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ast year, America’s largest internet provider, Comcast, took over the second-largest, Time Warner. So Comcast is now a coast-to-coast beast, running its proprietary lines into 25 million of our homes. Bad enough that this market power allows the internet giant to gouge customers, but it has an even more sinister reason for muscling up: Comcast, along with the handful of other internet service corporations, intend to eviscerate the pure egalitarian ethic of “net neutrality.” The great virtue of the internet is that no one controls its content. This digital communication technology has been so successful and socially valuable because it is a wide-open, democratic forum, accessible on equal terms to all who want

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to put information, images, opinions, etc. on it or to download any of the same from it. But if corporate powers could restrict the flow of internet communication, they could collect billions in tolls for privileged access. Thus, the real motivation behind Comcast’s 2016 megamerger was that its added market control would set it up to be the very gatekeeper that the internet community doesn’t need and adamantly opposes. Want it or not, though, lobbyists for Comcast and the few other giants that own practically all of the wires that link U.S. internet users to the global web now have Donald Trump’s support to let it dictate to the millions of content providers what can go through the wires and on what terms. Rather than having one big broadband “freeway” open for transporting everyone’s internet content, these monopolists intend to create express toll-lanes they can sell at a premium to the richest content providers, leaving all other providers stuck in the slow lanes. There is still time to fight back. Go to www. BattleForTheNet.com to help put a stop to this corporate coup. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. December 14 , 2017 7

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t’s difficult to exaggerate the significance of what the Republicans are trying to do with their grotesque and brazen tax scam. They are determined to kill the New Deal concept that the government has a responsibility to do what’s best for all of us. This happened before. In the 1920s, the Republicans controlled all branches of the federal government like they do now. They argued that the nation would be prosperous if the government coddled the rich by giving them huge tax cuts and by slashing business regulations. Big business was worshipped. President Calvin Coolidge said, “The man who builds a factory builds a temple,” and “the man who works there worships there.” In 1926, Coolidge’s treasury secretary, Andrew Mellon, one of the planet’s wealthiest men, advanced a gigantic tax cut that would significantly contribute to the causes of the Great Depression. The legendary progressive Republican Sen. George Norris of Nebraska denounced the tax bill and observed that, “Mr. Mellon himself gets a larger personal reduction (in taxes) than the aggregate of practically all the taxpayers in the state of Nebraska.” The income inequality destabilized the economy. At the time of the stock market crash in 1929, half of the families in America were living at or below the poverty level. They were too poor to buy goods and services and too poor to pay their debts. With no markets for their goods, manufacturers laid off tens of thousands of workers. Economist David Ruccio observes:

“In 1929, the share of income captured by the top .01 percent reached 4 percent, and the share of wealth even higher: 10 percent. Much the same kind of inequality existed in 2008, when the top .01 percent shares of income and wealth were 4.1 percent and 8.6 percent, respectively — on the eve of the Second Great Depression. “The only real difference is, while the top 1 percent shares of income and wealth fell in the depression of the 1930s, they’ve continued to rise since 2008. In 2014 (the last year for which data are available), the top 1 percent share of income increased to 4.4 percent and the share of wealth to 9.7 percent.” The Republicans claim that if you give big piles of money to rich people, the wealth will “trickle down” to ordinary people and bring jobs and higher wages. That never happens. Some of the nation’s largest, most profitable companies — Pfizer, CocaCola and Cisco — are now openly admitting they will give the tax savings to shareholders. In November, at a Wall Street Journal event for corporate executives featuring Trump’s top economic advisor (and former Goldman Sachs CEO) Gary Cohn, the moderator asked the audience: “If the tax reform bill goes through, do you plan to increase investment — your company’s investment, capital investment?” Just a few raised their hands. Cohn seemed quite angry and asked, “Why aren’t the other hands up?” see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 10

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I see from an article in the Daily Camera that the City of Boulder is pursuing the authorization of official drones for a variety of applications. In a city where a child is greatly restricted in where they can fly a model airplane, its leaders want to open the skies everywhere for their own purposes. Many official uses of drones are valuable, as are many unofficial ones that the public might want to perform for their own reasons, so the scope of these applications feels hypocritical. The campaign to inform the public of their effort, if I can be generous in describing it thus, includes no information on the City website, one article in the local newspaper and a survey that looks to me to be a push-poll, enumerating all the wonderful things that can be done instead of a thoughtful query into the concerns of citizens. If they really care to take a balanced and thorough approach to this politically charged issue, they are off to a bad start. I encourage citizens of Boulder to demand that all City drone flights be documented in a public record that includes the flight track (which should be easy to obtain from the GPS data of drones they will use). That should go without saying under the expectation of government transparency and open records. Leonard Sitongia/Niwot

Sugary drink tax at work: Making fresh produce available for all

The Boulder County Farmer’s Market is in the business of making fresh food available to everyone in our community. For the past 30 years, we’ve provided the opportunity for local farmers to sell their fresh produce and products directly to our community, and on average, our producers sell over 1 million pounds of fresh food every year. Despite this ongoing success, we know that there is a growing segment of our community that doesn’t have access to this food, mainly due to cost and awareness. In fact, Boulder has the highest wealth equity gap in all of Colorado. That means that the gap between the “haves” and “have nots” is more pronounced than anywhere else in the state. And it’s increasing. It is estimated that one in eight people living in Boulder County need food assistance. With the help of the City of Boulder’s tax on sugary drinks, we are slowly changing the narrative. The tax of two-cents per ounce on soda and other sugary drinks helps fund programs in our city that improve nutrition education and physical activity opportunities, and Boulder Weekly

encourages our community to make healthier choices, especially among the low-income families and youth populations — a group that is disproportionately targeted in soda advertising and marketing. As a direct result of the sugary drink tax, the Boulder County Public Health Healthy Eating Active Living program received a grant of $50,000. Part of this money allowed us to give gift certificates to 400 deserving mothers and children

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most of them, it is now part of their shopping routine. This new habit is not only welcome by these families but welcome by our farmers as well. With a passion for growing the best food possible for their community, many of our farmers have commented on their own excitement at serving a broader spectrum of customers. The program is a win for our low-income see LETTERS Page 10

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This was being filmed. The shamelessness is impressive. Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio are already saying that they will have to take an ax to social insurance and safety net programs right after they pass the tax bill. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa snapped at reporters when asked about the tax bill’s weakening of the estate tax (which only benefits the wealthiest 0.2 percent of Americans). He said, “I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing. As opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.” On the Senate floor, Orrin Hatch of Utah grumbled that he was sick of helping lower-income people: “I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won’t help themselves, won’t lift a finger and expect the federal government to do everything.” As the lead Republican tax writer, Hatch was asked about the Child’s Health Insurance Program. He said funding for the program “is having

trouble (passing) because we don’t have money anymore.” Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) says the GOP tax bills are “more about reordering our society and creating a hereditary aristocracy... What they will do with these massive tax breaks is they will buy each other up in more mergers, which will concentrate markets and make it much more difficult for small businesses and workers. They’ll also pay each other off and give each other more bonuses, which they will use to purchase political influence in Washington and state capitals all over the country. So, you’re talking about giving a lot of money to people who are already rich. They pretty much cannot use the money to spark consumer demand, because they’re already satiated from a financial standpoint, and will be raising taxes on many middle-class and working-class people.” This madness has to end. The Trump tax cuts for the rich have to be defeated. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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Once again, the liberal Democrats in Congress have demonstrated their dishonesty and hypocrisy. They have claimed that their concern for illegal aliens covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is motivated by the fact that many of these illegals were brought here as minors by their parents, and were not responsible for the crime of illegal entry. Republicans in Congress responded by offering a deal based on that premise. Those covered by DACA would be allowed to stay, and Congress would empower Homeland Security to increase its efforts to find and deport those who deliberately broke the law. Democrats have not only rejected this compromise, they have threatened to shut down the federal government unless DACA is written into law without any provisions for better law enforcement. It is clear that these advocates of the DACA amnesty have no concern for enforcing the immigration laws. They hope that DACA will simply be the first step toward a general amnesty for millions of lawbreakers. Republicans should call their bluff. Let’s see how long Democrats are willing to keep the government shut down in the name of encouraging violations of federal law. Peter J. Thomas/Chariman of The Conservative Caucus Boulder Weekly

