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Nixon’s take on Bolton and Bernie By Paul Danish

he Idea Fairy and me were polishing off our latest plate of edibles when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon, furiously fidgeting from foot to foot. And his minder, Beelzebub. “Gotta use your bathroom,” he said, leaping over the couch and heading for the john. It seemed like the tinkling would never stop, but after a while he emerged and flopped down exhausted in his favorite chair. He looked drained. “Let me guess,” I said. “You’ve been watching the impeachment trial.” “Every damnable minute of it,” he said. “I’m doing analysis for Hell TV. ’Bub is providing color commentary.” I

“And adult supervision,” ’Bub said, tapping the floor with his trident handle, while flicking his tail from side to side. (Older readers will recall that according to the late Nixon speechwriter and New York Times columnist William Safire, Nixon was sent to Purgatory for imposing wage and price controls on the U.S. economy in 1971. I subsequently learned that Beelzebub was his case worker.) “They finally broke for dinner,” Nixon said. “If it had gone on another five minutes, I wouldn’t have been able to hold in. That little twerp Schiff should go to hell,” he added. “Not so fast,” ’Bub hissed. “We’ve got standards.” I thought I better change the subject. “So how’s it going to come out?” I JANUARY 30, 2020

asked. “Everyone knows that Trump is going to be acquitted,” the Tricky One said. “That’s why our ratings suck.” “Even if they call Bolton as a witness?” I asked. “Yeah,” he said. “And the Democrats better be careful about calling Bolton.” “Why?” I asked. “Because if the Impeachistas call Bolton, Trump’s lawyers will get to cross-examine him,” he said. “And if I were one of Trump’s lawyers, the first question I would ask him would be ‘Mr. Bolton, are you the whistleblower and...’” “Oh, come on,” I said. “Everyone knows the whistleblower is Eric Ciaramella...” “You fool!” thundered ’Bub. “Now you’ve done it! You have uttered The Name That Mortals Dare Not Speak! see DANISH PLAN Page 6

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The Name that Adam Schiff uses to summon...” Just then there was a flash of green light, and a cloud of sulphurous smoke filled the room. And a guy who looked like ’Bub’s evil twin, but better dressed stepped out of it. “Lucifer at your service,” he said suavely. “You must be one of Schiff ’s elfs to have summoned me.” “Uh, I misspoke,” I said desperately. “To err is human. To forgive is divine. Neither is the policy of Satan and Co.,” he said with a devilish grin. “We’ll discuss this further when you take up permanent residency with us,” he said. “I don’t have time now.” Suddenly Nixon was all business. “As I was trying to say before you so recklessly interrupted me, the first question Trump’s lawyers should ask Bolton is are you the real whistleblower, and did you use Eric Ciaramella as a cutout for colluding with Schiff to set up the impeachment?” Wow. I hadn’t thought of it that way, but it made sense. Ciaramella was a 33-year-old CIA analyst who had been assigned to the National Security Council because of his Ukraine expertise during the Obama administration. Bolton would have instantly recognized the value of an ambitious snitch like Eric the C, so he would be a natural choice for Bolton to use as a cutout, if Bolton was out to take down Trump. Ciaramella would have been thrilled to have been offered the mission. “Then if I were Trump’s lawyers I would subpoena Eric himself and ask him where he got his information,” Nixon went on. “Or to put it another way, I’d ask him what did he know and when did he know it.” “Calling Bolton and Ciaramella would mean other witnesses would be I

called, and the impeachment show could drag on for months,” I said. “Isn’t that what the Dems want?” “It’s what the Dems wanted when they started it, but I’m not sure they want it anymore,” the tricky one said. “Trump’s popularity has been ticking up in the polls since the show began.” “Speaking of the election, who do you think is gonna get the Democrats’ nomination?” I asked. “It’s going to come down to a fight between Bernie the Red and the Billionaire Boys Club — Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg, with Bloomberg the one with the serious shot,” the Trickster said. “I’m betting Bernie will come out on top. “Michael the Busybody has $50 billion. Bernie has 5 million contributors. Michael’s money can flood the airways with ads, but it can’t buy loyalty, respect and enthusiasm. And love, of course. “Look for Bernie to blow him out in California,” he finished. “And if Bernie the Red is the candidate, Trump wins, game, set and match?” I asked. “Don’t jump to conclusions,” Nixon snapped. “Remember all those polls in the spring and summer of 2016 before the Democratic convention? The ones asking who would you vote for if the election was between Trump and Bernie? Bernie won them all. “Bernie’s 2020 campaign looks a lot like a mirror image of Trump’s 2016 run. It may be a long shot, but make no assumptions. You could wake up on Nov. 4 to discover America has just elected its first socialist President.” He stood up. “Impeachment show is starting again. We have to run.” “Feel the Bern, baby,” ’Bub said. And in a green flash they were gone. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Nullification and sanctuaries

I’m surprised that Paul Danish, who writes Cannabis Corner, didn’t compare Colorado’s effective nullification of federal marijuana laws to immigration nullification or “red flag” nullification in a recent Danish Plan (Re: “It’s just like the sanctuary city movement, only with live ammunition,” Jan. 2, 2020). Paul Gilmartin/via internet

win. Considering the fact that over 6 million people voted for candidates other than Trump, it’s safe to say that the American people certainly didn’t get to freely choose their president, again! Remember George Bush. This administration put together a “voter fraud” commission, asserting massive voter fraud. Not only did they not find any, the Democratic members had to sue the Republicans to even get the documents related to

that investigation. Trump disbanded the commission after not getting the results he wanted. Speaking of voter fraud and hypocrisy, the Republican Party has gone to great lengths to make it harder for “the people” to vote, especially women, minorities, the poor and younger voters who tend to vote Democrat. According to the Brenner Center for Justice, since 2010, 25 states have enacted new voting restrictions, including strict photo ID requirements, early voting cutbacks

and registration restrictions. This includes moving or removing polling places, and limiting voting booths to increase voters’ time in line to discourage voters from showing up, not to mention redistricting. All are red states. So spare me the phony sanctimonious “dangerous attack on the right of Americans to freely choose their president.” Nonsense! Rich Republicans do excel at that. Craig S. Chisesi/Rifle see LETTERS Page 8

Stagecraft

Given his seemingly innate gift for stagecraft (see the masterful “Kissing of the Don’s Ring/ Assumption of the Crown” scene as Congressmen stepped forward to offer tribute after the passage of tax cut legislation), it is disappointing, perhaps, that Donald Trump did not pursue serious theatrical enterprise rather than political and lesser pop culture entertainment, although it would have required reading and due diligence and, of course, the money really wasn’t there. Might he have become a Great American literary giant rather than a grandstanding, boorish, loud-mouthed bully? Way? Or hell no way!? Robert Porath/Boulder

Republican hypocrisy

The impeachment trial will continue to expose the blatant hypocrisies of the Republican Party, headed by Donald J. Trump. The recent statement from the White House that “articles of impeachment are a dangerous attack on the right of the people to freely choose their president,” is so rife with “nonsense” that it should not go unchallenged, and proves that Republicans can’t spell hypocrisy, and are inherently irony deficient. Let’s take a look at the right of the American people to freely choose their president. Trump lost the popular vote. A candidate has won the popular vote and lost the election five times — three times before 1900 and twice since 2000. Hillary Clinton garnered the widest lead in popular votes, at almost 3 million. More than any candidate to lose the Electoral College vote. Only approximately 73,000 strategic votes, between Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin gave Trump the electoral BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Please keep an open mind about how MSG affects people. It’s not racism (Re: “Umami: The next level,” Nibbles, Jan. 23, 2020). Years ago my friend and I would go weekly for lunch to a Chinese restaurant and marvel at how plain rice could be so yummy. We then slowly began to realize that at about 2 p.m. we were both feeling dry throats, craving sweets and having intense lethargy. Needless to say we chose other places for lunch and were fine. Later on I formed the habit of going to lunch at David’s Buffet (not Asian) in Cincinnati because it was near my recurring chiropractic appointment. My wife and I would take a walk around our neighborhood each evening after supper. I began to notice that on Tuesday evenings only I would have to walk very slowly. My heart felt as if it were filling up but the blood was not being pumped out. Very scary, but after a visit to a cardiologist my heart checked out OK. At that point I realized that my only-on-Tuesday problem was the buffet food liberally freshened with MSG. I stopped eating at the buffet and my heart problem went away permanently. Adding MSG is a cheap, sneaky way to increase flavor that keeps a lot of us constantly checking ingredient lists to avoid heart irregularities. This is not an allergy. MSG is a central nervous system toxin which can generate a wide variety of symptoms. See how you feel two hours after eating MSG. Ron Huffmeier/Boulder

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Wim Laven does a very detailed job of explaining his point of view about steps necessary to “a more perfect union” (Re: “A more perfect union,” Guest Column, Jan. 23, 2020). For me, the key is “We the People” doing our part to protect our democracy. That means voting and following up with our voices. Our calls, letters and visits to those who represent us have the most influence, more than paid lobbyists, according to a recent study by the Congressional Management Foundation. In my volunteer work with RESULTS, (results. org), I have learned to speak with my representative and senators and watched it make a difference. A good I

example is the recent 16% increase for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, after the administration had called for a 29% cut to this international initiative that has save millions of lives and prevented millions more infections. So why not speak up, empowered as one of “We the People” and help guide those who represent you to do the right thing, strengthening our democracy. Willie Dickerson/via internet

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Happy New Year and Veganuary again. I wrote a letter to the editor this time last year about the impact my choice to go vegan had on the planet in terms of reduction in water usage and grain consumption, CO2 emissions and forest deforestation, and the number of animal lives saved because of my choice to eat plants. Another year has passed. What happened in that time? We got the statistics from the USDA for 2018 animal consumption in the U.S. 8.38 billion land animals were killed to support the U.S. food supply in 2018. When you include aquatic animals that number jumps to over 55 billion. That’s just for the United States. To put these numbers into perspective the entire world human population is estimated at 7.7 billion people. In addition in 2019 the Amazon rainforest sustained the worst destruction in a decade at over 2.4 million acres. Between 80% and 91% of the Amazon’s destruction is directly attributable to animal agriculture between slash and burn agriculture for cattle grazing land and soybeans grown as livestock feed. It turns out we actually have a way to stop this unnecessary violence and destruction. You can choose to start eating plants and stop eating animals. I know it’s scary at first, sometimes inconvenient and may go against our cultural traditions but all across the world people are standing up and making the conscious decision to change what’s on their plates. They realize that every choice we make and every meal we eat can have a huge impact. You can make an impactful choice every day by choosing to put plants on your plate instead of animals. What are you waiting for? Try a free 22-day challenge at vegan22. com, and happy Veganuary! Joshua Smith/Boulder BOULDER WEEKLY

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A new generation of leadership at the Weekly

By Stewart Sallo

everal years ago I became aware of a powerful yet simple model of life, called the Four Ashramas. According to Hindu tradition, each of the Ashramas, loosely translated as “stages,” has a name and purpose. They are: Brahmacharya (student), Grihastha (householder), Vanaprastha (retired) and Sannyasa (renunciate). Each of the Ashramas lasts approximately one-fourth of our lives, so if we envision a human life as lasting 100 years, each stage lasts roughly 25 years. In the context of Boulder Weekly’s 26th anniversary, I want to use the Four Ashramas concept to illustrate where our media organization stands at this point in its history, as well as how my role as owner, and the roles of the company’s management team, in general, are changing. To do so, I am augmenting the translations of these four stages to: 1) Learning. 2) Building. 3) Downloading. 4) Empowering. Throughout the Learning stage of our lives, we typically live in our parents’ home, go to school, engage with peers, discover who we are and what we are interested in, and choose a path for our lives. During the first 25 years of my life, I learned that I was passionate about justice, possessed good communication skills, and had an aptitude for business that led me to want to go into business for myself. Concurrently, although unbeknownst to me at the time, the individuals who would one day comprise the Weekly’s current management team today were also developing the skills and sense of self-identity that would cause our paths to intersect. In the Building stage, we generally find ourselves starting a career, establishing a household with a

partner, having kids, generating income and becoming consumers. This stage of my life began right on cue when, at the age of 26, I got my first job in the media business and shortly thereafter started my own company. Indeed, I spent the next 25 years building my businesses, including, most recently, Boulder Weekly. And, of course, there were many others who participated in the building stages of the Weekly. This particular stage involved the long hours, stress and aggravation that come with building a business, but it also delivered many rewards and a deep sense of satisfaction. For our purposes in the present context, we will now skip ahead to the Fourth Ashrama, which we are calling Empowering. In order for any organization to thrive in a sustainable way, it is of vital importance that the builders of that organization create a plan to empower others to do that which the builders will one day no longer be able to do. Like it or not, the aging process is real, and as Joni Mitchell sang (in “Circle Game”), “We’re captive on the carousel of time.” And those of us who have built Boulder Weekly from a mere idea into an irreplaceable Boulder County community institution are beginning to feel the need to empower a new generation of leadership within our organization. Only in this way will we ensure the future success of the Weekly, not only with respect to the engagement of those with the stamina to deal with the rigours of running a small business with a never-ending series of deadlines, but also in terms of bringing new, fresh ideas to the table that will maintain our relevancy for many years to come.

