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Highroad Putting traumatized immigrant children out of sight by Jim Hightower
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n June, our immigrant-bashing president ordered an end to his own warped policy of forcibly tearing terrified migrant children from the arms of their asylum-seeking parents. Trump declared, “I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated.” Yeah... “bad optic,” as PR consultants call scenes of such thuggishness. So he — and we — no longer have to witness nightly TV coverage of shrieking toddlers being taken from their parents and hauled
off to federal warehouses. But wait — out-of-sight doesn’t mean the depravity has ended. Some 500 of the 2,900 children who were snatched last spring are still in government custody, scared that they’ll never see their parents again and traumatized by the uncertainty of what’ll happen to them. Worse, more refugee children are being incarcerated every day as they seek asylum from the horrors of rapacious gang wars and abject poverty in their Central American homelands. More than 12,000 migrant children are now out-ofsight and out-of-mind in our government’s warehouses, military bases and sprawling “tent cities.” And Trump is
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requesting money to lock up another 20,000 children. All this trauma and cost is the result of the Trumpeteers’ inhumane and failed “zero-tolerance” policy of jailing children — even babies — in hopes of scaring other refugees from seeking asylum in our Land of Opportunity. They created this humanitarian crisis, and rather than ending it by rushing in hundreds of lawyers and judges to process the asylum requests, Trump and his rabidly anti-immigrant ideologues are taxing us by building more jails for refugees, while also openly violating the law that says immigrant children can’t be locked up for more than 20 days. For more about Trump’s sick and sickening policy, contact Kids in Need of Defense: www.SupportKind.org. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 4 , 2018 5
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he Republicans control all of the elected branches of the federal government, but they play the victim. There is a good reason for that. They are scared. Their president is highly unpopular, and their party’s positions are opposed by a majority of Americans. Damon Linker, columnist at The Week, notes that Republicans are increasingly maintaining their status as the ruling party by using “counter-majoritarian veto points” in the American system of government: “George W. Bush lost the 2000 presidential election by roughly half a million votes and yet won the presidency with the help of two counter-majoritarian institutions — the Electoral College and the Supreme Court. President Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million votes and yet won the presidency, this time because of the Electoral College alone. In 2012, Democrats in House races received nearly 1.5 million more votes than Republicans, yet due in large part to gerrymandered congressional districts, the Republicans won a majority of the seats by a margin of 234-201. Some models predict that in the upcoming midterm elections this November, Democrats could outpoll Republicans by 4, 5, 6 or even 7 percent while still failing to win a majority in the House.” However, the rush toward a one-party autocracy has met resistance. In particular, the federal courts have pushed back against Trump. But the Republicans have a game plan to deal with that.
In a relatively unnoticed development, Trump has nominated an unprecedented number of judges since he was elected. He had a backlog of 114 judicial appointments when he took office. This was the most of any president since Bill Clinton. This wasn’t an accident. Republicans, who control the Senate, refused to vote to confirm most of Obama’s judicial nominees in the last year of his presidency. Paul Butler, a leading criminal law scholar, says, “All of these people are conservatives who will be interpreting and helping (re)write the law for decades... (Trump) is fashioning the federal court system of Steve Bannon’s dreams. The president has nominated judges who will cut back the civil rights of racial minorities and LGBT people, expand the power of police and prosecutors, restrict the ability of women to obtain abortions and favor big corporations over consumers.” Now the Republicans are determined to get another justice on the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as possible. If the Democrats win control of the House and/or the Senate this November, that might not happen. That’s why they are so frantic about Brett Kavanaugh. As New York Times reporter Carl Hulse puts it, “Republicans know this may be their last, best opportunity to cement a conservative majority on the Supreme Court for a generation. They want to see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 7
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seize it despite evident political risk.” Kavanaugh’s bizarre temper tantrum made him a folk hero on rightwing media. “He might have been a Bush appointee, but he channeled Trump yesterday,” said Brian Kilmeade on Fox and Friends. Kavanaugh sounded like Sean Hannity as he claimed the allegations of sexual assault are part of a massive conspiracy orchestrated by the Democrats and left-wing groups. The distinctions between “establishment” and phony “populist” Republicans are blurring in this fight. George W. Bush has been somewhat critical of Trump, but he’s been calling undecided senators to convince them to vote for Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh would be the second most conservative justice on the court (after Clarence Thomas), according to Judicial Common Space scores, a measure of judicial ideology developed by several political scientists and legal scholars. Kavanaugh was nominated by Bush to become a D.C. Circuit court judge in 2003 but the appointment was held up for three years. He was criticized for having an inadequate legal background, for being a fierce political partisan when he worked for independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr, and for his closeness to controversial Bush administration policies (such as domestic spying, torture and rendition of detainees to other countries). When he worked in the Bush White House, he helped select many of the administration’s far-right judicial nominees. As a circuit court judge, he authored
a number of rulings limiting Obama-era environmental regulations, and he declared in a recent dissent that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency created after the 2008 Great Recession to prevent future financial meltdowns, was unconstitutional. Last year, he also dissented when the D.C. Circuit ruled that an undocumented teenager had a right to an abortion while in federal custody, stating that the ruling was “ultimately based on a constitutional principle as novel as it is wrong: a new right for unlawful immigrant minors in U.S. Government detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand.” Kavanaugh dissented when the court — including a judge named Merrick Garland — upheld a $70,000 fine by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) against SeaWorld. Dawn Brancheau, a 40-yearold trainer, had been dismembered and killed by an orca whale while hundreds of SeaWorld customers watched in 2010. The company was fined for not taking “reasonable” steps to protect Brancheau from “recognizable hazards.” SeaWorld was aware of the dangers. Whales had attacked employees a number of times. That particular whale had killed two other employees previously. However, Kavanaugh was more sympathetic toward SeaWorld. He felt that this was government overregulation. He said that OSHA shouldn’t regulate sports and entertainment businesses. What a fine Christian gentleman! This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
letters On Kavanaugh Honesty requires astute scrutiny of anyone who would aspire to hold a high position. Can dishonest people apply such scrutiny? We have difficulty when we aim to summon scrupulous behavior into being, to be sure. And we should not necessarily define a person by his or her past. But to cheapen the human dignity of those who would offer their own sorrows on the altar of public opinion, in order to at least point to the goal of a greater good, is unjust at best and tragic at worst. The Kavanaugh “matter” matters. The highest bench in the land is no place for dilettantes or debasers or drunkards. Now I am far from perfect; without doubt the justices sitting on the Supreme Court are also flawed. But Boulder Weekly
there are qualitative differences in the influences that mar a reputation. Rubbing over these with polish does nothing to improve the judicial gene pool on its own. There was a time when Congresspersons and, probably, even justices would be given a ride home by a peace officer who stops people for observed traffic offenses. Such mercy tends to do little or nothing for maintenance of the high moral ground we hope would be tended and treasured by those who must speak for all of us, decide for the generations, weigh the sustainability of our republic. We gain nothing by adding another ideologue (idiot-logue?) to a court where three or four such already reside. see LETTERS Page 8
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Most of the time we might learn something of the quality of character of a nominee from the quality of character of the one who nominates. On that score, I admit that the Kavanaugh nomination certainly overshadows that of Clarence Thomas, whose record over the past quarter century or so has not, fortunately, been terrible. Can we be so lucky for the next 25 years? I admit: I am afraid — very afraid — for our country. It is extremely difficult to get the darkness that has been released over the past two decades or more back into its bottle. And all too easy to let the same out. We can make progress by shining light. To do that we must bring the light. Have we any? Gregory Iwan/Longmont
Yes on 112 Colorado Proposition 112 “Safer Setbacks” is simple, direct and clear. It mandates a buffer zone of 2,500 feet between fracking operations and homes, schools and water sources. Safer Setbacks seem sensible to me. Local incidents, research and personal experience continue to raise stronger and stronger concerns about the dangers of fracking operations. With the current administration’s actions and plans for relaxing multiple national regulations designed to protect our health, it seems that business benefits are valued above the health of our people and our land. We have a chance in this election to pass the safer setbacks initiative to protect ourselves in Colorado and to set an example for other states at risk. I believe in the precautionary principle that “when an activity raises threats of harm to the environment or human health, precautionary measures must be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not yet scientifically fully established.” This is the common-sense idea behind many wise sayings: “Be careful.” “Better safe than sorry.” “Look before you leap.” “First do no harm.” Let’s decide that Colorado should be safer rather than sorrier. Vote yes on Proposition 112. Dr. Cedar Barstow/Boulder
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letters shows he’s got just the right kind of background for the job. I have worked with Phil at the University of Colorado and can testify to his integrity, excellent leadership, outstanding problem-solving skills and commitment to protecting the rights of others. He is the real deal. I hope you will join me in voting for Phil Weiser for Colorado attorney general. Don Grant/CU Boulder Professor of Sociology
Protect our water supply via 112 According to a recent Denver Post article (Sept. 16, 2018), while the combined river storage in the Colorado River reservoirs is at 47 percent of capacity, the Blue Mesa Reservoir west of Gunnison is only 39 percent full. Overall, reservoir storage statewide is at 82 percent, which is considered to be half full, according to federal data. Nonetheless, since water is a sine qua non for every type of life, all efforts must be galvanized to carefully utilize, monitor, and care for this precious resource. Fracking uses, and wastes, exceptionally huge amounts of water. Approximately, 4.6 billion gallons of fresh water are consumed each year in Colorado. Each fracked well uses at least two to five million gallons. Half of that water comes back up, and is permanently and lethally contaminated by the toxic chemical stew used in the process. This malignant fluid (known as “produced water”) is typically disposed of in underground injection wells. In 2015 alone, Colorado injected more than 27 billion gallons of such poisonous wastewater into the ground, thereby forever removing that water permanently from the Earth’s water cycle. In addition, those very wells, along with all the well holes themselves, erode after time. When those wells fail, Colorado’s groundwater and aquifers are at risk for injurious contamination, making even that water unfit for human consumption and agricultural use. Besides those largely unseen leaks into groundwater and aquifers, there were 619 documented spills in Colorado in 2017: 93,000 gallons of oil into soil, groundwater and streams; 506,000 gallons of produced water, including direct flows into waterways. Also, according to the COGCC website itself, among the more than 5,000 registered spills in recent years, 43 percent contaminated groundwater. Proposition 112, Safer Setbacks, will help protect our long-term fresh water supply. Please vote yes. Tom Stumpf/Longmont Boulder Weekly
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cience journalism has been declining for years, under the same media pressures that have made local news an endangered species. Boulder County is one of the few communities where reporting science from a local perspective makes sense, because of the high concentration of Ph.D. scientists and the many federally funded laboratories in the region (see “Covering science news around Boulder,” Lab Notes, Sep. 10, 2015). Over the next few years, my monthly column will highlight the cutting-edge science that is being done around Boulder, and the people who make it happen. The story of this project began in the spring of 2011, when scientists from the Fiske Planetarium initiated a collaboration with Boulder Weekly to publish a regular science column called Lab Notes. It was a great idea, but the series stalled after only a few articles. With my passion for science communication, I revived the column in the fall of 2015, committing to write one article per month for a full year. The experiment was a success, garnering a first-place award in Science Enterprise reporting from the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). The citation from the judges read: “Nice job of explaining highly technical topics in ways that readers will understand. The series turns boring into interesting and readable.” I’m not sure “boring” is the default for science reporting, but I appreciate the sentiment. During the second year, I organized a group of volunteers to contribute articles, representing most of the major local federal laboratories. Nearly 20 scientists committed to writing one article during the subsequent 12 months, but in the end only a handful followed through. The contributed articles were great, and the response from the BW readership was enthusiastic, but without a dedicated source of support it was clear that the series would not continue. Last year, using the award from the SPJ as evidence of its impact, I requested support for the Lab Notes Boulder Weekly
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series as part of a research proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF evaluates proposals based not only on the intellectual merit of the research, but also considering the broader impacts on society. For proposers who work at universities, the broader impacts often involve training the next generation of students or early career scientists. For those outside of academia, like myself, broader impacts can include a wide range of community service activities. I am happy to announce that the NSF selected my research proposal for funding, which will allow me to continue the Lab Notes series for the next few years. The goal of the series is to highlight the work of local scientists, as well as the connections of laboratories around the area to national news developments. I am an astrophysicist by training, so you might notice a bias toward space and technology news, but I will endeavor
This portrait shows NOAA (left), NCAR (top), and NIST (right), three of the federally funded labs in Boulder.
