big costs — 30- 40-odd dollars for [each glass]. I don’t know what that would look like if stemware were $80 a glass. As we’ve seen for the most part, the consumer awareness of what’s going on is really low. There are JANUARY 16, 2020

just so many factors that are all woven together to create a really fucked-up situation, but hopefully it won’t come to that. I don’t think anyone wants that. [The Office of the U.S.Trade Representative received over 23,000 comments in the last few weeks and will make a decision on the tariffs in the near future.] Boulder Weekly: You work with producers in Italy and around Europe — is this going to hurt them as much as it seems like it might hurt U.S. businesses? LMP: That’s been the biggest argument on the wine side of this, unlike the other channels. The beverage system in the U.S. is a three-tiered system. You have so many tiers and the wine gets spun through those things — first through an importer who then has to absorb the cost of the taxes and any duties or tariffs, customs, and then they mark it up to a distributor and then the distributor marks it up to a retailer or restaurant, which marks it up. If you had a 100% tariff, the bulk of the damage is on the U.S. company side. BW: Putting that aside and looking forward to the Centurion Lounge, it seems like with your stature in the industry you can pick and choose what projects you want to take on. What do you look for in new opportunities?

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LMP: We look at this is a collaboration of sorts. Any time we look at collaborating with someone, we try to find a like-minded brand to partner with, and we do turn down a lot of opportunities. But in this case AMEX is a very strong brand, and not only that, they believe in investing in quality and so that’s something that really resonates for us. … Additionally, Bobby and I have a book coming out spring 2020; they (AMEX) have a great magazine. It’s an important part of travel, and we feel like their customers and our customers care about food and wine and traveling. They know the importance of quality and the importance of what it costs to make something nice. BW: The menu will borrow from your existing Friuli-inspired and pizzeria menus, but obviously it will be a different experience. What’s gone into developing the Centurion Lounge menu? LMP: Part of the process is bringing in someone from our team on the culinary side to assist in us pulling the right kinds of ideas out of the right restaurants within our group. The menu will have things that you might see at, say, Frasca all the way down to the quick service of Pizzeria Locale in Denver. We don’t quite know what the menu is right now, but that’ll be something we’ll collaborate on. The chef for the lounge will have to execute the menu to our standards every day. It’s not a place where I’ll be onsite cooking, and so the most important part over the course of the next six or nine months or so is that we get it right and they feel confident in their ability to execute. BW: The James Beard and other awards, as well as the experience of dining at your restaurants or buying a bottle of Scarpetta wine is enough to know the quality of your enterprises hasn’t gone down, but how do you ensure that quality persists even as you take on larger roles in the company? And do you miss being in the kitchen every day? LMP: Our roles have changed over the years. One of the things we’ve noticed is to build a great company, you have to build a great company beyond yourself. Being able to provide the platform for so many other really talented people within our company is really the most exciting thing to me. I do at times miss the old times, no question There’s something really exhilarating about that and we reminisce a lot, but ultimately BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

this is a decision we made to grow our team and grow our business. It’s all about the people and it’s about reevaluating every year if you have the right people in the right places, or do you have enough of them? There isn’t six months that pass that we don’t evaluate if the company is equipped to perform to our standards. ... The minute we realize we’re under-managed, we do the very best to fix the situation right away. BW: That must mean you are somewhat unique in the restaurant industry in that you likely keep people around for longer? LMP: I think so. In terms of wages we pay more often than others. We are also very creative in creating positions that aren’t customary in the industry for those who are engaged, or we modify a current position so it works. I can think of many examples where we’re very collaborative with our team where they feel like they’re heard and it makes a big difference. People want to be a part of a successful and growing business.

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BW: Could you have imagined when you set off for Boulder 15-some years ago to launch Frasca that it would turn into all this? LMP: No I’d probably be lying if I said I did. Bobby and I didn’t make any moves for the first quite awhile, and I think it took us some time to feel good about the position we were in and feel good about the team that we had. Long before we opened Locale next door to Frasca, we didn’t do much but try to execute and build a great team, and we turned down a lot of things between ’04 and ’11. This conversation was edited for length and clarity.

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BW: Part of that growth includes the forthcoming book; tell me about it. LMP: The book we’ve worked on for quite a while. It took a while to find the right publisher. Bobby and I wanted to write a book not so much about Frasca but about Friuli and travel and wine. So it’s more than a cookbook. There hadn’t been a book written on Friuli in quite some time, and there hasn’t been a book that wove those three things together. … It’s separated into a big wine chapter, a chapter on the mountains, a chapter on the sea, a chapter on the land. Woven in that is how to experience Friuli like we would.

