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Highroad Has America turned rightwing? Or nuts? by Jim Hightower

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uckle-up friends, it’s going to be a hairy ride. Start with Day One for President Trump (gotta get used to saying that). He will need to be up-and-at-’em no later than 12:01 a.m., for he promised during his campaign to get oodles of big stuff done on his very first day in office, including: “Repeal Obamacare;” “Begin working

on impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall;” Fix the Department of Veterans Affairs; “Repeal every single Obama executive order;” Suspend Syrian refugee resettlement; “Get rid of gun-free zones in schools;” “End the war on coal;” “Defend the unborn;” and convene top generals and inform them they have 30 days to come up with a plan to stop ISIS. Good grief! Americans have actually put a xenophobic-misogynous-racist-nativist-narcissistic blowhard in the Oval Office. Has our country gone right-wing? Or nuts? No. Indeed, the majority actually voted for Hillary — Trump lost the popular vote, but won in the electoral college. Also, even his own voters disagree with much of his agenda (especially his grandiose wall across the Mexican border). Trump was not elected on issues, but on anger — a deep seething fury

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that the economic and political elite themselves have created by knocking down the working-class majority, then callously stepping over them as if they didn’t exist. Exit polls revealed that most Trump voters don’t think he’s any more honest than Hillary Clinton, only 38 percent of all voters had a favorable opinion of him, and only a third consider him qualified to be president. But his core message — “The system is rigged” by and for the elites — came through loud and clear to them, so they grabbed him like a big BoisD’arc stick to whap the whole establishment upside its collective head. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 19, 2017 5

danish plan Civil disobedience in Lafayette and North Dakota by Paul Danish

he latest bright idea to emerge from Boulder County’s intrepid antifrackers is to get the City of Lafayette to legalize “nonviolent” civil disobedience and “direct action protests” that target oil and gas drilling. According to a story in last Monday’s Daily Camera, such acts would include sit-ins, strikes and workplace occupations or blockades and would “allow protesters unprecedented immunity from arrest or detainment.” “Our position is anything that interferes with our right to a healthy climate and any attempt to forcefully compel drilling on Lafayette citizens would be open to acts of civil disobedience,” said Cliff Willmeng, who organized the anti-fracking group East Boulder County United. “What other option is there for people when their state government is in the pocket of the oil and gas industry?”, said Willmeng’s mom, Lafayette City Councilwoman Merrily Mazza. Well, that will certainly fix the oil and gas industry’s clock. The second drillers set up a rig in Lafayette it will the swarmed by little green guardians of Lafayette’s earth, air, water and oatmeal, who’ll plant their butts all over the rig, and shut that baby down for days, weeks, months — whatever it takes — until the oil company comes, gets tired of losing thousands of dollars a day, lays off the dozens of locals working for it, and moves back to North Dakota; all with the full blessing of the Lafayette city government which wouldn’t lift a finger to stop them. What could possibly go wrong? Glad you asked. Because back in North Dakota, oil and gas activists trying to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline are providing some enlightening examples of just what the term “non-violent,” means to today’s “direct action” eco-protesters. During a Sept. 9 clash, four security officers and two guard dogs were hurt as several hundred protesters confronted construction workers at the site. In October, demonstrators set fire to nine vehicles, destroyed construction equipment, and left debris and burned out vehicles strewn across a bridge on a 6 January 19, 2017

state highway, which has remained closed ever since. Former North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple (who left office a few weeks ago) received so many threats on social media from latter-day Gandhis that the state patrol started accompanying him everywhere he went. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier, who has dealt with the protests for months, regularly gets similar threats. Last Monday, three protesters were arrested during a 200-person protest near a fenced Dakota Access Pipeline drill pad and charged with criminal trespassing, inciting a riot and resisting arrest. They were accused of cutting a security fence, removing fencing material and dismantling lights that were being used to illuminate a bridge. But hey, our local anti-fracking activists would never dream of doing stuff like that. Heavens no! And hell no! The very thought that they would leaves me ashamed and feeling dirty. OK, here’s something else that could go wrong. Getting government to let you break the law is a game two can play at. On Monday, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that a North Dakota state legislator, Rep. Keith Kempenich (R-Bowman) is sponsoring a bill that protects drivers who “inadvertently” hit someone obstructing traffic at an antipipeline demonstration. “A driver of a motor vehicle who unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway is not guilty of an offense,” the bill reads. Kempenich says he got the idea for the bill after his mother-in-law’s car was swarmed in an effort to block the road. “If you stay off the roadway, this would never be an issue,” Kempenich told the Star Tribune. “Those motorists are going about the lawful, legal exercise of their rights to drive down the road. Those people didn’t ask to be in this. “This bill puts the onus on somebody who’s made a conscious decision to put themselves in harm’s way. You can protest all you want, but you can’t protest up on a roadway. It’s dangerous see DANISH PLAN Page 7

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In this post-truth world, it is important to remember the wisdom expressed by novelist Alan Garganus when he wrote, “The truth is always radical. Real history is written not in the third person, but in the urgent first.” On Saturday, Jan. 21, women, men and children all over the globe will be marching to affirm the rights of women, minorities and the survival of the planet. It is as urgent as it has ever been and you need to be there... in person. Meet up in Denver at 9 a.m. at the Civic Center Park. You can find more information at www.marchoncolorado.org. Be radical, be truthful, be there. Naomi Rachel/Boulder

Former FBI agent asks Obama to free Leonard Peltier

In a letter dated Jan. 3, former agent and charter member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents Association (FBIAA) John C. “Jack” Ryan wrote to President Obama to request a grant of clemency to Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier should receive clemency, Ryan said, “in the interest of the system of justice for which my two fellow agents died, and in the interest of reconciliation and compassion.” In 1977, Peltier was sentenced to two consecutive life terms for the shooting deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. The circumstances surrounding the case in combination with the passage of four decades of time served support [Peltier’s] request to live his final years

at home. When Agents Coler and Williams lost their lives it was a devastating loss to us agents. Emotion ruled the decision-making process and likely clouded the judgment of the massive team of whom were driven to hold someone responsible for our loss, Ryan wrote. “If the government could do it all over again, it would respond differently. Through today’s lens, Leonard Peltier was not treated fairly and did not get a fair trial.” In 2000, Congressman Don Edwards (also a former agent) stated: “The FBI continues to deny its improper conduct on Pine Ridge during the 1970s and in the trial of Leonard Peltier. The FBI used Mr. Peltier as a scapegoat and they continue to do so today. At every step of the way, FBI agents and leadership have opposed any admission of wrongdoing by the government, and they have sought to misrepresent and politicize the meaning of clemency for Leonard Peltier. The killing of FBI agents at Pine Ridge was reprehensible, but the government now admits that it cannot prove that Mr. Peltier killed the agents.” Edwards’ words ring true today. Last week, the FBIAA succeeded in pressuring American University to remove a statue of Peltier that was exhibited there, and when former U.S. Attorney James Reynolds’ letter to the president to request that he grant clemency to Peltier was publicized, some sought to discredit Reynolds stating that he falsely claimed involvement with the Peltier case. The FBI’s perpetual demonization of Leonard Peltier is an effort to poison see LETTERS Page 7

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public opinion and avoid self-reflection. Mr. Peltier’s clemency petition is not a referendum on federal law enforcement; it presents a moral imperative which President Obama can address, said Peltier attorney Cynthia Dunne, herself a former federal prosecutor. By reckoning with the past and moving forward in the best interests of justice, reconciliation and compassion, we can become a stronger nation. It is time to free Leonard Peltier. Currently imprisoned in a maximum-security facility in Coleman, Florida, Peltier is far away from his reservation in North Dakota. Maintaining strong family ties has been difficult. He has never even met some of his grandchildren or greatgrandchildren. In December, Peltier’s younger son passed away while in Washington, D.C., advocating for his father’s release. Prison authorities refused to allow Peltier to attend his son’s funeral. At 72 years old, Peltier suffers from serious medical problems that impair his ability to walk, see and conduct normal life activities. He suffers from severe diabetes, hypertension and a heart condition, and has been diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Recently, he was told he needs prostate surgery. Imprisoned for 41 years, Peltier has long been eligible for release, but federal authorities have yielded to the objections of the FBI in denying Peltier’s applications for parole most recently in 2009 when he was told he will not

receive another full parole hearing until 2024 when, if he survives, he will have reached nearly the age of 80. Peltier says he’s eligible for mandatory release, but the government has failed to apply its 30-year rule (after 30 years served, all sentences are to be aggregated and the prisoner released) or consider the good-time credit he has earned (20 years, to date). Peltier’s release from prison now depends on a grant of clemency by President Obama who leaves office on Jan. 20. International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

Who is John Galt?

