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With low rates of epidural use among local women, Boulder County hospitals are finding unique ways to manage labor pain by Matt Cortina
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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: What would a real president do? 6 DANISH PLAN: How to increase Colorado’s (and Arizona’s) water supply 25 ARTS & CULTURE: Tips for thrifty living 27 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 32 WORDS: ‘Sonnet 45’ by Drew Pisarra 33 FILM: ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ it would sing 35 THE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in and around Boulder County 41 DRINK: New in brew: Rebuilding Butte County, one pint at a time 47 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 49 SAVAGE LOVE: Lost Kinkster 51 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: High January 53 CANNABIS CORNER: Tales from the depths of the purple lagoon
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nstead of the rule of law, the Trumpistas prefer to rule by fear. Take immigration. “An invasion,” screeches The Donald, “a national emergency!” “The caravan is coming” he clucks excitedly, including “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners.” “Build that wall!” Whew — Chicken Little could take fearmongering lessons from this guy. So, in the name of protecting us from an apocalypse that exists only in his own
scheming head, Trump has misused our nation’s Army, autocratically suspended America’s asylum laws, allowed border agents to tear-gas migrant mothers and children, separated thousands of children from their parents, cruelly incarcerated toddlers in locked-down tent camps, created chaos in our immigration court system, and vaingloriously proclaimed that we taxpayers fork over $5 billion to start building a ludicrous Great Wall of Trump in his honor. Aside from the fact that there is no “crisis” of asylum-seekers overrunning our border, is there anything that a real president might do about the increased flow of families desperately fleeing Central America? Yes! For example: Instead of mindlessly sending troops to the border, the real
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need is to move in a battalion of extra immigration judges and customs officers to quickly adjudicate the swelling backlog of asylum cases. Also, greatly expand U.S. support for international refugee programs in Central America and Mexico so asylum claims can be processed without mass migrations to the U.S. And stop condoning the vicious forces pushing people to flee Central America, from police repression to the predatory practices of our own corporations. But that would require a competent leader in the White House — not a peevish president who stamps his tiny feet and throws a Trump tantrum in a pathetic attempt to get his way. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 3 , 2019 5
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ere are a few factoids to that is currently consumed by Los contemplate as we head Angeles and other Southern California into 2019: cities. (See “How to increase Colorado’s • In the past dozen water supply,” Feb. 6, 2014.) years, Colorado’s populaHere’s the arithmetic behind the tion has grown by about 1 million peoproposal: ple (from 4.7 million from 5.7 million). In a “normal” year — a year with • With the exception of Hawaii, “normal” rain- and snowfall — about Colorado is the only 8.66 million acrestate in the country feet of water flow that has no rivers out of Colorado MAYBE IT’S flowing into it. All toward the Pacific Colorado rivers Ocean, almost all time to give some flow out of the of it via the thought as to state. Colorado River • In case you and its tributaries. where Colorado haven’t noticed, This represents could find some there’s a drought more than half of additional water, going on in the the total amount of West. water in the especially if it • Water is still Colorado River wants to continue the preferred drink Basin in a “normal” of 10 out of 10 year (about 16.5 growing. Coloradans. million acre-feet). So maybe it’s Under the time to give some Colorado River thought as to where Compact of 1922, Colorado could find some addiwhich allocated the water among the tional water, especially if it wants to seven states in the Colorado River Basin continue growing. Which, self-evidently, and Mexico, Colorado currently gets to it does. keep 3.86 million acre-feet of the 16.5 A few years ago I suggested that million. California’s allocation of Colorado could get some additional Colorado River water is 4.4 million acre-feet. water by building desalination plants on the California coast and swapping their see DANISH PLAN Page 7 output for the Colorado River water Boulder Weekly
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The bad news here is that a “normal” start pursuing a desalination deal with year under the Colorado River Compact California that didn’t exist five years ago was defined using flow data from 1905 — folks in Arizona are getting the same to 1922, which, according to the U.S. idea. Geological Survey, turned out to be “the Three weeks ago an op-ed appeared highest long-term annual flow volume in in the Arizona Republic calling on the 20th century.” So lower-thanArizona’s congressional delegation “to “normal” flow rates are a common occur- champion a 21st-century CAP (Central rence, even without climate change creArizona Project) with the creation of a ating a new normal. large-scale federally funded, Western Could desalination plants produce states desalination solution that will enough water to make it worth-while for enable Californians to drink from the Colorado to cut a sea and reduce deal with their draw on the California? The Colorado River.” IF COLORADO world’s largest sea(The Central isn’t wise water reverse osmoArizona Project, sis desalination approved by enough to plant is the Sorek Congress in the control its plant, located about 1960s, allows 10 miles south of Arizona to send up growth, it to 1.5 million acreTel Aviv in Israel. should at least feet of its Colorado Its annual output is River allocation 150 million cubic be responsible south to Phoenix meters of drinkingenough to and Tucson. The quality water, or water enabled 121,600 acre-feet. provide enough much of the state’s The output of two water for it. subsequent explosuch plants could produce enough sive growth.) water to nearly fill The op-ed was Dillon Reservoir co-authored by (capacity 257,000 acre-feet), the Karen Fann and Rodney Glassman. Denver Water Board’s largest. Six of Glassman is an attorney with a PhD in them could fill all of Denver’s reservoirs Arid Land Resource Sciences. Fann is (which hold about 658,000 acre-feet) the newly chosen president of the and Boulder’s (which hold about 26,000 Arizona State Senate. acre-feet) with some to spare. It wouldn’t be surprising if the The plant was built in less than three Arizona congressional delegation, led by years. Construction costs came to about the state’s two new senators, Kyrsten $400 million. Sinema and Martha McSally, accepted The prospect of building big desalithe challenge. Sinema narrowly defeated nation plants in the U.S. at $400 million McSally in the November election to a unit is minuscule, of course. The Israeli replace Jeff Flake. McSally was then company that built the Sorek plant also appointed to fill the remainder of John built a plant in Carlsbad, California, less McCain’s term. than a third the size (but still the biggest Chances are both of them would in the Western Hemisphere). It took 20 welcome a chance to show some bipartiyears to get the approvals and ended up sanship. In Arizona, bipartisanship starts costing $1 billion. at the water’s edge. A swap of Colorado-funded desaliAnd they might get some support nation plants for part of California’s from California’s Democratic Senator Colorado River water allocation could Dianne Feinstein, who has turned into a have major attractions for both states. champion for desalination in the past Desalinated water is too expensive for couple of years and is looking for federal agricultural use and municipal users still support. She has a better chance of getpay a premium for it, but it is a drought- ting it if the other member states of the proof resource. That should be a real Colorado River Compact support it. attraction for California, where drought Colorado should take up this cause is becoming the new normal. as well. If Colorado continues to grow at Colorado would get a big addition to the rate it has in the recent past, it will its water resources out of the deal. While add another million people by the end of the water rights obtained in the swap 2030. If the state isn’t wise enough to wouldn’t be as drought-proof as desalicontrol its growth, it should at least be nated water, the water from them would responsible enough to provide enough be cheap enough for ag use as well as water for it. municipal use. This opinion column does not necessarily And there’s a reason for Colorado to reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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n the not-too-distant past, pregnant women going into labor had few options to manage the pain of delivery. In fact, they had two options. “Traditionally it’s been you get an epidural or you get nothing, which one do you want?” says Dr. Kristen Wolfe of Boulder Medical Center. “But, really, the more appropriate thing might be something in the middle.”
