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U.S. being treated like a developing nation By Dave Anderson

ou know the old story of U.S.-based multinational corporations moving plants to the developing world, where they have a more “business-friendly,” unregulated environment under authoritarian regimes that give them the freedom to pay workers much less. That is still happening. Meanwhile we aren’t noticing that European multinationals are doing the same thing in the United States. This month, the AFL-CIO released a study entitled “The Double Standard at Work: European Corporate Investment and Workers’ Rights in the American South,” which uses several case studies to show how some European companies have exploited weak labor rights I

laws in the South, while bragging about having fine relationships with trade unions and upholding standards for working people in western European nations. The study notes that these corporations “have accelerated their foreign direct investment in the Southern states of the United States in the past quarter-century.” Some, but not all, “have interfered with freedom of association, launched aggressive campaigns against employees’ organizing attempts and failed to bargain in good faith when workers choose union representation.” The region’s low wages, low taxes, low levels of union representation and anti-union “right to work” laws are attractive to European capitalists eager to escape European social standards. The firms are involved in auto, steel and aircraft manufacturing; transportation and logistics; food services; and telecommunications. The report focuses on studies of known European corporations — among them Airbus, Fresenius, Ikea, LSG Sky Chefs, Nestlé, Schnellecke Logistics and Skanska — that see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 6

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“have used every loophole and Party has been trying to impose its opportunity to exploit working peoopposition to worker and minority ple.” rights on the rest of the country. These Southern states “are They have been quite successful in almost uniformly in the bottom half Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin, — and more often in the bottom which were once union strongholds. one-third — of social indicators for Harold Meyerson, a reporter for living standards, health, education, The American Prospect, notes that the workplace safety and other measures Boston Consulting Group released a of well-being in the states of the study in 2011 saying that American United States.” manufacturers who had gone to The report was supported by the China were coming back. Meyerson European Trade Union found a revealing comparison in the Confederation study between (ETUC). Its factory workers in principal author, one particular Lance Compa, is region of China in and around and one particua senior lecturer at Cornell lar region of the Shanghai were much more U.S. In 2000, University’s School of showed, facexpensive that workers in they Industrial and tory workers in Labor Relations. and around Mississippi. He argues Shanghai were that European much more and American expensive than workers need to work together to workers in Mississippi. Moreover, fight this: productivity-adjusted pay for “As European companies become Chinese workers would soon go up accustomed to Southern U.S.-style even more in a few years. anti-unionism, the temptation grows Harold Sirkin, the study’s primato apply the same blanket strategies ry author, said that in contrast with and tactics in Southern and Eastern Western European countries, with Europe, or even in the heart of the their rigid standards protecting European Union. Such a turn by workers’ rights, America was so European firms would make it even much better. He told Meyerson that easier for U.S.-based companies in “America is so robust and so flexible Europe to export American managecompared to all economies but ment-style violations of workers’ orga- China... Getting the work rules nizing and collective bargaining right, getting the wage scales right rights.” — the [U.S.] economy can flex in Compa says that workers on both ways that people wouldn’t believe.” continents should be concerned So flexible. Mississippi is about the negotiations now taking America’s poorest state. place for the Transatlantic Trade and So flexible. A few years ago, an Investment Partnership (or TTIP). MIT economist Peter Temin said He warns that the “United States America is regressing to the ecolikely will pressure Europe to accept nomic and political status of a devela trade arrangement promoting weak oping country. We have roads and labor laws, anti-unionism, decentral- bridges that look more like those in ized collective bargaining, low wages, Thailand and Venezuela than those low taxes, privatization, deregulation in Western Europe. He said 80% of of health and environmental rules, the population is in the low-wage reduced public services and other sector. They are burdened with debt features of the U.S. model that are and worried about their job security. most prominent in the American So flexible. Like a second-rate South.” banana republic, we have a buffoonBut American workers living ish thug as president. He is determined to rule as a dictator. We fight outside of the South should be confeelings of cynicism and resignation. cerned about their brothers and sisSo flexible. Damn it. This cannot ters in the land of Dixie. For many go on. years, a Southernized Republican

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Colorado deserves better — I’m voting no on Prop DD

By State Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg (R-Sterling)

n an era of money-hungry government, this election cycle seeks to move us further down a path asking taxpayers to give more, fund more, pay more. Water has long been at the forefront of my agenda over the duration of my career in the state legislature. I have served as the Water Committee Chairman several times and have become one of those “water guys” from whom others seek information. I have remained publicly neutral on Proposition DD as several questions were not answered. Instead, I proposed policy changes to require transparency. Those questions remain unclear and any transparency policy has so far been rejected. This proposition asks permission to add sports betting to Colorado’s current list of approved games, in response to the 2018 Supreme Court ruling that individual states can authorize betting on sports. I know people who already bet using their smartphones. Voters are asked to approve that list and then allow a tax on sports betting with the revenue going to the “Water Plan.” On the surface this seems great: we need to make sure we have funding available to build storage and keep Colorado’s water in Colorado. Except, just like Prop CC, the legislature can raid funds set aside for water and use them for something else. And they have in the past — since 2002, $322 million specified for water projects has been spent elsewhere. If Prop CC fails and Prop DD passes, will the legislature take the money they had hoped would be generated by Prop CC to fund the ongoing government overspending? The law says they can! Let’s assume that we can trust the legislature to spend this money on the “Water Plan.” Will that money be used to build storage? Or will it fund other projects such as removing water from agriculture for recreation or instream flows or urban growth? A past director of the Colorado Water Conservation

Board has been quoted saying that some rivers need to be 100% owned by the state to meet the agency’s conservation goals. That scares me, and it should scare agriculture. Most recently, as I try to decide if this is a good policy for Colorado, I can’t help but focus on

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the questions that are not being answered. It would appear that there are some hidden agendas involved. To me, it boils down to this: should gamblers be made to fund our water needs? Should we raise taxes on something like gambling

to replace a noticeable reduction in water funds used because of the curtailed oil and gas production? Can we trust the legislature to spend this money on what it is promised for? I can’t answer yes to any of those questions.

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I support the re-election of Joan Peck for Longmont City Council, At-Large. Joan has been a tireless advocate for preserving our natural environment and for protecting wildlife within the city. She has stood up for affordable housing and compassionate engagement with the homeless population. She has fought for bringing FasTracks to Longmont and has worked to promote multimodal transportation. She has been a leader in the fight to bring air quality monitoring to Longmont, which will soon be implemented. In all areas of city policy, Joan has worked to achieve a sustainable future for all citizens. Her candidacy has been endorsed by the Colorado Sierra Club, as well as numerous state and county officials. Joan Peck seems to be unpopular with a small clique of development boosters and the “old guard” who act as if they own the town. Among these are some of the same people who publicly supported fracking in Longmont as a great “business-friendly” idea back in 2012. At that time Joan was leading the petition drive to ban fracking. Their opposition is a badge of honor and a sign that Joan is doing an effective job. If you are a Longmont citizen who wants a clean, sustainable and just future for our town, please join me in voting for Joan Peck. Chris Boardman/Longmont

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If Prop CC passes it would gut the Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR). But the language of Prop CC is misleading and does not clearly state this intention: I

“Without raising taxes and to better fund public schools, higher education, and roads, bridges, and transit, within a balanced budget, may the state keep and spend all the revenue it annually collects after June 30, 2019, but is not currently allowed to keep and spend under Colorado law, with an annual audit to show how the retained revenues are spent?” Politicians, today, can raise taxes, but with TABOR, they have to ask us first. If government revenues increase at a rate faster than population growth plus inflation, the excess must be returned to taxpayers. This would end if Prop CC passes. Losing TABOR would cost Colorado taxpayers billions of dollars in perpetuity. It would forfeit all our future TABOR refunds, and forfeit your future consent to tax increases. We can learn quite a bit from the past. Ref C, passed in 2004, allowed for a five-year time-out from TABOR spending limits. The revenue was to be used, among other things, for education, transportation and health care. But no one knows how the money from Ref C was spent. Prop CC is asking for a forever time-out. Colorado’s economy is currently ranked No. 1 largely because of TABOR, which creates a stable tax environment that attracts business and provides tax refunds to Coloradans. Do we want to lose this excellent status and allow the Colorado economy to become more like California or Illinois? If you want to keep your hardearned money, your right to refunds, and your future consent to tax increases, vote no on Proposition CC. Diane Borden/Golden BOULDER WEEKLY

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 Longmont Ballot Issue 3C. (Extend sales and use tax to maintain roads.) Yes City of Longmont Ballot Issue 3D. (Extend City-owned property leases from 20 to 30 years.) No City of Longmont Ballot Issue 3E. (Retain municipal Judge Robert J. Frick.) Yes n CITY OF LAFAYETTE City Council Stephanie Walton JD Mangat Jenna Tullberg

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Polis administration complicit in disguising true health risks found by recent CDPHE study by Phillip Doe

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Phillip Doe is a former environmental compliance officer and head of the Reclamation Law Administration for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. He currently serves as the environmental director for Be the Change Colorado.

he Polis administration went into its finest Larry, Curly and Moe fire-drill routine last week. The cause of all the mindless helter skelter was the JOEL DYER release of a CDPHE report first commissioned by former Governor John Hickenlooper on the potential for benzene poisoning in the fracking fields of Colorado. As many will remember, Hicklooper held fast to the claim that fracking was safe, even as he sleep-walked through his aborted run for president. He must have thought this study would prove him right. It didn’t. When commissioned back in 2014, citizens and grassroots groups raised objections to the study format. The industry would part- concerns. In a press conference they declared ner in the study and gather air pollution data. In themselves on top of it — they had things under other words, the polluters would help measure control. Mostly they had it wrong. Fearing contintheir own pollution. Academics from Colorado ued civil disruptions because of the lack of progState, a university with close ties to the industry, ress in implementing the new law, SB 181, the would use highly suspect methodologies to interpublic was not allowed to attend the press gathpret the chemical characteristics of the pollution ering. SB 181 is supposed to have turned the from the wells. Independent scientists insisted the tables on the oil industry in this state. No longer results, by design, would under-measure the is the State to prostitute itself for the industry; actual air pollution, particularly benzene. instead, the State is now supposed to ensure the Benzene is a known carcinogen, unsafe to public and the environment are protected as a humans at any concentration. condition precedent to new oil development. At What could go wrong? Well, there was one least, that was the promise. miscalculation: the fracking lovers didn’t control Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation the simulation model into which the suspect data Commission Director Jeff Robbins announced the would be fed. And what a miscalculation it was. study showed a risk of benzene poisoning during The old scientific formulation of garbage in, garthe early stages of the fracking process called bage out didn’t quite hold up. The simulation flowback. During the flowback phase at least half model, even with suspect data, showed fracking of the chemical mix used to frack the formation was sometimes spewing benzene like late-night and force oil to the surface under tremendous tweets from Donald Trump. pressure returns to the drill site. Presently, given Polis’ lieutenants were quick to tamp down the length of the one-mile-plus laterals, maybe half BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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of the roughly 10 million gallons of water mixed with 100,000 gallons of chemicals used to frack the formation can be expected to stream to the surface along with the first rush of oil and gas, including benzene. Robbins claims the study showed health threatening benzene contamination as far away as 2,000 feet from the drill site only during the flowback phase. Thus, he says, the risks were short-term. As a consequence of the study, he is going to evaluate all new permits for their potential for harm out to 2,000 feet. He will also continue to use the 1,500-foot standard he established, by fiat, in May to evaluate for potential harm. How he is to match the competing standards is a magic trick apparently known only to him. At least the Hickenlooper safe-standard of 500 feet has vanished from the conversation like the morning dew. The fact of the matter is that graphs from the study show harmful benzene concentrations can be expected, under the simulation model, well beyond 2,000 feet, perhaps for many miles. Such a finding is consistent with actual measurements from the Boulder County Air Monitoring Station. Recently this station, the only continuous air monitoring station in the state, measured a huge spike in benzene that correlated well with a major gas leak at a frack site near Windsor. The station is 40 miles from the Windsor location, a drill site that eventually erupted into a major explosion and fire requiring all regional fire departments to engage at the site. Senator Steve Fenberg, one of the sponsors of SB 181, is now calling for an immediate end to all permitting within 2,000 feet of human habitation. Had the state not misinformed the public concerning the study results, Fenberg’s request would be a rational and laudable reaction. However, Fenberg is acting on bad information. The model was programmed to only measure bensee ANALYSIS Page 12