With the election of Donald Trump we may finally have the answer to the cryptic question posed by Ayn Rand in her libertarian, utopian novel Atlas Shrugged, “Who is John Galt?” Scott Walker, Rand Paul and Paul Ryan are, no doubt, waiting breathlessly for the skies to open. The problem with promises of unfettered, deregulated, laissez faire capitalist enterprise is that there has never been a period in American history when the forces of capital have acted over the long term to benefit the American worker or the public’s well being at large. Greed and ego are difficult things to overcome. Putting a good foot forward is an admiral concession to the reality of a Trump Presidency, but no one should not fall into the temptation of trying to put lipstick on a pig. Robert Porath/Boulder

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for everybody,” he said. Needless to say, the protesters are horrified by the bill. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see a scenario in which a roughneck trying to get to work is swarmed by a bunch of “nonviolent” protesters gently trying to overturn his truck and burn it, and who in a moment of panic “inadvertently” hits the gas instead of the break and “accidentally” mows down a few dozen of them. “It’s shocking to see legislation that allows for people to literally be killed for exercising their right to protest in a public space,” said Tara Houska, an American Indian environmental activist who has been in the protest camp since August. She’s got a point there, but it’s also shocking that Ms. Houska would claim a constitutional right to protest in the midBoulder Weekly

dle of a public highway by blocking it. There is no such right. If you choose to protest that way, you do so with the expectation that you will be arrested and punished for your acts. That’s the heart and soul of what civil disobedience is about, and the thing that gives it it’s moral authority. If you’re not willing to accept the consequences of being civilly — civilly — disobedient, all you are just is a garden-variety miscreant committing a crime and trying to get away with it. Unlike Houska, Willmeng seems to recognize that there is no constitutional right to stage sit-ins, workplace occupations, and blockades that violate other people’s rights. That’s why he wants the City of Lafayette to give him a pass in advance. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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After initially missing its target, Akatsuki now has successfully orbited Venus for more than a year.

target price by. If you miss by too much, the little climber hikes past the summit and falls to his death. This time, I do not want to hear the music stop. I’m rooting for the little climber to make it all the way to the top. Everyone in the control room looks very nervous. This is not surprising, they have all been here before. Five years ago to the day, in fact, when things did not go very well at all. On Dec. 7, 2010, we were following the proceedings via Twitter from 6,000 miles away. The Akatsuki Twitter feed had announced the successful start of the orbit insertion burn. The time for the end of the burn came and went, but no new information was released. Hours went by in tweetless silence. Akatsuki’s faint signal was finally detected, but all was not well. Akatsuki was spinning in an orientation that it was programmed to assume when problems are detected, a condition called “safe mode.” The engineers eventually determined that a single valve on the fuel line had failed. This caused the rocket exhaust to heat the ceramic rocket nozBoulder Weekly

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hundred years ago, we would forecast the weather on Earth by measuring the wind speeds only at the surface. These forecasts were very poor. Today, we also release weather balloons, to measure the wind speeds at many altitudes, improving our picture of the current atmospheric condition. By taking pictures of Venus at several different wavelengths from the ultraviolet to the infrared, Akatsuki can measure winds at different altitudes by tracking how cloud features move in the images. If they can explain the workings of an atmosphere as unusual as Venus — especially with regard to greenhouse warming and the effects of clouds on planetary temperature — the Akatsuki team hopes also to better understand our own atmosphere. Back in the control room, things are going well. The curve climbs with agonizing slowness to 80 percent and beyond, actually reaching 105 percent before the rockets stopped. There is brief applause and a few handshakes after the program manager formally announces that the burn was executed successfully and Akatsuki is in orbit. Then everyone quickly and dutifully returns to their work. Akatsuki has now been in orbit for more than a year, and a new chapter in history is being written by this successful American-Japanese scientific collaboration. Investigators on both sides of the Pacific now pore over the images, yearning to understand what they can, to help us learn about the unusual atmosphere of Venus. Kevin McGouldrick is a Research Scientist at the University of ColoradoBoulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, and a NASA participating scientist in residence in Japan with the Akatsuki mission to Venus.

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eminism and Islam, The Unholy Alliance.” “Why Do Lesbians Fake So Many Hate Crimes?” “Fat Shaming Works.” These are a few of the speeches given by journalist and senior editor for Breitbart News, Milo Yiannopoulos, on his nationwide college speaking tour. On Jan. 25, Yiannopoulos is scheduled to speak at University of Colorado Boulder, leaving many at CU and around town anxious as to what inflammatory remarks he’ll make about transgender people, Muslims and/or members of what he calls the “regressive left.” In response, a group of CU students and staff have organized an alternative event called “BuffsUnited,” followed by a talk later that evening from transgender actress Laverne Cox (one of the stars of Orange is the New Black), while others are working to get Yiannopoulos’ talk canceled. A 33-year old openly gay, Catholic, British conservative of Jewish and Greek descent, Yiannopoulos is perhaps best known for being banned from Twitter in July following racially-charged insults directed at actress Leslie Jones, one of the stars of the reboot of the movie Ghostbusters. [Yiannopoulos didn’t respond to several interview requests by Boulder Weekly. All quotes from Yiannopoulos are from YouTube videos of his campus speaking engagements.] Considering himself an “eternal 14 year old” and a “virtuous troll” whose main focus is to ridicule liberals with often ornate and usually profane language, Yiannopoulos was an early and ardent supporter of President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign. His former boss at Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon, is now Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor. CU Boulder sophomore Nicolas Reinhardt is chapter president of Turning Point CU, the organization that invited Yiannopoulos, which is part of a national nonprofit dedicated 10 January 19, 2017

to fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government, with chapters on over 300 college campuses. Calling himself a moderate libertarian, Reinhardt points to the “high level of homogeny of the political ideology” at the mostly liberal CU, and says the purpose of inviting Yiannopoulos to campus is to “expose people to all perspectives so that ... when they decide what they really believe in, they’re tak-

ing into consideration all viewpoints, not just the one that they may hear in their daily lives.” He agrees that Yiannopoulos can be contentious and admits that “a lot of the things that he says we don’t agree with,” though his “trolly nature” can make politics fun. With over 1 million Facebook likes, over 400,000 YouTube subscribers, and a packed house at nearly all of his talks, it’s clear that Yiannopoulos appeals to a certain segment of the population. In late December, 24 hours after the announcement of his book deal with Simon & Schuster, pre-orders of Dangerous launched it to No. 1 on Amazon. In early January, Yiannopoulos was declared LGBTQ Nation’s 2016 “Person of the Year,” having won almost 70 percent of votes in an open poll. The publication alludes to an orchestrated campaign from his supporters that may have skewed results in his favor. Of course, not everyone is amused

by Yiannopoulos, as shown by the many interruptions of his speaking events by members of the public who consider his statements to be both hateful and hurtful, especially to marginalized groups. In May, two protesters interrupted his talk at DePaul University in Chicago by climbing on stage, snatching the microphone, chanting and blowing a whistle, resulting in the talk’s cancellation.

Yiannopoulos uninvited from speaking on campus. One of the petitions, which urges CU Chancellor Philip DiStefano to “revoke the invitation for Yiannopoulos to speak,” has over 1,800 signatures. Buffs for Reproductive Justice and Fairview [High School] Students for a Democratic Society are organizing a protest on the night of the talk. Reinhardt says he not only supports people’s right to question Yiannopoulos’ ideas, but welcomes the debate. However, he hopes that the opposition can “channel their passion in a way which will challenge Milo’s beliefs, instead of silencing them entirely.” In early December, Chancellor DiStefano released a statement on the controversy, maintaining that while “discrimination and harassment have no place on our campus ... to be a university dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, our students should be exposed to views that are both in line with their beliefs and those that are not.” In response, over 200 CU In December, faculty members signed a letseven protesters were The above imagery is the actual ticket ter to the Chancellor asking arrested before promotion art for the that future university commuYiannopoulos’ event at Milo Yiannopoulos event at CU Boulder nications “differentiate more Michigan State on Jan. 25. clearly between free speech University for trying and hate speech.” to prevent attendees Reinhardt disagrees with from entering the the notion that what Yiannopoulos has building. On January 14, protesters blockaded to say is hate speech, saying that people may be not be differentiating his snarky access to a planned talk by Yiannopoulos and former pharmaceuti- “comedic commentary from his political analysis.” cal executive Martin Shkreli at The name of Yiannopoulos’ tour — University of California Davis. Citing depicted in large letters on his bus with security concerns, the hosting group, his cartoon likeness sitting on a throne, Davis College Republicans, canceled the talk 30 minutes before its scheduled golden scepter in hand, carried by four shirtless men — is called “The start. Dangerous Faggot.” On other occasions, his talks have Yiannopoulos often brings up the been canceled after universities imposed last-minute security fees, which hosting fact that he is gay during his talks, making jokes on the topic at his own groups were unable to afford. expense. Is Yiannopoulos using humor Yiannopoulos receives no payment for to reclaim the “other F word” for the his campus talks. LGBTQ community? Two separate petitions are circulatNot so, says sophomore Brady Itkin, ing at CU Boulder in an effort to get Boulder Weekly

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guage they don’t approve of or expressing opinions they disagree with. He points to political correctness, “language policing,” safe spaces, and trigger warnings as tactics for shutting down free speech and, ultimately, opposing viewpoints. As he sees it, the election of Donald Trump is, in part, a backlash against those looking to impose free speech restrictions on others. As an act of protest following the announcement of Yiannopoulos’ book deal, The Chicago Review of Books refuses to review the book, nor any other book published by Simon & Schuster in 2017. Brittany Gutermuth, an intern with Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center and a graduate student at Naropa, has worked for years on social justice issues, with a focus on fighting racism. What Yiannopoulos has to say is “really counterproductive to what I feel America needs right now,” she says. However, while she thinks that it’s “good to oppose him and make that verbal,” she also acknowledges that some of the pushback, such as attempts to censor him, might be “making him more famous.” Yet, Bowen says CU community members’ concerns about Yiannopoulos aren’t “a free speech issue so much as a campus safety issue.” “When we prepare for him to be on campus, we’re not preparing just for him but for escalated levels of hostility that accompany people who come to his talks,” Bowen says. “We just wouldn’t want anyone protesting the event to get hurt in any way, physically or psychologically.” “I don’t believe that he encourages hateful behavior,” Reinhardt counters. “Some things aren’t easy to talk about, but we need to talk about them. “For true ideological diversity, we need to be able to have civil conversations with each other and understand where we’re coming from. It’s hard to express your opinions to people who don’t want to listen to them.” His progressive politics aside, Brady Itkin is sympathetic to the plight of more conservative students such as Reinhardt. “I know I’ve had Republican friends who’ve felt not only disenfranchised, but felt hated on just as much as the vast majority of my friends in the LGBT community.” Like Reinhardt, Itkin believes the way forward is through dialogue. However, Itkin also thinks Yiannopoulos is a “nonstarter to that conversation.”