to cover the full range of local science disciplines. “Colorado’s federally funded research labs fuel our innovation economy,” said Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper in response to a report issued last year by the Leeds School of Business. “Their impact is far-reaching, [contributing] to Colorado’s high-quality talent pool and expanding into our startups and private industry. These labs help to ensure our state’s future progress.” Over the past two decades, I have personally witnessed the economic impact of our federally funded research labs. My first visit to Boulder was during the summer of 2000, when I worked with a scientist at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) while finishing my Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. I moved to Boulder in 2004 with a postdoctoral fellowship from the NSF that brought me back to NCAR. Shortly after arriving, I was hired as a staff scientist at NCAR’s High Altitude Observatory. I spent the next six years trying to connect NCAR scientists to the broader astrophysics community, working to understand the history and future of our sun by studying other stars and their planetary systems across a range of ages. This continues to be my primary research focus. Budget cuts after the Great Recession eliminated my position at NCAR, and I have spent the past six years working as a contractor through a local research institute. In this position, I write grant proposals to NASA and the NSF to support my research. With my unsponsored time, I also run an independent nonprofit organization (adoptastar.org), which raises non-governmental support for an international research team. During the 14 years that I have worked as a scientist in Boulder, I have made connections with researchers inside and outside the local laboratories. Over the next few years, I hope to write about some of the most exciting and important research being done around town, and share the stories of those who are pushing forward the frontiers of knowledge. Whether you are inspired or dismayed by these stories, please share your thoughts by writing letters to the editor at BW. Your feedback will help guide the future of the column. In addition, if you know a local scientist who you think should be featured in the series, please email me your tips (tmetcalfe@boulderweekly. com). With your help, we will all learn more over the next few years about the amazing science being done in our community. Travis Metcalfe, Ph.D., is a researcher and science communicator based in Boulder. The Lab Notes series is made possible in part by a research grant from the National Science Foundation. October4, 2018 9
Windows, Walls and Invisible Lines:
Portraits of life in sanctuary photos and story by joel dyer
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hen I first met Araceli Velasquez back in July, it was a typical day in sanctuary for her and her three sons — Jorge Jr., 5, Christopher, 3 and Kevin, 18 months. They were playing in the courtyard, Araceli tossing the ball to Jorge while his two younger brothers looked on as they ate their snacks. The courtyard in the center of the church is the only space where Araceli can spend time outdoors with her kids. I use the term outdoors loosely, as it is a small space with four, multi-story-high brick walls surrounding it. And while there are a couple of trees, some shrubs and a few flowers, the only way to see mountains is if the right-shaped cloud floats by overhead and you use your imagination. The courtyard also boasts a good number of ground-level markers with names and dates of death. Araceli says she doesn’t tell her kids what the markers mean as it would likely detract from one of their favorite play areas. She’s correct, of course, and a good mom. The next day, the family, including Araceli’s husband, Jorge Sr., were gathered upstairs by their favorite bank of windows, one of which was open. Araceli was making jewelry, her only way of generating income to support the family, while Jorge and the kids listened to live bagpipe music, an all too familiar form of entertainment on the weekends. The piper was standing directly below the open window squeezing out his haunting tunes. The kids were obviously enamored with his instrument that reminds them of an octopus. The bagpiper, as he often does, was playing to greet those arriving for a funeral service at the church. I didn’t bother to ask the kids if they knew the music that had them spellbound and occasionally giggling was being played because someone had died, but I had to wonder. Living 24/7 within the walls of a religious facility is not remotely a nor10 October 4, 2018
mal existence. While most of us have at least some memories from inside the walls of a church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship — think weddings, funerals, weekly services, etc. — imagine yourself in the position of trying to weave your life around all the weddings, all the funerals, all the formal services, all the choir practices, all the prayer meetings, all the everything all the time. Now double that and you can start to imagine what it’s like to be the Velasquez family. I say “double that” because Araceli and her three small children have taken sanctuary in Park Hill United Methodist Church and Temple Micah in Denver, Colorado. This single location in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood serves Christians and Jews as both a Church and a Temple. In other words, twice as many funerals, weddings, services, etc. But don’t get me wrong; no one is complaining as the alternative for Araceli and her young boys is simply unimaginable. If she were to be deported back to El Salvador, the country she fled for the U.S. in 2010 to escape violence, she says the outcome could well be the complete annihilation of her family. “I strongly believe that if I return to El Salvador I will either be kidnapped or worse, killed,” she said via an interpreter. “I think now it’s even worse, the threat is even more difficult, because now I’m a mother. I have my three boys, and I know that the people
I fled in El Salvador understand that the best way to hurt a mother is through her children. And any harm that they would do to me would not just be a harm to me but to my boys.” No, there is nothing even remotely normal these days about the life of the Velasquez family, but they are truly thankful to be right where they are... for now. Araceli fled her life in a small rural village in El Salvador when she was just 19 because of domestic violence, gang activity and political unrest. She
was certain if she stayed she’d be killed. And there was no place for a young woman to turn for help in her home country. According to an American Friends Service Committee petition prepared on her behalf, “El Salvador has the highest rate of femicide in the world, and miscarriage is punishable by 30 years in prison.” Despite the difficult circumstances of her late teens, she says she still has many fond memories from her earlier childhood. Boulder Weekly
“I think of [my life in my village] with a lot of love because I think of my parents, and I had a really beautiful childhood as a young girl. But I also think of it with a lot of sadness because I haven’t been able to return and I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to return there,” she told me. “My parents and my uncles and aunts all still live in El Salvador,” she continued. “But it’s been very difficult for them, these last two years. In 2017 my cousins were killed and the elders have to live like they’re imprisoned. They can’t show that they have any support from the U.S. or any money because it’s possible they’ll be kidnapped or ransomed or killed. It’s been very difficult these past years for my parents and for the elders and for the community.” She says much of the violence in El Salvador derives from a combination of government ineptitude and corruption combined with the prevalence of gangs and a challenging economy. “If the government was functioning or wasn’t in bed with [the gangs], there wouldn’t be these problems,” she said. Boulder Weekly
“They’ll put people in jail for six months, a year, for having done horrific things, and when people leave these prisons they’re even more animals than when they went in. I feel like some of the people who are members of those gangs are almost not human anymore. They don’t even have their own name anymore by the time they leave prison, they become so deeply involved and show the same love for their species that some animals will show one another. It’s very scary and out of control.” Araceli’s decision to come to the U.S. was one of practicality. She says it was the only thing she could think of that would keep her from being killed. Still, it was a hard decision as she was the youngest child and a daughter, a role that traditionally would have made it her responsibility to remain at home and take care of her parents and elder relatives. But the domestic abuse, gang violence and political unrest changed all that. She had family in the U.S. who could help her if she could only get here. That would prove easier said than done for a young woman
traveling alone for the The Velasquez family listening to the haunting music of a bagpiper who is standing directly below this first time outside her second floor window. The kids like the odd local region. instrument and find its sounds humorous. It is unclear if they realize that this reoccurring musical event at “I crossed all of the church where they now live in sanctuary is Guatemala. I was actually part of funeral services. There is little normal about living in a church. hungry much of that time,” she recalled. “There were difficult things that happened along the way. I crossed all of Mexico, people I met in Mexico that helped and I was hungry for a lot of that time me, that saw me and helped me.” in Mexico. It’s really difficult to leave Of all the people Araceli credits for the country that you know and get helping her survive her perilous jourready to cross two countries that you’ve ney to her new home in the States, never been in, that you know nothing there was one particular young man about. You don’t know if your life is whose memory is never far from her going to end [trying to] get to the U.S. mind. or if you’re going to be able to survive “When we were getting ready to the journey and continue on. There cross into the U.S.,” she said, “[the were many difficult and challenging coyotes] put all of us into an abanthings that happened, but I feel really doned, almost barn-like structure in grateful to God because I feel like the middle of a marsh. It was in the there were good people all along the middle of nowhere. There were no way who helped me. And I had more bathrooms, and at first it was all men good people crossing my path than and I was the only woman. There were people who were negative or harmful. men there that wanted to take advanSo, I feel blessed in that way. Part of tage of me, to abuse me and assault the reason I survived that journey all the way to the U.S. was because of See ARACELI Page 12 October 4, 2018 11
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me, but there was a young man who decided to pretend he was my boyfriend and he protected me. I’ve always felt that he was like God personified in that moment, because he had no reason to help me, we didn’t know each other and he just stood up for me and protected me. When we crossed the border and we were caught by border patrol, we were separated. I’ve never been able to find him again, but I felt that in that moment when we were caught and separated that God was saying to me, ‘You’re going to be safe now. I’ve protected you to this moment, and it’s going to be OK.’ “[I’ve] looked all over social media for him. I’ve looked all over for him, but never been able to find a trace of him. I would so love to be able to thank him for what he did and to tell him what that meant to me.” After being apprehended by Immigration and Customs 12 October 4, 2018
Enforcement (ICE) officers as she crossed into the U.S., Araceli was immediately placed into detention. Unlike most of those crossing the southern border, she wasn’t sent back to her country of origin because she was from El Salvador, a country with Temporary Protective Status (TPS). Congress created TPS as part of the Immigration Act of 1990. It’s a humanitarian program that suspends deportations to countries that have been hard hit by wars or natural disasters. In January and February of 2001, El Salvador was rocked by three devastating earthquakes, which caused the U.S. government to grant TPS to people from El Salvador. However, the Trump administration has recently announced that TPS for Salvadorans will end in the fall of 2019. This termination will directly impact 200,000 people, including Araceli’s husband, Jorge Sr., who has
Herding cats. It’s not always easy getting everyone to cooperate for a family photo. From left to right: Araceli, Christopher, 3, Jorge Jr., 5, Kevin, 18 months and their dad, Jorge. The three children are all U.S. citizens and live in sanctuary with their mom. Their father, like their mother, is from El Salvador but he has TPS status until September 2019, which allows him to leave sanctuary and work and take care of the family’s home without fear of arrest and deportation.
been living and working under TPS in the U.S. for the past 17 years. The Trump administration also recently announced that domestic violence, even in cases where a woman being returned to her country of origin would likely result in death, is no longer being accepted as a justification for seeking legal asylum. In short, the Trump administration is wreaking havoc on the Velasquez family and their simple dreams of living in safety together in their Denver home while they watch their children — all of whom are U.S. citizens — grow up and contribute to their community and country. Araceli admits the U.S. has not always been as she had hoped it would be. “When they detained me,” she explained, “I spent about three days in
what we call the freezer. During those three days I didn’t have a blanket. Once they brought us a sandwich, but it was a frozen sandwich that cracked and that you couldn’t eat, and a piece of fruit. Sometimes at night they would bring you one more pieces of fruit or another one of those sandwiches. They put you, 10, 15 people in a room and you have to use the bathroom where everyone else in the room can see you. The bathroom is right there in the room with you. There aren’t any mattresses or places to lay down, there are just concrete benches and that’s where we slept. Boulder Weekly
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“This was in McAllen, Texas. They call it the freezer because it’s super cold. “And then,” she continues, “every couple of hours immigration agents come and take you out of the freezer to interrogate you, to ask you where you’re from and what’s happening and what your name is. They just repeatedly do that, trying to get you to talk and asking lots of questions. The most incredible thing to me is that when they attend you, to talk to you, they put on gloves like you have some kind of sickness or you’re less than human, that if they might touch you with their actual skin they might catch something.” Araceli says after her experience in the “freezer,” she was moved several times to different facilities along the border. “They put you on a bus and they just move you. You don’t know where you’re going, and they move you again, until I got to the third place, and then that’s where I stayed until they released me.” Once she was out of detention, the 19-year-old had to decide where to go in a vast nation she knew almost nothing about. Her brothers lived in New York and she had female cousins in Colorado. In the end, she says she chose Colorado because, after what she had lived through in El Salvador, she didn’t think she would do well in New York where she only knew men, who had mostly male friends. That would have been tough for a survivor of domestic abuse. Initially unsure of her decision, Araceli would eventually come to see her choice of Colorado as another blessing in her life straight from God’s hand. “At first, I felt like, ‘Oh man, I don’t know if I made the right deciBoulder Weekly
This courtyard is the only place where Araceli can play outdoors with her kids. Besides the trees, shrubs and flowers, the courtyard is full of ground-level markers with names and dates of death. Araceli says she hasn’t explained the markers to her children because she wants them to continue to enjoy the only outdoor space they can share.
sion,’ because Colorado and the U.S. weren’t what I had been expecting and things hadn’t been going the way I thought they would. But when I met my husband, everything changed. I had never thought I would get married or that I would have three children. And I never thought that I would meet someone who was so understanding, who was so patient. Someone who would fight next to me every day and always be there for me. I never thought that I would meet someone like that. So, I felt really grateful to God that I came and that I met him and that we built the life we have together,” she said. In a perfect world, it would have been the fairy tale ending to her difficult story. But, unfortunately, no immigrant in the United States at this time could mistake Trump World for a perfect world. In what has become a recurring theme within this ongoing national project on people living in sanctuary, Araceli’s original legal representation was... let’s just call it “disappointing.” Araceli says her original attorney never even bothered to ask her the details of her life in El Salvador or the reason why she had come north. In 2012 she had an asylum hearing and was told to meet her attorney there. She was scared and nervous and had no idea what to expect in court. No
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Like most people living in sanctuary, Areceli has a favorite window from which she can look out at the world — a world where she can no longer go without fear of being deported, away from her husband and children, to a place where she knows she would most likely be killed.
