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24th Anniversary Issue: Celebrating local people who make the world a better place by Boulder Weekly Staff

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New book details how to cement the public’s right to a clean environment in the state constitution by Matt Cortina

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Poet Andrea Gibson asks, ‘How do I get Trump voters to my show?’ by Amanda Moutinho

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Austin guitar legend Eric Johnson on balancing expectations by Dave Kirby

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Denver’s River North Art District turns into an outdoor film festival by Caitlin Rockett

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Delicious fare from Africa, Haiti, Syria and other ‘undesirable’ places by John Lehndorff

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The people behind Gunbarrel’s Ampersand Coffee Roasters think coffee can save the world by Matt Cortina

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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: Are job incentive programs good for communities? 6 THE ANDERSON FILES: Trump and the neo-Nazi investment adviser 6 GUEST COLUMN: Chain migration? 8 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 45 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 53 WORDS: ‘(We must learn to tell) stories’ by Clint Locks 54 SCREEN: ‘Molly’s Game’ ends in a tie 55 FILM: War, hot and cold, in ‘Underground’ 57 THE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in and around Boulder County 65 DRINK: Profiles in brew: Tom Horst of Crystal Springs Brewing Company 71 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 73 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: The Boulder formula: weed and fitness 75 CANNABIS CORNER: Vermont governor huffs, puffs, legalizes pot 76 ICUMI: An irreverent and not always accurate view of the world 77 SAVAGE LOVE: An oldie and a footie Boulder Weekly

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Publisher, Stewart Sallo Associate Publisher, Fran Zankowski Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn EDITORIAL Editor, Joel Dyer Managing Editor, Matt Cortina Senior Editor, Angela K. Evans Arts and Culture Editor, Caitlin Rockett Special Editions Editor, Emma Murray Contributing Writers: Peter Alexander, Dave Anderson, Rob Brezsny, Michael J. Casey, Gavin Dahl, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Sarah Haas, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Michael Krumholtz, John Lehndorff, Amanda Moutinho, Carolyn Oxley, Brian Palmer, Noël Phillips, Mollie Putzig, Leland Rucker, Dan Savage, Alan Sculley, Ryan Syrek, Mariah Taylor, Gregory Thorson, Christi Turner, Betsy Welch, Tom Winter, Gary Zeidner SALES AND MARKETING Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Account Executive, Julian Bourke Market Development Manager, Kellie Robinson Marketing Manager, Devin Edgley Advertising Coordinator, Olivia Rolf Mrs. Boulder Weekly, Mari Nevar PRODUCTION Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Assistant to the Publisher Julia Sallo CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 18-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo Cover art, Susan France, photo of Alyssa Finer with Conversations in English at BoulderReads. January 25, 2018 Volume XXV, Number 25 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holdsbarred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper. 690 South Lashley Lane, Boulder, CO, 80305 p 303.494.5511 f 303.494.2585 editorial@boulderweekly.com www.boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly is published every Thursday. No portion may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. © 2018 Boulder Weekly, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Highroad Are job incentive programs good for communities? by Jim Hightower

overnors and mayors insist that giving our tax dollars to corporations to lure them to move to our cities is good public policy, because the corporations create jobs, those workers pay taxes and — voila! — the corporate giveaway pays for itself! Really? No. Good Jobs First tracked the 386 incentive deals since 1976 that gave at least $50 million to a corporation, then it tallied the number of jobs created. The average cost per job was $658,427. Each. That’s far more than cities and states can recover through sales, property, income and all other taxes those jobholders would pay in their lifetimes. The rosy job-creation claims by incentive dealmakers also tend to be bogus, for they don’t subtract the number of jobs

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lost as a result of these deals. Amazon, for example, has leaned on officials in every major metro area to subsidize its creation of a nationwide network of warehouses, data centers and other facilities. In a 2016 report titled “Amazon’s Stranglehold,” the Institute for Local Self-Reliance found that more than half of Amazon’s facilities had been built with government subsidies. And Good Jobs First found that since 2005, Amazon has received more than $1 billion from taxpayers to build their private business. Each handout was made in the name of local workers, and, yes, Amazon does employ thousands. But the subsidies enable the retail giant to undercut local, unsubsidized competitors, driving them out of business and causing devastating job losses that greatly outnumber jobs gained. The Institute reports that at the end of 2015, Amazon did indeed employ 146,000 people in its U.S. operations, but the taxpayer-supported giant had meanwhile eliminated some 295,000 U.S. retail jobs. Check out the report for yourself at ilsr.org/amazonstranglehold. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 25 , 2018 5

the anderson files Trump and the neo-Nazi investment adviser

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hortly before the 2016 vote, far right militias were preparing to defend Donald Trump in case the election was stolen by Hillary Clinton. That’s somewhat appropriate since the militias arose in the 1990s in response to the supposed tyrannical tendencies of her husband, Bill. The 1990s were a tumultuous and confusing time for the right wing as a whole. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet bloc meant that anti-communism was no longer the unifying political ideology for them. They disagreed about who they could blame for society’s ills. They argued over who the main culprit was — international terrorists or pagan environmentalists or abortion providers or feminists or gays or The New World Order. The militias warned that the federal government was planning to establish a globalist U.N. police state in the near future. There were armed confrontations with law enforcement which culminated in a militia sympathizer’s 1995 bombing of the federal office building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people. The militias were the armed wing of the older and more broadly based patriot movement. As a journalist, I investigated the movement and attended gatherings such as the Preparedness Expo in downtown Denver in 1996 and 1997. The speakers were the patriot/ militia movers and shakers such as Militia of Montana leader John Trochmann and national talk radio host and former Green Beret commander Colonel “Bo” Gritz. The expo was a traveling survivalist consumer show featuring solar ovens, blow guns, freeze-dried foods, alternative health remedies, emergency and disaster supplies, precious metals, radiation detection devices, home security and self-protection products. You could buy numerous buttons, T-shirts and bumper stickers denouncing or ridiculing Bill and Hillary Clinton. You could buy a bumper sticker which said “The Miracle of AIDS — Turns Fruits Into Vegetables” and “Some People Are Alive Simply Because It’s Illegal to Kill Them.” Evangelist Texe Marrs was selling a 6 January 25 , 2018

book he authored entitled Big Sister Is Watching You: Hillary Clinton And The White House Feminists Who Now Control America — And Tell The President What To Do. A flyer for the book describes a “coven” of “ruthless, shrewd, and calculating FemiNazis” who were plotting to “end American sovereignty and bring about a global Marxist paradise.” He asked, “What dark power does [Hillary] exercise over her husband Bill? What’s her real goal? Is she plotting behind the scenes to become President of the United States of America?” At the 1997 expo, I attended a seminar entitled “Why You Must Keep Your Money in the U.S.” by investment adviser Chris Temple who had a newsletter called “The National Investor.” He recommended an “America First” investment strategy but his talk was about politics. He said he recently spent nearly three weeks in Washington, D.C. visiting members of Congress. He was there to oppose giving President Clinton “fast track” authority when he negotiated trade agreements (that is, Congress couldn’t amend these agreements but just vote them up or down). Clinton was defeated by an alliance of the labor movement, environmental and consumer groups, as well as some right-wing organizations. “Wall Street and Washington are lying to you,” Temple said. He joked about how he was “the token conservative, the token Nazi” in coalitions opposing fast track, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. “Liberals hate the New World Order more than conservatives,” he said. He advocated a “marriage of the left and the right” and suggested that conservatives rethink their view of the world. He said the U.S. has “turned into a tool of oppression.” He asked the audience how many of them had seen the recent popular movie Air Force One. Most raised their hands. He said that “it would be great if we had President Harrison Ford rather than President Hillary Clinton.” However, he thought the anti-American sentiments by the film’s terrorist see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8

guest column Chain migration? by Stacie Blake

t is historical fact that millions of people have come to the U.S. to create new lives in freedom. Immigration is the origin of our history as a country. Our federal government did not even keep immigration records until 1820. The bedrock of U.S. growth and prosperity is immigration, and for nearly 30 years the priority has been family reunification. The Immigration Act of 1990, the most comprehensive overhaul of our immigration system since 1965, was passed with bipartisan support and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush. Under President Bush, over 475,000 refugees were welcomed and family reunification was prioritized by expanding the number of family-based visas allotted per year. Today, chain migration has replaced family reunification as a term describing the process of allowing legal immigrants to apply for relatives abroad to come to the U.S. Families of every type are the foundation of strong communities across the globe. As a rule, families provide mutual support to their members, sharing culture, customs, language and traditions, and providing discipline and guidance to young members and support elders or ill members in need. International migration is not new. The process can separate families as members seek adventure, economic possibility, safety or love. Sometimes entire families move together, but often young men or women migrate seeking to secure a foothold of employment and stability before bringing along their sweethearts, wives, parents, siblings or children. The current family-based immigration system was established by the Immigration

and Nationality Act of 1965 (INA of 1965) as an end to the national origin quotas that dated back to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and heavily favored immigrants from Northern and Western Europe. Family reunification has a positive impact on individuals and the communities in which they live and is a cornerstone of our country, the country built by immigrants. According to media reports, President Trump benefits from family reunification as his in-laws followed to join his wife and surely support the culture, custom and traditions of the family by living in close proximity to their daughter and grandson. Lately, family-based immigration has been replaced by the language of “chain migration” as a deficit in our immigration system and a burden to our communities. House Judiciary Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Virginia) said, “Chain migration takes away from the United States the ability to choose people to come to this country based on who are most needed here and to do a better vetting process than we do now.” I believe we are indeed choosing separated family members to be reunited because family is the foundation of a strong community and country. Family reunification policies reflect our country’s values and are the secret recipe to our success. Immigration based on family reunification is a national asset, not a burden and changes to this focus of the Immigration Act of 1990 are not needed. Recognizing the humanity of immigrants includes having respect for their families. Stacie Blake is Director of Government and Community Relations at the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. Boulder Weekly

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the “ancillary” activities like farm-totable dinners and the volunteer labor he uses. Wanting additional financial support from the County to perpetuate this sort of approach seems unrealistic and unfair to the rest of the agricultural community in the County. As you can perhaps see, this “allorganic” approach is not what traditional farming and beekeeping has been built upon, and is economically and productively unsustainable without other means of support, as Mr. Guttridge apparently has realized. We also feel that were this approach and mindset to become predominant with farming and beekeeping in general, there would not be enough food production to feed the people who need it. To be fair here, though, we are not singling out Mr. Guttridge per se, but realize that there are many other wannabe organic farmers and beekeepers around the County that share his views (practically speaking, it is impossible to do organic beekeeping in the U.S. by the way). Many of us, myself included, prefer to refer to our approach as being one of “all-natural.” Many of us who have farmed and

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I’d like to offer some comments from the perspective of heritage farmers and beekeepers in Boulder County on the article, “Cropped out” by Matt Cortina in the Jan. 11 issue of BW. As you may be aware, there is a group in Boulder County called Farmers Alliance for Integrated Resources (FAIR), and a group called the Colorado Professional Beekeeping Association (CPBA), which represents not only Boulder County but state beekeepers as well. Essentially, we’d like to relate to you that the farming and beekeeping communities in Boulder County predate the activities and interests of folks like Mr. Guttridge and Mr. Pounds by many decades and many generations, and for the most part have done so in an economically viable and environmentally sensitive way. Many of us do not see the problems that Mr. Guttridge and Mr. Pounds describe, as we are aware or appreciative of the long-standing agricultural traditions that have been practiced here for over a century. From our observations, Mr. Guttridge has never been sustainable in his operations, were it not for

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villian were essentially correct. He mentioned that he had written an article right after Boris Yeltsin came to power in which he argued that the Russian leader had a window of opportunity to transform his country’s economy. He suggested that Yeltsin should consider what Adolf Hitler did for Germany’s economy beginning in 1933. Temple boasted with a laugh that groups, which monitor the far right such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center “always trot out this article with the Hitler reference.” Temple, a founder of the militia movement, had long time involvements with the Liberty Lobby, the KKK and the Aryan Nations. I have wondered about what Temple was suggesting. In Air Force One, American and Russian special-forces capture the ultra-nationalist, nucleararmed dictator of Kazakhstan who is committing genocide and wants to restore “Mother Russia.” Three weeks later, a diplomatic dinner is held in Moscow to celebrate. Loyalists of the

dictator, posing as journalists, hijack Air Force One on the flight back. The president, played by Harrison Ford, fights the terrorists and manages to defeat them singlehandedly. Temple’s admiration for the film’s ultra-nationalists isn’t surprising. When the Soviet empire fell apart, neo-fascists in Europe and the U.S. flocked to the region. A few thought that Russia might become the Fourth Reich. In 2001, Temple would become a star of the financial press for his prognostications. But in 2003, he was indicted for mail fraud and money laundering and ended up in prison for several years. That’s a problem for the far right. They have a lot of grifters. Speaking of grifters, Donald Trump is a big fan of Air Force One. He plays the movie’s theme song at his rallies. Harrison Ford is his favorite movie president. When Ford heard that, he remarked, “Donald, it was a movie. It’s not like this in real life, but how would you know?” This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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kept bees for many years — and sustainably — follow what’s called an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach. We do not advocate for or automatically resort to the use of pesticides, inorganic fertilizers or strictly mechanized practices, particularly in Boulder County. If we can control pest problems, be productive and sustainable without the use of these products and practices, we do so. However, if the situation becomes one of potentially sustaining total or significant loss, we reserve the option of using these products when necessary. If I may suggest here, this IPM approach is what differentiates the practical from the ideological. Visit faircolorado.org and coloradoprobeekeeping for more information. Al Summers/Longmont

Agree with comment on ad

I was glad to see Katalin Fabian’s Jan. 18 letter regarding the 14erboulder. com ad that ran on Jan. 4 (Re: “Ad in poor taste,” Letters). My response was similar, and I wrote to the company but have received no answer as yet. As I told them, I appreciate the wish to celebrate women, but was concerned and discouraged to see that they found it necessary to thoroughly diss men in order to do so. Just a clever tongue-in-cheek metaphor? But words are powerful, especially negative ones, and men also need all the encouragement and support they can get right now. The ad, supposedly humorous or not, bolsters the thinking that men just can’t do it right and might as well not even try. Would love to see ads which acknowledge women without discounting men, or which — what a thought — honor all of us as we each learn how best to contribute to the world and to each other’s lives. Anneliese Schultz Jr./Boulder

Think twice, POSAC

(Re: “County halts process to prohibit open space protests ahead of oil and gas drilling,” News, Jan. 18): First of all, I want to be clear that Boulder County Parks and Open Space (POS) does employ some decent people. Bevin Carithers, POS Ranger Supervisor and his well-intended posse of rangers should take off their rose-colored glasses and stuff this in their pipe. Boulder County POS exists because of the generosity of the taxpayers of Boulder County. Out of the commitment of the stakeholders (aka taxpayers), Boulder County is blessed to publicly own thousands of acres of land that is protected from urban sprawl and industrial activity. This is the idea that the stakeholders/citizens of Boulder

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Now that our illustrious (cartoon) president has coarsened public-printed discourse, it becomes permissible to truthfully tell it like it is. Donald Trump is a sociopathic, sexist, racist, capitalist pig. Long live the pig! Robert Porath/Boulder

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the year of the women’s march, the rise of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements and the birth of sanctuary cities. While it’s true that terrible things are happening, it’s also true that the vast majority of us have become more motivated to right the wrongs we see around us. Yes, we have many elected leaders on both sides of the aisle, including the president, who are racists or climate deniers or more motivated by reelection than by doing what’s right for the rest of us, but we must remember that it’s within our power to change all that. Times may indeed be scary, but they are also ripe for change, the kind of long-lasting change that can bring about a better world for our children and grandchildren. The insanity of this past year has drawn a line in the sand and every one of us has to choose on which side we will stand. Don’t forget, we have been here before and won. We will win again. So for this week, this one short week, let’s all be optimists. Let’s take a few days to thank those who make our lives a little better whenever and wherever we see them. Let’s take all that energy we are using to rage against the current state of politics and direct it instead toward those among us who could use a helping hand. Let’s learn from the examples of those on the following pages. I’d sincerely like to thank each and every one of you, our readers, for letting all of us here at Boulder Weekly into your lives. I hope we’ve done right by you these past 24 years. As someone who was here at the very beginning, I can honestly say we’ve tried. So here’s to you, Boulder County. May the next 25 years be memorable for all the amazing things we accomplish together and may we all live our lives in such a way this coming year that each of us deserves a spot in our next anniversary issue. — by Joel Dyer, editor