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appy holidays. Have you noticed this holiday season is getting a little long in the tooth? Which is to say, “get going, you’re running out of time, OMG you’ve all but failed.” OK, that’s a little dramatic but it is getting pretty late in the gift-buying game, so we decided to help you out. We went out and found a bunch of creative and thoughtful gifts you can still buy locally. Since it is estimated that Boulder County residents will be spending nearly $90 million bucks on holiday-related items this year, shopping locally is obviously a great way to help boost our overall economy and employment opportunities. We know, that’s the least of your worries right now with only a few shopping days to go before the clock strikes 12

Boozik Bamboo iPhone Amplifier ($32) Momentum 1625 Pearl St., Boulder, fairtradewinds.net

ive the gift you know they don’t have and help save the world at the same time. Momentum is a store dedicated to selling only fair-trade products, so when you give someone a gift from Momentum you can be assured that someone somewhere in the world was paid a fair wage to produce it. This eco-friendly music amplifier lets you take your music anywhere. At only 9 inches, just toss it in your purse or backpack and turn up the tunes anywhere, naturally. The French Collection Gift Basket ($80) Cheese Importers Warehouse 103 Main St., Longmont, cheeseimporters.com

ive a gift that nobody in their right mind could say they didn’t love. Cheese Importers’ French Connection gift basket contains a variety of French treats including, four cheeses, cocktail olive mix, petite toasts, fruit spread cheese accompaniment, French chocolate and candies, a beautiful cheese tray and spreader in an great basket that Boulder Weekly

and you have nothing to give Aunt Sarah but a poem you scribbled on a cocktail napkin on Dec. 24 while drowning your gift-fail sorrows at a local pub. But don’t despair BW readers, like Dickens’ Ghost of Christmas Future, we have brought you back to the present while there is still enough time to succeed at gift giving. Let our guide be your guide. We’d also like to take this time to say thank you to all of our readers and advertising partners whose support throughout the year makes it possible for us to continue to be Boulder County’s independent voice for news, arts, culture and entertainment. So once again, happy holidays from all of us at Boulder Weekly.

screams French countryside. But just in case you have other geographic preferences this holiday season, Cheese Importers also has baskets based on Italy, Spain, and closer to home America and Colorado. Gift basket prices range from $30 to $125 and can be shipped anywhere. Outbox ($49) LGBTQ Concierge 2770 Arapahoe Road, Suite132, Lafayette, 720-643-8193

his gift is all about sending a box of love, compassion, support and joy to the LGBTQ people in your life. You can send your message as an “Outbox,” “Sunshine Box” or “Wedding Box.” Whatever the occasion, Esteban at LGBTQ Concierge can help you pick the right box and will hand select just the right items to place in your gift. Every box is unique and filled with one item after another that sends positive messages to your friends and loved ones. Give him a call and get your box on its way in time for the holidays. Paints, pencils and a how-to book (prices vary) The Book Cellar 724 Main St., Louisville.

creative gift for the creatives in your life. Aqua brushes, fine art marker sets, water color crayons and colored pencils are a great gift for anyone who might have a pas-

sion for making art. Throw in a book on how to use them properly and you might just launch a career, or at least a fulfilling hobby. Since 2003, The Book Cellar in Louisville has been offering creative gifts like this along with a great hand-picked selection of used and new books. These folks can help you find just the right greeting cards, other art supplies, games and gifts of all sorts. Richardo’s Decaf Coffee Liqueur (prices vary) Black Canyon Distillery 4340 Highway 66, Mead, 720-204-1909

othing makes the holidays better than Richardo’s tasty combination of rich coffee, creamy vanilla and pure grain spirits, aka Richardo’s Decaf Coffee Liqueur. Creators Rick and Linda started making this fantastic concoction for their friends in Lyons some 20 years ago. It became so popular... well, you can guess the rest of the story. Today, you can get your hands on this fantastic coffee liqueur at just about any well-stocked liquor store in the County. Your friends will love you for this gift.

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he holidays are a time to give, and giving to some of Colorado’s far-reaching nonprofits in the name of a family member or friend is a great way to embody the holiday spirit.

El Comité de Longmont 455 Kimbark St., Longmont, elcomitedelongmont.org

l Comité de Longmont is a grassroots organization that improves the social justice, education and economic status of the Latino and nonLatino people of Longmont, Boulder County and surrounding communities. El Comité also facilitates communication and understanding between Latinos and non-Latinos in the community. The organization provides bilingual comprehensive case management, civic and community engagement, healthy lifestyle and chronic disease prevention courses, adult education instruction and more. Global Greengrants Fund 2840 Wilderness Place, Suite A, Boulder, www.greengrants.org

lobal Greengrants Fund is one of the leading organizations in the world supporting local efforts to protect the planet. Through its unique grantmaking model, GGF funds projects to advance solutions and strategies that will best fit local needs, providing grassroots leaders the resources to make their ideas a reality. Focusing on climate justice, healthy environments and communities, local livelihoods, right to land, water and resources, and women’s environmental action, the nonprofit has granted more than 11,000 projects in 168 countries since 1993. Out Boulder County Out Boulder County, P.O. Box 1018, Boulder, outboulder.org

ut Boulder County educates, advocates and provides services for and on behalf of Boulder County’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities. They provide a number of ever-evolving youth programs, such as the youth film project and Boulder Trans Youth Group, both for those 13-18, as well support groups, grassroots campaigns, creative groups for those aged 18-25 and the newly formed LGBTQ People of Color Program.

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Colorado Haiti Project 908 Main St., Louisville, coloradohaitiproject.org

ince 1989, Colorado Haiti Project has been supporting community leaders and community-driven programs in agriculture, education, health, economic development, and water and sanitation in Petit Trou de Nippes, Haiti. Founded on Haitian vision and leadership, the nonprofit works to create a prosperous, healthy and empowered population. While the country has been hit hard by natural disasters in the last decade and is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, the Colorado Haiti Project is fueling locally led progress in rural Haiti. Philanthropiece Foundation 6105 Monarch Road, Longmont, philanthropiece.org

hilanthropiece Foundation empowers changemakers around the world to co-create resilient communities. The scholarship program empowers the people of Chajul, Guatemala, a region that is still suffering more than 20 years after the end of the country’s 36-year civil war. Money from the program helps people obtain college degrees, improve public health and develop ethical leadership. The community bank program in Baja California Sur, Mexico, is allowing many people in the state to save for the first time, strengthening the future for themselves and their families. The youth global leadership program connects young changemakers with local leaders and social entrepreneurs to help them make meaningful change throughout their lives. Adventurist Backpack Co. Based in Denver, adventuristbackpacks.com

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f you’re looking for a tangible gift but still want to make a lasting impact, consider Adventurist Backpack Co. Launched in September 2017, this Denver-based company only makes one product so far: the Adventurist Daypack. However, for every backpack it sells, Adventurist donates 25 meals to families in need through the nonprofit Feed America. In just a few months, the company has provided more than 9,000 meals. It all started when husband and wife cofounders Kelly Belknap and Matilda Sandström were traveling through Europe and would load up their daypacks with food from local grocery stores, cook meals and give them away to anyone they noticed needed it along the way. Now, giving back is an integral part of their business, and the Adventurist Daypack is a great gift for any traveler, all the while helping out families in need.

