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On a positive note... mostly By Joel Dyer

olks often ask me why we don’t report more “good news.” I usually fire back something along the lines of “nobody wants to read about the 786 planes that landed safely today at DIA. They just care about the one that didn’t.” But I find myself actually having something both important and positive to talk about this week. On Saturday, Oct. 12, I had the chance to speak as part of the Society of Environmental Journalists 2019 National Conference, which was held at CSU this year. What impressed me most was the sheer number of people in attendance. I was told there were 780 attendees including journalists, funders, vendors and PR folks. That is a big deal at this point in history. I remember 20 years ago when all the talk was I

about the shrinking number of reporters on the environmental beat. Like labor reporting before it, environmental journalism was one of the first casualties of newsroom cutbacks. So, it was pretty inspiring to see so many reporters dedicated to this subject at this time. It says a lot about how climate change, renewable energy and pervasiveness of plastics are changing the world’s priorities. On a slightly less optimistic front, I talked to a lot of attendees who had paid their own way to be there. A good number of them were from newsrooms where they said they still struggled to get their environmental work into print or on the air. And there were also a good number of freelancers who were struggling to make ends meet while doing this kind of critical reporting. Still, I was pleased to see so many capable people dedicated to this century’s most pressing issue. So, there you have it, actual good news: environmental reporting is on the rise. Now if we can just get people to pay attention to it before it’s too late.

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Trump destroyed the Rojava project By Dave Anderson

hen Turkey invaded Syria, there was almost universal condemnation across the political spectrum. But the most unique protesters are the anarchists all over the planet who say that a new egalitarian society is being created in Rojava, the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northeast Syria. Shortly after the invasion, an international campaign called “Rise Up For Rojava’” was formed (riseup4rojava.org/). The campaign declares: “Seven years ago a revolution began in Rojava that was to radically change the lives of millions of people. The Kurds liberated themselves from the dictatorship of the Assad regime and began to organize themselves in self-governed councils, communes and cooperatives. In particular, the autonomous organization of women became the driving force behind the social revolution. Over the course of the struggle against the Islamic state, a unique multiethnic and multi-religious project developed, which today guarantees the peaceful coexistence of millions of Kurds, Arabs and Christians. The Democratic Federation of Northeast Syria is a unique example of the vision of a peaceful and democratic Middle East and has therefore always been a thorn in the side of both regional powers and imperialist states.” The Rojava project is the brainchild of Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The Turkish based party adopted authoritarian Marxist Leninist politics and initiated a campaign of armed conflict against the Turkish government in 1984 in order to create an independent Kurdish state. The PKK attacked government forces as well as civilians. In 1980, Öcalan fled his home in Turkey and turned up in Syria. The regime of Hafez al-Assad allowed him to set up guerrilla training camps. The PKK directed attacks on Turkey from Syrian soil. In 1997, the U.S. declared the PKK a terrorist organization and

the next year Assad kicked Öcalan out and he went to various countries until Turkish intelligence, with the help of the CIA, captured him in Kenya. Öcalan was sentenced to death for treason and separatism. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Turkey had to do that since it wants to enter the European Union. In order for a nation to become an EU member, it has to abolish the death penalty. In prison, Öcalan has been an insatiable reader and has been inspired by social theorists such as Michel Foucault and Immanuel Wallerstein. But he has been particularly influenced by a little known anarchist philosopher in Vermont named Murray Bookchin. Öcalan liked Bookchin’s ideology of “communalism” which proposed a social order where central governments would be replaced by loose federations of autonomous communities. Öcalan’s manifesto of “Democratic Confederalism” merged Bookchin’s ideas with the emerging Kurdish feminist movement. Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer describes what this looks like in practice: “It’s difficult to overstate how radically politics have been transformed in Rojava since its ‘selfadministration’ was formed in 2013. Rather than revolving around a single strongman or a central authority, the territory is organized into cantons, largely self-governing regions with their own decision-making councils and institutions... “Each canton is split into neighborhood or village communes. ...One that I visited encompassed 257 homes. Every two years, its residents elect a man and a woman who manage neighborhood concerns and meet with the co-chairs of other communes to address community issues. The commune sold gas for heating and cooking, managed health care, developed local economic projects, and helped reconcile neighborhood

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disputes. One commune I visited had recently helped reconcile a marital dispute and set up nighttime patrols to improve safety. Another was planning to install streetlights.” Bauer says there has been a feminist social transformation: “Probably the most dramatic effect of the Rojava revolution has been its impact on women. Every public institution, from communes

to courts to canton ministries, is chaired by a man and a woman. The cantons require that at least 40 percent of all political positions are held by women. While Syrian law is based on Shariah, Rojava’s ‘social contract’ separates religion and state. It has abolished forced marriage, polygamy, and child marriage...” But this utopia was built in hell. The Kurds remembered that they

had been betrayed many times by the U.S. in the past but hoped that this time would be different. They were appreciated by the U.S. troops who worked with them. The U.S. military concluded that the Syrian Kurds were the most reliable and toughest fighters in the battle against ISIS. The Kurds, backed by U.S. air power, took back nearly all the land seized by Islamic State fighters since 2014. They lost

11,000 troops in the fighting and have seen another 20,000 wounded. We have to get out of the endless wars but we need to seek peaceful diplomatic solutions with other nations. Trump’s sudden and brazen green-lighting of Turkey’s invasion was immoral, idiotic and dangerous. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

Correction: In our 2019 Vote Guide, we originally stated that Colorado has a moratorium on rent control rather than a state statute restricting it. We apologize for any confusion that may have been caused.

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VOTE 2019: OUR ENDORSEMENTS n STATEWIDE Proposition CC — (Allow tax revenue collected over TABOR cap to be retained and spent on state transportation and education projects.) Yes Proposition DD — (Legalize sports betting and increase taxes by $29 million annually to fund state water projects and commitments, and pay for regulation of sports betting through licensed casinos.) No n CITY OF BOULDER City Council Rachel Friend Mark Wallach Adam Swetlik

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City of Boulder Ballot Issue 2G — Tax on Vaping Products. No City of Boulder Ballot Issue 2H — Sales And Use Tax Extension For Open Space And Long’s Gardens. Yes

City of Lafayette Ballot Question 2B. (Extend timeline to fill City Council vacancies.) Yes City of Lafayette Ballot Question 2C. (Align City rules regarding municipal initiative and referendum procedures with state rules.) Yes n CITY OF LOUISVILLE Mayor At-Large Ashley Stolzmann

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hen Boulder voters fill out their ballots this year, they’ll be asked to consider City Ballot Issue 2I, the Imposition of a Middle-Income Housing Program. Housing prices in Boulder started outpacing income growth long ago, and, as a result, many people who work in Boulder have been priced out of living here. The City has worked diligently to increase its stock of lowand moderate-income affordable units (currently 7.5% with a goal of 15%), but there remains a gap for middle-income earners. “Over the last 15 years, one-seventh of our middle-income families have evaporated from Boulder,” says Boulder City Councilman Bob Yates. “Around 2000, about 43% were in the middleincome... now it’s 37% and that continues to erode.” At the same time, homes are appreciating to such a degree, Yates says, that “we are literally losing hundreds of houses out of the middleincome affordability group every year.” Yates, along with Councilman Sam Weaver, have a plan they hope will help. As the main backers of Ballot Issue 2I, they are asking voters’ permission to borrow, without raising taxes, up to $10 million to fund a down payment assistance pilot program for middle-income individuals BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Voters asked to back a program to create more middle-income housing

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and families. Boulder already has a down payment assistance program in the form of the H20: House to Home loan, which was first funded by the City in 1999 with $380,000. But the parameters of the current program have meant that not many people take advantage of it, says Jay Sugnet, senior planner at the City of Boulder’s Housing and Human Services department. There were 22 loans given out in its first year (2000), but there have been fewer and fewer since, with the last H20 loan was granted a year ago in the fall of 2018. Before that, there was one issued in 2015 and one in 2014, leaving more than $800,000 for down payment assistance available but largely unused. Sugnet says current limitations to the H20 program include the income cap of 80% of Area Median Income (AMI), which in 2019 numbers is $52,850 for an individual and $67,950 for a family of three. Additionally, the maximum loan amount is only $50,000, while the I

median listing price in the City in September 2019 was $857,500 for a single-family home, and $395,000 for a townhome, according to the Boulder Area Realtors Association. All of this means there are very few homes in Boulder that buyers wishing to use the H2O program can afford, Sugnet says, even with such assistance. Add that to the fact that the H20 program is only for first-time homebuyers, and even more people are left out of the equation. “The goal is that we make space in Boulder for people to live here,” Weaver says, and it’s clear the current program is in need of updating. Comparatively, the proposed pilot increases eligibility for people making up to 120% of AMI ($95,520 for an individual or $122,760 for a family of three) with the potential to borrow up to $200,000 from the City to make up the affordability gap. In return, the housing unit (either a single-family home or condo/townhome) will become deed restricted, capping its appreciation each year in hopes of creating more middleincome affordable units in the future. Plus, Weaver says, the program can be applied to existing homes and OCTOBER 17, 2019

condos, creating new affordable homes without requiring new construction, while getting some geographic diversity at the same time. Yates admits that the City could have piloted this program without going to the voters by just using the existing funds in the down payment assistance program, but he questions how effective such a small pilot would have been. “How many houses could we have gotten with that ($800,000 from the H20 program)? Three? Five? It was going to be very unsatisfying,” he says. “And so we wanted to have the pilot be meaningful.” In asking the taxpayers for permission to borrow up to $10 million as needed, either through a bond or drawing off a line of credit, Weaver and Yates say there isn’t much risk to the City, which will essentially be guaranteeing a second mortgage on the property. It is also less risky for lenders and makes qualifying for mortgages easier, with more affordable payments, for borrowers. The pilot actually makes a lot of sense, says Ray Lindley, chief operating officer at Elevations Credit Union. There’s a common pattern, he says, when people are interested in buying into Boulder: After getting preapproved, they either come back and have to get approved for a higher loan amount or they start looking in surrounding areas like Broomfield, Longmont, even Firestone. The pilot program could alleviate these issues, see ISSUE 2I Page 13