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zene to 2,000 feet. That is a far cry from saying the study showed benzene risks disappeared after 2,000 feet. Simply put, the Polis administration’s complicity in disguising the potential health impacts that could and should be derived from the study is immoral and possibly even criminal. Similarly, the administration’s insistence that there are no expected long-term impacts from benzene poisoning such as cancer is without foundation. The study relied on snapshots of individual wells, not continuous monitoring as required by SB 181. It is welldocumented that air pollution from wells is not constant, but varies depending on the operation. With the industry participating in this study’s pollution-gathering phase, one would expect the snapshots to be taken when releases to the atmosphere were minimal, as opposed to times when flaring or venting of gasses into the atmosphere were operationally called for or state sanctioned and permitted. New studies indicate that even atmospheric conditions can influence the leak rate at oil and gas facilities. Only continuous monitoring can capture all the variances. Thousands of people living near fracking in the state have reported nosebleeds, trouble breathing, rashes and eye irritations. The study, despite its limits, confirms these reactions are likely from benzene poisoning. Yet the State would have us believe there are no long-term impacts because a few indeterminate snapshots of operational well releases following the flowback phase allow them to basically lie, and in so doing, cause unknown levels of harm to Colorado citizens. Indeed, the Fracking Compendium, which Colorado continues to blindly ignore in its health assessment of fracking, indicates that of the nearly 1,800 original research papers on fracking and shale oil and gas extraction, over 80% of those studies published before 2016 found harm or potential harm from fracking. That percentage has only increased in recent years with over 90% of the original studies published after 2016 finding “a positive association with harm or OCTOBER 31, 2019

potential harm.” To give some life to these deadly statistics, it is perhaps beneficial to note a few of the findings among these studies: • 77 spills in Weld County impacted groundwater with benzene above allowable levels. • High benzene levels were detected in urine samples of pad workers during flowback. • Young people with lymphocytic leukemia were 4.3 times more likely to have lived near oil and gas operations. • • • • It’s pretty obvious what’s not being done and probably won’t be done since Robbins is of the opinion that permits already approved — over 1,700 of them since Jan. 1 — can’t be recalled or reviewed. In his opinion, the mineral owners have sacred vested property rights that we the sovereigns of this state can’t diminish or impair. We apparently have a duty to die from benzene or other poisons if we happen to live near the fracking fields. Not only does this opinion show that protecting public health and the environment is not the primary goal in this administration’s regulatory considerations, as required by SB 181 and the Bill of Rights, but that Robbins is probably not a very good lawyer. The U.S. Supreme Court has always ruled the public’s safety and health are a higher social good than property rights. Moreover, the State Supreme Court has ruled similarly, as it must, of course, that the State can override vested rights provided the decision is consistent with a legitimate government interest. The protection of the public’s health and safety as demanded by SB 181 probably suffices. What should be done? Obviously a complete halt to new drilling must be invoked until realtime monitoring can be accomplished. A test continuous-monitoring system should be employed immediately as required by SB 181. The monitoring program should employe new laser technology. This technology is not dependent on wind direction or other weather conditions. A system being used in California at refineries can measure with great accuracy up to 70 chemical constituents and be made available to inter-

ested governments almost immediately. Continuous monitoring should be undertaken at both a new site about to be fracked and several operational sites. All drill sites should be well away from human habitation. Measurements should be continuous from the minute the drill bit goes into the ground until the operational phase is well underway. Continuous monitoring should be done at several test sites, with selection of those sites done with the advice and consent of those living in the fracking fields. The data for the simulation model for benzene poisoning was from individual wells, on pads as small as one acre. This is atypical of Front Range drilling, where up to 40 wells on a pad of 10 to 15 acres is the rule. The test sites should be at these industrial mega-sites, where some have speculated the amount of air pollution may rival those at the Suncor refinery in Commerce City. Feeding this fear is the fact the State asks for no control on emissions until at least 90 days after the well becomes operational. In other words, they intentionally skip monitoring the flowback stage. The State promises to correct this insane loophole under SB 181 rulemaking. We’ll see. It would be interesting to see this real-time data fed back into the simulation model for comparative purposes, but also to track potential pollution to its outer limits, not an arbitrary 2,000 feet that is clearly protective of the industry’s financial interests. Finally, we would all be thankful if the governor would stop making statements such as the one he made before oil executives a few weeks back. He is reported to have said that events in oil-rich Venezuela and Russia will have more impact on the frackers’ future in Colorado than SB 181. In his opinion, he told those assembled, “Commodities pricing and the market is what drives things.” These can’t be the words of a serious mind that got elected by vowing to regulate the industry and protect the people. He never hinted that he’d let Wall Street do it.

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Boulder City Council passes Opportunity Zone regulations, but questions and concerns remain about what will be built, and replaced, in the city

by Matt Cortina

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et the investments begin: The Boulder City Council on Tuesday night, Oct. 29, voted 8-1 to lift its moratorium on development in its Opportunity Zone, a tract of land between 28th and 55th Streets, and Arapahoe Ave. and Diagonal Highway. Created out of the Republican-led federal taxcut legislation in 2017, Opportunity Zones allow investors to sell stocks and roll over capital gains into real estate and business projects (via investment funds) in economically distressed areas across the country in exchange for tax benefits and deferment. Any profits realized by such investments could avoid federal taxes altogether if the investments are kept long enough. The idea was to pump cash into economically stunted areas and spur job growth, development and community benefits. Though no part of Boulder is economically stunted to the naked eye, City staff submitted a census tract for Opportunity Zone funding to the state, and the state submitted it to the U.S. Department of Treasury, which approved the designation in April last year. The impetus for getting the Opportunity Zone designation was born out of a desire to rehabilitate Diagonal Plaza, which comprises a small but commercially important corner of the Opportunity Zone and which currently houses a defunct Sports Authority and Walmart, several retailers, a restaurant and a Colorado Drivers License office. Because the plaza has multiple owners, revamping it has proven tricky. But City Council was not consulted during the process, and after learning the Zone included a much larger area than just Diagonal Plaza, it instituted a moratorium on building per14

mits and other development applications in the Opportunity Zone in March of this year. It tasked City staff with figuring out guidelines to ensure future development in the area would mesh with community desires and the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan, the de facto blueprint for development, while also preventing the demolition of the market-rate affordable homes and mobile home parks that currently exist in the area. And so Council voted to enact some of those proposed limitations on Oct. 29, which included tweaking zoning regulations to try to ensure desirable development comes in, and implementing an “overlay district” prohibiting the demolition of buildings with three or more attached homes for the duration of the Opportunity Zone program, which goes until the end of 2026. “What Council asked us to do when they put the moratorium in place is to change zoning regulations to make sure we’re going to get development we want if someone happens to redevelop property,” says Chris Meschuk, assistant city manager and interim director of planning. “I think a lot of folks in the community are still concerned with what these IRS regulations really mean and what will it result in. And it’s still not totally clear. That’s what we’re hearing now. There’s still considerable trepidation of not knowing OCTOBER 31, 2019

exactly how these regulations will play out over the next few years.” Despite outreach efforts during the moratorium to residents and business owners in the Opportunity Zone, the City received substantial backlash about the process that led to receiving the Opportunity Zone designation as well as concerns that it would welcome a flood of out-of-state investments that don’t have the local community in mind. “It was all happening behind the scenes,” says Council member Cindy Carlisle, the lone dissenter of the Oct. 29 ordinances, about the process to secure the Opportunity Zone designation. “By the time it happened, City Council didn’t know and didn’t have any say and that was the worst part of it, that it was done with such secrecy.” The concern that more jobs and business spaces will be created, possibly at the expense of residential units was a driving factor in City staff ’s recommendations for how to amend zoning rules in the Opportunity Zone. By virtue of the rules passed on Tuesday, developers will be able to build office space up to 20,000 square feet, or up to 40,000 square feet if affordable housing is included on site. Meschuk says zones were amended to allow more mixed use development that might actually net more residential units when all is said and done. But critics point to the fact that the vast majority of existing office I

space in the Opportunity Zone is under 20,000 square feet anyway, thus the standard is unlikely to deter developers interested in creating office space. Too, many of the guardrails Council recommended at the beginning of the process didn’t make it into the final regulations. Additional protections against allowing office use in residential zones were dropped, for instance, though a potentially lengthy and costly site review process is still required. And because it would likely be legally impossible to determine if a project received a federal tax benefit in the Opportunity Zone, Council decided it couldn’t add extra fees onto development in the area that might be, in turn, used to help displaced businesses or build more affordable housing. That ties into broader concerns about how Opportunity Zones are playing out across the country. An Aug. 31 New York Times article took a survey of projects in Opportunity Zones across the country and found plenty of examples of wealthy investors, including Chris Christie, Anthony Scaramucci and the Kushners, placing capital gains into luxury apartments, high-end office complexes and businesses that employ few local people. Perhaps most telling was the revelation that Sean Parker, an early investor in Facebook, lobbied to include a way to tie capital gains to investing in “distressed” communities on the 2017 tax bill, because, as he said at a conference, “When you are a founder of Facebook, and you own a lot of stock ... you spend a lot of time thinking about capital gains,” per the Times. “People are totally frightened because it’s not predictable what is going to happen except from what we’ve seen in other places,” Carlisle says. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