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I have to say, this has become one of our favorite issues of the year to put together. Sure, we love getting to celebrate the anniversary of our founding. After all, a quarter of a century of award-winning news, culture, arts and entertainment coverage is certainly something to be proud of. But that isn’t the only reason this issue is special. Three years ago, we decided to celebrate our anniversary every year by shining a light on the unsung heroes in our communities, the folks doing good — often behind the scenes — who make Boulder County an amazing place to live. Obviously we will never be able to write about everyone who merits a place in these pages. Our neck of the woods simply has too many good Samaritans, dogooders and volunteers deserving of a mention. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t celebrate at least a few of these wonderful folks each year. Boulder County is blessed with great weather, beautiful scenery and a nearly unmatched quality of life, but I would argue that it is the people living here who make it truly special. Yes, there are a few jerks sprinkled into the mix. We know this because we have to cover them all year long, but not in this issue. This issue is a jerk-free zone. Speaking of Trump, I think that’s another reason it feels so good to publish this particular issue. The news cycle over the past 12 months has been enough to shorten our lives by no small measure. From the ongoing assault on immigrants and young black men, to the continued capitulation of our government towards major polluters like the oil and gas industry, from the frightful impacts of climate change to the dismantling of the EPA, this has been a year drenched in anger for many of us, or worse, a sense of helplessness. But let’s not forget this has also been

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Learning from each other Alyssa Finer may lead Conversations in English but she’ll always be a student

by Angela K. Evans Susan France

EVERY WEDNESDAY morning, like clockwork, Alyssa Finer heads upstairs at the Boulder Central Library and waits in the BoulderReads Lab. As it approaches 10:30, the start time for the daily Conversations in English drop-in class, people trickle in. There’s Desta from Ethiopia, Azusa from Japan, Gopal from Nepal. As the class starts, a few more people arrive, and Finer greets them with a warm smile and a soft voice. She welcomes them into the room by asking them to introduce themselves, where they are from and why they enjoy this free program. “I need to meet people, communicate, improve my English,” says Maria from Spain. “I think it’s a good place to practice English with other international people. It’s a social meeting, and it’s interesting because there are people from many different countries.” Then, unsolicited, Maria points to Finer. “She’s the best English teacher because she brings poems.” Each week, Finer brings in a different discussion topic, usually inspired by her own reading. Sometimes she starts with a poem, other times just an idea. On this day, she steers the conversation around a discussion of the five senses, asking the participants to describe different aspects of their lives and experiences through their taste, sight, sound, touch and smell. With a variety of accents and pronunciations, the group of about a dozen share and laugh together for the next hour or so. As each person talks, the rest of the group listens intently. When sharing, Finer helps out with word choice and sentence structure, but mainly just lets everyone practice. No two groups are ever the same, as some participants are only in town short-term, visiting family or going to school. But it’s part of what Finer likes about the group — she’s always learning something as she listens to people share their stories from around the world. “I always think I can always learn from everybody, so everybody has something they can teach me,” she says. “We’re all so similar. We should respect whatever differences we have and we can learn from each other.” There was the veterinarian/opera singer and his wife from Venezuela who came the day she wanted to talk about music. And a Muslim couple who taught her about the celebration Eid the day the group talked about holidays. An Iranian couple showed up the day she brought in a poem by Hafez, a 14th century Persian poet. Last summer, a group of about 12 people came to Finer’s class every week. In the end, they all walked away friends, making sure to take group photos before disbanding. “The goal of the program is for the learners to be talking as much as possible and communicating with each other and that’s something that I hear with Alyssa’s groups — you 14 January 25 , 2018

really hear the learners communicating and connecting with each other,” says Shelley Sullivan, BoulderReads manager. “It gets noisy and that’s a good sign, it means people are talking and having fun.” Finer, one of many facilitators, has been leading a group once a week for the past two years after seeing an ad on the Library’s website asking for volunteers. “I wanted to give back. I thought it was a nice thing to help people feel connected to living in Boulder,” she says. “[And] with the whole political wave I felt it was even more essential to make people feel welcome and let them know we wanted to learn about them, too.” She’s lived in Boulder for the past 17 years, moving here from California, and New York before that, where she worked as a corporate bankruptcy lawyer and then for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as an enforcement officer. “I really went in with the idea to help the little people, but it really wasn’t the right place for me to do that,” she says with a chuckle. “Retiring” once she moved to Boulder, Finer spends most of her time writing short stories and volunteering in different capacities, whether with her son’s school or at the Library. And it’s something she’ll do for the foreseeable future, both as a way of welcoming newcomers to Boulder and growing herself. “It really lifts my spirit, the people here,” she says. “I’m always learning something.” Boulder Weekly

Listen to the universe, work hard Adrienne Sines mentors youth for fun

by Caitlin Rockett

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YOU MIGHT SAY Adrienne Sines is fearless. At the very least she’s a real go-getter, a take-action kind of woman. She had a wild plan to move to Colorado, so she and her husband took a vacation here — but they also put their house in Michigan up for sale, you know, just to see what happened. The pieces fell into place almost effortlessly; the house sold and Sines was able to easily obtain a license as a community counselor in the state. They found a place to live on the Front Range and boom, here they are. And this was all in their first year of marriage. “It was like the universe was saying, ‘You should be here,’” Sines says from her office at the Community Reach Center in Thornton. Sines is a bilingual intake program manager with a history of serving in school-based, residential and in-home outpatient settings. She’s comfortable with helping people through difficult situations, so it’s no surprise that she quickly signed up to be a mentor with Boulder County’s Community Youth Mentoring Program. It took about a year for Sines to get paired with her mentee, but finally she got to meet 12-year-old Sydney. Sines has been mentoring Sydney for four years now. “She was so sweet, at 12 and 13,” Sines says. “I was with her when she started her first period — all those interesting life times. She’s such a great kid. She’s been through a lot and it’s amazing that she’s still in school, keeping her grades up.” Sydney comes from a large family, one of six kids raised by a single mother. Around the house Sines says Sydney has a lot to do, helping with chores and childcare, all of that on top of just being a regular teenager dealing with the usual stuff like schoolwork and dating. Over the years that Sines has mentored her, Sydney has moved a number of times, once out of state. She’s dealt with changing schools and making new friends at what most people would consider tender times for a young girl. So when Sines came into the picture, it gave Sydney a chance to just have some fun, to get some one-on-one help with homework. It gave her a chance to be a kid. And it gave Sines a chance to be a kid, too. “The first year she’d love to go swimming. We’d go to the rec center. Things I normally wouldn’t do, so it was a lot of fun for me,” Sines says. “She got me to take her to Elitch’s and that was a big thing because I don’t like roller-coasters. We’ve done ice-skating. Jump City, roller-skating. We would Boulder Weekly

even get work done, school projects, go to the library. I would have a fun kit in my bag with games, crafts, nail polish, coloring, all sorts of stuff. Now at 16, Sines says Sydney’s grown “too cool for all that.” “I’ll still bring things, like I taught her to play cribbage. Now we really just go out to eat. We try to go shopping, even just window shopping. The mall is what she wants to do now. We talk a lot, and we’ve done some journaling.” The two used to live close enough to walk to each other’s houses, but Sydney’s moved further away and has a parttime job now, so it’s harder for the two to meet consistently. But they talk on the phone once a week just to check in. Just this past year Sydney was awarded the Rising Star award from the Youth Mentoring Program. The award acknowledged Sydney’s hard work to stay in school, and her dedication to sticking with her mentor. But the cherry on top was a laptop. “I think a light really went off for her that, like, ‘I have a room of people supporting me,’” Sines says. “I think she saw there was a way out of this situation if she keeps working.” Sines says Sydney has always wanted to be a neonatal nurse, and that her plan is to go to college. If she does, she’ll be the first in her family to do so. While Sines says people might think she’s more comfortable taking on a mentorship role because of her education in counseling, she says it’s not about that. “Yes, I have a master’s degree in counseling, but it’s not counseling. It’s not mental health treatment. It’s not therapy. Anybody can do it. If you want to sit down and hang out with a child and listen to them and be willing to do some kind of planning of some kind of activities, you can do this. They’ll usually guide you to what they want do. If they are more outdoor oriented or like sports or they’re more crafty... as long as you have the time it’s something anybody can do.” January 25 , 2018 15

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IT WAS LIKELY Benjamin Franklin who made famous the adage people have always known: death and taxes, two things you’ll never escape no matter how hard you try. Thankfully, death only comes by once a lifetime. But taxes, like pesky summer thunderstorms when you’re out in the mountains, never come at a convenient time. “They’re like working a puzzle,” Jeff Bogart says with a smile. Which, he admits, “is great for an old retired guy. It keeps your mind alert.” Over the past 10 years, Bogart has given thousands of his waking hours to taxes. Not his own, but other people’s. Normally when people reach retirement age, they’ll hang up their professional hat, kick back, relax and savor the peace they’ve worked decades to store up. But for Bogart, that laylow phase didn’t last long. Shortly after retiring from his career as a technical electronics designer, Bogart resolved to tackle the tasks he’d put off while a work-

ing man and avid Boy Scouts volunteer: tidy up the house, organize the 16 patents-worth of paperwork that he keeps in his home office, scan records, throw out the nonessentials. That, plus church and his spot on the bell choir, was enough to keep him busy for a few years. “Then I decided I needed something interesting to do,” he recalls. With a mop of white, wispy hair and wire-rimmed glasses — add to that his wizened, compassionate looks — Bogart might as well be a Franklin descendant. It’s been almost 50 years since Bogart and his wife moved to Boulder from New Jersey. “Best decision we ever made,” he says. Likely due, at least in part. to the fact that he’s found the resolve to wear his favorite article of clothing — shorts — every day of the year. (“Seriously,” a close advisor of Bogart says, “He never wears pants. Even if it’s 0 degrees outside, he’ll wear shorts.”) Boulder Weekly

One day, in between clearing out papers and rearranging files in the house, Bogart thumbed through the pages of an American Association of Retired People (AARP) magazine. “I ran across this Tax-Aide program. ... [the magazine said they] were looking for people to do taxes for the elderly and low-income people. I thought, OK, I can do that, I’ve done my own taxes... then I learned how complicated it really is.” Tax-Aide is a free, personalized tax preparation service for low-to-moderate income taxpayers, geared especially towards those 50 years and older. The near-50 service locations around Colorado are primarily volunteer-run, and rely heavily on recently-retired folks like Bogart who have time to attend the initial 40-60 hours of training every year, and free weekdays to serve the program’s patrons during the FebruaryApril tax season. Mark Riley, the Boulder/Broomfield district Tax-Aide coordinator, explains, “It would be difficult, if not impossible for [the people we serve] to do their taxes on their own.” One session with a professional tax preparer can cost up to $200 or $300, he says. “That’s a lot of money to some people. ... And [doing taxes yourself,] especially for the elderly and those who don’t have access to the internet, it scares them to death.” Only after enduring a rigorous, multiday tax training regiment — which teaches all prospective and veteran volunteers current tax policies and how to use the materials, calculators and resources at their disposal — and passing a test administered by the IRS by more than 80 percent, are volunteers allowed to help at Tax-Aide. Bogart now helps lead these trainings, ensuring each fleet of volunteers is poised to provide accurate and efficient services. It was a few years ago that Bogart started to note aspects of the volunteers’ IRSprovided tax software that he could improve himself. He started tinkering with writing software programs that would quicken and simplify some of the calculations involved in processing and understanding Tax-Aide’s services. Eventually Bogart built a resource webpage where volunteers can access many tools and calculators that expedites their job. “Sometimes there are little things that you can do to reduce taxes for somebody that the software [provided by the IRS] just does not allow you to do directly,” Bogart explains. “And so if you can figure out ways to work around that and make it work properly... that’s what a lot of my little software tools are for.” Riley doesn’t miss the days when “we used to carry thick manuals and books, to research and calculate. … Instead of paging through manuals to get at information, you can go to the [Bogart] site and get it all quickly and easily. It’s easy to get to and Boulder Weekly

understand. This stuff ’s pretty arcane, so it helps a lot.” Riley was the one who realized what exactly Bogart was building. He eventually asked it he could share the software and now its use has spread to tax-service agencies across the country. A few weeks ago, Riley handed Bogart the second nationally syndicated award he’s received in a matter of months. The first, “in appreciation for his contribution in the area of program innovation and programming,” was the National Director Award, bestowed upon him in early December. “His name is a household name in the tax world,” John Meredith, who’s on the National Tax Training Committee, says. “They call [the software program] the Bogart calculator. ... Jeff ’s tools are very easy to use — intuitive, makes the process much easier. If you talk to volunteers anywhere around the nation, they’re using his site. “Makes it all done easily for the poor devil behind the computer,” Meredith says with a laugh. When tax season rolls around, Tax-Aide volunteers post up at several locations, sometimes in senior centers, at libraries or in rec centers. They open their doors free of charge for anyone in need of tax help. In as little as two hours, using the Bogart calculator, a person’s taxes can get done. Last year the Boulder/Broomfield district helped 2,700 people file and receive their tax returns. “A lot of technical people don’t relate to common people,” says Meredith, who, like Bogart, comes from a tech background himself. “They’ll frown at people who can’t turn on their computer. But Jeff ’s not that way.” Held up to the light, Bogart’s gold and maroon plaque shines: “Because of his creativity, dedication and collaborative work ethic, Jeff ’s contributions to AARP Foundation Tax-Aide have had a profound positive impact for volunteers across the country and at all levels of the program.” The second award, the “Tax-Aide Fellowship Award,” which only goes to a handful of volunteers selected from around the country each year, echoes Bogart’s invaluable and selfless contributions, says Riley. “He’s spent thousands of hours doing this thing for nothing, just for the program. It’s remarkable, in terms of his character and spirit of giving.” At the end of the day, and even at the end of tax season, Bogart is as unwilling to leave his humble state of mind as he his to don full-length pants. “It’s about the program, not about the award,” he says. “That’s the funny thing, I didn’t set out to do [win anything]. I just saw a need and did it. And that’s what happens.”

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Finding the rooster’s voice

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by Sarah Haas AT THIS EARLY stage of the sculptures, they’re largely anatomical, insides facing out, but you can feel the sturdiness of their boney architecture and the power of their thick, wire muscles. One of the pieces has a fully-formed head bearing large, gruesome teeth, and a gold-tinged, barely visible heart that will soon be covered up with scaly skin. It’s not hard to imagine fire pouring out of the dragon’s mouth. The skeleton of the second sculpture is less developed, bits of scrap metal stuck together, in support of a bird-like frame. The dominant beak hovering 20 feet above the ground confirms the hunch and brings attention to the decidedly feminine eyes of what will someday be a phoenix. The sculptures are the creations of the Warrior Story Field (WSF), a grassroots nonprofit that’s been working with veterans to transform and share experiences of war through the language of art since 2013. WSF is a collective of veterans turned artists, led 18 January 25 , 2018

by local artist Robert Bellows. He isn’t a veteran and he never expected to work with them. Call it coincidence or call it fate, “this,” he says pointing to his home workshop animated by vets, “is where I am supposed to be.” The group of vets working with WSF, 12 in all, are of all different ages and have seen all kinds of wars. But all of them know what it’s like to be a “warrior come home.” With one another, they are creating a space empathetic to how isolating it can feel to leave behind the structured world of the military and come home, with no position or rank, and feel lost. “We all came home from war a little different,” someone says in the distance. Bellows is listening nearby, embodying what was once his modus operandi that earned him the nickname “the silent one” as a young man. Now at 70 years old, his silence seems the exception to the norm as his crew jokes, “Bellows for bellowing hot air, right?” Don’t let his humility fool you — Boulder Weekly

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Bellows is the conductor of this metal orchestra. Not only is he the original visionary, but he’s also the only one among the crew with the practical know-how to pull it off. Since the project was born in 2013, he’s donated countless hours of his time, let the project overtake his personal studio and fully supplied it with tools and materials. But never once has he referred to himself as a volunteer or his spending as a donation. He only calls it what it is: “art.” “What I’m doing with these vets is my personal work,” he says. It just so happens to involve a dozen veterans. The project began when two vets showed up in 2012 offering to help Bellows work on his rooster sculpture, commissioned by the owner of Alfalfa’s to sit outside the entrance to its downtown Boulder store. The guys, two vets from the Iraq War, were big and stoic looking and they wanted to help. Bellows, who was in the middle of cutting thousands of metal feathers, eagerly accepted. At first, he was akin to a task master, teaching them to use the tools and make metal into sculpture. Soon, he found himself leading them on a much more internal sort of journey. “One day the guys came to ask where to place the feathers,” Bellows Boulder Weekly

says. “I didn’t know how to answer so I told them to feel it.” Telling the story he raises his fists to his armpits, elbows bowing out like wings, and puffs his chest out forcefully. “Caaaaw! Caaaw!” He says, laughing. “You have to find the rooster’s voice to find yours.” The trio may not have known it at the time, but out of that moment WSF was born. And it was then that Bellows understood the soldiers had shown what they needed: work that could turn war into creation. Weeks later they would ask him, “What are we going to do next?” and although Bellows might not have expected the question, he was not surprised. It was the feeling of finding his calling. “I am literally overtaken by this art and this project. It is working me in a huge way and I am literally carrying the dragon’s energy and the phoenix’s energy, but I’m also carrying the space in between — the chaos between the two ways of life,” Bellows says. “I’m not always sure of what to do next or of the answer to any given question, but the collective can carry that now, and we need them to, because making these sculptures is a deep and important study of the effect of war on a culture.”