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Research Shows Correlation Between Nerve Damage and Sensation Published research shows that neuropathy symptoms arise when the nerves in your legs and feet break down and blood flow is lost to the areas which surround them. As the nerves begin to die, sensation is lost. This lack of sensation is a major cause of burning, tingling, and numbness. Remarkably, Diabasens contains one of the few known substances to activate TRPA1, a special sensory pathway right below the skins surface which controls the sensitivity of nerves. It’s these nerves that allow you to feel hot, cold, and touch. And although this pathway has been known about for years, neither a drug or a pill has been able to target it successfully. That’s why Diabasens is so impressive. “It all comes down to sensation. When sensation is lost the foot feels constantly asleep. It may also burn and tingle. When sensation is increased, these nagging symptoms often go away”, explains Dr. Henry Esber, one of the scientists behind Diabasens. “That’s why Diabasens performed so well in our clinical use survey study. It increases sensation and blood flow wherever it’s applied. It’s impressive to say the least”

A Brilliant Technology Most Failed to Consider Until now, many pharma companies have failed to develop a means of TRPA1 activation to manage neuropathy. Diabasens is one of the first to take full advantage of this amazing discovery. “Today’s treatment methods have focused on minimizing discomfort instead of attacking its underlining cause. That’s why millions of adults are

still in excruciating discomfort every single day and are always battling effects” explains Esber “Diabasens is different. Since the most commonly reported symptoms...burning, tingling and numb legs and feet...are caused by lack of sensation of the nerves, we’ve designed the formula increase their sensitivity. And since these nerves are located right below the skin, we’ve chosen to formulate it as a cream. This allows for the ingredients to get to the site faster and without any serious side effects” he adds.

Study Finds Restoring Sensation the Key To Effective, Long Lasting Relief With the conclusion of the human clinical use survey trial, the makers of Diabasens are offering it nationwide. And regardless of the market, its sales are exploding. Men and women from all over the country are eager to get their hands on the new cream and according to the results study participants reported, they should be. In the trial above, participants taking Diabasens as needed experienced relief in just 15 minutes after applying! Burning, tingling and numbness were the most commonly reported symptoms to improve. Even more impressive, when asked if this was the best product they used for their legs and feet, 90% gave a resounding “Yes” with all participants concluding they would absolutely recommend it to someone else.

A breakthrough in neuropathy management and supportive care, Diabasens is shown to provide relief from: • Discomfort • Numbness • Tingling • Swelling • Balance Targets Nerves Right Below the Skins Surface Diabasens is a topical cream that is to be applied directly the legs and feet. It does not require a prescription. The active ingredient is a compound known as cinnamaldehyde. Studies show that neuropathy and discomfort caused when peripheral nerves breakdown and blood is unable to circulate into your legs and feet. As these nerves deteriorate, sensation is lost. This is why you may not feel hot or cold and your legs and feet may burn, tingle and go numb. Worse, without proper blood flow, tissues and cells in these areas begin to die, causing pain that seems to never go away. The cinnamaldehyde in Diabasens is one of the

A NEW WEAPON FOR FIGHTING NEUROPATHY DISCOMFORT: Diabasens increases sensation and blood flow wherever its applied. It’s now being used to relieve burning, tingling, numbness among other discomforts.

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hen you fall from something taller than a door frame, don’t tense up, don’t get rigid. As airy nothingness swoops in, however suddenly, and ushers a sense of complete unknown, look down at the ground. Stare at the very spot you will soon hit. Exhale a sharp breath. Release all tension in your chest. As the ground quickly approaches, tuck in your limbs. Let your body crumple. “Or else,” Nina Williams says, “something will break.” The 29-year-old professional climber — famous for completing some of the world’s most dangerous boulder problems (most often as the first woman) — has been practicing the art of falling ever since she took up climbing 17 years ago. “It’s a skill that can be built up,” she says, and mastering it was what cracked open the door to the elite and exclusive world of high-ball bouldering. High-ball bouldering is best described as a hybrid climbing discipline: it’s part free-solo (no ropes), part bouldering problem (climbing on a relatively small free-standing rock). These two disciplines begin to blur when bouldering routes reach more than 15 feet tall, amassing enough vertical depth for what’s called the “no fall zone” to appear. In Spanish, “high ball” translates to “tsunami,”

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potential, both on and off the rocks. “There were so many things I told myself that I wouldn’t do in climbing because I wasn’t good enough, or talented enough, or whatever,” she says. “But then I ended up doing them. And I was like, you know, I want to apply those lessons to something other than climbing just to enrich my life a little bit more.” So, she decided to go back to college. In September 2019, Williams enrolled full-time at the University of Colorado Boulder, dissecting the pro-

cess for her bachelor’s degree in communications, just like she’d learned to do with her climbing goals. “School has always been a fear of mine because I’ve told myself I’m not smart enough to finish it. But you know, that’s a bunch of bullshit. That’s just the gremlin voice inside of my head telling me that I can’t do something,” she says. “So I’m just trying to go out and prove it wrong.” If she falls, she falls, she says. Then she gets back up, dusts herself off and tries again.

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route called “Speed of Life” (V10) in Massachusetts. After six years of intermittent attempts, she was the first woman to reach the top. “I fell a lot on that climb,” she says, which whittled away her fears and taught her safe landing techniques. “If you don’t have to think about the fall, then you can focus entirely on the climb itself. ... Once I moved on to some of the taller highballs in [the Buttermilks], it became less about the falling length. It became more about the process and the system of trying.” Over the years, Williams has developed a systematic approach to high-ball climbing. First, she tries all of the moves while safely tied into a rope, familiarizing herself with the route. (Most big boulders have at least one gentler-sloping side, so you can scramble easily to the top and secure a rope over its steeper faces.) She does this over the course of days or weeks, sometimes years, practicing over and over again until she nails each move. Then, as she starts piecing the route together, seamlessly transitioning between each move, Williams pivots focus away from the physical challenges and toward the mental one. In perfecting a performance where one mistake means death, absolute calm and confidence is essential. For Williams, that means trusting herself. “When I’m up on the wall, if I’m scared, then I have no business being up there,” she says. She waits until she has flawlessly rehearsed the climb numerous times. Then she unties the rope, gets a good night’s sleep, returns to the boulder in the morning, takes a deep breath, looks up and, if she feels right, goes for it. “When I am up there, I feel completely calm,” she says. Her mental strength is the accumulation of her confidence over time. “I trained to feel a little bit of fear every time I went up a climb. But then instead of ignoring that fear, or trying to pretend that it didn’t exist, I just allowed myself to feel it and to become familiar with it so that the next time I went up, I was able to take on a little bit more of that feeling, until I was just moving onto bigger things,” she says. “It’s a process that’s really systematic and it’s applicable to so many things in life, where you take this really big goal, which can feel impossible, and then you just break it down

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“Time can sometimes be your enemy when you’re creating. What I mean by that is, when you have too much time to think you also have time to doubt. You have time to hesitate, to be insecure, to question what you’re doing, and you tend to think about what other people might be doing,” she says. “When you draw or when you create and the process is very fast, you take all of that away and you’re only left with that time to make something. When you’re not in your head, you only have time to be yourself.” Now showing at the Denver Art Museum until January 2021, Words and Lines features Martin’s drawings throughout the museum. The show houses a large-scale projection of Martin drawing in action, plus an interactive sculpture that allows the audience to mix and

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gallery,” she says. “You know, that’s one route. But when you explore what’s outside of that and the nontraditional and you explore new opportunities, you’re showing people that there is another route that perhaps isn’t as traditional but also is visible and obtainable in a way.” The simplicity of Martin’s work also makes it accessible. Her signature style features thick black lines made by markers on a white background. She rarely uses color, and avoids ornate detail. Her approach and execution are easily understood, no background in art necessary. “Now when people come into a museum, they come into this space and they see that art in a museum can be this simple and this accessible, and you don’t have to have a line of curators between you and the art to explain what it is and what it means,” Martin says. Engaging the viewer is a vital element in Martin’s work. Martin frequently says she doesn’t see a difference between lines and words, but when she does use words in her artwork, they are evocative in an effort to lure in the viewer. At DAM, Martin’s phrases implore people to, “Do less, be more,” or warn, “You watch too much TV.” “Those words are either questions or phrases that I feel have a positive impact or a questioning impact. They’re things like, ‘Help us all rise,’ which is a positive seed,” she says. “They’re something that makes sense, but maybe not on the face of it. It might take a second to sink in what that actually means.” Her use of words goes beyond catchy phrases to abstract ponderings. Arguably, Martin’s most well-known work is a series of three statements: “Who are you? You are you. Are you you?” The idea was born when Martin was transitioning to life