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Comedian John Cleese has an insight I hope you’ll consider. He says, “It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent. It’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.” I hope you’ll make this advice a priority in the coming weeks. You’ll be wise to prioritize important tasks, even those that aren’t urgent, as you de-emphasize trivial matters that tempt you to think they’re crucial. Focus on big things that are challenging, rather than on little things that are a snap.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Author Honoré Balzac (1799–1850) was born with sun and Mercury in Taurus and in the tenth house. Astrologers might hypothesize from these placements that he was ambitious, productive, tenacious, diligent, realistic and willful. The evidence supporting this theory is strong. Balzac wrote over 80 novels that displayed a profound and nuanced understanding of the human comedy. I predict that 2020 will be a year when you could make dramatic progress in cultivating a Balzac-like approach in your own sphere. But here’s a caveat: Balzac didn’t take good care of his body. He drank far too much coffee and had a careless approach to eating and sleeping. My hope is that as you hone your drive for success, you’ll be impeccable in tending to your health.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: Before he was 21 years old, William

novel approaches, you know that you’ll have to harness the raw surge. However, it’s also true that sometimes you go too far in your efforts to refine your imagination’s breakthroughs; you over-think and overpolish. But I have a good feeling about the coming weeks, Virgo. I suspect you’ll find the sweet spot, self-editing with just the right touch.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Thomas Love Peacock was a Libran

author whose specialty was writing satirical novels that featured people sitting around tables arguing about opinions and ideas. He was not renowned for cheerful optimism. And yet he did appreciate sheer beauty. “There is nothing perfect in this world,” he said, “except Mozart.” So much did Peacock love Mozart’s music that during one several-month stretch he attended six performances of the genius’s opera *Don Giovanni*. In this spirit, Libra, and in accordance with astrological indicators, I encourage you to make a list of your own perfect things — and spend extra time communing with them in the coming weeks.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Jean-Michel Basquiat started his career as a graffiti artist. When he evolved into being a fulltime painter, he incorporated words amidst his images. On many occasions, he’d draw lines through the words. Why? “I cross out words so you will see them more,” he said. “The fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.” In the coming weeks, you might benefit from discreetly using this strategy in your own life. In other words, draw attention to the things you want to emphasize by downplaying them or being mysterious about them or suggesting they are secret. Reverse psychology can be an asset for you.

SAGITTARIUS

Shakespeare and his wife had birthed three kids. When he was 25, while the brood was still young, he started churning out literary masterpieces. By the time Will became a grandfather at age 43, he had written many of the works that ultimately made him one of history’s most illustrious authors. From this evidence, we might speculate that being a parent and husband heightened his creative flow. I bring this to your attention because I want to ask you: What role will commitment and duty and devotion play in your life during the coming months? (I suspect it’ll be a good one.)

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Because of the onslaught of the internet and social media, lots of people no longer read books. But in 2020, I highly recommend that you *not* be one of that crowd. In my astrological opinion, you need more of the slow, deep wisdom that comes from reading books. You will also benefit from other acts of rebellion against the Short Attention Span Era. Crucial blessings will flow in your direction as you honor the gradual, incremental approach to everything.

CANCER

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “I love to be surprised by something I

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Cancerian-born painter Stanley Spencer

(1891–1959) didn’t align himself with any artistic movement. Early on, his work was an odd blend of French Post-Impressionism and 14th-century Italian painting. I appreciate his stylistic independence, and suggest you draw inspiration from it in 2020. Another unique aspect of Spencer’s art was its mix of eroticism and religiosity. I think you’ll enjoy exploring that blend yourself in the coming months. Your spiritual and sexual longings could be quite synergistic. There’s one part of Spencer’s quirky nature I don’t recommend you imitate, however. He often wore pajamas beneath his clothes, even to formal occasions. Doing that wouldn’t serve your interests. (But it will be healthy for you to be *somewhat* indifferent to people’s opinions.)

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Johannes Gutenberg invented the

printing press in the 1440s. In subsequent decades, millions of mass-produced books became available for the first time, making their contents available to a far wider audience than ever before. The printing press caused other changes, too — some not as positive. For instance, people who worked as scribes found it harder to get work. In our era, big culture-wide shifts are impacting our personal lives. Climate change, the internet, smart phones, automation and human-like robots are just a few examples. What are you doing to adjust to the many innovations? And what will you do in the future? Now is an excellent time to meditate on these issues.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: You’re skilled at the art of self-edit-

ing. When bright new ideas well up in you, you understand they are not yet ready for prime time, but will need to be honed and finessed. When your creativity overflows, tantalizing you with fresh perspectives and