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FOR THE KIDS: Little Liberty children’s puzzles ($44) Liberty Puzzles 1468 Pearl St., Boulder, www.libertypuzzles.com

Acupuncture: calm the nervous system & open the channels for deep healing Massage: release tension and fully relax the mind and body Facial: hydrate and purify the face to feel the glow and enhance letting go Package: $265 (reg. $330, includes 1 acupuncture session, 1 facial and 1 massage) Six Persimmons Apothecary - 303 583-0179 728 Pearl Street, Boulder - www.sixpersimmons.com pkg available until 1/31/18

iberty Puzzles’ unique wooden jigsaw puzzles are fun for the whole family, but the Little Liberty series features larger pieces, easier for little hands to handle. Each puzzle contains dozens of hand-drawn pieces intricately cut into the shapes of characters, animals and geometric designs, which makes fitting the pieces together even more fun. Whether it’s a scene from your favorite nursery rhyme or a holiday image to put together over the break from school, these one-of-a-kind puzzles make the perfect gift. (Ages 4+) Jet Plane Kite ($25) Into the Wind, 1408 Pearl St., Boulder, intothewind.com

here’s nothing quite like flying a kite — watching it take off, dip and soar out in the fresh air. The Jet Plane Kite from Into the Wind is best for beginners, as it climbs high into the sky without all that expensive jet fuel. The design makes this kite stable and easy to fly, in both light and strong winds, perfect for little tots just learning the joys of flying their first kite. Plus, it comes with a handy case, perfect to store in the car for some impromptu kite-flying.

Kendama Fade-Out ($12) Lost Marbles Toy Store 435 Main St., Longmont, lostmarblestoystore.com endama is a traditional Japanese game that may appear simple at first, but don’t be fooled. The basic idea is to toss the wooden ball, attached to the hammer-like handle by string, in the air and catch it on each of the cupped surfaces. While some of the surfaces may be easy to balance the ball, it also features a hole at one end to catch it on a spike.

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Promoting hand-eye coordination in the process, the game can be played indoors on a snowy day or on-the-go. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Volume 2 ($35, $64 for gift set) Pitter Patter Children’s Boutique 931 Main St., Louisville, www.pitterpattershop.com

ritten in fairy-tale form, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Volume 2 features 100 new stories inspired by the life and adventures of extraordinary women from Nefertiti to Beyonce. The book tells the tales of real women, past and present, who have succeeded despite all odds and whose actions have changed the course of history, accompanied by illustrations from 70 different female artists from around the globe. Purchase the box set to also get Volume 1, which features women such as Joan Jett, Frida Kahlo, and Venus and Serena Williams. And let’s be real: This bedtime story book is not just for girls, despite the title. Rebel boys stand to gain just as much from these inspiring tales. Eco-dough ($19.99) Eco-kids Lafayette, 720-309-5269, zavygreen.com

f you need to shop online but still want to support local businesses, head to zavygreen. com for a wide range of eco-friendly kids items, like eco-dough from Eco-kids. Made with all natural ingredients like plant, fruit and vegetable extracts, this five-pack of dough features earthy colors perfect for little fingers to mold, shape and build with, all without the risk of toxic chemicals and additives. Boulder Weekly

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hat do you get the craft drinker in your life? Brewery-themed ugly sweaters? Skate decks with their favorite beer blazoned on the board? A rare beer? No, nope, nada. Instead give them a challenge with a little education: the Drinker’s Guide to Colorado. This handy manual not only lists all currently operating breweries, brewpubs, cideries, distilleries, meaderies and wineries in Colorado, it also comes with tips on what to try at each location, glassware tips, production breakdowns and explanations on changing Colorado liquor laws, which might help shed a little light for those who emigrated to this fine state. Oh, and there are about 70 coupons in the back that amount to roughly $400 in free beer. If that doesn’t get them outside their drinking routine, nothing will. CU Growler ($19.99) Available at cubookstore.com

e’ve all been there; you try a one-off beer at your favorite brewery and love it so much that you must have more. But the growler you have in the car sports the logo of a rival brewery, or worse: it’s the logo from a professional sports team that should be embarrassed to show their face in public.You could skirt the issue by buying a new growler from the brewery, but what are you going to do with all those Boulder Weekly

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of eating and drinking well, and giving a loved one a gift box from the shop is one way to share that love of food and drink. Take their Colorado gift box, for instance. It includes two local cheeses, salami from curing company Elevations, local crackers, peach-jalapeno preserves cured in-house, JoJo’s Pueblo Pepper Sriracha, Bjorn’s Colorado Honey and a chocolate bar from Cultura. If all that local artisanship isn’t what you’re looking for, browse Cured’s very wide variety of gift boxes and, trust us, you’ll find something. Turkey Red Wheat Lineage Seeds ($12) Available at select stores in Boulder County, including Moxie Bread Co., Alfalfa’s Market and Basta, lineageseeds.com

o you’ve got a foodie with a green thumb on your holiday list, do you? Thrill them with sustainably raised turkey red wheat from Lineage Seeds. Lineage Seeds preserves species of edible crop that have been threatened in the decades of mismanaged agriculture that has befallen our country, and they focus on species that thrive here on the Front Range and in Boulder County. Their turkey red wheat was a variety brought over by Mennonites who settled in Kansas. It thrives on the high-altitude plains, and whomever you gift this tin of seeds to is going to get a kick out of growing this ancient grain, milling it and serving it to guests in pastas and breads. Chef’s Choice Pizzelle Pro Pizzelle Maker ($50) Peppercorn 1235 Pearl St., Boulder, peppercorn.com

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ou heard it here first: pizzelle makers are in; mostly because pizzelle and their waffle-cookie kin are pretty popular themselves. Making them at home is one way for people to set their home culinary chops apart from the rest. Batters of flour, eggs, sugar, butter and choice of flavorings are put onto one of two griddles in the Chef’s Choice Pizzelle Pro and out come crisp, sweet and buttery wafers. Traditional pizzelle are made with vanilla or anise

flavoring, but whomever you gift this delightful little appliance to can just go bananas with it. Robin Chocolates Collections ($10-$50) Robin Chocolates 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, robinchocolates.com

obin Autorino is a Boulder County treasure, producing artisan chocolate treats out of some of the finest chocolate available in the world. In her Longmont shop, Autorino produces chocolates that are works of art. For those with a sweet tooth on your shopping list, you could do worse than giving a box of Robin Chocolates’ treats. Available in sets from four to 24, pick out flavors from blackberry sage to rosemary caramel to port wine reduction. The six-piece holiday set, available for a limited time, includes candy cane, cranberry vodka lime, figgy pudding and spiked eggnog flavors. Just be sure to pick some up for yourself while you’re shopping at Robin Chocolates; their holiday boxes tend to lose a chocolate or two if they sit in the house too long. Instituto Frasca per il Vino ($225) Frasca Food and Wine 1738 Pearl St., Boulder, frascafoodandwine.com

o you know a budding wine connoisseur? Would they be interested in learning the finer points of tasting from a Master Sommelier? If so, a wine class at Frasca Food and Wine would be a once-in-a-lifetime treat. Master Sommelier and Frasca Owner Bobby Stuckey leads a two-hour class that focuses on a specific wine region, while providing a tasting flight of some of that region’s best wine. Included in the classes are a breakdown of the region, its terroir, history and the opportunity to ask Stuckey whatever questions pop up. This year’s classes will focus on Champagne, Burgundy and Southern France, and each class occurs only twice. Classes start in January and run until March, so book now. Boulder Weekly

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lastic cutlery may be convenient, but it can take up to 1,000 years to decompose once tossed in the trash. Considering the 100 million pieces that Americans throw away each day, that’s a lot of relatively permanent trash. Reusable sporks can be easily tucked in a bag, backpack or purse and whipped out when needed — an easy way to help your eco-friendly pals make an impactful day-to-day difference.

MiiR Reusable Bottle ($33) Topo Designs 935 Pearl St., Boulder, topodesigns.com

ith water fountains and filtered sinks all over the place, there are few excuses left for using plastic water bottles. This leak-free, reusable bottle retains both heat and cold, but what really sets it apart is more than its sleek design. MiiR partners with global nonprofit organizations and pledges to supply one person with clean water for every bottle sold. So, you can feel twice as good gifting this bottle.