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Making progress

How Gary Sobol turned his Parkinson’s diagnosis into a program that has helped thousands

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BEFORE HIS diagnosis, you’d find Gary Sobol running marathons, churning his legs over and over again. But when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2008, the Boulder resident was brought, for a moment, to a screeching halt. But it didn’t stop him for long. He channeled his running energy into a new cause. Sobol now teaches classes to people with neurological diseases and heads a nationwide fitness nonprofit called GZ Sobol Parkinson’s Network. “It’s been quite a change, but it’s one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done,” he says of that life-changing doctor’s appointment and subsequent decision to dedicate his life to volunteer work related to the disease. It all started with a small weekly class at the Mapleton YMCA. Four or five people would attend, looking for someone who knew how to help. Sobol worked with experts to develop an inclusive workout plan to combat some symptoms of brain illnesses: rigid muscles, limited movement and balance issues. It was important they were exercises anyone could do, whether freestanding or with a walker or in a wheelchair. “Funny things started to happen; these people were making progress,” Sobol says. “Some of them couldn’t get out of a chair, and every day [now] it seems like they’re doing something that’s helping them.” Now, six years since the first boot camp, his organization hosts hundreds of classes each week, taught by 580 certified volunteer instructors in 18 states. Sobol estimates total attendance falls around 3,000 participants.

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He says the expansion is something he never could have dreamed of, and credits much of it to media exposure and word of mouth. People from all across the country (and, recently, even abroad) have reached out to him, looking to start leading classes. He doesn’t charge anyone for training. He simply requires they come spend time with him to get certified and trained. “When I teach a class of instructors I tell them, ‘This is going to change your life. You’re going to see people affected by this and doing things they never thought they would do, and when you get that you’ve got to stop the class and point that out because it’s giving the other people in that

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room a lot of hope,’” he says. The incredible part is that upon being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, Sobol was advised not to break a sweat. Generally, doctors would steer sufferers away from exercise because of the risks associated with strenuous activity. “They don’t know what to expect; they say you have to be so careful because when your movements slow down everything gets more complicated,” he explains. Sobol, however, didn’t want the degenerative disease to have control of his life. He decided to pick a few of the intermediate motor skill issues he was experiencing and take them into his own hands — literally. He had lost the ability to write a check, so he worked on hand dexterity for several months. One day, to his wife’s amazement, she found a check in the office with his handwriting. His doctor said he had taught his brain to form new pathways. Now Sobol is able to see the same “dramatic results” in those who come to his classes. A long list of success stories includes a woman with an anoxic brain injury who went from being unable to stand for more than three seconds before awful discomfort set in, to standing for 25 minutes, pain-free. Another woman, wheelchair-bound in her 60s with Parkinson’s has attended Sobol’s class for years. She just recently regained her ability to walk, not only forwards, but even backwards across the YMCA gym floor. And another Parkinson’s sufferer who worked with him has now started her own Sobolinspired classes at a YMCA in Massachusetts. “I’ve never seen a group of people who are so grateful. It’s hard for me to explain without having tears in my eyes. We’ve learned how to help people’s lives,” Sobol says. “There are people there who have been affected and suffering for a long time and they really appreciate it and make it a point to say, ‘Thank you for what you’re doing.’ It’s such a treat to teach these classes.” Most recently the GZ Sobol Parkinson’s Network has teamed up with the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center in Westminster to spread the word about how these physiotherapy exercises can help multiple sclerosis patients as well. “Especially now that we know it helps with other issues, we are focusing on outreach,” Sobol says. “If someone in a city needs help with Parkinson’s or Boulder Weekly

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IT’S A SATURDAY in September and people have arrived with yoga mats and towels to a quaint 25-acre stretch of agricultural land off Iris and Broadway. They settle into various stretches and poses in the open air, when suddenly there’s a happy and curious goat at their feet, in their laps, on their bellies. Despite the laughter, Taber Ward gently guides the program along. After another successful session of goat yoga, people leave Mountain Flower Goat Dairy feeling giddy and at ease. “[Goat yoga] has become a really fun team builder for companies,” Ward states, volunteering much of her time for such creative programs. “I used to teach yoga without goats ... but the farm is so convenient and beautiful, and the goats are just so funny.” Ward, who co-founded Mountain Flower Goat Dairy in 2012, now volunteers as a board member in addition to being a yoga instructor. Incorporating the goats into yoga activities was a new addition to the farm’s seasonal programs. First and foremost, Mountain Flower Goat Dairy is an educational doorway for the community to engage with and learn about humane husbandry, land conservation and sustainability. It’s also where you can buy into raw goat-milk shares. Colorado law forbids the sale of raw milk, so Ward and her counterparts tapped into a solution for what seemed to be a common sentiment in Boulder: “People were not only craving a [dairy] product they could trust, but also the interaction and engagement with animals,” she says. Members of the community can buy into the ownership of the goat herd, which legally allows members to receive and consume the raw milk produced. Goat yoga and raw milk for the people — a collaborative manifestation of Ward’s founding ethics of going

with the flow and filling needs for the community. One unpredictable outcome has been the heavy interest in an outlet for Boulder youth. “Not every kid wants to go hiking or play sports,” she says, so summer programs and visiting hours “provide an outlet for the next generation” of farm-animal lovers. Mountain Flower Goat Dairy was established as a partnership with Long’s Gardens Iris Farm when Taber Ward and Jonathan Vaught approached landowners Dennis Gates and Catherine Long Gates with a huge proposition for an educational goat farm. At the time, Ward was in her third year at CU Law School, taking an entrepreneurship class, and somehow found time to write up an entire business plan and get the ball rolling on the farm project, all while simultaneously studying for and taking the bar exam. “[It was] so much added stress,” she says in retrospect. But over the past six years, despite the initial naysayers and daunting tasks she navigated, Mountain Flower has become a community gem. With nine weeks of kid’s summer camps, tours and yearround opportunities for next generation farmers to thrive, Mountain Flower is a livBoulder Weekly

ing preservation of agriculture. The full story behind this quaint goat farm starts in upstate New York. Ward grew up in a family heavily influenced by her father’s career as an environmental attorney. With a foundational ethic for the protection of the land and the environment, Ward went off to college in Montreal to study anthropology. “Food is such an amazing, important part of connecting humanity,” she says, “and I wanted to be involved in helping that be a positive connection.” She ended up working for a Meals on Wheels program and later with a student initiative called the “People’s Potato” at the University of Concordia, providing free vegan lunches for the community every single day. Newly inspired by food and thus agriculture, her work led her to farms in California and Colorado, gaining mentorship from people like Boulder’s own Margaret Hollander of Capering Goat Dairy. Every season brings a different whirlwind of projects on the farm. In the fall, breeding becomes an arduous task. But each spring, 20 to 30 baby goats are born to Mountain Flower — a prized aspect of its busy spring visiting hours. With the animals’ liveliness, the farm becomes “a cool mix of predictability and routine, with a lot of creativity for solving problems,” Ward says. While it might seem rosy from the outside, this line of work is littered with neverending chores. “If you’re not doing it, no one else is,” Ward says. The goats have consumed her life (and others’) for years now, so it’s not uncommon for Ward to work even while sick. Getting “beat up” by the physical and emotional labor is commonplace and is representative of agriculture as a whole, she says. All other interests and hobbies had been pushed aside until recently, when Ward made the transition from both farm management and on-the-ground farmhand to strictly volunteering as a board member. Yet, for all those years, her care for the goats and this project was derived from the most wholesome passion — she couldn’t see herself doing anything else. Seeing the community interact with the goats during visiting hours, the delight of the children, the hands-on experience of producing a sought-after dairy product, made all the labor worth it to Ward. The larger picture she sees, one where the animal agriculture system at large is broken, reminds her how important it is to keep moving forward. Agriculture as a whole, as she puts it, does not have the “end-game in the same way as other industries,” especially for small, sustainably-oriented agriculture that also incorporates animals, like Mountain Flower. Ward is a promoter of genuine and humane practices, not wanting the farm to sell out for profit or have specific goals for growth that outweigh community benefit. It’s nearly a catch-22, however, in that organic and humane agriculture is hard to do when simultaneously running a business that requires higher premiums for the work involved. “It’s not convenient and it’s more expensive, so people have to be willing to pay the premium for the extra time involved.” Boulder Weekly

This is an echo of her once yearly fear that the nonprofit farm and its vision would fail, with down-to-the-wire payroll and the reality that they are responsible for living creatures. “You are inevitably going to have animals that die and get sick,” she says, always feeling “so responsible that [the business] becomes something emotional.” Community support has undeniably grown with the farm each year. “The interest is there and the community wants us to work,” Ward says. Having worked in land conservation and on-the-ground farming since 2002, one of the ways Ward has gotten through the grind is fully immersing herself in the work. “I think sometimes people look down on [that type of body work],” she says. “Like, ‘Oh, that’s not very intellectual.’” Nonetheless, within the continuous support from landowners Dennis and Catherine of Long’s Gardens, Ward finds another well of unrelenting motivation. “Catherine and Dennis are really doing this,” she says. “Their family has been farming this property for 100 years,” despite numerous opportunities to sell the land off as many early Boulder families have done. “[But] they’re out there every day farming and really believe in agriculture ... I have so much respect for that.” With faith that the farm will continue to thrive, Ward speaks now of a new chapter to her life. “This farm is my baby, and my passion for this industry or this project has not waned at all, but I find myself interacting with it in a different way.” Her next big adventure and “creative upwelling” will be that of starting a family, though the sustainable food movement will always be a priority in her life. Ward paints this new phase of her life as a matter of “trying to let [the farm] go to the next group of farmers who are trying to find their way.” To her, it’s not a matter of shifting interests. Community efforts are really what make movements succeed in the end, she says, and she’s invested so much in promoting a humane, sustainable and co-creative farm life. “But [the farm] is and was so much more than me,” she says. It’s the neighbors “who put up with the noises and smells of goat farming,” the landowners, the families who bring their kids, the goat milk shareholders, the staff and board, donors and all the volunteers. “I feel like I just helped find the matches, and then this community lit the matches alongside me and believed in this: us working together.” One of Ward’s newest outlets for her work is with the nonprofit CDR Associates, where she applies her law expertise to help facilitate “conflict resolution of environmental and community disputes” — a job that continues to create very meaningful experiences in her life. Thus, with the dawn of the new year, Ward invites everyone to keep an eye out for baby goats and Mountain Flower’s spring visiting hours, which will take place every Saturday starting in March or April; and of course, make sure to join in a session of goat yoga. The goats love it, and you will too.

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Changing lanes Ron and Dee Brown: Boulder County’s power couple

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EVERYTHING BEGAN in Thunderbird Lanes — the old bowling alley that, before its demolition in the ’80s, stood beside what was then the Flatiron Ice Skating rink, and now the Colorado Athletic Club off Foothills Parkway. It was the winter of 1977 and Boulder was booming. Earlier that spring, Ron Brown had walked across CU Boulder’s graduation stage and collected his diploma, the words “recreation” scrawled front and center across the glossy sheet of paper. He promptly set to work taking care of Thunderbird’s bowling machines. The bowling alley was the place folks could go to have a carefree, good ol’ time — where life was as simple as rolling a thick, heavy ball down a greased surface just to see how many pins might tumble. And rolling again and again, free refills, unlimited opportunity. Come December, a beautiful girl had posted up behind the snack bar, doling out food and drink to the

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parties that hefted ball after ball down the lanes. She was kind and sweet. Her name was Dee, and Ron was smitten. By March, a mere five months later, the two were walking down a different kind of lane: an altar instead of bowling pins, more wholesome food in lieu of the snack bar, seats all around, more light, slower music. They agreed, happily, to spend the rest of their lives together. “So, it was like there was a reason I chose a major that was absolutely worthless,” Ron now laughs. “It brought our two paths in orbit,” Dee says with a smile, her purple-tinted hair rooting her spirit back in time. The couple stayed in Boulder until 1990, when they moved to Longmont, and as life got a little more serious than bowling balls and snacks, Dee went on to work for a surgical instrument company in Gunbarrel while Ron worked at a magazine subscription service.

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COLORADO’S PrEmIER ANTIQUE & VINTaGE JEWELRY STORE Now, fast forward through fourdecades-worth of swings from the never-ending life pendulum that oscillates between happy and sad, good, bad, simple and complicated, and Ron and Dee, again, are spending a lot of time together in yet another lane. This one is lined with a mix of pop bottles, chewing gum and brightly packaged snacks that Dee couldn’t have even dreamed up back in 1977 — it’s checkout lane number 15 in the Longmont King Soopers on 17th and Pace streets. Every Tuesday, as Carry Out Caravan volunteers, Ron and Dee oversee operations at checkout 15 — shopping, bagging and delivering as many as four dozen grocery orders that are submitted by elderly and disabled adults who are unable to drive or grocery shop for themselves. “I believe that we’re all on this planet to help each other out, and I think when you live in a community, you should then give to the community,” Dee says. It’s been about four years since she and Ron started volunteering together, and they have no plans of stopping until they can no longer lift a grocery bag with gallonsized water jugs or cat litter. In the meantime, bringing ease and lightness to the people they help, whether through conversation or physical aid, keeps them young at heart. Reminiscing with the elderly about their good ol’ days opens the door for Ron and Dee to recall their own good ol’ days together at Thunderbird. In addition to their Tuesday mornings — when they arrive at King Soopers at 6:45 a.m. to set up the grocery shopping operation — they also spend a few days a week volunteering for Carry-Out Caravan’s sister program, Medical Mobility. When needed, they’ll pick up elderly and disabled individuals and drive them to different healthcare appointments around the county before returning them back to their homes. This service means a lot to Dee. “As I see it, a lot of these people Boulder Weekly

who have to give up driving — and if you don’t have anybody to drive you places — kind of lose their independence,” she says. “So I think when they know, ‘OK, I can get to my doctor’s office,’ it still gives them a sense of independence rather than having to go into assisted living or someplace where they have drivers.” Ron adds, “Most people don’t think about it, but if you put yourself in somebody’s place that’s 10 or 15 years older than you are, and you see ‘Oh, I might be going down that road soon…’ so we help them out, and we enjoy it. It’s what we do and it makes us feel good, helping.” Whether driving someone to their doctor’s appointment or delivering a week’s worth of groceries, “I like to hear their stories,” Dee says, about “what it was like to live back, maybe in the ’40s and ’50s.” She fondly remembers one woman she drove to an appointment who’d went to her same high school, only it was 20 years before Dee had attended. Dee rolls her eyes when thinking about another woman who buys dog food but doesn’t have a dog — “I guess she liked to feed raccoons.” And laughs at the one time a gentleman asked them to buy cheese aged 4 to 6 years. Some of the grocery orders are hard to fill, says Ron. “A lot of times they haven’t been shopping [for themselves in a while] and they’ll want something that doesn’t exist anymore.” They try to find current products as close as possible to the earlier generational iterations — Oreos for Suzy Q’s, Cheez-Its for Planters’ Cheez Balls, and so on. Usually people end up happy no matter what foods they get. As for themselves, “We eat the same thing every week,” Dee says with a laugh, keeping it simple and easy for their week-to-week meals. “I’m into free range, organic,” says Ron. “Other people [we shop for] get ten freezer meals a week, cookies and ice cream. But they’re in their eighties, so whatever they like, you know? They’re doing fine just the way they are, so keep on.”