student outreach coordinator for CU’s Gay Straight Alliance. “If you’re just being disrespectful and hateful it doesn’t matter whether you’re gay or straight, or black or white, or red or green.” Mardi Moore, executive director of Out Boulder agrees with Itkin’s assessment of Yiannopoulos. “I think he’s using it for shock value. He’s not reclaiming a word.” Scarlet Bowen, director of CU’s Gender and Sexuality Center, also doesn’t think Yiannopoulos is advancing the LGBTQ cause, bringing up his remarks about transgender people being mentally ill. “I think that qualifies as hate speech,” she says. In a December talk at the university of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Yiannopoulos showed a slide of and derided a transgender student who had recently been featured in the Media Milwaukee school newspaper for filing a complaint against the school after being asked to leave the women’s locker room. Following the incident, the individual reportedly quit school, according to the LGBT online newspaper Pink News. It’s not just Yiannopoulos’ comments about transgender people that bother Bowen. “Pretty much any member of any protected class that the University covers in its policies against discrimination and harassment, Milo Yiannopoulos has something negative to say about them,” she says. Few will disagree that what Yiannopoulos has to say can be disrespectful, unkind and even cruel at times, though whether his remarks qualify as hate speech may be up to interpretation. But if it is hate speech, is it against the law? “In the United States there is no legal category for hate speech,” says Robert F. Nagel, Rothgerber Professor of Constitutional Law at CU (now retired) and visiting fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. “That means that what is commonly referred to as hate speech is in fact speech that is protected by the First Amendment,” he says. “It is, of course, a complicated question to determine what sort of speech should be considered appropriate on universities’ campuses, but people who think that issue can easily be resolved — by excluding ‘hate speech’ because it is legally unprotected — are operating from an inaccurate view of the law.” One of Yiannopoulos’ main talking points is that members of the left, particularly “social justice warriors” and modern feminists, are trying to censor him, as well as anyone else using lan-

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ome citizens of Lafayette never has acknowledged that as many as 1,800 new wells accepted the State of Colorado’s could eventually be horizontally drilled and hydrauliclaims of preemption or the court’s cally fractured in Boulder County’s shale formations. dismissal of their community’s Lafayette originally voted to ban fracking through groundbreaking 2013 vote to ban a Community Rights Bill, which passed with 60 perfracking within their town’s city limits. So now these cent voter support in 2013. That effort was quickly creative citizens are looking for another way to protect met with a lawsuit filed by the Colorado Oil and Gas their community from the industry they claim will con- Association (COGA). Both Grant Township and the taminate their air and water while hastening climate citizens of Lafayette have been aided throughout change. their ordinance process by the Community On Tuesday, January 16, they made their case Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), before the Lafayette City Council for legalizing the which has offered pro-bono legal services to the right of every Lafayette citizen to use “non-violent Lafayette City Council for any further legal action direct action” to enforce their right to a healthy envithat could be required as the result of passing the ronment and community self-government. Climate Bill of Rights ordinance. In front of an overflow crowd, including represenFor the members of the grassroots environmental tatives from the oil and gas industry, proponents of a and human rights group East Boulder County United proposed ordinance titled Climate Bill of Rights (EBCU), which was founded in 2012 and has coarticulated that direct action is the last thing standing authored the new proposed ordinance with CELDF, between the local environment opposition to fracking is Rob Jackson and the hazards of fracking. viewed as a matter of After approximately three hours defending human rights to clean air and water of impassioned public comments, and a healthy climate. the Council tabled a vote until Cliff Willmeng, a foundan unknown future date due to er and leader of EBCU, three of the seven council memsaid after the meeting, bers not being in attendance. “We look at these rights If the Council eventually votes as inherent to the whole in favor of legalizing “peaceful Front Range and all of direct action,” Lafayette would be following in the footsteps of these expectations will be Grant Township in Pennsylvania, Doug Good Feather, who grew up on the Standing placed firmly across the Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, addresses which passed a similar ordinance Rock dais of the Boulder the Lafayette City Council. in May 2016. For Grant County Commissioners. Township, it was wastewater It doesn’t make sense injection wells and the state of Pennsylvania’s refusal to that Lafayette doesn’t have a well if Boulder County honor their desire to ban such injection wells that was has 1,800 of them. Our intention is to protect both of the impetus for legalizing direct action. Such wells are them. When we started this in 2012, we knew that the used to dispose of the oil and gas industry’s produced laws were unjust and our efforts had to bring that fact water which contains fracking fluid contamination as to the light of day rather than bargaining or negotiating well as numerous naturally occurring contaminants with that fact. We’ve never wavered from that and we such as mercury and radioactive waste. Injection wells knew that it would come to the moment that citizens have also been proven to cause earthquakes. would have to place themselves between those drills The Lafayette City Council’s consideration of its and the local environment and that’s the stage we’re at similar ordinance comes at a time when the industry right now. The intent of the Climate Bill of Rights and

Protections is to enlist the support of the local government in exactly that.” If the ordinance passes, it would forbid any law enforcement personnel employed by the City of Lafayette from “arresting or detaining persons directly enforcing this law” via direct action. Willmeng also said that he has led three filled-tocapacity civil disobedience trainings in the past month with 40-plus people in each session. These trainings have been hosted on a volunteer basis by local businesses in Lafayette and Longmont. More trainings are being planned. Willmeng’s mother, Merrily Mazza, is a member of Lafayette City Council and supports the legalization of direct action to empower her constituents to protect their community and environment from fracking. Other speakers at the meeting cited historical examples of peaceful civil disobedience as a critical legacy of the United States’ most significant fights for justice, including the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, African-American voting rights and LGBTQ equality. A Lakota man and veteran of the Iraq War, Doug Good Feather recounted the feeling of putting his hands in the air at the front lines of the movement at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation — where he grew up and returned to recently as a “water protector” protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline — only to be shot at with rubber bullets, concussion grenades and tear gas. He said that, as a United States Army combat veteran, he feels that the Iraq War is here now. Opponents of the ordinance cast its supporters as “radicals” and “hypocrites” and claimed the ordinance would be a potential threat to business and the rule of law. A representative and attorney for COGA condemned the bill. Lafayette City Attorney David Williamson suggested earlier this month that much of the bill’s language was “unenforceable” due to state law. Towards the end of the evening, John Lamb, a retired Boulder Valley School District teacher and musician from Lafayette, pulled out his harmonica and played the working class ballad, “Which Side Are You On?” He was joined by several women singing along with lyrics specific to Lafayette. Many in the audience joined in. Three of the four councilmembers acknowledged it was a moving moment.

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CU graduate student Salam proudly wears a Syrian flag at a demonstration in Turkey in 2013. Inset: Salam hugs his mother goodbye in Istanbul for the last time in 2014.

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ents are both still in Syria, unable to leave behind their family property and government pension. His father was just released after more than two months in prison, while his mother continued working, keeping up the family’s assets. Growing up, Salam says, the family was close and has grown even closer as the conflict has dispersed them throughout the world. But he does hope to one day be reunited with them all, although he doesn’t expect it to happen anytime soon. “All I have are hopes, I don’t have any expectations,” he says. “Our expectations failed us many times since the beginning of the conflict. We expected the war to be over in a year or so and we would gain our freedom. But we failed in that. We expected Assad to be overthrown by the opposition forces but we again failed at that.” But as Syrian President Bahar al-Assad’s regime gains ground, retaking Aleppo in December amidst