requires an anesthesiologist and a large needle in the back. “Definitely there’s a thought out there that one intervention begets another intervention and it’s a spiral and you end up with a C-Section,” says Wolfe, who delivers at Longmont United Hospital. Longmont United recently added nitrous oxide to its list of pain management techniques. At low concentrations, nitrous oxide is a pain and anxiety reliever with few side effects for the mother and child. At both Longmont United and the labor and delivery unit at Boulder Community Health’s Foothills Hospital, which has been using nitrous oxide for almost three years, women can self-administer the gas through a mask. “The nitrous oxide can play a role for somebody who doesn’t quite feel like they need an epidural but wants something to control their pain during labor,” Wolfe says. Nitrous oxide also allows women to get up, walk around, and use other pain management techniques that an epidural wouldn’t allow them to use. “The thing about nitrous is it’s in and out of the body really, really fast,” says Lisa Allen, the Family Birth Center director at BCH Foothills. “You inhale [nitrous oxide] and a couple inhalations [of oxygen], and it’s gone from the system. It takes the edge off. It seems to work better for lighter contractions, but we can also use it after delivery, if there’s any issue with delivering the placenta.” Still, the nitrous oxide is not a perfect replacement for the epidural, Wolfe says. “It’s dramatically less effective than an epidural ... but it can be comforting and distracting,” Wolfe says. “It can help somebody get through a tough period in a labor. But for somebody looking for something that’s excellent pain relief for contractions, the nitrous is not going to fit into that box.” That’s where other techniques can fit into a pain management
In labor? Try laughing gas, ladders and VR headsets
With low rates of epidural use among local women, Boulder County hospitals are finding unique ways to manage labor pain by Matt Cortina In just the last few years, Boulder County hospitals have embraced new pain management tools — everything from nitrous oxide to virtual reality — and have made a conscious decision to phase out opioid use. The change has been supported by Boulder County mothers, who choose to use epidurals at relatively low rates (less than 50 percent at some hospitals), and who are eager to try these new and innovative ways to manage labor pain. Nationally, the rate of women who choose to use epidurals is around 70 percent, though many of the doctors, nurses and midwives we spoke to for this story say hospitals they’ve worked at previously had a rate closer to 80 percent. There are plenty of reasons why the epidural rate is lower in Boulder County — a strong commitment to naturopathic and holistic medicine, a desire among local women to be more active during labor, and skepticism and wariness of medical intervention, particularly one that 8 January 3, 2019
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plan. Allen says women delivering at BCH are encouraged to share a comprehensive birth plan with the labor and delivery team and investigate all the tools and techniques available. Many of the unique pain management options women can choose in delivery involve distraction. At BCH, women can utilize the TENS machine, which sends a low-voltage electrical current to pads strapped on a woman’s back. “It tricks the mind into focusing on something else so you’re not focusing on the pain,” says Charlotte Wilkes, a certified nurse midwife at BCH Foothills. “So you can turn it up or down depending on how much stimulus you want. Some people, just a little of it is enough to get the brain thinking something else, and sometimes they need a lot of it.” On a trial basis, Allen says BCH brought in virtual reality equipment to help women manage their pain in labor. Women wore headsets plugged into a virtual reality program on their phones. The programs showed either serene scenes, like a beach with crashing waves, or mind-consuming games, like one in which patients shoot floating objects by staring at them. It wasn’t worth all the fuss it turns out, Allen says. “Both moms and nurses felt like it was really cumbersome,” Allen says. “One of the moms felt detached from what was happening with her. ... The goggles are big and kind of heavy, and then if your phone falls out, it’s too much fiddling around.” Virtual reality, nitrous oxide and the TENS machine have all been around for decades in various forms and for various uses, but it’s only in the last few years that they’ve been used during labor and delivery. In fact, it’s the repurposing of old techniques that marks the biggest innovation in labor and delivery. A concerted effort to reduce opioid use in hospitals around the country has contributed to doctors administering drugs like fentanyl less often. But in terms of finding a new wonder drug, Allen says she’s eager to bring in new techniques and ideas, but rhetorically points out, “labor has been around for how long?” “I’m not sure if there’s anything else out there that’s going to be new and great in the labor and delivery world in terms of pain management,” Wolfe agrees, adding that epidurals are so effective and so relatively low-risk that there isn’t much incentive for innovation from the pharmaceutical industry. What is changing though, and is getting a case study in Boulder County due to its low epidural rate, is a commitment to trying multiple “alternative” pain management techniques. Every woman’s pain tolerance is different, so what works for one woman might be useless for another. “We are all hard-wired differently,” Wolfe says. “I have seen people come in with strong labor contractions, and they’re seven centimeters dilated and they’re like, ‘I’m fine.’ I think they’re truly having a different experience than someone who’s four centimeters dilated and is in miserable pain. We all experience pain differently in our brains.” That’s why having a suite of options is beneficial. BCH is installing ladders on some delivery room walls, so women can climb, hang and take the weight off their backs. Balls of various shapes, both stored in-house and brought in by pregnant women, help reduce pain. Different breathing and meditative exercises have arisen in recent years, and both Wolfe and Allen have no preference over which a woman chooses, as long as it’s effective for her. A technique called spinning allows physicians to move the baby, while still in the womb, into a position that alleviates pain and makes delivery easier. Doulas (trained birth coaches) help guide women through pain and can help communicate to medical professionals what technique or tool might be most effective. All are now offered to women as the myth that epidural use is the only or best pain management tool is getting busted. These techniques are also good alternatives to have on hand in case of an emergency. Because of the low rate of epidural use, anesthesiologists aren’t always on-site at local hospitals, which means women who choose an epidural may have to wait 15-20 minutes for the physician to arrive and set up. It is, however, a myth that there’s a window in which women can receive an epidural, and if that window passes, they can longer receive one. “We can do an epidural at almost any time,” Wilkes says. “Unless [the baby’s] head’s crowning, that’s not a good time not to get an epidural. ... But it’s a myth not just with patients and clients, it’s a myth with [some] providers and anesthesiologists as well.” Still, there are reasons why an epidural might be the most effective option. Wilkes says if a woman’s delivery is not progressing, an epidural can help hasten the process. And though Allen says there is absolutely nothing wrong with women choosing an epidural, the range of pain management tools available to Boulder County women should encourage them to at least take a second a look. “Epidural rates are high [nationally] because people think that’s what you do,” she says. “But it shouldn’t be the default.” Boulder Weekly
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Bob Jamieson climbs the Flying Buttress in Rocky Mountain National Park, 1977.
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ob Jamieson thinks he’s a regular guy. After a 30-foot fall shattered his ankle and broke some ribs, his back and a wrist three years ago, Jamieson climbed the Diamond’s face on Longs Peak this past August, his 80th attempt or so up the iconic mountain in some capacity. He may think he’s regular for someone from Boulder, but his story of recovery and tenacity amid tragedy and misadventure is anything but normal. Early on the morning of Dec. 28, 2015, the 61-year-old was climbing by himself at the Boulder Rock Club, like he’d done countless times before. After about six climbs, Jamieson decided to give a particularly challenging route a try. But in “a moment of inattentiveness,” Jamieson forgot to clip into the auto belay, he says. As he was about to top out, he fell, hitting the crashpads below. “I was just trying a hard route for me and was just focused on the route and didn’t clip in,” he says, shaking his head. “I’m right in the perfect age, experienced
climber, 55-65, and that’s the people who do that. It was a stupid accident.” It all happened so fast. Jamieson didn’t have time to process the fact that he was falling. When he woke up, the paramedics were working on him at the bottom of the wall. “I was really hoping I was dreaming it at first, but then it was obvious that I wasn’t.” He had a concussion, two fractures in his lumbar spine, a broken wrist, a couple of broken ribs and a “shattered” left ankle — his talus, tibia and fibula bones all broken, the ankle joint disrupted. A climber for more than four decades, he’s experienced enough to know that a lot of people aren’t so lucky. If he’d been outside, climbing somewhere remote like he often does, the outcome may have been tragic. “There have been many things that made me more attentive,” he says, “but apparently not enough.” There was the roped fall in 2010 when he swung about 13 or 14 feet, shattering his heel and ankle as he hit a “little ledge” while leading a pitch in Eldorado Canyon. “I came back from that. It was a major surgery, the screws are still in there,” he says. Then there was the fall that he hasn’t quite come back from, the one that’s affected him since 1984, the one that killed his younger brother, Lee. • • • Jamieson started climbing in 1973, learning the sport around Lumpy Ridge shortly after his parents moved the family to Estes Park just before he started high school. Nearby Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) soon became a second home. “It is hard to express how much the Park has been a part of me,” he says, having hiked, climbed and skied the mountainous terrain in every season almost his entire life. Jamieson continued to climb while attending Colorado State University in Fort Collins, then worked as an adventure photographer for a bit, mainly filming ski mountaineering expeditions, see LET GO Page 16
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and as a climbing guide with Colorado Mountain School. “You didn’t have to be good back then, you just had to know where the climbs were and stuff,” he says, insisting he really is just average. Jamieson climbed Denali in 1976, took a mountaineering trip to South America in 1978 and completed a winter ascent of the Grand Teton in 1979. By 1980, his brother Lee had become his main climbing partner, despite the fact that Lee was 6 years younger and only 16 at the time. Jamieson taught his brother everything he knew, and the two often climbed together in both RMNP and Wyoming’s Wind River Range. While climbing in the latter, lightning once knocked them from an exposed ridge leaving them dangling from their anchor on a vertical wall. Miraculously, both were uninjured that day. In 1981, Jamieson, Lee and a couple of friends spent 37 days traversing the Saint Elias Mountains in the Yukon Territory in an attempt to climb Mt. Kennedy. They ran out of food and missed reaching the summit by 500 feet, as a five-day snow storm forced them to retreat. “By the end of the trip we talked about M&M’s as if they were people,” Jamieson recalls. “Almost every page of Lee’s journal talked about food, and I still use his journal for a recipe for banana bread that he wrote on that trip. ... It was a life changing experience for us.” The next year Lee joined Jamieson and his best friend to this day, Andy Thamert, on an ascent of Mt. Waddington in British Columbia. What was planned as a five-day trip ended up taking the group nine days, and once again food and other people were scarce. While rappelling down, Jamieson knocked a rock loose that hit Lee in the knee and “caused a very challenging final descent,” Jamieson remembers. Although Lee recovered without the need for surgery, Jamieson was shaken by the experience. “I felt a huge responsibility for Lee, 16 January 3, 2019
partly because he was so much younger and I was almost like a parent, partly because I had knocked the rock that hit him, and partly because I had taught him climbing from the beginning,” Jamieson says. Their last climb together was right in the middle of the Park, up the North Face of Hallet Peak. “The Park was home for us and we loved climbing there,” Jamieson says. A few days later, Lee died. On July 1, 1984, Lee, along with another climbing partner, left early to climb Notchtop in RMNP before having to be at work in downtown Estes by 1 p.m. “Even today, it would be considered a pretty big climb to try with a commitment to be back so early,” Jamieson says. But, “Lee had done Longs in an hour and 40 minutes, so moving fast in the mountains was normal for him.” After reaching the summit, Lee and his partner followed Notchtop’s ridge down, heading for the steep left gulley that would take them back to flatter