One need only do a Google search for Opportunity Zone investment funds to see the abundance of options for those looking to invest their capital gains — which would otherwise be subject to hefty taxation — into projects that offer a 15% discount on capital gains tax, and no tax on appreciation from invested properties if they are held for a decade or more. One could also look in their mailbox for flyers advertising Opportunity Funds and meetings in Boulder about investing in development projects. The State of Colorado has set up a website to facilitate investment, and the National Council of State Housing Agencies has a list of funds ranging in size from a couple hundred thousand dollars to $1 billion. But that’s the point of the Opportunity Zone after all — to incentivize major investment. And no one could argue that Diagonal Plaza isn’t due for some sort of injection of funds and redevelopment. Too, Meschuk says it’s hard to say what the impact will be specifically in Boulder, where the regulations Council passed are stricter than in other Opportunity Zones, and where existing land use codes would prevent one of those Scara-Christie high-rises from coming in. Of the 4,000 homes in the Opportunity Zone, Meshuck estimates 3,400 would be restricted from demolition and that most of them are condos, town homes or apartments; that is, [housing] likely to be more affordable. Meschuk did add, however, that “there really isn’t” a way to estimate how businesses may be impacted by the Opportunity Zone designation — how many small business owners renting space might be displaced or have their rents rise to unsustainable levels after redevelopment. Several Council members also expressed concern about the two mobile home parks in the area, but Meschuk says by virtue of having existing protections against lot rent rise in place and having special zoning that only allows for mobile home parks, investors would likely find it unsuitable to, say, buy Orchard Grove, improve it by the necessary amount (the monetary equivalent of a 50% improvement is required) and displace people. Councilman Sam Weaver cited anecdotally at the meeting that there are several business owners who have been hurt by the moratorium, unable to accept Opportunity Funds for BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

improvements or investments in projects that are necessary to their operations or growth. And, as Councilman Bob Yates pointed out, all development projects still need to go through the City before they are approved. Not that that’s prevented development in the City that the community ultimately disliked, Carlisle retorted. So although all Council members except for Carlisle agreed the City had done enough work to ensure the right

kinds of development would go into the Opportunity Zone, wariness persists. “We haven’t done any impact study on the front end to see what could happen,” Carlisle says, with regards to potential development in the Opportunity Zone. “When people are offered a goodly sum, they turn over. It’s another one of those unknowns. More and more what’s happening to the City of Boulder is that we are unable to have local goods and services provided in the City

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because of the cost of providing them. This [Opportunity Zone] could exacerbate that even more.” Concerned citizens are likely to find out soon. In order to get the full 15% tax benefit, investments need to be made on projects by the end of the year. With the moratorium lifted, and Council aware Opportunity Funds had been holding off until regulations were set, the future of development in the Opportunity Zone is likely to unfold quickly.

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f you’re returning to Honduras, consider covering up any tattoos and be able to explain them if asked — the tattoos might be the thing that puts you the most at risk. Once back in Mexico and Guatemala, try to blend in, not appearing too vulnerable or too cocky. But in Honduras, either of those might be the best strategy to keep you safe. If you’re going back to El Salvador, avoid wearing Nike Cortez or Adidas tennis shoes, don’t use the numbers 13, 18 or 503, watch your language for common slang like “brother,” “madre” or “carnal.” All of this could unknowingly associate you with a gang. “People who were born in El Salvador but haven’t been there for a long time, wouldn’t necessarily know that,” says Gabriella Flora with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a national immigrant rights advocacy organization. There’s a lot that immigrants might not know about their native countries if they were to be suddenly deported, or voluntarily return, because of U.S. immigration policy and enforcement. But that’s where AFSC’s “Crossing South” initiative comes in. Released on Oct. 15, the online guide, available in both Spanish and English, provides information about Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. It explains how to get your affairs in order in the U.S., what can be expected from the detention and deportation process, security precautions to take upon arriving in your native country, and organizations that can help. “For people who are deported, they can suffer a lot when they don’t know anyone and they don’t have anyone to teach them the ways or to support them down there. And it’s really hard to be in this predicament,” Lupe Lopez says. “So this guide is a really helpful tool.” Born in Chiapas, Mexico, although her family is originally from Guatemala, Lopez immigrated to Colorado in 1998. In 2012, she was stopped, with her husband, for not 16

CHRISTINA ZALDIVAR and her husband, Jorge, before an ICE check-in.

Responsibility (AOR), which includes Colorado and Wyoming, 3,253 people were deported in 2018. The vast majority of these people were sent back to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. “There are so many people in this country who have been a part of our country for so long, but are at risk of deportation because we’ve had no real avenues for people to legalize their status,” says Flora, who is based in Denver. “They are at risk of being sent back to a place where they may no longer have connections, a place where they don’t understand necessarily the cultural norms, where they don’t necessarily know what’s safe and what’s not safe and where they can go and where they can turn [for help.]” The Crossing South guide came out of conversations with AFSC’s Not1More table discussions, gatherings of immigrants and advocates seeking to support each other through deportation proceedings by educating families about their rights and sharing legal strategies to pre-

vent removal. At the same time, families often grapple with the possibility that they may have to return to countries where they either haven’t lived in a long time, or perhaps places they have never even been. The threat of deportation is very real for Christina Zaldivar, a U.S. citizen, and her family. She married her husband, Jorge, a Mexican immigrant, in 2005 and quickly started the process of permanent residency. In 2007, due to an administration error, Jorge’s residency was denied and the couple has been fighting his deportation since 2008. The couple has five children, all U.S. citizens. Her two older daughters are now adults with families of their own, although they were only kids when the process started. Another son is disabled, and her two youngest boys are only 9 and 11. Along with another Not1More member, Zaldivar brought the idea for the Crossing South guide to AFSC. If Jorge is ever to be deported, Zaldivar says, how’s he supposed to know where he can sleep safely, or get food and water, or how he can get a Mexican ID, which allows him to work? “In Mexico if you don’t have an ID showing that you’re Mexican or from there, you can’t get a job, you can’t apply for assistance, you can’t prove who you are, therefore you’re in limbo,” she says. What’s more, she’s never lived in Mexico and neither have her children. “My fear is all of us having to deport and not having a leg to stand on,” she says. “I’m stuck between do I leave my children here for their safety and just go with my husband, or do I tell my husband after 20 years, you have no wife or kids?” she says. “This is my life.” Developed in Colorado, with some state-specific information (like consulate locations and processes at

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New resource seeks to help ease adjustment after deportation by Angela K. Evans having Colorado license plates and both were taken into immigration detention. They have been fighting their deportation ever since, with a final court date set in January. The couple, who live in Fort Morgan, have five children together. “If we are deported, my kids are really worried because they’re citizens and they have futures here,” Lopez says. “My son is really sad and depressed because if they do deport us in January, he’ll have to graduate alone in May.” The reality of deportation is not new, and many families and individuals have already had to navigate returning to unfamiliar situations. Under the Obama administration, the U.S. deported a high of 409,849 people in fiscal year 2012. By the time Obama left office, the number of deportations had dropped to below 250,000 (in both 2015 and 2016), but have since increased under the Trump administration. In 2018, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations deported 256,085 undocumented immigrants, a 13% increase from 2017. In the Denver Area of OCTOBER 31, 2019

the GEO detention center in Aurora), the guide is being shared throughout the country via immigration attorneys and advocacy groups, Flora says, including printable wallet cards people can carry with them. All told, the guide took a year and a half to research and put together, and AFSC reached out to their offices in Guatemala and El Salvador, as well as coordinating with other organizations helping recently returned migrants in Mexico and Honduras. “It was really important to have people who are on the ground in those countries sharing that information with us so that they could let people know what that is going to be like,” Flora says. “This is also coming out of experience from folks who got deported quickly or folks we knew that had experienced real challenges once they got back to the home country particularly for their children.” For the Mexico guide, Harriet Mullaney with AFSC traveled to Nogales and spent time on both sides of the border with the Kino Border Initiative, a nonprofit run by the Jesuits that provides humanitarian aid and services to recent deportees. “My ability to see this program in action and all of the services that really sort of set the bar for the types of information that we wanted to be able to provide for other places,” Mullaney says. At Kino, the staff helps individuals contact relatives in Mexico and arrange travel, even connecting them to resources to help pay for it. They help them get Mexican IDs, provide safety training, even help them with employment if they want to stay near the border so their family in the U.S. can visit easily. “When people are more prepared at the moment of deportation, it helps us (Kino) focus our energy on the most needed services and can allow us to do proactive work instead of just reacting to a situation of insecurity,” says Joanna Williams, director of education and advocacy, for Kino. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

The Crossing South guide isn’t exhaustive, however, and some of the information is constantly changing both Mullaney and Flora say. They encourage people to double check what’s in the guide before they really need it. The ultimate goal, Flora says, is a just immigration policy that makes resources like this unnecessary. “We want to work toward a future where this resource is not needed, that people who are here and are members of our community are able to remain with their families and with the communities that they’re a part of,” Flora says. But until then, AFSC hopes the Crossing South guide can help people feel a little bit safer, a little bit more in control, despite the often traumatizing and dehumanizing deportation process. U.S.-born children can obtain dual citizenship in Mexico but not in Guatemala. Dual citizenship is possible in both Honduras and El Salvador, but not guaranteed. Regardless of which country you are returning to, always avoid purchasing fake birth certificates and gather your children’s school records, along with multiple copies of birth certificates. Have your marriage license, immunization and other medical records ready. Make sure you assign a power of attorney to take care of any financial and property assets you leave behind in the U.S. Make a friend on the plane, and stay together after arrival for support. Once you are in the country, avoid casual conversation and eye contact, don’t put identifying documents in your bag, keep them on your person. Carry small bills because of the high potential of bribes and have a code word to use with family members in case someone calls asking for ransom. Most of all, “Breathe,” the guide advises. “Know that your family and community are holding you in their thoughts and prayers and it is your own inner strength that will get you through this difficult transition. Take good care.” I

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t 5:15 p.m. on Oct. 9, Kyle Richardson stands next to the water fountain outside Chautauqua’s Ranger Cottage. He’s wearing his signature look: a short-billed cap, no shirt, breezy running shorts, colorful mid-calf socks and trail running shoes. This evening, however, he also cinches a climbing harness around his waist and thighs, and tucks a belay device into his shorts. He cues “trail run” mode on his GPS watch. Satellites ping above him as clouds roll in. He pushes “start” and immediately tears up the steep-but-smooth Bluebell Road trail, which leads southwest, toward the Flatiron formations that tower over Boulder like a row of jagged teeth. In 13 minutes and 24 seconds he reaches what’s known as the East Bench — the most popular entrance to the vertical terrain of the Third Flatiron. There, Richardson doesn’t miss a beat. He presses palms to rock, churns hand over hand, foot over foot, like a dry-land doggy paddle, soloing more than 1,000 vertical feet up the precarious terrain as fast as the push-pull relationship between his quads, lats and gravity will allow. Six minutes and 58 seconds later, he stands on the summit, but doesn’t pause to take in the view. His goal, to top the Third Flatiron and return back to the Ranger Cottage faster than anyone ever before, is no easy feat, given past speed records have been held by his idols: Anton Krupicka, Buzz Burrell, Bill Briggs, Stefan Greibel and the like. Could he get all the way back down in less than 12 minutes and 30 seconds? The first ascent of a Flatiron happened in 1906, when a pair of twin brothers spent hours soloing up the Third Flatiron’s east face, recording the first-ever rock climb in all of Colorado history. Since then, thousands of people have scrambled up the seemingly endless third- to fifthclass routes spiderwebbing up the slabs intersperesed between Green Mountain and South Boulder Peak. “You can just go do miles and miles and thousands and thousands of feet of vertical in such a concentrated area, and never really know the full extent of it,” says Richardson, who grew up in Austin, Texas. Last year, the 23-year-old graduated from BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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TIM O’BRIEN, HOT RIZE “Jeff was a fine singer, player and writer, but his standout talent was connecting with his audience and gathering community. Seems like from day one of Yonder Mountain String Band, his ‘life of the party’ personality sought connection. He could read the crowd, invite them in and show them how bluegrass connected to metal and punk before pulling out whatever stops were left. It was a two-way street — the audience fed him and he fed them back, and the thing would just grow as the show went on. “I helped YMSB with one of their recording projects, sitting on the other side of the glass as producer. The most representative track might have been when I joined the band for an old-time song, ‘Boatman.’ I think we’d finished all the other tracks. Jeff came forward and asked if they could take away the dividers that separated the players. He wanted them to be next to each other like they’d be on stage. He didn’t want to hem things in with too many instructions, so instead, we just let it fly. Fly it did — everybody was moving, dancing really, around a small set of mics in the middle of the room. Headphones must have been abandoned or we’d have tied each other up in knots. “It was nearly impossible to mix the track, but it really worked in the special Jeff Austin way. He could and would break all the rules, and had a stubborn conviction about it. His artistic voice stressed the freedom to throw it all in the air and juggle as if your life depended on it.”