Torn apart by the Syrian Civil War, siblings seek a better life around the world

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alam hasn’t seen anyone in his family since December 2014 when he left Turkey to attend graduate school at the University of Colorado Boulder. Originally from southern Aleppo, his family is now spread across the globe as a result of the Syrian Civil War, and with a pending asylum case in the U.S., he doesn’t know the next time he’ll be able to see anyone in his family face to face. His older sister Amira has residency in Istanbul. His younger brother Besher is in a refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, hoping to join his youngest brother Amro in Berlin soon. Salam’s par14 January 19, 2017

accusations of grave human rights abuses, and Russia attempts to broker peace talks, Salam and his siblings have resigned themselves to start their lives over elsewhere. “We all know that the Syrian regime is really bad; that’s the basic level of agreement between us as family members,” Salam says. “We all agree on that, and we all want Assad to go.” •••• Amira, the oldest, was the first to leave, five years ago. “My life was just perfect,” she says. “Successful in my career, already finished my study, social life, hiking, camping, clubbing and also I was a volunteer in the Red Cross.” Before the war, she was a manager at an international tourism company and speaks with pride about both her home city of Aleppo and her country. “My mission was showing the tourists the beauty, the history, the music, the cuisine and the culture of Syria,” she says. “That’s why I know Syria like the back of my hand.” But she wasn’t politically involved and didn’t have a problem with the Assad regime, until she started hearing reports from other cities around the country. Then her humanitarian work caught up with her and intelligence agencies asked to bring her in for investigation. “I didn’t respond, and after two months of maneuvering I decided to flee to Turkey,” she says. “I am Boulder Weekly

realistic person and I understand that sometimes you relocate to another country either for work or marriage or whatever, but that would be your choice.” But her decision to leave Syria was different, a necessary step to continue both her life and her career in relative peace. “It’s a test for your strength, for your patience, for your manners and principles,” she says. “Many others failed in this test and I saw them falling down, while I continue my path.” Amira first went to Turkish relatives in Hatay Province, west of Aleppo, before moving to Istanbul where it was easier to find a job. The first year was like “living in hell,” she says, as she struggled to adapt to the new place and often encountered people looking to profit off the vulnerable refugees. But she stood her ground and has since worked in multiple fields, from tourism to real estate, even acting in some commercials and in a movie with a Turkish director. “I guess I teached them how to deal with me as human being, not as a Syrian refugee,” she says. Now she loves living in Istanbul, comparing it to busy metropolitan cities like New York or London, aware of the beauty diversity brings, something she learned as a young girl in Aleppo. “I remember that in my grandmother’s building there were four religions, every neighbour is different of the other. On Fridays sometimes they go up to the roof to make BBQ together,” she says. “I can keep the memories from my childhood in my heart, understanding that it was such beautiful days.” In Turkey, she continues with her humanitarian work, helping Syrian women find jobs and Syrian children gain access to education. And she’s become part of an expat community, helping to organize dinners, parties and lectures. On weekends she enjoys gardening and cooking for friends. “I am trying hard to live as a normal human,” she says. But everywhere she turns, on TV, the radio, in conversation, she sees Syria. “Even when I go dating, the basic topic will be Syria while we should [be getting to] know each other.” Amira worked tirelessly to gain residency and work authorization. It was a hard fight, she says, and now she wants to help other people achieve the same. But while her brothers eventually followed her to Turkey, they all found it much more difficult to settle down and build a life there. Salam was fulfilling mandatory military service as the conflict began in 2011. But as the fighting increased and he witnessed many atrocities committed by the Assad regime, he defected, fleeing to Turkey in 2012. “It’s a pretty decisive decision when a refugee makes it to leave,” Salam says. “For me, I made the right decision in the right moment and luck was on my side. Many refugees faced even more dangerous situations than mine, I’m very sure of that.” For Salam, specifically defecting from the military also exiled him from Syria as long as Assad remains in power. “I thought, in a year or so, the war would be over, Assad would be overthrown and we could move on,” Salam says. “I was wrong.” Salam says the West often oversimplifies the conflict, pitting the government against ISIS and other terrorists, when in reality it’s much more complicated. What started as a citizens’ movement to gain basic rights and freedoms has dissolved into a messy civil war with numerous factions vying for power. “You have the government, with all its affiliated Boulder Weekly

militias from Iraq, Iran and other places. You have the Free Syrian Army, which is a big umbrella of small groups, sometimes fighting each other, sometimes uniting together; some of them are affiliated with Al Qaeda, some of them are not; some of them are anti-America, some of them are not,” he says. “You have ISIS as well, and you have the Kurds who want autonomy.” When Salam first arrived in Turkey, he says he had “second thoughts” about leaving his home, and even considered returning to fight with the opposition. But he decided to stay in Turkey, learn the language and settle down. However, he became increasingly afraid of the building anti-refugee sentiment, even changing the Arabic license plate on his car to blend in with Turkish cars, which use Latin numbers. “It’s a kind of camouflage because with the Arabic numerical system, an angry mob could see the car and just smash it,” he says. While Salam and Amira struggled to begin a new life, they were soon joined by their youngest brother Amro, although he stayed in Hatay Province with relatives. “I finally accepted the ugly truth and cried and cried like never before,” Amro says about deciding to leave his home. He was just 18 when the revolution started in 2011. “It was my final year in high school, the year that defines my fate,” he says. “I was so active with the opposition because as any other honored Syrian, I couldn’t bear the injustice.” He was accepted to the economics department at the University of Aleppo, but as the conflict increased, he decided to delay his studies and instead work with the opposition, traveling throughout the country as a translator for foreign journalists and working with humanitarian efforts. “In that time, I was deluded that this crisis was going to end very soon,” he says. “So I held my camera instead of my study books.” In less than a year, Amro was arrested twice. Both times he was held in what he calls “concentration camps” before being sent to prison. He describes living with up to 70 other men in a room, eating out of communal “buckets,” sometimes hardly having sufficient air to breathe. “It is just amazing how the human nature adapts to the bad conditions for the sake of survival,” he says. After paying a bribe, he was released for the second time, which is when he decided to join his siblings in Turkey. He spent a year learning Turkish and applying to universities, while also working up to 12 hours a day. Although he was accepted into a civil engineering program, the workload in a foreign language while trying to make ends meet was too much for him to bear. Hoping his chances would be better in Germany, he joined his best friend on the journey from Turkey to Germany, traveling through Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Austria on the way. “Today I am very proud of my choice after one year living in Germany,” he says. “I learned a lot from the Germans, although they are barely social.” He says that for the most part, the Germans he’s encountered are friendly and welcoming, but hesitant to become friends after learning he’s a refugee from Syria. And although he saw “Nazis’ demonstrating against refugees” every few weeks while living in Western Germany, he hasn’t experienced much resentment in his new home of Berlin.

“I think Germany will adapt soon to the idea of hosting refugees at the same time refugees adapt in their new temporary home,” Amro says. Amro applied for asylum and was granted a threeyear residency permit before the immigration laws changed in Germany. Now, he says, refugees must stay in the same state for three years before being granted temporary protection for one year. He immediately began learning German, translating for friends after a month and finishing the nine month mandatory integration language course in two and a half months. But starting school has proved difficult, and he recently moved from Dortmund to Berlin, hoping his chances will be better. “I got a lot of depression due to it because no one helped me or guided me and in the end no one understood my circumstances,” he says. It’s been five years since he graduated high school, a significant delay in his studies, but he’s “still happy and dedicated to learn and work more than ever,” he says. “I cry sometimes when I watch the news, especially in my home city Aleppo,” Amro says. “But I still feel optimistic to the future of Syria.” And living in Berlin has actually given him even more hope for eventual recovery in Syria, comparing Aleppo today to the Berlin of World War II: “The amount of killing and the same bad conditions innocent people had to live,” he says, believing that his city will be able to recover after the war, like Berlin has. “I lately realised that [to fix] an unstable house, a man have to destroy it and rebuild it from the beginning,” he says. “I also realised that people don’t learn how to change themselves and love each other except when their life is on the line.” Amro hopes to soon be joined by his brother Besher, who is trying to make his way from refugee camps in Lesbos, Greece, to join him. Besher was the last of Salam’s siblings to leave Syria and in many ways has had the most difficult time trying to build a new life. Left with a minor disability in his arm and prone to epileptic seizures after being struck by a car while walking in 2012, Besher is exempt from Syria’s mandatory military conscription. Yet he became increasingly aware that there was no future for him in Aleppo as the war wages on. Leaving home in 2014 and following his siblings’ path to Turkey, Besher has always dreamed of becoming a successful painter and he hopes to one day make it to Germany in order to attend art school. “The first time I stepped outside Syria, I knew that if I did, it means I will never go back,” Besher says. “Until 2011, I never would imagine something would happen to my country like what happened.” But Turkey wasn’t easy for Besher, as increasing anti-refugee sentiments have led to more hate crimes, violence and uncertainty. “It was a strange country. I don’t know anything about its culture and the life over there is too hard,” he says. Syrians are treated like second-class citizens, he says, taken advantage of in their desperation, often being offered lower wages than Turkish citizens. So he decided to join Amro in Germany, hoping for more opportunity. He traveled by boat from Turkey to Lesbos, and is now stuck in a refugee camp on the island as he waits for his paperwork to go through. The journey is much more difficult now than when Amro traveled it, and Besher has no idea how much longer he will be in Greece. In the refugee See HOPE Page 16