ground. Just before turning off the ridge, however, Jamieson says, a rock Lee was either holding onto or standing on broke loose and Lee plummeted 150 feet into the gulley below. “We had done this climb and descent several times together — it is great and exposed, and we both liked the descent route right along the ridge crest, which I had showed him,” says Jamieson, who wasn’t with his brother that day. It’s been 34 years since Lee passed, but not a day goes by that Jamieson doesn’t think of him. “Lee and his accident are such a part of me,” he says. “I have wondered how my life would be different and what I would be like had it not happened.” After Lee’s death, Jamieson didn’t do another alpine climb in the Park until 1994, Jamieson’s when he climbed brother, Lee, on Mt. Waddington in Hallet again. “It British Columbia, was like being 1982. injured without an injury,” he says of losing his brother. • • • The same year his brother died, Jamieson married his wife, Sumi, and eventually settled into the career life, working as one of the directors for Cheley Colorado Camps, running the hiking and backpacking program, and then as benefits director for Boulder Valley School District for about 15 years. The couple has two sons, who’ve grown up between Boulder and RMNP, adventuring with their parents, although Jamieson was reticent to get them climbing. “We tried to keep the outdoor focus for our kids to regular stuff like hiking, camping, skiing, but we couldn’t stop them being who they are,” Jamieson says. “Now that our two kids are just
about Lee’s age when he died, and they are climbing and backcountry skiing, and totally psyched up for big moments. It is challenging, but I love climbing with them.” With a career and family, Jamieson still spent plenty of time climbing, either outside or in the gym, which, like most seasoned climbers, he considered “hokey” at first. Up until the fall in 2015 in the Boulder Rock Club, Jamieson had never spent a night in the hospital. He stayed more than a week, recovering with the help of medical staff. With an external fixator to stabilize his leg, and the broken wrist, back and ribs, he couldn’t move on his own much. Two weeks after the fall, he had total reconstructive surgery on his ankle joint, which required four hours, two metal plates and about 30 screws. Meanwhile his friends built ramps all throughout his house so he’d be able to get around in a wheelchair when he went home. He was in a backbrace (he calls it a “clam shell”) for about eight weeks, and a wheelchair for two or three months, unable to bear weight on his ankle, and unable to use crutches because of the other injuries. About 6 months later, the break further up his tibia had yet to heal, and the metal plate broke as well, requiring another surgery. “I think one of the things that climbing teaches you is to deal with what is and not worry too much about the past,” he says. “Each moment is an opportunity to start over, and this accident certainly was good practice for that.” By the end of November 2016, 11 months after the accident, Jamieson got the OK to go full weight bearing on his left leg. A month later he was climbing West Crack in Eldorado Canyon with his son. “It’s the easiest route there,” he defends. He says his focus was walking at first, then he hoped to get back to hiking. “And then climbing was just like a bonus,” he says. “One thing that’s really helpful for me in climbing is that it’s slow.” It took a lot of training to get back in shape for the Diamond. Jamieson went down to Mexico to climb with Bernardo Beteta, a seasoned CMS guide. He climbed in Eldorado Canyon with Steve Levin, the author of the area’s guidebook. He went to Red Rocks in Nevada several times. He did the North Face of Hallet Peak three different times with multiple partners and he hiked both the North Face of Longs and the route from Wild Basin with his son. Then he set off for the Diamond Boulder Weekly
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with Buster Jesik, also of CMS. Jamieson says they first hiked 6 miles, sometimes on trail, often not, before climbing about five approach pitches, then starting up the 8-pitch route rated 5.10a, all above 13,000 feet. “It’s not like 5.10a in the gym,” he says. “But we did the Casual Route, the easiest route on the Diamond, and that’s good enough.” The only photo he has is of his left foot on a ledge, the rocky cliff stretching out below. He never thought it’d be up there again. Although getting to the top “felt remarkably good,” Jamieson says he couldn’t count it complete until he was safely back in the parking lot. The last time Jamieson had climbed and completed the Diamond was in 1983, back when Lee was still around. A day hasn’t gone by that Jamieson hasn’t thought of his brother, he says, and he has yet to reclimb Notchtop, as well as one route up Longs. But he isn’t ruling out the possibility. These routes “have such a strong connection to Lee that I have not repeated them,” he says. “I still may decide to go back to them — with the Boulder Weekly
right partner. I’m not sure Above: Jamieson climbing in Mexiwhen, if ever, co to prepare for although I’m the Casual Route on the Diamond. getting closBelow: Jamieson’s er.” left food on the Diamond in 2018. After retiring in 2015, Jamieson lived out a lifelong dream, becoming a ranger — while still on crutches — in RMNP’s Wilderness Office. He and Sumi have spent the last several summers camping in a van, helping visitors with backcountry permits and enjoying the Park themselves. He still can’t run, or get his foot in a ski boot, which he hopes to do soon. But he can hike. And he can climb. “Every moment, every day, is [an] opportunity to start over. Climbing is a lot about dealing with what is and just figuring it out. Whatever has happened, has happened,” he says. “[It’s] learning how to improvise. Coming up with new ideas and new approaches to solve problems. Learning that you generally have to let go to move.”
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very year is a great year for the movies, but when was the best? Was it 1939, the year Hollywood gave us The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? Or was it the great global year of 1960 with Psycho, La Dolce Vita and Breathless at the top? 1967 broke the mold with Bonnie & Clyde, Cool Hand Luke and In the Heat of the Night, while 1999 explored our collective existential fears through The Matrix, Fight Club and American Beauty. Well, time to add 2018 to the list. Yes, 2018 was a banner year for the cinematic arts. From the nearly 700 movies released theatrically in the United States to the endless stream of titles via Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, et al., the ability to find dazzling images and bewitching sounds to shatter the soul and engage the emotions seemed endless. Why now? Well, most still live within a short drive of the multiplex; practically every town, big or small, has a film festival of some sort; and those living in the Boulder-area had plenty of opportunities to see repertory and foreign films at CU-Boulder’s
International Film Series and the Boedecker Theatre at the Dairy Arts Center. And while the theatrical experience will never be replaced or replicated at home (for most of us), those private spaces are where the cinematic game is changing. Whether viewed on TVs, laptops, tablets or phones, streamed or played via Blu-Ray/DVD, the cinematic archive of then and now has opened in ways previous generations were not privy to. Take Kino Lorber’s five-disc box set, Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, released this November. Not only does the set comprise 1,710 minutes of restored films from cinema’s early days, practically every film compiled here slipped through the cracks of classroom curriculum and film history books. Pioneers doesn’t just revisit the past, it discovers one long suppressed. In a similar vein, but on a much larger screen, the Cannes Film Festival debuted the documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, the world’s first female filmmaker and, arguably, the first filmmaker see 2018 IN FILM Page 20
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of narrative films. While her peers, Auguste and Louis Lumière, were using the medium to make short documentary subjects of trains pulling into stations and workers exiting the factory, Guy-Blaché was crafting stories. And though she worked for 25 years, her story and films have been more or less excised from history. While the Lumière brothers have been synonymous with the birth of cinema, Guy-Blaché has all but been forgotten. Be Natural and Pioneers correct that oversight. Guy-Blaché wasn’t the only visionary left behind by the cruel carelessness of history; Orson Welles, the one-time wunderkind Above: ‘The Rider,’ a South Dakota rodeo by Chloe Zhao; turned pariah also returned to glory drama Below: ‘Brisbee ’17’ depicted the Arizona in 2018 with the long-awaited com- immigration miner deportation of 1917. pletion of his final narrative film, The Other Side of the Wind. Shot in fits and spurts in the 1970s, Shirkers. but never fully completed and wrapped But it was at the intersection of up in financial and licensing hell ever Netflix and the film festival circuit where since, Wind remained dormant until things got interesting. In May, Cannes Netflix, the great polarizing platform planted its flag and barred the streaming cineastes love to hate, stepped in with giant from its coveted festival. So, Netflix completion funds. took its wares elsewhere, and the Venice No movie or studio grabbed headFilm Festival not only welcomed Netflix lines in 2018 quite like Netflix. Was with open arms, it bestowed the top Netflix the savior of cinema or the slay- honor to Netflix’s biggest acquisition yet er of the cinematic experience? Could it — the movie that might change the way Netflix does business with theaters — be both? Every week, Netflix released Roma. TV shows, stand-up specials and movRoma, a bigger-than-life memoir ies galore. Some were direct-to-video from Alfonso Cuarón, would be a masfare, like The Cloverfield Paradox; some terpiece in any year, but even among were phenomenal foreign films that wouldn’t have reached even a fraction of the giants of 2018, Roma stood tall. But, more to the point, Roma was the the audience with a theatrical release, movie that sparked a heated debate such as Happy as Lazzaro; while others online and in print as to where one would have done just as well with a should watch a movie. As Cuarón told small art-house release, such as The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Private Life and the Los Angeles Times in September, Boulder Weekly
“The theatrical release is obviously the ultimate way to see your film, but also you want to have a very clear and present life in whichever form it’s going to live for the rest of its days. When is the last time you saw a Bresson film on the big screen? ... I’m a big defender of the big screen. The film was made for the big screen. But I’m also a big defender of options.” And options the audience was granted. After rapturous applause from festival after festival, Netflix altered Roma’s distribution strategy, slowly releasing the movie into key theaters across the country — primarily those equipped with Dolby Atmos — before expanding into more art-house theaters; even striking 70mm prints for seven cities. All while giving its nearly 118 million subscribers access to watch the movie anytime they wanted, as many times as they desired, on whatever device they chose. If democracy in cinema represents a choose-your-own-viewing-adventure, then Roma is the Magna Carta. Not to be left out, Amazon Studios continued its impressive run with a handful of notable titles, chief among them the bracing and moody You Were Never Really Here from Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay; and the Polish love story Cold War from Paweł Pawlikowski. Though all Amazon Studio acquisitions will eventually be available to Prime members, Amazon still favors the theatrical release model. Some, Beautiful Boy — a good-enough drama about drug addiction — played for several weeks while many other movies came and went. Of those, the small South Dakota rodeo drama, The Rider, from Chinese born Chloé Zhao, was not only one of the year’s best, it also contained one of the year’s best performances thanks to amateur actor Brady Jandreau. Like most movies too small to warrant a proper marketing campaign, The Rider was booted out of theaters before it could develop an audience. Same for the stunning documentary Bisbee ’17, about the Arizona immigration miner deportation of 1917 — a movie impossible to forget but, if a $117,000 box office is any indication, a movie too few saw. And then there was First Reformed, another 2018 masterpiece 40 years in the making. Before Paul Schrader was a filmmaker he was a critic. His 1972 book Transcendental Style in Film may be one of the best written about cinema, but anyone who’s seen Blue Collar, American Gigolo or Auto Focus probably wouldn’t expect the director to utilize the transcendental toolkit so well. But at the age of 70, Schrader decided the time Boulder Weekly
was nigh, and made possibly the best movie of his career. And, considering it also contains a first-rate Ethan Hawke performance, First Reformed would be timeless if it weren’t so rooted in the now. But the now is nothing more than a culmination of what was and a premonition of what will be. Years from now, we’ll look back at 2018 with astonishment and confusion: This was the year where we reassessed the past while the present fractured beneath our very feet. Talk about a time to be alive.