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by John Lehndorff LORRAINE REMEZOND didn’t plan to set an example when she left the Netherlands and accepted an au pair position with a Boulder family. But after less than a year here, the 20-yearold is having an outsized impact on the community. Her brown hair hangs down just to her shoulders but it won’t for long. She will cut it off in March to support a cure for childhood cancers. “I heard about children with cancer and thought it was so sad. They haven’t gotten to live their life yet. If I was in that situation I would hope that someone would help me. So I said: ‘Why not do it?’” Remezond says. Susan France Remezond will lose her locks March 11 at a Westminster hair salon as part of the nationwide, headshaving St. Baldrick’s Day events held near St. Patrick’s Day each year. The first event was in 2000 and the name, which combines “Bald” and “St. Patrick’s Day,” has stuck. According to the California-based St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the organization has become the top private funder of pediatric cancer research grants in the U.S. and also around the world. “My parents were not that excited when I told them what I was going to do. ‘America’s changing you,’ they said. I said: ‘I’m not worried about my hair. My hair will grow back,’” she says. Her host family in Boulder was enthusiastic from the start. “I told them and they said, ‘We’ll support you 100 percent. We’ll stand beside you when you do it,’” Remezond says. Born in the town of Oosterhout in the Netherlands, Remezond more recently has called Bergen Op Zoom, near the border with Belgium, home. She lives with the family of Caitlin and Matt Hardy in North Boulder and helps take care of 3-and-a-half-year-old Jack and 7-and-a-half-month-old Abe. “Abe lights up when he sees Lorraine,” says Caitlin Hardy. Lorraine doesn’t even mind that Abe is at the teething stage now. “She has helped us so much. The kids adore her. I feel superlucky that she has become part of the family,” Hardy says. Remezond says that she feels the same way about the family. “I’m glad they chose me. I really like Boulder, too. It’s really active here. I go out on walks and do a lot of things with the family. They took me on vacation to Mexico, which was great,” she says. Hardy says that she is not at all surprised that Remezond committed to participating in St. Baldrick’s Day. “Lorraine is such a do-something-for-someone-else kind of person. She goes above and beyond to help others. It’s awesome to have Boulder Weekly

her in this community from so far away,” Hardy says. Jen Rodehaver is a Local Childcare Consultant with Cultural Care Au Pair, the organization that placed Lorraine with the Hardy family and provides support for the more than 100 au pairs working in Boulder. The au pairs are typically aged 18 to 25 and have already had some college education. “It’s really a cultural exchange program. The au pairs exchange child care for the opportunity to travel, practice their English and gain experience,” Rodehaver says. However, in many ways Remezond is not typical of other au pairs. “She is an exception because she has a degree in childcare. Also, not all au pairs are as outgoing as Lorraine. She is a good example of a person who has really taken the spirit of the program to heart. She is involved with the family and the other au pairs as well as the community,” she says. Remezond has earned the status of ambassador for the au pair program locally and helps to welcome new arrivals into the au pair community. “On her own, Lorraine is organizing a day at an indoor trampoline park for au pairs and their host children. She came up with that idea herself,” Rodehaver says. She is helping Remezond spread the word about her upcoming hair-cutting donation for St. Baldrick’s Day. “She started putting it out there and it was very heartfelt. She had heard about it and jumped at the opportunity. So far she seems really calm about losing her hair,” Rodenhaver says. Rezemond says she hasn’t had close contact in the past with many people who were fighting cancer. “This is different because it’s kids,” she says. At the March 11 event, she is looking forward to meeting some of the kids struggling with cancer and families that are benefitting from St. Baldrick’s-funded research and the organization’s outpouring of love and support. Remezond said firmly that she is “not homesick,” and hopes to stay in the United States for a full two years. She has enjoyed getting to know the American fare at Good Times Burgers and the Cheesecake Factory, but does miss some of the foods she knew at home including the famous artisan chocolates made in the Netherlands and in Belgium. She hasn’t had a lot of time to decide on her future plans. “I really enjoy taking care of babies so that’s what I want to look into when I get home,” she says. “You never know what will happen in your life. I’m down for anything that happens,” she says. To get involved with St. Baldrck’s Day: Lorraine Remezond will have her head shaved March 11 at Salon StEllEr in Westminster. To donate and support her or to participate yourself, go to: stbaldricks.org/participants/ mypage/938312/2018. January 25 , 2018 29

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by Tiffany Bergeron MAYBE YOU’VE SEEN Stele Ely at the Boulder County Farmers’ Market. He’s the man wearing a large cap and an ensemble created from all kinds of Earth-related props. It’s hard to miss him with the giant globe on his hat, singing and playing guitar. It’s pretty common that most environmental acts go unnoticed. Ely is doing his best to change that. Between the farmers’ market and Pearl Street is Susan France where Ely spends his time engaging with the community, thanking and encouraging their every-day acts that will save the planet, no matter how small or big. For him, volunteering his time to walk about Boulder is more of a lifestyle choice than anything else. “I gave up regular work to try and help this planet survive,” Ely says. As a teen growing up in Grand Junction, Ely would regularly skip school to spend time in nature. He had a deep sense of curiosity for plants. In his truancy, Ely started to notice the environmental effects of the ranching communities in this area he called home. The pollution he saw is what changed the course of his life. “I wanted to be strong so I could save this puppy,” he says, referring to the planet. “I wanted to help people become more healthy in my community, and to have compassion for the chickens and cows. I saw how they were treated.” Since then Ely has become a vegan and believes he’s saving the planet in his own way. But simply motivating himself wasn’t enough. He wanted to do more to encourage others to follow in his footsteps. That’s why he created XO Earth, a sort-of brand that chronicles and explains most of Ely’s conservation efforts, and which can be accessed through his website XOearth.org. XO Earth enables Ely to do the work he loves. His persona is part cheerleader, part educator and part entertainer. In an old-school way he’s an influencer, inspiring people to think more actively about their Earth. One of Ely’s favorite things to do is give out his XO Earth awards on the streets in the form of a currency he calls an Earthe. To earn an Earthe is simple. All it takes is an act that Boulder Weekly

involves honoring the earth. It’s just another way to feel differently about the value of conservation, or perhaps a way of re-promoting it. XO Earth encompasses the ways in which Ely shares his enthusiasm and gives thanks for the choices people are making. “I go to the farmers’ market a lot, and I thank people for riding their bikes, for eating organic, and supporting their local farmers. I walk back and forth and give people awards for bringing their own bags,” he says. He gives people positive feedback for the most part, but won’t hesitate to point out when someone is wrong. You could say he has been cultivating XO Earth into a modern day version of Captain Planet. “I’d like everyone to volunteer. We need everyone on board right now. Do something for an organization that builds the integrity of the sustainable community. Teach what you know — everyone has something to teach about what they love and how to protect what they love.” The conservation effort is not lost on Boulder. Ely has a wide and receptive audience when he’s out promoting his cause, perhaps in large part because, with his wacky getup and charismatic personality, he makes it fun for kids and adults alike. Ely’s work doesn’t end with XO Earth. “I also volunteer to help people get jobs, to work on people’s homes or businesses. For free I’ll meet with people to help counsel them. I help people in their homes with some environmental things — helping businesses become more environmental. I encourage people to start green teams and I want to be their environmental consultant or sustainability cheerleader.” Ely says he also volunteers his time to organizations that support the cause. He works with Sierra Club, 350.org and companies that want to go green. Ely’s main tools in his fight for conservation are curiosity and fun. He wants to know about people’s level of action, in a way that’ll keep positive momentum moving forward. He wants future generations to enjoy this planet as much as he has. “This place is too fun. I’ve had a blast, and I want to keep going for a lot of years. It’s a great playground. I don’t want that to go away.” As he says himself, it’s all about “Peas, love, and flaxseed butter.” January 25 , 2018 31

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New book details how to cement the public’s right to a clean environment in the state constitution by Matt Cortina

n 2014, there was an effort in Colorado to cement the public’s right to clean air, water and environment in the state constitution. Citing numerous health and safety hazards born out of oil and gas operations, the backers of the amendment, Coloradans for Safe and Clean Energy, gathered signatures for that amendment and another initiative that would’ve required new oil and gas operations be set 2,000 feet away from existing structures. If you’ve read Boulder Weekly since, you know what happened next. The state’s Democrats “cut a deal” and the initiatives were pulled after they were submitted for signature verification. So Boulder County environmentalists know a thing or two about what activist and lawyer Maya K. van Rossum calls a “green amendment,” a constitutional amendment at the state or federal level that guarantees rights to clean air, water and habitat. And van Rossum knows that what happened in

2014 is exactly why another push for a green amendment in Colorado, other states and at the federal level is necessary. “Just as recognizing the value of environmental protection can be nonpartisan, so too can the sellout of our government,” van Rossum says. “The truth is President Obama, President Clinton, under their administrations we did not see great protection for our environment being carried out. The devastation of the oil and gas industry was very much supported and advanced by the Democratic legislators at all levels of government.” Van Rossum says it’s only been since Trump has been in office that more people have begun to see how feckless many of our local, state and federal environmental protections are. “The truth is that much of what [Trump] is doing, he can defend under the law as currently written, and that’s the problem,” van Rossum says. “The problem with those laws [such as the

Clean Air and Clean Water Acts], as with all environmental protection laws, is they are not written to prohibit pollution even if it means devastating somebody’s life, health or safety. They’re written to regulate, to require permission to allow it to happen, but not really to stop it.” Van Rossum has seen firsthand how a constitutional environmental amendment can be used to benefit communities. She was an original petitioner on a landmark 2013 case in Pennsylvania that affirmed the state’s existing environmental rights amendment, which is codified in the Pennsylvania Bill of Rights. Pennsylvania is one of the few states in the U.S. to have such a law, but it hadn’t really been tested until this lawsuit. Since the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of van Rossum et al., the legal victory has been the foundation on which people across Pennsylvania have successfully combated unwanted and harmful oil and gas operations on their lands.

Now as the director of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, van Rossum is working to halt the construction of the controversial PennEast pipeline. The PennEast Pipeline Company — a coalition of six gas companies — has been trying for years to build a 114-mile natural gas pipeline from eastern Pennsylvania to central New Jersey. Along the way, the pipeline would pass through environmentally sensitive areas including 88 waterways, 44 wetlands and 30 parks. Because of federal rules regarding interstate pipelines, eminent domain can be used to site the pipeline over open space and preserved farmland. The PennEast pipeline would furthermore create a new “right of way,” which would allow for future construction of more pipelines along this route as well as compressor stations and other oil and gas infrastructure. PennEast has thus far been unable to prove the pipeSee GREEN AMENDMENT Page 34

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Coco Aramaki

Know less, wonder more

under their belt, Gibson (who prefers the genderneutral ‘they’ pronoun) is a four-time Denver Grand Slam Champion and was the first winner of the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2008. This month, Gibson released their seventh album, Hey Galaxy, and is currently on tour through North America and Europe, with a stop at the Boulder Theater on Feb. 10. Gibson has lived in Boulder since 1999. It was that relocation that set Gibson off on the road to being a professional poet. “When I moved to Boulder, I actually moved here from New Orleans with a girlfriend, and we broke up almost as soon as we got here,” Gibson says. “There was something about that breakup that made me brave.” Gibson signed up for an open mic at the nowclosed Penny Lane coffeehouse. “I hadn’t ever done it before, but you know when you get your heart busted and you’re just like ‘whatever’?” Gibson says. “I had just given up on everything. So I was like, I’m just going to do it. I read a poem and I was so nervous that the paper in my hand was shaking louder than my voice.” Even though writing had always been a part of their life, Gibson says they never considered poetry as a full-time career because it seemed farfetched. But

Poet Andrea Gibson asks, ‘How do I get Trump voters to my show?’ by Amanda Moutinho

’ve always had a hard time expressing myself,” says poet Andrea Gibson. It’s hard to believe, especially since Gibson has made a career doing just that. There’s not much Gibson hasn’t shared with an audience, with poems covering topics including love, loss, sexuality, gender fluidity, mental illness, suicide, feminism, race, class and more. It was poetry that gave Gibson a voice. “For me, as long as I can remember, even as a tiny kid, my safety came from being like, ‘This is happening inside of me!’ Hiding things has always felt toxic in my body,” Gibson says. “I started writing because I have such a difficult time articulating myself in a moment. I loved that [by] writing poetry, I could think about one line for two months if I wanted to. And I could really get my point across. I had so much anxiety, that speaking was difficult for me then. I loved finally having a platform where I could comfortably express myself.” With almost two decades of performing poetry Boulder Weekly

touring opportunities came, then professional representation and a Poet Andrea Gibson comes to the series of other opportuBoulder Theater on nities that Gibson says Feb. 10. came through luck. “I just felt so grateful to be doing it,” Gibson says. “I couldn’t believe it, and nobody believed me. They’d ask what I do and I’d say I’m a poet, and they’d laugh. Really though! I know it’s weird.” Since even before they could call it their job, Gibson wrote every free minute available. When they had a day off from teaching at a Montessori school in Boulder, Gibson would wake up early to write and continue through the night. And their process hasn’t changed much in 20 years. “If it’s a writing day for me, I lock myself in a room all day, and I’m pacing, and I’m doing a lot of yelling, whispering, sometimes singing. If you were to walk in on me, it would be an embarrassing experience for both of us because I’m making sounds that aren’t words. I sound sort of like a drunk seagull. “If I finally feel like I have something, then I’ll run back to the desk and type it down,” they continue. “And then suddenly it will be night time, and it’ll feel like only an hour has passed.” Gibson calls this process making the puzzle pieces, saying the most annoying part of writing a poem is figuring out where all the pieces go and how they fit together. For Gibson, rhythm is essential for the see GIBSON Page 38

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poems. They know what the poem sounds like even before the words come. “I always liked the idea that if somebody didn’t speak English, they might be able to hear me perform and still have a sense of at least the emotion of the piece and have a sense of maybe what the poem is about,” Gibson says. “The emotion to me is the most important thing to capture, and I just don’t always know if that’s done with words.” To write a poem, Gibson taps into their emotions, and what needs to be said most that day. They ask, “What would I feel bad going to sleep not having written about?” Gibson describes it as a cathartic experience. “It’s the time that I feel the most OK, or the most at peace in the world, or the most that I’m doing what I’m meant to do,” Gibson says. Being a slam poet, Gibson does eventually have to leave the writing room to perform their work on stage. Considering the shaking paper at their first open mic, Gibson has come a long way in terms of performing, even if they don’t think so. “I watch my friends perform, and I am so jealous the whole time. They are like, ‘Look at me!’” Gibson says. “And I feel like half the time I’m onstage, I have no idea what I’m doing with my body.” But over the years they’ve found ways to cope. Following their therapist’s advice, Gibson gives themself permission to tell the audience exactly what they’re feeling. “So even if I start having a panic attack mid poem, I stop the poem and 38 January 25 , 2018

say, ‘Hey y’all, I’m completely coming out of my skin here, and this is what it feels like. I can’t feel my hands. My face feels like it’s gonna fall off.’ To have the freedom to do that has chilled me out onstage,” Gibson says. “Because it’s one thing to have the initial anxiety. It’s another thing to feel like you have to hide something. Whenever I feel like I have to hide something, everything in me feels off and bad. If I ever feel like I’m having a dishonest experience with the audience, that just feels gross.” Over the past few years, Gibson has opened up about their struggle with depression and anxiety. Becoming more transparent with their mental illness has been beneficial for them and their audience. Gibson spends a lot of time talking to fans after shows and listening to others’ similar stories. “[People tell me] how refreshing it was to hear somebody actually talking out loud about these things, and also having other people sharing their stories with me, it began to feel like more of a communal thing,” Gibson says. “I got more of a sense of how important spoken word is to people.” The community aspect is vital for Gibson. And especially considering the state of the country right now, with a never-ending cycle of bad news, Gibson hopes their show can provide a space for people. “God, I want some comfort to come from somewhere. I know when I’m doing a show, that everybody else has come from that same news cycle,” they say. “Maybe it’s not even news, maybe it’s the life they’re living. Maybe they’re Boulder Weekly

looking at getting deported. Maybe they had to sneak out of their parents’ house to even get to the show because their parents are homophobic. I consider all that going into the night.” Gibson also realizes that since they’ve written about suicide and mental illness, that at least a handful of people in the audience could be struggling with similar issues. “So I want to be comforting in a way,” they say. “And sometimes that looks different. Sometimes the truth is comforting, even if it’s a heavy truth. And sometimes it’s just a reminder that we’re not alone and trying to create a space where folks leave feeling less alone.” Along with sharing their honesty and connecting with the crowd, as an activist, Gibson is hoping to inspire the audience to take action and make the world a better place. Activism has always been a part of Gibson’s life. They say they’ve spent the past year at protests, rallies and just generally screaming against the Trump administration. Gibson has also spent many years as a member of Vox Feminista, a multimedia performance group for social change. Gibson frequently refers to Vox Feminista’s motto, “To comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable,” as a source of inspiration. Much of their work is providing comfort to those that seek it, but it’s the latter half of the quote that is the bigger challenge. “When I think about disturbing the comfortable, I think of, and maybe this isn’t fair and maybe it is, Trump voters. Unfortunately, not enough Trump voters are coming to my shows,” Gibson says with a laugh. “That’s the hard thing. I’m writing all my disturbing poems for people who will never hear them. How do I get Trump voters to my show?” As a proponent for truth, Gibson says at least now the ugliness that riddles the U.S. is being uncovered. “It’s no longer hidden. It’s out there in such a way that we’re seeing it,” Gibson says. “The country has always been this racist. It didn’t just suddenly get racist with Trump.” Suffering from what, they call, political mood swings, Gibson says it’s hard to be hopeful, but there’s a glimmer in the distance. Gibson sees a parallel between poetry and the current political state. “If I believe in what poetry does, which is bring truth to light, then maybe there’s a way that I can believe that this a really transformative time, that the truth is coming into the light,” Gibson says. “Some huge change could come from that. So that’s what gives me Boulder Weekly

hope.” Gibson looks toward the future wide-eyed and curious, with a thirst for more understanding. From their early days in poetry, Gibson has learned a lot by realizing, paradoxically, maybe they haven’t learned much at all. “When I first started writing, I was learning so much so quickly that I was writing from a place of knowing a lot, like this is the right way and this is

how to think, and anybody else who doesn’t think this way is stupid,” they say. “I had a really black-and-white thought processes of right and wrong. And I think one of the ways it’s evolved over the years is I feel like I know less, and I wonder more. I’m more invested in curiosity and asking more questions instead of thinking things are as simple as they look on the surface.” As the old adage goes, the older you

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get, the more you realize you know nothing. Gibson agrees with a laugh, “Pretty soon, I’ll know nothing.”