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camps, where fires have become increasingly more common, he’s witnessed fights between Afghans and Syrians and he recently spent some time in a hospital following a seizure. But he just has to keep moving forward, he says, knowing that even though his parents remain in Aleppo, there’s no point in thinking about going back. “For me and most of Syrians, we expect to get better future outside of Syria,” Besher says. “It’s impossible to go back just for our parents, for our mom and dad.” Back in southern Aleppo, their parents have watched as their neighborhood has been bombed by opposition forces and entire families have been killed. They haven’t had consistent water for months, relying on storage receptacles to function. Nor have they had access to any formal electricity. “The neighborhood [is] set up that each family pays a subscription fee informally,” Salam says. “They just extend one cable or wire and connect it to the house. They have enough to power their refrigerator and TV. The voltage is not that high, the voltage or that wattage I’m not sure. I’m not an electrician.” Both their parents are state employees — their father, a retired state journalist, still depends on his government pension despite continued currency devaluation. Their mother still works for a state pharmaceutical company but hasn’t been to her office in years, Salam says. Rather, she logs in remotely from an office building near their home. Although they may not agree with the Assad regime, they depend on it for their survival. Plus, they still manage family lands in Idlib Province, roughly 40 miles south of the city. As a boy, Salam remembers going out to the village during olive harvesting in October, helping his father take the produce to the factory to make oil. “I come from a rural background, my father and grandfather were all peasants. We have olive trees, grapes, peaches... ” he says. “My dad is attached to this land, he still cultivates it, so they can’t just turn their backs on it and get out of the country.” Their mom hid the news of their dad’s imprisonment for a couple months, Salam says, and the siblings only found out a week before his release. Apparently someone, it’s still unclear to the family who, wrote a negative report about their dad. “In Syria, since the 1980s, if anyone writes a report on you they come and arrest you, [even] torture you if it’s really bad, and they don’t really investigate into the matter,” Salam says. “If someone does it for spite it doesn’t matter, it’s just a report.” His dad wasn’t tortured he says, and his mom was able to visit him twice. This is the second time his dad had been imprisoned, the first time for a month after Salam left. He wasn’t tortured that time either, although he went through several rounds of interrogation as the authorities asked him where Salam had gone. “All they want is the war to be over, that’s their most desired wish,” Salam says of his parents. Talking about Aleppo saddens Salam. He knows its deep history, its rich culture. “It was a really beautiful city,” he says, referring to it as “Aleppo the White” due to the glistening marble that made up the old part of the city. He says he often cries looking at videos and images of the destruction. But in the end, the buildings aren’t what really concerns him. “What’s more important than rebuilding those edifices in Aleppo is rebuilding the social makeup between people,” Salam says. “We don’t trust each other anymore. Syria, in its multi-ethnic and religious makeup, has fallen apart.” In the midst of finishing his graduate degree at CU Boulder, Salam is also waiting to be interviewed for his asylum case. While the application is pending, he can’t leave the country, even to visit his family. And as long as Assad remains in power, he can’t go back to Syria. But he has a temporary protective status in the U.S., while waiting for a green card. He has work authorization and he’s started to build his new life in Boulder, working, buying a car and saving money. He’s able to keep in touch with his family using WhatsApp or social media, contacting them pretty much anytime he wants to. But it’s not the same. Despite everything the family has faced and continues to walk through, he does believe he’ll be reunited with them again, and maybe even, one day, in Aleppo. “Without hope, life makes no sense,” Salam concludes. “I have hopes in all directions, but the hard part is separating your hopes from your expectations. I don’t have really great expectations for the future, but I have hopes.” Editor’s note: Amira’s name has been changed for her safety. For the family’s safety, we’ve withheld their surname. Given the circumstances, interviews with Amira, Amro and Besher were conducted via email and their British English was left as written. Boulder Weekly

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ADVENTURE evolutionary biology, ecology and anthropology. Now with her expedition gig on the Discovery Channel, she’s been incorporating her studies into her dive work. “I definitely see everything through the lens of a marine conservationist,” she says. “I feel like a life-long conservationist having grown up [on the water] and seeing how things have changed over the years. ... My studies and projects have gained me a wonderful understanding of how you fit in the system, how things are connected, how valuable everyone’s decisions are, and how each person can make an impact, even if it’s small. When it’s all added together, it can make a big impact.” Heaney-Grier has also teamed up with several conservation organizations. “Everything I do has that end game in mind — always working towards spreading the message and [making people think about] how we are connected, and how there’s so much beautiful wild adventure. It’s so important that we together make decisions that support and keep [the world] wild and green and blue and healthy. ... [I’m] trying to keep the hope alive in myself, and talk with other people about it all and really trying to share experiences and connect with people. The best way to learn is from each other. More than anything I like to focus on trying to be a part of the solution.” On the Discovery Channel show, Heaney-Grier is the only woman on the fiveperson expedition team. “I’ve worked in male-dominated fields for a long time,” she reflects. “I’ve become really accustomed to being the only woman on expeditions like this, so it doesn’t stand out for me when I’m there ... just another day at the office. “The only time when I ran into a strange situation [as the only female] was on Snake Island. We were out there for days, and it’s hot and everyone is working hard, so when you finally stop to take a break, everybody uses the bathroom. And going to the bathroom on an island covered in pit vipers is a little tricky when going alone.” After such varied professional roles, “One of the biggest things I’ve learned is how to hone my skill set to deal with and diminish any fears,” Heaney-Grier explains. “Biologically speaking, we all have a built-in ‘flight or fight’ [instinct] that keeps us alive. ... But there are ways that it can be debilitating too.” It may come as no surprise that people often ask Heaney-Grier if she ever gets scared, or, more bluntly, if she’s crazy. “Trying to navigate around fear and take it by the reigns is one of the biggest things that’s been instrumental over the course of my career,” she says. “Having control to deal with fears and situations has definitely kept me alive and saved my hide throughout my career. When you’re in a situation that’s life threatening, and you aren’t in the moment because your mind is wrapped up in fear and not thinking rationally, dialing down the fear can keep you better focused on what’s at hand.” Heaney-Grier acknowledges that fear is restrictive in all facets of life, “even in real life.” “It holds us back from important conversations,” she says. “There’s such a disconnect between people when conversations aren’t happening, and that can be rooted in fear. Honestly, I’m more conformable underwater with sharks and alligators, navigating and trying to survive than having interactions and political conversations. “But at the end of the day, I do love connecting with people. Going to the edge of your comfort zone is how you grow, and change, and take on new experiences. You just have to jump and see how you’re going to handle [a scary situation]. And that’s what I’ve been doing throughout my life and career, in some of the most dangerous and life threatening situations. I work well, literally and figuratively, under pressure.” Heaney-Grier’s upcoming year will continue to deepen and expand her diving world. “I have a lot of different irons in the fire, and a few adventures on the burner that I can’t talk a whole lot about now. ... But things are going well in the adventure and travel department. I’m really looking forward to my son pushing 4 [years old] this year because I love sharing the adventure with him, and my stepdaughter as well, and the ocean.” In balancing her work and family, and being landlocked in Colorado, she says, “Find what drives you and tap into that. It’s important for your happiness, and those that love and depend on you, to be happy and to wake up and be in the life you are living. For me, really figuring that out was a big deal and going back to my adventuring and knowing that that’s a driving force for me is my touch stone for everything, that wonder and being able to be out there and see what happens next.” Boulder Weekly

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term used to signify the shutdown of a nuclear reactor; “Bitterness Centrifuge” refers to the process by which uranium is separated and enriched; “U-235” is the form of uranium needed to create a bomb or power a nuclear plant; “Pripyal” instrumentally tells the tale of the Ukrainian town abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster; “Weak Force” is the fundamental force responsible for radioactive decay. And then there are the bombs: “Little Boy,” “Tsar” (short for the western nickname for the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Tsar Bomba) and “Fat Man.” Perhaps the most enigmatic track — title wise — is “Are You a Dancer?”, a title that may poke fun at the way Las Vegas capitalized on atomic bomb testing at the Nevada Test Site just 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas (think: “atomic cocktails” and “dawn bomb parties”). Creating the soundtrack to Atomic was a logical progression for Mogwai; the band members have been prominent and vocal supporters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament for some years now. They’ve visited Hiroshima and walked through the Peace Memorial Park there. But these are guys known for their over-the-top support of the Celtic Football Club; the name of their band comes from an ’80s fantasy flick, for God’s sake. The political nature of their most recent work comes from growing up. “When we started the band in 1995 I was 18 years old and probably would be really excited about the possibility of someone giving us free beer,” Braithwaite says. “To be honest, I think it still blows us away that people ask us to do those kinds of things [like Beyond the Flood and Atomic]. I think we’re very lucky that people are asking us to do these things. We’re certainly not blasé about it.” Boulder Weekly

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SOUND TRAVELS “Jam / Pop”

Friday January 20th

DEJA BLU

“Variety Dance”

Saturday January 21st

GIRLS NIGHT OUT

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“Male Revue”

Sunday January 22nd

SWEET SPOT TRIO “Jazz”

Wednesday January 25th

NELSON RANGELL “Contemporary Jazz”

Thursday January 26th

WILD MOUNTAIN “Folk / Bluegrass”

Friday January 27th

MAKESHIFT FUNK “Dance”

Saturday January 28th

BLUEZ HOUSE “R&B / Dance”

Thursday February 2nd

BROKEN LAND BAND

Laugh Nasty, Funny Women. 8:45 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Courtesy of The Dairy As a bevy of women gather in Washington D.C. for the Million Woman March, The Dairy hosts their own celebration of females with Nasty, Funny Women. Comedians Nancy Nortion, Vicki Edgar, Emily Coates, Mara Wiles and Debbie Scheer gather for a night of feminine power, mixed with some belly chuckles. While the inauguration ushers in a new presidential regime, the day after, these women will take to the stage to calm some fears, deliver some insights and remind us together we can conquer, laughing while doing so.

Explore Uncharted Lines. 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Courtesy of Boulder Theater Adventure documentary Uncharted Lines follows the lives of globally renowned rock climbers Paul Robinson, Jimmy Webb, Daniel Woods and Chris Sharma. Throughout the film, Robinson connects the climbers by travelling from Russia to Spain, to Zimbabwe, the southeastern United States, then finally returning to his home in the Rocky Mountains. The film is about a thirst for exploration and the common desire every climber feels to put up a first ascent. Watch the journey on Wednesday, Jan. 25 at Boulder Theater. see EVENTS Page 34

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Thursday, January 19 Music 3rd Thursdays at eTown — Salsa Night with ¡Los Chicos Malos! 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. DJ Done and Ladies Night Tonight. 9 p.m. Breakers Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303772-3839. Dual Junior Recital: Benjamin Wiebe, Saxophone and Benjamin Sevy, Saxophone. 7:30 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Milky Dubz. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

arts Art as Medicine: Artists in Recovery. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Feb. 26.