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anniversary Now, back to the Third Ashrama. A few years ago, I found my needs changing as I entered this third stage of my life, the Downloading stage, which I am currently in the midst of. Those of you who are in this stage, or who have passed through it, will understand that there is enormous pressure in our culture to stay in the Building stage indefinitely. Consequently, the need to move on to the Downloading stage sneaks up on you. But at a certain point I realized that I could not continue to put in the long hours and endure the stress of navigating the Boulder Weekly ship, and that I needed to turn over the reigns to others. This is consistent with the Third Ashrama, and a natural part of the life of an organization and the people who comprise it. In the summer of 2016, I became aware of the availability of one of the most talented and highly respected media professionals in the country: Fran Zankowski. Fran was most recently the CEO and publisher at the Colorado Springs Independent, and had also been a top-level media executive for decades, including president of the board of directors of our trade group, AAN (Association of Alternative Newsmedia). After coming on board in 2016 as Associate Publisher, and following a period of intensive downloading, I promoted Fran to Publisher of the Weekly in September 2019, while changing my own title to Founder/CEO. Similarly, I want to announce that after two tours of duty, spanning the entire 26-year history of Boulder Weekly, award-winning journalist and author Joel Dyer has also reached the Third Ashrama of his life, and will be turning over the reigns of the Weekly’s editorial department to Managing Editor Matt Cortina, effective with the Feb. JANUARY 30, 2020

6 edition. Like myself, Joel will remain on staff to continue the downloading process, making sure that the 26-year history and tradition of our unique media organization are maintained. You will notice Matt’s title changing to Editor, and Joel’s title to Editor at Large in next week’s edition. It is important to place the dawn of a new generation of leadership at the Weekly in its proper context. Despite — or perhaps due to — what has happened to many media organizations during the past decade, Boulder Weekly has experienced unprecedented success during the last five years. Journalistically speaking, during that period the Weekly has won more SPJ (Society of Professional Journalists) awards than any other print medium in the entire Rocky Mountain region, including all of the dailies. And financially speaking, the past five years have been the most successful in our history, exceeding the previous seven years combined! Therefore, we believe that Boulder Weekly is built to last, and we are committed to making sure that we continue to provide the kind of news, arts and entertainment coverage our great Boulder County community deserves, even as those of us who founded and have guided this organization through its formative years begin to focus on other priorities of a more personal nature. For now, though, Joel and I will still be keeping a watchful eye on our “baby.” We and many others, past and present, have given our heart and soul to the Weekly, and you can rest assured that we will make sure that the present and future leaders of Boulder Weekly continue the tradition of illuminating truth, fighting for justice, championing the cause of the underdog, and magnifying the things that make life in Boulder County worth living. I

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For the last few years, Boulder Weekly has celebrated its anniversary by shining a light on the unsung heroes in our community. Over the years we’ve highlighted dozens of people working to make Boulder County a better place, and we’re grateful to highlight more do-gooders from every cor- anniversary ner of the county this year. This is our way of saying thanks to the Boulder County community that supports us and makes this tiny section of the world an enjoyable place to live, work and play. — BW staff

ome might call Jane Anderson’s path to death work, as she calls it, a circuitous one — starting with a bachelor’s degree in Asian studies and women’s rights — but Anderson’s long understood her purpose in life. “I’ve said it many times,” she says over a cup of tea, “My whole life is just to help alleviate the suffering of others in whatever way.” For the past three years Anderson has volunteered with hospice through TRU Community Care, providing support to patients and families facing death and loss. In addition to the traditional volunteer work with hospice — relief to caretakers, meals or cups of tea for patients and families, transportation if needed, light household chores, general companionship — Anderson brought in her knowledge as a clinical herbalist to initiate an aromatherapy program at TRU’s hospice inpatient unit at Longmont United Hospital about a year ago. Since long before the Bard’s Ophelia gave her brother Laertes rosemary “for remembrance” in the wake of their father’s death, humans have been using the fragrance of plants and herbs to heal and soothe and memorialize. Ancient Egyptians used myrrh and frankincense during embalming; Greek physician Hippocrates used chamomile to reduce fever and recommended daily massage with aromatic herbs; in India, sandalwood has long burned at funerals to free the soul of the dead. Today aromatherapy is used in conjunction with standard medical treatment, often to combat anxiety or nausea, alleviate pain or improve mood and quality of sleep. Smells are widely known to trigger powerful emotions and memories in humans, which science believes has a lot to do with human anatomy. Incoming smells first hit the olfactory bulb, which has direct connections to the amygdala and the hippocampus — both critical players in the development of emotion and memory. Visual, tactile and auditory information doesn’t pass through these brain areas, which may explain why smells play so powerfully on our emotions and memories. “It’s as simple as lavender essential oil making people feel relaxed,” Anderson says. “There’s a lot BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

A different walk to death Jane Anderson brings ancient therapy and

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logical preservation, human rights and religious freedom,” Anderson says of the conference. It was there that she heard someone speak about death midwifery for the first time, the practice of assisting in the dying process. It’s a practice as old as human civilization, a historically community-based role where the death midwife not only helps families make plans for their dying loved one, but also helps everyone cope with death’s natural place in life. “She was lecturing on your final gift — it was all about green burials and what your gift is going to be to this world,” Anderson says. “Just listening to her talking about death midwifery work it was like this door opened and I realized that regardless of what role it plays in my life, this was a path I needed to get on.” A year later she was certified as a death midwife. With a family to help support, Anderson of agitation often during maintained her full-time job with HomeCare JANE ANDERSON death, and essential oils can of the Rockies, providing non-medical care to found her calling in death work, as a death seniors around Boulder County. But she also bring calm to the death promidwife and hospice cess. Essential oils like rosebuilt up her own business, Elderwood volunteer. mary and the citrus oils can Apothecary, making handcrafted natural skin just freshen up a room. Long care products, and began to co-facilitate a death hours at the bedside are hard discussion group in Longmont called Open on anybody and just bringing Heart, Open Mind at The Meditation Place. in the citruses and the mints can just kind of “I’m just trying to get people to take a differbrighten the mood, kind of lift the spirits a little ent walk to death,” Anderson says of the group, bit. which talks about different types of burial practic“Rosemary most specifically is an herb of es available, what you can expect and ask for after remembrance, so it can help pull up memories your loved one dies — like extra time with the and support those conversations during the end of body — and the ways that you can plan for a someone’s life,” she adds. “Then there’s the sacred death that feels congruent with your values. essential oils like sandalwood and frankincense Just last year Anderson was able to leave her and myrrh, which have been used for thousands full-time work with HomeCare of the Rockies to of years to honor the sacredness of crossing the focus fully on her apothecary business, volunteer threshold.” work and death midwifery. Anderson trains the staff at the inpatient facil“Hospice volunteer work is amazing and there’s such a need for it,” Anderson says. “The ity on which essential oils they can use, and crenurses and social workers, they only have so much ates blends that supply the facility. time and it’s really the volunteers that either can Her journey to death work began in 2015, when she and her mother attended the Parliament support the nurses, can sit by the bedside and volunteer time in the grief counseling office or bring of World Religions in Salt Lake City. Nearly their special service animals to visit. But you don’t 10,000 people from 73 countries, 30 major relihave to be a counselor or have a service animal: gions and more than 500 sub-traditions attended, There’s so many different ways to help and such a performed, presented and led workshops. need for a broad skill set.” “There was this universal goal of peace, ecoI

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So we struggle on Boulder lawyer Phil Barber takes on

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pro bono immigration cases when he’s not representing communities in the oil and gas fight

PHIL BARBER has been taking pro bono immigration cases for the last 20 years.

by Angela K. Evans

hile he was walking to volunteer at a soup kitchen in Denver a few years ago, Phil Barber ran into one of his first pro bono immigration clients. Barber had helped him and his wife, who were originally from Mexico, avoid deportation. Barber learned that in the time since he represented the couple, their two sons had both gotten engaged. And they had had a daughter. The man then invited Barber to her quinceañera. “That was one of those footnotes that you see, ‘Oh, this is real life stuff,’” Barber says, choking back tears. A graduate of CU-Boulder, Barber has been a lawyer for some 40 years, mainly representing communities that are trying to regulate oil and gas operations and some individuals that are owed money by oil companies. He’s represented Longmont, Boulder and Broomfield, most recently working with Colorado Rising in its effort to reopen Longmont’s fracking ban case in light of SB 19-181. For the last 20 years, however, Barber has also been taking pro bono immigration cases on the side, helping dozens of individuals and families work their way through the complicated immigration system. He first started working with immigrant clients through a group in Denver called the Thursday Night Bar that provided lawyers with pro bono opportunities in a variety of fields from criminal defense to domestic violence, traffic violations and immigration cases. Despite the fact he knew very little about that particular area of law, Barber represented a dozen clients fighting deportation over the next decade or so. In the last seven years he’s mainly focused on asylum cases referred to him by the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN), a nonprofit organization based in Westminster that provides pro bono services and legal orientation to detained immigrants. Even after two decades, Barber says he’s “still getting up to speed” on immigration law. “When you’re a volunteer lawyer in an area that you know nothing about, you’re taking a BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

chance and your client is taking a chance,” Barber says. But, “by hook and by crook, you learn as you go along and you use your training as a lawyer and as a human being to spot the likely important issues in the case.” Working with RMIAN has made the work easier, at least logistically, as the organization can set up a pro bono lawyer with a case memo, mentors, a list of expert witnesses and even direct them to the area of immigration law that may be applicable. Barber takes on an average of one to two cases a year, each asylum case taking anywhere from 100 to 200 hours. His clients come from a variety of countries around the world, each case requiring him to learn the political, social and religious nuances of each place. There were two clients from Eritrea, he says, who were locked in underground caverns for years simply because they wanted to practice their religion. There was the Coptic Christian from Egypt who fled persecution by the Muslim Brotherhood after his shop was burned down. And there was Luis, whose name is Michelle now, from Mexico. Raised in poverty, she fled home, only to end up in Tijuana, beaten, raped and forced into sex slavery all because she’s transgender. “They didn’t do anything to deserve any of that,” Barber says of his clients. “Those are the kinds of cases, though, that make you hopeful. People can be incredibly resilient and resourceful.” Barber says he typically gets a two- or threehour hearing to elicit a compelling story from his client on the witness stand, and corroborate that story with letters from friends and family in their country of origin as well as testimony from expert witnesses (most of whom offer their services for free or at a reduced rate as well). “Trying a case in immigration court, it’s like trying a death penalty case in traffic court,” he says. “The law is extremely difficult and it’s unimaginable to me that a person would be able to navigate it without a lawyer. But you know, immigrants are very, very resourceful and their lives are at stake and their families are depending on them, so historically in this country, some of them have found a way to make it.” I

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Barber attributes his altruistic orientation to his parents and the way he was raised. Born in Wyoming, Barber moved to Pueblo — “really a melting pot of people, to borrow a cliché,” he says — when he was 3 years old. In 1967, his dad led an effort to integrate the Methodist church by merging with a local African American congregation. “It’s been my lineage to do this kind of thing,” he says. “I’ll keep doing this for as long as I can.” Over the years, Barber has been largely successful — his clients receive asylum, mostly move to other parts of the country where they have community and friends, and begin to rebuild their lives. “There is no feeling like walking out of an immigration court with your client who’s been in prison for the last year, who’s been granted asylum,” he says. “I mean, that’s about as high a feeling as I’ve ever had as a lawyer. It can be extremely gratifying.” About a month ago was the first time in 20 years that Barber wasn’t successful in an immigration case, representing a mother from Mexico with four kids, who fears for her children’s safety if she was forced to return. He’s offered to handle her appeal, but he knows it’s an uphill battle. “I’m just trying to buy her a little more time,” he says. “There but for the grace of God, go I,” he continues, “because it really is just a question of where you were born and who you are that puts these folks in those situations. Nobody chooses to be a refugee ... We can debate about a lot of things, but there aren’t many people who would choose to leave their home if they had a decent choice.” Representing immigrants has gotten harder in the last few years, under the Trump administration, Barber admits. The need has become more overwhelming, the government much more adversarial, people are held in detention for longer, the courts’ interpretation of immigration law has narrowed. But all of this only reinforces Barber’s determination to continue to take on clients and advocate for organizations like RMIAN. As he says, “So we struggle on.” I

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In memory of those we’ve lost Jennifer Livovich helps