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ing herself. But to ask the question breaks past the definitions people hold for themselves and gets at something deeper. “If you ask people, it doesn’t really matter how educated they are, how travelled they are, how smart they are, how many languages they speak,” she says. “If you ask someone who they are at the core, without asking what they do or where they’re from or their name or the roles they play in life, it’s something that we all stumble on. It’s something we all have difficulty answering.” It interests Martin that we still struggle with such a basic question despite so much evolution as a society, and she worries about the repercussions of continuing to evolve without a core concept of self. And yet Martin admits she still doesn’t have a clear answer of who she is, either. “But that’s the journey,” she says. “I’m in no rush to find out.” So she picks up the marker every day, waiting for the answer to reveal itself. I

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The beautiful madness of Shovels & Rope Duo talk Tom Petty, touring with two kids and stealing other people’s stories along the way

by Angela K. Evans

ichael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, the husband and wife duo behind folk-rock outfit Shovels & Rope, were on their way to play Codfish Hallow, a small barn venue in rural Iowa, when they heard that Tom Petty had died. With spotty cell phone reception and a show to get to, they really couldn’t tell what was going on. “We didn’t get the whole story until we were on stage playing that night, interacting with the audience and asking them, ‘What’s up? What happened?,’” Trent says. “There was a sadness in the entire room. You know, maybe everybody might’ve not been the biggest Tom Petty head, but everybody... I feel like what he stood for and the joy that he brought was really something special.” Catching him at a festival just months before he passed, Hearst calls Petty “the real deal,” and the late artist makes a small cameo, by way of a nod to his first album, on the couple’s fifth record, By Blood, released in April. “One hand on the heater/ The other flippin the radio/ Full Moon Fever/ The sun’s coming up/ Hits my heart like a drug/ And when all my wasted efforts are piled in the truck,” the two sing in the closing track “Carry Me Home,” her raspy stretches harmonizing with his urgent pleas. The song has its roots in Colorado, where Trent spent some time living with his grandparents in Evergreen. In the early morning, before sunrise, Trent says, he’d scrape the ice off his grandpa’s truck and head to school in freezing temperatures. “You know, you would have to put your hands on the heater vents,” he says. “And if a song came on [the radio], I don’t know, music just sounded a little bit different then, you felt more alive. I definitely had some moments like that with Tom Petty and I feel like we all have.”

“Carry Me Home” is one of the more autobiographical songs in the Shovels & Rope catalog, a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the couple behind the music. For the most part, their songs are character-based, intricate stories that mostly draw off Trent’s keen observations of other people’s experiences, Hearst says, admittedly bragging about him. “You’re just really good at finding the stories to tell and looking at other people’s lives and robbing them of their sto-

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ries,” she tells him, with a laugh. “As a happy family, we don’t really have a bunch of sad things to write about in our songs,” Hearst adds. “We have to look elsewhere and hone in on the stories of others, so we don’t fill the world with a bunch of sugary love songs about how much we love each other.” Trent’s story-telling prowess shines on By Blood. There’s the story of two friends from high school who grow up to experience a sort of role reversal, the former quarterback trying to come to grips with his friend’s success in “Mississippi Nuthin’.” And there’s “C’mon Utah,” which follows a mythical horse named Utah galloping across the desert to return a man to his family in Colorado after being separated by the border wall. The lyrics are currently being turned into a children’s book of the same name, illustrated by the couple’s good friend, New York-based artist Julio Cotto Rivera. For Trent and

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Hearst, the song and book are a way to start the conversation, to help process world events with their kids but also with themselves. “At the end of the day, we stand primarily as parents who love their children and who are interested in the human condition,” Hearst says. From Charleston, South Carolina, the duo has been playing as Shovels & Rope since their self-titled debut album was released in 2008. Married the following TODD COOPER year, the couple recently welcomed their second child, and are now enjoying the “chaos” that is touring with two small children and performing together. “It’s madness, but it’s beautiful madness. It’s like camping,” Trent says. “It’s everything I ever dreamed of,” Hearst adds. When they first started out, Trent says, it took some time for the couple to figure out their dynamic, seeing as both had been solely in charge of their past projects. But with Shovels & Rope, and with each other, they’ve both found a home, learning how to operate as a single organism, reading each other’s cues both on stage and in life. As vocalists and multi-instrumentalists, Hearst and Trent sing most songs in harmony, switching back and forth between lead and backing vocals while simultaneously trading guitars and drumsticks — sometimes even turns at the keyboard — throughout the entirety of each set. It’s a dynamic and engaging live show, the roots rock beats blending with the folk-styled lyrics. But it’s also intimate. Always willing to share the spotlight, they often sing to each other, and maybe even for each other, inviting the audience into their palpable chemistry. “Ten years and some great communication and good therapy and the love of our family, we’ve created this symbiotic relationship of give and take,” Hearst says. “It really is a beautiful thing.” OCTOBER 17, 2019

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The STEAM of dreams

A visit to DMNS’ ‘The Science Behind Pixar’ is a must

by Michael J. Casey

e believe art is a powerful own adventure. As DMNS senior media ple smile. Imagine the work involved gateway drug into science,” producer Greg Koronowicz explains, when they crafted “When She Loved George Sparks, CEO of the “Animation is a non-linear process.” Me.” Denver Museum of Nature & There are major signposts along the And while every station is engrossScience (DMNS), says of its way — modeling, rigging, surfaces, sets ing, the lighting section might be the newest exhibit, The Science Behind and cameras, animation, simulation, exhibition’s highlight. For Pixar, lighting Pixar. “This exhibition, more than anylighting and rendering — but you don’t doesn’t just mean creating and controlthing I’ve ever seen, highlights the bene- have to visit them in any particular order ling light; it means creating and controlfits of STEAM — science, technology, to understand how a movie comes ling the right light. When Arlo (The Good engineering, arts and math.” Dinosaur) is bathed in bright sunlight, it together. Makes sense — rarely does is not the same sunlight Dory (Finding Curated by Ka Chun Yu — who Pixar move from one step to the next Nemo) sees filtering through seaweed. received his Ph.D. from the University of when making a movie, and a Colorado Boulder in Desert sunlight does DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE not shine through 2000 and is DMNS’ Syndrome’s dark lair chair of the Space (The Incredibles) Sciences department — anymore than Mater The Science Behind (Cars) rumbles Pixar is an immersive through the candyexperience where colored memory guests can understand balls of Riley’s mind. how technology actualLight creates izes the artist’s inspiraspace, and it creates tion. mood. Using both a “These tools physical and a cominclude computer proputer-generated gramming, obviously, model, guests can but also mathematical manipulate various functions to help model dimmer switches to and animate characadjust the lights in ters and objects — Carl and Ellie’s living their physics, and their room (Up). Crank biology that’s needed the sunlight and to simulate how things lamps up as far as look and how they ON THE BILL: ‘The Science Behind they’ll go, and you can practically see move,” Yu says. “And, 360-degree exhibit at the center Pixar.’ Runs though perhaps, most importhe two lovebirds sitting in their chairs — of the room illustrates this proApril 5. Denver tantly, the physics of his boxy and squat, hers curvaceous cess perfectly. Museum of Nature & and tall — holding hands while reading. light and reflection But, if you want to start at the Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, dmns. Slide those same levers to the left, and and refraction.” beginning, turn right and go to the org/pixar. With 50 interactive case of character models. For over Ellie’s lamp cast a pall over the room. Suddenly, a bicycle built for two now elements — from arta century, animators have used carries only one. work, videos and physical models to help them There’s more to do and see at The audio to the ability to animate, light and understand how to animate the contours create stop-motion shorts — The Science Behind Pixar than you can and shadows of a character. How would Science Behind Pixar is a delight. Like manage in a single session. TVs and Collette’s nose look when she turns to artwork surround each station, showing the finely tuned movies Pixar makes, the profile (Ratatouille)? Check the model. the work in every possible stage of crelabor and the love behind DMNS’ exhibit How deep of a shadow would Heimlich’s ation. It’s not like walking around inside is potent. rolls cast on his body (A Bug’s Life)? Wall-E, Inside Out or Ratatouille; it’s The Science Behind Pixar begins Check the model. like walking around the collective brain with a movie, short and sweet, that lays Next, head to the rigging section: that made those movies. You see their out how Pixar makes a movie; from a the process of animating bones, joints simple line drawing of how Woody (Toy and muscles to create believable expres- inspiration unfolding as you walk from Story) swings his arms while he walks to sions of emotions. The station has a one station to the next, and you feel the fully realized Land of the Dead large screen showing Jesse’s face and a their creativity exploding with each technological advancement. To para(Coco). They call this process the “Pixar series of nine sliders (Toy Story 2). Pipeline,” and when you enter DMNS’ Those sliders control Jesse’s facial “mus- phrase Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull: It’s people, not computers, who make main room, you enter the Pixar Pipeline. cles.” Move each one, and you’ll get an From here on out, you choose your Pixar movies. idea of how much work goes into a simBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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OVERCOATS (OPENING FOR THE JAPANESE HOUSE). 8:30 P.M. SUNDAY, OCT. 20, FOX THEATRE, 1135 13TH ST., BOULDER, 303-447-0095.

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Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell met in a dorm room at Wesleyan in 2015. Soon they were making music together as Overcoats. Within two years they had crafted a provocative pop album that NPR named its No. 4 album of 2017. With honest, vulnerable songwriting, Overcoats subvert traditional pop under a haze of grunge. Tickets are $15.