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VINCE HERMAN, LEFTOVER SALMON “Jeff was really a renaissance kind of guy. He loved cooking at home and eating. He was an orchid fanatic — I’m looking at two of them sitting here at my house. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of sports. Jeff was a great mind who I

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loved the finer things. I think he struggled with his popularity. He loved being on stage but being Jeff Austin got to him sometimes.” PETER WERNICK, HOT RIZE “Jeff had a great gift for being on stage. Apart from his talents as a singer and a musician, he seemed born to be there. He projected energy in a variety of ways — just the way he would hold himself as he played the mandolin, or the way he could blab out a lot of syllables at high speed. I asked him once how he got so good at that speed-syllable thing. He said he worked on it in acting classes in school. I thought, it figures that Jeff took acting classes. He had a lot of energy to channel. I guess he burned up in his own atmosphere. I had come to respect the upward drive he brought to the music. When I think ‘rest in peace,’ it especially applies in his case.”

player and one of those guys who sought to be in the spotlight alone. You could see it. It’s very difficult to keep bands together and there was always a lot of tension with Jeff. Leaving a hot band to go solo doesn’t work out for nine out of 10 artists.” GREG GARRISON, LEFTOVER SALMON: “Before Jeff moved to Urbana, he’d come down and visit with me since I was

a student at the University of Illinois at the time. I lived in a place that we called the Monkey House; basically 10 kids living in a rental house having way too much fun. We’d have some pretty big parties, and along with the beer, nitrous tanks and other things, we’d try and provide entertainment. It could be a magician, flaming mop battles in the yard or crazy drum circles but usually it was Jeff

and I playing Dead and Phish tunes for our friends... whenever Jeff would really dig deep into a Garcia tune or vocally improvise in the way that we’ve all come to know and love, the room was transfixed. Those were the times that showed me what a truly special and gifted performer he was, and held the glimmers of what he would create in his way too short time with us all.”

DREW EMMITT, LEFTOVER SALMON “Jeff was a dear friend and we were kindred souls. Vince (Herman) and I were major influences on him so he was like family. We say that if Vince and I could have a musical child it would have been Jeff Austin. I sold him one of my F5 Nugget mandolins. You could tell he loved it and his playing got better after he started playing it. The reason I sold it to him was that I knew it would be a bright spot in his life. The last time I saw him was at a late-night jam at a West Virginia festival. We had a great time and he was really on that night. I admired what he brought to the jamgrass scene, the way he could entertain a big crowd.” CRAIG FERGUSON, DIRECTOR, PLANET BLUEGRASS “Yonder Mountain String Band played at Telluride and in Lyons many times. It was pretty exciting because he and Yonder took bluegrass places it really hadn’t gone before. They had this amazing energy and a lot of it was Jeff as a frontman. I was so glad he came back to Rockygrass last year with his band and played great. I hope he realized how much people loved him. I am tired of us as an industry ignoring mental health issues, the private battles each of us fights.” CHUCK MORRIS, LEGENDARY COLORADO MUSIC PROMOTER “I’ve learned a lot about group dynamics over the years. Jeff was a great BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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he mosquitoes are smaller in New Mexico. There are also fewer of them and less humidity, all of which has drawn Brittany Howard away from her native South, to the mountains and community of Taos. Location isn’t the only thing that has changed for Howard — the voice behind Grammy-winning Alabama Shakes — over the last several years, however. In 2018, Howard married fellow musician Jesse Lafser, and this ON THE BILL: year, she struck out on ticks off of myself as a child,” Brittany Howard her own. she laughs. with Georgia Anne Muldrow. 7:30 p.m. “I needed different Although most of Friday, Nov. 15, ingredients to make this Howard’s musical formation Boulder Theater, 2032 recipe I’m cooking up,” came after her sister passed, 14th St., Boulder. Tickets are $45. Howard says about leavher career is rooted in early ing behind (for now) the memories of Jamie’s creativiband that launched her career. “That’s it. ty and encouragement. We’re still family. I mean, it’s just an “My first teacher though, and the unbreakable bond really because our most important teacher, was my sister,” entire lives changed together.” Howard says. “Naming the record after It was a creative move more than her was only appropriate, and it’s really a anything else, Howard says, a way to sign of respect and just like a thank you write more personal stories that didn’t because if it wasn’t for her, I don’t think I make sense to share through the outlet of would be into music really.” a band. So, she took a chance and “just But the album isn’t about Jamie, it’s went for it,” turning her life into a solo about Brittany. album. There was no parsing of experience, Entitled Jamie, the album is named no keeping parts of stories private while after Howard’s older sister, who died of a exposing others. There was no hesitation, rare eye cancer at age 13 when Howard Howard says, only brutal honesty. With was only eight. “He Loves Me,” she explores her person“My sister was a genius and taught al relationship with the divine despite the me everything about music and art, crefact she doesn’t go to church anymore. In ativity, poetry,” Howard says. “Anything “Georgia,” she sings about having a she picked up she was really good at it. crush on an older girl as a young child, She was actually really mature for her without necessarily understanding what it age and was better at pretty much every- meant to be queer. thing than anyone.” “Pretty much whatever came to me is Jamie was the smart one, Howard what I put down,” she says. “It made me says, the one who did her homework, feel what I needed to feel from it. And I kept her room clean and combed her wanted to share it.” hair. The only exception was “Goat Head,” “And I was the one that was pulling a story about the time someone left a BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

goat’s head in the backseat of her dad’s car after slashing the tires and breaking the windows. “‘Cause mama is white / And daddy is black / When I first got made / Guess I made these folks mad,” she sings. Howard didn’t shy away from telling the story, she just didn’t let it spill out of her quite as fast as some of the other songs, she says. “I felt a little weird about telling my parents’ story, especially to a bunch of people who want to dance to it,” she says. “But in the end it feels good because I wish my parents could tell that story.” The album has remnants of Howard’s signature raspy growls and roots-rock beats, like the lead single “Stay High,” but it also departs from her previous work, experimenting with more funk, hip hop, jazz and neo-soul elements, as well as spoken word. About half-way through the album, Howard spends five minutes laying out her commitment to spreading “love, compassion and humanity” and opposing “those whose will is to divide us / And who are determined to keep us in the dark ages of fear,” while extolling others to “To be kind (Give it to love) / To your fellow man (Give it to love) / Just try (Give it to love)” in “13th Century Metal.” It’s intimate, not preachy; spiritual, not religious. With Jamie, Howard is more personal, more experimental, more exposed. But it’s not necessarily something new, she says. Even with projects before the Shakes’ debut Boys & Girls, Howard has always answered the call of honesty in her creativity. “It’s all a continuation of what I’ve learned, where I’m at, how I’m feeling, what that looks like, sounds like, to me,” she says. “It’s always gonna be me, no matter what project I’m doing.” OCTOBER 31, 2019

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‘Bamboozling’ piece anchors Boulder Phil concert Cuban composer Aldo López-Gavilán performs his ‘Emporium’

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ichael Butterman, conductor ed like a little bit of Philip Glass, and ibly challenging,” he says. “The outer of the Boulder Philharmonic, there were moments that sounded like movements [are] very rapid [with] a lot of was sitting in his driveway, the Downton Abbey soundtrack,” he says. figuration, a lot of mixed meter, where the thinking “What on earth is “In the last movement I thought this is meter feels one way and syncopated going on?” almost like ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ by against it is something quite different. “It was just an amazing mix,” he says Queen, or Prokofiev. It was like all of “That makes it challenging for us on of the music he was hearing on American those different things. stage, but it’s always exciting to have a Public Media’s radio program “He’s hard to categorize. I love that composer involved in the performance of Performance Today. “I was trying to about him.” a work like this.” guess what it was. Whatever it was, it Of the other works on the program, López-Gavilán confirms the signifiwas exciting and intriguing.” Ravel’s Boléro is certainly the best cance of the title. In his program notes, It turned out to be Emporium for he writes, “I named it Emporium because known. The score’s long, slow buildup piano and orchestra by over a single repeating melody is notoIVAN SOCA Cuban pianist/composer riously hypnotic. “It’s all about pacing Aldo López-Gavilán, and and concentration, and maintaining Butterman decided he intensity,” Butterman says. wanted to perform the Tangazo by the Argentinian tango piece with the composer master Piazzolla is a piece that on the Boulder Phil’s seaButterman has done many times, son. including his first year in Boulder. “It’s The title gave one of the few things I’ve repeated in Butterman the key to the my time here as music director,” he wildly eclectic style of the says. “I love it. It takes us through a piece. “When they said wide range of tempos and unusual that the title was sounds for a symphony orchestra: Emporium,” he says, “I ‘whip’ effects, quick glissandos up, tapthought, OK, it’s a cornuping on the instrument.” copia. It has influences Tangazo will be accompanied by a from every possible genre pair of dancers, Gustavo Naveira and and place that I could Giselle Anne of the Boulder Tango ON THE BILL: ‘Latin Fire and Studio, performing in front of the orchesimagine.” I wanted to Boléro’ Boulder Philharmonic. tra. “I don’t know what they will do,” The title also suggestdescribe a place Michael Butterman, conductor with Butterman says, “but I’m always interested to Butterman that one Aldo Lopez-Gavilán, pianist/composer. where you could Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, ed in hybrid art forms and bringing differcould play almost anything find many differtango dancers. with it, but he settled on ent things from all ent elements into concerts.” Ginastera’s Variaciones Concertantes music that had a stylistic over the planet.” Astor Piazzolla: ‘Tangazo.’ Lopez-Gavilán: ‘Emporium’ for piano is a notoriously difficult piece, with separelationship to LópezThe first and orchestra. rate variations for individual players in the Gavilán’s Latin American movement is Alberto Ginastera: ‘Variaciones orchestra that are often featured on roots: Tangazo by Astor based on a tune Concertantes’ Ravel: ‘Boléro.’ advanced auditions. “It’s one of those Piazzolla, the Variaciones the composer 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, Macky pieces that gives all the principal players Concertantes by Alberto wrote as a birthAuditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. a chance to do something rather impresGinastera and Ravel’s Tickets: 303-449-1343, boulderphil.org day present for sive,” Butterman says. 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And perGershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the and polytonal, bringing together music Colorado Springs Philharmonic last April, from all three movements and ending in a petual motion for the concertmaster. “It’s a piece that there’s a lot of variand plays jazz both as a solo pianist and grand final statement of the main theme. ety packed into a short time,” he says. with the Harlem Quartet, whose first vioButterman suggests that Emporium is “To me it’s a very appealing piece, but linist is his brother Ilmar Gavilán. not an easy piece to play, at one point one that is extremely demanding for the Butterman’s description of Emporium describing it as “bamboozling” in the way it is intriguing and mind-bending. “It soundmixes meters and rhythms. “It looks incred- orchestra.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Upcoming Events & Entertainment Thursday October 31 BOULDER WEEKLY PRESENTS

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.