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chronically homeless with her Save-A-Toe initiative

by Angela K. Evans

ennifer Livovich always has a few extra pairs of thermal socks in her bag as she makes her way around Boulder. She deliberately takes the path through Central Park or walks around the library on her way to wherever she’s going, stopping whenever she sees someone who might need a pair. “A lot of times, I know the person,” she says, displaying other items in her go-to bag: an individualized first-aid kit, hand and foot warmers, lip balm, a knit cap and some gloves. It’s all part of her Save-A-Toe initiative, a donation drive focusing on collecting and distributing thermal socks and other winter gear and clothing to people experiencing homelessness in Boulder. Livovich is no stranger to living on the street, first experiencing homelessness in Indiana where domestic violence prompted her to use safe house shelters, all of which had specific time limits to her stay. When she first came to Boulder she stayed with a friend for a while, but she soon found herself homeless again, befriending people downtown, “long-term homeless Boulder community members,” as she describes it. For four years she was chronically homeless, in and out of detox and jail, a self-described “highutilizer” of the system. She was often in encampments that were broken up in the middle of the night by the police, receiving citations for violating the camping ban or trespassing laws. Often, she simply moved to another area of town, until she, along with others, were moved again, she says. “There was no place actually safe,” she says. The shelter was too far away, she says, and besides, she often didn’t feel safe in the shelter either, or wasn’t able to stay there due to her alcohol use. Eventually, through the court navigation program, she was sent to Fort Lyon, a supportive residential community helping those experiencing homelessness with recovery and transitional housing, operated by the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless in southern Colorado. At the time, she had severe frostbite. “My foot was ready to fall off,” she says. It was one of those weeks in Boulder where the temperaBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

tures changed quickly — one day she was walking around barefoot in a T-shirt, the next snow was falling and she got severe frostbite on one foot. She lost a lot of skin and her toenails. The doctors were afraid her toes would fuse together in the healing process. When all was said and done, they had to cut a quarter-inch off her big toe — “Enough to know it was different now,” she says. “I was lucky.” Livovich completed the program at Fort Lyon over the course of 18 months and returned to Boulder about a year ago. She’s currently enrolled at Colorado State University Global, an online school where she is studying strategic public policy, and public and nonprofit management. She’s spent most of her time researching national housing policies and chronic homelessness, looking at datadriven solutions. She also works at a convenience store in South Boulder where she’s open about her story and her past with customers. It’s a way of engaging the broader community in an awareness and discussion of homelessness in town. “It’s really helped, I believe, helped to reduce the stigma associated around the homeless,” she says. “It opens the door for conversation.” When not studying or working, she spends her time offering up her experience through community presentations for a variety of different sectors in the city, and distributing donated items through Save-A-Toe whenever she can. “Before I personally got frostbite, I literally used to think people were exaggerating. I thought they were just cold,” she says. “And I actually feel really terrible about that because it’s one of the worst experiences ... because it’s a chronic type of agony.” During her stay at Fort Lyon, she kept in touch with some of her friends back in Boulder via Facebook. One of those people was Benjamin Harvey, Benji to his friends. Also chronically I

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homeless, Harvey’s body was found outside on Christmas Day 2018, temperatures dipping into the low teens that week. After Harvey’s death, Livovich formed a relationship with his cousin in Texas who now organizes donation drives for Save-A-Toe through her church, and her employer covers the shipping costs to Boulder. Harvey’s cousin often sends individualized notes and care packages to some of Benji’s friends who are still experiencing homelessness, all of which Livovich happily delivers. Along with Harvey’s cousin and her church, Livovich gets socks, warm clothes, sleeping bags and winter gear from other out-of-town private donors, and after hearing about Livovich’s efforts, employees at the library organized a sock drive for Save-A-Toe. “Socks are one of the least donated items in shelters,” she says. “And people like to donate those flimsy, cotton socks, which is nice, but those aren’t the best socks in the winter time. So, my goal is to have the thermal socks when people need them long after the holidays, when everybody’s generosity [has] faded.” She also has a volunteer agreement with the severe weather shelter, where she goes in and exchanges people’s dirty socks for a clean pair, almost always brand new. She’ll also wash the dirty socks, as long as they are in good shape, and use them to replenish her stash to give away later. Livovich lives in North Boulder and without a car, it can often be difficult to distribute items downtown, but she’s developed a small network of people to assist in the distribution. She accepts donations year-round but is specific about when she hands out some of the resources, waiting for when she knows the weather is going to get bad, making sure she’s not giving people extra stuff to carry around when they don’t need it. “I do it out of my own personal experience, but also the experience of others,” Livovich says of the Save-A-Toe initiative. “And I do it in memory of all my friends that I’ve lost.” For more information about Save-A-Toe visit facebook.com/groups/2830371843693986/ I

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Stages of life

Kristel Jelenik Brown helps those with mental and physical disabilities write, produce and stage original pieces of theater by Matt Cortina

orth Pole. Aliens kidnap Santa and take him to outer space. They’ll use him to destroy the universe. That is, unless Mrs. Claus and a group of astronauts can save him. They hop aboard the nearest reindeer-drawn sleigh, but alas, they crash into a distant planet. But Mrs. Claus and the astronauts become fast friends with the space warriors that inhabit this alien world, and with a little luck, they might be able to band together, find Santa and save the universe. See the saga unfold on stage at the Dairy Arts Center on Feb. 28. The show was conceived, written, designed, blocked and (will ultimately be) staged in just 10 weeks by members of the Centre Stage program at the Lafayette nonprofit, Imagine!, which serves and supports people with mental and physical disabilities in Boulder and Broomfield counties. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Kristel Jelenik Brown has been running the Centre Stage program with Imagine! for the last five years. Every winter, she helps participants, of varying age ranges and abilities, put on a free show created solely from their collective imaginations. “It’s so important to me that a lot of what’s generated comes directly from them as opposed to me putting my ideas on it,” Brown says. At the beginning of the program each year, Brown welcomes people who have been receiving services through Imagine! and have either participated in previous productions or heard about the experience from others and want to join in. About five to 10 new people join every year — the cast this year totals around 40 people. Often, Brown says, past participants have been stewing on ideas for setting (previous settings have included Las Vegas, a cruise ship and Disneyland) or elements like songs, I

anniversary lines of dialogue or dance numbers they want to include in the upcoming production. Through a process of game-playing, improvisation and, ultimately, voting, a setting is whittled down, dialogue is written and a narrative is formed. It is imperative to Brown that the participants create as much of the production — that they reap as many benefits from the creative process — as possible. “Your ability to engage with the arts is completely and totally about access. So if you don’t have a lot of access, then the pattern tends to be that you’re presented with an expert who knows a lot and you’re this empty vessel, so they’re going to pour their knowledge into you, which I think is a really gross, sort of imperialistic, patriarchal way of doing it,” Brown says. “Imagine! has always see KRISTEL Page 20

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given me so much freedom to structure it in a way that serves the group first and foremost. I don’t even like them to sit at tables. I like us to be in a circle. I don’t want to stand up in front of the group as this expert. I don’t see myself as their director so much, but as their co-creator, a sort of guide along the process.” It’s an experience that many of the participants would not be able to have otherwise. Brown notes that if an Imagine! member has been in a production in a traditional school or theater company, they’re likely to have been hidden in the background — “sort of stuck to the side with a buddy and that’s it.” Though that sort of participation is beneficial, Brown says, it doesn’t provide folks with mental and physical disabilities the spotlight Centre Stage does. And it impacts their senses of self-worth. “They may have experienced theater or gone to see a play, but are often very quick to say, ‘Well, I couldn’t do that,’ or, ‘The opportunity to do that doesn’t exist for me.’ Or sometimes it’s as extreme as, ‘My voice isn’t important enough to be in the mix,’” Brown says. “But they’re so excited about this project. And I care so much about it, and their investment is so unwavering. So it challenges me to show up all the time with that much investment and that much care and that much attention to detail, because it matters so much to this group of people.” Put simply, in Centre Stage productions, Imagine! participants take, well, center stage. And as a result, unique stories and performances emerge that often, Brown says, surprise audience members. “Donors, board people, faculty members, consultants that I have worked with will come to see it and they’ll just be blown away because I think they’re expecting it to sort of be this parade of, like, pity or something. That’s a really crass way of saying it. But it’s not that. It’s such an empowered, joyful, self-centered — I mean that in the most positive way — experience that I think people don’t even know how to talk about it afterwards.” Brown relishes that the audience becomes part of the production. If a cast member, for instance, stumbles JANUARY 30, 2020

over a line or freezes, audience members will burst into applause whenever the line or dance or song does come out. There are techniques Brown has developed to support the actors on stage. She’ll put people in groups with an Imagine! staff member nearby who has a clipboard with the script in case lines are forgotten. She limits entrances and exits to simplify the stage direction. And in the story generation process, Brown offers support by filming everything and writing down every idea so that if, say, the groups needs a plot point or a line of dialogue, Brown can cull through the work that has already been done to see if there’s a solution. Everything outside the production, too, is designed to support the Centre Stage participants. One of the biggest obstacles for those with mental and physical disabilities is transportation and parking — something as seemingly minor as blocking off parking spots and providing transportation for the actors on show night means one less thing they and their families have to worry about. The goal, Brown says, of minding all these details is to provide a sense of normalcy for the participants. It’s a key reason why Centre Stage productions tell the colorful, imaginative stories they do instead of, say, forcing participants to speak directly and formulaically about their lives as people with disabilities, Brown says. “There is something different [about Imagine! members], but it doesn’t need to be a thing that we make a huge deal over,” she says. “It’s just people who want to get up and have fun and tell stories and create theater and be silly and dress up and be proud of themselves in front of their friends. That is just as valid and just as important as making it something that would be about their experience as a person living with a dis-

ability. They live with that every single day. They’re dealing with that every single day. They’re acutely aware of the ways in which our society does not normalize, make things easier, all of that. “So in a sense, I think it’s freeing.” And the payoff to that commitment is huge. Because when the theater fills, the lights come on, and the curtains draw, magic happens. “It’ll be dress rehearsal, an hour before the show, and the participants are still not knowing their lines and still a little timid,” Brown says. “And then that time in between, when they go in the green room and get ready and the house starts to fill up and they peak out and they see the audience, it’s just there is something magical. They all of a sudden know their lines, they’re full of this energy. And so for them to have that experience and to perform for somebody... to be on the other side of that is really cool.” Brown, who has theater degrees from CU Boulder and City University of New York, and who worked for almost a decade in productions in New York, on regional tours and on a cruise ship, says she’ll often leave Centre Stage performances saying, “This was still the most important piece of theater that I saw or participated in this year.” And being able to give the gift of empowerment and community to Imagine! members is well worth the work it takes to get the shows to stage. “You hear these funny jokes about theater kids, and it’s always like these nerdy kids who bond together very deeply over this thing that they’re doing. But that stereotype exists for a reason, because it is this intensive, emotional, creative experience that you’re sharing,” Brown says. “You’re sharing the experience of being human with other humans in this very intense atmosphere. I’m so happy that they get to have a little bit of that festive, thespian, communal experience. I think the confidence to even just stand in front of a group and say something and let their voice be heard is super empowering.”

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‘To be a useful being and to make positive change’

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love being a human,” Ava Hamilton says. “I love being alive, and I love the Earth. I want everyone to love the Earth instead of money,” she says. Over the years, Ava has worked across different communities in Boulder County — as well as throughout her vast network of connections in the Native American community — to convey the importance of indigenous knowledge. An avid historian of Arapaho culture, Ava is constantly seeking new information and knowledge about the history of her people, and how it relates to her presence in this place on Earth. Ava is from “here” in a way that very few other people can claim. She’s not among those in our area who appropriate or invent ceremonial practices — supposedly of indigenous origin — shamelessly incorporating them into awkward, new age mélanges. In fact, Ava is in the planning stages for a conference panel that asks the question of who can claim to be Native American. Her concern comes from reports she’s heard of people in Boulder County engaging in questionable practices under the auspices of indigenous ceremonies. Ava is a descendant of the Arapaho people who lived in what is now called the Boulder Valley prior to its invasion by Europeans, whose settlement of the area was facilitated by the genocide committed upon the indigenous inhabitants they found living here. Ava is a descendant of both Niwot and Little Raven. In speaking of her Arapaho ancestors, who worked for peace with the settlers, Ava refers to the Doctrine of Discovery, which itself descends from a 15th-century papal edict issued by the Catholic Church that gave Christian explorers the right to claim lands they “discovered” for their religious monarchs. “Any land that was not inhabited by Christians was available to be discovered, claimed and exploited,” according to a Boulder History Museum Exhibit on Arapaho Chief Left Hand, which features Ava. This Doctrine of Discovery BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

was institutionalized into American law, she says, preventing indigenous people from owning title to lands on a continent they’d inhabited for millennia. In response to this travesty, Ava has worked to educate people. She is a filmmaker and public speaker. Among her films is the documentary, Everything Has a Spirit. She has also worked on films dealing with issues facing indigenous people, locally and nationally. She has spoken publicly in many different venues. Ava is also active with groups including Right Relationship with Native Peoples Boulder, which works with local governments and organizations to help Boulder Valley residents learn about the indigenous people who lived here historically and those who live here today, as well as with Rising Voices: Climate Resilience through indigenous and Earth Sciences, which, according to its website, “is a network of Indigenous, tribal and community leaders, atmospheric, social, biological and ecological scientists, students, educators and other experts from across the United States and around the world.” Ava’s work focuses on articulating how the Doctrine of Discovery, colonialism and capitalism have created a culture that behaves in ways that have led to environmental despoliation, global I

heating and the loss of indigenous cultures. And how indigenous knowledge and the indigenous people who hold that knowledge are integral to a pivot we all must embrace to survive. Ava says her focus is on our symbiotic relationship with the cycle of life, with the Earth, and with each other. She is a master of reinterpreting these themes using new formulations suited for each context. Among these contexts was the recent visit by a delegation of government officials from Finland to the Native American Rights Fund, who sought insight into how to preserve indigenous knowledge and wisdom. Among them was the Finnish Minister of Justice, AnnaMaja Henriksson. Ava told the delegation about the problems facing indigenous people in America in an effort to assist them in helping the indigenous Saami people of Finland. “One of the things we are advocating for is to include the teaching of our histories into public education,” Ava told the delegation, “because I learned — as a lot of everybody else learned — that George Washington was the father of our country; Columbus discovered our land. Those kind of things, we want to change those, and let people know that we’ve lived here for tens of thousands of years. “I’m so happy to always say that because I’m so related to this land because of that,” she adds. Of her work with Rising Voices, Ava told the Finnish delegation that among their efforts toward climate resiliency for all people is a recognition, “that we truly need to work together as human beings as part of the cycle of life to be here in the future for everything; for life. That’s why I want to be a useful being and to make positive change.” Whether she’s shooting her next film, speaking at a conference panel, or being interviewed by a local journalist, Ava Hamilton tirelessly works to tell the true story of the Boulder Valley, and what it means to be a human being in this place.