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Dafna, Jay Kraemer and Spring Hubris will RIS perform for the latest iteration of Walnut Street Sounds, a local production that brings songwriters from around Boulder and Denver to perform in the beautiful 140-year-old chapel of First Presbyterian Church. Jay Kraemer is a Boulder musician who, when he isn’t weaving together soul-healing instrumental music on his own, also serves as the frontman for Young Atlas Band. Spring Hubris are “your favorite never-heard-of underground white and boring hipster band based out of Denver.” Dafna is a 19-year-old singer/songwriter from Boulder who began writing music in middle school. The show is open to all-ages with a $5-$15 suggested donation.

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11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. It’s that time again... time for fear and film on the Front Range. The Fourth Annual Dickens Horror Film Festival brings you contemporary and classic horror film screenings all day and night at the historic and haunted Dickens Opera House. There will be speakers and workshops throughout the day illustrating behind-thescenes processes, such as costume and make-up design. For a full schedule of films and workshops, visit coloradofests.com/festivals/dickens-horror-film-festival.

MUSIC FOR PEACE AND LOVE: A TRIBUTE TO WOODSTOCK.

2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, Central Park Bandshell, Broadway and Canyon, Boulder, 303-444-6981. Join all your peace-lovin’ friends at the Boulder Bandshell on Oct. 20 for an afternoon celebrating peace, love, music and fun. The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center of Boulder will be hosting a free sing-a-long event with local performers and advocacy groups leading songs of peace, love and togetherness. The event will feature songs from Woodstock in honor of the festival’s 50th anniversary, and many other songs in that same spirit from other years. Come enjoy great music, a vegetarian potluck of snacks, munchies and beverages, and singing and dancing from 2-4 p.m.

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‘Eyes On: Erika Harrsch,’ Hamilton Building, through Nov. 17; ‘Eyes On: Jonathan Saiz,’ through Nov. 17; ‘The Light Show,’ through May 2020; ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through January 2020; Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont: Annual Dia de Los Muertos exhibition: ‘Ancestors,’ through Nov. 3.

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Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden: ‘Character and Narrative,’ East Gallery; ‘Diana Fox: The World in Which I Love, Community Gallery, through Oct. 20.

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Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont: ‘Front Range Rising,’ permanent exhibit; ‘Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture,’ through Jan. 5. ‘Dia de los Muertos: Day of the Dead,’ through Nov. 4.

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

NOW SHOWING AT BOULDER Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Folding and Thrusting’ is a solo exhibition of new work by Denver-based artist Gretchen Marie Schaefer. Rooted in geology, the exhibition features a large-scale dimensional painting and photographic works that combine geologic abstraction with notions of perception. This exhibition expands on her most recent body of work that delves into the implicit power dynamics embedded in common ways of seeing the world. Through Jan. 19.

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MONUMENTAL — coproduced by Black Cube and the Denver Theatre District. Through Jan. 31, 2020. For times and locations visit denvertheatredistrict.com/event/monumental. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Wild: Buffalo in Boulder,’ through Jan. 12; ‘Archive 75: Multilayered Stories Told Through a Boulder Lens,’ through January 2020; ‘Boulder Through the Decades,’ through Dec. 2.

THE CHAMPIONS Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada: ‘Colorado Abstract +10: A History and a Survey,’ through Nov. 17.

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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.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), 1750 13th St., Boulder: Adriana Corral: ‘Unearthed/Desenterrado;’ Gretchen Marie Schaefer: ‘Folding and Thrusting,’ through Jan. 19.

NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder: ‘Photography by Mark Shegda’ and ‘Pastel Paintings by Teri Hoyer,’ through Oct. 26.

BMoCA at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., University of Colorado Boulder: ‘Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me,’ through Nov. 24;

Saturday Oct 19

SONS OF GENESIS “The Genesis Tribute”

The Open Studios Tour. Noon- 6 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays, October 6-7, 13-14, 20-21. Plan your weekend studio visits, openstudios.org.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Street Wise,’ Canyon Gallery, through Dec. 1; NCAR Traveling Climate Exhibit: ‘Real People, Real Climate, Real Changes,’ through Nov. 14; ‘Design Trail,’ Arapahoe Ramp, through Dec. 15.

& PARADISE THEATER “The Styx Tribute”

University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder: ‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June 2020; ‘Object: Color,’ through September; ‘Its Honor is Hereby Pledged: Gina Adams,’ through Nov. 2; ‘Art Elements: Materials, Motive and Meaning,’ through Dec. 21.

Bricolage Gallery, Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder: ‘Found In Translation: Assemblages by Grace Kisa,’ through Nov. 23.

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

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder: ‘Grounded,’ opens Oct. 18, through Dec. 1.

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Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver: ‘Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature,’ opens Oct. 21, through Feb. 2;

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 Music Buku’s Cruisin’ USA Tour 2019. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram — with Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. A Day To Remember: The Degenerates Tour. 5:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-1482. Greg Kavna, A Human Named David, Julien Kozak. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Guest Master Class: Damarre McGill, flute. 3:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

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Hip Pop for Adults. 6 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 720-749-2531.

Open Studios Tour Preview Exhibit. 10 a.m. Naropa University, Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, 303-748-9132.

Lunch and Learn — Music and Social Change: Blues, R&B, Soul, Motown, and Beyond. 12 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 720-749-2531.

Reel Rock 14. 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Through Oct. 18.

Events BoulderReads Tutor Training. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Craig DeMartino: Rebuilt. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Glow in the Dark ZUMBA WALK. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525.

Sukkot on Pearl Street. 2 p.m. Pearl Street Mall, 1200-1400 Blocks of Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, 720-422-6776.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 Music The Brother Brothers. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Fall Music Series. 7 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-999-4099. see EVENTS Page 30

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Faye Webster. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Friday Afternoon Concert: Altius Quartet. 2:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Futuristic — with Scribe Cash, Abstract, Ekoh and Th3 KiND R3D. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. A Girl Named Genny, Lucas Wolf. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. The High Hawks featuring Vince Herman, Adam Greuel, Chad Staely, Brian Adams, Will Trask. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Lenore Raphael Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Main Squeeze — with Jaden Carlson Band, Ghost Tapes. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Michael Franti & Spearhead. 7 p.m. The Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver, 720-577-6884. Nice Work Jazz Combo. 5:30 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Phantoms. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Sara Bareilles. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. The Soundpost Sessions: Mare Wakefield & Nomad. 8 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525. Wage War — with Like Moths to Flames, Polaris and Dayseeker. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Walker Shellist Duo. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Few filmmakers are as divisive as the great Italian Pier Paolo Pasolini. He was a novelist, a poet and a provocateur even before he picked up a camera. His debut film, Accattone, is a revelation. His follow-up, Mamma Roma, is even better. And on 35mm, Anna Magnani sparkles. If that wasn’t enough, IFS follows up Mamma Roma with the 2014 bio-pic, Pasolini, with Willem Dafoe as the notorious filmmaker. Mamma Roma screens Friday, Oct. 18, and Pasolini follows on Saturday, Oct. 19. Both movies start at 7:30 p.m. inside CU’s Muenzinger Auditorium. —MJC

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Boedecker Theatre, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., 303-4447328: Sans Souci Festival of Dance in Film: Bound, Unbound, Reboud, 1 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 20, Wednesday, Oct. 23. ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon,’ Oct. 16-19. ‘Honeyland,’ Oct. 23-26. ‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,’ Oct. 23-26. ‘The Miracle of the Little Prince,’ Oct. 16-19. ‘The Wolf House,’ 8:45 p.m., Friday, Oct. 18. Century Theatre, 1700 29th St., 303-444-0583. ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ ‘The Addams Family’ ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ ‘Gemini Man’ ‘Jexi’ ‘QT8: The First Eight,’ 7 p.m., Oct. 21

Events Clara in the Underworld: A Zombie Nutcracker, Spectres of the Shadowland. 7:30 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson, 119 Park Avenue West., Denver, 303-647-5730. Free Rocky Horror Picture Show — with Shadow Cast. 7:30 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732. Halloween Zombie Shoot. 5 p.m. Firing Range and Training Facility, 10916 County Road 5, Longmont. Fridays, Oct. 18 and 25, 5-10 p.m.; Saturdays, Oct 19 and 26, 1-10 p.m. The Mysto REALLY BIG Magic Show. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. ‘What the Bleep Do We Know?’ Movie Viewing — with producer Will Arntz. 6 p.m. Unity of Boulder Cinema, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 Music The Alcapones. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Alejandro Aranda is Scarypoolparty. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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Bombino and Vieux Farka Toure. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music – Church in the City, 1580 N. Gaylord St., Denver. The Brother Brothers. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Category 5 Jazz Quintet. 7 p.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-618-9778. Celebrate Dance & Music. 5 p.m. Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-229-1127.

International Film Series, University of Colorado Boulder, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., 303-492-8662: ‘Dragon Inn,’ 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 20. ‘Goodbye Dragon Inn’ on 35mm, 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 22. ‘Jojo Rabbit,’ FREE SHOW, 4:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 20. ‘Mamma Roma’ on 35mm, 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 18. ‘Pasolini,’ 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 19. ‘The River’ on 35mm, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 23.