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one explained anything to her and she says it was clear once proceedings began that her attorney was not familiar with her story. In 2013, she found out that her attorney had filed an appeal so at that point she began to believe that she would be denied asylum. “Now I have a different lawyer, a lawyer who reviewed my case. I can see and feel the difference,” she said. “[This attorney] asked my details down to the very tiniest details of what happened to me. She asked me really hard questions. Nobody has ever asked me so many questions about all of the things that happened in El Salvador, in this whole process I can see the dif14 October 4, 2018
ference. There was no way that in this appeal with the lawyer who never even sat down with me was going to win. The asylum was denied, and then what they started asking for was stays of deportation. Every time they filed this stay of deportation it was $7,000. And this stay would only last for a year, and supposedly they were going to ask for an appeal when this stay was pending. So, the third time they got ready to file this stay of deportation, we had just sold a car a few days earlier. We had other plans of what we were going to do with that money for our family, when the lawyer said, ‘We need the money again to file for another stay.’ And my husband said, ‘We have to
give them the money, we need for you to be able to still stay here.’ So we gave them $7,000, and that $7,000 lasted them just two weeks. Two weeks of legal work. At the end of two weeks, they called us and said, ‘We need more money because your account is at zero,’ and we just felt so much rage and frustration and impotence, like what happened to all that money, what did they do with all that money? What could we do?” Anyone who has been covering immigration court proceedings has heard countless stories such as this. Immigrants have always been a vulnerable population, but perhaps never so much as today. Critics claim that some
firms are carrying far too many clients to be able to properly represent each one. It’s become like an overloaded public defender’s office at some firms. Sure, lawyers may file the proper paperwork at the proper time, but their clients are getting the bare minimum of legal representation. But unlike the publicly funded public defender’s office, some of these firms are making millions of dollars off hard-working immigrants and their extended families who have to pick up the tab. Many of these folks, like Araceli, are literally fighting for their lives, and See ARACELI Page 16
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some within the legal profession seem to be exploiting that desperation, charging high flat fees for simple procedural filings, knowing their clients’ language barriers and lack of familiarity with the U.S. bureaucratic immigration system make it nearly impossible for them to question fees or the quality of their representation. It is a system ripe for exploitation and it is, no doubt, being harvested. The last 10 years have been a long, hard road for Araceli, from her physical abuse in El Salvador to her deathdefying migration to her failed legal defense in the face of a hostile, racist, openly anti-immigrant U.S. govern-
ment, to her one year and two months living inside the walls of a church in sanctuary. When I spoke with her in July, she told me the hardest part about her life these days is “watching my sons live day in and day out in sanctuary with me. I think one of the things that’s hard about it is that I don’t have the freedom to care for my children and take them to parks and take them to the library and do the things that we used to do before sanctuary. They go with volunteers, who take them places and care for them and I feel very afraid because of the things that I’ve been through...
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and I just feel like it’s so hard to let them go away from me and to not feel totally confident that they’re going to be treated the way they should. Many of the volunteers are incredible people who I’ve come to know really, really well, and at the same time, how do you really know, all the way to the core, another person? And trusting my kids with other people is not something I would be doing at this age if we were at home.” Spoken like a good mom who has been forced to surrender control over her own children’s lives to others. I can’t imagine. And yet, despite a decade of challenges that most of us cannot fathom, she still says she is blessed and that God continues to bring more kind people across her path than those who would do her harm. That, no doubt, includes Jorge, her supportive husband and loving father of her children, as
Araceli playing with Carbunco, the family pet, in the lowerlevel living space the church carved out of a storage area for the Velasquez family. Carbunco lives in sanctuary as well, but volunteers make sure he gets his outdoor time.
well as all those who have made it possible for her to keep her family together in sanctuary through these challenging times. And last but not least, that young man who risked his life on the border eight years ago, pretending to be her boyfriend in order to prevent a group of men from sexually assaulting a scared 19-year-old girl who was already fleeing abuse. If he’s out there and happens to stumble across this article one day, I hope he’ll give me a ring. I know someone who’d like to say thanks.
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analysis Don’t frack so close to me
Colorado voters will weigh in on drilling distances from homes and schools by Tara Opsal and Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University
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oloradans will vote on a ballot initiative in November that requires new oil and gas projects to be set back at least 2,500 feet from occupied buildings. If approved, the measure — known first as Initiative 97 and now on the ballot as Proposition 112 — would mark a major change from the state’s current limits: 500 feet from homes and 1,000 feet from schools. As sociologists who have researched oil and gas drilling in the communities that host it for the past seven years, we think this measure would provide local governments and Coloradans more say over where drilling occurs and enhance the rights of those who live near these sites.
Fracking boom Domestic oil and gas production has soared over the past decade, leading the U.S. to become the top global producer of those fossil fuels. Technological innovations, especially the hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, commonly called fracking, have fueled this growth. So has federal deregulation. Partly because fracking and related industrial processes often occurs close to homes, schools and other occupied buildings, the debate over Proposition 112 is contentious. Opponents, especially those funded by industry groups, argue that stricter rules will mean less state tax revenue, job losses and weakened private property rights. Proponents express concerns about air pollution, earthquakes, water well contamination and explosions to explain why they want the public to have more sway. But many state governments have tried to stymie the attempts of communities to gain this power. For example, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled in 2016 that local communities have no right to regulate where drilling occurs. And industry-funded groups and the Colorado Farm Bureau, which represents farmers, ranchers and other agricultural interests, are countering this electoral effort to restrict drilling with their own measure. Known as Amendment 74, it would force any city or county government that limits drilling to compensate property owners if new setback rules were to lower property values or reduce revenue from fracking leases.
Regulations and leasing Members of the public and local governments have successfully challenged limits on local control over fracking in court before. For example, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court affirmed the power of communities to regulate the oil and gas industry locally when it ruled in 2016 that parts of a law known as Act 13 were unconstitutional. In that instance, the court ruled against a provision that barred doctors from sharing information about Boulder Weekly
neighbors from teaming up to get a better deal or even talking with one another about the terms they’re considering, interviewees told us. In some situations, when residents negotiated for better-than-average lease terms, landmen made them sign nondisclosure agreements that legally forbade sharing information.
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possible toxic exposure if they were given access to industry information about the chemicals used in fracking. It also blocked the enforcement of a measure that allowed the use of eminent domain to site natural gas storage facilities. But as far as we can tell, Colorado’s ballot initiative marks the first time voters can potentially control the set-back distances of oil and gas facilities from rivers, homes, schools and other buildings in their communities.
Negotiating terms Regulating oil and gas leases on private land is hard partly because they are privately negotiated contracts between companies and landowners. To learn more about what happens during these negotiations, we interviewed more than 100 Coloradans and Pennsylvanians about their experiences negotiating these drilling leases. In our recently published study, we found that these people feel inconvenienced at best. Most told us they felt exploited and mistreated due to the leasing experience despite having made money off of leasing their land or mineral rights. Some scholars who look at how drilling affects local communities argue that this process empowers private property owners because they play a direct role in deciding the terms of these negotiations. And some of these folks can even get rich from fracking lease earnings. Certainly, landowners — including some of the people we interviewed — have earned income from these contracts, though the amounts can vary from a few dollars to thousands of dollars per acre. But the overwhelming majority of the Pennsylvanians and Coloradans who met with us in their kitchens, backyards and farms described feeling disempowered when they signed fracking leases. “I knew zip about gas production,” explained a man who operates a small-scale dairy farm in northeastern Pennsylvania and we are calling “Anderson” to honor our promise of confidentiality. “We had no time, we either made a decision to do it or not do it.” During private negotiations, landmen — the company representatives who try to convince people to sell or lease their land and mineral rights — discouraged
Occasionally in Pennsylvania and almost always in Colorado, these fracked properties belong to two or more parties. One owns the surface and someone else possesses the rights to whatever minerals lie beneath it. And, in Colorado, surface landowners are legally required to provide mineral owners access to their resources. Many people we interviewed owned land but not the rights to the minerals below it. With limited power to stave off drilling in their backyards or on their farms, the surface rights owners we interviewed said they felt like “sitting ducks” and “unprotected.” They told us that they saw attempting to keep an oil and gas company off their land as “futile.” “John,” a farmer who lives south of Denver, tried to fight the placement of a pipeline that split his farm into two less usable pieces. When he tried to fight the pipeline placement, he told us, he overheard industry representatives speculating that they simply needed to outspend his opposition.
Mineral rights When the people we interviewed owned the mineral rights tied to their property but did not want to lease them, an energy company could pursue them through a state statute allowing a practice known as “forced pooling” in both Pennsylvania and Colorado. It makes leasing mineral rights mandatory, leaving landowners with no way to say no when a company wants to frack their property. We also heard about the personal costs participants experienced after they signed leases. Ranchers explained they lost productive pastureland. Other residents believed they became ill because of air pollution. And many farmers described lasting damage to idyllic homesteads. Even when these factors violated their leases or laws governing oil and gas practices, nearly all lease signers we interviewed told us they had a hard time getting oil and gas operators with whom they’d signed leases to address any violations of those contracts. To “Connor,” a homesteader in southern Colorado, the negotiation process felt “like having a second job.” At times,“ he told us, “it was absolutely overwhelming. I think we did absolutely everything we could as private citizens to try and mitigate the impacts and in the end, it was futile.” Opsal and Malin are assistant professors of sociology at Colorado State University. This piece first appeared at theconversation.com. October 4, 2018 19
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ozens of dead fish have been found along the banks of the Poudre River in Fort Collins, in what Colorado Parks and Wildlife is calling a major fish kill. The agency is still investigating the cause, according to reporting by The Coloradoan, but hypotheses include warmer-than-average temperatures and low river flows. Dead fish were first spotted on Sept. 21 by community members, and include trout, carp and fry. CPW has not produced any formal, public communication about the incident, but The Coloradoan also reports that although exact numbers of dead fish have not been released, estimates are in the thousands. The fish kill only adds to environmental concerns about the pending Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP), which would create two reservoirs on the Poudre and further decrease river flows. “The State must fully investigate and reveal the cause of this fish kill,” Gary Wockner of Save The Poudre said in a press release. “If it is related to warmer temperatures and lower flows, then climate change and NISP could turn the river through Fort Collins into a muddy, stinking, dead ditch, not a river ever again.” Save the Poudre estimates roughly 63 percent of water in the Poudre never reaches the City of Fort Collins, as it’s diverted to other cities and agriculture higher up. “NISP would basically kill the Poudre River through Fort Collins,” Wockner said. “The State and the Army Corps of Engineers must do a full analysis of the potential impacts of NISP including its low flows and interaction with climate change.” September was unseasonably warm for Fort Collins, with a seven-day streak of 90-degree weather and average temperatures reaching five degrees warmer than normal.
Latest research finds pregnant women living within a half mile of oil and gas activity are at risk
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here are already several studies that have shown the health risks associated with living near unconventional oil and gas development, aka horizontally drilled and fracked shale production. But a new study published Oct. 1 in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) may be the largest such research project to date and examines phase- and trimester-specific associations between unconventional gas activity and pre-term birth. According to the study’s lead author, Kristina Whitworth, an epidemiologist at UTHealth School of Public Health in San Antonio, Texas, “Activity is a proxy for a multitude of exposures.” The study sites everything from exposure to chemicals including endocrine disrupters used in fracking fluid to contaminated air emissions to non-chemical stressors such as noise and light pollution as part of the mix that is likely causing the problems during pregnancy. The article in EHP notes that the study found, “women living near the most drilling and production activity had an estimated 20 percent and 15 percent (respectively) higher risk of preterm birth, compared with women with no drilling activity near their homes. In their statistical analysis, the researchers controlled for other factors that could affect pre-term birth, including the mother’s education level and pre-pregnancy weight, whether she smoked during pregnancy, and the number and timing of her prenatal health-care visits.” The results of this large study, which examined the records from approximately 80,000 births occurring within the Barnett Shale play in Texas, should offer additional support to proponents of Proposition 112 this November. Proposition 112 is on the ballot and would create 2,500-foot setbacks between homes, schools and water supplies from oil and gas development. It also raises further questions about industry-funded advertising being run in opposition to Proposition 112, which claims that the expanded setbacks would not increase safety.
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he justification for “fracking is based in two lies — the first lie is to say that it is safe and nothing happens. That it doesn’t contaminate water, that it doesn’t generate seismic activity, that it doesn’t affect health,” says Carlos Santiago with the Colombian organization Water, Territory and Ecosystems Defender Corporation — CORDATEC. “And the other big lie related to that one is that they always use the example of the United States to say that in these places everything is going great, fracking is a marvelous thing and people are very happy with it.” Santiago is visiting Colorado with a group from the Latin American Alliance against Fracking, a network of 50 or so organizations from Mexico to Argentina working to prevent the proliferation of the extractive process across the continent. The technique has exploded in recent years across the region in places like Mexico, Argentina and Chile, with exploration well underway in other countries such as Colombia. There are also concerns about Brazil and Bolivia, where exploration is still nascent. The group was in Boulder Oct. 3 to talk about human rights issues associated with oil and gas development in the Americas at a public hearing of the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) at the University of Colorado Boulder Law School. Founded in 1959, the IACHR is charged with protecting and promoting human rights throughout North and South America by consulting with the Organization of American States (OAS) on such matters. “We are [asking] that the commissioners focus on the impacts of fracking as a human rights issue and understand that the fracking is a problem because it involves a right to health, right to the environment, right to food and water, and there has also been problems with the right of indigenous people and [access to] information,” says Liliana Avila, a Colombian lawyer with the InterAmerican Association for
Environmental Defense (AIDA). “The IACHR is a relevant actor in our claims for environmental justice. If things don’t go as we wish, we can use the InterAmerican assistance to demand effective measures from the states to prevent and protect the human rights of people.” The impact of oil and gas development on human rights is a widespread concern, as many in the group described a lack of government transparency, democratic process, and in some cases, violence against protesters. “Following the pattern here in [the United States of ] America, they started fracking without consultation from native people as mandated by our constitution,” says Roberto Ochandio from Argentina, a retired oil engineer who now spends his time educating the public about the environmental hazards of fracking and mining processes. “They don’t respect the formalities about making a public discussion.” According to the U.S. EIA, Argentina’s Vaca Muerta region has the world’s second largest shale gas reserves, and the area in the western part of the country is beginning to be developed, as the state-owned oil company, YPF, expects oil and gas production in the country to grow 35 percent this year. One of the largest concerns about what’s happening in Vaca Muerta, Ochandio says, is the complete disregard for the indigenous Mapuches people who live in Western Patagonia, where most of the oil reserves are located. It’s a common theme among all of the members of the Alliance visiting Boulder: While the governments may be complicit in oil and gas development, the indigenous people and communities the projects will affect aren’t being invited into the process. “In Mexico, it has been something that has happened in darkness, without transparency, or information to the public,” says Alejandra Jimenez with the Mexican Alliance against Fracking. Since 2013, when the Mexican government deregu-
lated the energy sector to allow private investment, development has surged in two main regions, Jimenez says, the Aceite Terciario del Golfo (ATG) along the Gulf of Mexico and the Burgos Basin farther north. “The environmental issues, we are starting to see them, and we will see them more and more, as they become more evident in five to 10 years,” Jimenez says. “But the social issues are very immediate.” She says fracking developments have completely changed the economy of the region, as people have moved from agriculture to oil fields. Foreign workers have also been brought in, and with them came an increase of violence, prostitution and drug trafficking in the region. While here, the Latin American Alliance against Fracking is meeting with local groups involved in the effort to limit and/or ban fracking along the Front Range. They also planned a visit to Firestone, the community where a house exploded and two people died, due to uncapped flow lines in April 2017. “We would like to tell people in Colombia that there are houses exploding here, that people are dying here,” Santiago says. By uniting across country and culture, the Latin American Alliance against Fracking hopes to amplify the voice of local communities fighting oil and gas development on the ground across the continent, most of whom, they say, don’t want fracking. “The government and the oil companies don’t like it when they see people from different countries united, they don’t like the union of the people inside their countries and even worse if they are united with other countries,” Ochandio says. “This is the best we can do to show the governments that we don’t like what they are doing.”