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veryone gifts a pair of socks in their lifetime. Why not pick out a pair made from one of the most renewable resources on the planet? Bamboo, from which these socks are weaved, doesn’t require pesticides or chemical fertilizers, and continues to grow even after it’s harvested. Bonus: aside from being softer than you’d ever imagine, these socks are odor-resistant, moisture-wicking, hypoallergenic and anti-static.

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Used Colorado Cookbook (varying prices) Trident Booksellers and Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, tridentcafe.com

eaturing 12 detailed, hand-drawn works by award-winning environmental activist and artist Jeremy Collins, this calendar doubles as art and an organizing tool. Each month includes notable dates in environmental activism and mindful action prompts, and once 2018 is over, the calendar doesn’t get thrown away — it’s built to be repurposed as wall art so you can continue to enjoy Collins’ wild, inspiring landscapes for years to come. Boulder Weekly

othing like a little green to imbue a room with sustainable energy. Succulents are not only user-friendly, but they help conserve water, all the while filtering air and removing toxins from indoor environments. Studies have shown indoor plants can boost mood, concentration and productivity levels, so you can bank on your loved ones thanking you big time for this gift.

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or the Grateful fan who has it all, there’s nothing like an original piece of art — by a local artist, nonetheless. Boulder resident Mark Serlo has been designing posters for PosterScene since the turn of the century; an employee discovered him selling his art outside of the Fox Theatre. In this piece, Serlo recreates

the cover of the Dead’s seventh studio album, 1974’s From the Mars Hotel. The real Mars Hotel was a derelict flophouse in San Francisco, once home to Jack Kerouac and previously used as a location in David Bowie’s promo film for “The Jean Genie.” Actual footage of the demolition of the Mars Hotel is in The Grateful Dead Movie. This is a huge, one-of-a-kind piece, meant to color a home studio, living room or office. David Bowie: A Life, by Dylan Jones ($28) Boulder Book Store 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, boulderbookstore.net

bviously leaving to prepare a better dimension for the rest of us when our time comes, David Bowie left this mortal coil on Jan. 16, 2016. When you find yourself wondering how you’re still living on this planet without the Starman, you’ll find comfort in author Dylan Jones’ new book David Bowie: A Life. Editor of GQ magazine, Jones collected interviews from more than 180 of Bowie’s friends, rivals, lovers and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with the beloved star. Woven into those interviews is neverbefore-seen material from Bowie himself, too, drawn from a series of interviews Jones conducted with him over the course of two decades. Vintage Pioneer SE-50 White 2-Way Ohm Stereo Headphones with Case ($65) Little Horse 2 820 Main St., Louisville, littlehorsevintage.com

ue up the White Album, plug these pretty babies into your hi-fi and drift away to a different time. These late ’60s headphones are in mint condition and deliver a warm sound that rivals today’s high-quality cans. There are volume controls on each earpiece, allowing you to control the volume in the right and left channels independently of one another. This is but one of the zillion audiophile treasures to be found at one of Little Horse’s two locations, so block off an hour or so to bum around these shops. Boulder Weekly

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ferent way, one more satisfying for him. In a series of work now on display at The Dairy Arts Center through Jan. 21, Pinter uses thermal photography to capture the movement of dancers over time. The Dairy features Pinter’s video work and prints, as well as a kinetic sculpture that invites the audience to examine their own motions using technology created by Pinter. His work is exhibited in a solo show, Less Ephemeral, and also in the group exhibit Marking Presence, along with the work of Rudi Monterroso and Erin Wiersma. The two shows complement each other, exploring and recording human movement through space. For Less Ephemeral, a conversation with a friend led Pinter to the name of the solo series. “She said ... ‘You’re trying to capture, in a more permanent way, dance, which is completely ephem-

Artist Marco Pinter combines art and technology to capture movement by Amanda Moutinho

n a way, art can stop time; it captures fleeting moments, lets us go back and see them happen again. But multi-media artist Marco Pinter is more concerned with what’s lost. For example, a dance performance can be captured on film, yet Pinter feels the essence gets lost in translation. “We talk about dance being ephemeral, yet in the last 60-plus years, it’s been captured by video. But somehow, I think that not all of the dance experience is captured in the video,” Pinter says. “Video documentation of dance is somehow not that interesting to look at.” So Pinter uses his art to capture dance in a dif-

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eral and is gone at the end of each performance ... So I see that’s what you’re doing with this thermal work — capturing dance and gesture over time in a more permanent medium, [creating] something that’s less ephemeral,’” Pinter says. It isn’t surprising that Pinter favors tech-driven art; he’s long worked as a software entrepreneur, launching four of his own companies. But throughout his life, Pinter has also carried a passion for dance and sculpture. About a decade ago, Pinter was inspired to create his own art. “I was watching dance performance that was making an attempt to integrate media, and maybe not very well in this particular case,” he says. “And the pieces came together for me of how I could work with dancers, not being a dancer, and work with sculptures, not being a sculptor, and work with things I was comfortable with like interactivity.” Throughout previous work with Disney Imagineering and toy company Mattel, Pinter had worked with interactive products before, but never in a fine arts sense. He decided to pursue the desire see PINTER Page 24

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even further, getting his Ph.D. in media arts and technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Thermal cameras interested Pinter early on. Some of his formative work, from about nine years ago, integrated the use of infrared imaging simply out of convenience. “Today we have sensors [in digital cameras] that can sense your body that cost like $100. But that didn’t exist back then,” Pinter says. “The thermal camera was a way to capture the silhouette of a dancer’s body in a very robust way. The dancer’s hot. The background is cold. It makes it really easy to capture the silhouette.” The catalyst for Less Ephemeral began with an outdoor installation Pinter did in California. Working with a choreographer and a sculptor, Pinter created a large-scale setup with thermal cameras that the public could interact with. “But when the dancers came through [the piece], it was sort of naturally capturing this temporal experience of their dance gestures,” he says. “It was sort of a realization there that they were creating some really beautiful images and that could be a path to go down, to more deliberately work with dancers with this set up to work with this imagery.” So with the help of five dancers, Pinter moved the installation indoors and spent an entire day filming the movements of the dancers. The video is now on display in the Dairy show, giving viewers a firsthand look at Pinter’s process. The setup utilizes a thermal camera pointed at a piece of stretched Lycra, a material able to hold heat and capture rear projection. When someone interacts with the fabric, the camera captures the heat and feeds that into a computer which adds color, then casts the image via a projector back onto the fabric. It’s a concept Boulder Weekly

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of Pinter’s invention, for which he has a “Not everyone feels as free to move patent pending. as a dancer,” Pinter says. “So [my An example of this kinetic sculpsculptures] are also about facilitating ture is on display in Marking Presence. movement. People can feel more comThe audience is invited to touch, push, fortable moving in a silhouette, interbreathe on, rub, elbow and interact acting with an art piece to help them with the fabric. Pinter’s technology on that journey to start moving.” captures the movements in real time. Along with the video and the “A lot of my work has a lot of code sculpture, the exhibits feature Pinter’s behind it, but this is actually in some prints. The pictures vary in color and ways a very simple shape. Some clearly loop,” he says. “All show a human figure you’re seeing is the live surrounded by rays of heat of this piece of light, while others ON THE BILL: Marking Presence and Less fabric at this moment resemble wisps of Ephemeral, featuring the in time. So all of this smoke or flashes of work of Marco Pinter. sort of fading away and lightning. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. residue of gesture is In his work, Pinter Through Jan. 21. actually the heat of loves to play with perthat piece of fabric. It’s ception and the nothing that’s being assumptions you crecreated in a computer program.” ate based on your own reality. “Your brain is telling you something The piece allows the viewer to think more consciously about how they through your perceptual systems and it’s not necessarily true,” he says. “And move and what those movements prowe kind of live our lives assuming what duce, an element typically unseen to we see is reality, when it isn’t. It’s a the human eye. construction of the mind.” “Especially with playing with this, Pinter’s work invites you to project you get an understanding when you move through space, there’s an unseen your own ideas onto the prints, and he residue on environment that you’re hopes you’ll question those ideas — in leaving behind,” he says. and outside the gallery. While the sculpture gives the audi“What the viewer perceives with ence a chance to play with Pinter’s their eyes is not really reality,” he says. process, he also hopes it will encourage “Therefore the conclusions and blanpeople to enter the same headspace as ket assumptions they might come to in a dancer. Many dancers experience a their day-to-day life are really just a flow state when in movement — of product of the human brain, and being in the zone, so to speak — but maybe we should question those that experience isn’t always as relatable assumptions we make. In a sense, it’s for non-dancers. asking us to question our beliefs.” Boulder Weekly