LONGMONT:

Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1230 S. Hover Road, 844-462-7342. ‘The Addams Family’ ‘Gemini Man’ ‘Jexi’ ‘Joker’ ‘Abominable’ ‘Ad Astra’ ‘Downton Abbey’ ‘IT Chapter Two’ ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’

LOUISVILLE:

Regal Cinebarre Boulder, 1164 W. Dillon Road, 844-462-7342: ‘Abominable’ ‘Ad Astra’ ‘Downton Abbey’ ‘The Goldfinch’ ‘Hustlers’ ‘IT Chapter Two’ ‘Joker’ ‘The Lion King’ ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ ‘Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood’ ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’

Hiss Golden Messenger. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Kalya Scintilla Gaian. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Lenore Raphael Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Roots & Rhythm. 8 p.m. The Wild Game Entertainment Experience, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875.

College Radio. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Longmont Symphony: La Commedia dell’arte. 7 p.m. Stewart Auditorium at the Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-772-5796. Through Oct. 20.

Cycles Presents: The Game Show — An Interactive Concert & Game Show Experience. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Oh, I Shall Sing with the Boulder Children’s Chorale. 4:30 p.m. Atonement Lutheran Church, Baseline & Inca Parkway, Boulder, 303-554-7692.

Defunkt Railroad. 10 p.m. Dark Horse Bar and Grill, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Peak2Peak. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

The Distillers. Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Women in Song hosted by Shanna in a Dress. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Electric Red. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E.South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 917-207-5157.

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So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, OCT. 22 Tara High School Poetry Reading. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. French Poetry Evening. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Music.’ 7:30 p.m. Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder.

Alexis Brink — The Art of Jin Shin. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

SUNDAY, OCT. 20

The Denver Moth — StorySLAM. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Stories on Stage presents ‘A Little Fright Music.’ 1:30 p.m. Su Teatro, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.

FRIDAY, OCT. 18

Creative Writing Lab for Grades 3-5. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Steve Greig — The One and Only Wolfgang. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

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Anne and Mike Howard — Comfortably Wild. 5 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

MONDAY, OCT. 21

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Juliana McCarthy — The Stars Within You. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23 Global Studies — Sustainability. 12:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Susan Purvis — Go Find. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. BMoCA + Swoon: Tim Atkins Poetry Reading. 6:30 p.m. Swoon Art House, 4295 Broadway, Boulder.

Adam Rippon — Beautiful on the Outside.

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Events Comedy Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002. Dairy Comedy Hosted by Katie Bowman. 8:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. EnParejaDos — con Adrián Uribe y Consuelo Duval. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Frequent Flyers Fall Fundraiser: A Fair in the Air. 5 p.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272. Gala Event: An Evening in Ghana, BaoBao Foundation. 6 p.m. The Sweet Spot on Coal Creek Golf Course, 585 W. Dillon Road, Louisville, 303-882-0602. Halloween Archery Fun Shoot. 5 p.m. High Altitude Archery, 455 Weaver Park Road, Suite 500, Longmont, 720-491-3309. Laser Halloween Spooktacular and Freaky Moons. 2:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Laser Metal Hallowscream. 11:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Monster Mash & Ira Liss Show. 7 p.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-6189778.

The WOW Magic Show. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Yard Sale Fundraiser. 9 a.m. Angevine Middle School, 1150 W South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-561-7182. Zodiak Free Arts Lab West. 8 p.m. Confluence Garage, 75 Waneka Parkway, Lafayette, 303-710-5201.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 Music Ballet Ariel presents ‘Peter and the Wolf’. 3 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson, 119 Park Ave. West, Denver, 303-945-4388. Boulder/Broomfield Stars of Tomorrow (Grade K-8). 1 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 East South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-442-5538. Boxcar 79, Charlie White, Dominick Antonelli. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Graduate Woodwind Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. The Japanese House. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Maluma 11:11 World Tour. 7 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

Events The Bloody Mary Festival. 10:30 a.m. EXDO Event Center, 1399 35th St., Denver, 303-468-5443. Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863. Citizenship 101: second session. 12:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Gross Me Out at the Library. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Pumpkin Palooza Painting pARTy! 2 p.m. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21 Music Adam Palm, O’Keefe & Mason Kinard. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Circle Singing — with Mmmwhah! and Roy Willey. 6 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110.

The Music of Phish for Kids. 11 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Concert Band: Cross, Bach, Ticheli, Slyer, Fillmore. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Opening Day Party. 10 a.m. Busey Brews, 70 E. First St., Nederland.

Rapidgrass. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Deeper Into Guitar. 6:30 p.m. New Vista High School, 700 20th St., Boulder, 720-561-5968.

Robots in Space Free Lecture. 6 p.m. Robauto, Inc., 251 Main St., Longmont, 303-999-1924.

Tracy Grammer. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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Frank Turner: No Man’s Land. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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J.S. Ondara. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Symphonic Band and Concert Band. 7:30 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder. Wale. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Events All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. 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.

The Addams Family. Jesters Dinner Theater, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Dec. 1 and Jan. 3-26

Modern Physics Book Discussions. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Carrie the Musical. Longmont Theater Company, 513 E. Main St., Longmont. Opens Oct. 18. Through Oct. 26.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. VIVA Theater at the Library. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 Music Cody Ko & Noel Miller: Tiny Meat Gang Live. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Cut Snake. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Devil Wears Prada. 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Dylan Roddick, Ethan Mindlin Jones, Tom West. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Homevibe & eTown present Richard Shindell. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Shovels & Rope with John Paul White (The Civil Wars). Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Day of the Dead Dance. 6 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8411.

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GriefShare Course. 6:30 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont, 303-776-0399.

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

CARRIE WHITE is a misfit. At school, she’s an outcast who’s bullied by the popular crowd, and virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she’s at the mercy of her loving but cruelly over-protective mother. But Carrie’s just discovered she’s got a special power, and she’s not afraid to use it. See Longmont Theatre Company’s production of ‘Carrie the Musical’ Oct. 18-26.

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A Doll’s House/A Doll’s House Part 2. Denver Center Theatre Company, Ricketson Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through Nov. 24. Ghosted: A Paranormal Mystery. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Through Oct. 27. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Nov. 17. I do! I do! Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Oct. 27.

atre, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Oct. 19 and 20. Mamma Mia! BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder. Through Feb. 22. Mrs. Warren’s Profession — presented by Germinal Stage. The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Nov. 9. The Necromancer’s Stone. The BITSY Stage. 1137 S. Huron St., Denver. Through Nov. 23. Pippin. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Opens Oct. 18. Through Nov. 9. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street — presented by Equinox Theatre Company. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through. Oct. 19. Universe 92. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through Oct. 19.

In the Trenches: A Parenting Musical. The Elaine Wolf Theatre, JCC Elaine Wolf The-

GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Allie Chipkin. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Justin Townes Earle. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. MoJazz Duo. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060.

Play Marimba! 5:45 p.m. Kutandara, 5401 Western Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 720-561-5968. Sabaton, Hammerfall. 7 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Events Anime-niacs: Anime Club for Adults. 6 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470. Climate Change and the Arts. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. High Crimes Book Group. 5:30 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. Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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They were the last tomatoes of the season, harvested from the garden like the precious gems they were. The tomatoes were heirlooms. Their juice was a deep, luscious red, and their flesh was thick and meaty. Because of that, I didn’t notice at first when I cut into them and sliced my index finger. The blood from my finger mingled indistinguishably with the juice of the tomato, so that when I finally felt the familiar sting of pain, I thought for a second that the tiny tomato seeds were coming out of my body, as if I was a ripened fruit ready to burst. I couldn’t believe I had cut my finger again. Last week, when I had been making salsa, I had practically sliced off a fingernail while carving into an onion, and now I had bled all over what I knew would be the last tomatoes from this year’s garden. A hard freeze had been predicted for tomorrow night, and there would be no more backyard tomatoes to look forward to until next summer. All the watering all the weeding, all the composting, this is what it came down to. I used my thumb to press a towel against my index finger, feeling the pressure against my skin. I stared down at the cutting board, a splatter of seeds and blood staring back at me. I put it all into the salad.

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Lupino: Filmmaker hey say the future of film is female. It is. But so is the past. Collection, available Maybe that’s not evident upon first glance — certainly not if from Kino Lorber you page through the standard history books — because wherever Blu-rays/ critics, historians and filmmakers, mostly male, like to focus DVDs are sold. on the canon. And the canon is sexist by omission, dismissive by default. Thankfully, some companies and organizations are bucking that trend. They’re widening cinema’s gaze and welcome all of cinemas’ past pioneers, contract players and independent filmmakers to the table. Case in point: Kino Lorber’s newest Blu-ray box set, Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection featuring four films: Not Wanted (1948), Never Fear (1949), The Hitch-Hiker (1953) and The Bigamist (1953), all beautifully restored, with scholarly commentaries and an outstanding booklet written by Ronnie Scheib. Few come to cinema through similar means, and Lupino’s story is no exception. Born in 1918 in London, Lupino made her way to Hollywood first as a dancer, then as an actress. Bad girls were her métier, and Lupino climbed the ranks at Warner Bros., often taking the roles A-lister Bette Davis turned down. But Lupino was unsatisfied being a second-rate Davis and turned to independent filmmaking for control. Working with her husband, Collier Young, Lupino formed a production company, The Filmakers [sic], and began developing socially conscious scripts, the kind Hollywood studios wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole. Writing, producing and directing, Lupino shot in stark black and white — invoking both documentary and Italian neorealism — and tackled topics society was trying to sweep under the rug: discarded, unwed mothers (Not Wanted), polio (Never Fear), rape (Outrage), psychopathy (The Hitch-Hiker) and adultery (The Bigamist). Each film was made for less than $160,000. Sadly, Outrage isn’t included in Kino Lorber’s set, but the other four form a survey of post-war America repressed. Individually these movies capture a sense of true alienation, loneliness and passivity. Taken together, they display the prowess of Lupino’s storytelling, the care with which she considers each character’s perspective, and the empathy she gives even her most heinous villains. Of the four, The Bigamist might be Lupino’s best. Not just because she also stars (opposite Joan Fontaine, who was married to Collier Young at the time — what an interesting shoot that must have been) but because her treatment of an adulterous husband (played perfectly by Edmond O’Brien) is so even-handed, so sympathetic, you don’t just feel for him; you understand him. So it is with all great works of cinema. Others would follow in Lupino’s footsteps. Look up studio actors who started independent production companies tackling challenging materials, and you’ll find plenty on John Cassavettes, little on Lupino. That’s beginning to change. And while studios, production companies, festivals, distributors and exhibitors make promises toward gender parity in the future, now is the time to discover the work that got us here. You might have to look a bit harder to find it, but the results are all the more rewarding.