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Alan Gilbert. He played many times under Bernstein, both as concertmaster and as a soloist on tour with the orchestra. I also talked to Chas Wetherbee, concertmaster of the Boulder Philharmonic, who held the same role with the Columbus (Ohio) Symphony; Yumi Hwang-Williams, concertmaster of the Colorado Symphony and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in Santa Cruz, California; and Calin Lupanu, concertmaster of the Colorado Music Festival orchestra in the summer and of the Charlotte (North Carolina) Symphony. There are some obvious ways the concertmaster leads the strings. “That’s your job, to lead the section, and you do it by example,” Dicterow says. “I actually use the scroll of the violin as a baton. You have to imagine yourself as a conductor, delivering the message of the conductor to all eight or nine stands.” That is the visible part of the leadership, taking place during rehearsals
Sometimes a star on stage, the concertmaster is always a worker behind the scenes
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f you have attended a classical orchestra concert, you’ve seen the concertmaster. He or she enters after the rest of the orchestra is onstage, to polite applause. They ask the oboe to play a note, and the orchestra tunes. Once the music starts, they play any solos that are written in the orchestra score. But what else do they do? Quite a bit, it turns out. They serve as leader of the violin section, and by extension all of the strings; they help the conductor achieve his or her interpretation; they facilitate communication between conductor and players; they audition new players; and sometimes they represent the orchestra to the public. All of this work is done Boulder Weekly
behind the scenes, which makes the concertmaster a very important person. It’s also why the conductor shakes the concertmaster’s hand at the end of the concert. But the devil’s in the details, and to get the details, I talked to four current and former concertmasters. One of them is Glenn Dicterow, retired concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, who was in Boulder the last week of September for CU Bernstein at 100, the ongoing celebration of the Leonard Bernstein Centennial at the CU College of Music. Dicterow was concertmaster of the Philharmonic for 34 years, serving under four of its music directors: Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel and
Glenn Dicterow was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. He says an inspirational, great performance is reward enough for the complex job.
and performances. If you watch the concertmaster in concerts, you can see them leading the players sitting beside and behind them. Concertgoers easily notice that the bows in each section go up and down, or back and forth, together. That doesn’t happen by chance; deciding how the bows are to be used (bowing) is one of the largest, and most critical, parts of the concertmaster’s job. Bowing is more than just the up and down directions. First of all, there is the choice of moving the bow smoothly across the string, on the string bowing, or bringing the bow into the air between notes, off the string. And there are many varieties of each — legato, marcato, martele, spicatto, ricosee CONCERTMASTER Page 26
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chet, detaché, and many more. These bowing decisions have to be made by the concertmaster, essentially for every note in every piece. “I’m working about six to 10 months in advance,” Lupanu says. “I mark the parts, I even practice, to some extent, the piece at that time. And once that’s done and it’s marked, I scan [my part] and hand it to the librarian. The librarian marks the parts in the first violin section and sends a copy to the other principal strings. It takes several weeks.” Hwang-Williams describes essentially the same process with the Colorado Symphony. “Many months out, once the program is set for the next year, we start the bowing procedure, and it starts with the concertmaster,” she says. “I will get a part and mark my bowings, check them from previous performances, or if it’s a new work, starting from scratch. “Then it goes to the principal second, principal viola, cello, bass — we have to make sure that we have a unified vision of the bowings. That can be very time-consuming. You’re making an informed guess as to what’s going to work. We may have a guest conductor with a very different concept, so then you won’t know until the first rehearsal. Often you have to make quick changes.” Some conductors will check the bow markings before rehearsals, and many guest conductors used to provide their own marked parts. That is less common today, although all conductors 26 October 4 , 2018
String orchestra players, like those in the Boulder Philharmonic, are instructed on how to synchronize the movement of their bows, called bowing, which the concertmaster arranges.
have their own ideas about how the bowings support their interpretation. This is where the concertmaster serves the conductor’s concepts rather than just their own. “The conductor is the artistic visionary of the orchestra,” Wetherbee says. “It’s the concertmaster who’s helping translate that into the practical day-to-day activity, or the technique of the orchestra, to make that vision happen. “During rehearsals we’re making adjustments: the conductor wants more sound in this particular passage, we need to adjust our bowing. The conductor wants something to be more aggressive or muscular, that’s a different bowing. All of these things are being adjusted.” Translating the conductor’s vision often means that the job changes from one conductor to the next. For example, Dicterow says Bernstein expected a lot from the section leaders. “With Lenny it wasn’t about clarity, it was about the inspiration and the emotion and the profundity of what he put into the interpretation,” he says. “Leaders of every section needed to take responsibility of being able to transmit what he was getting at. He Boulder Weekly
buzz trusted every section to have leaders strong enough to make the performance complete in every way, technically and emotionally. It was a challenge sometimes to keep things together, because that’s not what he was there for. In that regard it was a bit more challenging, but so well worth it.” Concertmasters all relish the solos they play in some orchestra pieces, particularly the longer ones in some of the Romantic showpieces. “I’ve played [Rimsky-Korsakov’s] Scheherazade, I’ve played [Richard Strauss’] Das Heldenleben. I love these pieces,” Lupanu says. “I love them all, I play them all!” But those solos come with a hidden challenge, too. “Concertmaster solos often are prickly,” Hwang-Williams says. “String players are part of a large section. So there’s a lot of time when you don’t really hear your own sound for a while, then all of a sudden you’re by yourself. That’s probably the biggest challenge of playing concertmaster solos.” Another part of the job is being part of the orchestra’s outreach to the public and to donors. “Whenever you’re out playing elsewhere, you’re representing your orchestra, being out into the community and being a cheerleader,” Hwang-Williams says. Something the public rarely sees is the concertmaster keeping the peace among the many artists who work together in the orchestra. “Are there sometimes issues in a marriage?” Lupanu asks rhetorically. “You can imagine how it is in an ensemble of between 80 and 100 people that spend time every day together. It’s normal, and you try to be diplomatic.” The New York Philharmonic in particular had a reputation of being difficult with some guest conductors. “Historically, I would say that [reputation] is fair,” Dicterow says. He described the players in the early days as “fighters from the Bronx. We had such a guy, he was a wonderful player, right behind me and he would just say [to a guest conductor], ‘What are you talking about? Here, you do it! Here’s the violin!’ “It’s up to me to make peace. You’re sort of an ambassador.” Wetherbee mentioned another hidden part of the job. “It’s usually unwritten, but there’s a very strong expectation that you are prepared, should a [violin] soloist cancel, to step in and play that particular concerto,” Boulder Weekly
he says. “If it’s a standard concerto, even on very short notice, the expectation is that you could stand up and play it. ”That means that you look over the season and see that if there is a Mendelssohn Concerto, a Tchaikovsky [or] a Barber Concerto, you’re keeping these on your radar and enough in your
fingers that even with only a week’s notice you are ready to take that on. And that has happened to me in Columbus.” All four concertmasters emphasize that their multifaceted position is very demanding and time-consuming. “I want to say that it is an extremely complex job,” Lupanu says.
But Dicterow says the work has its rewards. “The best part is that your team has stood behind you and you’ve made this incredible sound together. You’ve been a good team leader, and the payoff is a great, inspirational performance. That’s the wonderful part of it. “That’s the payoff.”
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nce upon a time (in the late ’70s and early ’80s), America had a fairly notable love affair with Australia. This was almost a full decade before Outback Steakhouse would teach us about shrimp on the barbie and the bloomin’ onion. There was Wallaby Squash, a lemon-lime soda with an ear worm of a jingle; The Paul Hogan Show (a sketch comedy show pre-dating Crocodile Dundee movies and far more hilarious) was in TV syndication; and
Mad Max and The Road Warrior were infiltrating our culture. Then there was the music. Many Australian new wave music groups were exported to the U.S. via independent or cult films and soundtracks like Dogs in Space (Michael Hutchence, from INXS, played the lead role). Aussie music — Midnight Oil, Icehouse, Men at Work, Crowded House, Real Life and Pseudo Echo — was brought in by U.S.-based college and modern rock DJs who had underground music connections.
The Church was one of these exports. Formed in 1980 in Sydney, the band quickly became a staple of college radio stations and commercial “modern rock/rock of the ’80s” formats in the U.S. and abroad. With the likes of Echo and the Bunnymen, the Cure, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and The Psychedelic Furs, The Church helped introduce new wave to the states. The band’s style has been described as ethereal, psychedelic dream pop. Over the past 38 years, The Church has produced a robust catalog of more Boulder Weekly
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than 26 albums. The band has also been inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame. Although the band’s style has evolved over time, the unmistakable guitar sound and vocal qualities have remained constant. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Starfish, The Church’s most successful album. The most widely known track, “Under the Milky Way,” was a dance club favorite which saw its way into heavy MTV rotation (back when MTV still played music), movie soundtracks (Donnie Darko), TV shows (Miami Vice) and commercials. Sia has even covered the song. The band kicked off its 20 date, North American tour on Sept. 30, playing Starfish in its entirety, along with selected hits and favorites. Founding member, lead singer and songwriter Steve Kilbey says he was pleasantly surprised by the success of Starfish. “I really didn’t expect it. I’ve always had a kind of negative philosophy. I never expect anything good is going to happen so when it does, I’m surprised,” Kilbey says. “When [success] never happened, I was always well armored against that. Making Starfish with that same philosophy, I didn’t think anything would happen with it.” He is clearly proud of the album, and he should be. It catapulted The Church to new heights in the U.S. and beyond. ‘Under the Milky Way,’ reached No. 24 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1988. It brought the band from the college and underground scenes to the mainstream. “I felt like Starfish finally vindicated us,” Kilbey adds. “Reptile” was the second single from the album to reach the charts. It peaked at No. 27 in 1988. Although, when asked which is his favorite Church album, Kilbey says it’s Priest=Aura. He explains, “I always come back to Priest=Aura from 1992. I think that was sort of our zenith. We did something on that ... we never were able to do it again. We never tried to do it again. I think for that one album, it Boulder Weekly
all came together. Everything that was good about us, it just came out at the wrong time. It came out when grunge was happening and it wiped us out. Well, that’s what happens with these sort of art movements. Art, poetry, music, something ... comes out and everybody jumps on that. Everybody’s a cubist, nobody’s a classicist for a couple of weeks, and everyone’s naive. Then everyone’s ‘I’m punk, I’m prog, I’m new wave, I’m grunge, I’m euro...’ whatever. And, as each thing happens, other things get suppressed.” Kilbey is well aware of the importance college radio played in The Church’s success in the U.S. “[Austrailia] didn’t have the tastemaker network of college radio stations,” Kilbey says. “It did not exist at all. There aren’t so many colleges and universities; we’re such a small country (about 24 million compared to 326 million in the U.S.). If [college radio stations] did have shows, they didn’t really have that kind of influence, you know, like CMJ (College Music Journal) ... and when you got on all that, that was pretty good.” Contemporary college radio darlings like MGMT, LCD Soundsystem, Japanese Breakfast and Santigold borrow extensively from the ’80s modern rock era. When it comes to influences and borrowing from the past, Kilbey says, “All I can say is go for it. Please take what you can find. I borrowed everything I’ve played from somebody else. Everybody is sort of adding to the whole thing and refining it all the time.” Kilbey admits he doesn’t really listen to modern bands. When asked what he does listen to, he says, “This is a terrible answer. I should be going, ‘Ah yeah, I’m getting into this rare Madagascan nose flute,’ or something. I actually turn on my iPhone and I’ve got a beat box that connects to my blue tooth and every week iTunes makes up a playlist of my
favorite 20 songs. So, every Tuesday I get a playlist and listen to it for a week. Every now and then I’ll play a whole album of something. It’s not what people would hope ... that I’ve got this massive vinyl collection or I’m listening to all these rare acetates (tapes) of, you know, whatever ... it’s not like that.” He continues, “30 years ago if I heard myself saying this, I would have said, ‘What are you talking about, man? You can’t listen to music like that — you’ve got to listen to an album.’ ... People [today] aren’t taking [music] seriously, loving it, defining their lives by it, making friends, creating enemies by the music that they believe in. When I was at school, I couldn’t be friends with someone who liked stuff I hated and hated the stuff I liked. Music created a lot of friendships and bonds. That was a real kind of bonding experience. I don’t think there’s so much of that anymore because everything is accessible all the time.” Which brings us to the question of his own band’s future. “Music is like a game of football: It’s whatever comes along,” he muses. “Imagine one of the [bandmates] buys a harmonium and starts playing that and suddenly we go off in a new direction, or one of the guys drops dead ... or say there’s a new thing happens or a movie uses one of our old songs and it becomes really disproportionately famous. There’s so many things that could happen. I don’t really know where it’s going to go and I don’t even try to imagine what we’re going to do. One of the guys in the band doesn’t want to make any more albums. He says we’ve made enough albums. I certainly don’t feel like that. I hope we survive. I hope we make more music. But, in that broad sort of idea, I have no idea. I don’t care. I just drift along with it. It was too much heartache and headache to make things happen the way I wanted them. If someone says, ‘Hey, let’s do a tour of Finland,’ I’m like OK, let’s do a tour of Finland.”