FEATHERS AND FLORA: The Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists presents this exhibit, in partnership with the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, as a celebration of the relationship between birds and their natural habitat. The art illustrates how birds interact with the flora in their natural environments. Through Jan. 31.

HALLOWEEN PARTY WITH THE WHO DO’S “R&B/Groove”

FREE ADMISSION

MONUMENTAL — coproduced by Black Cube and the Denver Theatre District. Through Jan. 31, 2020. For times and locations, denvertheatredistrict.com/event/monumental.

Friday November 1

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE “The Police Tribute”

& DOUBLE LIFE “The Cars Tribute”

Saturday November 2

MR MAJESTYK’S 8-TRACK REVIVAL “70’s Rock”

Wednesday November 6

BOURBON & BLUES BLUE 88s “Blues”

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Friday November 8

FUNKIPHINO “Dance”

Saturday November 9

ROMERO & ARENA ROCK ALLSTARS “Rock”

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 Music Blues Brothers Halloween w/ The Hi-Dive Blues Band. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Halloween with The Legendary Pink Dots. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Sunday November 10

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“Prog Rock Tribute”

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In The Whale’s Monster Mosh. 7:30 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. James Brown Dance Party ft. Adam Deitch, Adam Smirnoff, Eric Bloom + More. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Laser Floyd : Dark Side of the Rainbow in OZ. 8:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

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OctoberFest — JAVA. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 970-613-0439.

Tim Ostdiek. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

One Flew West Halloween Party. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Wild Faith. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Open Mic with Tony Crank. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Rabblefish. 7 p.m. Vine Street Pub, 1700 Vine St., Denver, 303-388-2337. Riot Ten with Jessica Audiffered, JayKode, Throwdown at Fox Theatre. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303447-0095. Strong Voices. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-473-8337. Sunsquabi. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Events 13th Floor Haunted House Denver. 7 p.m. 13th Floor Haunted House Denver, 3400 E. 52nd Ave., Denver. Boolesque: Halloween Burlesque and Comedy. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075. Breeze Thru a Haunted Car Wash! 7 a.m. Breeze Thru Car Wash, 1213 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont. City of the Dead Haunted House. 7 p.m. City of the Dead, 7007 E. 88th St., Denver. see EVENTS Page 30

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Dance For Parkinson’s Program. 11:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568. Denver Improv Festival. 6 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver, 303-521-4610. Fall Wetland Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Pella Crossing Open Space, Boulder. Fiber Art Annual Show & Sale: Handweavers Guild Of Boulder. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Geopolitics Discussion Group. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Halloween 2019: Funhouse. 9 p.m. EXDO Event Center, 1399 35th St., Denver, 303-468-5443. Halloween Costume & Dance Party. 2 p.m. Lafayette Senior Center, 103 S Iowa Ave., Lafayette, 303-665-9052. Halloween Party with The Who Do’s. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Laser Metal Hallowscream. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Samhain Celebration at Unity of Boulder. 7 p.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. The Seven Undeadly Sins: An Erotic Haunted House Experience. 9 p.m. Wesley Foundation Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Spooky Stories. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Trick or Drink: Denver Halloween Bar Crawl. 4 p.m. Larimer Beer Hall, 2012 Larimer St., Denver. Trick or Treats at Locust. 4 p.m. Locust Cider, 5446 Conestoga Court, Boulder, 303-356-8151. Up Down Circus Youth Circus Classes. 4 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Witches Tea. 12 p.m. The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, 321 17th St., Denver, 850-668-2222.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Music 11th Anniversary Kick-Off Party & Group Art Show at Lee Hill! 5 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-449-2911. All Saints Day Celebration. 2 p.m. Asher Brewing Company, 4699 Nautilus Court South, Boulder, 303-530-1381. A Boulder Neil’s 90th! at Caffè Sole Neil Bridges Quintessence! 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. The CBDs. 5:30 p.m. Salto Coffee Works, 112 E. Second St., Nederland, 303-499-1829. Cherub. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Cory Wong. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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Dia de los Muertos — Pushing up Daisies, featuring DJ Spydatek. 10 p.m. Aztlan Theatre, 976 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Disney in Concert: Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas.’ 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. DU Lamont Symphony Orchestra & Lamont Opera Theatre Gala Event, Sahar Nouri, guest conductor. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-6499. Expeditions Plus One Jazz with Vocalist Heidi Schmidt. 7 p.m. Location, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette.

The Failure Cabaret. 8 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Fall Music Series. 7 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Famous Men. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. First Friday Artwalk. 6 p.m. NoBo Art District, North Broadway St., Boulder, 303-523-1117. Laser Floyd : Dark Side of the Rainbow in OZ. 11:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. see EVENTS Page 32

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Live Music Fridays. 7 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002. Magic Bus. 8 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-931-5856.

AUTHOR KENNETH Carter talks about and signs his book ‘Buzz!’ at the Boulder Book Store Wednesday, Nov. 6. If you are an adrenaline junky who just can’t get enough, you don’t want to miss this talk.

Message In A Bottle & Double Life. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Midnight Hour w/ The Who Do’s. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Mighty Twisters. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St. (Hotel Boulderado), Boulder, 303-443-0486. Miles Wilder and Jenny LaJoye. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-2064. Post Halloween Night with Poets & Wolves / Native Station. 7 p.m. Confluence Garage, 75 Waneka Parkway, Lafayette, 303-710-5201. Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Space Jesus. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Strangebyrds. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Student Recitals. 5 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder. Trick or Beats — Halloween Party & Silent Disco. 8 p.m. (5 p.m. for kids) Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 720-6661386. Voice Hands Heart presents a Fall Yoga Event: Celebration of Abundance. 7:30 p.m. The Starhouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 720-248-8572. Events Calaveras Facepainting. 4 p.m. the collective, 201 N public Road, Lafayette. Conversations in English Fridays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Dance Classes. 4 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Dr. Unit 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719. Fiber Art Annual Show & Sale: Handweavers Guild Of Boulder. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Laser Metal Hallowscream. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Magic Show with Hayden Childress. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Viva Arts — Dia de los Muertos. 6 p.m. the collective, 201 N. Public Road, Lafayette.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Music ¡Dia De Muertos Celebration! with Altas. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. 2019 Boulder Balkan Bash. 5:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-329-6242. 2019 SongBird Vocal Jazz Fest. 9 a.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-320-6254.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 31

TUESDAY, NOV. 5

All Hallow’s Read! 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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

SATURDAY, NOV. 2 Read, Laugh & Eat Pastries. 7 p.m. BookBar, 4280 Tennyson, Denver.

MONDAY, NOV. 4 World Literature Series Fall 2019 — A series of lectures on authors from around the world, presented by faculty from CU Boulder and Boulder area literati! Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6 Kenneth Carter — Buzz!. The author will speak about and sign his new book, Buzz!: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies, on Wednesday, November 6th at 7:30 p.m.

7th Annual Catrina Ball. 7:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Music from Around the World. 7 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-478-3044.

Art Lande Dream Band. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Old’s Cool Rock and Day of the Dead. 5 p.m. Lunada Eatery and Cantina, 2770 Arapahoe Road, Unit 124, Lafayette.

Clay Rose Duo. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Día de Muertos. 4 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Fall Figure Drawing Marathon. 10 a.m. The Spark Performing & Creative Arts Center, 4847 Pearl St., Suite B4, Boulder. Full Circle Blues Band. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Gamelan Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder. George Nelson Trio. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Grupo Chegando Lá & Francisco Marques. 6 p.m. Cyclhops, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Laser Floyd : Dark Side of the Rainbow in OZ. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Lyons Old-time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-827-6322. Mr Majestyk’s 8-Track Revival. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Rhythm Planet with the Boulder Concert Chorale. 4 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-554-7692. Stereo Collision. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Swing. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 540-760-3316. Switchfoot & Their Fantastic Traveling Music Show: An Evening of Songs & Stories. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Upslope’s 11th Anniversary Party (Free Entry)! 2 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898. Veronique Van Pelt presents: the Deep Cuts Showcase no. 11. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Weekend Coffee Shop Jazz Jam. 11 a.m. 1055 Courtesy Road, Louisville. Events The Brewery Comedy Tour. 7 p.m. Colorado Technical Center, 657 S. Taylor Ave., Louisville, 303-604-6675. Comedy Open Mic Saturday Night. 6:30 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002. see EVENTS Page 34

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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. Flame Broiled (or the ugly play). — presented by Local Theater Company. Dairy Arts Center, Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 17. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Nov. 17. The Importance of Being Earnest. Coal Creek Theater, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Through Nov. 9. Mamma Mia! BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder. Through Feb. 22.

Pippin. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Through Nov. 9. The Realistic Joneses — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theater Company. Diary Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 17. Shakuntala — presented by CU Theatre and Dance. Loft Theatre, CU Boulder Campus. Nov 3, 2019. Man Up: A Musical — presented by Arête Theatrics. Theater O, 5311 Western Ave., Suite 120, Boulder. Nov. 1 through Nov. 10. Looped. Vintage Theatre Productions, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Nov. 1 Through Dec. 15. The Thanksgiving Play. Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Nov. 2 through Dec. 15. The Phantom of the Opera. DCPA. Buell Theater. Nov. 6 through Nov. 17.

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Dance is for Everybody! Showcase. 11 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Day of the Dead Celebration & 7th Annual Catrina Ball. 2 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Dia de los Muertos black light Halloween Extravaganza! 7 p.m. Phoenix Asylum, 2510 47th St., Suite D, Boulder. The Duel. 10 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver, 303-578-0079.

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The Improvised Shakespeare Company. 8:30 p.m. The Garner Galleria Theatre, 1385 Curtis St., Denver, 303-893-4100. Nov. 2.

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‘THE REALISTIC JONESES’ is a quirky comedy the ‘New York Times’ hailed as “far and away the most stimulating, adventurous, and flat-out good play to be produced on Broadway this year.” The Boulder Ensemble Theater Company present its version at Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, through Nov. 17.