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A side of rockers, a side of ballads

Gasoline Lollipops explore new emotional depths on ‘Soul Mine’ by Sarah Haas

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he Gasoline Lollipops are notoriously difficult to categorize; swimming somewhere between folk, altcountry and punk, the band has taken to shrugging their shoulders as if to say, “All three?” While their sound may confound musical taxonomists, there’s something about it that’s undeniably of the canon of which the band purports to be a part — that of John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle and Leonard Cohen. Each of these artists boast a distinct and recognizable sound while sharing the odd combination of irreverence paired with sensitivity — a partnership of qualities that has come to define the catchall genre of Americana to which the Gasoline Lollipops belong. Like many Americana artists, the Gasoline Lollipops have become synonymous with a place or region. In their case it is their hometown of Boulder. But after seven years of instate incubation, the band is brimming with potential to have broader relevance. They spent November touring Europe, confronting their American identity overtly at every stop along the way. Front man Clay Rose says it didn’t take long before they learned to open every show with a declaratory “Fuck Trump,” a signal of trustworthiness that translated across the Atlantic, no matter the language in which the band’s bills were printed. In hindsight, Rose wasn’t struck with reflections on what it meant to be an Americana band while in Europe, rather the opposite. By playing new markets he realized “people are people wherever you go.” Maybe it’s the definition of Americana that needs to adjust to a newfound global relevance. Defined by the Americana Music Association, Americana is “a type of music that incorporates elements of various, mostly acoustic American roots

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takes right up to the last second to appear and so I always have this feeling of falling, but actually I’m walking and getting stronger at it everyday.” Although drawing from the unique details of his life, Rose is describing the terrible fear that lies on the edge for all of the world’s modestly employed — of financial insecurity, addictions and less-than-fabled pasts. It’s the hard and mysterious work of yielding to uncertain circumstances, knowing full well the road is paved music styles ... resulting in a distinctive with personal demons and that an honroots-oriented sound that lives in a est effort is never quite enough. world apart from the pure forms of the Rose describes it as the important genres upon which it may draw.” work of being honest, which in this Rose puts it a lot more simply: “It’s time of untethered, opinion-rampant music for the working class.” identity politics is no small task. But From a poli-sci perspective, the he’s been brave and barebones on all working class has never been less fronts in offering up what his journey defined. Once an easily understood through sobriety has entailed. Still, it’s “blue-collar” demographic, now in the been hard for the face of an increasing musician to read wealth gap and modON THE BILL: Gasoline about his private ernized work-force, Lollipops — With Foxfeather, struggles in print; it’s a loose and clumsy Bella Duro. Doors: 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre. 1135 13th St., moving forward he’s descriptor, vaguely of Boulder. rethinking his open the lower class. Leave approach, though he it up to the artists to believes it plays an reveal its more hidden important part in the cathartic experiethos. ence the band offers, saying: “Not only Synchronistically, the Gasoline has it been valuable [for me to listen Lollipops are rising to the call, issuing to honest musicians, specifically their first (doggedly) self-produced Leonard Cohen], but it’s saved my life album and vinyl release, Soul Mine, on at times, to know that someone else Dec. 15. It’s a mature and complex record, side A full of rockers and side B has known what I go through, knows the way I feel.” full of ballads — an uncharted step for Publicly disclosing his demons these the band into the high and low emopast few years has seemed to make tions of today’s working class, gleaned them feel more real, his dedication to straight from the ripe and empathetic sobriety more worthy. But there’s a part inner world of Clay Rose. of him that will always be sacredly priJust like the Gasoline Lollipops vate, specifically his process of songhave always been a hardworking band, writing. Rose has always been an “open book,” “I never collaborate on the lyrics,” the intimacies of his past and present he says. “I don’t show it to anybody laid bare for the world to see. Where until it is done. I feel like when write it once his story was dominated by anecdown it’s unchangeable and finite dotes of his rough and tumble past, for somehow, but when it’s just in my head the last two years it’s been dominated the words all exist in the ether and I by his newfound sobriety and all it’s can move them around.” birthed. No matter what else is going on, he “This way of life is still new to me,” says, this makes his songwriting feel Rose says. “It’s sort of like every step I free, and freedom is precisely what the take in this direction is a step of faith, working class seems to be clamoring the path continuously appearing right for. underneath my feet. But sometimes it December 14 , 2017 27

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Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra celebrate all the holidays Music from a Mexican beach and a crazy Brazilian conductor by Peter Alexander

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onductor Bahman Saless she got interested in the guitar from Vienna. It has the optimism and bright and the Boulder hearing her father play — and from an energy we associate with youthful Chamber Orchestra episode of the TV show Blue’s Clues on works, but as the English musical schol(BCO) have a couple of Nickelodeon. “They had some guitar in ar and conductor Donald Tovey wrote, holiday traditions. it, and that connected for me,” she says. “every work Schubert left is an early Every year they honor the Rodrigo’s Concierto is “probably one work.” December holidays as ecumenically as of the most difficult pieces in the reper“It’s very cheerful, it’s very tuneful, possible with a concert titled “A Gift of toire,” Klaverenga says, but “I always like most of Schubert,” Saless says. ”It’s Music,” performed mid-month in enjoy playing difficult works. I think the almost like one of the song cycles, filled Broomfield and Boulder. After that they second movement is one of the most with lyrical ideas. And it’s wonderful to present a New Year’s Eve concert in play because it fits any Courtesy of BCO Lakewood featuring Viennese and program.” other light classical selections. With all the This year’s “Gift of Music” Nutcrackers, Messiahs and doesn’t have any tradiother traditional musical tional holiday music on performances in the program, “because December, New Year’s we want it to be multialmost gets overlooked by denominational,” classical musicians in this Saless says. Instead, the country. But in Europe, it program reflects the is the focus of many perholidays through music formances, particularly the of lighthearted beauty annual New Year’s Day and good cheer. concert of the Vienna Saless selected Philharmonic. three works for the It is that tradition that program: the Concierto the BCO channels every de Aranjuez by Joaquín year with its New Year’s Rodrigo, featuring Eve concert. ON THE BILL: Boulder Chamber Orchestra presyoung guitar virtuoso This year, Saless steps ents A Gift of Music; Bahman Saless, conductor; with Chaconne Klaverenga aside for guest conductor Chaconne Klaverenga, guitar, and Cobus du Toit, as soloist; Pastorale Claudio Cohen, director flute. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15, Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield. Suite for flute and of the National Orchestra 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, Boulder Adventist Church, strings by Gunnar de of Brasilia in Brazil. He 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder. Frumerie, with the and Saless are doing a A New Year’s Eve Celebration; Claudio Cohen, guest BCO’s Cobus du Toit “podium exchange,” with conductor. 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 31, Lakewood as soloist; and Franz Cohen conducting here Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkeay, Lakewood. Schubert’s Symphony New Year’s Eve, and Information and tickets: www.boulderchamberorchestra.com/2017-2018-season No. 5. So there will Saless traveling to Brazil definitely not be any in October. “Winter Wonderland” Cohen will bring at or “Sleigh Ride.” least one piece with him, Or will there? beautiful pieces for classical guitar I’ve Brazilian Landscapes by Ricardo “You never know!” Saless says. ever heard.” Calderoni. Drawing on various popular “There’s always a little gem that we Another discovery on the program styles, including bossa nova, choro and throw in there, to put people in a holiwill be de Frumerie’s Pastorale Suite, baiao, the piece was conceived as a tour day mood.” almost certain to be new to most memthrough the Brazilian musical landscape. One discovery of this year’s concert bers of the audience. Saless first heard it The rest of the program will be will be Klaverenga, who at 23 has been on a Mexican beach, and he knew “traditional New Year’s stuff,” Saless featured on NPR’s From the Top proimmediately that he had to program it. says. Although he isn’t choosing the gram and won several musical competi“I have an old iPod, and I take it on program himself, he says it will tions. She comes to Boulder as the win- vacation with me,” he explains. “This include music from Strauss’s ner of the California-based Arts Alive just came up, and I thought it’s a great Fledermaus — another New Year’s Competition, which has provided other piece to play! I was searching for (sometradition in Europe — as well as soloists for the BCO. thing) to perform with Cobus, who has “polkas, a couple of Brahms “She’s very talented, and a great become our staple for holiday music, and Hungarian Rhapsodies and maybe a young artist that we could showcase,” this is for strings, Cobus and harp. Dvorak Slavonic Dance.” Saless says. “It’s a collection of wonderful little And with that, it will be on to 2018. With a given name of Chaconne — melodies, a little gem.” But with the next year filled with a Baroque musical form — it is no surWritten when the composer was unknowns, Saless advises, “come listen prise that Klaverenga comes from a only 19, Schubert’s Fifth Symphony was to a great New Year’s Eve concert by a musical family. Growing up in Indiana, first performed by a private orchestra in crazy Brazilian!” Boulder Weekly