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ove. It can be exciting and new, welcoming you aboard, even expecting you. It can be life’s sweetest reward, an open smile on a friendly shore. Love can also hurt, scar and wound. It can be a flame that burns you when it’s hot. Love sometimes stinks, yeah, yeah. Love can even kill. But hey, it’s the only game in town this side of the hermit-in-a-cave-atopthe-mountain lifestyle, so most of us look for it, if often in all the wrong places. The eternally exhilarating, often exasperating quest for love forms the basis for the vast majority of art, theater included. It’s no surprise then that an ode to all things dating and mating, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, is one of the longest-running offBroadway musicals in history. Given that it premiered in 1996, the show is getting a little long in the tooth. Rather than treat it like a holy relic and leave it unchanged as some sort of historical snapshot of love in the 1990s, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change has been modernized with a shiny, spiffy, 21st-century makeover. So even if you’ve seen it before you’ll experience new vignettes and updated references this time around. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Voodoo Donuts Boulder Weekly
and dick pics are just a few of the zeitgeisty tidbits sure to please the younger crowd in particular. One of the most successful examples of nouveau topical material takes the audience on a first Tinder date. Because both the man and the woman are “busy, busy, busy,” they agree to skip the first date and all of its uncomfortable uncertainty. That quickly leads to skipping the second date, and the third and so on until our right-swipers have traveled at warp speed through their entire relationship. The result is both riotously funny and more than a little bittersweet. Other notable scenes include: a musical back-and-forth as a man and a woman get ready for their date, another date in which the participants voice their insecurities at not being the “babes” and “studs” they feel they need to be to net that special someone, a Scared Straight-style intervention, the challenges of keeping the romantic spark lit after a few kids have turned husband and wife into mom and dad, and a woman recording her first attempt at video dating. That last one — starring Anne Terze-Schwarz — rang so wistfully true and had the audience so rapt that at one point the theater became quiet enough that you
could actually hear the air conditioning blowing in the background. How often does that happen? Let me tell you, hardly ever. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change features a cast of just four actors, two men and two women, so there’s a lot riding on those eight shoulders. Heather Marie Doris, Bob Hoppe, Brian Jackson and Anne TerzeSchwarz aren’t just up to the task; they deliver dozens of diverse, finely delineated characters and scores of laughs. While it is Terze-Schwarz’s first sojourn onto the BDT Stage stage, Doris, Hoppe and Jackson have trod these boards many times before. Hoppe and Jackson tend to be cast in supporting roles, and it was a great pleasure to see these two versatile, assured and charming actors take the lead for a change. From the paintings that adorn the stage, paintings that showcase the actual cast, to the blocking and lighting, to the decision to have the BDT Stage orchestra, which is usually relegated to a band room and thus hidden from view, onstage for the entire performance, director Seth Caikoswki has made nothing but good choices. His I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is certain to resonate with people of all ages regardless of their current relationship status. It is a supremely human show with heart and cheekiness to spare. You’re going to love I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, and after all, all you need is love.
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The Nederland Food Pantry has been feeding members of the Peak to Peak Community since 2012, but it takes support from the community. Dango Rose, founder of Elephant Revival, has teamed up with other local musicians to present a night of outstanding music to support The Nederland Food Pantry. Rose will be joined by Jules Schroeder of Unconventional Life; Jonny Miller, lead songwriter of The Lonesome Days; Eric Moon on keys; Evan Reeves on guitar; and “The Kenz” on vocals. There’s a suggested donation of $20 at the door, with food and drink available for purchase and a silent auction.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY CELEBRATION. 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Public domain Right Relationship Boulder, a volunteer group of area residents, is collaborating with tribal leaders to reconnect the Arapaho people — the Hinó’no’éí — with their Boulder homeland. An opening ceremony at 1 p.m. will be followed by demonstrations of traditional dances, arts and crafts, and an invitation to participate in Hinó’no’éí hand games, language lessons and a Q&A with Arapaho elders and leaders. Boulder’s American Indian Youth Leadership Institute will organize activities for Boulder and Hinó’no’éí young people in the gym from 4-6 p.m.
LIVING IN THE FUTURE’S PAST 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, University of Colorado Boulder, internationalfilmseries.com
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Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with Laura Veirs and Aaron Lee Tasjan. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, etown.org. Boulder Weekly
Laura Veirs has been making music for 20 years, but the work on her 10th album, The Lookout, feels as fresh as ever, showcasing her unquestionable prowess as a folkpop songwriter.
Bringing together interviews with scientists, politicians, philosophers and one retired Army general alongside a smattering of footage worthy of National Geographic, Living in Future’s Past looks at the state of the world in the 21st century, and tries to understand how we got here while wondering what’s next. Produced and presided over by Jeff Bridges and directed by Susan Kucera, Future’s Past is a climate change documentary that pays equal attention to the psychological as it does the social. —Michael J. Casey
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CU BOULDER EVENTS For more information on any event, visit calendar.colorado.edu. Thursday, Oct. 4 The InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights 169th Period of Sessions.
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Stretching Our Horizons.
7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. Another showing on Oct. 5 at 7 p.m.
8 a.m. Wolf Law Building, Wittemyer Courtroom and Schaden Commons, 2450 Kittredge Loop Road, Boulder. Through Oct. 5.
Friday, Oct. 5 The best of both worlds? Temple Grandin Birth centers and narratives Michaele Ferguson on of out-of-hospital birth. 3:30 p.m. Guggenheim Geography, Playful Pedagogy. 4 p.m. Norlin Library, M549, Center for British and Irish Studies, 1157 18th St., Boulder.
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How Natural Are Natural Disasters? — Visiting Lecturer, Dr. Uwe Lübken, LMU Munich.
7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.
5 p.m. Hellems Arts and Sciences, 141, 1550 Central Campus Mall, Boulder.
Stephanie Burt Reading.
7 p.m. Norlin Library, M549, Center for British and Irish Studies, 1157 18th St., Boulder.
Jessica Lang Dance.
CU Volleyball vs. Cal.
8 p.m. CU Events Center, 950 Regent Drive, Boulder.
Saturday, Oct. 6 Handmade @ The Muse: Letterpress Edition.
An Act of Bardo: Translating Tibetan Poetry. 11 a.m. Norlin Library, CBIS, 1157 18th St., Boulder.
Sunday, Oct. 7 CU Soccer vs. UW.
2 p.m. Prentup Field, Discovery Drive, Boulder.
CU Volleyball vs. Stanford
7 p.m. CU Events Center, 950 Regent Drive, Boulder.
CU Bernstein at 100: Fall Festival of Choirs.
7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.
Monday, Oct. 8 5:47 Lecture Series with Douglas Farr.
5:47 p.m. Environmental Design, ENVD 134, 1060 18th St., Boulder.
Tuesday, Oct. 9 Mini Law School.
6 p.m. University of Colorado Law School and via Livestream, Wittemyer Courtroom 2450 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder.
10 a.m. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway St., Boulder.
Calling All Minds for Educators: A talk with Temple Grandin.
3:30 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), UMC 235, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder. Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
‘Confluir’: A National Geographic-supported film about the Grand Canyon of the Amazon.
6:30 p.m. Center for Academic Success and Engagement, 1725 Euclid Ave., Boulder.
Wednesday, Oct. 10 Guest Master Class: ChiaoLing Sun, violin, and Andrew Cooperstock, piano. 4 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.
Boulder Conversations with Violeta Chapin, CU professor of law. 5:30 p.m. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway St., Boulder.
Film Screening: ‘The Long View.’
6:15 p.m. Norlin Library, Center for British and Irish Studies (fifth floor), 1157 18th St., Boulder. RSVP at colorado.libcal.com/event/4596692
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Thursday, October 4 Music Clay Rose. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. David Booker. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Deer and Pickin on Ween (Late Set) — with Charlie Rose (of Elephant Revival). 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Easy Giant. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
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Boulder Tango Festival 2018. 7:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom & Boulder Tango Studio, 6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-278-4213. Through Oct. 7. Bryan Fogel: Keynote Lecture, JAAMM Festival. 7:30 p.m. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver, 303-316-6360.
Conversations in English Thursdays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Far Out, A Film By Teton Gravity Research. 6:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Gallery Talk — with Oscar Becerra. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Musical Storytime. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Pick of the Litter. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. The Sklar Brothers. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More show times at comedyworks.com Worlds Suspended in Reality Opening Reception. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Friday, October 5 Music Augustus, One Way Ride. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Charlie Rose — with The Deer. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.
The Dale Cisek Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Drive-By Truckers — with T. Hardy Morris. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. England Dan & The Rocket Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Erik Boa. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Finn O’Sullivan. 7:30 p.m. The Tune-Up, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002. Ginga Brazil Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Jeff Austin Band — with Dead Winter Carpenters and Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. K?D. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. LaRissa Vienna and the Strange. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Leah Grams Johnson. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. A Light in the Void. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. The Lonesome Days. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. see EVENTS Page 35
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The Moves Collective. 10 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 215-439-1391. Rocky Mountain International Audio Fest. Noon. Denver Marriott Tech Center, 4900 S. Syracuse St., Denver, 720-635-0482. Through Oct. 7. Sacred Jazz! Will Todd’s Mass in Blue. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.
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Monster Magnet. 7:30 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.
Songs of the British Isles. 7 p.m. United Church of Christ, 1500 Ninth Ave., Longmont.
From a history of children’s rights to case studies discussing international initiatives that aim to create child-friendly cities, Placemaking with Children and Youth offers comprehensive guidance on how to engage children and youth in the planning and design of local environments. Hear authors Louise Chawla and Mara Mintzer speak about the book at Boulder Book Store on Thursday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Strangebyrds. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Thursday, Oct. 4
Suicidal Tendencies. 6 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
Louise Chawla & Mara Mintzer — Placemaking with Children and Youth. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Tangled Senses. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.
Friday, Oct. 5
Taylor Shae Music. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.
Helen Thorpe — The Newcomers. 11:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver. Monday, Oct. 8 Charlaine Harris — An Easy Death. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text Podcast. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Tuesday, Oct. 9
Conversations in English Fridays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Juleah del Rosario — 500 Words or Less. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
F*ck Tinder: A Love Story. 8 p.m. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 310-384-1338. Through Oct. 6.
Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Steve Rasnic Tem — The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver.
Jessica Brody — Save the Cat! Writes a Novel. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Gene Luen Yang — Secret Coders: Monsters & Modules. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Sara L. Daigle — Triangle. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Wednesday, Oct. 10
Author Talk featuring Kevin Henkes. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Games @ Meadows. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Heavy Trip. 8:45 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. Kevin Henkes: A Parade of Elephants. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Manhattan Short Film Festival. 4 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Oct. 7 NatchCom. Galvanize Boulder, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-749-0038. Sleeping Beauty. 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-837-8888. Through Oct. 14. Spanish Modern Literature Club. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Write Your Story Writing Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Saturday, October 6 Music All Time Low, Dashboard Confessional. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Angra. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Antonio Lopez. 10 a.m. Stone Cup, 422 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Ars Nova Singers. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.
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Sunday, Oct. 7 Taran Matharu — The Summoner’s Handbook. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Colorado Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Denver Pops Orchestra: The Legacy of Leonard Bernstein. 4 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-2383. Denver Shred Fest. 2 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 719-310-2182. England Dan & The Rocket Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Fall Song Circle: The Fremonts, Summerland Sun, The Catcalls. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Gnash. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Gumbo Le Funque. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Kwame Alexander — Swing. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Leif Enger — Virgil Wander. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Ketch Secor — Lorraine. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Colin Robison and the Heavy Hearts. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
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Hendershot. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.
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Interstate Stash Express. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.
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Itzhak: Neustadt JAAMM Festival. 7:30 p.m. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver, 303-316-6360. Jeff Austin Band. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Joe Kuckla, Irons in the Fire. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Last Year’s Model. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. Longmont Symphony Opening Night: Happy Birthday, Lenny! 7:30 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796. Mark Cormican & Starwood featuring a Tribute to John Denver. 7 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599. see EVENTS Page 36
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events Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s fall exhibit, Worlds Suspended in Reality, includes three revelatory exhibitions by artists Caroline Douglas, Frank Sampson and Patricia Bramsen, who all channel an unseen reality that surrounds us. Now showing through Jan. 20.
Courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery.
of Natural History, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Through Dec. 1. A collection of early newspapers, restored cameras, artifacts and old-time commerce. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit. Mai Wyn Schantz: Magnetic North. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Oct. 21. Oil Paintings By Nickie Barbee. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Nov. 3. REMBRANDT: Painter as Printmaker. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 6.
Anthrome: A Survey of Jason DeMarte’s Work. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 18.
Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3.
Daisy Patton: This Is Not Goodbye. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 17.
Form and Formlessness: Sue Hammond West’s Sabbattical Paintings. The Cube, Nalanda and Lounge Galleries, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Oct. 12.
Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019.
Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.
Elements of Peace — by Marlene Siff. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 7.