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Urban Holiday Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, 1100 16th Street Mall, Denver, 720-272-7467.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Music

18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Foxfeather Duo. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Latin Fire & Boléro. 7 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Events 3rd Law Dance/Theater Brings International Crane Project Dance to. 4 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568. Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007. The PD Crane Dance Project. 4 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

CU Choirs. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Ekstrand Memorial Graduate Student Competition. 2 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020

After School Ukulele. 4 p.m. Harmony Music

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House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Cous. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Fat Brando. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Lana Del Rey: The Norman F-cking Rockwell Tour. 8 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-228-8000. Latin Jazz Percussion Ensemble: Fall 2019. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Events Arabic Literature Discussion Group. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Beyond: Laser Light Show and Guided Meditation. 1 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-2383. Dance Classes. 4 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Dr. Unit 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719. Joe Sib. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Learning Financial Literacy Through Pop Culture: Session 2. 4:30 p.m. Pop Culture Classroom, 2760 W. 5th Ave., Denver, 303-325-1236. Psychedelica — GoodCinema. 5:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake, 4255 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, 985-285-9998.

Dance Classes. 4 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Dr. Unit 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719. Dance For Parkinson’s Program. 11:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568. Drop-In Improv Class. 6 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver, 303-578-0079. GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777. Public Talk: At the crossroads: African American music-making with Dwandalyn R. Reece. 4:30 p.m. Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), E313 or online via Zoom, Boulder. Snark Attack. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 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 1st Ave, Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

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Guest Recital: Cuban Music with Luis Barbería. 3 p.m. CASE, Chancellor’s Auditorium, Boulder.

58th Annual Madrigal Festival: University Choir Concert. 3 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 0285, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Longmont Symphony House Concert with Cellist Adrian Daurov. 6 p.m. Private home in East Boulder, Private Home, Boulder, 303772-5796.

BELLE-SKINNER w/ Thom LaFond. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Marc Emerson Townes of Kind Hearted Strangers. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Boulder Music Student Recital. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720491-3165.

Cannibal Corpse with Thy Art Is Murder, Perdition Temple. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

YMCA Boulder County Presents Dancing with Boulder Stars 2019. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

CU Boulder Homecoming Concert w/ Goth Babe & Johnny Utah. 6:30 p.m. Glenn Miller Ballroom, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.

Events

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

David Booker. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Faculty Tuesdays: Erika Eckert. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic w/ Andy Eppler at Grossen Bart. 6 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060. Round Table Discussion: Black Banjo and Beyond. 5:30 p.m. CASE, Chancellor’s Auditorium, Boulder.

Birds of Prey Slide Program. 7 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. Boulder In-the-Round. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. BoulderReads Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. CU Freeride Fundraiser. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Media Studies Colloquium: Steven T. Seagle. 11:30 a.m. Institute of Behavioral Science, Meeting Room 155, Boulder.

Events Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.

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Dave B. is a longtime Boulder resident, musician, poet, father, and has worked closely with the local homeless population for years. Boulder Weekly accepts poetry and flash fiction submissions of 450 words/35 lines or fewer and accompanied by a one-sentence bio of the author. Send to: poetry@boulderweekly.com 36

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ack for number 42, the Denver Film Festival (DFF) ON THE BILL: returns Oct. 30 through Nov. 10, but under a dark 42nd Denver cloud. This will be the first DFF in over 20 years withFilm Festival, Oct. 30 through Nov. 10. out Artistic Director Brit Withey at the helm. On March Multiple locations. 31, Withey died in a one-car crash. He was 50. His absence will be palpable. Six movies Withey selected before he died will be screened, as will a three-film tribute to Hungarian filmmaker, György Pálfi, a personal favorite of Withey. Spanning two weekends, DFF comprises over 250 features and shorts. That’s more images than even the most insane cineaste could hope to see, and it all kicks off Thursday night with a red carpet presentation of Knives Out at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Following the screening, writer/director Rian Johnson will accept the 2019 John Cassavetes Award and discuss the movie and his career. But what makes DFF a jewel in the Front Range’s cinematic crown isn’t just the red-carpet regional premieres — though Knives Out and Marriage Story do make for strong openers and closers — but myriad movies of every possible stripe. Take Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Oct. 31, Nov. 3), a sensitive and subversive romance set in 18th century France between a painter and her subject. Though they are forbidden to be together, their love shrinks the world around them, making the movie feel like there isn’t an ounce of life outside this frame. They are a nation of two, and no one else exists. Portrait of a Lady on Fire is easily one of the best movies at the fest, as is the nobudget cinema-diary, Nightcrawlers (Nov. 1,2,9). Shot by Stephen McCoy over five years, Nightcrawlers is a ground-level look at homelessness and addiction. McCoy — who ended up both homeless and addicted to heroin while making the documentary — offers no commentary, no Freudian causality and no solutions. Instead, he simply watches others and himself. That would be enough, but Luc Benson’s stream-of-consciousness editing is what makes Nightcrawlers soar. Rarely has depravity been presented this bluntly — and poetically. Blunt and poetic has always been Errol Morris’ strongest suit, and his latest documentary, American Dharma (Nov. 5, 7), is no exception. This time, the man before Morris is Steve Bannon, the architect behind Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and, at one time, the most hated and feared man in America. Bannon describes himself as an “apocalyptic nationalist,” and you don’t have to listen long to believe it. You may think you know Bannon, and what he represents, but with American Dharma, Morris proves that what you know is barely the tip of the iceberg. Want to know how we got here? How popular culture was perverted and manipulated? How fear became commodity and anger promised freedom? Then gird yourself, America Dharma has some answers, but also bottomless questions. There’s plenty for everyone. The full schedule is at denverfilmfestival.denverfilm. org. Dive in.

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Picks for the first weekend of the Denver Film Festival

by Michael J. Casey

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he pizzaiolos at Bacco know how to make a thin-crust, wood-fired pie. The restaurant’s pizzas are simple, wellexecuted and with fresh, well-selected toppings. Take the Romano — creamy mozzarella is layered atop a crackerthin crust. The pie is topped with prosciutto di Parma, arugula and extra virgin olive oil. The arugula brings pepper and herb, the prosciutto umami, fat and salt, and the olive oil electrifies the flavors in each element, especially the crust. $15.

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cDevitt Taco Supply serves a menu of inventive tacos, from slow-roasted pork to Chicago Italian beef to kale salad. Also worth a trip to its South Boulder outpost are the margaritas and classic cocktails like the paloma and daiquiri. But what captivated us on a recent visit was McDevitt’s chimichurri steak bowl. It starts with stuffing-like organic brown quinoa, which is topped with thinly shredded kale, corn, black beans, bell peppers, onions and cilantro. The steak is diced, close to cheesesteak consistency, and the bright chimichurri on top pops with herbs, vinegar and citrus. $13.

hen you get a slice of the Jewish apple cake at Breadworks, you won’t think you’ll be able to finish the softball-sized piece. But then you will, because it’s impossible to not keep forking at it while you work or sip a hot beverage or chat with a friend. Its a bundt cake with a crispy, flavorful crust and a moderately dense crumb, where thin apple slices appear as you navigate through the cake. It’s made with vegetable oil instead of butter, which makes it abundantly moist. $4.

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nce upon a dark and stormy night last week, I was consumed by the thought that food is as much about fear as it is love. I noticed how much of the food news I research is kind of creepy, how we treat food as medicine. While the following true food developments may not indicate the imminent collapse of civilization, they don’t sound appetizing. If you’re not scared, you will be. Scary new foods I’m hoping to avoid: • Radiant Beauty non-dairy frozen dessert made with caviar collagen. • Open Foods 3D printed sushi adapted to each diner after careful analysis of their saliva, urine and stool samples. • Ocean Hugger eggplant-based vegan eel sushi. • You got your lab-grown scallops. You can order plant-based sausages. Get ready for proOCTOBER 31, 2019

tein of the spores made from yeasts, molds and fungi and we’re not talking mushroom burgers. An oral fixation: It sounds nightmarish, but Spanish researchers have built an electronic tongue that can differentiate between various beers, according to Forbes. Will it talk to Siri and Alexa? Rising durian threat: Trust me, once you smell durian, you can never un-smell the huge Asian fruit. New York’s Mi Tea serves a durian mille-feuille cake. Here’s one reviewer’s take: “The cake’s aroma was repellent, to put it mildly. But its flavor I can only liken to a blend of onion, sugar, vinegar and limburger that has been fermenting in the sun for too long.” Faster food now: As a fan of slow dining, I’m concerned about my fast food, drive-through brethren who had to wait an average of 20 seconds longer for their food in their cars in 2019 than in 2018, according to the QSR Drive-Thru I

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Performance Study. That adds up over a lifetime. One cause is millennials ordering Whoppers using mobile ordering apps in order to avoid long, polluting drive-thru lines. A round of ractopamine: The good news is that in February 2020, huge Tyson Fresh Meats will no longer sell pork from farmers using ractopamine, a feed additive that makes hogs leaner. The bad news is that you have been gobbling ractopamine — an additive banned in China — for who knows how long. Bugging millennials: According to the Michigan State University Food Literacy and Engagement poll, 25% of Americans say they are willing to try foods made with cricket powder. Of these consumers, 40% are under 40 years old. Only 15% are 40 and older because, frankly, we ate enough bugs when we rode our bikes in the summer as kids. We don’t need insects in our pasta puttanesca. HAL, make me an oat milk latte: After some unfortunate crashes, Bear Robotics is rebooting Penny, a robot restaurant worker that moves food and dishes between the kitchen and dining room. … A Houston Whole Foods Market will feature a Briggo robotic barista. Sonic Drive-In is testing ordering kiosks powered by artificial intelligence that will make personalized recommendations based on past orders. “May we pair Chili Cheese Tots with the gentleman’s usual Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Blast?” … The dire pollinator crisis has spawned a tech answer: robot bee drones. (Or we can stop killing and poisoning the real bees.) … America’s cow industry has launched Chuck Knows Beef, an AI-powered expert that can provide home meat-eating answers. Chuck may or may not be involved with Siri and Alexa. Vegans have been known to argue with Chuck at chuckknowsbeef.com. Cauliflower conspiracy: The great white vegetable is invading pizza crust, mac-n-cheese and pies. The slavish devotion to cauliflower suggests it may have addictive qualities. At Trader Joe’s, fully 6% of its customers buy its cauliflower gnocchi. To feed the habit, they visit the store 2.2 times more often than non-users and spend 6% more. Makes you suspicious. Dysfunctional smoothie: The experts are predicting that beverages in 2020 will be enhanced with collagen, golden berries, mushrooms, probiotics, turmeric, nutritional yeast and CBD oil. They are not predicting that

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it will taste good. The clock tower chimes 2:41: The average American thinks about food four times a day, with a full 40 minutes per 24-hour day spent thinking only about food. According to this study by One Poll, 2:41 p.m. is when your cravings and urge to snack strike the hardest. It worries me because I spend most of every day thinking about food as an occupational necessity. LOCAL FOOD NEWS Archivist Kate Gerard offers a free Nov. 13 lecture on the history of eating and drinking at Chautauqua Dining Hall since it opened in 1898. chautauqua.com … The Colorado School Nutrition Association is looking for students who aspire to be chefs to compete in a filmed mystery basket cooking competition. More info: http://ow.ly/Uzeq50wQAHB ... Check out the Food and Beverage sections of Boulder Weekly’s freshly published Best of Boulder East County, a great roadmap to the growing culinary attractions outside the Pearl Street bubble. Our readers’ favorite new restaurant is Lafayette’s Teocalli Cocina, focused on regional Mexican fare including freshly made corn tortillas. See more results at: boulderweekly.com. TASTE OF THE WEEK Hard-core farmers market people bundle up and show up for the last few, sometimes snowy and windy Saturdays. They face the reality that there are few opportunities left until spring to stockpile genuinely local apples, winter squash, meats, flour and other ingredients. The same is true of the drinking chocolate only served at the Fortuna Chocolate truck when it’s at the Boulder market. The drinking chocolate is a few precious sips of richness made with ethically sourced cacao full of nuances — some nuttiness, fruitiness — plums and orange peel, mainly, hints of tartness and bitterness all balanced by a little organic sugar. The market’s final day is Nov. 23. The last chance is the Winter Market Dec. 7-8 in Longmont. WORDS TO CHEW ON “The cold truth is that family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.” — M.F.K. Fisher John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles on KGNU (88.5 FM, 1390 AM, streaming at kgnu.org.)