Glory of Venice. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 12.

Bodacioussss. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 29.

Joan Jordan. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1174. Through Feb. 3.

Ladies and Gentlemen Meet the Dramastics — Nathan Carter. Museum of Courtesy of MCA/ Kelly Shroads Photography Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 29.

Colorado Lowriders. Longmont Museum,

Olga Karpeisky. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Feb. 3.

Open Mic Night hosted by Brian Rezac. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Reggae Night Featuring Policulture. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Pioneers: Women Artists in Boulder, 1898-1950. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through Feb. 4. Bodacioussss explores the fluidity of modern art in today’s digital landscape, now showing at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Arts through Jan. 29.

Third Thursday at the Dairy Arts Center. 5:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4447328. Tibetan Singing Bowls Songs with Myrna Castaline at Flatirons Terrace. 10:30 a.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th St., Boulder, 303-939-0898.

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Contemplative Landscapes — Suzanne Frazier. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Feb. 26. Double Exposure: An Exhibition of Photography and Video. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 26.

Star Wars and the Power of Costume. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 2. Stop/Look/See — James Milmoe. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7200. Through March 26. Words are Leaves — Kim Dickey. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 29.

Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Opening Reception: Mark Bueno: Ghost Lights. 6 p.m. BMoCA at Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Smokes & Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Farfel’s Farm & Rescue

400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Through May 31.

Shockwave. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through May 28.

Guerrilla Fanfare. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Tyler Stanfield. 6 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Home for the Bewildered. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Van Who-len. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

UMC Winterfest. 7 p.m. CU Boulder University Memorial Center, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303492-6161.

Janis Kelly Say ‘Yes!’ Album Release — Encore Performance. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 916-873-4856.

Up Down Circus — Juggling & Ground Skills Class. 4 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110.

Ninety Percent ’90s. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-7747698.

Friday, January 20

Parisian World Music. 2:30 p.m. Stewart Auditorium, 40 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Music Amelie Quartet With Vocalist Roberta Daria. 2 p.m. Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Banshee Tree. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Deadphish Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637. The Floozies. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Part 1 Tribe. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Events “Just Be” Dance Party. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-499-5777. Bring the Voice: Manifest the Power of Peace Open Mic Series. 6 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Dance Nia on Friday Nights at LRC. 6 p.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800. Saturday, January 21 Music

The People’s Inaugural Ball. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-478-5010.

Bonnie and the Clydes. 8 p.m. The Merc, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-545-9955.

The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Chris Thompson and Bill McKay of Coral Creek. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Ty Morris and H.O.W. Concert and Chili Dinner. 6:30 p.m. Dbarn Longmont, 136 S. Main St., Longmont, 303-651-1259.

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. 7:30 p.m. see EVENTS Page 36

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Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. John Bunzli. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

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THE CONSTELLATION COLLECTIVE SATURDAY JANUARY 21

SLOWRITER 8PM THE ROAD WEST 9PM SUNDAY JANUARY 22 8PM

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Love and Death — Shostakovich Symphony No. 14. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770. Marcus Lucas Show. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. The Mighty Twisters. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Save Our City. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Symbols. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Terravita. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Events

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An Act of God. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720865-4239. Through March 12. The Book of Will. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Feb. 26. Fun Home. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720865-4239. Through Jan. 22. Leading Ladies. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont, 303772-5200. Through Jan. 22. Thoroughly Modern Millie. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through Feb. 25.

Girls Night Out! The Show. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Thoroughly Modern Millie taps across the BDT Stage until Feb. 25. Read BW’s review on page 31.

Godspell. 7:30 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. High Country Winter Hike. 10 a.m. Mud Lake Open Space, Boulder, 303-678-6214. The Ira Liss Show. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Nasty, Funny Women. 8:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Sunday, January 22 Music Bach Organ Masterworks with Elizabeth Farr. 4 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 720-507-5052. eTown Live Radio Show Taping with Beth Hart & John McEuen. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. John Mullins. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Master Student Recital: Aaron Jensen, Trumpet. 2 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder, 303-4928008. Mogwai play Atomic. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Sharon Park & Suyeon Kim | Duo Recital. 7 p.m. The Academy, 970 Aurora Ave., Boulder, 303-938-1920.

Sensory Friendly Playtime. 8 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Greater Boulder Youth Orchestra Auditions. 5 p.m. Mt. View United Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, 719-687-3868.

Monday, January 23

Guest Recital: Jasper Wood, Violin, and David Riley, Piano. 7:30 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Music Bluegrass Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 1800 Pikes Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-8236685. Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW.

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. see EVENTS Page 38

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A Guided Tour of Hell is a graphic memoir that tells the story of Sam Bercholz’s near-death experience. Bercholz stops by Naropa on Jan. 20. Thursday, Jan. 19

Sweet Spot Trio. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Eric Door. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Events

Friday, Jan. 20

Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Samuel Bercholz — A Guided Tour of Hell: A Graphic Memoir. 7:30 p.m. Naropa University’s Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Dance Nia on Sunday Mornings. 11 a.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800.

Open Jam. 10 a.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Monday, Jan. 23

Godspell. 2 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

McTeggart Celtic New Year 2017. 4 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, Levin Hall, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900.

Tuesday, Jan. 24

Rockers Allstyles Workshops. 11:30 a.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-6189778.

Stephen Graham Jones and Billy J. Stratton. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

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Shakedown Street & My Blue Sky Saturday January 21

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Mile high Meltdown

Feat ProJeCt aSPeCt, Cloud-d, kruza kid, nadaSound & notoriouS ConduCt

Saturday January 21

atoMga & SiSterS oF Soul Feat kiM dawSon, ChriStie ChaMBerS & tanya ShyloCk w/ the SextoneS

Monday January 23

Monday night Menagerie Feat good touCh, zeta June & SMooth wade

Feat Mikey lion, lee reynoldS, MarBS, PorkChoP & deeP JeSuS

wedneSday January 25

Friday FeBruary 10

w/ CaSual CoMMander, Mikey thunder & aaron BordaS

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w/ Jo MerSa Marley, JeMere Morgan & weStaFa

Saturday FeBruary 11

FoundationS oF Funk Feat george Porter Jr & zigaBoo ModeliSte (the MeterS) w/ SPeCial gueStS John MedeSki & eddie roBertS thurSday FeBruary 16

Clozee & PSyMBioniC w/ SuPerSillyuS, SoulaCyBin, the digital ConneCtion & Brede

Friday FeBruary 17

SaMMy adaMS w/ the Prinz SPadez, dallaS garCia & Maze

Saturday FeBruary 18

giant Panda guerilla duB Squad w/ na’an StoP

Saturday FeBruary 25

hieroglyPhiCS (all original MeMBerS) w/ whiSkey Blanket, old Man Saxon & kruza kid

thurSday MarCh 2

BlaCk tiger Sex MaChine w/ daBin & kai waChi

Saturday MarCh 4

trollPhaCe w/ traMPa & SkiSM

tueSday MarCh 7

ugly god x wintertiMe wedneSday MarCh 8

reCeSS, CoBrayaMa & the orCaStrator wedneSday MarCh 15

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Friday & Saturday MarCh 17-18 dual venue!

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Friday January 27

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Saturday January 28 dave & SCott’S Bday BaSh

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Friday FeBruary 3

5th annual BoB Marley CeleBration Feat wake uP & live w/ ProJeCt 432 & SelaSee & the FaFa FaMily

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thurSday FeBruary 9

leoPold & hiS FiCtion w/ uSeFul JenkinS & SteeP ravine

Friday FeBruary 10

John Brown’S Body w/ aPex viBe, MindState & dJ drew SayerS

Saturday FeBruary 11

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very SPeCial all Star lineuP Feat Joey Porter, garrett SayerS & dave wattS (the Motet) & Steve SwatkinS (allen Stone) w/ the workShy

Friday & Saturday FeBruary 17-18

Friday aPril 14

wedneSday aPril 19 @ red roCkS

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tueSday January 31

Feat the werkS

MiCkey avalon & dirt naSty

Now playing at the Denver Center for Performing Arts, Fun Home tells the coming-of-age story of lesbian cartoonist Allison Bechdel. Narrated by current-day Allison, the musical follows her memory from childhood through college. The show picked up five Tony Awards, including best musical, in 2015. It deals with the tribulations of finding yourself and, more importantly, accepting yourself. As Allison realizes her truth, she finds that those around her have wrestled with their own battles. Catch the final days of the tour at the Ellie Calkins Opera House.

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tueSday FeBruary 14

Friday MarCh 31

Fun Home. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Jan. 22.