Fragments of Places — by Yuge Zhou. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 7.
EYES ON Julie Buffalohead. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building — Level 4, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3.
Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October.
EYES ON Shimabuku. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building — Level 4, 100 W. 14th Ave.
Hungry Birds: The Photography of David Leatherman. University of Colorado Museum
Small Wood Sculptures — by Charles Counter. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 6. Strong Women in Bloom — by Stephen Parlato. Naropa University, Arapahoe Campus, Lincoln Gallery, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Dec. 15. TreeHouses: Look Who’s Living in the Trees! Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 6. What’s Wrong With Our Country? — by Deborah Nehmad. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan & Hand-Rudy Galleries, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 7. Worlds Suspended in Reality. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Jan. 20.
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Megan Hamilton. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Mystic Lovers Rock And Jazz Show. 7:15 p.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-727-23. Rogue 2. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Saturday Sing-Along: Billy Joel and Elton John (Soft Rock of the Late ’70s/’80s). 3 p.m. George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Sodown. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Van Wholen. 7 p.m. The Wild Game Entertainment Experience, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875.
Handmade in Colorado Expo. 9 a.m. Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-272-7467. Melt and Pour Holiday Glycerin Soapmaking. 10 a.m. Arapahoe High School, 6600 E. Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 720-561-5968. MERU: The Struggle to Climb Mount Meru. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Mother Daughter Bookclub: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Pop Up Comic Con. 11 a.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder.
The Velveteers (Vinyl Release / Tour Kickoff). 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
Pumpkin Harvest Festival. 10 a.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 720-865-0800.
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Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Accessing Digital Books, Movies and Magazines. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Adventure Film Festival. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 716-785-7655. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863. Create Your Own Mask! 10 a.m. Casey Middle School, 1301 High St., Boulder, 720-561-5968. Creative Costumes. 9 a.m. Arapahoe High School, 6600 E. Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 720-561-5968. First Saturday Yoga: Cats and Cows (and maybe a Lion). 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. 36 October 4 , 2018
Gluten-Free Tasting Expo and Health Fair. 11 a.m. Natural Grocers, 100 W. South Boulder Road Lafayette, 303-926-1600.
Savory Cup Chef Competition. 11 a.m. Savory Cuisines, 5741 Arapahoe Ave., Unit 1A, Boulder. Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Sunday, October 7 Music Basement. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Bo DePeña. 7 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Suite 130, Longmont, 303-258-6910. Dairy Arts Center presents: Polygraph Lounge Family Show. 1 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-875-7514. Jill Cohn. 10 a.m. Stone Cup, 422 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Primus. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Traditional Irish Music. 7:30 p.m. Boulderado Hotel License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4560. Unleash The Archers. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Witherward. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Events Adventure Film Festival. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 716-785-7655. Doris’ Sunday Matinee: North by Northwest. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Exhibition on Screen: David Hockney. 1 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Handmade in Colorado Expo. 11 a.m. Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-272-7467. Purl Jam. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tale of Molly Brown and La Vivandiere. 3 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Theatre, 119 Park Ave West., Denver, 303-945-4388. Monday, October 8 Music Against Me — with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. see EVENTS Page 38
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In October 1998, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. Members of the Tectonic Theater Project conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town to produce The Laramie Project. This breathtaking collage explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. Theater Company of Lafayette presents The Laramie Project Oct. 5-14.
Annie Get Your Gun. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Nov. 25. The Cake. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Oct. 31. Cannibal! The Musical. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Opens Oct. 5. Through Oct. 27. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Oct. 13.
5. Through Nov. 11.
The Constant Wife. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Opens Sept. 28. Through Oct. 21. Dear Evan Hansen. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Oct. 13. Educating Rita. Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Opens Oct.
Great Expectations — presented by CU Performing Arts. Loft Theatre, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Oct. 7. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Nov. 3. Invaders from Planet 9 — presented by Arts in the Open. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road,
Boulder. Through Oct. 28. The Kentucky Cycle. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Oct. 21. The Laramie Project — presented by Theater Company of Lafayette. Lafayette’s Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette. Through Oct. 14. Lungs. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Oct. 14. Mamma Mia! Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, Main Stage Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Sept. 30. Mary Poppins. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Nov. 11. Men on Boats — presented by The Catamounts. Dairy Arts Center, The Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 13. Pride and Prejudice — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 7. Oklahoma! Denver Center for Performing Arts, Stage Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Oct. 14. Uncanny Valley. Benchmark Theatre Company, 40West, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Through Oct. 13.
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Art Stop. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Eric Leadbetter Music. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Fickle Friends — with bülow. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Jazz Jam at the Muse. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 East South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Many Mountains. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. The Polygraph Lounge. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. The Vaccines. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Events Mis Pininos/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. STEAM Storytime. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Younger Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Your Life, Your Legacy. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Tuesday, October 9 38 October 4 , 2018
Music Against Me! performing New Wave. 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Benda, Borgore, GG Magree. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Laura Veirs. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Mars and Life in the Universe. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303449-1343. Meg Myers — with Adam Jones. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Neck Deep — with Stand Atlantic, WSTR, Gardenside. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Soccer Mommy. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Events Living in the Future’s Past, presented by Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges. 7 p.m. Mayan Theatre, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-744-6799.
Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wednesday, October 10 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Borgore. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Custom Shop. 7 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Foo Fighters — with Gang of Youths. 7:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Natalie Prass. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Owl City. 7 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. The Power of Lady Folk: Musical Women Show and Social Hour. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. We Came as Romans. 7 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Events
Around the World Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Exhibition on Screen: David Hockney. 1 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.
Midday Music Meditation. Noon. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Helen Thorpe: The Newcomers. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Lap Babies. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Third Murder. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Boulder Weekly
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Out of reach by Britt DiGiacomo
You say it’s dangerous you say it’s too risky to be alone it is spring I lay in a field in the grass the bridge across from me my hand on my chest my skin is hot (like desert sand) I am not sick I close my eyes and can hear a lady, whistling on the park bench, smell the leaves, picture the crack in your ceiling electric-blue light on your desk I place a hand in my pocket grab a loose thread twist it between my fingers (until it burns like the tip of a recently extinguished match) I unravel silent as stone
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Britt DiGiacomo is a New York-based writer who earned her MFA from Manhattanville College, where she served as production editor at The Manhattanville Review. Britt likes to travel, ride her bike along the water’s edge and loves a good book with a wild adventure. She is currently developing a coming of age novel, charting the life of Lilly Difeo, a mixed-up girl who is trying to redefine herself in a world that seems hell-bent on stifling any chance for self-realization. 40 October 4, 2018
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Just whose America is this? The past is present in ‘Bisbee ’17’ by Michael J. Casey
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uly 12, 1917, Bisbee, Arizona: Cochise ON THE BILL: Bisbee ’17. County Sheriff Harry Wheeler and a 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10-12, deputized posse nearly 2,000 people International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, strong rounded up 1,300 striking miners Boulder University of — many of them immigrants — and Colorado Boulder, 1905. sympathetic residents, loaded them into cattle cars Colorado Ave., internationalfilmseries.com at gunpoint and shipped them 200 miles out of town. Though they were peaceful strikers, Walter S. Douglas, president of the Phelps Dodge mining firm, just wanted them out of sight and out of mind. “You cannot compromise with a rattlesnake,” Douglas said of the strikers and, probably without realizing it, himself. In a broader sense, the story of the 1917 Bisbee Deportation is a familiar one, but in the hands of director/editor Robert Greene, Bisbee ’17 becomes wholly original and profoundly urgent. Told in six chapters, Bisbee ’17 is a documentary/narrative hybrid addressing the past with a knowing eye on the present. Greene spends his time exploring the history of Bisbee and the events leading up to, and including, the deportation, as well as familiarizing us with the residents of Bisbee in 2017; specifically, the ancestors of those who found themselves on both sides of the tragic event. Greene takes the time to talk to them, to hear their stories and to see what they are doing to commemorate the centennial. One woman, Laurie McKenna, makes penny rubbings on cards with the names of those deported. A community group gathers weekly to discuss what history they’ve unearthed. Actors, professional and amateur, prepare themselves for roles in the movie’s staged re-enactment of the deportation. For these interviews, Greene doesn’t merely cut from one subject to the next. Instead, he introduces most from a distance, allowing their whole body to fill the frame while they silently stare at the camera long enough for us to acknowledge that these human beings carry a history that must be understood. Not an easy feat considering Greene asks you to consider both sides of the labor dispute. But with stunning cinematography from Jarred Alterman, who captures the town and residents of Bisbee in sumptuous widescreen photography, Bisbee ’17 marries a dark past with virtuosic story-telling. Rare are documentaries this compelling. Which brings us to the movie’s climax: the re-enactment of the 1917 Bisbee Deportation. American history is pocked with atrocities like this: moments where fear gave way to anger, and xenophobia morphed into the ugly face of vigilante justice. We watch as the ancestors of Bisbee recreate that dark day for Greene’s cameras. It’s tough stuff, and not just for us watching, but for those participating. “Back in those times, they had different feelings,” one re-enactor tells the camera, holding back tears. “But with today’s ideals, it shouldn’t be happening.” As a member of the posse, he is the one with a gun, just like his ancestor 100 years before. As he talks to the camera, you can see him grapple with that reality: he is both a descendant and inheritor of this brutality. “The world’s changed a lot since then,” he says, unconvinced. His face betrays his words: It’s just as wrong then as it is now. The world hasn’t changed one damn bit. Boulder Weekly
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Pan Dulce Panaderia Sabor A Mexico 1839 28th St., Boulder, saboramexicopanaderia.com
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he fine folks at Panaderia Sabor A Mexico in Boulder produce a variety of cookies, sweet bread, pastries and more. Baking has been in the family for generations, and it shows in their consistency and richly flavored baked goods. Of the wide selection of pan dulce, we opted recently for a simple braid — a soft shell covers bright meloncolored filling. It’s begging to be dunked in coffee, if we say so ourselves. $.50.
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he family behind Nederland’s Tungsten Toffee never intended to make candy. But when kids Nick, Norah and Emily wanted some extra money for the holidays, their parents shared a closely guarded toffee recipe, and a slew of toffee popcorn, chocolate and other candy was soon created. We tried the toffee apple crunch, which is absolutely impossible to put down. The toffee is creamy, sweet and just a little salty. Meanwhile, the flavor of organic apples is robust, while baking spices round out the flavor. It’s a crunchy, sweet snack, perfect for fall. Prices vary.
Spicy Pig Pizza BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse 1690 28th St., Boulder, bjrestaurants.com
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was cleaning the electric slicing machine when the mariachi music was cranked up. The device had just been used to thinly slice 25 or more pounds of medium rare roast beef, so there were numerous hard-to-reach parts of the slicer that needed to be carefully cleaned. It was the end of the shift and the propulsive polka beat kept me going and kept me focused in the vicinity of a sharp blade. I looked around the kitchen and a certain synchronous energy had taken hold, a sort of awkward choreography. When the right soundtrack plays in a commercial kitchen, it’s a beautiful thing. It grooves. The last time I cooked for a living was in the early 1980s in long-shuttered Boulder restaurant kitchens including Potter’s, Pearl’s and the Good Taste Crepe Shop. At the time, we were stuck listening to a handful of radio stations. I have a memory of making sandwiches to Adam Ant’s “Goody Two Shoes.” Other kitchens had Muzak to chop to. When there was a cassette deck available I would try see NIBBLES Page 46
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to impose my musical taste through mix tapes. Fast-forward 40 years and I’m back in the kitchen working 30-plus hours a week as a prep cook for a local catering company. This time around there is no radio, cassette deck or CD player, just Spotify and YouTube playlists on cell phones. Working in a catering kitchen is different from life in a restaurant. Sometimes there is a rush of work but mainly you do a series of projects that can take 10 minutes or two hours. When you are chopping 45 pounds of fruit salad, stuffing 400 toasted almonds in 400 bacon-wrapped dates, peeling 100 hard-boiled eggs or frying 15 pounds of pita chips, you need a beat, and you need variety. I’ve learned to work to Metallica and tolerate Audioslave. I’ve learned about Mexican ranchera music and techno music and Sound Tribe Sector 9. I’ve ended up listening to music I would never listen to in the car or at home. As someone who writes about music, I consider that a good thing. The other cooks, who are mainly young enough to be my children, are kind and put on playlists that focus on ’70s music or the Grateful Dead and it’s just like old times. I enjoy being the music trivia sage in the kitchen. Kitchens are never quiet places. There is always a background roar. To be on your feet for eight hours, you need a soundtrack that produces energy. I love working to Motown, soul, funk, reggae and Chicago blues ... even disco, a genre I loathed when it first appeared. Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” fits almost any task, but classical music only makes rare appearances. I recently asked some local chefs and professional cooks to share their tales about their favorite tunes for sauteeing, braising, frying, chopping, stirring and surviving life in the kitchen. Brandon Foster: “At Vesta, we had two songs we played over and over and over again during prep time. One was ‘I Keep Forgetting’ by Michael McDonald, and ‘Feels So Good’ by Chuck Mangione. I believe our record
for ‘Feels So Good’ was [played] 39 times in a row before service.” Rebecca Hess: “Reggae is right for setting up brunch service. I worked with a crew and Bob Marley Sundays were a regular thing. I think it helped to chill us out but [it was] still upbeat enough to get some serious prep done.” Rob Corey: “We listen to a huge variety of music because the three of us in the afternoon kitchen are vastly different — gender, nationality, politically. The one musical genre we agree on is Sam Cooke during deep cleaning on Sunday afternoon” Samantha New: “I’ve found that Motown is the crowd-pleaser. If I need to focus on tedious shit, I put in headphones and play indie folk. EDM like Major Lazer gets the crew pumped for a busy service. The trump card is ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ I dare you not to sing along.” Shawn Simpson: “Can’t listen to anything too hard or heavy when I’m smoking meats. Something mellow like jazz puts me in the perfect mood for some ’cue.” James Van Dyk: “My kitchen at the Gateway Café was never democratic. I always controlled what we listened to. It was my right after years of listening to the tastes of others. I would not hire someone who would feel unconformable with my musical selections. My favorite album to cook to is The Band’s Big Pink.” Paul Conklin Quigg III: “Early Metallica is proven to increase productivity in a kitchen (the first six albums).” Jamie Humphrey: “I vividly remember a service where we had a live Umphrey’s McGee set playing and one of the songs was about a half-hour long. The song started as the dining room filled up. Really slow to start as the tickets began to trickle in. The music hit a crescendo as the rail was full, and, as we pulled the last ticket of the rush, the
song ended. The other cook and I looked at one another. ‘That was epic!’ was the only conclusion. Never again has a rush fit so perfectly to the music.” Kim Adams: “Working in kitchens, we always took turns choosing music — sometimes old-school rock, sometimes Latin music, and sometimes introducing each other to brand new music.” Other chefs and cooks also had their favorites including “Reggae for prep, punk for service” (Mathew Michaud), “Cumbias when cleaning” (Francis Martines), “Ween, specifically, ‘The Mollusk’” ( Jilm Szalewski), “Lee Morgan Pandora Station” (Ryan Leinonen), and these choices from Roury Miller: “Elliott Smith if I’m opening. Grindcore during service.”