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here’s a lot to take in when you enter Boulder’s new food hall, Rosetta Hall. People are bouncing around between the bar, the food stalls and the common dining areas. Each food stall is a vignette of culinary activity, with three or four cooks preparing food, while another rings up customers. We wouldn’t blame you if Folsom Foods, the first booth at the west entrance, was as far as you made it. You also wouldn’t be disappointed. Chef Justin Brunson’s American classics, using Colorado-cured meats and locally sourced ingredients, are excellent. Take the Colorado pastrami sandwich, with tender, well-spiced pastrami piled high on crunchy-crusted and toasted marble rye, along with Swiss cheese, Thousand Island dressing and bright, juicy coleslaw. $13.50.

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GRAIN BOWL GAME Quit the quinoa and go with farro, barley, freekeh and friends

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can’t stand quinoa. I know that’s heresy in Boulder County, where quinoa is more common on menus than cheeseburgers. I loathe quinoa’s squishy, rubbery texture, its odd flavor and lack of aroma. Over the years I’ve eaten and cooked my fill in myriad preparations, and I’d be delighted to never put quinoa in my mouth again. If I’m being honest, I think people eat quinoa because it’s good for them, not because they love quinoa. Enough already. Besides, quinoa is a seed, not a whole grain, with a natural coating of bitter saponin to scare off birds. It is sold rinsed

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and you can rinse it some more before cooking but there’s always a trace of it that affects the taste. I know all about the nutritional pluses of quinoa. I know it takes on the flavor of ingredients and seasonings. It’s not worth it. There are other, tastier ways to get the protein, fiber, vitamins, carbs and calories — with or without gluten. Quinoa has no magical, mystical powers. I’ve written about Boulder County food since the Tassajara/Moosewood Hippie era of the late ’70s and seen plenty of magical, mystical foods come and go. See kale for details. Whole and ancient grains are suddenly the hottest ingredi-

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ents again for the same, good health and taste advantages they’ve always had. At our County’s eateries they always seem to come in bowls, not plated, and no one is certain why. They are popping up in fried “rice” and salads, cooked like risotto or paella, and added to yeasted breads and desserts. I love whole grains and cook them in sweet (breakfast) form and savory variations. There are a lot of other tastes and textures beyond the blandness of brown rice, oats and quinoa. I’ve become a fan of certain alterative grains — farro, barley, freekeh and millet. My current favorite is farro, an ancient form of spelt. It’s wheat, but with less gluten, and it cooks up like chewy rice with a nutty taste. Barley adds a nice chew as a whole grain. I keep a box of quick barley around because it’s easy to use in soups or porridge. As much fun to eat as it is to say, freekeh is roasted, cracked green whole wheat. It boasts the same earthy, nutty, chewy appeal as bulgur, the wheat used in Middle Eastern tabbouleh salad. These days most millet is found in bird seed, but the little, round, yellow, couscous-like grain is a nice addition to other grains. It’s got more texture than flavor, and it’s even better when toasted first. These grains, along with wheat berries, amaranth and buckwheat, are in my pantry arsenal with various rices. Supermarkets with a good bulk foods selection make it easy. Locally grown wheat berries are available at the Boulder County Farmers Market, Moxie Bread Co. and Dry Storage. Aspen Moon Farm offers local organic wheat berries and red flint corn for polenta. If you cook and store batches of these grains separately, it’s easy to com-

bine a few different ones into a dish, whether it’s roast chicken stuffing or mango coconut sticky grains. There are two approaches to cooking grains. A rice steamer or hot pot is probably the easiest way to prepare farro, barley, freekeh and other grains. You find out after one batch whether you need to add more water if they are

farro and keep the grains separate. I also cook grains like farro in the oven, substituting various broths — chicken, veggie, bone, pho and ramen — or even coconut water. Batches of grains should be chilled rapidly to stop them from further cooking. Consider freezing cooked farro, freekeh and barley. Spread on a cookie sheet

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too chewy or mushy. I go for a substantial chew. The beauty of any of these organic grains is that they are really cheap. The grain in Panera Bread’s pricey, popular Warm Grain Bowl costs maybe 10 cents. You can experiment with them and, if a batch comes out mushier or crunchier than you like, it’s not a major investment. The other way to cook grains is to boil them in a lot of salted water in a big pot, the way you do for macaroni. You taste grains along the way until done and then strain. This is the best way to cook

and store in a bag for those nights when you don’t have time — or the will — to cook. Frozen, pre-cooked organic grains are available but the cost for that convenience is fairly obscene. Note: Boiling barley or amaranth at altitude in Ward takes a lot longer than in Erie. LOCAL FOOD NEWS Coma Mexican Grill has opened at 4800 Baseline Road. … You’ll be disappointed if you wait until the last minute to make reservations for some of the 40-plus local eateries offering

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hris Coppinger was on his way out to California in 1977 after graduating from the University of Maryland. If you ask him, he says he fell in love with Boulder and decided to stay. If you ask his wife, Ann, she’ll say, “My husband ran out of money.” So Chris bagged groceries at the King Soopers on Table Mesa, and, having always wanted to work in a liquor store, walked down the hill to Pettyjohn’s Liquors after work every day and asked the owner, John Pettyjohn, if he would hire him. “He harassed John Pettyjohn to hire him,” Ann recalls, then pauses and laughs. “And finally John did.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Chris called Ann, who was a semester behind at the University of Maryland, and asked, “What are you doing after you graduate?” “I was like, ‘I don’t know,’” Ann says. “And he said, ‘I am here in Boulder. I won’t go west without you.’ So I came out after college.” Ann had a business degree, so when she got to Boulder, Pettyjohn hired her to do the books, and she and Chris closed the store every night. Though Ann had no thought she’d ever work in a liquor store, Pettyjohn made her the wine buyer because of her business skills. The wine section back then was maybe one rack, but Ann took wine classes so she could at least stock that rack well. She found she a had a natural ability. “I was really good at it. … It turned out that I have a really good palate for wine,” Ann says. “But it took a while. I’d go to these classes and they’d be like, ‘I smell a banana,’ and I’d think, ‘I smell wine.’” Nonetheless, Ann (and Chris) got a heap of wine and spirit certifications, and as their knowledge grew, so did Pettyjohn’s. John Pettyjohn got the City of Boulder’s first retail liquor license in 1969 (though Liquor Mart was the first to OCTOBER 17, 2019

open). Pettyjohn was manager of the parts department at a Dodge dealership in Littleton when his son told him Boulder, which was dry until then, was about to lift its liquor regulations. Pettyjohn jumped in, drove from Littleton every day to a lonely neighborhood of rental and track homes (King Soopers wasn’t built yet), and worked in his pocket liquor store. He hired his wife, Marie, then Ann and Chris, then expanded the building over the years. But the most remarkable thing was the relationship Ann and Chris built with the Pettyjohns. It was just one of those happy cosmic coincidences. “The Pettyjohns had four children, all of them older than us,” Ann says. “And my husband had lost his father during college, and I had lost my mother in college. The Pettyjohns pretty much adopted us.” John and Marie were the witnesses when Ann and Chris eloped, which Ann says was “a riot.” They spent holidays together. When Ann and Chris had their own kids, they considered the Pettyjohns their grandparents. And when see PETTYJOHN’S Page 44