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hile the news about the climate crisis worsens and some national leaders, notably President Trump, continue to champion the fossil fuel industry, there are still reasons to be cheerful, notably the developing green business boom of abandoning fossil fuels. Fighting climate change has become the world’s single biggest business opportunity. Investment in wind power, solar, green hydrogen, energy storage, biogas, electric cars, tidal and wave power is at an all-time high. Some countries, for example Portugal, have both business and government working together. They can see that phasing out coal and replacing it with green hydrogen produced with electricity from sunlight is the road to national prosperity. But even in countries like the U.S., where the government champions the polluters, businesses seeking profits are investing in wind and solar simply because they are cheaper than coal. Just one extraordinary statistic: Texas, the state most associated with oil, already has 26.9 gigawatts (GW) of installed wind power — the equivalent of 26 large coal-fired power stations. That shows how the energy map of the U.S. is changing. The speed of transition worldwide heralds a new industrial revolution. Three industries growing fast and with enormous potential to make a difference to climate change are green hydrogen, offshore wind and electric cars. There is a belief that green hydrogen could become a substitute for oil, both for transport and for heating. A study by energy company Wood Mackenzie estimates that $365 million has already been invested in green hydrogen, but over $3.6 billion is in the pipeline. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

For example, the Portuguese minister of environment and energy transition, João Pedro Matos Fernandes, has revealed plans to develop 1 GW of solar power capacity to be used for hydrogen production. He was quoted as saying: “Portugal is in a position to be the largest producer of green hydrogen — which will allow the country to become the biggest producer of green energy in Europe. Hydrogen produced will be supplied to local energy-intensive industries, or could be

exported using the deep-sea port of Sines.” The key to the idea is that solar power is now so cheap that using it to create green hydrogen makes the hydrogen competitive with fossil fuels, as well as emission-free. Apart from the continued success of on-shore wind energy, now recognized worldwide as the cheapest way to generate electricity, there is enormous interest in off-shore wind, where the improved technology and sheer size of the turbines has brought production costs tumbling. The depth of the sea is also no longer a problem because floating offshore wind farms have now been successfully deployed in the North Sea and elsewhere in Europe. Electricity production from off-shore wind, with the wind blowing more constantly and at higher speeds, has exceeded predictions. I

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hiking, it just felt wrong,” Patricia recalls. Their disagreement at the fork started to weigh heavy on the air between them. Lauren, no doubt, didn’t want to be responsible for their getting lost; and the last thing Patricia wanted to tell her friend was, “I told you so.” So, on and on they hiked, largely in silence — deeper into the wild and deeper into the night. By the time the light had completely faded to black and the temperature had sunk dangerously low, their fun weekend getaway had become a serious survival situation. They were lost. Neither one knew whether or not to turn back and try to retrace their steps; they were afraid if they did, they would get lost even worse — and anyway, their tracks were no longer traceable, thanks to the blizzarding snow. Maybe the Polar Star Inn was around the corner, they hoped. The again, maybe it was nowhere near them. “I realized then that we were in danger,” Patricia says. “And I had this moment where everything just kind of overwhelmed me.” Death by hypothermia, or frostbite, or both — though far from certain — was beginning to look more and more like a real possibility. Panic settled over the women, and Patricia says she had a minor breakdown. Lauren kept her calm, though, convincing her friend that the best way to stay warm would be to continue walking, even if they had to continue all night. It took Patricia a moment to collect herself,

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“But we thought we had already made the left turn described in the directions.” “I had a little mental dialogue,” Patricia says. “‘You know something,’ I thought, ‘You need to honor other people’s perspetives. Don’t always be so stubborn. Trust Lauren.’” “And at the same time,” Lauren quips, “I was thinking, ‘Is Patricia right?’” It was one of those classic moments that, in retrospect, seems so clearly pivotal — a whim, a miscalculation, a miscommunication. A moment that can change everything. After a confused examination of their topographical map and light back-and-forth discussion of their options, they decided to take Lauren’s route and turned right. But following trail markers in JANUARY 30, 2020

but when she did, they pressed on. It wasn’t long after that when fate interjected. Few of us have ever felt the kind of existential relief that Patricia and Lauren felt when, after hours in the cold, in a blizzard, lost and terrified, they happened upon a lonesome, fateful outhouse. The door was cracked, the inside was partially filled with snow, but it had four walls and a door — perhaps the only such structure (besides their original destination) for miles. They had no way to be sure. “I was so thankful,” Lauren confesses. “I’d never been so happy. I felt like there was someone watching over us.” By the grace of some outhouse angel, they had found refuge. And they gladly took it. The two girls immediately started shoveling snow out from within, crammed inside and closed the door, shutting out the howling night beyond. They were safe — though, not yet out of the woods. What followed was, perhaps, the most miserable night of both their lives. The outhouse was far from sealed. A freezing draft snuck through the cracks under the door. They had nothing but a few meager snacks to eat, since most of the food they’d brought required a real kitchen. But they did have a roof. And they had each other. And, while their sleeping bags were wet for lack of ground pads, and their spirits dampened for lack of hope, they were kept warm on some level by gratitude — a deep, unyielding thankfulness that the universe, or God, or simple dumb luck had provided them with the most unlikely of shelters through that heinous blizzard. “If we hadn’t found that outhouse it would have been a different story,” Lauren says. “We would have been in trouble,” Patricia agrees. One cold and sleepless hour passed after the next. The only distraction from their misery: a few old BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

episodes of The OA Lauren had downloaded on an iPad. When the first rays of sunlight at last crept under the outhouse door, they were both wide-awake and waiting for it; partially delirious and really cold. But they were alive. And they were ready to get the hell out of there. So, with the kind of sluggishness that only sleep deprivation on the brink of hypothermia can produce, they rallied, fastened their frosted snowshoes, zipped up their jackets with numb and trembling fingers, and plunged once more into the winter world outside — out of the fridge and into the freezer. The two backtracked for hours in silence. Focused only on putting one snowshoe in front of the other. Focused only on staying warm enough to walk. Finally, after miles of trekking, they came again to that pivotal fork in trail. And when they got there they ran into another group. It was the only other people they’d seen since they’d left town the day earlier. And, in a cruel twist of chance, it was a band of young men. Hunks, as the women describe — six of them — who had, naturally, spent a lovely evening relaxing and enjoying the amenities of the Polar Star Inn. Talking to the men, Patricia and Lauren say they discovered that the trail was, in fact, a 12-mile loop; that from their outhouse they’d only been a stone’s throw from the parking lot; and from the fork, only a leftwards jaunt from the Polar Star Inn. They’d been on the right trail the whole time — they’d just taken all the wrong turns. Shortly thereafter Patricia and Lauren made it back to their car. They drove down without incident and when they finally made it back to their respective residences, they did what any sane human would’ve in their shoes: They took showers and crawled into their beds, burrowing deep into the covers to catch up on lost sleep. They were safe and warm and comfortable at last. I

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fter consulting several dictionaries, it’s undeniable: There’s a quality about Alexa Wildish that can best be described as magical. From Oxford: magical (adj.): “beautiful or delightful in such a way as to seem removed from everyday life.” The magic presents itself in the wistful lyrics of Wildish’s recently released single, “Weightless,” her tender but powerful soprano swaddled in a haunting melody rich with carefully placed strings and mournful pedal steel: I’m all hummingbird inside/ My chest trembles constantly/ It’s always buzzing in my veins/ Telling me I’m not OK/ I’ve run empty trying to catch this thing The song — one of nine that comprises the self-titled EP she’s releasing on Jan. 31 — channels the progressive mix of bluegrass, country and folk of Wildish’s heros, The Wailin’ Jennys and Nickel Creek, while carving out space of its own. It creates a place as much as a mood, somewhere covered in fog, lights shimmering in the distance of the hazy gloaming. This is a place both new and familiar, both foreboding and inviting. I

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Wildish has been practicing musical magic since her childhood in Orange County, California, inspired by her parents, who played in a wedding band together, and her guitar-playing, theater-loving older brothers. “My dad used to see me out in the yard looking out over the canyons singing ‘Maybe’ from Annie, just so excited about it,” Wildish says. “And [my parents] were like, ‘We need to get her into voice lessons.’” Still just a toddler, Wildish began voice lessons, singing art songs and eventually arias. While her brothers grew bored with theater, Wildish grew into it. “I felt there was this wider range of play with your voice; you could potentially be one character in one moment and then another character in the next song,” she says. “I really liked the broad range of stuff you could do in musical theater because it wasn’t just one type of music, it’s BETHANY POWELL all types of music.” Her drive was singular; Wildish applied and was accepted into Orange County School of the Arts as a seventh grader and studied musical theater there through her senior year of high school. But a different desire niggled at the back of her mind while studying musical theater at Elon College in North Carolina. “After college I was like, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing,’” she admits. “I had gotten a mandolin a few years back and I was like, ‘This is what I want to do — my own music,’ but I didn’t know how to do that.” She traveled the world, quite literally, as a performer on a Holland America World Cruise for a year. She learned a lot, like how to protect her voice while belting out songs every other night, but the experience only further solidified her need to create her own music. So she and a friend from the cruise began writing music together, Wildish on mandolin, her friend on piano, and once their contracts with the cruise were up, the two decided to set up shop in Portland, Oregon, and show off their work at open mics. Wildish was still growing into her songwriting abilities, mostly singing harmonies on her friend’s tunes. It took several more years, a move from the rainy days of Portland to the sun-filled days of Boulder, and a three year break from music altogether before Wildish found her stride as a songwriter. “I think I thought I was being vulnerable in my early songs, but what I realized in hindsight is that I used to write songs being like, ‘Here’s the lesson I learned, I’m all healed now,’” she says. “But I realized that I wasn’t telling anybody how I got to that point. I think people want to hear the places in which you had to go to in order to get to the place you are now. And I think this is what this record really pointed me towards was that there were a lot of places in which I had a lot of learning to do.” Wildish’s debut EP is a testament to her innate skill as a songwriter. Leaning into her experiences, into her insecurity and the journey it took her on, produced enchanting songs that won her third place last year in Telluride’s Troubadour Songwriting Contest and first place at Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriting Competition. Her music inspired friends, family and strangers to donate $25,000 to an Indiegogo campaign to produce the record at Goosehead Palace in Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked with producer Dan Knobler (Lake Street Drive, Rodney Crowell, Maya de Vitry). One of her heros, Ruth Moody of The Wailin’ Jennys, sang backup vocals on the record. By the end of the lead single, “Weightless,” the “hummingbirds” Wildish feels are still there, but their vibration has changed; the fluttering now seems to energize instead of drain. She’s harnessed their energy. “What if I could let this fly?” she sings. “Would I circle the whole sky?” The world is undoubtably about to watch Alexa Wildish fly. I

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“The point behind the idea of the album, of the project, of now the movement, [is] shining the light on the absolute batshit craziness of the erasure of women in country music,” Yola says. “Certainly, in country, it formed a conversation that has needed to be had, and given that country is one of the influences in the plethora of influences that I draw from, it’s great to be part of that conversation.” Yola’s music is what she calls genrefluid, joking she should start selling T-shirts with the phrase. From a small town outside of Bristol in the United Kingdom, Yola was raised by a single mother who had a vast record collection spanning decades and genres, all of which have influenced the 35-yearold singer. Plus, growing up in the U.K. in the ’90s, she says, exposed her to a wide range of contemporary artists. “The U.K. was utterly schizophrenic musically,” she says, a mixture of Beck, Sheryl Crow, Bjork and the Spice Girls or Sixpence None the Richer heard one after the other on the radio. “That’s what growing up was like,” she says. “It was this borderless experience of music.” Before launching her solo career, Yola experimented with a variety of projects as well: She wrote and sang with Massive Attack, largely attributed with helping to I

birth trip hop in the U.K., and had hits with dance artists Duke Dumont and Sub Focus. She was then the lead singer of a Bristol country soul band Phantom Limb for a few years. She also experienced several setbacks — living homeless for a stretch in London, surviving an abusive relationship, losing her voice for more than a year due to stress. No matter how bad things got, however, Yola always had music. “I always felt that I was music more than I was doing music,” she says. “I’ve never had a living memory of not singing. I’m just an embodiment of music, of notes in flesh form. At no point could it ever leave me, it was just a matter of everything I was going to do was going to have a musically creative element to it.” Then came the fire, and a subsequent move to Nashville, which is where she met Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, who produced Walk Through Fire, based both literally and figuratively on her past experiences. The album harkens back to classic music stylings of formative rhythm and blues artists of the 1960s and ’70s, mixed with more modern country soul sounds and roots rock beats, creating dreamy melodies punctuated by Yola’s vocal prowess. “The best artists that we celebrate are ones that can do that — Aretha sang right across genre, and Elton moved, the BeeGees moved right across genre,” she says. “The ability to do that, to be able to thread an aesthetic that’s inherently you together is harder, but clearly more valuable when it comes to a long and satisfying career.” We haven’t seen the last of Yola, and, perhaps, the best is yet to come. Her music propels us into the future — toward what becomes possible in an inclusive society, one that acknowledges its faults, embraces responsibility and comes out better on the other side. JANUARY 30, 2020