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CAPRICORN

have never thought of,” declares Capricorn actor Ralph Fiennes. According to my analysis of the astrological aspects, you’ll be wise to make that one of your top mottoes in 2020. Why? First, life is likely to bring to your attention a steady stream of things you’ve never imagined. And second, your ability to make good use of surprises will be at an all-time high. Here’s further advice to help ensure that the vast majority of your surprises will be welcome, even fun: Set aside as many of your dogmas and expectations as possible, so that you can be abundantly receptive to things you’ve never thought of.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “I love fools’ experiments. I am always

making them.” So said one of the most famous and influential scientists who ever lived, Aquarian-born naturalist Charles Darwin. In accordance with upcoming astrological factors, I invite you to draw inspiration from his approach. Allow yourself to explore playfully as you conduct fun research. Just assume that you have a mandate to drum up educational experiences, and that a good way to do that is to amuse yourself with improvisational adventures.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “How do you get your main

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for you because either being penetrated isn’t something that feels good for you or you aren’t advocating for your own pleasure in the moment. “TMIW may need to communicate more with his partners about what does and doesn’t feel good for him,” said Mitchell. “And if he finds no pleasure in bottoming, he should stop bottoming and get off some other way.” As for what may be going on culturally, TMIW, Mitchell definitely had some thoughts. “A lot of men are bad at attending to their partners’ pleasure because we live in a fucked-up patriarchy” said Mitchell. “From childhood on, men are systematically taught that sex is a matter of instinct instead of intention, and that our dicks are magical wands that bring people satisfaction just by showing ’em off and sticking ’em in people who don’t have one or aren’t using theirs. Gay men aren’t immune to these messages and even reward men who are loyal to straight-passing masculinity.” But we both want you to know there are good, attentive, compassionate gay men out there who can fuck the shit out of a guy while at the same time check-

ing in to make sure the guy they’re fucking is enjoying the experience, too. The minute a guy says or does something that proves he isn’t one of those guys, TMIW, show him the door. Showing someone the door is one of the most effective ways we can advocate for our own pleasure; the sooner you show someone who doesn’t care about your pleasure out, the sooner you can show someone who does in. And Mitchell thinks a quick tweak to your search criteria will help you find yourself a good guy: “Flip on that ‘vers top’ filter [on the hookup apps], and stick to guys who at least have some empathy toward the anal experience,” said Mitchell. Follow Ty Mitchell on Twitter @TyMitchellXXX (where you can find his porn work) or @TyMitchellxo (where you can find his rage and writing). You can find Mitchell’s essays at probottom.substack.com. On the Lovecast, John Moe of The Hilarious World of Depression: savagelovecast.com. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage and visit ITMFA.org.

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national problem” and called declining birthrates “a barometer of despair.” Yikes. Seems like a problem for marijuana! But the Health Economics study’s findings get less fun (and more questionable): “There is also suggestive evidence on temporary increases in the state-year gonorrhea rate.” Again, yikes. While Colorado wasn’t one of the states studied, sadly, the state is seeing a huge spike in the rate of sexually transmitted diseases. The Colorado Department of Public Health and

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cience has gone and done it again: revealed a finding about marijuana that surprises absolutely no one. Brace yourselves: People who live in states where pot is legal. Have. More. Sex. Who could have imagined a plant that alleviates pain, stimulates the appetite and increases overall feelings of well-being could also open people’s minds to pleasure? All of us. We all knew. But thanks, science, it’s good to have it on the books officially. In a review published in the Journal of Health Economics, researchers from the University of Connecticut and Georgia State University specifically looked at states where medical marijuana was legalized. Researchers allowed time for medical marijuana laws (MMLs, as they refer to them in the study) to take affect — states used in the study had regulated medical marijuana between 2005 and 2014. The study then analyzed sexual and reproductive behavior of folks in their 20s and 30s. (Looks like we’re going to need another study to see what pot does for the 40+ sex life... but we’ve got a feeling it helps. Still, let’s get that on the books too.) In addition to an increase in sex, the researchers found that MMLs led to “a reduction in contraceptive use conditional on having sex, and an increase in number of births.” That’s a good thing, right? We’re going to say it is. The U.S. birthrate fell to a 32-year low in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dowell Myers, a demographer at the University of Southern California, told NPR it’s “a

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Environment recorded 8,478 gonorrhea cases in Colorado in 2017, amounting to a nearly 200% increase in cases over a five-year period. While rates of chlamydia and syphili also grew, the rate of gonorrhea infections grew most sharply, “up 150% in 2018 from four years earlier to an estimated 2,703 Denver cases,” wrote Denver Public Health on April 30, 2019. “Increases in gonorrhea cases have been seen in both men and women.”