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overtones Eric Johnson: Now and then

Austin guitar legend Eric Johnson on balancing expectations by Dave Kirby

epending on who you ask and what day you ask it, having that One Monster Hit is either a blessing or a boat anchor for the working musician. For his part, Eric Johnson’s has always been, and probably will always be, the galloping instrumental “Cliffs of Dover,” the premiere cut from his second album, Ah Via Musicom, released in 1990. Johnson’s repute as an Austin fret burner of uncommon combustion had already been solidified among guitarist fans with his previous (and first major label) release, Tones, but Ah Via Musicom blew the doors off Johnson’s career, and “Cliffs of Dover” earned him a 1991 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. So understandably, the single became a staple, and eventually the set-closer, of pretty much all of Johnson’s live gigs. It also appears on nearly all the live material Johnson has released since, only marginally reworked from its original arrangement. Testament to the piece’s buoyant melody and healthy space for Johnson’s blinding soloing, it is still fresh, and, along with one or two others from that LP (“Trademark” and “Forty Mile Town”), it keeps that piece of the guitarist’s now-receding past close at hand. For his fans, and for himself, balancing what’s now and what was then is always a challenge. “Yeah,” he reflects recently. “It’s cool, it’s fine. Y’know, I wouldn’t want to do it all the time, but no, it’s fine. “Fortunately, even with the Musicom stuff, I mean there’s a lot of room for improvisation, so it’s not like a notefor-note thing. There’s a little room in there, which makes it a little bit more liquid. “I think sometimes, if you set the bar on whatever it is you’re doing and people enjoy it, it really kind of comes back to the artist himself. He’s got to come up with something that captures people’s interest. The audience might be a little biased in that way, in that it might be a little extra hard to turn the heads, but it’s up to the artist to come up with something that would interest them as much as what the bar got set on originally.” Boulder Weekly

Johnson finds balancing his temporal inspiration and his fans’ expectation symmetrical with the balancing act artists in other fields must perform. “You have typecast actors that will somehow get out of that mold, because they’re dynamic enough and inventive enough to show their liquidity... but even if they do, and they get accepted that way, and they’re supported in that way, there’ll still be people who’ll say, ‘Well, I remember when they did this or that, and that was the best.’ It probably still won’t ever leave them, but it can be limited or depleted over time.”

“That was the first thing that got me into guitar when I was really young — the Ventures, Nokie Edwards and all that stuff,” he says. The album itself is a breezy, relatively low-impact affair — even the wide-open instrumental ballad closer “To Whom It May Concern” finds Johnson resisting the opportunity for pyrotechnics, opting instead for graceful and tender improv lines, sensitive to the tune’s melancholy. One gets the sense that Johnson, continually battling his own now-legendary perfectionism, is succeeding at being himself without

Johnson reunites with his old touring band — Kyle Brock and Tommy Taylor — for the Musicom material, but the show will also feature newer material, likely including some from his latest studio album, Collage, released just last year. In some sense, the new album has plenty of references to Johnson’s past, although more as bookmarks to his own musical inspirations: a sprightly, bounding cover of the Beatles’ “We Can Work It Out,” a nod to early Motown with Stevie Wonder’s “Up Tight (Everything’s Alright),” a solo acoustic read of Hendrix’s “One Rainy Wish” and a joyously bonkers cover of “Pipeline,” the landmark 1962 surf single by The Chantays.

getting too wrapped around the axle. There’s a great quote in Johnson’s liner notes to Collage: “I must unlearn and let go.” Johnson laughs a little at that quote, in juxtaposition to Ah Via Musicom. “Well that was probably the last thing on my mind when I made Ah Via Musicom. Kyle and Tommy played so great on that record, they kind of cut a lot of their stuff live. And there’s a good chunk of that I cut live too, but I kinda went back and manipulated it... manipulated it to the end of the earth. Just everything, trying to get it right. Somehow or another, it doesn’t sound that way, but typically when you do that, it feels that way.”

ON THE BILL: Eric Johnson — with Arielle. 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9, Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver. Reserved tickets are $37.50 plus applicable service charges.

Maybe the way out of the mind trap is the blues album; Johnson, when inspired to do so, is a deft and uniquely gifted blues player, a well of expression he dips into relatively infrequently. The fans had been calling for an Ah Via Musicom start-to-finish... but plenty have been asking for a blues album as well. Any chance we’ll see that? “It’s funny you mention that,” he says. “There was a friend of the family that passed away two years ago, and he made me promise that I’d do more of that someday. And I do... I mean, I must have at least six pieces. I wanna do a blues record. And I’m just trying to figure out how to do it. I don’t want to do another strat-Texas rock record, I mean, who needs that? Stevie Ray was the greatest at that. “I grew up on that stuff. Albert and B.B. and Freddie, that’s totally in my blood, although most people may not realize it. So I think if I did this record, I would want it to be contributive — not flashy or ego-y, but something that contributes to the blues idiom, which is such a beautiful idiom. “Just interesting you’d ask about this, because it’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently. I just need to figure out ... how to do it.” The guitar is an elusive mistress, a tease and a siren, generous in her promise of endless opportunity, pitiless in her demand for dedication. And yet it’s seductive enough to keep the pilgrim chasing that sound. As a soiled and often overwhelmed petitioner ourselves at that altar, we couldn’t help asking Johnson whether there were still times when the sound rang clear but the fingers, the navigation on the fretboard, just wouldn’t cooperate. A chord, a scale, a passing harmonic, the perfectly placed arpeggio... it resonates in the spirit, but the mechanics just will not align to that sound. “Oh yeah, man,” he laughs, “all the time. Way too much. “I grew up playing classical piano and never really pursued enough to get that astute at it. I just got ingrained in me this kind of sound that was so elegant. When I decided I wanted to play rock ‘n’ roll, I wanted that elegance. “So yeah, it’s every day, all the time, trying to find that elegance.” January 25 , 2018 41

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a r t s & culture Up against a wall

Denver’s River North Arts District turns into an outdoor film festival

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couple of winters ago, most of the businesses set too far back to Fiona Arnold was walking see from the road, passersby need to through the streets of Old enter the courtyard to see what’s there. It Town Montreal with her invites exploration, which is what Arnold daughter when they turned shoots for in her developments, and what a corner and saw a film playing on a her hope is for Side Stories. warehouse wall. The film was looped, an The premise is simple: 10 local artists audio booth set up nearby with info. were assigned one of 10 urban exteriors Despite the bone rattling temperatures, on which to project short films, strucpeople were out and about — going into tures like the dry ice towers at the corner bars, checking out the movie, enjoying of 33rd and Walnut, or the side of Epic the city. Brewing. The Side Stories website will Back at their hotel, David Zimmer, “Echo,” his shot film for Side Stories RiNo Arnold downloaded an app she saw promoted with the movie and learned the film was just one in a series that made up a walking tour, a sort of outdoor film festival, and she knew it would be perfect for Denver’s artsy, warehouse-heavy River North (RiNo) district. It took a couple of years for Arnold to set her plan in motion, but now, after just three months of planning and preparation, the Denver Metro Area will be able to expeprovide visitors with an interactive map rience what Arnold and her team have and audio tour of the event, complete dubbed Side Stories, from Feb. 21 to with historical RiNo highlights and March 2 in East RiNo. The installation block-by-block suggestions about where will run from Broadway to 36th Street to stop for a drink and a bite to eat — or and from Blake Street to Larimer Street. even shop — along the way. It’s no surprise Arnold saw a connecTo get the project up and running, tion between RiNo and Old Town Arnold’s Mainspring Developers partMontreal: She’s a developer, president of nered with the RiNo Arts District, the Mainspring Development in Denver. Mary Lester/Martin Family Foundation, And from 2015 to 2016, Arnold ran eco- the Colorado Office of Film, Television nomic development for the state of & Media and the Denver Film Society. Colorado as a part of Governor John The organizations were able to pool Hickenlooper’s cabinet. In that position money in order to provide all artists with she worked with lots of different organia $5,000 grant to create a 3 to 5 minute zations, including arts group such as film loop inspired by RiNo’s historic Colorado Creative Industries and the neighborhoods or the culture of the area, Office of Film, Television & Media. from the railroads to the CRUSH “In those couple of years I was really Festival to the street art the area is exposed to some of the interesting things known for. that were going on and how incredibly “I’d seen the idea [in Montreal] but entrepreneurial the arts and culture scene what I thought made sense, given my is in Colorado,” Arnold says over coffee history at economic development, is there recently. We’re sitting in the courtyard of needs to be a few legs to it,” Arnold says. Backyard on Blake, a Mainspring “One, we need to support local artists Development that transformed a wareand film makers. We wanted new work house and the surrounding area near produced and for the artists to be paid Blake and 31st streets into a cluster of all for it. Another leg is to support local independent Colorado businesses. With businesses, and the third leg is to provide Boulder Weekly

ON THE BILL: Side Stories RiNo. 6-10 p.m. Feb. 21-March 2, RiNo Arts District, Broadway to 36th Street, Blake to Larimer streets. This event is free.

Colorado residents and visitors kind of an entrée into a neighborhood that’s exciting.” The project is still coming together, and Arnold says the end results of the films is still an unknown. Better that way, she feels; she likes to be surprised. “The way you get the best product is to not tell them what to do,” she says. But video artist and photographer David Zimmer sat with us and talked a bit about his project, which has actually been a work-in-progress for a decade. “There’s a grouping of trees I’ve been filming over the past 10 years and they are in a storm,” Zimmer says. “Every couple of years I would go back. At first there wasn’t a single house, then there were a few houses, now the trees are dying and they are completely surrounded by houses. It turned into a thing about suburban sprawl and nature and the displacement of nature.” Other artists and groups involved in the project are Postmodern, Futuristic Films, Gary Emrich, Ivar Zeile (Denver Digerati), CU Denver Student & Faculty Collaboration, HaveyPro Cinema, The Made Shop, Mighteor and Studio Hippo. Colorado Film Commissioner Donald Zimmer was the first person Arnold called to talk about the idea for the project. He loved the idea — thus the reason the state Film, Television & Media office partnered on the project. Arnold says he’s been talking to philanthropic group across the state to help the Side Stories project grow. “This year it’s Side Stories RiNo, maybe next year a couple more neighborhoods will get added to it, so it becomes this rolling thing all through the winter,” Arnold says. (Winter because there are more hours of darkness to show films.) “RiNo might have a particular theme, LiHo, the Golden Triangle. It could even be other parts of the state. “We don’t know where we’re going to go next.”

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The Crystal Method with Jantsen, Ishe. 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Chili Cook-Off. 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. It’s winter, and nothing says, “Damn, it’s cold” like a steaming hot bowl of chili. And what makes a good bowl of chili even tastier? When it’s your chili and you’ve won the chili cook-off at Bootstrap Brewing in Longmont. There’s no entry or tasting fee, and judging will be done by the general public — so you can take pride in knowing that the masses loved yours. Come have some great beer and pick your favorite chili from 5-8 p.m.

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A Toad Story — Boulder Rights of Nature Film Series. 5:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 29, Meadows Branch Boulder Public Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder.

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A Toad Story by Are Pilskog is an entertaining and heartwarming documentary film about toads and how they changed a community for the better. Paul Henjum via Wikimedia Commons As a new highway threatens the survival of a local toad species, two introverted toad enthusiasts from a small village in a deep ford in Norway become the unlikely heroes who rally the whole community to ensure the toads could cross the highway safely. A post screening discussion will follow.

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This conference will explore a number of questions, evaluating whether the Supreme Court has effectively resolved patent law issues and whether the Court has the tools to modify patent law on an ongoing basis. There will be a keynote speaker and breakout sessions.

7:30 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, ATLAS Black Box Experimental Studio,1125 18th St., Boulder.

Come join the German Club in watching the threepart TV miniseries: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Generation War) tells the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II.

In this first colloquia, Information Science Assistant Professor Brian Keegan will present his talk “A Research Agenda for Cannabis Informatics.”

Conscience: The Basis of Liberty, Character, and Civilization with CTP Candidate William B. Allen. 5:30 p.m. Hale Science, 230, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder. Featuring William B. Allen, candidate for Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy 20182019.

5:30 p.m. Williams Village Campus, Entrepreneurial Space, 108 510 30th St., Boulder.

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5 p.m. Hale Science, 236, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder.

“Pure Zeppelin Live”

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German TV hour: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Generation War).

Workshop 1: How to do User Research & Validate Your Idea.

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Professor Ivan Smalyukh will describe materials that may replace or retrofit the inefficient windowpanes of residential and commercial buildings.

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In this series we are creating a spring board that you can launch your company off of. The four workshops focus on user research, market research, idea validation, executive summaries, business plans and pitches.

Climate Change in Our Backyard. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. Katelyn Long will talk about her research on bees and climate change.

Inheritance Trouble: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance Annual Holocaust Lecture — Professor Michael Rothberg. 7 p.m. Old Main, Old Main Theater, 1600 Pleasant St., Boulder. Professor Michael Rothberg considers immigrants’ engagement with the Holocaust in contemporary Germany.

Department Colloquium — Alaa Ahmed. 3 p.m. Engineering Center, ECCR 265, 1111 Engineering Drive, Boulder. Neuroeconomics of decision making and movement control.

2018 MacKenzie Lectureship: Stewart Hoover.

7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. Haley Slaugh presents her senior cello recital featuring works from Beethoven to Lutosławski.

Free public lecture on “the crisis of religion in a media age” by Stewart Hoover, director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture and professor of Media Studies.

4 p.m. IMPACT Center, IMPACT Laboratory (behind the Science Learning Laboratory) 3400 Marine St., Boulder.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27 CU Wizards! “Speed!” 9:30 a.m. Duane Physics and Astrophysics, G1B30, 2000 Colorado Ave., Boulder. Free stem for K-12 students! Join one of CU Boulder’s beloved Nobel Laureate Professors, Eric Cornell on a journey through space, all in good time!

Free Museum Family Day: Learning from Nature. 10 a.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), 1035 Broadway, Boulder. How do plants and animals solve survival challenges? Through hands-on discovery, families will make observations and discoveries about how structures and processes in nature solve problems.

CU on the Weekend: The Dark Side of Government Speech.

7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

Can the Constitution prohibit government officials from lying to us? Find out at the next CU on the Weekend lecture as Colorado Law Professor Helen Norton discusses how government speech can be used in both empowering and detrimental ways, particularly in the age of Twitter.

CU REACH Colloquium on Cannabis Research: Brian Keegan.

Senior Student Recital: Haley Slaugh, cello.