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TRACE BUNDY AND ANDY MCKEE. 8 P.M. SATURDAY, DEC. 16, BOULDER THEATER, 2032 14TH ST., BOULDER. see EVENTS Page 32

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Silent Bear. 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15, West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder. No Cover. Head to the West End Tavern for a night of great food and music, with a solo performance by Boulder singer/songwriter Silent Bear. This folk artist will perform songs from his 2014 album The Green Lion, which ranges in subject matter from dreams and journeys to loss and love. Originally from New York, Silent Bear moved to Boulder to feel closer to nature. His music reflects his outspoken beliefs about Native American rights. Just last year he wrote a song protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, which he sang to a group of protesters in front of the Boulder County Courthouse. —Eliza Radeka Courtesy of Silent Bear/Joshua Elioseff, dancerproductions.com

Snow Much Fun Family Winter Festivities. 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, Downtown Boulder Civic Area. Free. Ring in the holiday season with an evening of winter family fun in the Civic Area. Enjoy musical performances from Bear Creek Elementary Choir, Summit Middle School Jazz Band and New Vista High School. Make the perfect holiday gift at the arts and crafts station, where you’ll craft snowflakes and ornaments while indulging in hot chocolate and cookies. Watch the Denver Figure Skating Club perform their “Holiday on Ice” show, and then take to the rink yourself. Before you head home, be sure to stroll down Pearl Street and gaze at the 225,000 LED holiday lights. —Eliza Radeka

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Last Chance Gift Fest. 10 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 17, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Free. Are you still searching for the perfect holiday gift for that special someone, important family member or friend? Look no further! Boulder County’s annual Last Chance Gift Fest has you covered! This holiday shopping extravaganza is the perfect place to find that last minute gift you’ve been searching for. This event features more than 165 of Colorado’s best vendors, offering products like art, toys, crafts, home decor, baked goods, unique gifts and more. There will also be a holiday concert of live music. Don’t forget to grab a tasty snack while you’re there! —Eliza Radeka

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TAYLOR SHAE 8PM HONEYWISE 9PM

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THE CONSTELLATION COLLECTIVE SATURDAY DECEMBER 16

MUSK N’ BOOTS 8PM LEE CLARK ALLEN 9PM SUNDAY DECEMBER 17

ANDREW FORBES and the REUNIONS 8PM HILLBILLY HELLCATS 9PM MONDAY DECEMBER 18

EMILY DREW 8PM KRISTINE WRIDING 9PM ALEX MAES 10PM TUESDAY DECEMBER 19 8PM

CHILL DUO - CHANNING LYNN and BILL McKAY WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 20 8PM

JAZZETRY NIGHT! feat VON DISCO

THURSDAY DECEMBER 21

Album Release Concert — with Carly Cohen Fox and Angela Galik. 8 p.m. Grace Lutheran Church, 1001 13th St., Boulder.

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Alter Bridge — The Last Hero Tour — with Sons of Texas. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver.

Thursday, December 14

Arsonists Get All The Girls — with Under Auburn Skies, Spit Black. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Visual Arts Complex, CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder.

Festival of Lights in Downtown Denver. 6 p.m. The Champa Studio, 1245 Champa Street, Third Floor, Denver. Fire and Ice: Christmas with Ars Nova. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder. Float Like a Buffalo. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Gallagher: The Joke’s On You Tour. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. House Night. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Neyla Pekarek (of The Lumineers). 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition is on view Dec. 9-21. Artists featured: Schuyler DeMarinis, Benjamin Stockman, Matthew Vivirito, Marie Williams. Through Dec. 21.

Friday, December 15 Matthew Turner: Alternatives to sustainability science: A political ecology of soil nutrient depletion in the fields of African farmers. Guggenheim Geography, Room 205, 1475 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. Turner presents empirical work that provides an alternative understanding of the causes of soil fertility variation across village territories in western Niger.

Saturday, December 16 Dianne Reeves

The Nutcracker. 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver.

Usher in the holidays with the world’s greatest living jazz and R&B vocalist, who dazzles audiences worldwide with her breathtaking virtuosity and remarkable improvisation. The Grammy-winning singer celebrates the joy and warmth of the season with a concert of holiday favorites.

Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder. Ryan Viser, Impact, Chando, Plaid Hawaii, LowPro. 8 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Snow — with Jesse Manley and His Band. 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Wonderbound Studio Junction Box, 1075 Park Avenue West, Denver. State Drugs. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandoori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Under Milk Wood. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Friday, December 15 Music

Tangled & Dark: Emily Clark & Friends. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Antonio Lopez. 6 p.m. Chuburger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont.

Taylor Shae. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder.

Timothy B. Schmit (of The Eagles) — with Richie Fur. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

The CBDs. 7:30 p.m. Full Cycle Tap Room, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder.

Events Ballroom & Line Dance. 7 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont. The Breadwinner. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. VisionQuest Brewery, 2510 47th St., Boulder. Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder.

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Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop and 17th streets, Denver.

Gilbert. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

TAD BAIERLEIN 8PM JASON McINTYRE & MICHAEL O’CONNOR 9PM

John Gierach: A Fly Rod of Your Own. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Happy Hour 4-8 Every Day

Santa’s Big Red Sack. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.

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Nightbrunch. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

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Nick Guerra. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Saving Bayside. 9 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

A Colorado Christmas. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Denver Philharmonic Orchestra: “Holiday Cheer!”. 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver. Fire and Ice: Christmas with Ars Nova. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder. Grant and Tone. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Hometown For The Holidays 2017. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Krampus & Kids. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Life is Dope: ’90s Holiday Party. 7:30 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 20, Boulder. Lloyd Morris Holiday Show. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont.