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ne lesson Alexander Beggins says he and his musical partner in Wild Child, Kelsey Wilson, learned early in their careers was not to get their hopes up about anything. That seems logical enough for a duo that started their group without really considering Wild Child a professional endeavor. The two met when they played in the backing band for Danish indie act Migrant. The first time they tried to write together, they came up with three songs. Even when that song pool grew to about 15 tunes and some musician friends joined in to back singer/ukulele player Beggins and singer/fiddle player Wilson on Pillow Talk, their first album as Wild Child, they tried to keep things casual. “We had zero intentions to do anything with it, ever,” says Wilson, who joined Beggins for this recent phone interview. “It was kind of like this is so easy and so fun, let’s just do it.” both songs nice momentum. After the first album was released, “Eggshells,” “Leave It Alone,” and “My though, Beggins and Wilson pretty Town” all start softly, but build to fairly much had to start thinking of Wild lush crescendos. The striking title track Child as something more than a hobby. starts out swaying gently before turning Pillow Talk was getting positive reviews stormy in the chorus, especially the on some notable online blogs, while a final time around when Wilson lets song from the album rose to No. 1 on loose vocally, pushing the sound toward the music promotion site Hype Machine. distortion and showing a flash of This created enough of a buzz that the aggression rarely heard before in the William Morris Agency approached the group’s music. duo to sign a booking deal and In making Expectations, Beggins and Universal Records started making noise Wilson chose an unconventional about a record deal. approach to record the As it turned out, songs for the album. neither deal panned Instead of working ON THE BILL: Wild Child out. But the group with a producer and —with Whitacre. 8 p.m. pushed on, releasing a recording the album in Wednesday, Jan. 16, well-received second a single session, the duo Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. album, The reached out to a half— with Batty Jr. 8 p.m. Runaround, in 2013, dozen artists/producers Thursday, Jan. 17, Bluebird then signing with they admired to see if Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. they would like to coDualtone Records to write and produce release the 2015 songs. The list included album Fools, which such notable artists as Chris Walla continued Wild Child’s growth, both (Death Cab for Cutie), Scott musically and in terms of popularity. Now with Expectations, the group looks McMickens (Dr. Dog), Matthew Logan Vasquez (Delta Spirit) and ready for their close-up. The latest album keeps the acoustic Adrian Quesada (Groupo Fantasma). folk-pop foundation of the first three Beggins and Wilson were even albums, but finds Wild Child’s music thinking outside of the box on how the growing bolder, and at times bigger and songs would be released to the public. louder, while boasting the lovely pop “We were kind of really frustrated melodies that have always helped make with the music industry. There just are the group’s music so charming. a lot of rules,” Beggins says. “Like “Think It Over” and “Back & you’ve got to have this amount of time Forth” bring a peppy energy to the allowed for press. You need this many album, with their Motown-ish/R&B singles. You have to wait a full album overtones and frisky grooves that give cycle before you can release some-
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thing else. You have to release it at this time in order to play these festivals. There are just so many rules that have nothing to do with the music you’re making. Our initial thought was why don’t we just, like instead of picking a producer and making an album and following all the rules, let’s work with anyone that we reach out to that says yes, do a couple of songs with each of them and then for the next two years, just release a song a month and just who cares what happens?” But as the recording sessions went on, it became clear the songs should form an album. Now, not only does Wild Child have a charmer of a new album, the group’s lineup, Wilson says, has solidified with the arrival of drummer Tom Myers and bassist Tyler Osmond, who join Sadie Wilfe (cello), Matt Bradshaw (keyboards/trumpet) and Cody Ackors (guitar/trombone) in Wild Child. The professionalism and growing musical abilities of the group should be apparent in Wild Child’s live shows, as the group tackles what shapes up to be an adventurous set list that will go well beyond songs from Expectations. “We’ve been pulling out old songs that we haven’t played before and kind of changing up the songs that we have been playing for a long time and throwing in new ones,” Wilson says. “We even have songs that aren’t [released], that will be on the next record, that we’ve been playing. We’re really quick writers, and once we write a song we just want to play it as soon as possible.”
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If the Law of Karma is true, you’ll soon be receiving lots of free goodies. If it isn’t, you’ll still be a nice person. 9) Don’t buy a watch; just ask everyone else what time it is. You’ll be surprised how nice most people are. 10) Think three times before you buy anything. Recently I was in a Dollar Store looking at picture frames. I almost bought one, for three dollars, then I put it back. I went home and discovered I had two extra picture frames! 11) Use dishwashing liquid sparingly. A little of it will clean many bowls and plates. My house wife and I rent out our house on Airbnb, and often I find that our guests use dishwashing liquid 10 times as fast as I do. Slow down with the dish soap, America! 12) And the same goes for shampoo! 13) If you find a pen on the ground, bring it home and write a poem with it. That pen may have good “vibes!” 14) Before going into a movie theater, stand outside and watch the previous audience leaving. If they look immensely happy, or deeply moved, go inside. If not, save your money. 15) If you see a bracelet on the sidewalk, pick it up and wear it. Why not? It will temporarily enhance your beauty. 16) Teach yourself to draw, and make birthday cards for your friends. Even if you draw awkwardly, your cards will be beloved. And it’s so much cheaper than buying soap and candles. 17) Visit a Buddhist monastery. Observe the nuns and monks. They spend almost no money, yet they seem quite happy. Perhaps they’re happy because they spend no money. Think about that. 18) Go to free concerts. You’ll find that everyone is smiling. The performers feel generous, and the audience is grateful. For some reason, a show without tickets makes human beings happy.
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‘CINEMA TWAIN’: FILM SCREENING WITH VAL KILMER. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.
NOCHE DE PEÑA. 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, Dairy Arts Center, Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, thedairy.org. A celebration of the people, by the people, a peña is a casual and participatory social event centered around live music that celebrates community through music, poetry and food. Featuring musicians Adolfo Romero (Chile), Elisa García (Uruguay), Leo Corona (México), and Francisco Marques (Brazil) and poet María Ferndanda Iwasaki (Perú/Spain). Tickets are $15.
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Val Kilmer will appear in person to introduce the screening of his one-man play about Mark Twain. Citizen Twain, played to sold-out houses at several performing arts venues in Los Angeles and now Kilmer, the writer, actor and director, presents a special film screening of the play. A master of reinvention, Kilmer transforms himself into the “First American,” Mark Twain, in a comedic and moving performance that is both contemporary and reflective. The piece is based on the life of the man, Samuel Clemens, and of course his writings as Mark Twain. Tickets are $35-$80.