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1 p.m. Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building, Butcher Auditorium, 3415 Colorado Ave., Boulder.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 26

Feng Zhang is considered one of the developers of the CRISPR-Cas genome editing technology that has revolutionized molecular biology in the past few years. His lecture, “Genome Editing Using CRISPR-Cas Systems,” will be targeted toward a curious lay audience.

7 p.m. First Congregational Church,1128 Pine St., Boulder.

AMRC Recreate Your Roots: Jayme Stone’s Folklife in Concert.

Recreate Your Roots presents an evening in concert with world-class performers Jayme Stone’s Folklife.

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3 p.m. Gold Biosciences Building, A2B70 Auditorium, 1945 Colorado Ave.,

Saturday Physics Series Lecture, “Windows and Climate Change.” 2:30 p.m. Duane Physics and Astrophysics, G1B30, 2000 Colorado Ave., Boulder.

IMPACT Center Open House.

The Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres, and Cosmic Dust (IMPACT) is hosting an open house to provide an opportunity for aerospace contractors with high-speed impact testing needs to view the lab’s facilities.

Workshop 2: What differentiates your idea and How to do Market Research. 5:30 p.m. Williams Village Campus, Entrepreneurial Space, 108 510 30th St., Boulder. Workshop 2: What differentiates your idea and How to do Market Research. In this series we are creating a spring board that you can launch your company off of. The four workshops focus on user research, market research, idea validation, executive summaries, business plans and pitches. The workshops stand alone.

Pendulum New Music Ensemble: CU Flute Studio, Christina Jennings, Carter Pann and student projects. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall,1020 18th St., Boulder. PROGRAM: Zack Patten: “Oracle”; John Clay Allen: “Nantahala”; Carter Pann: “Double Espresso”; Margaret Friesen: “Dramatic Monologue for Flute”; Chase Church: “Two Moods on E. E. Cummings Poems”; Nicole Schneckenburger: “Oratio de Sanctae Monicae.”

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Thursday, January 25 Music The Acoustic Guitar Project. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. Blackbird Blackbird. 10 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

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For decades, activists have relied on federal and state legislation to fight for a cleaner environment. And for decades, they’ve been fighting a losing battle. But there is a solution, argues Maya K. van Rossum: bypass the laws and turn to the ultimate authority — our state and federal constitutions. Now, with The Green Amendment, van Rossum lays out an inspiring new agenda for environmental advocacy. Read more on page 33.

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Danny Shafer Duo. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. DJ E Rose. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. DU Lamont Guest Artists — Sandbox Percussion. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Freddy Rule. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. GoldFish. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver. Guttermouth. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Intuit. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. One Flew West. 7:30 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont. Rapidgrass featuring Billy Cardine — with Salem, Miles Over Mountains. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. The Secret Sisters. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Signal Test. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland. Somatoast. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Soul Night. 9:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder. Summer Camp On The Road featuring Envy Alo, The Jive Tribe, FloatGoat, Chompers. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Two Friends: The Just a Kid Tour. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Vatican Vamps Album Release. 8:30 p.m. HiDive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

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Tuesday, January 30

Beth Osnes — Performance for Resilience. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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

Richard Robbins. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Theresa Crater and Jennifer Kincheloe — School of Hard Knocks and The Woman in the Camphor Trunk. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Monday, January 29 So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. The Nobel Lecture Series Spring 2018 January Lecture. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Wednesday, January 31 Maya K. Van Rossum — The Green Amendment. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Brian Rezac. 6 p.m. Chuburger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont.

Espresso Gypsy Jazz. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder.

Chris Dismuke. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.

Gerald Albright. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

The Crystal Method — with Jantsen. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

GhostPulse, Poor Bodhi, Today’s Paramount. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Deja Blu Dance Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette.

Hannah Isom. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont.

Denver Rock and Soul Band Live. 8 p.m. The Lost Lake Lounge, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Jeff Austin Band — with Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Digg, Xoa, Audic Empire. 8 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Eric Martin of Mr. Big featuring Members of Trixter. 7 p.m. The Venue, 1451 Cortez St., Denver.

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Events Comedy Night at Vision Quest. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder. HUNKS: The Show Male Revue. 7 p.m. Club Vinyl, 1082 Broadway, Denver. Jerry Rocha. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver. Laser Floyd: The Vision Bell. 9 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. Malcolm Daly: Triumph & Tragedy in Alaska. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Momma McCracken Comedy Show — Resolution Checkup. 8 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. Movie Think & Drink: Perfect Sense. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Naughty Pierre’s Burlesque & Comedy Extravaganza. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Steve Rannazzisi. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Friday, January 26 Music All About The Brass. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite A, Longmont.

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Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with Dan Tyminski and Angel Snow. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. Lori’s Cuisine. 4:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

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Los Fear of Shrimp. 7 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore — with the Hamkickers Club. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver.

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Mozart Happy Hour. 6:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Nadi. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Nick O’Connor Trio. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. Organ/Piano Spectacular by Chappell Kingsland. 7:30 p.m. United Church of Christ Longmont, 1500 Ninth Ave., Longmont. Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Sagebrush Blues. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

Feb

Film Series:

Ocean Cities:

Exploring Our Connection to the Sea

Savage Society featuring Bloodthinnerz, Maze, Blankface. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver. Seth Walker. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.

Silverstein and Tonight Alive — with Broadside, Picturesque. 6 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Spinphony. 7 p.m. The Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Feb

Jessica Lea Mayfield & Birds of Chicago

Scott Martin

RL Cole and The Hell You Say —with The Get Together and Florea. 8 p.m. Syntax Physic Opera, 554 S. Broadway, Denver.

Shakedown Street. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder

Radio Show Taping

Luna and Ray Johnson are a married couple. They are also a couple of actors. Life was in a tailspin for Luna and Ray, professionally, maritally, emotionally and mentally, and from that, How to Screw Up Your Life was born — a play about how to screw up your life. Luna and Ray guide the audience through the vast range of How-To options — wrong job, wrong spouse, having kids, not having kids, drugs, social media and beyond — while also offering ways to establish who and what you are — giving every audience member the opportunity to select their unique path to screwing up their lives.

Sullivan Fortner, American Pianist Association Jazz Fellow. 7:30 p.m. Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St., Denver. Ultralowfi. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. The Von Hodads — with Taylor Sims. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. Events “ComedySportz” Denver. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.

Annie. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Feb. 24. Beauty and the Beast. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse. 747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Feb. 14. Detroit ’67. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Feb. 24. Evening of Shorts — part of the Theater Made in Boulder Festival. Featuring: Bloodlines (written by Ashley Rice); Kosmic Joke: Killing Time (written by Buck Ley); Mud Season (written by Felice Locker); Terrember (written by Mike Eisenberg). Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Open Jan. 28. Through Feb. 11. Evil Dead: The Musical. 7:30 p.m. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Feb. 17. Fermata — presented by Theater Company of Lafayette & Theatre Esprit Asia. Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Through Jan. 28. Guards at The Taj — Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Jan. 27. Through Feb. 18

How to Screw Up Your Life! Dairy Arts Center, The Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Feb. 10. In the Heights — presented by Timbergriffen Theater Company. Performing Arts Complex at PCS, 1001 W. 84th Ave., Denver. Through Jan. 27. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill — presented by Vintage Theatre. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Feb. 18. Mulan. 3 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Feb. 10. Rumors — presented by Lowry’s Spotlight Theater. The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Feb. 3. Siren Song: A Pirate’s Odyssey. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through May 14. Steal A Pencil For Me. 7:30 p.m. MACC at the J, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through Jan. 30. Zoey’s Perfect Wedding. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Feb. 25.

Fate of The Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Full Concert: eTown Presents

Jeffrey 10 Foucault Feb

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Jerry Rocha. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver.

Ben Hammond. 8 p.m. Wash Park Grille, 1096 S. Gaylord St., Denver.

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder.

Bias & Beats. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Julie Geller, Ha, Aqua and the Lost Tribe. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.

Steve Rannazzisi. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Billy Shaddox Trio. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

Saturday, January 27

BOTW 9: Float like a Buffalo, Leaving Concord, The Pharoahs, O’Conner Brothers, Goat Trail Element. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

Live Music: Robert Wilson Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.

Spectrum Dance Theater. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver.

Music 45s Against 45: An Anti-Trump Dance Party, ‘80s Edition! 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Amy Gerhartz House Concert (Adults Only). 7 p.m. Sounds of Simon House Concerts, 1086 E. Roggen Way, Superior. Back Stabbath. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland. Backcountry Olympics at Outdoor Retailers. 6 p.m. Tivoli Brewing, 900 Auraria Parkway, Denver.

Brunch with Jen Korte as Lady Gang. 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Denver Digerati. 7:30 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, 1125 18th St., 320 UCB, Boulder. First Year Anniversary featuring Collidoscope, Kaleid, Deezy le Phunk, Animal Ace & More. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Bass Physics, Exmag. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

The Funk Hunters — with Defunk, TruFeelz. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Ben and Darren Live. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Ghostface Killah. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Longmont Symphony Family Concert. 4 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont. Mass Hipsteria. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite A, Longmont. The Mighty Twisters. 10 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder. Miguel Espinoza. 12 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Mr. Knowitall, Jocko Homo and Desert Radio. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. New Works Concert. 3 p.m. Wash Park UCC/ CMA, 400 S. Williams St., Denver. Otis Taylor Band — with Tenth Mountain Division. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland.

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events The Prairie Scholars. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont.

Ordinary Breakfast (Pre-Performance Brunch). 12 p.m. MACC at the J, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver.

Jerry Rocha. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver.

Quemando Salsa Party. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.

Raisins and Almonds: A Tu B’Shvat Celebration. 5 p.m. Hebrew Educational Alliance, 3600 S. Ivanhoe St., Denver.

The Magical Duo: Harwood & Woodward. 6:30 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Some Brunches are Bigger Than Others, hosted by DJ Hollow. 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Twenty-first Annual Boulder Wedding Showcase. 11 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

Events

Monday, January 29

Boulder Comedy Show. 6 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder.

Music

The Rhythm Allstars. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. School of Rock Aurora. 12 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Skyler Madison. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver. Snow Show Afterparty featuring Raekwon. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Sulphurensis. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Fortieth Annual Colorado Motorcycle Expo. 9 a.m. National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver.

August Burns Red — The Phantom Anthem Tour. 6:30 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Griefshare support group. 6:30 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont. Josh Ritter & the Royal City Band. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Events Black & Blu — Comedy/Variety Show. 7 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver. Wall Talk with Kristin FitzGerrell. 11 a.m. The Boulder Creative Collective, 2500 47th St., Suite 10, Boulder. see EVENTS Page 52

Tribal Seeds. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. The Vipers. 8:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Woodbelly. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. Yung Lean. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Events “ComedySportz” Denver. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. 3MCS Stand-Up, Sketch and Live Comedy. 9 p.m. Blackbird Pub, 305 S. Downing St., Denver.

Comedy for a Cause. 7 p.m. Plaza Convention Center, 1850 Industrial Circle, Longmont. Community Dance Party. 7 p.m. The Boulder Creative Collective, 2500 47th St., Stuite 10, Boulder. Eleventh Annual Snowshoe Fun-Fit Hike. 8:30 a.m. Boulder Justice Center parking lot, Sixth Street and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder. Fortieth Annual Colorado Motorcycle Expo. 9 a.m. National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver. Jerry Rocha. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver. The Magic Within, Psychic Explorations — with Erica Sodos. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver. Night of Stoke. 6:30 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver. Stand-Up Comedy & Bottomless Margaritas. 8 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Steve Rannazzisi. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Sunday, January 28 Music Afton Showcase featuring Full Circle Blues Band, Knowtice, Subzenith PÉREZ, Ryan Dart & Guests. 6:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Antonio Lopez Live Music. 4 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Suite 130, Longmont. Bashville and Amelia Airharts. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Dairy Presents: Hollywood Escape. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Felonious Smith Trio. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill and Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons. Foxfeather Duo. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Grassfed. 9:30 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Imbolc on the Labyrinth. 2:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder.

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Divided: Race and Identity in Modern America. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 4.

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Drawn to the Figure. Arts Longmont Gallery, West End Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. Through Feb. 24.

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Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8.

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The Sound of Red is an exploration by the artist Detour (aka, Thomas Evans) of the associations between sound, color and form by attempting to create space for simultaneous response. Through the existence of this space, one will start to question and reevaluate one’s impression of how they all work together.

Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October. Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through April 1. Member’s Show. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through April 22. Original Abstract Oil And Mixed Media Paintings — by Kathy Friesz. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 2.

Film Series:

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Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through February. They Still Live. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Jan. 26. Through March 4. thINK! Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Feb. 4.

Power Of Process, Jefferson County Schools Exhibition. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through April 1.

Unseen — by Rowan Salem and K. Vuletich. 9 p.m. Art Gym Denver, 1460 Leyden St., Denver. Through Jan. 27.

In this era of climate change and sea level rise How can coastal cities around the world innovate and connect to the oceans they border?

Reconfigured II. Space Gallery, 400 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through Feb. 24.

Works Of Mixed Media, Digital, Ink And Paint — by Mark Ludy. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 2.

Revealing A Mexican Masterpiece: The Virgin of Valvanera. Denver Art Museum,

eTown Live Radio Show Taping:

Jessica Lea Mayfield & Birds of Chicago

The Sound of Red. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby & Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Jan. 26. Through March 4.

Ocean Cities: Exploring Our Connection to the Sea

Feb

Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28.

100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through February.

eTown Presents:

Jeffrey Foucault

One of the finest songwriters of his generation!

Theater

Cry Havoc!

“What Wolfert has achieved is unique – something accessible and engaging to spectators whether they’re veterans or not. It’s a war story, but an unconventional and brutally honest one” –The Village Voice

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Tuesday, January 30

Wednesday, January 31

Music

Black Buzzard Open Mic Comedy — Hosted by Janae Burris. 9:30 p.m. The Black Buzzard at Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 1624 Market St., Denver.

Dinner — with Joe Johnson. 6 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Flix & Felony. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Open Mic — with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. US Bombs. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Events Permission: NY Film Critics Series. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Taco Tuesday Stand-Up Comedy. 7 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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...TELL. STORIES. The art to propel The electric current Shooting off the table. The fork extending from the carcass, The fork sticking out of the socket Buzzing with a potential energy We must write smell--the aroma of roses, Nausea, and birth. Visions, the shock of the body found Among salamanders on the bank Of the dark green river, A crumpled can of Bud light Bobbing up and down at her gray lips Like a Dante-ian Dore engraving. Must elicit recognition, connection: “That could have been me.” “Maybe it should have been me.” If dreams really came true, Prayers were answered, Stories would smell somewhat like this. Exactly. They would sound like stomach acid at work Like the tolling of a bell If you tell a story well, It is no longer a story; It is an eclipse, An earth tremor. A miracle. Measurable, quantifiable, Canonized, and the purpose for Tears, seppuku, and long-distance phone calls. A story well-told is An embryo’s first flutter kick, A crack in the ice, A shift in a shaft of silver light Underneath the closet door. Emergence and bright beauty. Telling a story well Propels the blood Through the very veins Of the universe. Clint Locks created the Brownwood Open Mic Music & Poetry group, and is the author of the cheap-ass self-published chapbooks “Paper Clips” and “What Now?” and one real-live published collection entitled This Ocean Used to be A Desert (Boabob Press). He performs his work naked in the shower, and fully clothed at the So You’re A Poet reading series in Boulder. Boulder Weekly

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ord addict — and alleged woman knower — Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut is so “on brand” for him that it is almost a parody. Molly’s Game features so much telling and so little showing that it’s basically an audiobook narrated by Jessica Chastain’s cleavage. With cinematography that explicitly ogles its lead, seemingly out of boredom due to all the action-free talking, what should have been a showcase for the brilliant actress feels more like a made-for-nonpremium-cable-TV reenactment. Molly’s Game tells the real-life story of Molly Bloom (Chastain), whose unusual career path took her from the US Olympic trials in skiing to facilitating illegal poker games with uber-famous jerkwads. The bifurcated plot sees Molly and her reluctant lawyer, Charlie Jaffey (Idris Elba), slap-fighting the heavy hand of the justice system while detailing how she went from cocktail waitress to “Poker Princess.” The only way this threadbare amount of narrative takes up 140 minutes of screen time is with pointless dalliances that include a detailed education on spontaneous scoliosis, the intricacies of poker terminology and characters who answer every question in the form of an audition monologue for community theater.