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alling something that’s as awesomely desirable as it is difficult to find a “unicorn” is currently in vogue. Wall Street types call lowrisk, high-reward IPOs from bleeding edge, niche companies unicorns. People in open relationships call single, sexy, (usually) women willing to menage their trois in some bedroom Olympics a unicorn. People generally cringe when they consider a night out at their local dinner theater, and for good reason. The vast majority of dinner theaters face-plant on both the dinner and the theater portions of the evening. The ones that manage to serve edible cuisine usually compensate with amateurish performances and bargain basement production values. Those that leave you smiling with an expertly produced show often also leave you with food poisoning. That’s why BDT Stage is a dazzling, rainbow-maned, spiral-horned unicorn; it’s a dinner theater that has been succeeding — for decades — at both dinner and theater. It’s conveniently located. It’s a locally owned, small business. In all the years I’ve been reviewing BDT Stage productions, I’ve never seen a bad one. Boulder is lucky to have it. BDT Stage is currently presenting the hit musical Mamma Mia! Please note that the exclamation point came with the title, BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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and because it’s a more than somewhat questionable choice by the show’s creators, I will be omitting it from here on out. Mamma Mia is a jukebox musical that stuffs as many of ABBA’s greatest hits as possible into its audience’s earholes. If you’re an ABBA fan, that’s all you need to know. Mamma Mia is tailormade for ABBA fans, an absolute mustsee. Given that Mamma Mia lives or dies on its music, BDT Stage’s in-house orchestra, led by Neal Dunfee, needs to crush it, and crush it they do. No surprise there because no matter the musical style, these musicians play the absolute heck out every song in every show BDT Stage puts on. If it wasn’t for the prohibition on clogging up the walkways where actors occasionally move through the theater, the orchestra’s efforts would have filled the aisles with dancing queens of all ages. The slip of a story that serves as a framework for the songs takes place in a coastal town in Greece and focuses on Sophie Sheridan (Christy Oberndorf) and her mother, Donna (Tracy Warren). Sophie’s about to get married, and she’s secretly invited three men from her mother’s past to the wedding so that she can figure out which one of them is her father. That’s where Mamma Mia turns into something much more than it seems and I

earns its street cred. All the bouncy tunes, high-energy dance numbers, and Three’s Company-style shenanigans are great, but Mamma Mia is actually one of the most truly woke shows being performed today. The fact that Donna slept with the three men in such close succession that she couldn’t be sure who Sophie’s father was is presented as just that, a fact. Not a single character ever judges Donna. For deftly deflating the double standard of serially sexual men as studs and similarly situated women as sluts, Mamma Mia deserves some sort of worthful wokeness award. Tracy Warren, a longtime BDT Stage performer, always impresses but usually in supporting roles. As the co-star of Mamma Mia, she delivers an impeccably soulful, endearingly vulnerable, and profoundly strong Donna. Relative BDT Stage newcomer Christy Oberndorf makes the absolute most of her lead role as Sophie. She sings sweetly, dances like no one is watching — even though everyone obviously is — and makes Sophie eminently easy to root for. BDT Stage’s Mamma Mia is money, money, money! Take a chance on this pretty ballerina and say I do, I do, or you’ll be sending out an S.O.S. until the best dinner theater in the Mountain West puts on its next musical masterpiece. JANUARY 30, 2020

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With 52 performances at 17 venues throughout downtown Longmont — not to mention the food and drink deals — the Winter Walkabout Music Showcase is the place to ring in February. Catch performances from Kerry Pastine & the Crime Scene, Antonio Lopez Band, Cat Jerky, Many Mountains, Kyle Donovan and more. Wonder Tours will provide a free shuttle for ticket holders to get to and from shows as quickly and easily as possible. Ticketholders can get food and drink specials at participating venues. For a full schedule, more info and tickets, visit downtownlongmont.com

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KGNU Community Radio and Colorado Friends of Cajun-Zydeco Music and Dance (CFCZ) celebrate Mardi Gras early this year with an evening of revelry, music and dancing featuring Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble on Saturday, Feb. 1. The Avalon Ballroom’s big dance floor will be vibrating and shaking: dance lessons begin at 7 p.m. and music starts at 8. There will be wine, beer and Cajun fare from Oskar Blues for purchase, with complimentary King Cake. As always, there will be a Mardi Gras costume contest with prizes. This event benefits KGNU Community Radio and CFCZ.

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arts Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), 1750 13th St., Boulder: ‘Night Reels: The Work of Stacey Steers,’ through May 25; Margaretta Gilboy: ‘Flying in the Hands of Time: A Retrospective,’ through May 25.

Stacey Steers, Phantom Canyon (detail of collage used in film), 2006, mixed media on paper, 6 x 8”. Image courtesy of the artist.

STACY STEERS’ NEWEST exhibition, ‘Night Reels,’ invites the audience to explore the haunting beauty of Steers’ three latest films. Through multiple screens, hand-cut collages, and fabricated sculptures of miniature homes, stacked beds, and antiquated instruments, Steers takes viewers on a journey into the night. On display at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Jan. 30-May 25.

BMoCA at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., University of Colorado Boulder: Paul Gillis: ‘When Kingship Ascends to Heaven,’ through May 1. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Build a Better Book: Stories for Your Senses,’ Canyon Gallery, through Feb. 2. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder: ‘Brutal Realities,’ featuring Natascha Seideneck and Regan Rosburg (Hand-Rudy); Michael Theodore (Polly Addison Gallery); Annette Isham (MacMillan); and the TECHNE Lab with Déesse, Jon J. Satrom, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Melanie Clemmons, Ryan Wurst, Rick Silva, Nicholas O’Brien and Mariana Pereira Vieira (McMahon), through Feb. 23. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver: ‘Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature,’ through Feb. 2 (SOLD OUT); ‘The Light Show,’ through Nov. 29; ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through July; ‘EYES ON: Anthony McCall,’ through May 31. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont: ‘Locavore’ featuring Katie Thompson, Paula Fitzgerald and Megan Morgan, through Feb. 2; Chelsea Gilmore, South Gallery. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont: ‘Terry Maker: Because the World is Round,’ through May 17; ‘Front Range Rising,’ permanent exhibit.

Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons: ‘40 years/40 artifacts’; ‘All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons’; ‘Lyons Newspapers: A History,’; ‘125 Years of Distinctive Cameras’; ‘Tiny Stories: Art of the Dollhouse’; ‘The Flood of 2013’; ‘Native American Artifacts,’ and more, lyonsredstonemuseum.com Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Archive 75: Multilayered Stories Told Through a Boulder Lens,’ through June 15. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver: ‘Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation,’ through April 5; Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler: ‘Flora,’ through April 5; Stacey Steers: ‘Edge of Alchemy,’ through April 5. Naropa University Galleries: Nalanda Campus,6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Cathedral,’ by Kevin Sloan, The Cube Gallery, through Feb. 28; ‘Haven,’ by Kelly Duffield, The Nalanda Gallery, through Feb. 28. Arapahoe Campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Mystery and Beauty,’ by Mark Brasuell, The

Lincoln Gallery, through March 15. NCAR/UCAR Community Art Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive: Acrylic paintings by Lisa Lynch; Glass mosaic by Delcia Litt through March 28. University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder: ‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Henderson Building,1035 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Ross Sea; The Last Ocean;’ ‘Genomics: Observing Evolution;’ ‘Fossils: Clues to the Past,’ Paleontology Hall, ongoing exhibit; ‘Ground Level Ozone,’ McKenna Gallery, ongoing exhibit; ‘Life in Colorado’s Freshwater,’ ongoing traveling exhibit; and more.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30 Music Bitterroot. 6 p.m. East Simpson Coffee Company, 414 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-502-7010. Boulder Symphony Presents: ‘Genius.’ 7:30 p.m. Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Ave. Boulder. Second showing on Jan. 31. Daniel Magoun. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Funk Knuf. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Los Kung Fu Monkeys. 6 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Ska Parade 30th Anniversary Tour. 6 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Steven Hoffman, The Van Allen Belt. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Summer Camp — with Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

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Theo Katzman — with Rhett Madison. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Trippie Redd. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Tyler Thompson Duo. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Events Dance For Parkinson’s Program. 11:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568. Also on Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. Cost is $5. Dancing, Movement, Music, Community and Chocolate (Every Thursday). 7:30 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 608-332-4355. Discovery Days: Art — Big Kid Friendly. 9 a.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Joe Sertich: Dinosaurs in Your Backyard: New Discoveries in the Rocky Mountain West. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Jon Dore. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Feb. 1. ‘No Small Matter’ — ¡Acompáñanos a ver la película que esta por toda la nación! 5:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-3760. There will be interpretation from English to Spanish. Opening Reception for Spring Exhibitions 2020. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Boulder. 7 p.m. 2132 14th St., Boulder. Ralphie’s Cooking Basics. 5:30 p.m. Village Center Dining and Community Commons, Base of the stairs, 500 30th St., Boulder. Spirit Nia Dance Class. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 Music Andy Eppler. 1 p.m. Eldora Mountain, 2861 Eldora Ski Road, Nederland, 303-440-8700.

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Chain Station and Turkeyfoot Bluegrass. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. David Phipps (STS9) with Alana Rocklin (STS9). 8:30 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

IN 1972, ELENA SCHWOLSKY joined a work brigade in Cuba. Twenty years later, she heads back to the island to work out her grief following the death of her husband from an AIDS-related illness and feeling burned out after spending 10 years as a nurse on the front line of the epidemic. In ‘Waking in Havana,’ she takes readers along with her into the lives of the Cubans who help her to heal. Schwolsky will speak about and sign her new book, ‘Waking in Havana: A Memoir of AIDS and Healing in Cuba,’ on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Boulder Book Store.

Deborah Solo Trio. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Elise Lieberth Album Release Party. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Emancipator — with Blackbird Blackbird, Frameworks, Tor, Plantrae, Thoma, il:lo. 8 p.m. Cervantes’, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Emily Takahashi Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Famous Men. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Gilbert & Sullivan: ’ The Pirates of Penzance.’ 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Through Feb. 1. Haeger & Hoffman. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

THURSDAY, JAN. 30 Hunter Vaughan — Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Hazel Miller & The Collective. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.

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

Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks: ZHU. 6:45 p.m. Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Denver.

TUESDAY, FEB. 4

Jenn Cleary Acoustic Solo and Art Show Opening. 6 p.m. Logan’s Expresso Cafe, 3980 Broadway, Boulder. Laser Queen. 11:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Lionel Young Duo. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Live Music Fridays. 7 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002. The Midnight Club. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Nerea the Fiddler & Marty Smith. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Opera Storytime — with Boulder Opera. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Peekaboo. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Rush Archives. 7:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. StoneBeat Invasion. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Those Crazy Nights (Journey Tribute) — with Ten Years Gone (Zeppelin Tribute). 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Under Auburn Skies. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Weasels of Destiny. 8 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-931-5856. Wood Belly featuring Jeremy Garrett- Album Release. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030. Events

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The Tune Up at Full Cycle Friday, January 31 7:00-10:00 PM - NO COVER Happy Hour till 7pm 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, Co 80302 www.tuneupboulder.com

Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Elena Schwolsky — Waking in Havana. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5 Ian Neligh — Spurred West. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Jason Murray. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

THURSDAY JANUARY 30 7:00 PM

Boulder Contra Dance. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

Catapult: A BFA dance concert. 7:30 p.m. Charlotte York Irey Theatre, University Theatre Building, CU Boulder, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-491-8008. Through Feb. 2.

Jeff & Paige. 3:30 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732.

Enparejados Con Adrian Uribe Y Consuelo Duval. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Pl., Denver, 303-623-0106. Guangdong Modern Dance Company. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720. New Year, New Connections Network Event. 3 p.m. 1280 Centaur Village Drive, Lafayette, 303-926-1575.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Music Bedouine. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Corky Siegel & Randy Sabien. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Erik Boa Duo. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. An Evening With Hyryder — A Tribute to The Grateful Dead. 9 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. First Saturday Roots Music — with Overt Defiance. 7:30 p.m. Bafly Denver, 4255 W. Colfax Ave., Suite A, Denver, 512-276-5140. The Genius of Stradivari & Guarneri: Violins of Cremona. 3 p.m. Stewart Auditorium at the Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-772-5796.