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Now, can this all be blamed on marijuana? No. Absolutely not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that unstable housing can increase rates of STDs, as can lack of access to medical care, stigma, drug use and poverty. Those are issues the U.S. is facing as a nation — Colorado included. And by the way, rates of STDs are up across the country, not just in states where medical marijuana is regulated. As for the Health Economics research on pot’s affect on sex and baby booms, the researchers say the increase in gonorrhea rates (and you’re going to love this wording, emphasis mine) “may be attributed to behavioral responses including increased attention to the immediate hedonic effects of sexual contact, increased sexual frequency, as well as delayed discounting and ignoring the future costs associated with sex.” While the abstract of the paper doesn’t get into specifics about why they think pot plays a role in temporary increases in gonorrhea, it’s my gut instinct to say let’s not go blaming pot for something we’re seeing everywhere, in states without medical marijuana laws. Also — and I’m not saying these 20and 30-year-olds included in the study weren’t educated — sex education in this country is abysmal. I mean, Colorado doesn’t even require students to learn sex education or HIV prevention. Just 24 states mandate sex education for K-12 students. Ending on a more positive note, the Health Economics research did offer a counterpoint to the longheld but poorly researched concern that marijuana use decreases fertility. “Our findings on births,” the researchers write, “suggest that behavioral factors can counteract the physiological changes from marijuana use that tend to decrease fertility.” In other words, cannabis may influence birth rates positively through behavioral effects.

Just how big a thing will the (legal) pot business be? By Paul Danish

arijuana is becoming big business, but just how big is the marijuana business? New Frontier Data, a consultancy, produced some stats that were turned into a story at Yahoo News: There are currently 33 states in which either medical or recreational marijuana is legal. Annual sales in those 33 states are projected to reach $30.1 billion in annual sales in 2025. As of the start of the year, 19 states were actively considering various pot legalization policies. Eleven

of them were states with functioning medical marijuana that are now considering legalizing recreational pot and eight other states that are considering legalizing medical marijuana. If all 19 states considering new legalization measures pass them, the marijuana industry in 2025 will grow to $41.6 billion a year. As of the end of 2019, some 223.4 million Americans, or 68% of the U.S. population including children, lived in states where either medical

and/or recreational marijuana was legal. Should all the additional legalization measures pass, the percentage of the population living in states with legal pot in one form or another would increase to 90%. Currently, 28% of the U.S. population lives in recreational marijuana states. If the 11 states currently considering passing recreational pot legalization do so, the percentage of the population in states with legal recreational pot would increase to 54%. • • • • Israel is the home of Raphael Mechoulam, the chemist who first isolated THC and CBD as the active ingredients in marijuana, but the country has lagged in legalization. It didn’t pass a decriminalization bill until last spring. But marijuana business opportunities are another matter. Late last year, the Israel Innovation Authority announced it will be launching a business incubator aimed at helping startup marijuana businesses succeed. The incubator, dubbed CanNegev, will be set up in the desert town of Yeruham. It will admit six companies with “breakthrough medical cannabis technology” every year for the first five years, according to marijuana journalist Johnny Green. Initial funding for the incubator is more than $43 million. • • • • And this month’s coveted Chicken Little Traveling Trophy goes to John Huber, U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah. Huber told an interviewer with Odyssey House, a Utah drug treatment center, that marijuana legalization is “going to bring down our society.” He also claimed that states with legal pot have “become havens for organized crime to take advantage of the camouflage of legality.” But being a U.S. attorney does not automatically

turn you into a pot prohibitionist knuckle dragger. A former U.S. attorney is leading the movement to legalize recreational marijuana in South Dakota. • • • • According to Alan Brochstein, a marijuana business analyst and founder of the online community 420 Investor, a new trend is emerging in the marijuana industry — litigation. Some suits involve common business problems like failure to perform promised services — like the suit filed by an Oregon farmer against a company for not harvesting his hemp crop as promised. He says it caused him to lose $11 million. Other suits have focused on seeds that didn’t produce promised yields or that weren’t feminized as promised. And last week a company called Trulieve sued a short-seller for libel. Short selling is a way to make money by trading a stock that’s falling in value. The way it works is that an investor who thinks a stock’s value will fall borrows shares of the stock from a brokerage (which will charge him interest on the stock loan, just as a bank would charge interest on a cash loan). The short-seller will then immediately sell the shares he borrowed, bank the proceeds and wait for the stock’s share price to fall. When it has fallen far enough to satisfy him, he will buy shares at a reduced price to repay the loan and pocket the difference. Short selling leaves a bad taste in my mouth, because it revolves around betting on someone’s failure, but it is in theory at least a way to take some of the uncertainty out of risky investments. However, some short-sellers don’t just wait for a company to fail in the market. They try to drive down the stock price by sliming the company in the hope that it will fail. Such a practice is contemptible beyond words; short-sellers who do it richly deserve to be on the receiving end of libel suits.

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