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‘Where the Body Sits and Learns’ is an autobiographical account of Benjamin Rogers’ artistic process, relationships and selfexaminations. Rogers’ work comments on several aspects of an artist’s life, a narrative that is at different times triumphant, demoralizing, exciting, banal and ridiculous. ‘Where the Body Sits and Learns’ is showing at the Dairy Arts Center through Jan. 13.
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BRYAN BRUNDIGE TRIO FEAT. JEREMY MOHNEY AND MATT CANTOR 8PM FRIDAY JANUARY 4
EYES ON Shimabuku. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building - Level 4, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3.
Robert Restaino. Firehouse Art Gallery, South Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through January.
Flirtacious — by Alex Zablocki. Firehouse Art Center, Main Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Jan. 5.
Small Wood Sculptures — by Charles Counter. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 6.
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Clas Oldenburg with Coosje Van Bruggen. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building (Level 2), 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 6.
Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.
Tara Donovan: Fieldwork. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Jan. 27.
Colorado’s Most Significant Artifacts. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit.
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Cut Paper Wildlife Sculptures — by Tiffany Russell. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Jan. 4.
Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 13.
All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.
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DIOR: From Paris to the World. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver. Through March 3.
Mixed Media —by Tabitha Aaron. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Opens Jan. 6. Through March 1.
Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019.
penumbra — by Diane Martonis. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 13.
Eat Well, Play Well. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Jan. 6.
REMBRANDT: Painter as Printmaker. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 6.
EYES ON Julie Buffalohead. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building (Level 4), 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3.
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Google Garage. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing, but activities change.
Type/Cast — by Joel Swanson and students. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy & MacMillan Family Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 13. Watercolor — by Nancy Sullo. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Jan. 4. Where the Body Sits and Learns — by Benjamin Rogers. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 13 Worlds Suspended in Reality. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Jan. 20. World War II Diary Transcribed at the Museum. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit.
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Thursday, January 3 Music Bryan Brundige Trio featuring Jeremy Mohney and Matt Cantor. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
J.W. TELLER 8PM WYNN WALENT / PAUL BEAUBRUN 9PM
Danny Shafer Duo. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
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Intro to Knitting. 6:30 p.m. Grandma’s House, 1710 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-578-6754.
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Final Future. 8 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver, 303-383-1909. Hip Hop Thursdays. 9 p.m. Club Vinyl, 1082 Broadway, Denver, 303-506-8078,.
Leaders of the Heart. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.
Mike and the Moonpies. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Read Southall, Chris Colston. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Steely Dead (feat. members of Dead Phish Orchestra and more) & Bear Tread — with Steepland String Band. 7:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Whip It! All Vinyl 80s Dance Party (New Year’s Edition), hosted by DJ Jason Heller. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.
Building Bridges Ideastorm. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Burning. 4 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. Holiday Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Dining Hall, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. More times at chautauqua.com. Maria by Callas. 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.
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Texas Hold’em. 7 p.m. Breakers Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839.
Barrel Racing – Public Session. 5 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.
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Harold Pinter made his playwriting debut in 1957 with ‘The Room.’ His plays are noted for their use of understatement, small talk, reticence — and even silence — to convey the substance of a character’s thought, which often lies several layers beneath, and contradicts, his speech. Germinal Stage will present Harold Pinter’s ‘The Collection’ and ‘The Room’ Jan. 4 through Feb. 2 at the John Hand Theater on the Colorado Free University Lowry Campus.
A Bronx Tale. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Opens Jan. 8. Through Jan. 20. Annie Get Your Gun. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Jan. 27. A Christmas Story. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Jan. 5. Mary Poppins. Vintage Theatre Company, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Jan. 6.
The Pinter Plays: Early Classic One-acts by Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter — presented by Germinal Stage. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Opens Jan. 4. Through Feb. 2. She Loves Me — presented by Performance Now Theatre Company. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Opens Jan. 4. Through Jan. 20. Shrek The Musical. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Jan. 27. Xanadu. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through March 31.
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Friday, January 4 Music Citizen Dan: Steely Dan Tribute. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Dr. Klaw featuring Eric Krasno, Adam Deitch, Nigel Hall, Ian Neville, Cyril Neville, Nick Daniels — with Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Expeditions Plus One with Alicia Baker. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. FloydtheSaintXHeartthrob: Saints and Heartbreaks. 7 p.m. The Roxy Theater, 2549 Walton St., Denver, 720-242-9782. LVDY. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-291-1007.
String Mountain Revival. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-2971772. Wylie. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Zero Gravity. 8 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver, 303-383-1909. Events Conversations in English Fridays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Games @ Meadows. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. FNWeird: In Order of Disappearance. 8:45 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Matt Flaherty. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Pat McGann. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More show times at comedyworks.com.
Nocturnal presents First Fridays — with Sassmouth. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver, 303-831-6207.
Spanish Modern Literature Club. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Write Your Story Writing Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Randy Rogers Band. 8:30 p.m. The Grizzly Rose, 5450 North Valley Highway, Denver, 303-295-2353.
Saturday, January 5
Ravin’wolf Acoustic Blues Duo. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 720-606-1734. Rico Jones Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Boulder Weekly
Music 12th Night! A Yule Concert and Gala Viking Reception. 7 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, 119 Park Avenue West, Denver, 303-295-1759. Bayliner. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-291-1007.
Bill McCrossen Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Charley Crockett. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Circles Around The Sun. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Dr. Klaw featuring Eric Krasno, Adam Deitch, Nigel Hall, Ian Neville, Cyril Neville, Nick Daniels — with Casey Russell & The Soul Shack. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-875-7514. Family Night Silent Disco + Ice Skating Glow Party. 4 p.m. Downtown Denver Rink at Skyline Park, 1515 Arapahoe St., Tower 3 Suite 100, Denver, 303-534-6161. The Finale. 8 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver, 303-383-1909. George Nelson Trio. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Hellocentral. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840. Hindsight. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-600-4875. Julie Geller. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Kirk Margoles. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-249-8458. Mad Dog Blues. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. see EVENTS Page 30
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Is the future one of global warming, migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality and grid-locked politics? Or one of empowered entrepreneurs and innovators building a world that works for everyone? In her new book, L. Hunter Lovins argues that humanity has a chance to thread the needle of sustainability and build a regenerative economy through a powerful combination of enlightened entrepreneurialism, technology and innovative policy. Lovins will speak about and sign her new book, ‘A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life,’ on Wednesday, Jan. 9 at Boulder Book Store 7:30 p.m.
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Sunday, Jan. 6
Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Saturday, Jan. 5
Monday, Jan. 7
Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver.
Lisa M. Gunshore — Enlightenment Pie. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store - Historic LoDo, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Tuesday, Jan. 8
Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Jen Sincero — You Are a Badass Every Day. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Friday, Jan. 9 L. Hunter Lovins — A Finer Future. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Katherine Arden — The Winter of the Witch. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store - Colfax Avenue, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
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Movie at the Symphony: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix™ in Concert. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. NEON MASQ — Black-light Masquerade Concert and Art Show. 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. The Red Petals. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Ryan Hutchens. 3:30 p.m. Salto Coffee Works, 112 E. Second St., Nederland, 303-258-3537. Saturday Sing-Along: Era of Jazz. 3 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. SolSatellite (EP Release). 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Sons and Brothers. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 East Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.
Halleway. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
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The High Road Home. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Chad Prather. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 802-255-1826. Improv Classes for Teens. 2:30 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075. Pat McGann. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More show times at comedyworks.com.
Movie at the Symphony: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix™ in Concert. 1 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Xenia Dunford. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events
Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863.
Spanish/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Cinema Twain: Film Screening with Val Kilmer. 7:30 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.
Sunday, January 6 Music
String Mountain Revival. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont,303-652-4186.
Ultimate 80s Night with Halfway There - Bon Jovi Tribute. 7 a.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.
Deliciosa. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
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Who Has The Favor. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
EVQ’s Winter Showcase. 11:30 a.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720.
Doris’ Sunday Matinee: Modern Times. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Free Aerial Open House. 2 p.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272. Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. see EVENTS Page 31
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Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007. Purl Jam. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Monday, January 7 Music Eli Pafumi. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. The Hang featuring Jessica Jones and friends — with Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Matthew Michael & Christina Marie. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720201-3731. Swingin’ Seniors Rhythm Band. 1 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-0960. Events Mis Pininos/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. 2019 Boulder Arts Commission Grants Program Training. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Adobe After Effects Motion Graphics Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647. Arabic Literature Discussion Group. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Drop In Aerial Foundations. 5:45 p.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272. Monday Night Belly Dance Classes. 6 p.m. Tribe Nawaar Marketplace & Classes, 1850 Tansy Place, Boulder, 303-859-5599. Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. STEAM Storytime. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Up Down Circus. 4 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Young Artists at Work: School Day-Off Camp. 9 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.