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John and Marie got too old to run the shop anymore, they and their children unanimously agreed Ann and Chris should buy it. In 1997, they did. “When the liquor license was switching over to me, John and Marie were at the liquor hearing and the liquor board said something about how wonderful it was that the family was continuing the second liquor license,” Ann says, then recalls, shaking her head, “[John] got up and screamed, ‘No, I was the first,’ and I’m like, ‘Sit down!’” Indeed, Ann says their intimate relationship with the Pettyjohns worked like any other family. They had each other’s backs, but they could get on each other’s nerves. John and Marie had a tendency to pop in to the store unannounced after retiring. “The good thing was we felt like a part of the family” Ann says. “The bad thing was that we felt like part of the family.” When John and Marie declined in health, before passing away, Ann and Chris often accompanied them to the emergency room and notified the rest of the family when things looked bad. And it all started because Chris ran out of money on his way elsewhere. “I don’t think it was normal,” Ann says. “It was just amazing.” Pettyjohn’s will celebrate its 50th anniversary next month with beverage and food tastings, winemaker visits, a special Breckenridge Bourbon tapping and more. On Dec. 7, all of the Pettyjohns from around the country are flying in for a family reunion of sorts, shared with the community that has supported the store over the last five decades. That South Boulder community, Ann says, is unique, and it’s changed over the years, much like the rest of Boulder County. The items in Pettyjohn’s tell the story: it used to be a pocket shop for mass-produced beer and niche wine; now it’s primarily a wine shop (with plenty of I

craft beer and liquor) that Ann curates and sources, in large part, directly from winemakers. And as the neighborhood has gotten pricier, so has the concentration of wine enthusiasts. “I’d say the majority of Table Mesa has been to Italy,” Ann says, laughing again. “The houses are selling for millions of dollars, and they’re scrape-offs. And so instead of having a rental community of mostly students, I’ve got some serious money and some very knowledgeable customers, so we had to evolve with them.” That evolution also helped stave off the effects of Colorado’s decision to allow full-strength beer to be sold outside of liquor stores. Ann says she’s lost about 25 percent of her beer sales since the change, but the focus on wine and craft food items like chocolate and olive oil have mitigated the loss. And as one of the 160 independent liquor store owners who helped negotiate what the legislation might look like, Ann says carving out protections in the law “saved our lives.” For example, one, generally speaking, requires grocery chains within 1,500 feet of independent store owners to buy that store’s liquor license if it wants to sell wine and liquor in that area — assuming the independent store owner wants to sell. “For 40 years, every year it was like, ‘Oh my god, are they going to put it on the ballot?’ It was just a constant thing,” Ann says. “And our legislators, who were standing behind our small businesses, were getting tired of it. We knew that we needed to come to the table and negotiate.” So a lot has changed in the 43 years Ann and Chris have worked at Pettyjohn’s — in the liquor business, in Boulder and in the shop itself. You can still see the old, wooden Pettyjohn’s sign on the front of a checkout booth; a picture of a young Ann and Chris hangs by the doorway; exposed beams indicating past expansion projects. The store, like the wine inside it, has aged well. BOULDER WEEKLY

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New in brew: Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales

Canning the wild revolution

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t wasn’t until the mid-1800s that yeast was “discovered.” French chemist Louis Pasteur took credit, and his treatise changed the brewing world within decades. Granted, brewers had been working with yeast since the dawn of civilization, but, until the industrial revolution, yeasts were mysterious, whimsical and wild. In the years surrounding Pasteur’s discovery, thermometers, hydrometers, refrigeration and transportation transformed the brewing landscape. What was once a hyper-local product could now be brewed consistently, efficiently and transported to thirsty customers. Yeast was a crucial component in this revolution because each strain — and they are numerous — creates a variety of flavors and aromas, regardless of the base beer. As commercial brewing expanded, consistency became king, and brewers isolated specific yeast strains to produce iconic and memorable ales and lagers. But as brewers tamed their yeast, they lost certain magical qualities of brewing. They lost spontaneity. They lost the cræft of brewing. That cræft — Old English for intuition and hands-on knowledge — is back in a big way. Boulder County is already home to a couple of spontaneous breweries, but with Denver’s Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales releasing three of its beers in cans, it’s high time to dive into something wild. Helmed by James Howat, Black Project was Colorado’s first spontaneous brewery. Instead of pitching a specific strain into the wort — a sugary sweet broth that ferments into beer — Howat simply let the yeast and bacteria in the surrounding air ferment the beer. The results are often slightly sour, somewhat funky, and have a flavor that varies from glass to glass, sip to sip. Of the three available — Magic Lantern, Shadow Factory and Dagger — Magic Lantern is the place to start. It’s a sour salted wheat ale with peach, passion fruit and apricot. Using a 100% wheat base, Magic Lantern is Black Project’s canvas and features a variety of fruit additions. Last year, Black Project made it with mango and tangerine — yielding Tropicana-like flavor — but this year’s fruit bill really zings. It pours a turbid cantaloupe orange, has a fleshy nose of stone fruit (peach and apricot mostly), and delivers BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Dagger, a fruit punch sour wheat, pours a pale peach color. The nose has a fresh field, herbal quality to it, but the flavor is sweet fruit — honeydew and watermelon — with snappy acid. Three not enough for you? Black Project’s Denver taproom opens at noon, Tuesdays through Sundays. Some beers are worth the trip.

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really want,” PantSuit says with a chuckle. “I’m sure that once I find out that big secret, I’ll be able to accomplish wonders.” I hope the rest of you Geminis will be on a similar mission in the coming weeks. Do whatever it takes to get very clear about what you want most.

BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “We can’t change anything until we get

some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently,” wrote Aries psychologist James Hillman. I agree. And that’s very good news for you Aries people. In my view, you are more attracted to and excited by fresh ideas than any other sign of the zodiac. That’s why you have the potential to become master initiators of transformation. One of my favorite types of plot twists in your life story occurs when you seek out fresh ideas and initiate transformations not only in your own behalf, but also for those you care about. I bet the coming weeks will bring at least one of those plot twists.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Metaphorically speaking, Taurus, you

are now crossing a bridge. Behind you is the intriguing past; in front of you, the even more intriguing future. You can still decide to return to where you came from. Or else you could pick up your pace, and race ahead at twice the speed. You might even make the choice to linger on the bridge for a while; to survey the vast vistas that are visible and contemplate more leisurely the transition you’re making. Only you know what’s best for you, of course. But if you asked me, I’d be in favor of lingering on the bridge for a while.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: As I write this, I’m sitting in a café near

two women at another table. One sports a gold cashmere headscarf and pentagram necklace. The other wears a dark blue pantsuit and a silver broach that’s the glyph for Gemini the Twins. HeadScarf shuffles a deck of Tarot cards and asks PantSuit what she’d like to find out during the divination she is about to receive. “I would very much like you to tell me what I really

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates was meandering through an Athenian marketplace, gazing at the appealing and expensive items for sale. “How many things there are in this world that I do not want,” he exclaimed with satisfaction. I recommend you cultivate that liberated attitude. Now is a perfect time to celebrate the fact that there are countless treasures and pleasures you don’t need in order to be charmed and cheerful about your life. For extra credit, add this nuance from Henry David Thoreau: People are rich in proportion to the number of things they can afford to let alone.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: I invite you to try this exercise. Imagine that one springtime you grow a garden filled with flowers that rabbits like to nibble: petunias, marigolds, gazanias, and pansies. This is a place whose only purpose is to give gifts to a wild, sweet part of nature. It’s blithely impractical. You do it for your own senseless, secret joy. It appeals to the dreamy lover of life in you. Got all that, Leo? Now, in accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you actually try to fulfill a fantasy comparable to that one in the coming weeks.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: My Virgo friend Lola got a text-message from her Scorpio buddy Tanya. “Why don’t you come over and chill with me and my demons? It’ll be entertaining, I promise! My inner jerks are howlingly funny tonight.” Here’s what Lola texted back: “Thanks but no thanks, sweetie. I’ve been making big breakthroughs with my own demons — giving them the attention they crave without caving in to their outrageous demands—

and for now I need to work on stabilizing our new relationship. I can’t risk bringing extra demons into the mix.” I suspect this is an accurate description of what could be happening for you, Virgo.

you have at night? Whatever stimuli bring you into visceral communion with your soul, I urge you to seek them out in abundance. It’s Soul-Cherishing and SoulEnhancing Time for you.

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said to be a drink that enhanced awareness and alertness. According to modern scholars, it may have been a blend of poppy, ephedra, and cannabis. In Norse mythology, the beverage called the Mead of Suttungr conferred poetic inspiration and the ability to solve any riddle. One of its ingredients was honey. In Slavic folklore, raskovnik is an herb with the magic power to unlock what’s locked and uncover hidden treasures. It’s not a four-leaf clover, but resembles it. I invite you Libras to fantasize about using these three marvels. To do so will potentize your imagination, thereby boosting the cosmic forces that will be working in your favor to enhance your awareness, confer inspiration, solve riddles, unlock what’s locked, and find hidden treasures.

to arrange a series of high-level meetings between your body, mind, and soul. You might even consider staging an extravagant conference-like festival and festival-like conference. The astrological omens suggest that your body, mind, and soul are now primed to reveal choice secrets and tips to each other. They are all more willing and eager than usual to come up with productive new synergies that will enable each to function with more panache and effectiveness.