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every thurSday @ the other Side

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Feat MiChael traviS & JaSon hann (SCi & eoto), Steve kiMoCk & JaMie Janover

wedneSday FeBruary 22

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Feat SuPerviSon, unliMited gravity, Mikey thunder & JuBee

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nless And They All Peed Together: The Donald Trump Story is written and filmed faster than a hot-mic whisper to Billy Bush, Live By Night should be the worst movie released in 2017. Arrogant to a fault, nonchalantly bigoted and flat-out boring as shit, Ben Affleck’s gangster odyssey is as bad as any film can possibly be. Having started his directorial career with three exceptional movies, Affleck’s “hold my beer” moment feels like he crammed four bad flicks into the space of one. Although dissecting roadkill feels a bit serial killer-y, let’s split Live By Night into its four movies. Movie one: Joe (Ben Affleck), who dresses like he’s cosplaying a Zoot Suit Riot, is a former WWI soldier. We discover this in the first of Affleck’s 6,342 voice overs. His take-home message from the war wasn’t “killing is icky” but “I don’t wanna work for nobody.” So he takes to robbing banks and falls for a mob boss’s gal (Sienna Miller). When the boss finds out, he gets beat up and is only saved by his cop dad (Brendan Gleeson), who negotiates a deal to keep him in prison only briefly. Movie two: Joe, who dresses in gaudy suspenders he insists on exposing in every goddamn scene, falls in with an Italian mobster who hires him to run bootlegging operations in Florida. There, he meets a nice lady (Zoe A gangster epic about a bootlegger that finds time to be gross about racism and women, nothing about the film is Saldana) and runs afoul of anything other than the absolute worst. the KKK. Gangsters have to square off against the Klan for supremacy of the state. Movie three: Joe, who dresses in the most ridiculous series of fedoras ever fedora-ed, is the head of bootlegging in Florida. He becomes wary of the upcoming legalization of booze, so he begins trying to build a casino and legalize gambling. A former heroin addict (Elle Fanning) turns into a religious zealot and whips up the Christian community to defeat Joe’s gambling push. Movie four: Joe, who dresses in a button-down shirt during a sex scene because Affleck (the director) yearns to conceal the saggy manflesh of Affleck (the actor), is ready to overthrow the shackles of “old world” gangsters with accents and establish a new, more decent American mafia. So he gets into a big shootout in a mansion. Throughout all of the shitty movies that make up Live By Night, the constant is a horrifyingly crude depiction of women. Miller is “the whore.” Fanning is “the virgin.” And Saldana is “the mother.” It’s a misogyny trifecta! Affleck also positions white men as equal victims of KKK trauma, uses every antiquated racial slur ever invented (often one right after the other) and triumphantly brags about checking off two ethnicities on his “sexual conquest bingo” card at once. Let no one call Live By Night unwatchable. Instead, let it be shown to every douchey, arrogant white filmmaker dude itching to ape Scorsese without putting in the work or possessing the talent. Let it be mandatory education for blockbuster actors relentlessly self-assured in their artistry. Let it be the cautionary tale of what happens to young directors drunk on the press of a fledgling filmography. Just don’t ever make me watch it again. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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that seems to be common any longer, bibimbap is still an iconic dish of Korea. And it’s still a way families use up leftovers after large celebrations. In Boulder, Korea House has been serving iconic Korean fare for more than 20 years from an unassuming nook in a shopping center on Glenwood and 28th. It’s changed a lot over the years, with Boulder Weekly describing it as “a spartan dining space with cinder block walls and minimal artwork” back in 2009. Today, Korea House is like your grandmother’s living room: cozy, filled with eclectic knickknacks, an atmosphere that acts as an invitation to sit, eat and enjoy. If you’re looking for a dish that can warm the bones, comfort the senses and delight the taste buds — all without challenging your New Year’s resolution to fit back into those jeans — look no further than a bowl of Korea House’s bibimbap. This dish is all about contrasting textures: soft, warm rice against crunchy veggies, chewy meat (though vegetarian varieties are common and equally delicious) and gooey egg. The egg should be cracked over the warm rice and veggies, allowed to cook ever-so-slightly, covered and removed from the heat. And let us not forget the most important addition: kimchi, the spicy fermentation of cabbage that, without argument, is the most iconic of all Korean foods. Kimchi is eaten with all Korean meals, and I dare say you aren’t experiencing Korean cuisine without adding it to your dish. “[Korea] is one of the world’s best at branding itself through food, using its cuisine as a kind of ‘soft power’ to help spread South Korea’s influence,” the Kitchen Sisters claimed on NPR’s Morning Edition last year. Indeed, if food defines who we are — even at a national level — then Korea is a country that values health, comfort, simplicity and tradition. Korea House, by extension, holds the same values. Korea House. 2750 Glenwood Drive, Suite 4, Boulder, 303-449-1657.

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Monday, Jan. 23, is National Pie Day, the only national holiday that originated in Boulder. It was founded by Boulder’s homebrew and craft brew guru, Charlie Papazian. Celebrate the day by baking a pie and sharing it with people you love. ... According to coloradobrewerylist.com, 42 new breweries opened in Colorado in 2016 with 92 more in the planning stages this year. ... Forget the Oscars, Grammys and Tonys. Focus on the Scovies and the fact that Burns and McCoy in Fort Collins took first place in the annual Chile Pepper Awards for its Reaper Verde hot sauce made with roasted serrano, jalapeño, green habanero, cayenne and Carolina Reaper chilies. ... Opening soon in Lafayette: Chocolaterie Stam, 103 S. Public Road. ... Plan ahead: The Boulder County Farmers Market opens April 1 in Boulder and Longmont. Upcoming foodie gatherings: Cochon 555, March 19, Denver. cochon555. com/2017-tour/denver; Denver Grilled Cheese Festival, April 12, Denver. denvergrilledcheesefest.com; Slow Food Nations, July 14-17, Denver. slowfoodnations.org.

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One thing I can cook are great soups, so I seldom buy canned, dry, frozen or pre-made soup, stew or chowder. I made an exception to sample Boulder Organic Green Chile Corn Chowder. I’m always dubious of the many foods that plaster “Boulder” on their labels and prepared to be underwhelmed by a processed taste. Instead, this soup tastes like something I would make with sweet corn balanced by a good roasted chile presence without excessive heat. Sold refrigerated at local supermarkets, the Boulder-made chowder is made with organic corn, potatoes, roasted green chilies and onions with chicken broth, olive oil and no preservatives. I will admit that I added pulled turkey, black pepper and extra sharp cheddar for my second bowl.

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ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Are you more attracted to honing

group dynamics or liberating group dynamics? Do you have more aptitude as a director who organizes people or as a sparkplug who inspires people? Would you rather be a Chief Executive officer or a Chief Imagination Officer? Questions like these will be fertile for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. The astrological omens suggest it’s time to explore and activate more of your potential as a leader or catalyst.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: An eccentric Frenchman named

Laurent Aigon grew up near an airport, and always daydreamed of becoming a commercial pilot. Sadly, he didn’t do well enough in school to fulfill his wish. Yet he was smart and ambitious enough to accomplish the next best thing: assembling a realistic version of a Boeing 737 cockpit in his home. With the help of Google, he gathered the information he needed, and ordered most of the necessary parts over the Internet. The resulting masterpiece has enabled him to replicate the experiences of being a pilot. It’s such a convincing copy that he has been sought as a consultant by organizations that specialize in aircraft maintenance. I suggest you attempt a comparable feat, Taurus: creating a simulated version of what you want. I bet it will eventually lead you to the real thing.

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MAY 21-JUNE 20: The weather may be inclement where

you live, so you may be resistant to my counsel. But I must tell you the meanings of the planetary omens as I understand them, and not fret about whether you’ll act on them. Here’s my prescription, lifted from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: “We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” And why does Thoreau say we need such experiences? “We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, to witness our own limits transgressed.”

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JUNE 21-JULY 22: Welcome to the most deliciously enig-

matic, sensually mysterious phase of your astrological cycle.

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To provide you with the LIBRA proper non-rational guidSEPT. 23-OCT. 22: ance, I have stolen scraps of Czech writer Bohumil dusky advice from the poet Hrabal penned the novel Dansk Javlarna (danskjavDancing Lessons for the larna.tumblr.com). Please Advanced in Age. It consists Go to RealAstrology.com to check out read between the lines: 1. of one sentence. But it’s a Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO Navigate the ocean that long, rambling sentence — HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE roars within the seashell. 2. 117 pages’ worth. It streams HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes Carry the key, even if the from the mouth of the narare also available by phone at lock has been temporarily rator, who is an older man lost. 3. Search through the 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. bent on telling all the big deepest shadows for the stories of his life. If there bright light that cast them. were ever to come a time 4. Delve into the unfathomable in wordless awe of the when you, too, would have cosmic permission and a poetic inexplicable. license to deliver a one-sentence, 117-page soliloquy, Libra, it would be in the coming weeks. Reveal your truths! Break LEO through your inhibitions! Celebrate your epic tales! (P.S.: JULY 23-AUG. 22: What exactly would a bolt of light- Show this horoscope to the people you’d like as your listeners.) ning taste like? I mean, if you could somehow manage to roll it around in your mouth without having to endure SCORPIO the white-hot shock. There’s a booze manufacturer that OCT. 23-NOV. 21: When Pluto was discovered in 1930, claims to provide this sensation. The company known as astronomers called it the ninth planet. But 76 years later, they Oddka has created “Electricity Vodka,” hard liquor with changed their mind. In accordance with shifting definitions, an extra fizzy jolt. But if any sign of the zodiac could safely they demoted Pluto to the status of a mere “dwarf planet.” But approximate eating a streak of lightning without the help in recent years, two renowned astronomers at Caltech have of Electricity Vodka, it would be you Leos. These days you found convincing evidence for a new ninth planet. Konstantin have a special talent for absorbing and enjoying and inteBatygin and Michael E. Brown are tracking an object that is grating fiery inspiration. much larger than Earth. Its orbit is so far beyond Neptune’s that it takes 15,000 years to circle the sun. As yet it doesn’t have VIRGO an official name, but Batygin and Brown informally refer to it AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Eighteenth-century painter Joshua as “Phattie.” I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I Reynolds said that a “disposition to abstractions, to genersuspect that you, too, are on the verge of locating a monumental alizing and classification, is the great glory of the human new addition to your universe. mind.” To that lofty sentiment, his fellow artist William Blake responded, “To generalize is to be an idiot; to particularize is SAGITTARIUS the alone distinction of merit.” So I may be an idiot when I NOV. 22-DEC. 21: The tomato and potato are both make the following generalization, but I think I’m right: In nightshades, a family of flowering plants. Taking advantage the coming weeks, it will be in your best interests to rely on of this commonality, botanists have used the technique of crafty generalizations to guide your decisions. Getting bogged grafting to produce a pomato plant. Its roots yield potatoes, down in details at the expense of the big picture — missing while its vines grow cherry tomatoes. Now would be a good the forest for the trees — is a potential pitfall that you can time for you to experiment with a metaphorically similar and should avoid. creation, Sagittarius. Can you think of how you might generate two useful influences from a single source?