Music with Friends — with Robyn Julyan, violin, and Nan Shannon, piano. 6 p.m. Syntax Physic Opera, 554 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-388-9839. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Punketry! 7 p.m. Mutiny Information Cafe, 2 S. Broadway, Denver, 201-873-6728. Senior Center Singers. 1 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont. Sleeper. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver, 303-831-6207. Sunsquabi: Instinct Listening Party. 8:30 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023. Ukulele Club. 7 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8411. Events Adobe After Effects Motion Graphics Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647. All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120; 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Around the World Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Drop-In Tech Help. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Drop-In Improv Class. 6 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver, 303-578-0079. FUNctional Dance Flow. Noon. RiNo Yoga Social, 3101 Walnut St., Denver, 720-724-8393. GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Lafayette Sustainable Film Series: The E-Waste Tragedy. 6:30 p.m. Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-229-1127. Lap Babies. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100; 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Out Boulder County Gender Support Group Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777.
Black Buzzard Open Mic Comedy. 9:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 1624 Market St., Denver, 720-502-3535.
Tuesday Tapping at Upslope Brewing. 11 a.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 South Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898.
Colorado Chamber Players. Noon. Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St., Denver, 303-831-7115.
Writers’ Group. 6 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont.
Espresso! 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
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Tuesday, January 8
Gestalt. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
Wednesday, January 9 Bingo! 6 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave, Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Lost Aliens. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. MoJazz Duo. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Rabblefish. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Re:Search featuring VibeSquaD — with Mikey Thunder, Jordan Polovina and Special Guests. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Sammy Miller & The Congregation. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Wednesday is Karaoke Night. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328. Events Adobe After Effects Motion Graphics Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647. Community Night. 9 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver, 303-5780079. Conversations in English Wednesdays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Dinner and Movie: Rachel Hollis Made for More. 5 p.m. Flower Child Restaurant, 2580 Arapahoe Ave., Unit 110, Boulder, 858-314-6818. The Happy Prince. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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Lap Babies. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Midday Music Meditation. Noon. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4413100. STEAM Storytime. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120; 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Swimming With Men. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Wobblers & Walkers. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100; 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
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Sonnet 45 by Drew Pisarra
the lyrics go something like yeah, yeah, yeah while the drum goes chitch underwater cunk cunk and the singer goes yeah babe yeah yeah yeah then electric guitar wangs wah wah funk and you’re holding me close so close so close ‘til the chorus goes ew wah ew wah ew and I can’t hear the words: yeah yeah at most ‘cause you’re kissing me and I’m kissing you when the tempo picks up we won’t slow down when the rhythm gets funky we’ll do the same we’ll join in for verses sung wrong and loud and scream ‘til the world thinks we’re insane that stupid refrain again and again yeah yeah yeah please play us that song again
As one half of conceptual art duo Saint Flashlight (with Molly Gross), Drew Pisarra has been finding playful ways to get poetry into public places such as film-themed haiku on a movie marquee and a series of lost-dog style flyers that drive to a phone bank of poems. These unconventional installations have been part of the O, Miami Poetry Festival, Free Verse: Charleston Poetry Festival, and Capturing Fire’s International Poetry Summit and Slam in D.C. His first book of poetry Infinity Standing Up, a collection of sonnets, will come out in early 2019. His short story collection Publick Spanking was published some time ago by Future Tense.
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Rare Steak and Brisket Pho Photos by staff
Pho Kitchen Bar and Grill 2900 Baseline Road, Unit 3, Boulder, pho-kitchen-bar-grill.business.site
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Prosciutto and Egg Tartine Alpine Modern Café 904 College Ave., Boulder, www.alpinemodern.com
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lpine Modern is, well, modern. Located on the Hill, the coffee shop and café serves up tasty, fresh meals in a sleekly, yet minimally, designed space perfect for a work meeting or a casual meal with friends. The prosciutto and egg tartine comes with triple-cream brie slightly melted on thick toast. Thin slices of prosciutto sit atop the brie, covered in enough fresh arugula to almost make it feel like you’re eating a salad. The sixminute eggs are cooked to perfection, yolks soft but not too runny, sprinkled with salt crystals that really bring out their flavor. Pungent olive oil and a tart balsamic glaze are drizzled over the entire dish, adding to the flavor of each, delicious bite. $10.
s the newest cuisine addition to the Williams Village Shopping Center, this fast-casual pho restaurant will disappoint neither the hungry post-hiking soul on a date after a cold day outdoors, nor the busy person running errands with a to-do list as long as the first Flatiron. The high tables and high ceilings contribute to a comfortable yet polished atmosphere, and the bowls of steaming hot pho are quick to deliver. The rare steak and brisket pho comes in a rich, flavor-packed broth, decorated with thinly sliced red and green onions, and sprigs of mint, lime wedges, jalapeños and bean sprouts to pile on at will. $10.95 (for a medium bowl).
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ften, simple is better in the culinary world, and that’s certainly the case when it comes to pizza. Pearl Street’s Pizza Colóre makes straight-up, nofrills pizza with a crisp crust, flavorful sauce and fresh toppings. That doesn’t mean, though, that these folks don’t push pizza boundaries, which they do with their BBQ pizza. It’s their signature crust with barbecue sauce, bacon, chicken, onion, jalapeño, and cheddar and mozzarella cheeses. No doubt, it’s a bit of an indulgence, but Colóre finds the right balance of ingredients so each bite feels satisfying. $7.50-$18.75.
Bistec y Huevos Corrida 1023 Walnut St., #400, Boulder, corridaboulder.com
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f you haven’t been up to Corrida’s downtown penthouse restaurant for brunch, happy hour or dinner, we suggest you resolve to do so in 2019. It’s classy, yet comfortable, with exciting cocktails and wine, an unbeatable view and a wide-ranging menu of steak and Spanish-inspired plates. On a recent brunch, we opted for the bistec y huevos: a six-ounce flatiron steak, two over-easy eggs, olive-oil-and-cheese smashed potatoes, and sherry and piquillo vinaigrette. Simply put, this is likely the best steak and eggs you’ll ever have. The steak melts in your mouth, the egg is indulgent, the vinaigrette is electric and the potatoes are impossibly rich. Get this, or get anything else, just get to Corrida. $24.
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Future snacks Cheese tea, ‘oyster’ jerky and ominous food trends on 2019’s scary menu
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We are so uncertain, we’re eating fewer meals... if not any less food. According to The NPD Group, the number of annual eating occasions per capita in the U.S. has steadily declined. U.S. consumers will average 1,410 eating occasions per capita this year, compared to 1,453 occasions in 2009. It makes sense that we are unnerved considering the latest food news and the culinary trend predictions for 2019. Here are a few facts to share around the postholiday watercooler.
Tastes o’ the times
The Finless company plans on launching lab-grown bluefin tuna paste in 2020. “The identity of a given cell, and ensuring that its identity is preserved and verifiable, would be crucial to our being able to certify a product as kosher,” said Rabbi Gavriel Price of the Orthodox Union about lab-grown proteins. ... The freshly invented Corn Plate is designed for “anyone who’s ever been challenged by food touching” and keeps items completely separated from each other. ... Alexa is becoming 2019’s HAL. Amazon has been issued a patent for technology that gives Alexa AI-like abilities to read your physical, emotional and behavioral states and make food suggestions. Will Alexa allow the freezer to give you a pint of Cherry Garcia when you are depressed? ... Cornell University food scientists found that cheese eaten in pleasant virtual surroundings like a park bench using virtual reality headsets tastes better than in a sterile lab test room. Go figure. ... Ripples has introduced technology that allows bartenders to imprint messages/
images in the foam on beers.
Questionable new menu items
Newport Jerky Company has introduced Rocky Mountain oyster beef testicle jerky. Other odd new foods include Starbucks’ piney juniper latte, Sonic’s pickle juice slushes and the Shake Shack’s eel burger. Kraft Heinz has debuted “Unicorn Slime,” edible strawberry Jell-O slime, because, “Until today, there hasn’t been an edible slime available from a national brand,” Kraft Heinz announced. Meanwhile, Mondelez is introducing Most Stuf Oreos with three times the filling of a regular Oreo because they can. ... T.G.I. Friday’s new sandwich includes a fried mac-andcheese patty, a burger, cheese sauce, mayo and bacon on a sweet challah bun along with more than 1,390 calories.
Good food news — really!
The City of Boulder is partnering with a startup called Vessel Works to offer via app reusable stainless steel insulated mugs at coffee shops including Boxcar, Seeds Library Cafe, Beleza Coffee Bar and The Trident. The dirty mug can be returned to any of the shops. ... Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound in Seawall, Maine, will get lobsters high on cannabis before they are cooked, on request. “If we’re going to take a life we have a responsibility to do it as humanely as possible,” said the owner. ... Kellogg has put out limited edition All Together cereal, combining Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, Rice Krispies, Frosted Flakes and Frosted Mini Wheats in the same box in honor of SpiritDay, an effort to stop bullying of LGBTQ youth. ... The Los Angeles City Council is debating a bill that would force
restaurants at Los Angeles International Airport and other public venues with a “captive dining audience” to offer at least one non-meat entree on their menus. ... A Maryland Congressman has nominated chef José Andrés and his small nonprofit group that fed Puerto Ricans following Hurricane Maria and folks at many other disasters for the Nobel Peace Prize. ... Tesla is planning a drive-in restaurant/ Supercharger station in Santa Monica. Expect delays in timely table delivery of entrees. ... Lyft is teaming with a D.C. food bank to provide families in food deserts with $2.50 round-trip rides to the nearest full-service supermarket.