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: In ancient holy texts from India, soma was

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: The coming weeks will be a favorable time

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “I believe in inhabiting contradictions,”

writes Aquarian author and activist Angela Davis. “I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or choosing both.” I think Davis’s approach will work well for you in the coming weeks. It’s not just that the contradictions will be tolerable; they will be downright fertile, generous, and beneficent. So welcome them; honor them; allow them to bless you with their tricky opportunities and unexpected solutions.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was a visionary genius in numerous fields, including architecture, design, engineering, and futurism. In the course of earning 40 honorary doctorates, he traveled widely. It was his custom to wear three watches, each set to a different time: one to the zone where he currently was, another to where he had recently departed, and a third to where he would journey next. “I know that I am not a category,” he wrote. “I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb.” I recommend his approach to you in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Be a verb! Allow your identity to be fluid, your plans adjustable, your ideas subject to constant revision.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Piscean pianist Frédéric Chopin (1801–

1849) was a poetic genius whose music was full of sweetness and grace. “Without equal in his generation,” said more than one critic. Today, more than 170 years after his death, his work remains popular. Recently an Italian sound designer named Remo de Vico created an original new Chopin piece that featured all 21 of the master’s piano nocturnes being played simultaneously. (You can hear it here: tinyurl.com/NewChopin.) As you might imagine, it’s a gorgeous mess, too crammed with notes to truly be enjoyable, but interesting nevertheless. I’ll counsel you to avoid a similar fate in the coming weeks, Pisces. It’s fine to be extravagant and expansive and mulitfaceted; just don’t overdo it.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place,” said actress Tilda Swinton. How about you, Sagittarius? What reminds you that you have a soul in the first place? Beloved animals? Favorite music? A stroll amidst natural wonders? Unpredictable, fascinating sexual experiences? The vivid and mysterious dreams

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: My father passed away recently. I received a contract to sell his house, and soon I’ll have to clean the place out. My question is this: What to do with a dead relative’s porn? I don’t want to keep it, I don’t want to waste it by just putting it in the trash, I can’t donate it to the library. There’s nothing especially collectible in it, so eBay is out. Maybe someone would buy the lot of it on Craigslist, but I’m not entirely clear what the legalities are for selling secondhand porn out of the back of a car, let alone what the potential market might be. I mean, how many folks are looking to buy a deceased elderly man’s former wank bank? I’m certain I’m only the most recent in a long line of folks to find themselves in this situation. Any advice for finding the porn a new home, or is it a bad idea to even try? Added difficulties: smallish town, Midwestern state, and I’m his only living family member. —Rehoming Inherited Pornography Dear RIP: You would be in the same predicament if you had lots of living family members. I have an enormous family

— lots of aunts and uncles, We didn’t even have sex. We just kissed countless cousins — and and talked and cuddled for six straight “Who wants the porn?” isn’t hours. Sounds perfect, right? Well, at a question I’ve ever heard about hour five, in the middle of this surasked at an elderly relaprisingly deep conversation, he said tive’s wake. And that can’t something that made my head spin. I be because none of my elderly relatives asked him how old he was. “Twenty-one,” had porn stashes; the law of averages he replied. Holy shit. He asked how old I dictates that at least one and probably was. “Fifty.” Neither of us had our age on more dead Savages (RIP) had massive Grindr. He looked about 30 to me. He porn stashes, which means said he thought I was in my ROMAN ROBINSON whoever cleaned out the late 30s. It was basically apartment or house quietly love at first sight for us. disposed of the porn. And After nine months of trying that’s what you should do. to keep a lid on our feelIf you’re concerned about ings, he moved away and your dad’s porn “going to found a guy close to his waste,” dispose of it in a own age, which I strongly conspicuous manner, e.g., encouraged. Before they drop it off at a recycling became an official couple, center in open boxes or we went on a goodbye clear bags. Maybe a workwalk, which was full of love er or someone else making and tears. We agreed to do a drop-off will spot the porn the “no contact” thing for and decide to rescue it from the pile. And, one month (he thought three was hey, my condolences on the death of extreme). But here’s my issue: I’m in love your father. with him. I’ve been incredibly sad since we last spoke about three weeks ago. It’s Dear Dan: I went on Grindr just before a week until the agreed upon day when Xmas last year, this handsome dude we can say hi if we want to, and I don’t messaged me, and we ended up hooking want to. I can’t. I have to let him go. I up at his place. It was apparent from the know he’s going to want to talk, but I’m get-go that this was no regular hookup. afraid if I have any contact with him, it will

set me back and I won’t want to stop. It’s taken all my willpower to not contact him so far. My question: How do I let him know I don’t want any further contact without hurting him? —Impossible Love Sucks Dear ILS: Call the boy, ILS, ask him to meet up, and tell him you made a mistake. Yes, you’re a lot older, and the age difference may be so great that you two aren’t going to be together forever. But maybe you’re perfect for each other right now. A relationship doesn’t have to end in a funeral home with one person in a box to have been a success. If you have three or four great years together before the window in which your relationship makes sense closes, ILS, then you had some great years together. People get it into their heads that they can’t enter into a relationship unless they can picture it lasting “forever,” when really nothing is forever. To quote the great James Baldwin: “Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Joan Price about senior lovin’: savagelovecast.com. Send questions to mail@savagelove. net, follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage and visit ITMFA.org.

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Software is the hot thing in cannabis right now by Seymour

rom lowering energy usage to developing point-of-sale systems to connecting grow facilities with dispensaries, software is shaping the quickly evolving cannabis industry — and making headlines every day. On Oct. 15, Forbes declared, “Investors are pouring money into marijuana software,” and highlighted Denver-based Flowhub, which just raised $23 million to expand sales of compliance and point-of-sale software to marijuana dispensaries nationwide. Of course there are already point-of-sale systems out there — anyone who’s worked in the restaurant industry can rattle off a list of POS systems with quirky names like Toast, CAKE, Aloha and, my personal favorite, Squirrel — but federal prohibition makes it tough for established companies like these to serve the cannabis industry, which still isn’t allowed access to federal banking. Enter cannabis-centric tech companies like Flowhub, which, according to Forbes, “is also adapting its software to help dispensaries manage their inventory (including the shelf-life of edible pot products) and staffing needs.” With pot sales soaring just over $10 billion in 2018 and projected to quadruple in the next four years, Flowhub isn’t the only company cashing in on cannabis-specific software. Pitchbook, a venture capital database, found 39 venture capital deals involving cannabis software in 2018 worth more than $178 million. “Legalization has opened doors for many busi-

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nesses, especially startups dabbling in the data and technology aspects of legal marijuana,” Investopedia reported this summer in an article profiling a handful of top marijuana private equity and venture capital funds. “While it is still difficult to invest directly in legal pot through public equities, venture capital firms and private equity funds have raised hundreds of millions of investment dollars.” (One of the VC funds Investopedia highlights is Phyto Partners, the lead investor in Flowhub.) CanPay is another Colorado-based IT company (it created a debit payment app) with nearly 300 customers across 17 states. Business management isn’t the only area of the cannabis industry that software companies are looking to improve. On Oct. 13, The Denver Post profiled Boulder-based Surna, which designs, engineers and manufactures app-based environmental control and air sanitation systems for indoor grow facilities. “The more precise control means less energy consumption and that affects the bottom line,” Surna CEO Tony McDonald told the Post.

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Software is even helping cannabis companies find advertising space. Adistry, a Longmont-based company, developed software “that helps connect cannabis companies seeking to buy advertising space with media outlets and other businesses willing to sell advertising space to marijuana operators,” according to Marijuana Business Magazine. “Adistry, which also serves other regulated industries such as alcohol and gambling, isn’t just about introductions,” MJ Biz Mag wrote. “The software automates much of the ad-buying and -selling processes for clients, which is particularly useful for small businesses that may not have the time or expertise to manage ad buys.” But some marijuana tech companies are having a hard time getting their sea legs, as the Massachusetts-based Worcester Business Journal reported on Oct. 14. “[W]ith the slow rollout of recreational marijuana in Massachusetts … would-be cannabis tech entrepreneurs are facing obstacles on two fronts: a limited number of licensed cannabis companies to do business with, and competition from established tech companies who already have cut their teeth in earlyadopting marijuana markets like Colorado and California.” West Coast (and Colorado) cannabis IT and marketing service companies have had more time to develop their products and find clients, meaning tech companies in newly emerging markets, like Massachusetts, are struggling to compete with well-established, multi-state operators. Here’s hoping the cannabis industry can create a fertile ground for local businesses to flourish.

Surprise! Ex-FDA head wants FDA to regulate pot by Paul Danish

cott Gottlieb wants you to know that marijuana legalization is behind the recent spike in the number of cases of lung damage and deaths linked to vaping — that and the federal government’s decision not to challenge state laws legalizing marijuana. He thinks it’s too late for the feds to turn back the legalization movement — 33 states have legalized either medical or recreational marijuana or both — but it is still possible for the federal government to assert its supremacy over the states and strictly regulate the emerging marijuana industry. “Even if we were to federalize it (control over marijuana) and allow some form of recreational use, we could limit what can be sold, the potency of what could be sold, the forms in which it can be sold,” he told CNBC News, adding that he didn’t think that THC vape products should be allowed. Gottlieb isn’t your standard-issue drug war deadender. Until a few weeks ago he was head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He aired his views on marijuana legalization and vaping in an Oct. 10 Wall Street Journal op-ed and in a subsequent CNBC interview. As a result of state-level marijuana legalization and the federal decision not to challenge it, Gottlieb wrote in the Journal, “a large pot industry has bloomed in recent years, and a dangerous market in cannabis concentrates, such as the ones responsible for the vaping deaths, has proliferated.” Gottlieb wrote that health officials in Wisconsin and Illinois found that 87% of those injured by vaping “had vaped tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the main psychoactive in marijuana, from prefilled cartridges purchased from ‘informal sources’ during the three months before they developed symptoms. A majority of the victims said they used THC every day.”

But in the next paragraph he repeats the finding that “dodgy suppliers” are known to add ingredients to thicken the THC concentrates in vape pods, and that “these emulsifiers, including vitamin E acetate, can be deadly if inhaled into the lungs.” “The liquids can also contain pesticides and other contaminants that, when heated, produce gases that can directly injure the lungs,” he added. What should we make of this? The fact that millions of people smoke marijuana every day without getting the sort of lung damage that was showing up in vapers, strongly suggests that THC isn’t the problem. If it was, the “vapers’ syndrome” would have appeared in the ’60s when marijuana use took off. The fact that most cases also involved cartridges obtained from “informal sources” suggests that the vaping epidemic is the result of tainted counterfeit vape cartridges and pens, not the result of legally produced and sold vape products. In other words, the epidemic isn’t much different from deaths caused by illegally produced rot-gut booze sold during prohibition. (Such booze frequent-

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