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he last person I saw was the Klein Matterhorn lift operator, who told me he was shutting down the lifts due to wind and even if I wanted to go back, I couldn’t,” Meredith Erickson writes in the introduction of Alpine Cooking, a captivating and beautifully photographed cookbook with recipes, stories and images from her three years traveling through the Alps. “I told myself to keep calm as I started the descent. What would normally take twenty minutes for an average skier like me took a lot longer, but I can’t tell you the specifics because I was scared, but also angry. Angry at the weather, angry because of the lifts, but mostly angry at myself for doing this — all for the purpose of eating Zürcher Geschnetzeltes.” From the comfort of... not an Alpine mountainside in hideous weather, Erickson says, “I feel like everyone reading this book is going to be like, ‘She’s such a f—up because every chapter begins with some sort of accident. Happy accidents is how I got from place A to B.” I

Erickson traveled to restaurants, farms, dairies, cheese cellars, winemakers and more, all above 1,000 meters in the European Alps — Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland. She came back with hundreds of recipes and stories; she selected the best and put them into Alpine Cooking. “The way I write books, I CHRISTINA HOLMES don’t think of them as a compilation of recipes,” Erickson says. She looks for “a story from A to Z, and the recipes are the punctuation, giving you another dimension.” Take, for instance, her story of discovering the kaiserschmarm: “Served right from the frying pan it was cooked in, it’s a jumble of buttery shredded pancake generously dusted with confectioners’ sugar. In other words, it’s best made in a 300-year-old hut in Tyrol. So that’s how I came to try it at the Gampe Thaya hut, located at 2,000 meters (6,560 feet) in the southern Ötza Valley. ... Regardless of the season, owner Jakob Prantl will welcome see ALPINE COOKINGPage 44

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you, pour you a beer, and just maybe make you Kaiserschmarm with his own two (very large) hands.” Though she wasn’t necessarily prepared for the minor car accidents, ski mishaps, road closures, weather delays and all the other pitfalls that impeded her travels to remote villages throughout the Alps, Erickson was ready to write Alpine Cooking. She first co-wrote the The Art of Living According to Joe Beef — detailing the food and exploits of Montreal’s Joe Beef, renowned for its eccentric and exceptional menu (The New Yorker called it North America’s most hedonistic restaurant) — after the restaurant transformed from a dive into the destination it is today. She was a server at nights there and an editor during the day. Book-writing suited her and she co-wrote several more, including the upcoming Frasca Food and Wine book. (She’ll be at the Alpine Cooking cookbook dinner at Boulder’s Frasca on Monday, Nov. 11, with a prix-fixe menu based on recipes from the book.) Hours of research in Europe and at home (in Quebec) helped Erickson narrow down the stories and recipes she wanted to include in the book. On her travels, she says she was “invited to countless dinners,” which all helped create a vision for the book and generate an understanding of what makes Alpine cuisine unique. One of the unifying factors of the mostly mom-and-pop places she visited in remote villages is, ironically, isolation. Food steeped in tradition untouched by outside influence or commerce shares traits, Erickson says. “No one’s going to come and remove snow and make things any easier for you and therefore you’re on your own, you have to rely on your own capabilities. There are no franchises really in the Alps except for gas stations on motor ways. Everything is family-run and old-world.” That isolation translates into the taste and type of food in the Alps. For instance, Erickson says farmers in the region take their cows up to high altitudes in the summer to pasture on fresh grass that imparts a unique flavor into milks and cheese. That’s why your perception of fondue might expand if you have it high in the Swiss alps, with cheese made from fresh milk from Alpine-raised animals. That might make you think the only place to have fondue, or any of the recipes in Alpine Cooking, is in the Alps, but the idea is to invest, maybe, in better fondue cheese wherever you are. Erickson says the recipes in the book are all meant to be made by the home cook across the world. “I’m a home cook, so everything in this book works and it’s for the home cook,” she says. “It doesn’t depend on products you can only get there. In the Alps the whole thing is isolation anyway. It’s about having the blinders on and how that can give you creativity.” The book includes regional variants of classic dishes as well as some plates you’ve likely never heard of unless you have relatives in the region or have traveled there extensively. Familiar, but spun, recipes include goulash with speck dumplings and a pumpkinseed oil and fresh cream sundae from Italy, raclette from Switzerland and schnitzel from Austria, which is actually, originally, from Italy. New finds include duck liver pate wrapped in lardo and Austria’s tafelspitz, beef rump simmered in hand-made beef broth in a copper pot with inexpensive and fresh vegetables, and served with apple horseradish and chive cream. All this talk of the Alps and hearty meat dishes might thin the air around you and fill your head with snow, but the recipes in the book are good all year-round, and Erickson took special care to include recipes and stories from spring and summer. It’s a comprehensive culinary guide to the Alps that enables you to try zürcher geschnetzeltes — a Zurich ragout of veal, cream and wine — without crossing any mountains. Reservations for the Alpine Cooking dinner start at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 11. The $165 dinner includes multi-course prix-fixe menu, wine pairings and a signed copy of Alpine Cooking. frascafoodandwine.com.

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Profiles in brew: Aaron Stueck of BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse by Michael J. Casey

f you don’t think a publicly traded brewpub based out of California can be a hotbed of Boulder brewing research, then you haven’t been to BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse. Located in the Twenty-Ninth Street shopping center, BJ’s is the playground of Aaron Stueck: brewer, historian and head of BJ’s research and development division. “It’s my job to come up with new brewing practices,” Stueck says while working on a new creation: Vienna IPA. “Vienna is typically used as a specialty malt, but it can be used as a base malt,” Stueck explains. “By using just Vienna as a base malt, I’ll get some nice orangey color to it, without adding MICHAEL J. CASEY crystal malt.” Stueck also expects the beer to exhibit “a nice bready character ... with citrus, tropical, fruity hops on top.” It’s kind of out there, Stueck admits, but out there is his bread and butter. “[My job] is to work with new brewing practices, new ingredients, coming up with new innovative ways to brew,” Stueck says. “Also, to satisfy the Boulder palate, which is a very refined palate. They’re used to strange and very complex beer flavors.” With roots reaching back to Santa Ana, California, in 1978, BJ’s came to Colorado in 1995 when then-brewer Alex Puchner attended the Great American Beer Festival. On a tip, Puchner checked out a vacant bar on the Pearl Street Mall and decided it would make an ideal place for a BJ’s Brewpub. It opened in February 1997. Stueck started brewing for BJ’s at the original location, and when the facility relocated to Twenty-Ninth Street in 2012, Stueck was promoted to Head Brewer of Research & Development. Working with a three-barrel brewhouse and a half-dozen oak barrels, Stueck tries out a variety of recipes to determine which ones work with customers, and which are scalable for BJ’s production facilities, which supplies 204 restaurants across 27 states with beer. “For example, last year the Belgian Quadruple went nationwide,” Stueck says. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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the one or two things you need to do to heal, you will find the cure.” Halloween costume suggestion: physician, nurse, shaman, healer.

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JUNE 21-JULY 22: Cancerian artist Marc

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Do you have any skill in fulfilling the wishes and answering the prayers of your allies? Have you developed a capacity to tune in to what people want even when they themselves aren’t sure of what they want? Do you sometimes have a knack for offering just the right gesture at the right time to help people do what they haven’t been able to do under their own power? If you possess any of those aptitudes, now is an excellent time to put them in play. More than usual, you are needed as a catalyst, a transformer, an inspirational influence. Halloween costume suggestion: angel, fairy godmother, genie, benefactor.

Chagall (1887–1985) was a playful visionary and a pioneer of modernism. He appealed to sophisticates despite being described as a dreamy, eccentric outsider who invented his own visual language. In the 1950s, Picasso observed that Chagall was one of the only painters who “understood what color really is.” In 2017, one of Chagall’s paintings sold for $28.5 million. What was the secret to his success? “If I create from the heart, nearly everything works,” he testified. “If from the head, almost nothing.” Your current assignment, Cancerian, is to authorize your heart to rule everything you do. Halloween costume suggestion: a heart.

TAURUS

LEO

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Author Amy Tan describes the magic moment when her muse appears and takes command: “I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the language is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as though the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.” Even if you’re not a creative artist, Taurus, I suspect you’ll be offered intense visitations from a muse in the coming days. If you make yourself alert for and receptive to these potential blessings, you’ll feel like you’re being guided and fueled by a higher power. Halloween costume suggestion: your muse.

JULY 23-AUG. 22: The Dead Sea, on the border of Jordan and

GEMINI

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “We have stripped all things of their

MAY 21-JUNE 20: More than a century ago, author Anton

Chekhov wrote, “If many remedies are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that the illness has no cure.” Decades later, I wrote, “If you’re frantically trying to heal yourself with a random flurry of half-assed remedies, you’ll never cure what ails you. But if you sit still in a safe place and ask your inner genius to identify

Israel, is far saltier than the ocean. No fish or frogs live in it. But here and there on the lake’s bottom are springs that exude fresh water. They support large, diverse communities of microbes. It’s hard for divers to get down there and study the life forms, though. The water’s so saline, they tend to float. So they carry 90 pounds of ballast that enables them to sink to the sea floor. I urge you to get inspired by all this, Leo. What would be the metaphorical equivalent for you of descending into the lower depths so as to research unexplored sources of vitality and excitement? Halloween costume suggestions: diver, spelunker, archaeologist.