Hot 2019 flavors: tajin, cheese tea
Datassential predicts exotic seasonings like papalo and tajin, plus cheese tea and Middle Eastern booza ice cream will be big this year. ... Mintel says that 2019 will be the year of holistic ingredients like turmeric, green tea extract and ginger. ... Denver’s Food & Drink Resources list of 2019 culinary trends includes Israeliinspired fare, fermented foods (including butter), CBD-infused beverages and using “ugly” produce. ... af&co.’s 2019 trends include Georgian (the country, not the state) cuisine, cell-cultured meat, artisanal doughnuts and hummus. ... Benchmark Hospitality predicts more eateries will serve house-made kombucha and kimchi. ... The Specialty Food Association is calling for fermented cordyceps mushroom beverages. ... Technomic predicts pomegranate molasses will be big. ... Whole Foods looks forward to more kelp jerky.
Goodbye and hello: The sequel The end of 2018 saw more eatery
closings. The short-lived Lunetta Italian has closed at 2785 Iris Ave., formerly Arugula, Laudisio and A La Carte. Treppeda’s Ristorante closed abruptly Dec. 17 after 22 years in business in Niwot. The Cup closed at 1521 Pearl St. on Dec. 31. And, the 8-year-old Ted’s Montana Grill has closed at 1701 Pearl St.
Local food news
A name has finally been chosen for the new minor league baseball team replacing the Colorado Springs Sky Sox. The finalists included the Happy Campers, the Throttle Jockeys and the fan favorite: The Colorado Springs Rocky Mountain Oysters. Unfortunately, the team instead chose the name “Rocky Mountain Vibes” with the s’moresthemed mascot, Toasty.
Taste of the week
I enjoyed simple pleasures during a Christmas shopping lunch with my son, Hans, at Taqueria La Esperanza in Lafayette. The hors d’oeuvres were meaty carnitas and chicharrón tacos with cilantro and chopped onion sparked by a salsa bar including fried jalapeños, pico de gallo and pickled jalapeños. The entrees were an asada torta on grilled bollilo bun with tomato, onion and guacamole, and soft, wide poblano chiles rellenos filled with melty white cheese. The beverage/dessert: iced horchata.
Words to chew on
“I do not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.” — Dr. Seuss John Lehndorff is predicting that pie will be really big in 2019 ... but he predicts that every year. He hosts Radio Nibbles: news.kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles.
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hen it comes to the legacy craft brewers, few stand as tall as the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company of Chico, California. Founded in 1979 by Ken Grossman (a pioneer among pioneers) and Paul Camusi, Sierra Nevada and its iconic pale ale are synonymous with the full-flavor-beer revolution that defines the craft beer
marketplace. Then, on Nov. 8, 2018, everything changed. With a deadly combination of high winds, low humidity and severely dry conditions, the California Camp Fire started burning in Butte County in the small community of Pulga. It took only minutes for the fire to spread. For the next 15 days, the Camp Fire burned over 153,000 acres of land, including the town of Paradise, destroyed over 18,000 structures, caused 86 civilian fatalities and somewhere between $7.5 and $10 billion in damages. It was the most destructive wildfire in California’s history to date. Sierra Nevada and the town of Chico were spared — but just barely. Photos posted on Sierra Nevada’s Instagram show apocalyptic doom looming on the horizon. Now the brewery is ready to help others who weren’t so lucky. The answer: Resilience Butte County Proud IPA, a fundraising IPA brewed to benefit all impacted by the Camp Fire. Pulling some rather hefty strings, Sierra Nevada got nine malt suppliers and six hop suppliers to donate the ingredients. It even convinced wholesalers and retailers to join the effort, shipping and stocking the beer and donating 100 percent of the sales to the Sierra Nevada Camp Fire Relief Fund. And it also called the brewers — 1,400 in all — to brew the beer with 100 percent of sales going to help Butte County. No one beer is going to save the world, but Resilience is more than a start. Made with Rahr 2-row and Crisp Crystal malt, and Centennial and Cascade hops, Resilience IPA sports a deep reddish color with a large, rocky head. The nose is earthy with a solid whiff of pine, which continues into the mouth with more snappy hops and a smooth and clean flavor. It’s a damn tasty beer — good for the stomach, good for the soul. You can now find Sierra Nevada’s Resilience IPA in all your better liquor stores, but also check out the slew of participating breweries adding Resilience IPA to their tap list. A Denver collaborative — Woods Boss Brewing Company, Lariat Lodge Brewing Co., Launch Pad Brewery, Resolute Brewing Company, Coal Mine Ave Brewing Company and WestFax Brewing Company — tapped their Resilience kegs on Dec. 19, marking the occasion with a moment of silence before hoisting their glasses to Butte County. More breweries are on the way, including Boulder County’s Sanitas Brewing Company, Endo Brewing Company, Bootstrap Brewing and Left Hand Brewing Company. It’ll take years of work and an awful lot of help to rebuild Butte County. What better way to start than with a cold beer? Boulder Weekly
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Your neighborhood grocery store is now able to sell fullstrength beer. What does that mean for the craft beer industry? by Matt Cortina
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f you were in a Colorado grocery store over the last few weeks, you likely saw one of two odd things: rows of empty refrigerators, or, if you went on or after Jan. 1, full-strength beer. On New Year’s Day, a law passed last year by the state legislature and signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper went into effect, allowing grocery stores to sell full-strength beer instead of the 3.2-percent alcohol by weight (approximately 4-percent alcohol by volume,
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the more common measurement of alcohol) beer they had only been allowed to sell previously. Grocery chains will also be able to purchase attached liquor and wine stores. Meanwhile, existing liquor stores will be able to operate more than one location. Boulder Weekly
What will happen next is unclear. Breweries, liquor stores, grocery stores and consumers on both sides of the issue have spent the last year releasing economic studies and press releases trumpeting or denouncing the change. On one side, grocery store chains and large brewing conglomerates welcome the change because, one, it’ll lead to more sales, but, two, they say it’ll be cheaper and easier for consumers to get beer. On the other side, some craft breweries and small liquor stores say the changes will put them out of business. Only time will tell who’s right. The biggest change we’ll likely see in Colorado is a decrease in beer prices. Some say that decrease is temporary and will squeeze small liquor stores out of the market, others say it’ll result in a total increase in beer sales, increasing jobs as well. A widely cited economic forecast from the Daniels Business School at the University of Denver claims that the average Colorado household (that consumes alcohol) will save more than $750 in three years, as beer and wine prices will decline 18 percent. The study estimates there will be $485 million in annual cost savings to Colorado consumers, which will have a windfall effect and generate 5,000 jobs — perhaps take that with a grain of salt. On the other side of the argument, though, liquor stores say those economic benefits won’t pass on to them. A study by Summit Economics commissioned by several small liquor store trade groups claims that the price decline will last only until small liquor stores go out of business, unable to compete with grocery store prices. Those liquor stores will have to increase the price of wine and spirits to compete, and the consumption of wine and liquor will decrease by 9 percent as a result, the study says. Too, Summit found that consumption of domestic beer by the big three international producers will increase 5 percent. But will the change drive craft breweries out of business, or will it actually help them? That depends on who you trust to sell that beer and how strong you think the craft beer consumption market is. The DU study states that even though Colorado ranks third in the number of craft breweries per capita, it has hampered the growth of the industry by limiting their sales to only liquor stores. The study cites data from Kroger’s and Safeway that indicates over $100 million of craft beer is sold in their Oregon and Washington stores, where full-strength beer is allowed to be sold. The study claims an additional Boulder Weekly
$125 million of craft beer will be sold and will lead to 900 jobs. Contrast that with the forecast from the liquor store trade groups, which say 8,600 jobs will be permanently lost within three years, as up to 50 percent of small liquor store beer sales will be lost within the first year alone. They extend the impact to the state, saying lost jobs means lost wages, which means lost tax revenue, to the tune of $11.9 million in state and local taxes
within three years. The DU study tamps down fears that the changes will usher in a wave of liquor store closures, citing the coexistence of liquor stores and grocery stores in Oregon and Washington. Indeed, Boulder County’s independent liquor stores will still be the place to get the best variety of craft beer. What remains to be seen is if they’ll be able to survive the loss of revenue from sales of Budweiser, Coors and other big brands
that effectively subsidized the sale of craft beer. The Brewers Association, which represents the thousand-plus craft breweries in the country, has taken steps to keep consumers aware of craft beer. Its independent craft brewer seal is labeled on its member’s retail items, so even as big brands and small brands compete in the grocery store, consumers will be able to find and support local craft breweries if they choose to.