11th St., Longmont. Lori’s Cuisine. 3:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Lunar Fire Album Release Party — with Soulacybin, Xerephine, Alais Clay. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Mihali. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Nghtmre Before Xmas. 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Nicole Atkins. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. The Nutcracker. 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. The Prairie Scholar’s Trio. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Rocky Mountain Ringers. 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver. Saints of Never After. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Sleazy Grease & Friends featuring members of Atomga. 9 p.m. Black Buzzard, 1624 Market St., Denver. St. Martin’s Chamber Choir. 7:30 p.m. Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St., Denver. Vonce. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Wooleye. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland. You Knew Me When. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Events

Lonesome Days. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.

Best Medicine: Comedy Showcase. 7:30 p.m. Rory’s Tavern, 404 Broadway, Denver.

Longs Peak Chorus 2017 Christmas Concert. 7 p.m. Heart of Longmont, First Methodist Church, 350

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“Traverse Decent,” Marco Pinter

Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. Faculty Exhibition: 2017. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through Dec. 23. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October 2018. Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 14. Legacy — presented by Gallery 1261 and Denver Public Library. Denver Central Library, Level 7, Vida Ellison Gallery, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Dec. 31. Less Ephemeral — by Marco Pinter. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St.,

‘Less Ephemeral,’ showing in the Polly Addison Gallery at the Dairy Arts Center, is a solo exhibit by Marco Pinter exploring the ephemeral, impermanent nature of dance. Pinter’s work also appears in ‘Marking Presence,’ a group exhibit currently showing in the McMahon Gallery in the Dairy. Read more about Pinter and his work on page 23.

Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 21. Boulder. Begins Dec. 8. Through Jan. 21. Lined Out — Ted Larsen. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through Jan. 21. Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through April 1. Marginalia — by Joel Swanson. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby and Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 21.

Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28, 2018. Revealing A Mexican Masterpiece: The Virgin of Valvanera. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feburary 2018. Sinner in Gingham. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through Jan. 21. Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through February 2018.

Marking Presence. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon

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The Breadwinner. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Under Milk Wood. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Cine-Talk Series, Star Wars: The Last Jedi. 5 p.m. Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, 7711 E. Academy Blvd., Denver.

Who Killed Santa? 8 p.m. Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Suite 1, Denver.

Dog Dance. 7 p.m. Floorspace, 1510 Zamia Avenue, Suite 101, Boulder.

Music

Gilbert. 6:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Harry Connick Jr’s The Happy Elf. 7:30 p.m. Longmont Performing Arts Center, 513 Main St., Longmont. Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop and 17th streets, Denver. Nick Guerra. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. The Ridiculous and The Sublime. 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Santa’s Big Red Sack. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.

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Saturday, December 16 The Aaron Walker Quartet: Gypsy Holiday. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Album Release for 1st Strike by Blue Lightning. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Suite 380, Boulder. Alice Merton. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. The Anchor/Tonight We Rise: Holiday Party. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Bhakti Shakti Kirtan. 7 p.m. Full Circle Yoga, 519 Main St., Longmont. Blue Lightning. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder. Boulder Chamber Orchestra Presents “A Gift of Music.” 7:30 p.m. Boulder Adventist Church, 345

Mapleton Ave., Boulder. Boulder Chorale: All Things Bright & Beautiful. 4 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder. Chain Station. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. Christmas 1948: Music from Ella, Dinah, Bing and More. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. A Colorado Christmas. 2:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Dead Set Colorado. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland. Denver Chorale: “Beauty and Light.” 7:30 p.m. Washington Park Center for Music and Arts, 400 S. Williams St., Denver. Denver Philharmonic Orchestra: “Holiday Cheer!” 2:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver. Dianne Reeves: Holiday Concert. 7:30 p.m. see EVENTS Page 36

Courtesy of Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe

Monday, December 18 So, You’re a Poet: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Tuesday, December 19 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Wednesday, December 20 Instruments of Peace. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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Don’t Yell At Me, Episode 24. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Esme Patterson, SUSTO. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. eTown Presents: John Craigie and Covenhoven. 7 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder.

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An Evening with Steve Kimock and Friends featuring Jeff Chimenti, John Kimock, Andy Hess and Leslie Mendelson. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Annie. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Feb. 24.

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and Then Some!). Denver Center Theatre Company, 950 13th St., Denver. Through Dec. 24

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Harry Connick Jr’s The Happy Elf. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont. Through Dec. 17.

Francis and the Wolf. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Arvada Center Main Stage Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 23.

Full of Mirrors. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

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A Christmas Carol. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Dec. 23.

Gasoline Lollipops. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

“Making Merry” — presented by Stories on Stage. 1:30 p.m. Dec. 16, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Groovealicious. 9:30 p.m. Herb’s Bar, 2057 Larimer St., Denver.

Red. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Jan. 7.

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Harps for the Holidays@the Library! 1 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

Looking for a little more snark in your stocking this year? Look no further than ‘The SantaLand Diaries,’ David Sedaris’ offbeat tales from his stint as a Macy’s elf in New York City. It’s the sure cure for the common Christmas show.

Holiday Bells: Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder.

Beauty and the Beast. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse. 747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Feb. 14.

Isobar. 8 p.m. KCP Art Bar, 364 Main St., Longmont.

Body Of An American. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Dec. 9.

Resolutions. The Edge Theater Company, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Through Dec. 31. The SantaLand Diaries. Denver Center Theatre Company, 950 13th St., Denver. Through Dec. 24 Siren Song: A Pirate’s Odyssey. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through May 14, 2018. A Year with Frog and Toad. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 19.

Keith Harkin. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

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Lee Clark Allen — with Musk N’ Boots. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Lionel Young Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Longmont Museum Holiday Festival. 7 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Longs Peak Chorus 2017 Christmas Concert. 2:30 p.m. Heart of Longmont, First Methodist Church, 350 11th St., Longmont. Music Lessons of Westminster. 12:15 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.

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Navidad Flamenca: A Flamenco Christmas Night. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver. The Nutcracker. 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. Pop Night. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Slow Caves (7” Release). 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Soul Diva Revue. 6 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Timberline Handbell Ensemble. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

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Timberline Handbell Ensemble. 2 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder.

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A Very Caribou Christmas featuring Vince Herman and Friends! 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland.

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Trace Bundy and Andy McKee. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

You Knew Me When. 4 p.m. Declaration Brewery, 2030 S. Cherokee St., Denver. Events

The Breadwinner. 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder.

Bronze Fox Burlesque Holiday Show. 7:30 p.m. Vapor Distillery, 5311 Western Ave., Suite 180, Boulder.

Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.

Drunk Christmas. 8 p.m. Fiction Beer Company, 7101 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

The Simba Claus: King of the Jingle - A Holiday Sketch Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.

Firefly Handmade Holiday Market. 10 a.m. Embassy Suites, Boulder, 2601 Canyon Blvd., Boulder.

Ski Buses to Breckenridge Dew Tour. 8 a.m. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, 2907 Huron St., Denver.

Gilbert. 6 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Stand-Up Comedy & Bottomless Margaritas. 8 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave.

Harry Connick Jr.’s The Happy Elf. 7:30 p.m. Longmont Performing Arts Center, 513 Main St., Longmont.

Under Milk Wood. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop and 17th streets, Denver. Local Author Holiday Book Sale. 12 p.m. Ozo Coffee, 1232-A S. Hover Road, Suite 400, Longmont. Nick Guerra. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. On The Spot: Improv in the Style of ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’. 10 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Parade Of Lasers 2017. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver. Revolting Rhymes. 2 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. The Ridiculous and The Sublime. 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Santa’s Big Red Sack. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.

Who Killed Santa?. 7 p.m. Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Suite 1, Denver. Sunday, December 17 Music Augustana Lutheran Church Festival Christmas Concert. 7:30 p.m. Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave., Denver. Ben Hammond. 4 p.m. Declaration Brewing Company, 2030 S. Cherokee St., Denver. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Boulder Chorale: All Things Bright & Beautiful. 4 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder. Boulder County Record Show. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, Barn A, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Boy-lesque and Drag Extravaganza. 6:30 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Carmen Sandim Septet. 7 p.m. Grace Lutheran Boulder Weekly

events Church, 1001 13th St., Boulder. A Colorado Christmas. 1 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Hillbilly Hellcats Rockabilly duo. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. The Interrupters and SWMRS with special guests The Regrettes. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Jim Dalton Acoustic Brunch. 12 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. Kyle Lucas. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Longmont Museum Holiday Festival. 3 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.