Joe Kay. 8 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Laser Queen. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Laser Radiohead. 11:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Lez Zeppelin. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637. Live Music with the Dale Cisek Band. 8 p.m. 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont. Project Foreigner & Fire and Ice. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. ‘Puss in Boots’ presented by Boulder Opera. 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Through Feb. 2. Runaway Gin — A Tribute to Phish — with Sqwerv, Ruby Hill. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Ryan McMullan. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Soul School. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

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LIQUID SKY U2 11:30 PM

LASER QUEEN SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1 1:00 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: WE ARE STARS & PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA 2:30 PM

STARS AND PLANETS 10:00 PM

LASER QUEEN 11:30 PM

LASER RADIOHEAD SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2 12:00 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: WE ARE STARS & LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY 1:30 PM

STARS AND MOONS 3:00 PM

BEARS AND AURORA OF ALASKA

Fiske Planetarium - Regent Drive

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FILMS As the Confucian proverb goes: “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” Unfortunately for Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively), she’s going to need more than two to get through this. Three years ago, her family was killed by a terrorist, and now she wants revenge. To get it, she’ll team up with an ex-MI6 agent (Jude Law) and rogue intelligence from CIA agent (Sterling K. Brown) to untangle a web of lies and deception, only to find herself entangled in something much deeper. Death begets death, lies beget lies, and no one comes out clean. Directed by noted cinematographer Reed Morano, ‘The Rhythm Section,’ adapted from Mark Burnell’s novel of the same name, exists in the cinematic neighborhood down the street from the ‘Bourne’ series, but manages to find its own way some of the time. Some of the time it doesn’t. And some of the time it drags. Lively provides physicality to a role that offers little more than pained looks, Law brings a pleasant snarkiness, and the movie’s central car chase is a highlight. —MJC

BOULDER:

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., 303-441-3011: ‘The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T,’ 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2. Century Theatre, 1700 29th St., 303-444-0583: ‘1917’ ‘Bad Boys For Life’ ‘Bombshell’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘The Gentlemen’ ‘Gretel & Hansel’ ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘Just Mercy’ ‘Knives Out’ ‘The Last Full Measure’ ‘Little Women’ Oscar-Nominated Best Pictures Oscar-Nominated Shorts ‘Parasite’ ‘The Rhythm Section’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’

‘The Turning ‘Uncut Gems’ Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, 303-442-3282: ‘Return to Send’er,’ 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., 303-444-7328: ‘Color Out of Space,’ 8:45 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31. ‘Cunnigham,’ Jan. 29-Feb. 1. ‘Mickey and the Bear,’ Jan. 29Feb. 1. Boulder ENOFF: ‘The Bullish Farmer,’ 1 p.m. Feb. 1 Boulder ENOFF: ‘Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike Degruy.’ 4 p.m. Feb. 1. ‘Parasite,’ Feb. 5-8. ‘Scandalous: The True Story of the National Esquire,’ Feb. 5-8. International Film Series, University of Colorado Boulder, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., 303-492-8662: ‘Cleo from 5 to 7,’ 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30. Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts, Jan. 31-Feb. 2. Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts, Feb. 4-5. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, 303-449-3464: ‘When They See Us,’ 3 p.m. Sundays in February.

DENVER:

The Preservery, 3040 Blake St., Unit 101, 303-298-6821: ‘Within Our Gates,’ 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5. Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., 303-744-9686: ‘Amazon Adventure 3D’ ‘Apollo 11: First Steps’ ‘Hidden Pacific 3D’ ‘Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark’ ‘Turtle Odyssey 3D’ JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver, 303-316-6360: Denver Jewish Film Festival, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5

Mayan, 110 Broadway, 303-744-6799: ‘Clemency’ ‘Harriet’ ‘Honey Boy’ Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., 303-595-3456: ‘Color Out of Space’ ‘The House on the Edge of the Cemetery,’ Jan. 31-Feb. 1. ‘Late Autumn,’ 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2. ‘Little Women’ ‘Parasite’

LONGMONT:

Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., 720-494-4673: ‘No Small Matter,’ 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30. Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1230 S. Hover Road, 844-462-7342: ‘1917’ ‘Bad Boys For Life’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘The Gentlemen’ ‘Gretel & Hansel’ ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘Little Women’ Oscar-Nominated Best Pictures ‘Rhythm Section’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ ‘The Turning’ Regal Cinebarre Boulder, 1164 W. Dillon Road, 844-462-7342: ‘1917’ ‘Bad Boys For Life’ ‘Dolittle’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Gretel & Hansel’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ ‘Little Women’ ‘Parasite’ ‘Rhythm Section’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’

NEDERLAND:

Backdoor Theater, 243 W. Fourth St., 303-258-0188: ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’

EVENTS from Page 39

St. Vrain FC Annual Fundraising Gala. 6 p.m. The Oak Room at Oskar Blues, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

The Wailers — with Policulture. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Student Recitals: Undergraduate, Master’s and Doctoral musicians. 5 p.m. Imig Music, Music Theatre Building, CU Boulder, 303-492-6352.

Events

Summer Camp — On The Road Tour. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Unauthorized Absence. 2:15 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Veronique Van Pelt presents: the Deep Cuts Showcase no. 14. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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Colorado Motorcycle Expo. National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St., at intersection of I-25 and I-70, Denver. Through Feb. 2. Delta Heavy. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Double Feature: ‘We Are Stars’ & ‘Perseus and Andromeda.’ 1 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. First Saturday Yoga: Triangles. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Free Day. 10 a.m. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-913-0061. Mother Daughter Bookclub: ‘To Stay Alive: Mary Ann Graves and the Tragic Journey of the Donner Party. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Teen Improv and Public Speaking Club. 6 p.m. Bell Flatirons Community Center, 2200 S. Tyler Drive, Superior. see EVENTS Page 42

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Music

JESTERS DINNER THEATRE

Boulder Friends of Jazz Jam Session. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-1888.

DURING THE 1850S, Milly, a pretty young cook, marries Adam, a grizzled woodsman, after a brief courtship. When the two return to Adam’s farm, Milly is shocked to meet his six ill-mannered brothers, all of whom live in his cabin. She promptly begins teaching the brothers proper behavior, and most importantly, how to court a woman. But after the brothers kidnap six local girls, a group of indignant villagers tries to track them down. ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ plays Feb. 1-April 19 at Jesters Dinner Theatre in Longmont.

culture and hawai’i. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1570 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 720-771-9772. Diverse Voices. 2 p.m. Mountain View United Methodist, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, 303-563-9769.

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An Evening with Fellow Pynins. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 541-727-8335. Jason Murray’s Album Release Show — with ELMR and Special Guests. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Feb. 1-April 19

Music & Me Class (Pre-K to K). 2 p.m. Adventure Judaism, 825 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-417-6200.

Bubble Boy The Musical. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Feb. 15.

Events Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863.

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Double Feature: ‘We Are Stars’/Laser Galactic Odyssey. Noon. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through March 1.

Free Day. Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele St., Denver, 720-337-1400.

Frost/Nixon. Vintage Theatre Company, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Feb. 9.

Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Jekyll and Hyde. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007. Information Session about Adventure Bat and Bar Mitzvah. 1 p.m. Bear Creek Elementary School, 2500 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-443-2642.

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Shakey Graves — An Acoustic Tour (Three Nights). 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Through Feb. 5. Events

Scotty Wiese: “Mile High Magic.” 7 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver, 303-758-4722.

‘Mis Pininos’/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3

All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Music Dave Kellogg, Kyle Ward. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. EarthGang: Welcome to Mirrorland Tour — with Mick Jenkins. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

INDULGE & UNWIND

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

Arabic Literature Discussion Group. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Through March 29. Mamma Mia! BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder. Through Feb. 22. Peter Pan. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. Jan. 31-Feb. 9 The Secretary. Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Feb. 22. Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. 7:30 p.m. Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St., Denver. Through Feb. 9. You Lost Me. Denver Center for Performing Arts, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Feb. 23.

Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.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. The Improvised Shakespeare Company. 7:30 p.m. The Garner Galleria Theatre, 1385 Curtis St., Denver, 303-893-4100. Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

OPEN MIC Thursday, Jan. 30 Gunbarrel Monthly Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Saturday, Feb. 1 Weekend Coffee Shop Jazz Jam. 11 a.m. Ziggi’s Coffee, 1055 Courtesy Road, Louisville. Comedy Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.

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Sunday, Feb. 2 LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Monday, Feb. 3 Open Mic & Hoppy (Hour Prices All Day). 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Wednesday, Feb. 5 Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

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

Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

BoulderReads Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5

Code for Boulder. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Magic the Gathering. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Music 96 Bitter Beings, The Native Howl, Locust Grove. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840. Boulder Drum Circle. 7:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 707-599-1908. Danish String Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720.

Music 2/5 • The Iceman Special — with Jay Roemer Band, Mountain Strange. 7:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Bourbon & Blues — with the Mad Dog Blues Experience. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Kyle Sherman, Senators. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events

Conversations in English Wednesdays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Lap Babies. 9:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120; 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Lego Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4413100; 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Meadows STEAM Pals. 4:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. REI Campfire Sessions: Snowshoe Tips & Tricks. 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Faculty Tuesdays: Changes, changes, changes! 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. J.I. — Hood Life Krisis Tour. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Marc Townes, Hunter Stone, and Ariella Hubbard — In the Round. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2013731. Slow Hollows. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Synergy 2020. 7 p.m. Boulder High School Auditorium, 1605 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-561-2212. Events All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Around the World Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100; NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. BoulderReads Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. 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. GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Lap Babies. 9:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Reynolds Reading Pals: Tuesday Session. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Snark Attack. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. Spirit Nia Dance. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

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Cris JaCOBs Band & della mae

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mark Guiliana

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n addition to the praise and accolades each year’s ON THE BILL: OSCARNOMINATED SHORT Oscar nominations bring, there’s a fair amount of FILMS. International Film teeth-gnashing and viewers crying foul. A stupid Series (Jan. 31-Feb. 9) movie got too much. Another didn’t get enough. My CU-Boulder, Muenzinger Auditorium. Dairy Arts favorite didn’t get anything. Center (Feb. 19-29) 2590 On and on it goes, from January’s announcement to Walnut St., Boulder. February’s ceremony. Viewers take sides, draw lines in Century Boulder (opens the sand, and reduce all 53 nominees into a meaningJan. 31) 1700 29th St. less two-party system. Oddly enough, where moviegoers cross party lines lies not in the major categories but in the surprisingly popular short film categories: Animation, Documentary, Live Action. Each group boasts five nominees, and thanks to ShortsTV, all 15 will be screened in area theaters. Of the three, this year’s standout category belongs to Live Action. Particularly Nefta Football Club, a comSHORTSTV edy of errors set on the Tunisia/Algeria border that uses misdirection to evoke doom, before skirting it humorously at the last second. Nefta is strong enough on its own but would make a worthy anchor in an omnibus of like-minded shorts in the vein of Wild Tales or Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask. Other shorts in the program invert a commonly held notion about ISIS (Brotherhood, Tunisia); contemplate greener grass across the street (The Neighbors’ Window, U.S.); participate in the revolt of a women’s prison (Saria, U.S.); and follow an abducted woman as she tries to communicate with an emergency dispatcher (A Sister, Belgium). Solid work all. True to form, the five documentaries nominated tackle dire topics with blunt honesty in a way that leaves you drained and, at times, despondent. From a protestor who took Black Lives Matter to the Missouri state government (St. Louis Superman, U.S.) to grave government incompetence that led to the needless sinking of a passenger ferry (In the Absence, South Korea). The bleakest of the five, Life Overtakes Me (Sweden/U.S.), follows the children of refugees who have gone catatonic with resignation syndrome. Comparatively, the two docs with a bit of uplift, U.S.’s Walk Run Cha-Cha, and U.K.’s Learning to Skate in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) sing the sweetest song. The former catches up with a Vietnamese couple currently living and dancing in Los Angeles after being separated for years by the Vietnam War. The latter — the best of the bunch — follows a teacher as she defies Taliban law and empowers young girls by teaching them to skateboard. It’s heart-warming and infuriating at the same time. Animation, usually the strongest category of the three, feels the most pedestrian this time around. Daughter (Czech Republic), Memorable (France), and Sister (China), employ stop-motion animation while Hair Love and Kitbull (both U.S.) use hand-drawn animation. Those two are the most engaging of the slate, but Sister — dedicated to all the long-lost siblings of China’s one-child policy — is the one that sticks to the ribs the longest. As a bonus, the Animation program includes three additional shorts, one of which — Hors Piste from France — might be the most enjoyable of the lot, and really ought to have been nominated. You see, everyone’s a critic. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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WENDI ccording to Wendi CALDER Calder, the mission of volunteers as the Boulder Food Rescue grocery program coordinator at (BFR) is a winner all Boulder Food around: Rescue Take fresh edible produce destined for the landfill or compost bin and get it to Boulder residents. Deliver it by bicycle to reduce any further negative environmental impact. Put volunteers in charge of distributing healthy food in their own communities to anyone who needs it. “As soon as I heard about the program, I volunteered to help start it up at Tantra Lake, where I live,” Calder says. She is BFR’s Grocery Program Coordinator in her neighborhood. Every Tuesday, food arrives from a local supermarket. “I set up tables and sort out the food we receive and then welcome residents to the clubhouse to pick up food,” Calder says. see NIBBLES Page 50

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BFR puts out fliers to spread the word, especially to newcomers. “We don’t have any qualifications. If you’re in need for any reason, we help you out,” she says. “We have about 20 to 25 residents a week and it’s steadily growing. We have a young couple in their 20s and college students and very sweet elderly ladies. I love being a support to them,” Calder says. Local food banks do the essential work of distributing food to the neediest, but fresh produce has always been a hit or miss proposition because of the short shelf life. BFR’s No Cost Grocery Program fills the gap by distributing mostly produce to more than 30 housing sites and schools including Canyon Pointe, Thistle Affordable Housing and Mother House. Volunteer bicyclists pulling trailers collect food from 40-plus donors ranging from Natural Grocers and Whole Foods to Great Harvest Bakery and the Hotel Boulderado. Local farmers and gardeners contribute crops in season. Most of the donations are whole fruits and vegetables. “We see a lot of apples, mangoes, plantains and potatoes but it changes every week. Sometimes we get pre-cut packaged veggies and juices. Some of the produce is small or past the “sell by” date. It may be a little wilted or have minor blemishes. “It’s things you can trim off, nothing gross,” Calder says. She knows the food because she and her husband use the program. Calder has been on medical leave from her job working in a deli at a local supermarket. She has worked in food and customer service for 20 years. “I love to cook. I watch cooking videos trying to teach myself about obscure produce. What we get is really kind of random, so I want to help the residents figure out how to use it,” she says. She shares recipes from BFR’s recently published cookbook. BFR empowers volunteers to find the best ways to feed their own communities. “Sometimes residents can’t make it to the distribution point, so we decided to start doing delivery. They call or text us and we let them know what we have received. One of us will drop it off,” Calder says.