Local food news
The legendary Millsite Inn in Ward on the Peak to Peak Highway has closed. … Breakfast Champion is open at 4800 Baseline Road in the former long-time home of Erhard’s Bakery, serving American and Turkish breakfast items, Turkish coffee and tea, and a wide range of pastries and cakes.
Taste of the week
For my particular taste buds, Bookcliff Vineyards’ 2015 Syrah is a near perfect Colorado red wine. Made from 100 percent Grand Valley grapes, it boasts a beautiful dark garnet color, silky texture and dark berry terpenes in the aroma. It’s simply an easy sipping vintage that matches well with the roasted foods of autumn.
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’d argue that autumn is a super season, at least when it comes to food and drink. What we eat and drink this time of year evokes memories more easily than what we consume in other seasons. This is the time of year we dust off crock pots and Dutch ovens for soups and stews, filled — at least right now — with the remaining harvests of our local farms. This is when we flock to orchards for fresh-picked apples, and when we scoop out globs of pumpkin seeds for roasting. We drop cinnamon sticks in hot cider, and warm up chocolate with piquant spices.
’Tis the season
“seasonal” with regards to food products must’ve cropped up for the first time in fall. It’s a slam-dunk for chefs, restaurants and, for our purposes, brewers, to incorporate the warm, savory and comforting flavors of this season into their products. And those who don’t, do so at their own peril — the appetite for fall-flavored everything is ravenous (and I’m certainly not just talking about pumpkin spice). I’m heartened that in these divided times, it seems like we can all at least agree on fall. The cool weather, the smell of crabapples on wet leaves redolent of schooldays past, warm spices baking in the oven, and delicious beer... who could argue with any of that? Certainly not the brewers of Boulder County. In the midst of several Oktoberfest celebrations (head over to Longmont’s at Roosevelt Park Oct. 5-6), I reached out to brewers around the county to see how they’re ringing in this sensational season; because of all the food fall brings, it’s hard to find fault with its beer. Twisted Pine knows what it’s doing. The brewery elevates the seasonal with two brews that both excite the palate and comfort the soul. The fall classic, Mr. Brown’s, is a brown ale with well-apportioned pumpkin spices (allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg). It’s topped off with a hint of agave nectar and served with whipped cream. Its other fall favorite spans the globe, says Twisted
Malty, light and a little crunchy, Prost’s Märzen is one of the best local autumnal beers around.
Local brewers on the bounty of autumnal beer available in Boulder County by Matt Cortina Autumn’s holidays — Halloween, Thanksgiving and Oktoberfest (it’s a holiday if you close your eyes tight and believe) — are centered around the feast. Sure, each have found a culinary groove — Halloween is imbued with junk food; Oktoberfest is for malty beer and pretzels; and Thanksgiving has its own well-oiled traditions — but those machinations only serve to deepen the connections between our palates and fuzzy fall memories. Indeed, anecdotal research would indicate the word Boulder Weekly
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Pine’s Hannah Olbrich. The Sexi Mexi is an amber lager that “originated in Vienna before emigrating to Mexico,” Olbrich says, managing to fit in toasty flavors with light, bright citrus. At the Avery compound, brewers and bartenders are going through kegs of The Kaiser, an Oktoberfest lager that packs a punch on the palate, but manages to dissipate by the time it reaches your stomach, so you keep going back for more. Winner of several Great American Beer Festival awards, Avery wisely brought The Kaiser back from retirement this year, and we’re all thankful to be able to sip its massive malt, which comes across on the Matt Cortina tongue like a nutty loaf of bread. “My favorite part of brewing Kaiser is the smell it creates in the brewhouse,” says Josh Rapp, Avery Brewing’s brewhouse manager. “It smells like we’re making candy around the brewery on Kaiser day and the dark red color of the wort reminds me of cherry juice.” Of course no discussion of autumnal beer would be complete without checking in at two of the region’s best German-style producers — Wibby Brewing and Prost Brewing. Wibby held its own Oktoberfest earlier this month, tapping massive amounts of Wibtoberfest. Brewer Ryan Wibby calls it “an amazingly beautiful beer to look at,” but it’s also delicious to drink. “It has a deep copper hue, a bready malt aroma, well-balanced and -layered flavor and is super drinkable,” he says. I had the chance to sample Prost’s Märzen a few weeks ago during a tap takeover at the Rayback Collective. This is the Oktoberfest brew I Upslope’s Pumkin reach to most often — it’s super-drinkable, with just Ale is hard to beat. the right amount of structure and roasty notes from malt. Prost brings all their ingredients — except for the water — in from Germany, including Munich, Vienna and Caramunich malt and Hallertau Mittelfrüh Monastery hops that provide just a hint of flowery crunch. Stateside, again, we’d expect no less than perfection from Liquid Mechanics, and it delivers with its Märzen. Owner Davin Helden points out that Liquid’s take on the seasonal brew won silver at this year’s 2018 U.S. Open Beer Championship, the third largest beer competition in the world. “Our Märzen is a malty, amber beer that has a hint of sweetness, but the bready, toasty malts lead to a moderately bitter and dry finish,” Helden says. And then there are Mountain Sun and Upslope, master purveyors of basically every single variety of beer you can dream of. John Fiorilli at Mountain Sun points out that what makes their pumpkin beer glow is the addition of real pie pumpkins. Because those pumpkins aren’t available until late October, Mountain Sun won’t release its seasonal until around Thanksgiving — good, we say, because by then we’ll have exhausted every other seasonal around. Upslope’s Pumpkin Ale is hard to beat — if you’re averse to pumpkin spice but curious to see what all the fuss is about, this is the one to try. Organic baby bear pumpkins and a custom blend of six spices lead to a beer that’s remarkably drinkable at 7.7 percent alcohol by volume, and has Upslope’s characteristic straight-forward texture and flavor. Now, that all said, if malty lagers and ales aren’t your thing, check out New Image Brewing’s East Coast Transplant. This Vermont-Style double IPA has four kinds of malt, four kinds of hops and English Ale Yeast, which leads to a hoppy but smooth brew that’s hazy and will remind you of days spent plugging maple trees for sap even if you’ve never done that in your life. If all else fails, I recommend just stopping in at Bohemian Biergarten for a selection of Europe’s best seasonal beer, available by the half-liter, liter or boot.
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From Oktoberfest to Rocktober with a craft beer talk in between by Michael J. Casey
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h, October: shorter days and longer nights help make for more excuses to start drinking earlier. Lucky for you, Boulder County has plenty of ways to welcome the new season with a brew or two to quaff. Longmont Oktoberfest (Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Avenue, Longmont) Friday, Oct. 5 and Saturday, Oct. 6 — If you like to don lederhosen and dirndls while hoisting a stein or three, then you belong in Longmont. Running seven years strong, Longmont Oktoberfest is the perfect place to ring in colder temperatures, changing leaves and dark lager. Put on by Left Hand Brewing Company — with event proceeds going to the Colorado St. Vrain Football Club and Left Hand Brewing Foundation — Longmont Oktoberfest will be pouring some of Left Hand’s best, as well as some from other Longmont breweries. You’re sure to find Left Hand’s Oktoberfest Märzen Lager on tap, replete with toasted Munich malts to satiate your thirst with biscuity goodness and enough Hallertau Mittelfrüh hops to bring a touch of spice to the party. Fingers crossed Left Hand will also be serving its 25th anniversary Imperial Stout, which was just released a few weeks ago to celebrate its silver anniversary. General admission starts at $5. lhbfoundation.org/Longmont-oktoberfest Flatirons Food Film Festival (Boulder: multiple locations) Thursday, Oct. 11 – Sunday, Oct. 13 — Helmed by Julia Joun, the Flatirons Food Film Festival brings together the finer things in life, and this year’s opening night festivities highlight a topic near and dear to our hearts: craft beer. It kicks off with a guided beer tasting from Ray Daniels, the founder of the Cicerone Certification Program, followed by a brews and bites tour of downtown Boulder with Megan Bucholz, founder of Local Table Tours. The tour will start at The Post Brewing Co., work its way over to West Flanders Brewing Co. and conclude at Squared Pizza + Beer, the R&D brewery for Boulder Beer Co. At 7:30 p.m., the documentary Brewmaster screens at the Canyon Theater at Boulder Public Library followed by a panel discussion with Charlie Papazian, Betsy Lay, Jonathan Shikes and Daniels. Not enough beer for you? There’s an after-party at The Kitchen Upstairs. Tickets to each event vary in price. flatironsfoodfilmfest.org Kyle’s Rocktoberfest (Upslope Brewing Co., 1898 South Flatirons Court, Boulder) Sunday, Oct. 13, 2–6 p.m. — Musician Kyle Hollingsworth (The String Cheese Incident) is no stranger to beer, so it makes sense his personal festival doesn’t just bring musicians together, but brewers as well. And if you come to Upslope on Oct. 13, not only will you be able to listen to the Kyle Hollingsworth Band — along with some very special friends — you’ll be knocking back any number of 60 craft beers from 30 breweries, many of whom Hollingsworth collaborated with personally. The festival benefits Conscious Alliance; tickets start at $30. kylehollingsworth.com
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:
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Novelist Tom Robbins provides us with one more nuance: “When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.”
Electra is an actionBrezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES packed story written by and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio ancient Greek playwright horoscopes are also available by phone at Sophocles. It features 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. epic characters taking LIBRA drastic action in response SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Libran astrophysicist Neil to extreme events. In contrast to that text is Marcel deGrasse Tyson offers this observation: “When you Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time, which draws from look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, the sensitive author’s experiences growing up, coming it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a of age, and falling in love, all the while in quest for rock. [But] the most successful people in life recmeaning and beauty. Author Virginia Woolfe comognize that in life they create their own love, they pared the two works, writing, “In six pages of Proust manufacture their own meaning, they generate their we can find more complicated and varied emotions own motivation.” I think Tyson’s simple wisdom than in the whole of the Electra.” In accordance with is exactly what you need to hear right now, Libra. astrological omens, I recommend that you specialize in You’re primed for a breakthrough in your ability to the Proustian mode rather than the Sophoclean. Your create your own fate. feelings in the next five weeks could be as rich and interesting and educational as they have been in a long SCORPIO time. Honor them! OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Japanese entrepreneur Hiroki Terai has created a business that offers crying therapy. TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20: Researchers in Maryland have His clients watch short videos specially formulated to make them weep. A professional helper is on hand to created a new building material with a strength-togently wipe their tears away and provide comforting weight ratio that’s eight times better than steel. It’s an words. “Tears have relaxing and healing effects,” says effective insulator, and in some forms can be bent and an Okinawan musician who works as one of the helpfolded. Best of all, it’s biodegradable and cost-effective. ers. Hiroki Terai adds, “It has been said that one drop The stuff is called nanowood, and is derived from of tear has the effect of relieving stress for a week.” I lightweight, fast-growing trees like balsa. I propose wish there were a service like this near where you live, that we make it your main metaphor for the foreseeable Scorpio. The next two weeks will be a perfect time to future. Why? Because I think you’re primed to locate relieve pent-up worry and sadness and anxiety through or create your own version of a flexible, durable, robust cathartic rituals like crying. What other strategies building block. might work for you?
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paid an official visit to Indonesia early this year. The government arranged for him to observe soldiers as they demonstrated how tough and well-trained they were. Some of the troops shimmied through broken glass, demolished bricks with their heads, walked through fire, and bit heads off snakes. I hope you won’t try stunts like that in the coming weeks, Gemini. It will be a favorable time for you show off your skills and make strong impressions. You’ll be wise to impress important people with how creative and resourceful you are. But there’s no need to try too hard or resort to exaggeration.