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gravity with more focus than businessman Roger Babson (1875–1967). He wrote an essay entitled “Gravity: Our Enemy Number One,” and sought to develop antigravity technology. His Gravity Research Foundation gave awards to authentic scientists who advanced the understanding of gravity. If that organization still existed and offered prizes, I’m sure that researchers of the Aries persuasion would win them all in 2019. For your tribe, the coming months should feature lots of escapes from heaviness, including soaring flights and playful levity and lofty epiphanies.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: The night parrots of Australia are so
elusive that there was a nearly six-decade stretch when no human saw a single member of the species. But in 2013, after searching for 15 years, photographer John Young spotted one and recorded a 17-second video. Since then, more sightings have occurred. According to my astrological vision, your life in 2019 will feature experiences akin to the story of the night parrot’s reappearance. A major riddle will be at least partially solved. Hidden beauty will materialize. Long-secret phenomena will no longer be secret. A missing link will re-emerge.
GEMINI
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Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and North and South America were smooshed together. Earth had a single land mass, the supercontinent Pangea. Stretching across its breadth was a colossal feature, the Central Pangean Mountains. Eventually, though, Europe and America split apart, making room for the Atlantic Ocean and dividing the Central Pangean range. Today the Scottish Highlands and the Appalachian Mountains are thousands of miles apart, but once upon a time they were joined. In 2019, Gemini, I propose that you look for metaphorical equivalents in your own life. What disparate parts of your world had the same origin? What elements that are now divided used to be together? Re-establish their connection. Get them back in touch with each other. Be a specialist in cultivating unity.
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LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: Here are four key questions I hope
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VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “Most living things begin in the
absence of light,” writes Virgo author Nancy Holder. “The vine is rooted in the earth; the fawn takes form in the womb of the doe.” I’ll remind you that your original gestation also took place in the dark. And I foresee a metaphorically comparable process unfolding for you in 2019. You’ll undergo an incubation period that may feel cloaked and mysterious. That’s just as it should be: the best possible circumstances for the vital new part of your life that will be growing. So be patient. You’ll see the tangible results in 2020.
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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Many plants that modern Americans regard as weeds were regarded as tasty food
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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: The slow, gradual, incremental approach will be your magic strategy in 2019. Being persistent and thorough as you take one step at a time will provide you with the power to accomplish wonders. Now and then, you may be tempted to seek dramatic breakthroughs or flashy leaps of faith; and there may indeed be one or two such events mixed in with your steady rhythms. But for the most part, your glory will come through tenacity. Now study this advice from mystic Meister Eckhart: “Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.”
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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Sagittarian polymath Piet Hein
wrote a poem in which he named the central riddle of his existence. “A bit beyond perception’s reach, / I sometimes believe I see / That life is two locked boxes / Each containing the other’s key.” I propose that we adopt this scenario to symbolize one of the central riddles of your existence. I’ll go further and speculate that in 2019 one of those boxes will open as if through a magical fluke, without a need for the key. This mysterious blessing won’t really be a magical fluke, but rather a stroke of well-deserved and hard-earned luck that is the result of the work you’ve been doing to transform and improve yourself.
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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: What themes and instruments do people least want to hear in a piece of music? Composer Dave Solder determined that the worst song ever made would contain bagpipes, cowboy music, tubas, advertising jingles, operatic rapping, and children crooning about holidays. Then he collaborated with other musicians to record such a song. I suspect that as you head into 2019, it’ll be helpful to imagine a metaphorically comparable monstrosity: a fantastic mess that sums up all the influences you’d like to avoid. With that as a vivid symbol, you’ll hopefully be inspired to avoid allowing any of it to sneak into your life in the coming months.
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to practice witchcraft. It’s fine to actually do witchcraft, however. With that as our inspiration, I advise you to be rigorous about embodying your authentic self in 2019. Make sure you never lapse into merely imitating who you are or who you used to be. Don’t fall into the trap of caring more about your image than about your actual output. Focus on standing up for what you really mean rather than what you imagine people expect from you. The coming months will be a time when you can summon pure and authoritative expressions of your kaleidoscopic soul.
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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father who played a key role in getting the United States up and running. He wasn’t happy that the fledgling nation chose the bald eagle as its animal symbol. The supposedly majestic raptor is lazy, he wrote. It doesn’t hunt for its own food, but steals grub obtained by smaller birds of prey. Furthermore, bald eagles are cowardly, Franklin believed. Even sparrows may intimidate them. With that as our theme, Pisces, I invite you to select a proper creature to be your symbolic ally in 2019. Since you will be building a new system and establishing a fresh power base, you shouldn’t pick a critter that’s merely glamorous. Choose one that excites your ambition and animates your willpower.
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Dear Dan: My new partner is a swinger. Being GGG, I said, sure, we can go to swinger parties, even though I have often been uncomfortable in swinger spaces. Then I was by Dan Savage nearly assaulted at a swinger party observed a man attempt to enter a with my new partner. And if I hadn’t was not a touch on the leg to see if I scene he hadn’t been invited to join kicked the shit out of the guy, I would might be interested in another joinhave been assaulted. After being ing in. It was someone trying to stick — by placing his hand on a woman’s leg. The leg-touching creep was appropriately upset about the situaan unwrapped cock in me without promptly ejected for violating the asking if I would be OK tion, I was told by one of © Rachel Robinson club’s rules about consent, which all with that! the organizers: “Well, attendees were informed of in —Unhappy Nervous that is why you should advance and agreed to adhere to Swinger Absolutely bring a spotter or a couonce inside the club. Fucking Enraged ple of friends to a party. That’s not just the way it’s supYou have to protect yourposed to work in swinger spaces, Dear UNSAFE: I’ve self.” Nowhere on the UNSAFE, that’s the way it must strolled around half a website for this party work in any swinger space, club or dozen straight swinger was that listed as somespaces — more than the party that hopes to survive. Because thing I should do. No bad actors — almost always shitty average homo — and other articles about the standard for consent men — make women feel unsafe. swinging that I’ve read at each one I visited can And when women feel unsafe in (or swinging podcasts swinger spaces, they abandon them. be summed up in four words: Ask I’ve listened to) suggested bringing And it’s difficult to host a successbefore you touch. My visits to “spotters” to ensure safety! So what is straight swinging events/spaces/par- ful straight swingers event without the standard of consent in swinger women. ties were strictly for research purspaces? Is bringing a spotter just a From the sound of things, poses, it should go without saying, given that nobody told me about? I UNSAFE, you had the misfortune want to be clear about the seriousness but I’m saying it anyway: I went of attending a shitty party run by only to observe. And at one party, I of the problem: What happened to me
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shitty people. Someone attempted to violate you in a space where respect for boundaries, consent and the bodily autonomy of other individuals is (or should be) paramount. And, no, you were not at fault for failing to bring a “spotter.” The club was at fault for not emphasizing its own rules — and then, when a bad actor broke the rules and left another attendee feeling violated and unsafe, the club compounded its failure by blaming the victim. I wouldn’t blame you for not wanting to attend a swinger party with your new partner ever again — especially if your new partner stood by silently while you kicked the shit out of that asshole — but you shouldn’t return to that particular swinger party again. The sooner Club Bring a Spotter goes out of business, the better. Send questions to mail@ savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org. Want more? Listen to the Savage Lovecast every week at savagelovecast.com.
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by Sidni West
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t’s officially January, which means all of your (least) favorite people have already taken to Facebook to announce that it’s “their year.” Yes, 2019 is when they’re finally going to stop being trash by quitting all the things that make them hate themselves and instead be fit and rich. The first step they take to starting their new life? Dry January, aka Sober January, aka I’ve Spent The Last Two Months Eating and Drinking Myself into a Carb Coma And Now I Have No Money January. December is about overdoing it — you basically spend the entire month racking up credit card debt and getting drunk in an ugly sweater. So it makes sense that people all across the world chose January as a month to abstain from alcohol in order to reset their bodies and return to healthier norms after the holidays. The hashtag #dryjanuary already has 120,000 posts on Instagram. There are many benefits to not drinking, like saving money, losing weight, improving your quality of sleep and just feeling more in control of your life in general. However, most healthy adults don’t actually need to be sober for an entire month to recover from
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to see what your life looks like when you replace alcohol with a healthier alternative like cannabis. Instead of reaching for a bottle of wine every night, reach for your pipe instead. Hanging out with friend? Sharing a bag of edibles and going for a hike is less expensive and more intimate than trying to talk in a crowded bar. Need an excuse to invite your date inside? Make a clean bong and some craft weed part of your nightcap routine. That’s the joy of incorporating cannabis into your daily de-stress routine: There are so many options to choose the exact high you want and you aren’t limited to smoking. With everything, moderation is key, so not everyone has to choose between being a stoner or an alcoholic. But last August, a study found that among people aged 15-49, alcohol use was the leading health risk factor across the globe. The more you drink, the more your risk of dying and risk of cancer rises, the study authors found. As a result of these findings, they concluded that there was no “safe” level of alcohol consumption. But people use alcohol to cope for a reason, and those reasons aren’t going away. Despite its dangers, alcohol is one of the most accessible substances in the world, which is why so many people turn to it. Now that the cannabis movement is spreading, we have more options for the ways in which we can socialize with our friends or disassociate from stress. Unlike drinking with its extra calories and drama and hangovers and addictions, weed is a healthy alternative for dealing with life if being sober just isn’t your thing. Here’s to the highest and driest January you’ve ever had.
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