“WE HAVE ABOUT 20 to 25 residents a week and it’s steadily growing. We have a young couple in their 20s and college students and very sweet elderly ladies. I love being a support to them,” —Wendi Calder Residents also share their wish lists. “It might be certain kinds of fruit or they have a child who loves fresh corn, but we let them know when we get those items,” she says. Calder and co-coordinator Lia Arnesen, another local resident, have gone ahead and taken the next step. “We don’t want any food to end up as compost, so whatever produce the residents don’t take, Lia takes to other locations like Attention Homes and Boulder Shelter for the Homeless,” Calder says. “I can’t tell you how grateful I am for being introduced to this program and this organization. All they want to do is support and help the community,” she says. THE GREAT GROCERY STORE CONTINUUM The current closings of Lucky’s Market stores in Table Mesa, Longmont and many other locations gave me flashbacks to the growth of so many locally born grocery stores. The Pearl Street Market (located where Cured is now) became the original Alfalfa’s Market (on Broadway), which grew into a regional brand. Crystal Market (which also opened where Cured is now) became Wild Oats Market, which expanded regionally and eventually swallowed up Alfalfa’s. Wild Oats Market was then digested by Whole Foods Market. Alfalfa’s Market reopened on Broadway and a second store opened in Louisville. Vitamin Cottage became Natural Grocers and has steadily grown for a half century. So it goes…

LOCAL FOOD NEWS Austin-based Torchy’s Tacos has opened at 2805 Pearl St., former site of Turley’s Kitchen. … Denver chef Elise Wiggins hosts a new show, Roots to Ranches, debuting 8 p.m. Jan. 30 on Rocky Mountain PBS. Wiggins explores American culinary history with a focus on hunting, foraging, farming and ranching. The first episode explores cooking in her hometown, West Monroe, Louisiana. TASTE OF THE WEEK If Colorado had an official Taco Town, it would have to be Lafayette, which has a high concentration of authentic taquerias in a small geographic area. Consider Tacos Aya Yay, tucked away at 1206 Centaur Village Drive in a strip mall facing South Boulder Road. The menu includes burritos, quesadillas and tortas but the tacos are the main event. These are classic street tacos with two soft, griddled corn tortillas topped with griddled meats including chicken, carne asada, barbacoa and vegetarian nopal asada. I tucked into buche (pork belly) and al pastor (pork with pineapple) tacos, which came with a great garnish of radishes, lime, grilled jalapeno, sauteed onion, jicama and potato. The condiment bar provided salsas for heat along with chopped cilantro and onions. Tacos Aya Yay is across South Boulder Road from Taqueria La Esperanza and down the road from Los Gatos taqueria truck (225 W. South Boulder Road) and the nearby Taco Wagon at 503 S. Public Road. Lafayette is home to many other traditional, regional and Southwestern variations on Mexican fare. If you follow the taqueria tasting trail, be aware that seating (and beer) is limited at these places, but big flavor is not. WORDS TO CHEW ON “We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.” — Epicurus (circa 300 B.C.) John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles 8:25 a.m. Thursday on KGNU (88.5 FM, 1390 AM, streaming at kgnu.org).

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t’s fun work if you think of it that way,” Joe says with a grin, grabbing empty beer cans, six at a time, and arranging them on the stainless steel chute. He’s right: This is a lot more fun than work. Cold, but still fun. But it’s Colorado in January, so it’s supposed to be a little cold. Especially when the dock doors are up, and the Crystal Springs Brewing Company’s canning operation is going full tilt. When Crystal Springs opened in 2010, owner/brewer Tom Horst operated a 20-gallon (two-thirds of a standard barrel) system out of his garage in Sunshine Canyon. Wife Kristy handled sales, and a few key accounts around town stocked their beer. Demand grew, and so did the need to expand. So, in October 2013, the Horsts’ opened a 15-barrel production brewery and taproom in one of Louisville’s industrial parks. Now entering its second decade of business, Crystal Springs continues to expand — adding a cozy taproom in Louisville’s historic downtown in 2017 — and production continues to grow. Now there are a few more hands behind the beer besides Horst’s: Timmy Russell, Crystal Springs’ cellar master, has been with the brewery for six years now, and on canning days, Russell is the unofficial master of ceremonies. Crystal Springs uses a Wild Goose canning line — the company is headquartered down the street — and packages once or twice a week. As Russell explains: Joe picks up the empty, pre-labeled beer cans from a shipping pallet and places them on the chute, or “the whale’s tail,” as they call it. The chute holds about 50 cans, which get funneled down to a single-file line. A conveyor belt then snags a line of four and pushes them along to the purging and filling station. Two needles are dipped into the can and blast out any particulates. The next two heads fill the purged cans with beer, foam bubbling over the rim. As Russell explains, a thick layer of

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foam keeps out any excess oxygen. Now brimming with beer, the cans ride along the conveyor belt to the next station, where loose lids are dropped on top. The next stop presses the lids down, spinning the can 360 degrees to crimp and seal the lids. The complete package is rinsed with water and comes off the line where Deidrick grabs them, two at a time, rolls them on a dry towel, and places them on a cardboard flat — facing the labels in the same direction, so the sales team doesn’t have to spend time spinning cans when they drop the sixer off at the store. Anything to make the next person’s job a little easier. After Deidrick fills a flat with 24 cans (a case), Dave squeezes between the whale’s tail and large tank and snags the flat from Deidrick’s station. At Dave’s table is a stack of plastic sixpack carriers, each one stickered with the date. Dave grabs the carrier, snaps it to the top of the cans, four per flat, and then the flat is stacked in the cooler where it will await the sales and shipping team. The whole process takes less than a minute. “It’ll do about 28, 29 cans a minute,” Russell says of the line. The atmosphere is light and jovial, and no one struggles to keep up. Though, as Dave points out with a grin: “When that line is running balls to the wall, it’s hard to keep up.” And, save for Russell and Deidrick, they’re all volunteers. Every week, Crystal Springs announces via email when and what they plan to can, and for how long. Anyone is free to join (compensation is a six-pack of your labor), and they can accommodate about four or five volunteers. Though, as Dave is quick to point out, it gets pretty tight with six. Dave says he’s a “regular whenever” volunteer. He was here last week, but next week he’ll be in Seattle visiting family. While he’s gone, someone else will step in and clamp down the six-pack holders. When he’s back in Colorado, he’ll lend a hand again, doing whatever is needed. Back at the whale’s tale, Joe explains his connection to the endeavor: Family by way of marriage. “Here’s my better half,” Joe says when Patsy shows up. She starts by loading the whale’s tail with empties before it’s time to box up the unused IPA cans for next time. Patsy is Horst’s sister, and the couple fills in whenever spots are vacant. “It’s fun to be apart of,” Patsy says. It’s also the hallmark of American small business: Family and community. Grab a can of Crystal Springs IPA (or Naughty Marilyn, or Doc’s Porter, or Summertime... you get the point), and you’ll see the upside-down beer bottle certifying Crystal Springs as a craft brewery. That trademark comes courtesy of the Brewers Association — the Boulder-based trade group representing America’s small and independent brewers. To be certified craft, a brewery must be “small” (produce less than 6 million barrels of beer a year) and “independent” (not owned or controlled by another non-craft brewer to the tune of 25%). The notion of independence in the beer sector has become a major sticking point in the past decade. And, frankly, it means a lot of different things to a lot of different brewers and beer drinkers. But, as canning at Crystal Springs reminds: No brewery is truly independent. It takes many hands to make the beer, and it takes a community to support the business. Most rally in front of the bar, drinking the wares and choosing this local family business over large, impersonal conglomerates. Sometimes that community slips behind the bar as well, pitching in to help the business function and grow. Not just for the quid pro quo of a six-pack of IPA, but for the satisfaction that comes with helping something you believe in. Quality beer will only get you so far. Business acumen helps as well, but it’s community that carries you across the finish line. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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hough it’s the shortest month of the year, February in Colorado can be a long and lonely affair. Luckily, Mountain Sun Pubs and Breweries have an antidote: Stout Month. “We started Stout Month to coax folks out of their houses and into their community during one of the darkest, coldest months of the year,” proprietor Kevin J. Daly says. “Who knew it would grow into the phenomenon that it is now?” Twenty-seven years later, Stout Month is an institution. And for 29 days in February, taps at all five Mountain Sun sister restaurants will once again fade to black and run wild with pitch-black ale. Mountain Sun’s director of brewing operations, John Fiorilli, has announced at least 36 house stouts to look for, including the return of the mouthwatering Planet Lovetron Chocolate Coconut Imperial Milk Stout, Ned’s Two-Alarm Cherry Chile Stout — a liquid chocolate-covered cherry with a tinge of spice and smoke — and the stout supreme: NIHILIST Russian Imperial Stout. MICHAEL J. CASEY This year, NIHILIST brings a couple of new friends to the party: Bourbon Barrel-Aged NIHILIST and Pinot Noir Barrel-Aged NIHILIST. Massive roast with a dollop of orange blossom honey, NIHILIST is one of the best Russian imperial stouts you’re going to find. It will be interesting to see how a bourbon barrel beefs up this already beastly brew, but NIHILIST in a pinot noir barrel? Rich flavors of chocolate and coffee mingling with the garnet grape’s earthy flavors of red fruit and oaky vanillin? Sounds exquisite. Also new this year is Chocwork Orange — continuing the long-running A Clockwork Orange theme — which features additions of milk and dark chocolate, orange peel, blood orange purée and Ekuanot hops. Ekuanot, the hop formerly known as Equinox, can bring a lot of citrus to the party, which ought to give Chocowork Orange Stout a bit of lift (in case all those dark and heavy stouts start to weigh you down). In addition to Mountain Sun’s 36-plus house stouts, there will be more than a dozen guest stouts from brewers around the state, and two from Michigan. One such stout hailing from the Wolverine State, Bell’s Brewery Expedition Stout, is a real blast from the past: one of the earliest examples of RIS from the U.S. craft beer movement. Sticking with the Russians, Denver’s Call to Arms Brewing will feature This Sh*t Won’t Stratify, a rich and decadent Russian imperial milk stout loaded with bakers chocolate, black cherry, craisin, caramel and ripe blueberries. Need something light? Longmont’s Großen Bart Brewery features their Walrus Oatmeal Stout and Left Hand Brewing sends their Raspberry Milk Stout, and both clock in under six percent alcohol by volume — ideal for a noontime stout. Or enjoy with Mountain Sun’s 48 Smooth Chai Stout or Casual Friday Stout for a stout session. Just make sure to leave room for The Big Molé Imperial Stout from Boulder’s Uhl’s Brewing Co. With cinnamon, cacao nibs, ancho chiles and vanilla beans, it’s a stout to pair with Southern Sun’s poutine or carrot cake. What a glorious February we have in store. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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JUNE 21-JULY 22: I love living in the material world. Its crazy-making demands and exhilarating rewards are endlessly entertaining. Despite having been born as a fantasy-prone, overly sensitive Cancerian, I’ve become fairly earthy and well-grounded. I have a good job, a nice house, a smart wife and an interesting daughter. On the other hand, I also love living in the soul’s realm. I have remembered and recorded an average of three dreams per night for many years. Although I don’t take drugs, I cultivate alternate states of consciousness through meditation, prayer and ritual. I’ve long been a student of depth psychology, which has trained me to be as focused on my soul as my ego. In accordance with current astrological omens, my fellow Cancerian, I urge you to hang out more than usual in the soul’s realm during the coming weeks.

1882) published his first novel at age 30. During the next 37 years, he completed 48 additional novels and 18 works of nonfiction. Critics liked his work well enough, but were suspicious of his prodigious productivity. When they discovered that one of Trollope’s motivations for writing was to make money, they disapproved. Then they found out that Trollope kept a watch nearby as he worked, determined to generate 250 words every 15 minutes. The critics hated that even worse. Creative artists are supposed to court inspiration, not adhere to a schedule — at least according to the critics. But I approve of and recommend Trollopelike behavior for you in the coming weeks, Taurus. Cosmic forces will be on your side if you do.