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Some guy I don’t know keeps sending

me emails about great job opportunities he thinks I’d like to apply for: a technical writer for a solar energy company, for example, and a social media intern for a business that offers travel programs. His messages are not spam. The gigs are legitimate. And yet I’m not in the least interested. I already have several jobs I enjoy, like writing these horoscopes. I suspect that you, too, may receive worthy but ultimately irrelevant invitations in the coming days, Capricorn. My advice: If you remain faithful to your true needs and desires, more apropos offers will eventually flow your way.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: The word “naysayer” describes a

person who’s addicted to expressing negativity. A “yeasayer,” on the other hand, is a person who is prone to expressing optimism. According to my assessment of the astrological omens, you can and should be a creative yeasayer in the coming days — both for the sake of your own well-being and that of everyone whose life you touch. For inspiration, study Upton Sinclair’s passage about Beethoven: He was “the defier of fate, the great yea-sayer.” His music is “like the wind running over a meadow of flowers, superlative happiness infinitely multiplied.”

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: If I’m feeling prosaic, I might refer

to a group of flamingos as a flock. But one of the more colorful and equally correct terms is a “flamboyance” of flamingos. Similarly, a bunch of pretty insects with clubbed antennae and big fluttery wings may be called a kaleidoscope of butterflies. The collective noun for zebras can be a dazzle, for pheasants a bouquet, for larks an exaltation, and for finches a charm. In accordance with current astrological omens, I’m borrowing these nouns to describe members of your tribe. A flamboyance or kaleidoscope of Pisceans? Yes! A dazzle or bouquet or exaltation or charm of Pisceans? Yes! All of the above.

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the thousands of ear fetish videos on YouTube — is about tugging, rubbing, or licking someone’s ear and not about fucking someone in the ear or coming in someone’s ear canal. Dicks don’t fit in ear canals, and blasting semen into someone’s ear could cause a nasty ear infection. So both are risky practices best avoided — but, hey, if PIE (penis in ear) sex is actually a thing, I invite any hardcore ear kinksters out there reading this to write in and explain exactly how that works. Dear Dan: I have a particular fetish that I’ve never fully disclosed to anybody. My ultimate fantasy is to be stripped of my assets by a woman and then (most importantly) made homeless. I like dressing up dirty — face, clothing, and all — and even going so far as to look through garbage cans. My question is this: Is it moral to live out this fantasy, considering the plight of homeless people? — Desiring Interesting Role-Play That’s Yucky Dear DIRTY: I’m not gonna lec-

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ture you about how homelessness is a tragedy for individuals and a national crisis that the administration of Orange Julius Caesar is unlikely to prioritize. Just like AURAL, DIRTY, I’m not here to yuck anyone’s yum. But this is definitely a fantasy — morally speaking — that can’t be fully realized. You’re turned on by the thought of a cruel woman taking absolutely everything from you and leaving you homeless? Great. Find a woman who’s into findom (financial domination) and give her some or most of your money and play dress up on the weekends and sleep in her backyard. But don’t give her everything and actually wind up homeless, DIRTY, because then you’ll wind up competing for scarce shelter beds and other resources with men, women, and children who didn’t choose to become homeless because it made their dicks hard. There’s nothing moral about making their plight worse than it already is. Finally, DIRTY, while you’re able to

fantasize about being stripped of your assets and left homeless, there are real people out there who have nothing and don’t find anything about being homelessness arousing. Want to be poorer? Donate a big chunk of your assets to homeless shelters and/or nonprofits that assist those experiencing homelessness in your area. Dear Dan: Bi guy here, who’s way okay with the use of “fag” or “faggot” in the right context. And what FAGS wrote in about last week — a boyfriend who wants to be called “faggot” while she talks negatively about his cock — is absolutely the right context. There’s an evolution in meaning taking place right now, Dan. These days, “fag” is less about sexual preference and more about sexual submission. A submissive man? Gay or straight? He’s a fag. I’ve been serviced by both hetero and homo faggots and have enjoyed myself, as have the fags who sucked my cock or did my housework. Go onto Tumblr and see for yourself. (Also: I have a sneaky suspicion that sparks would fly if FAGS raised the subject of cuckoldry with her boyfriend.) — Bi Guy Into Faggots Dear BGIF: Thanks for sharing, BGIF. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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tical and scientific review toward the verification of these various findings. For good reason, a claim of scientific truth comes with steep requirements that must be proven by robust, unbiased experiments that are replicable. A new review of marijuana research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) provides some of the much needed veracity to the thousands of claims made by the piles of research. NASEM’s panel of 12 experts performed what might be the most comprehensive review to date, considering upwards of 10,700 U.S. studies appearing in peer-reviewed journals since 1999 to arrive at more than 100 conclusions. Here is a brief overview of their findings. The review found “conclusive evidence” that marijuana can reduce chronic pain, supporting claims that it can function as a substitute for the use of more dangerous and addictive opioids. There is also “conclusive evidence” that marijuana treats chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting as well as multiple sclerosis spasticity symptoms, as reported by patients. The review found “moderate evidence” of cannabis in improving sleep outcomes associated with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic pain and multiple sclerosis. It found “limited evidence” to support claims that marijuana improves the symptoms of dementia and glaucoma or the depressive symptoms of chronic pain and multiple sclerosis. Importantly, it also found “limited evidence” that cannabis use increases the rate of initiating other drug use. There was “insufficient evidence” to prove cannabis’s redemptive properties concerning cancers, cancerassociated anorexia, irritable bowel syndrome, epilepsy,

spasticity in patients with paralysis due to spinal cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, drug addiction and schizophrenia. This does not mean cannabis or its derivatives are ineffective toward these illnesses or symptoms, just that there is not enough evidence from within the pool of studies to definitively support these claims. Anecdotally, there are thousands of patients across the country who attest to the effectiveness of marijuana in successfully treating many of these diseases and symptoms. The NASEM review also verified claims regarding the harmful effects of cannabis on consumers. The report did not find sufficient evidence for cannabis’s link to lung cancer or cancer of the head and neck (commonly linked to tobacco), chronic risk of heart attack, asthma, later outcomes for infants born of mothers that used marijuana during pregnancy, overdoses and PTSD. It did find moderate evidence that there are links between marijuana and the onset of certain mental illnesses, respiratory problems and impairments in driving. Not only did the report provide a conclusive picture of the benefits and harms of marijuana but, pragmatically and importantly, it also calls into question its classification as a Schedule I substance, defined as a drug with a high potential for abuse and no medical benefit. The study’s chairwoman, Marie McCormick, directly appealed to the federal government to relax its restrictions on research, citing specific regulatory barriers introduced by its Schedule 1 classification as well as the difficulties of gaining access to the quantity, quality and type of cannabis necessary to address research questions through the National Institute for Drug Abuse’s regulated supply. In light of increasing availability of recreational and medicinal cannabis and the associated public health and policy concerns, McCormick is clear in her appeal that now is not the time to confuse science with politics.

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Nationally, there’s some evidence that legal pot may be impacting the alcohol industry as a whole. A survey conducted last July found that marijuana users spent about $640 a year on pot, while alcohol users spent about $645 a year on booze. It doesn’t automatically follow that pot users in Colorado, Oregon and Washington moved some of their booze spending over the marijuana when pot became legal — it could be they just started buying pot while not cutting back on booze — but it’s not unreasonable to assume that many did so. On the other hand, the same study found that coffee users spent more on their substance — $1,000 annually — than either marijuana or alcohol buyers spent on theirs. Chances are legal pot isn’t cutting into coffee consumption. Both studies focused on sales data and neither directly asked consumers if they were inhaling more and imbibing less — and if so why. Just guessing, but chances are people who smoke pot do drink less booze, if for no other reason than

unless you are a serious substance abuser there are only so many hours a month you can devote to being buzzed, and there isn’t much mental synergy to be had in consuming booze and pot together. Then there are a substantial number of people who will choose pot over booze for reasons like it doesn’t beat them up as much physically, doesn’t leave them as hung over and reduces the chances of them getting in a fight. It really is the safer drug, and most people who use it don’t need a peer-reviewed study to tell them. So is there any truth to the belief that big alcohol was behind marijuana prohibition and the war on drugs? It’s true that some booze interests have contributed to anti-legalization efforts, most notably in Arizona, but if marijuana prohibition was an alcohol industry plot, it was one of the most spectacularly bad decisions in business history. When the feds outlawed marijuana in 1937, there were about 100,000 pot users in the county. Today, after 70 years of war on pot, there are about 25 million. And the great surge in marijuana occurred in the ’60s, when marijuana became an iconic part of rebellion and the counter-culture. If it hadn’t been forbidden, that wouldn’t have happened.

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