VIRGO

mystery and luminosity,” lamented psychologist Carl Jung. “Nothing is holy any longer.” In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, your assignment is to rebel against that mournful state of affairs. I hope you will devote some of your fine intelligence to restoring mystery and luminosity to the world in which you dwell. I hope you will find and create holiness that’s

worthy of your reverence and awe. Halloween costume suggestion: mage, priestess, poet, enchantrix, witch, alchemist, sacramentalist.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Cleopatra was an ancient Egyptian

queen who ruled for 21 years. She was probably a Capricorn. All you need to know about her modern reputation is that Kim Kardashian portrayed her as a sultry seductress in a photo spread in a fashion magazine. But the facts are that Cleopatra was a well-educated, multilingual political leader with strategic cunning. Among her many skills were poetry, philosophy and mathematics. I propose we make the real Cleopatra your role model. Now is an excellent time to correct people’s misunderstandings about you — and show people who you truly are. Halloween costume suggestion: your actual authentic self.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “One language is never enough,” says a

Pashto proverb. How could it be, right? Each language has a specific structure and a finite vocabulary that limit its power to describe and understand the world. I think the same is true for religion: one is never enough. Why confine yourself to a single set of theories about spiritual matters when more will enable you to enlarge and deepen your perspective? With this in mind, Libra, I invite you to regard November as “One Is Never Enough Month” for you. Assume you need more of everything. Halloween costume suggestion: a bilingual Jewish Santa Claus; a pagan Sufi Buddha who intones prayers in three different languages.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Around the 11th hour of the 11th

day of the 11th month, the 11th sign of the zodiac, Aquarius, will be capable of strenuous feats; will have the power to achieve a success that surpasses past successes; will be authorized to attempt a brave act of transcendence that renders a long-standing limitation irrelevant. As for the 11 days and 11 hours before that magic hour, the 11th sign of the zodiac will be smart to engage in fierce meditation and thorough preparation for the magic hour. And as for the 11 days and 11 hours afterward, the 11th sign should expend all possible effort to capitalize on the semi-miraculous breakthrough. Halloween costume suggestion: 11.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: In his novel Zone One, Scorpio author Colson Whitehead writes, “A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.” He means it in the worst sense possible: the emergence of the ugly beast who had been hiding behind social niceties. But I’m going to twist his meme for my own purposes. I propose that when you stop pretending and shed fake politeness, you may indeed resemble an ugly monster — but only temporarily. After the suppressed stuff gets free rein to yammer, it will relax and recede — and you will feel so cleansed and relieved that you’ll naturally be able to express more of your monumental beauty. Halloween costume suggestion: your beautiful, fully exorcised monster.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Author Robert Musil made a

surprising declaration: “A number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.” I propose we make that one of your mottoes for the coming months. I think you have the potential to be a flawed but inspiring individual who’ll serve as a dynamic force in assembling and nurturing a brilliant social unit. So let me ask you: what would be your dream-come-true of a brilliant social unit that is a fertile influence on you and everyone else in the unit? Halloween costume suggestion: ringleader, mastermind, orchestrator or general.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice,” testified poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. “Had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.” This is excellent advice for you. I suspect you’re in the midst of either committing or learning from a valuable mistake. It’s best if you don’t interrupt yourself! Halloween costume suggestion: the personification or embodiment of your valuable mistake.

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menting with gender expression will sometimes pack— that is, wear “packing dildos” that create the appearance of a masculine bulge. Packers are modeled on soft Dear Dan: My little dick has always cocks, not hard cocks, and they come in a held me back. I didn’t date in high school range of sizes and colors. And so long as because I couldn’t stand the thought of you don’t engage in false advertising, girls discussing my tiny manhood. That PENIS — so long as you make it clear to said, I’ve adapted fairly well and become new partners that the bulge in your pants is skilled with my tongue and hands. The not a prologue—there’s no biggest problem is that my ROMAN ROBINSON reason why you couldn’t dick is just small enough pack, just as there’s no reathat the head pokes son why you and other guys straight forward and can be with small dicks can’t strap seen through my pants. I on a regular dildo when your never tuck in a shirt partner wants a deep dickbecause of it. Because I ing. am always in oversize shirts that hang past my Dear Dan: I’m a midwaist, I never look profes20s straight woman, and sional. I’ve tried stuffing there’s a pattern in my life with socks and it didn’t that I’m trying to break: work. Do you know of anySince high school, I’ve thing that can mask a repeatedly ended up being pathetic johnson? I’d love to move up in friends with wonderful men who I shared the world. an obvious sexual tension with at the —Physically Embarrassing Nub Isn’t start of our “friendships.” (Our mutual Sufficient friends often noted the sexual tension.) Not a single one has ever turned into Dear PENIS: Have you considered more than a one-off drunken kiss. Maybe packing? Trans men, drag kings, butch dykes, and even straight cis women experi- it’s who I’m picking, but I’m starting to

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think that I’m the problem. An ex of mine (who I met on Bumble) told me that I give off “don’t touch me” vibes. Looking back, I can see that all my relationships started in settings where romantic interest was implied — apps, blind dates, etc. I’ve been spending a lot of time with a classmate of mine. We get along well, and he’s hot and single. How do I (for lack of a better term) seduce him? —Dreading The Friend Zone

feel good in bed without being judged? Guys who refuse to give oral sex but want to receive it make us feel as if our pleasure is not as important as theirs. Please tell me what you think. —Desperate Clitoris

Dear DTFC: Don’t seduce, ask. Don’t put the moves on someone, use your words — or think of your words as your move, DTFZ. Since you give off “don’t touch me” vibes (that’s some valuable feedback from an ex!), and since we’ve asked men to do a better job of perceiving and respecting a woman’s “don’t touch me” vibes, you will have to make your interest clear and unambiguous: “Hey, classmate, we’ve been spending a lot of time together, and I was wondering if you might be interested in going on a date sometime.”

Dear DC: I think there are enough women out there who don’t like having their pussies eaten — some struggle with insecurity and shame, others simply don’t enjoy the sensation — that there’s no reason for this guy to inflict himself on women who do like having their pussies eaten. And if making your partner feel good doesn’t make you feel good — if giving pleasure as well as receiving pleasure doesn’t make you feel good — then you’re a lousy fucking lay. All that said, I agree that people should be able to do what makes them feel good in bed without being judged. But if what you’re doing in bed — or refusing to do in bed — makes other people feel bad about themselves or their bodies, well, then you should be judged harshly.

Dear Dan: I’m a 21-year-old woman. Yesterday I talked to a 26-year-old guy who won’t do cunnilingus but loves to get blowjobs. My friends judged him harshly. Does this go against the rule that people should be able to do what makes them

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Just get high without your attorney By Seymour

h the good old days of getting stoned. If you smoked pot, you just called the usual suspects to find a bag, drove over, picked it up, rolled a joint for the drive home and repeated the process when you got down to the stems

and seeds at the bottom of your sandwich baggie. Simple, enjoyable, fulfilling. Now that pot is legal, the whole operation sometimes feels like a prelaw exam. College students want to use their medical marijuana on campus

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in states where medical pot is legal. But universities say that allowing such use puts them at risk of losing potential federal funding and grants because pot is still a Schedule 1 drug at the federal level. So now students are suing their colleges for the right to use pot on the premises. I get it. And yes, you should be able to use medical pot on campus. But here’s a secret, you can — provided you don’t try to turn the whole thing into a reality TV show. Good gosh people, get a life. Stop pulling attorneys out of your pocket like a lighter. Just use your pot on campus and get on with your life. Unless you are doing so while standing on a stage in the middle of the student union and announcing what you’re doing over a PA system, nobody is going to notice or give a rat’s ass. People have been getting high on college campuses without the aid of lawyers for at least 75 years. So, now that its actually legal to use marijuana

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in about a million different locations — and easy to also use it without much required discretion in all the other places that it’s still potentially illegal or problematic — people are whining more about where they can’t get high than when they couldn’t legally get high anywhere. Just chill folks. The genie is out of the bottle and it ain’t going back in. The feds are working on bills to take pot off the Schedule 1 drug list. They are working to allow banks to accept pot businesses as customers. They are working to decriminalize pot at the federal level. All these changes are coming in the next few years. Prohibition is ending for marijuana everywhere. So, in the meantime, just kick back and cop a buzz or discreetly ingest your medical marijuana on campus or wherever you need or want to and stop suing your alma mater. Have a little patience. College campuses will come around as quickly as our conflicting federal and state laws allow, and it won’t be long now. If you want to sue your college — say for instance CU — make it for something important like stopping its quest to turn the campus into a Koch brothers (do I have to drop the “s” now?) test lab for brainwashing students into becoming anti-regulation Republicans who say things like, “If you drive a car you can’t be against global warming.” Now that would be a better use of your daddy’s lawyer.

Growing marijuana: The short and the long of it by Paul Danish

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ver the weekend Gov. Jared Polis, who is nothing if not a great friend of marijuana reform, stood up a Facebook post informing that “it’s possible to cultivate a cannabis bonsai” and linking to articles telling you how to do it. “Coloradans have a constitutional right to grow up to six marijuana plants per adult in your home. So does a marijuana bonsai count as half a plant or a full plant?,” the Gov. asked dryly. “Don’t test your luck.” One of the linked-to articles was a piece at Royal Queen Seeds (royalqueenseeds.com) titled “How To Grow A Marijuana Bonsai” that covers the basics. One of the key points is that a bonsai of any type requires the use of a small pot, because limiting the space for root growth is a key factor in keeping the plant miniature. High Times Magazine, on the other hand, has printed a couple of pieces on how to grow giant marijuana plants. One of them, titled “Giant Plants of Southern Oregon,” shows a picture of a grower identified as Lambsbread standing on a 10-foot ladder and checking the top of a 14-foot-tall plant that had been pruned into a tree. (The variety was identified as Lemon Kush.) Lambsbread and other growers in the region are into giant plants because Oregon law limits the number of plants they can be growing at any given time to six. So they go large. The plants will produce five to seven pounds of flower each. The plants are started indoors and are not transplanted until they reach a height of 5 feet with a 2-foot deep root system in a grow bag.

They are transplanted into an 8-foot diameter hole. The top 8 inches of top soil from the hole are removed and replaced with premium organic soil optimized for pot growing. It turns out the growers of giant plants have one thing in common with bonsai growers; the size of “pot” (the hole in this case) is a crucial factor in determining whether the plant will be a giant or miniature. According to the Royal Queen Seeds article, the word “bonsai” means “planted in container” in Japanese, so maybe a plant contained by a rototilled, soil amended hole functioning as a virtual pot can be viewed as a giant bonsai tree. • • • • It’s sometimes forgotten that the federal criminalization of marijuana could be ended with a stroke of a presidential pen. Now Bernie Sanders has become the first presidential candidate ever to say he would do just that.

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The federal Controlled Substances Act, the law which classifies marijuana in the same category as heroin (as a Schedule 1 controlled substance), also contains a clause authorizing the president to reschedule or de-schedule marijuana or any other drug by executive action. In a marijuana reform plan released last Thursday, Oct. 24 (at 4:20 p.m. EDT, natch) Sanders said he would entirely remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act within the first 100 days of taking office. “Today, the government considers marijuana as dangerous as heroin,” Sanders tweeted. “That’s idiotic. As president I will immediately issue an executive order to declassify marijuana as a controlled substance.” The process of severing marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act by executive action requires recommendations from other federal officials, most notably the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Sanders evidently recognizes this, because he said he will nominate HHS secretary, attorney general and Drug Enforcement Administration administrators, “who will all work to aggressively end the drug war and legalize marijuana.” “It is time to admit the criminalization of marijuana was a disaster, especially for communities of color, and allow the most impacted to move forward with their lives,” Sanders writes in his plan. “Our job now is to legalize marijuana and vacate and expunge past marijuana convictions, and ensure that revenue from legal marijuana is reinvested in communities hit hardest by the War on Drugs.” It also calls for eliminating drug testing requirements for individuals receiving public benefits like federal housing assistance.

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