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or something — to certain people or ideas or situations. We provide them with help or energy or mirroring or love. We are dutiful in attending to their needs and

MAY 21-JUNE 20: In accordance with the astrological

indicators, I invite you to rise and soar and glide dur-

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Can I talk you into being more tender and

open-hearted toward the people who care for you? I don’t mean to imply that you are currently too hard and closed. But all of us can benefit from enhancing our receptivity, and the coming weeks will be prime time for you Leos to do just that. I think you’ll find it easier than usual to deepen your listening skills and intensify your sensitivity. You’ll have an acute intuitive grasp of the fact that you can earn yourself huge blessings by expressing love and compassion in very practical ways.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: All of us are in service to someone

wants. For some of us, our service feels like a burden. It’s grating or humbling or inconvenient, or all of the above. For others of us, being of service is fulfilling, even joyful. We find a rich sense of purpose in our devotion to a higher cause or deeper calling beyond our selfish concerns. Among the 12 signs of the zodiac, you Virgos are more likely than most to carry out the latter kind of service. I bring these thoughts to your attention because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to re-evaluate, reconfigure and reinvigorate your own service.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Author David Markson imagined what

it would be like to write a novel that lacked conflicts or confrontations — in other words, a novel unlike any ever created. Libran author Ursula Le Guin also fantasized about stories with plots that weren’t driven by strife and struggle. Since many of us are addicted to entertainment that depends on discord to be interesting, we might find it hard to believe Markson’s and Le Guin’s dream would ever happen. But I’m pleased to inform you, Libra, that your life in the coming weeks may be exactly like that: a fascinating adventure with few hassles and wrangles.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: According to Scorpio painter Georgia O’Keeffe, success is irrelevant. The most crucial lifelong effort that anyone can be devoted to is “making your unknown known.” Did she mean making your unknown known to yourself? Or making your unknown known to other people? Or both? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to do both. So I hope you will tease out your best and biggest mysteries from their hiding places. Give them expression.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: You Sagittarians have a talent for burning bridges that really do need to be burned. Your intuition often guides you to assess when the time is ripe to withdraw from connections that no longer benefit you. On the other hand, you sometimes burn bridges prematurely. You decide that they are in such disrepair that

they’re of no use to you, even though it might serve your ultimate interests to fix them. I offer these thoughts as a preface for my advice: 1) Refurbish rather than burn a certain bridge you’re a bit disenchanted with. 2) Build at least one new bridge that will be valuable in the future.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: The shape of the planets’ orbits

around the sun is elliptical, not circular. Capricorn astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) was the first person to figure this out. He didn’t like it. He really wanted the orbits to be circular. That would have been more satisfying to his aesthetic and spiritual sensibilities. Explaining the arduous labor he did to arrive at his conclusion, he wrote, “Take pity on me, for I have repeated these calculations 70 times.” In the big picture of our understanding of the universe, of course, his discovery was felicitous. It’s not a problem that the orbits are elliptical, merely the truth. In the coming weeks, Capricorn, I foresee you engaging in a process that’s metaphorically comparable to Kepler’s. Hard work will yield useful, if unexpected results.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Please don’t imitate or repeat yourself in the coming weeks. Refrain from relying on formulas that have worked for you before. Resolve to either ignore or rebel against your past as you dream up fresh gambits and adventures. Treat your whole life like an improvisatory game that has just one purpose: to attract and stir up useful novelty. If you do these things, Aquarius, I can practically guarantee that you will win the game.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Poet Robert Bly believes that each of

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: One of my closest about opening up their relationship in friends kissed me while very drunk, the wake of this incident, your friend will told his female partner, and now he’s likely be single again soon. If they do not allowed to see me anymore, even manage to stay together, FWNB, the in group settings. (I am also female.) I only way to get back into her good gracunderstand that cutting off contact is es — and back in your friend’s life — is the universally recommended first step to gracefully accept your exile. (Going to after someone cheats, but considering her and saying, “It only happened how close we are as friends, it is because we were so drunk!” isn’t quite heartbreaking to think I might lose him the slam-dunk you think it is, seeing as over this one incident. We are former you and her boyfriend are drinking budcoworkers and we’ve been close dies.) It’s a paradox, I realize, but if she friends and regular drinking buddies sees that her boyfriend is willing to cut for 12 years. Nothing has off all contact with you to EVER happened between ROMAN ROBINSON set her mind at ease, us before this one very FWNB, she may be willing drunk night. We ended to give your friendship her up making out on the blessing down the road. sidewalk outside of a bar and exchanged a few Dear Dan: How long semi-dirty text messages after using an oil-based later that night, which — lubricant do I have to wait unfortunately for all of us before I can safely use — his partner saw. He latex condoms? Not right thinks we just need to be after, presumably. Next patient and one day we’ll day? Next week? Next be able to pick up our century? I’ve been experifriendship where we left off. And while menting with oil-based CBD lube for I know he needs to prioritize his parthand/toy stuff, but I’m worried about the ner now, I’m scared that we actually timing relative to penetrative sex. won’t be able to stay friends after this. —Oily Inside Do I just swallow my sadness about the likelihood of losing a best friend Dear OI: “Oil and latex condoms do over a relatively minor infidelity? Or is NOT mix, period,” said Melissa White, there anything I can do to help the sit- CEO of Lucky Bloke, an online condom uation? FWIW: I’m in a happy open shop, and a condom expert. “Using an marriage and have never once tried to oil-based lubricant with a condom can initiate anything with him. I’ve never cause the condom to leak and/or break. been attracted to him before and And unlike water-based lubes, oils do wouldn’t want anything to happen not evaporate readily. While oil is between us again, anyway, even if the absorbed over time, that absorption rate kiss was hot. Complicating matters, likely varies based on many factors, my friend wanted to re-raise the possi- including age. Oiling up internally? Now bility of opening up his relationship we’re talking vaginal versus anal with his partner, which he insists has absorption rates! The bottom line: We nothing to do with me. (My friend is have not found sufficient studies to issue male and his partner and I are both a reliable recommendation on what an female.) overall safe time frame might be. So —Friend With No Benefits here’s the deal: Oil or condoms — choose one.” Dear FWNB: Hmm… I have a hunch I would add only this: Condoms you were something of a sore subject made out of polyurethane are more before this incident, FWNB, however expensive, but you can safely use them isolated. If the text messages your with oil-based lube. On the Lovecast — Raising children in friend’s partner saw confirmed fears a happy, poly home: savagelovecast.com. she’d already been told were irrational, Send questions to mail@savyour exile is likely to last as long as their agelove.net, follow Dan on Twitter @ relationship does. But take heart: if your FakeDanSavage and visit ITMFA.org. friend decides to reopen discussions BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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hile our president has zero understanding of the effects of marijuana (“It does cause an IQ problem.”), or the how the marijuana industry works (oh gosh, Lev, they can’t use federally funded banks?), let’s all take a moment to stop and appreciate the scientists out there trying to improve our understanding of pot in spite of (or maybe because of) bold-faced ignorance. Take a pair of research studies from Oregon State University, both centered on college students: One explores cannabis use among university students, the other looks at how marijuana use impacts the use of other recreational substances. The first study gathered data from more than 850,000 students — aged 18-26 — who selfreported their cannabis use twice a year as part of the National College Health Assessment between 2008 and 2018. Using data from 135 colleges in states with legalization and 454 colleges in states without legalization, the researchers found — not shockingly — that cannabis use increased upon legalization. In fact, students in states with legalization legislation were 46% more likely to have used cannabis than students in states without legalization. But, here’s the best part: The increase in cannabis use was most pronounced in students aged 21-26 and those living off campus. So, let’s state that clearly: Young folks living in states where marijuana is legal are waiting until they’re adults, and living on their own, to use marijuana. I’m gonna call it like I see it: Looks like young adults are actually capable of making fairly intelligent choices when given fairly intelligent options. But the researchers didn’t stop there. Using the same data set as the first study, the team looked at how increased cannabis use affected use of other

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recreational substances popular among college students (“nicotine use, binge drinking, illicit drug use, and misuse of prescription stimulants, sedatives and opioids”), and the findings were both positive and negative. The positive: In states with legalized recreational use, there was a greater reduction in binge drinking among students aged 21 and over. The negative: In states with legalization, the researchers found an increase in sedative “misuse” among students younger than 21. Binge drinking is a huge problem in the United States, with the Centers for Disease Control claiming one in six adults binge drinks four times a month. Research from Cowen & Company in 2018 had already shown that binge drinking was down among the general

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adult population in states with legalization, so it’s pleasantly surprising to see the trend carry over into the college demographic. It’s less pleasant to see that the researchers found an increase in sedative misuse in college students 21 and younger in states with legalization. These are Gen Zs we’re talking about, a generation that has spawned a collective of mumble rappers who dole out rhymes about indulging in Xanax and codine-spiked sodas. (No judgement: Millennials, Xers and Boomers have their own addictions and careless rock stars.) Research suggests that Gen Zs are lonely, experience higher rates of mental health issues, and are less inclined to go out for a night on the town than previous generations were at the same age. Their interest in sedatives is no great surprise. But it is troubling. Research like the two OSU studies are critical as we move deeper into legalization. We need to understand the role marijuana plays in human health, and that requires unbiased, peer-reviewed studies. Perhaps college students in states with legal weed were more comfortable admitting sedative misuse, or perhaps access to marijuana at an early age set these students up for issues with insomnia, as some research has suggested it can. We know there’s a correlation now, so scientists can dive deeper into the issue and figure out the whys. At the end of the day, marijuana is a psychoactive substance and we need to study it from every angle possible so we understand how to use it responsibly and how to talk to our young folks about it. We need to know where it’s helpful and where it’s harmful. Just because the president is a moron about marijuana doesn’t mean the rest of us have to be.

Marijuana legalization 2020: The state of play in the USA By Paul Danish

ccording to a piece on The Motley Fool website, up to 11 states could end up having marijuana legalization measures on their ballots this November. Three of them — New Jersey, South Dakota and Mississippi — have already formally put them on the ballot. The New Jersey measure, which would legalize recreational pot in the state, was put on the ballot by the state legislature after it failed to pass a bill that the governor had pushed for in his 2017 election campaign. South Dakota activists successfully peti-

tioned both a recreational and a medical initiative onto that state’s ballot. South Dakota, which is one of the more socially conservative states in the country, will be the first state in which voters will consider separate medical and recreational initiatives in the same election. Mississippi activists mounted a successful campaign to put a medical marijuana initiative on the state’s 2020 ballot. According to a piece at the Politico website, in

Missouri, a state that legalized medical marijuana via the initiative route a couple years ago, activists are mounting a recreational pot petition drive this year. Recreational initiative campaigns are also underway in Arizona, Oklahoma and Montana. But in Florida, multiple petition drives to legalize recreational pot are flaming out, due to barriers set up by the state legislature. Polling in Florida shows overwhelming support for legalization, but conservatives in the legislature aren’t ready to let the people decide. Legalizing at the ballot box in Florida is a heavy lift even if a measure makes it onto the ballot, because legalization requires a state constitutional amendment, which requires 55% approval. Medical marijuana legalization initiatives are also planned in Idaho and Kansas. Marijuana initiatives have a better chance of passage in presidential election years, when voter turnout is higher, especially among younger voters. In 2016, nine states had recreational or medical pot legalization initiatives on their ballots; eight of the nine were passed. The Arizona recreational measure narrowly failed. • • • • Meanwhile, several state legislatures are taking up recreational legalization measures this year, and measures in New Mexico and New Hampshire are getting some initial traction. The New Mexico measure, which has strong backing from Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, was passed by the State Senate’s Public Affairs Committee on a 4-3 vote. The bill still has to make it through the Senate’s Judiciary and Finance Committees before it reaches the Senate floor. Last year a recreational pot bill that had passed the state House of Representatives died in one of those com-

mittees. The New Mexico legislative session ends in less than a month, so the bill’s fate will be known by the beginning of March. In New Hampshire, the State House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee passed a bill that would legalize adult possession of up to threefourths of an ounce of pot and permit adults to grow up to six plants, but would not allow retail sales. The vote was 13-7. The bill is expected to be considered by the full House on February 6. Even if the measure makes it through the legislature, it could face a veto from anti-pot Republican Governor Chris Sununu. Governors in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island are all pushing for passage of recreational pot bills this year. According to the Wall Street Journal, New York lawmakers are optimistic that recreational pot will be legalized in the Empire State this year. Governor Andrew Cuomo wants legalization language included in the state budget, which must be passed by April. The paper also reported that at least one state senator, Democrat Pete Harckham who represents Westchester County, has switched from opposition to support. “Let’s be frank: We can buy this in any high school in New York state. The marketplace has spoken, so it’s time we tax this and put the money to a social good,” he said. • • • • But there’s still a drug war going on out there. And in Tennessee, 20-year-old Spenser Boston took the case for legalization to court in a unique way. According to CNN, Boston was in court on a simple possession charge. He used the occasion to argue for legalization — and while making his case he lit up a joint and started smoking it. “The people deserve better,” he shouted at the gallery as he was being led away. He’s currently serving a 10-day contempt of court sentence, after which he will be eligible to post a $3,000 bond on the possession counts.

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