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Fling out friendly feelers! Sling
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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “Someone spoke to me last night,
JUNE 21-JULY 22:
i confess that i have a fuzzy self-image. With odd regularity, i don’t seem to know exactly what or who i am. For example, i sometimes think i’m so nice and polite that i need to toughen up. But on other occasions i feel my views are so outrageous and controversial that i should tone myself down. Which is true? Often, i even neglect to capitalize the word “i.” You have probably experienced some of this fuzziness, my fellow Cancerian. But you’re now in a favorable phase to cultivate a more definitive self-image. Here’s a helpful tip: We Cancerians have a natural talent for inspiring people to love us. This ability will come in especially handy as we work on making an enduring upgrade from i to I. Our allies’ support and feedback will fuel our inner efforts to clarify our identity.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: “I am a little afraid of love, it
makes me rather stupid.” So said author Simone de Beauvoir in a letter she wrote to her lover, Nelson Algren. I’m happy to let you know, Leo, that during the next 12 months, love is likely to have the opposite effect on you. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it will tend to make you smarter and more perceptive. To the degree that you expand your capacity for love, you will become more resilient and a better decision-maker. As you get the chance to express love with utmost skill and artistry, you will awaken dormant potentials and boost your personal power.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Your theme in the coming weeks
is the art of attending to details. But wait! I said “the art.” That means attending to details with panache, not with overly meticulous fussing. For inspiration, meditate on St. Francis Xavier’s advice, “Be great in little things.” And let’s take his thought a step further with a quote from author Richard Shivers: “Be great in little things, and you will be given opportunity to do big things.”
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out interesting invitations! Figure out how to get noticed for all the right reasons! Make yourself so interesting that no one can resist your proposals! Use your spunky riddle-solving powers to help ease your tribe’s anxieties. Risk looking odd if that will make you smarter! Plunk yourself down in pivotal places where vitality is welling up! Send out telepathic beams that say, “I’m ready for sweet adventure. I’m ready for invigorating transformation!”
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told me the truth,” writes poet Doeianne Laux. “I knew I should make myself get up, write it down, but it was late, and I was exhausted from working. Now I remember only the flavor.” I offer these thoughts, Capricorn, in the hope that they’ll help you avoid Laux’s mistake. I’m quite sure that crucial insights and revelations will be coming your way, and I want you to do whatever’s necessary to completely capture them so you can study and meditate on them at length.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: As a young man, Aquarian poet
Louis Dudek struck up a correspondence with renowned poet Ezra Pound, who was 32 years older. Dudek “admired him immensely,” and “loved him for the joy and the luminosity” of his poetry, but also resented him “for being so magnificent.” With a mix of mischief and adulation, Dudek wrote a poem to his hero. It included these lines: “For Christ’s sake, you didn’t invent sunlight. There was sun dazzle before you. But you talk as if you made light or discovered it.” I hope his frisky tone might inspire you to try something similar with your own idols. It would be healthy to be more playful and lighthearted about anything or anyone you take too seriously or give enormous power to.
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Dear Dan: I’m a straight man and I recently got out of a relationship with a woman who would monitor my internet use to make sure I wasn’t “masturbating to the wrong things.” (My kinks are nothing too outrageous: feet and mild FemDom.) I’ve been dating a new woman for three months, and it’s time to lay my kink cards on the table. But I’m really afraid to open up, thanks to my kink-shaming ex. My new girlfriend and I read your column together — so if you publish my letter, I’ll be able to gauge her likely response if I decide to disclose. —Help A Guy Out? Dear HAGO: My pleasure, HAGO, but be careful: Sometimes people react negatively to any mention of a kink, not because they’re necessarily turned off or grossed out but because they assume their partner is. So don’t panic if your new girlfriend’s first reaction is negative (“Ew, gross! Feet and FemDom!”), because it may not represent her true feelings and/or openness to your kinks. To learn how she really feels, you’re probably going to have to make the disclosure you’re trying to sidestep. Dear Dan: I’m a 24-year-old woman, and three weeks ago I got out of a longterm relationship with a guy in his mid30s. Over the last few months of the relationship, I started falling for someone else and began dating the new guy pretty much immediately after the breakup. When should I tell my old boyfriend? We agreed to stay friends, and we still talk and see each other at least once a week. I want him to hear it from me, but I’m not sure how much time is appropriate/respectful. —Don’t Wanna Be An Asshole Dear DWBAA: Meeting up too soon after a breakup has a way of keeping emotional wounds open and fresh, DWBAA, particularly for the person who was dumped (I’m assuming you did the dumping here). And once-a-week meetings definitely qualifies as too much, too soon. That said, if you think your ex-boyfriend is likely to hear about your new boyfriend from mutual friends, telling him yourself (and soon) is obviously the right (and difficult) thing to do. But if your ex is going to find out about your new boyfriend from, say, your Instagram account, encouraging him to unfollow you and letting some time pass — enough so you can fudge the start date of your new relationship — would be the right (and Boulder Weekly
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ego-sparing) thing to do. Dear Dan: My wife has a fantasy where she’s blindfolded and restrained on our bed. She hears the front door open, followed by footsteps coming up the stairs, and then she’s ravished by… who? She won’t know, presumably, until it’s over. My question: In fulfilling this fantasy for her, where anonymity and surprise are part of the appeal, what do I tell her in advance? Do I discuss the entire scenario with her, so she knows exactly what’s going to happen, minus the identity of the very special guest star (who would be a semi-regular we’ve played with before, but she wouldn’t necessarily know that at first)? That seems to eliminate the surprise element of the fantasy. Is it enough to tell her, without mentioning the specific scenario, that I’d like to make one of her fantasies come true, and ask her to trust me? —Ethical Thinking In Quite Unusual, Elaborate Tied Tight Enactment Dear ETIQUETTE: Presumably? There’s no room for “presumablies” when you’re arranging to fulfill a varsity-level fantasy. I’m guessing she’d rather not know who’s ravishing her before or during the big event, ETIQUETTE, and she may not want to know after. But you need to ask her what she wants — no presumptions — before you start making arrangements. She might want to know everything in advance — including the identity of that stranger — or she might want you to decide everything. But you need to check in with her first: “Honey, I want to help you realize that fantasy — you’re tied to the bed, a stranger arrives, you’re ravished by said stranger — but I need to know how involved you want to be in the planning. Clear everything with you — where, when, who, how — or just make it happen?” You may find that she wants to be surprised by who but not by when, ETIQUETTE, or by when but not by who — or by who but not by when, how, or where. Or she may want the whole thing to be a surprise. But you have to find out exactly what she wants before you make any plans. And here’s a bonus pro tip for you: Don’t reveal the identity of your VSGS immediately afterward. Because if it goes well, and your wife wants a repeat, you may be able to get a few more encounters out of your first VSGS. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
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Methods of consumption
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ou know how some people prefer to sip craft beer because they’re mostly interested in showing off what they know about hop varieties, while others prefer to chug bottles of Mad Dog 20/20, despite the fact that it looks and tastes like wiper fluid, because their primary interest is getting sloppy drunk in the cheapest way possible? Well, weed is basically the same. Stoners have always been creative when it comes to inventing new ways of getting high, which is why there are hundreds of different options these days. If you’re just starting to experiment with the plant or haven’t been exposed to the latest technology brought forth by legalization, figuring it all out can be intimidating. Most people assume that the mental and physical benefits experienced are largely dependent on strain choice, but the delivery method is just as important. Each one has its pros and cons, so it really depends on how you prioritize health benefits, psychoactive effects, price, potency, etc. The most important thing to know is that there are three main methods for consumption: inhalation, oral ingestion and topical application. Within these umbrella categories, there are a variety of tools and techniques, each appropriate for different occasions. There’s going to be a noticeable difference if you rip a gravity bong versus a one-hitter, even though they both technically fall under inhalation. Similar to alcohol, your preferences say a lot about what you value and who you are as a person and people are totally judging you for it. Kidding; it’s not that serious. But here’s a list of a few ways to get the job done. (It’s ranked by my personal preference as opposed to overall popularity because, well, I’m writing the column.) Blunts. Not entirely sure who the first person was to carefully split open the cheapest cigar available so they could dump out the tobacco and use the remain-
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der as rolling paper, but I’m pretty sure we would be besties. Puffing on a fat blunt makes me feel like a bad bitch. And if you were an unsupervised teenager who grew up on the East Coast and hated the people who raised you, it can also be a cathartic experience. In 2005, my best friend and I would head to the local 7-Eleven after school every day. She would meet up with our weed dealer in the parking lot while I went inside to purchase a Honey Dutch with my fake ID. Then we drove around hot-boxing her car while blasting hip hop and talking about how much better life was going to be after graduation when we could move out and do whatever we wanted. A lot has changed since then. I quit smoking tobacco years ago and no longer save old roaches for when my dealer doesn’t text me back, but rolling up a blunt with a hemp wrap triggers just as much nostalgia. Also it holds more weed, hits smoother and doesn’t run as bad as traditional joints. Bongs. There are a variety of water pipes to choose from, but bongs are the most fun. I’m not married, but I’m pretty sure coming home after a long day to a clean bong filled with ice and packed with freshies is the same thing as living with your soulmate. The water acts as a filter, cooling the smoke, removing some of the carcinogens and providing a smooth hit with an intense, fast-acting high. Bongs are personal, and people name them the same way they name their cars, which means they’re something to care for and take pride in. Having high-quality bongs to showcase is a status symbol for stoners because it’s basically just a collection of expensive yet functional glass art. On the other hand, bongs made of plastic, covered in stickers or constantly black from lack of cleaning are for children and on principle, I’m against them. At one point, it was awesome admittedly. But for tax-paying adults to smoke out of in 2018? Absolutely not. Topicals. Even though I have fun with it, weed will always be about healing for me. I’m so happy to
live in a legal state with access to topical ointments and creams infused with THC and CBD because it’s been a game-changer when it comes to managing the pain I deal with from my autoimmune disease. They don’t have any psychoactive effects but they do provide serious localized pain relief. Most athletes I know work CBD therapy into their training recovery because it doesn’t come with the side effects that accompany most over the counter medication. A full-body massage with CBD oil is the ultimate act of self care and I highly recommend it. Edibles. This has been one of the most popular methods since legalization. I think it’s because a lot of people struggle with the idea of smoking, and eating carries less of a stigma. Also, it’s so discrete you can do it practically anywhere. Personally, I don’t like it as much because it takes forever to kick in. Also, unless you’re making your own, there are limited options for healthy medicated food on the market right now. Most of it is chocolate and candy, which sucks because junk food is harder to stop eating and you end up so much higher than you ever wanted to be. Dabs. Everyone keeps telling me this is where the industry is heading, but I think it’s the worst because it’s so far removed from what the plant means to me. When someone breaks out a blow torch, which is a required tool for dabbing, it makes me feel like whatever we’re about to do is a lot sketchier than smoking weed. Science claims this method is better for your lungs, but it always burns my throat and makes me cough for 10 minutes straight. Once the coughing stops, I realize I’m uncomfortably high, which is weird coming from someone who smokes weed every day. If I take a dab at noon on Friday, I don’t feel normal again until Sunday night. Why are people pushing for more potency when it’s already so concentrated? Not to mention the money it takes to satisfy the tolerance level of a compulsive dabber.
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by Seymour
Full steam ahead for the pot train
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lright, America, a bunch of you folks will be voting on marijuana issues in a few weeks and we thought it was time to sum up some of the larger issues on the ballot. In Colorado, Amendment X will give us locals a chance to define “hemp.” Presumably, whatever we come up with will replace the current definition, which is “that plant you thought was pot in Nebraska that you filled your trunk with only to find out you could smoke a pound of it and still pass the ACT.” Michaganders will go to the polls to pass or defeat Proposal 1, which sounds more like a vodka brand than a piece of potential legislation. If it passes, Proposal uno would let adults 21 and over buy, have on their person or in their car, or otherwise possess and use marijuana in the light-it-up and edible forms. Michigan residents would also be allowed to grow up to 12 marijuana plants for personal consumption, which means all those crazies in the upper peninsula will have to get rid of a few plants. This prop would also create a 10-ounce limit for marijuana kept at your home pad and require amounts over 2.5 ounces be kept in locked containers. Two things on that last part. First, we predict a new cottage industry with cool lock boxes
covered in old Fillmore Theater art. And second, why do you have to lock up your pot when it’s OK to leave your assault rifle on the floor of your kid’s nursery? Just sayin’, there’s a lesson in there somewhere. Our friends in North Dakota are taking a more Libertarian approach to weed. If locals pass Measure 3, it will create a new section to the state’s constitution uninspiringly called chapter 66-01. What ol’ 66-01 will do is first define marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia. We can’t wait to see those definitions from the same folks who came up with 66-01 as a title. Bongs will be heretofore known as pipe-like fixtures containing a chamber for liquid. All kidding aside, Measure 3 will get rid of all the penalties for people over 21 when it comes to selling, growing and using marijuana. The only thing that can get you in trouble is putting it in the hands of a minor. It’s refreshing to see a state not working overtime to turn pot into a revenue stream to justify its legalization. The Show Me State, aka Missouri, has taken the make-itall-as-hard-and-complicated-as-you-can approach. You have to vote for Amendment 2 or Amendment 3 or Proposition C. Right? All of these ballot measures pertain to medical marijuana, and while it’s good to see Missouri trying to crawl into the 21st century, a skeptic might think all these confusing measures with their varying tax rates, etc. are a trick to sink the whole darn thing. Call us skeptics. In Utah, another bastion of progressive thought, Proposition 2 also concerns medical marijuana. In a state controlled by a religion that scares even other religions, it should come as no surprise that passing this baby would let the state decide which illness are worthy of being helped by medical cannabis. What could possibly go wrong? The whole state sitting around in pain waiting for a prominent Mormon to get their particular malady so they can go into that secret room they got in that big ol’ fancy building and come out and declare it’s now OK for that disease to be added to the list... sort of like they did with black people. Shouldn’t give them such a hard time, at least it’s a start. There are others but time and energy prevent us from doing too much all in one sitting.
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