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Somehow, Molly’s Game manages to both overpraise and underuse its lead character. Most of the “action” occurs with Molly merely pacing in the background, as her monotone voice-over meticulously describes everything we are already watching and understanding with our eyes and brains. As if embarrassed at the way the cinematography treats Chastain’s body as the subject of a Planet Earth episode, several characters hilariously overemphasize the virtues of the drug-abusing illegal-poker impresario. Although stupidity may keep him from donning 007’s tux, Elba’s emphatic, believable delivery on a line suggesting Molly’s refusal to snitch should put her “on the cover of a Wheaties box” proves he has a license to kill overwrought dialogue. That speech of Elba’s combines with Kevin Costner’s impossibly stupid arrival in the third act to demonstrate (again) Sorkin’s inability to grant the women he writes the agency they deserve. Instead of Molly eloquently arguing for her own emancipation, her male lawyer does it for her exactly one scene before her psychologist father (Costner) shows up to dismiss her every motivation as “daddy issues.” The film culminates with a teary-eyed Molly quietly watching two men defend and define her. Maybe it should have been “Molly’s Dad and Lawyer’s Game, Also Featuring Molly.” As negative as all this sounds, the experience of listening to the rhythmic patter of Sorkin’s language is so relentlessly pleasing that it’s impossible to outright dislike virtually anything he does. Should there have been more poker playing in a film about illegal poker playing? Yeah. Should an hour of bloated minutiae been cleansed to make a lithe, fun ditty instead of a weirdly somber opus? Definitely. Does it remain watchable because two Sorkin characters talking is like watching grandmasters play chess? Absolutely. Molly’s Game is not the award-show vehicle Chastain deserves nor the breezy, cheeky exploit that it should have been, but it is a passable fix for dialogue junkies and Elba enthusiasts. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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War, hot and cold, in ‘Underground’

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ot every movie survives the baptism ON THE BILL: of time. Even award winners and Underground those end-of-the-year Top Ten 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 29, movies become buried under years International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, of obsolescence. Which is why the University of Colorado restoration and re-release of a classic is always of Boulder, note. Here is a work that refuses to slip into internationalfilmseries.com obscurity. Underground, the 1995 Serbian satire from filmmaker Emir Kusturica, is the latest of these prescient classics to receive the 4K digital restoration treatment from Kino Lorber. Like all good classics, Underground has as much to say about today as it does about the time in which it was released, simply because Kusturica adheres to the old adage: History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, then as a farce. Set in Yugoslavia and beginning in the 1940s, Underground tackles the horrors of Hitler’s invasion through sex, food and an ever-present Oom-pah band. The first of our players, Marko (Miki Manojlović), a man who will come to be a leader of sorts, has sex with a prostitute, climaxing while German bombs fall. Feeding another urge, his best friend, Blacky (Lazar Ristovski), takes no notice of those bombs as they turn his home into rubble; his focus is food. We’ll see this scene once more, this time in an underground bunker at the marriage of Blacky’s son, where a giant feast, Marko’s sexual predilections and the possible end of everything will once again intersect in a bizarre and comedic scene. This underground bunker provides the setting for the second section of the film, Part Two: Cold War. Taking place during the early 1960s, Marko has led a band of Yugoslavians to start a new society below ground in an elaborate cellar so expansive it seems post-apocalyptic. All our characters from the surface have followed Marko underground, including his long-suffering wife, Natalija (Mirjana Joković), his stuttering brother (Slavko Štimac) and that ever-present Oom-pah band. While Part One dealt with the fascist oppression of Yugoslavia, Part Two turns its attention to the communist rule with a “rose by any other name” dismissal. As one character muses, “Communism is a cellar.” To which the other replies, “The whole world is a cellar.” In Kusturica’s eyes, it just might be. When Blacky and Marko make their way back to the surface, the movie jumps forward in time to the (then) present with Part Three: War. Yugoslavia is no more. Another war between the Serbs, Croats and Albanians rages, and both Blacky and Marko bring their disaffected attitudes to this new skirmish. They have survived the fascists and the communists, why should this battle give them pause? For Kusturica, this section might be the most important — representing the futility of rebellion, the frustration of struggle and how they aren’t external forces of oppression but internal hatred expressed on grand levels. “It’s not a war until a brother kills a brother,” Marko exclaims in the movie’s most telling moment. Like the best movies, Underground is less a re-enactment of historical events and more a fairy tale passed down from generation to generation: Once upon a time, there was a country... Boulder Weekly

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e don’t know who Mr. Sake is, but we like his sushi. The specialty rolls at Louisville’s Mr. Sake Sushi and Grill are unique, well-crafted and fresh. Their Rocky Mountain roll includes spicy yellowtail, spicy salmon, shrimp tempura, crab shreds (kani) and avocado. It’s hard to imagine how they crammed all that into one roll, but it tastes so good it doesn’t matter. The tempura adds pleasant crunch, the crab and avocado sweetness, the yellowtail and salmon a bit of heat and savoriness. Take out or eat in Mr. Sake’s cozy dining room. $13.95.

he folks at Snarf ’s have taken over the Boulder County sandwich industry. But it’s no wonder a new shop, or a Snarfbuger, seems to pop up somewhere every month — their sandwiches, salads and burgers are packed thick, consistent and made fast. On their “premium” menu, there exists such fare as corned beef, rotisserie chicken and eggplant parm, but a shining star is the prime rib and provolone. The prime rib at Snarf ’s is tender, juicy and imbued with the deep, wonderful taste of mediumrare cow. The Snarf ’s standard bun — crusty on the outside, chewy on the inside — is an ideal vessel for the mound of meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, mustard and mayo. $9.20.

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y father escaped from Nazi Austria in 1938 with his sister and parents. All of them were doctors. The family name was changed to Lehndorff when persecution prompted them to change from Jews to Susan France Christians. My Mom was born in Connecticut to barely literate Sicilians who became successful grocers, landowners and business entrepreneurs. I’m a second generation American who owes everything he is to immigrants from undesirable locations who faced discrimination upon arrival. Some of the best meals I’ve eaten during my life have been cooked by immigrants in eateries. Some of my favorite interviews have been with ethnic cooks, not famous chefs. I have always believed that if you can sit down with someone and break bread — whether it’s a tortilla, lavosh or a rice

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bun — you evaporate the barriers and the fear of “the other.” The leader of our nation reportedly recently opined: “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” I’m not going to debate the idiocy

but next-best is to visit local cafés, bakeries and markets. Have your taste buds meet their flavors. Support immigrant business owners. A great place to start is the remarkable Comal Heritage Food Incubator. Featured recently on Top Chef, the Incubator serves Denver’s poor but immigrant-rich neighborhoods and helps women from Mexico, El Salvador, Syria and other nations acquire business skills. Syrian refugees serve their fare, including blissfully creamy hummus for lunch on Fridays. Mexican and Central American food is also available, as well as an Ethiopian coffee ceremony. Details: facebook.com/ comalkitchen. Here are some metro ethnic destinations along with suggested dishes to try.

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of the administration’s immigration policy. Personally, I’m waiting to see Trump’s 23 & Me genetic test. Visiting the countries banned or maligned by the president may be ideal,

Arabesque: Manal and Saib Jarrar, Palestinian Israelis from the city of Acre, serve freshly baked pita, tabbouleh, Arabic coffee, milky chai and walnut and honey baklava. 1634 Walnut St., Boulder, arabesqueboulder.com. Mediterranean Deli: Owned by Libyan-born Salem Garni, the small deli and grocer offers gyros and filo-

dough-wrapped spinach pies YahYa Ameen, with yogurt owner and chef sauce and zataat Ali Baba Grill, cooking. Below, ar (thyme and a meal from Araolive oil) dip. besque 2690 28th St., Boulder, mediterraneanmarketdeli.eat24hour.com. Ali Baba Grill: Syrian natives opened this four-location chain serving deep-fried whole red snapper with tahini, parsley and lemon sauce, and muhamara pie filled with ground walnuts, red bell pepper and cracked wheat. 3033 28th St., Boulder, alibabagrill.com. Mumtaz Mediterranean Food: Lebanon-born Hiam Jamell serves chickpea and fava falafel, baba ghanouj with roasted eggplant, garlic and lemon, and feta-filled fried sambusek. 588 U.S. 287, Lafayette, mumtazfood. com. Darya Restaurant: Iranian immigrants serve Persian cuisine including: mirza ghasemi (baked eggplant dip with eggs), baghali polo (lamb shank) and sholeh zard (saffron rice dessert). 10890 E. Dartmouth Ave., Aurora, restaurantdarya.com. Afghan Kabob: A family from Afghanistan serves beef tikka kabobs, bolani (samosa), baklava and chai. 1975 W. 120th Ave., Westminster. see NIBBLES Page 60

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Pupusas: Natives of El Salvador make corn pupusas with various fillings served with curtido (tart slaw) and salsa in a small red shack. Corner of Highway 42 and South Boulder Road, behind Union Jack Liquors, Lafayette. Café Copan: Honduran immigrants offer Honduran coffee drinks and specialties including the tajadas plate with plantains, avocado, steak, refried red beans, crumbled white cheese, crema and tortilla. 1515 Main St., Longmont, mycafecopan.com. Quiero Arepas: Authentic Venezuelan arepas (corn cakes) including the reina pepiada stuffed with shredded chicken, avocado and lime dressing. Inside Avanti Food & Beverage, 3200 Pecos St., Denver, quieroarepas.com. A Taste of Haiti: A true hole-inwall shop offering Haitian specialties including curry goat, oxtail, fried plantains and jerk chicken sandwiches. 2622 Welton St., Denver.

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Ras Kassa’s Ethiopian Restaurant: For 30 years, Tsehay Hailu has served kitfo, doro wat, injera bread, honey wine and other Ethiopian favorites. 802 S. Public Road, Lafayette. Café Paprika: Moroccan-born Chakib Marrakchi dishes tagines with couscous and bastilla, a filo-wrapped pie filled with nuts, saffron chicken and eggs. 13160 E. Mississippi Ave., Aurora, cafepaprika.com. Maandeeq East African Restaurant: This modest café run by Somali refugees serves North African fare including stewed goat with rice, soup, salad, beans, hot sauce, banana and chapaetie bread. 1535 S. Havana St., Aurora, maandeeqrestaurantcafe. com. Sudan Café: One of Colorado’s only Sudanese eateries dishes koshari (lentils, rice and pasta), shakshouka (eggs poached in tomato sauce), injera bread and North African pastries. 10375 E. Iliff Ave., Denver.

African Grill & Bar: The Ghanaian owner serves authentic central African dishes including fufu (plantain and cassava), peanut soup, collard greens, lamb samosas and goat stew. 18601 Green Valley Ranch Blvd., Denver, africangrillco.com. Jozi’s Kitchen & Shebeen: South African natives devised a menu that features boerewors and pap (sausage over polenta with trainsmash — tomato/onion gravy), and melktert (dessert pie). 10971 S. Parker Road, Parker, joziskitchen.com.

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Slow Food Boulder County is hosting a Feb. 6 happy hour cookbook swap at The Kitchen — Upstairs in Boulder. slowfoodboulder.com ... Eight Boulder and Denver chefs will create filminspired dishes for CineCHEF 2018 Feb. 23 at the Boulder International Film Festival. Event includes showing of the documentary Michelin Stars: Tales from the Kitchen. biff1.com/cinechef. ... Coming soon: Corrida, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder; Acreage, 1380 Horizon Ave., Lafayette; Chimera, 2014 10th St., Boulder; Vitality Bowls, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder; and Kung Fu Tea, 1121 Broadway, Boulder.

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Susan France ’m staring at a giant pink map of the world plastered onto the wall at Gunbarrel’s Ampersand Coffee Roasters. I’ve always been drawn to maps. When I was a kid, my mother painted a world map that spanned the four walls of my bedroom. I’d stare at it, like I was doing at Ampersand, and think about what grass looked like in Tanzania or when the streetlights turned on in Jakarta. In my hand is a cup of Ampersand’s Peruvian espresso. It marks the end of a long journey. The espresso started as two species of coffee beans that were grown in Cajamarca, Peru, by women farmers, which were then washed and dried. A sample was shipped to Jason Westenbroek, the head roaster at Ampersand, and during a group “cupping,” Westenbroek, the entire company and members of the community tried it alongside brews made from other beans. Everyone silently finished their cup and judged its quality, and in the end, Ampersand decided to bring it in.

That’s the point at Ampersand. They’re committed to telling the story of people throughout the coffee-making process, and they don’t want to be responsible for messing up the last step, Westenbroek says. “Farmers work so hard to grow beautiful coffee, it’s my job to represent those farmers and make that coffee the best that it can be,” he says. But for as good as the coffee is, Westenbroek,

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After a few months, the beans arrived in Gunbarrel. Westenbroek then began to tinker with the roast, using the “Cadillac of coffee roasters,” an MRI-like machine that puts no direct heat on the beans, giving the roaster more flexibility and the final product more consistency. Westenbroek settled on a medium roast, using a refroctometer, which determines how light refracts off materials in liquid, to pinpoint the strength of the coffee. Then, the beans were packaged, with some reserved for walk-in customers. There, it’s sampled multiple times per day to ensure quality, and brewed with regard to the hour-by-hour fluctuations in air temperature, humidity and pressure. When I visit, Steve Cassingham, Ampersand’s director of marketing, tells me I should try it because I said I liked nutty, earthier roasts; educating people on the several hundred flavor profiles of coffee is part of the Ampersand process, too. No doubt, the coffee is great. The first thing I notice is the aroma — dark chocolate and toasted almond. The texture is thick and it moves slow on the tongue. Once the first sip is down, flavors such as buttery cashew, fresh cacao and fruity pepper like in sauvignon blanc emerge. And, remarkably, the texture and profile stays until the final sip. Maybe it’s the map, or Cassingham’s spiel, or both, but a cup of coffee has never felt this big.

Cassingham and CEO Kurt Hans see it is a means to an end. “We want to completely change the way coffee is done,” Cassingham says. “In Haiti, we’ve targeted a community where we want to be able to grow a completely sustainable farm that’s safe for women and children to be at. We want to educate the children, and we want to have a completely fair-trade organic model that is self-sustaining.” The three sat down with everyone else in the company recently to come up with a “big, hairy, audacious goal,” and what they set their sights on was a plan to empower people in developing countries, particularly women, by giving them skills, housing, health care, education and opportunities to run their own businesses. “The goal is to take the women who are working on these farms who have very little to no coffee experience and, hopefully within five years, they’re able to move on and buy property, they understand coffee growing and processing, and they start their own plantation and kind of start to build Haiti back into a coffee-producing country, which it really isn’t nowadays.” Haiti serves as a good starting location for the company’s goals because of its coffee-producing history (it was the largest producer of coffee during the era of slavery), and its relative political stability and safety; relative, that is, to areas like Papua New Boulder Weekly

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they grow up Ampersand roaster to benefit Jason Westenbroek, left, their commuand Steve nities.” Cassingham, director of marketHans says ing and developthe effort to ment, making coffee. provide women opportunities in these communities comes foremost for Ampersand. “Yes, we’re very passionate about environmental and local economies and coffee quality, but we feel like the best way to get to those paths is women’s empowerment,” he says. It’s been a long road for Hans to get here. He quit a comfortable job in private equity he had for nearly two decades to follow his passion for coffee and support those in the developing world. There were some initial obstacles, and it wasn’t until he got Westenbroek, a coffee roasting instructor who had been operating coffee shops since he was 16, and Cassingham on board that the vision for Ampersand took shape. While they focus on working with the back-end suppliers of coffee and improving their living and working conditions, the three understand that the best way to support them is to build a community for their coffee here in Boulder County. Which is why they take such care to produce beautiful roasts, and welcome the community into their tasting process. Ampersand also offers flights of coffee so guests can see the difference between three different varieties or three different brewing methods. Education is important to Ampersand. They want us to know what we’re drinking. They put a big map on the wall so you have to think that the beans in the coffee you’re drinking came from somewhere. But instead of leaving us to wonder about how the world lives, Hans, Westenbroek and Cassingham are on a mission to show us.

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ou don’t have to be an economist to see that trends drive marketing. And when it comes to craft beer, that trend is “new” — be it a new brewery, a new style or a new take on an old favorite, new is king. Driving that “Gotta try ’em all” mentality is a constant search for personality. Yes, we’re out there trying to find what’s new, what’s hot, what’s hip, but beneath that pretense is the simple quest to find an idea executed with a distinct point of view. That should begin to explain the success and allure behind Crystal Springs Brewing Company, a brewery that began in 2010 out of Tom and Kristy Horst’s detached two-car garage. “Apparently, we were the first ones to start a brewery in our garage,” Tom Horst tells Boulder Weekly. “I don’t know if that’s true or not, but that’s what they told us.” Now Horst is opening his second taproom, this one in downtown Louisville. Things are certainly looking bright for Crystal Springs. Horst, who originally hails from Hudson, South Dakota, followed his sister out to the Centennial State in the ’80s and set down roots at the behest of his son and daughter. A music teacher by trade, Horst was convinced by his son to start home brewing and, like most, they turned to Charlie Papazian’s Complete Joy of Home Brewing for guidance. First up was Rocky Raccoon, a honey lager recipe. Horst imagines they used canned malt extract for the brew, but what the father-and-son duo produced “came out really good and hooked us,” Horst says with a grin. Bitten by the brewing bug, Horst continued to develop his technique, brewing about three times a month, while wife Kristy continued to support his endeavors, even encouraging him to start his own commercial brewery once he retired from teaching. In 2010 — operating with a 20-gallon brewing system — the Crystal Springs Brewing Company was born. It didn’t take long for Horst’s brews to catch hold, and soon the garage operation expanded to a two-barrel system. Then in 2013, Horst opened up a 15-barrel brewery and taproom in a Louisville office park. Now Crystal Springs has expanded once again, this time to a cozy taproom located in Louisville’s historic downtown, blocks away from fellow breweries 12Degrees and Gravity. “There’s an old saying that bars attract bars and breweries attract breweries,” Horst says between sips of his Hudson Mid-Coast IPA. If any of Crystal Springs’ beers could exemplify Horst as a person, Hudson would be it. Blending the juiciness of a New England IPA with the backbone and structure of a West Coast variant, Hudson is vibrant, fresh, full of personality and endlessly drinkable. “I just wanted to do something different,” Horst says describing Hudson, though his sentiments are applicable to Crystal Springs altogether. “It was really surprising that it came out the way it did.” Boulder Weekly

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Anders Haugen competed for the U.S. as a ski jumper in the 1924 Winter Olympics. Although he was an accomplished athlete who had previously set a world record for distance, he won no medals at the games. But wait! Fifty years later, a sports historian discovered that there had a been a scoring mistake back in 1924. In fact, Haugen had done well enough to win the bronze medal. The mistake was rectified, and he finally got his long-postponed award. I foresee a comparable development happening in your life, Aries. Recognition or appreciation you deserved to have received some time ago will finally come your way.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: In 1899, Sobhuza II became King of

Swaziland even though he was less than five months old. He kept his job for the next 82 years, and along the way managed to play an important role when his nation gained independence from the colonial rule of the United Kingdom. These days you may feel a bit like Sobhuza did when he was still in diapers, Taurus: not sufficiently prepared or mature for the greater responsibilities that are coming your way. But just as he received competent help in his early years from his uncle and grandmother, I suspect you’ll receive the support you’ll need to ripen.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: In my ideal world, dancing and singing

wouldn’t be luxuries practiced primarily by professionals. They would be regular occurrences in our daily routines. We’d dance and sing whenever we needed a break from the numbing trance. We’d whirl and hum to pass the time. We would greet each other with an interpretative movement and a little tune. In schools, dance and song would be a standard part of the curriculum — as important as math and history. That’s my utopian dream, Gemini. What’s yours? In accordance with the astrological omens, I urge you to identify the soul medicine you’d love to incorporate into your everyday regimen. Then go ahead and incorporate it! It’s time for you to get more aggressive about creating the world you want to live in.

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JUNE 21-JULY 22: Psychology pioneer Carl Jung

believed that most of our big problems can never be fully solved. And that’s actually a good thing. Working on them keeps us lively, in a state of constant transformation. It ensures we don’t stagnate. I generally agree with Jung’s high opinion of our problems. We should indeed be grateful for the way they impel us to grow. However, I think that’s irrelevant for you right now. Why? Because you have an unprecedented opportunity to solve and graduate from a major long-running problem. So no, don’t be grateful for it. Get rid of it. Say goodbye to it forever.

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JULY 23-AUG. 22: Between now and March 21, you will

be invited, encouraged and pushed to deepen your understanding of intimate relationships. You will have the chance to learn much, much more about how to create the kind of togetherness that both comforts and inspires you. Will you take advantage of this eight-week opportunity? I hope so. You may imagine that you have more pressing matters to attend to. But the fact is that cultivating your relationship skills would transform you in ways that would best serve those other pressing matters.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: In December, mass protests broke

out in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. Why? The economy had been gradually worsening. Inflation was slowly but surely exacting a toll. Unemployment was increasing. But one of the immediate triggers for the uprising was a 40-percent hike in the price of eggs. It focused the Iranian people’s collective angst and galvanized a dramatic response. I’m predicting a comparable sequence in your personal future, Virgo. A specific irritant will emerge, motivating you to stop putting up with trends that have been subtly bothering you.

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rich macho party animal named Spuds MacKenzie. The ad campaign was successful, boosting sales 20 percent. But the truth was that the actor playing Spuds was a female dog whose owners called her Evie. To earn money, the poor creature, who was born under the sign of Libra, was forced to assume a false identity. To honor Evie’s memory, and in alignment with current astrological omens, I urge you human Libras to strip away any layers of false identity you’ve been pressured to acquire. Be your Real Self — to the max.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: The giant panda is a bear native to

China. In the wild, its diet is 99 percent bamboo. But bamboo is not an energy-rich food, which means the creature has to compensate by consuming 20 to 30 pounds of the stuff every day. Because it’s so busy gathering its sustenance, the panda doesn’t have time to do much socializing. I mention this, Scorpio, because I want to offer up the panda as your anti-power animal for the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you should have a diversified approach to getting your needs met — not just in regards to food, but in every other way as well. Variety is not just the spice of life; it’s the essence.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: You’re the star of the “movie” that endlessly unfolds in your imagination. There may be a number of other lead actors and actresses, but few if any have your luster and stature. You also have a supporting cast, as well as a full complement of extras. To generate all the adventure you need, your story needs a lot of dramatis personae. In the coming weeks, I suggest that you be alert for certain minor characters who are primed to start playing a bigger role in your narrative. Consider the possibility of inviting them to say and do more to advance the plot.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Thirty-five miles per hour is typically the highest speed attained by the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. That’s not very fast. On the other hand, each ship’s engine generates 190 megawatts, enough to provide the energy needs of 140,000 houses and can go more than 20 years without refueling. If you don’t mind, I’m going to compare you to one of those aircraft carriers during the next four weeks. You may not be moving fast, but you will have maximum stamina and power.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: The pawpaw is a tasty fruit that blends the flavors of mango, banana and melon. But you rarely find it in grocery stores. One reason is that the fruit ripens very fast after being picked. Another is that the pollination process is complicated. In response to these issues, a plant scientist named Neal Peterson has been trying to breed the pawpaw to be more commercially viable. Because of his work, cultivated crops have finally begun showing up at some farmers’ markets. I’d like to see you undertake metaphorically similar labors in 2018, Aquarius. I think you’ll have good luck at developing rough potentials into more mature forms of expression. You’ll have skill at turning unruly raw materials into more useful resources. Now is a great time to begin.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: An iceberg is a huge chunk of ice that has cracked away from a glacier and drifted off into the open sea. Only nine percent of it is visible above the waterline. The underwater part, which is most of the iceberg, is basically invisible. You can’t know much about it just by looking at the top. This is an apt metaphor for life itself. Most everyone and everything we encounter is 91 percent mysterious or hidden or inaccessible to our conscious understanding. That’s the weird news, Pisces. The good news is that during the next three weeks you will have an unprecedented ability to get better acquainted with the other 91 percent of anything or anyone you choose to explore.

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The Boulder formula: weed and fitness

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eed and physical fitness are essential parts of the Boulderite identity, which is good news for me, considering toking up before a long run is my favorite training ritual. For me, there is nothing better than vaping until I’m stupid high, throwing on a pair of headphones and running around the woods for hours. I feel like it gives me a burst of energy and helps me turn my brain off while my body finds its rhythm. It turns out, I’m not alone. Supplementing your exercise routine with marijuana helps all sorts of athletes with motivation and recovery. This week, I chatted with professional climber and my BFF Courtney Sanders because she’s one of the fittest people I know and she smokes just as much as I do. Seriously, her body is insane, so I wanted to find out how she utilizes cannabis in her training. (This interview has been edited for length and clarity.) Sidni West: When did you start smoking weed? Courtney Sanders: When I was 13. You can write that, I don’t care. But I didn’t start consuming marijuana on a regular basis until I was like 24. Actually, I smoked all through college because my boyfriend sold weed so I just always had it. Just say 18. SW: How is it part of your lifestyle today? CS: I’ve used it with getting out of my head with certain projects and stuff. I would say I use it more to unwind at night. Or if I’m outside climbing all day. Climbing can be kind of slow and there’s a lot of waiting around, so weed helps me embrace that downtime.

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SW: What do you mean by getting out of your head? CS: When I project with friends, we usually work the moves sober and then smoke right before trying to give it a send burn. It just helps you really be present and get more into a focused mindstate. Otherwise, you’re just scatterbrained. That’s like the purest meditative point. When you’re projecting, you’re trying to learn and think and take it in. But

when you smoke and give it a send burn, you don’t think. You just perform and feel it and you’re in the moment. SW: What’s your favorite way to get stoned? CS: It just depends. Lately, I’ve been into vape pens just because it’s easy to take on the go and they don’t hurt my lungs. I have a pretty fancy dab rig. That’s my baby. But sometimes I just like smoking a joint, you know? Actually no wait, my favorite is smoking out of a volcano. It just gives you a really nice high. SW: How did you get your body to be so strong and hot? CS: When I’m in serious training mode, I do two-a-days. So I’m campusing and bouldering in the morning and then I do endurance, which are like circuits or routes or maybe deadhangs, after work. On the weekends, I try to get outside. SW: How do you use weed with recovery today? CS: I’m constantly gaining the benefits of it every day. I also eat really well, so it’s kind of like a holistic thing. I eat noninflammatory foods ’cause I’m a vegan. On top of that, salves and smoking, it all reduces inflammation, it lowers your stress levels, you know what I mean? That helps you recover faster. SW: What’s your end-of-the-day routine? CS: A steam shower and then stretching with the lights off and just relaxing, and that’s when I’ll smoke and do massage creams and stuff on my back and lats. After a steam shower, your pores are open and that’s when you put the cream on. Specifically on my traps, neck, back.

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by Paul Danish

Vermont governor huffs, puffs, legalizes pot

nd then there were nine. On Monday, Vermont Republican Governor Phil Scott closed the blinds in his office, gagged, wretched, moaned, clenched his teeth, held his nose and signed the bill that made Vermont the ninth state to legalize possession of marijuana for recreational purposes — provided the recreation takes place on private property, behind closed doors, and not in cars or public places, etc. Scott had vetoed a legalization bill passed by the Vermont legislature last May, but had agreed to sign a compromise measure that added penalties aimed at keeping marijuana out of the hands of The Children. Scott signed the bill — as promised — but put on quite a show about how distasteful he found doing so. Starting with the announcement that he would sign the bill in private instead of at a public ceremony — in order to spare the feelings of the state’s pot prohibitionists. Then he put out a signing message that crowed about Vermont’s remaining restrictions on marijuana — and the new ones he

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had insisted on adding to the bill in order to protect The Children — while barely mentioning that the bill he was signing legalized the possession and use of marijuana by adults in the state: “While this legislation decriminalizes, for adults 21 and older, personal possession of no more than 1 ounce, and cultivation of two mature plants on their private property, marijuana remains a controlled substance in Vermont and its sale is prohibited. Also, consumption of marijuana in public places is prohibited. Consumption of marijuana by operators and passengers in a motor vehicle is prohibited. Schools, employers, municipalities and landlords are also empowered to adopt policies and ordinances further restricting the cultivation and use...” And so on. Whatever. Scott’s caterwauling is beside the point. The important thing is that his signature made Vermont the ninth state to legalize the possession and use of recreational marijuana — and the first to do so with a bill passed by its legislature rather than by a citizen’s initiative. The last point is important, because it will be politically easier for legislatures in states that don’t have the initiative process to act if they don’t have to go first. And now they don’t. Other legislatures are expected to follow Vermont’s lead, starting with the New Jersey legislature, which is expected to pass a legalization measure in two or three months. And while they haven’t gotten a lot of press, legalization measures have been introduced or are expected to be introduced in the state legislatures of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and

possibly Illinois. A legalization measure has already passed the statehouse in New Hampshire. The Live Free or Die State is surrounded by states that have legalized recreational pot — Massachusetts, Maine and now Vermont — and a country, Canada, that is about to do so. (Unfortunately, Governor Chris Sununu has said he doesn’t support the bill; maybe living free isn’t his thing.) While past attempts to legalize have died in the legislatures of all five states, don’t be surprised if at least some of the bills get some traction this year. The biggest difference between the Vermont legalization measure and those passed in the other eight states that have legalized is that while it legalizes possession and use of recreational pot, it doesn’t legalize commercial production and sales. The New Hampshire bill takes a similar approach. This minimalist approach isn’t entirely surprising — state legislators throughout the country have been stuck on timid when it comes to ending the war on pot — but it is still a big step forward. Just guessing, but chances are state legislatures that take this approach will legalize sales and production within a couple years. Just as soon as their members notice that 1) the residents of their states are buying pot in the surrounding states or from drug dealers, 2) that their states are missing out on a lot of tax dollars for no earthly reason, 3) that the concept of legalizing marijuana has become politically “safe,” while the concept of keeping it illegal comes with increasing political risk, and 4) elections have consequences, and we’re having one in November.

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WHERE’S THE CRYPT? Don’t understand Bitcoin? We’ll break it down for you. It’s a cryptocurrency, meaning vast sums of coins that look freakishly like cardboard covered in tinfoil are stored deep in crypts in undisclosed locations around the world. Just think Gringots, the maze of bank vaults in J.K. Rowling’s acclaimed Harry Potter series. But unlike Harry, no one who owns bitcoin has been given the key or the coordinates to the crypt. So while the world waits for the great reveal, the conglomeration of goblins that control the crypt (again, think Harry Potter) are free to manipulate the price of all those

“coins” in their possession by telling the rest of us each unit is now worth $11,000. Sorry to all of you (us), who never bought any. Still don’t understand? Then we hate to break it to you, but that means you’re not as smart as 50 Cent. The rapper, who once claimed bankruptcy, just remembered he accepted 700 bitcoins for his 2014 album Animal Ambition, which means, according to the goblins, he’s now worth $7.7 million. Unfortunately, he, like the rest of us, still doesn’t know where the crypt is. So while he’s gloating on social media with emojis of moneybags, don’t be expecting a photo of a refrigerator full of bitcoins any time soon.

NOW THAT’S A MONEY GRAB There are money grabs and then there are MONEY grabs. Elton John’s latest effort at enrichment falls most definitely into that second category. Let’s start by saying we like Elton John. We’d pretty much support about anything he wants to do. After all, it’s his life and career. But he definitely crossed a line Wikimedia Commons/ANSA this time. British newspapers have been noting the 70-year-old music legend’s lackluster record sales for a number of years now. So it comes as no surprise that Elton would do what other aging music brands have done and cash in on a final concert or mini tour or something like that. We all remember the still-living members of The Grateful Dead playing that one last show in Chicago where tickets went for as much as $70,000. But then they played one more show after that, and then another and then a mini tour and so on and so forth. Well that’s nothing compared with Elton’s announced retirement plan. With a straight face Mr. John sadly announced his retirement following one ... final ... tour, which he will call “Farewell, Yellow Brick Road.” Hold back those tears, folks. You see, this final farewell tour is scheduled to play 300 dates over the next three years. You heard that right. Elton is apparently going to personally say goodbye to every single person on the planet that can cough up $150 for the privilege of hearing those words. Elton won’t finish his last tour ’til he’s 73 and then who knows. He might just add one more big show and then another and maybe a mini tour and all of a sudden it’s Elton and Company touring ’til the end of time. 76 January 25 , 2018

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Dear Dan: I’m an old guy, 68 years old to be exact. (Also a Scorpio, if that matters.) I’ve always been a pretty horny person, and I had a lot of fun from the 1960s through the 1980s with a number of lovers. I figured that as I got older, my horniness would lessen and I could think about something other than pussy. Trouble is, I don’t seem to be less horny. I find myself attracted to women in their 30s or 40s, but I wonder how I appear to them. I don’t want to make an utter fool of myself by making an unwanted advance — but the truth is, I’m still pretty hot to trot. What do I do? —Not Ready For The Nursing Home

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