Live Music with Kristine Wriding. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Meatless Monday - Vegan Pizza Party featuring Sulfuric Baptism. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Menagerie Awards Banquet featuring Flash Mountain Flood, Hosted by Doran Joseph. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Open Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Events Black & Blu: Comedy/Variety Show. 7 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver. The Gutcracker. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th

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Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop & 17th streets, Denver.

Boosie Badazz — with BlaccRoyal, Meecy W, SwizZy B. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

The Improv Hootenanny. 7:30 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Young Artists at Work Holiday Camp. 9 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Tuesday, December 19

Farmer Sisters. 12 a.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. MIRACLES – A Yuletide Concert of Music and Songs! 7 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette. The Nutcracker. 6:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. Events see EVENTS Page 38

Longmont Symphony Candlelight Concert. 4 p.m. Westview Presbyterian Church, 1500 Hover St., Longmont. Lori’s Cuisine. 12 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Made Violent. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S Broadway, Denver. Mark Rose (of Spitalfield) and Spencer Townshend Hughes & Jonathan Bray (of The Hollow). 7 p.m. Black Buzzard, 1624 Market St., Denver. The Stanleytones. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. SUSTO, Esme Patterson. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Events Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker. 12:55 p.m. Denver Pavilions 15, 500 16th St., Denver. Boulder Comedy Show. 6 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder. Firefly Handmade Holiday Market. 10 a.m. Embassy Suites, Boulder, 2601 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. Gabriel Iglesias: FluffyMania. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Harry Connick Jr.’s The Happy Elf. 2 p.m. Longmont Performing Arts Center, 513 Main St., Longmont. Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop and 17th streets, Denver. Last Chance Gift Fest. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Last Chance Gift Fest. 10 a.m. Main Exhibit Hall, Boulder County Fairgrounds, Boulder. Modern Times. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Nick Guerra. 7 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Nutty Nutcracker with Boulder Ballet Dancers. 6:30 p.m. The ArtsHUB, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette. The Ridiculous and The Sublime. 4 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Salome: National Theatre Live Encore. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Santa’s Big Red Sack. 4 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.

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Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop and 17th streets, Denver. The MeshugaNutcracker! 7 p.m. Denver Pavilions 15, 500 16th St., Denver. Mistletoe Market. 6 p.m. Halcyon, 245 N. Columbine St., Denver. Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Wednesday, December 20 Music Agnostic Front. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. The Atlantic Club. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Aural Elixir Solstice Potluck. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Cantabile Chorus to Perform Holiday Songs. 4 p.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th Street Frontage Road, Boulder. Colorado Symphony: Holiday Brass. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Kona & Aqua Phellem — with Special Guests. 8 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. MIRACLES – A Yuletide Concert of Music and Songs! 7 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette. New Year’s Eve Party — with the Wallpaper House Band. 4 p.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th Street Frontage Road, Boulder. The Nutcracker. 6:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. RE: Search ft. Goopsteppa and Vinja — with Special Guests. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Tim Ostidek. 12 a.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Winter Solstice Celebration. 9 p.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder. Events The 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Clinton Jackson. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Dealt. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Discovery Days Science Program. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette. Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop and 17th streets, Denver. Mmmwhah’s Mmm: Music and Movement Meditation. 7 p.m. Alive Studio, 4593 Broadway, Boulder. Salome: National Theatre Live Encore. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Santa’s Big Red Sack. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. The Simba Claus: King of the Jingle - A Holiday Sketch Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Yoga for Kids. 4 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette.

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Be aware of the midnight knock, the one that sends you breathless out under moth veiled streetlights, no time to grab a toothbrush or checkbook or underwear as you hear the sweet Muzak whisper stay calm, get in your car, drive safely to the airport. Only you don’t, blitzing through tollways where you hurl change, see her face, your seven month old, two thousand miles away, her name like a prayer, Rachel. Be aware of anxiety at 2 AM, the airport lobby no place to crack up while waiting for a flight. After all, a mad woman who smells of ashes and bones sits close, whispers curses at you, at the sleeping priest, then warns of dangerous skies that promise engine failure when all you long for is sleep, the clean smell of your daughter, her tiny ears soft as orchids. Be aware of terminal art, a mad sculpture encased in glass that taunts you with its motion of chains and steel and chimes, of bells ringing, balls dropping, sprockets churning within jagged wheels, each perfectly timed function a reminder that somewhere a machine dial hovers near red, an IV drips fluid into her thin veins, a perilous needle floats inches above her spine. Be aware of the dry whisper at 23,000 feet, the voice of cemeteries and funerals, the promise that your daughter is dying while you sweat it out somewhere over Missouri, the dark fields of clover and beans stitched together like a shroud. You hang on, watch as Denver looms up to seize the plane, then rush to the hospital ICU where doctors talk of brain damage, of hearing loss, of h-flu. Be aware of losing all hope when you enter the pale room, her eyes closed, the oxygen tube taped to her small lip. You lean close, your mouth inches from her ear as you whisper her rocking chair song- rock-rock-rocking in Daddy’s arms over and over, her pulse a jagged slash on the screen. All night you will sing to her, your voice cracking, brittle, and come morning, her clear eyes, blue pools of trust, will tell you she lives.

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ot unlike the year 2016 in politics, writer/director Dee Rees’ adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s novel, Mudbound, starts off as a slow, plodding look at the casual systemic racism embedded in America’s DNA before it explodes into an explicit extravaganza of pain and horror. Unlike the year 2016 in politics, the perpetrators of said pain and horror in Mudbound don’t keep tweeting evil gibberish every morning. Still, the point the film makes about the inseparable nature of white violence and bigotry and American identity is maybe the best way to understand how Alabama just damn-near elected an alleged pedophile as a senator over a man who put KKK members in prison. That is to say, set in the late 1930s and ’40s or not, Mudbound matters.

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‘Mudbound’ informs the filthy present via our filthy past by Ryan Syrek Unlike Rees’ pitch-perfect Pariah, Mudbound struggles a bit out of the gate. Likely a result of condensing a sprawling narrative, this account of the hellishly crappy life of two families in Tennessee takes its darn time building towards a singularly jarring climax. Laura (Carey Mulligan) and her husband, Henry ( Jason Clarke), move to a small house on a farm worked by Hap (Rob Morgan) and his family, who are “free” in legal description only. Henry’s brother, Jamie (Garrett Hedlund), and Hap’s son, Ronsel ( Jason Mitchell), are both enlisted to fight Nazis overseas. To think, if they were alive today, they could have battled those same foes without ever leaving the United States! Although they didn’t know each other during the war, Jamie and Ronsel become something like friends. Jamie has every capital letter in PTSD, and Ronsel can’t cope with going from beloved liberator and quasi-equal overseas to being loathed and assumed inferior because of his skin color. Speaking of skin color, Henry and Jamie’s dad, Pappy ( Jonathan Banks), is a proud piece of shit. From taunting Hap’s wife, Florence Jackson (Mary J. Blige), to shaming Ronsel, he’s basically a hate-fueled facsimile of our current Attorney General. If you guessed that a naked embrace of racism ends poorly for literally everyone, congratulations on staying abreast of current news. As much as historical documentation, and perhaps more so, fictional accounts of the past help build and shape our collective consciousness and national narrative. This explains why so much of our creative discourse shies away from fully capturing and recreating the horror of our very recent past. To watch Mudbound is to remember that unfathomably disgusting crimes perpetrated against the black community aren’t just stored in paper, film and photographs; they’re stored in the actual memories of those still living. The acting here is universally OK, with Blige’s tempered, tragic performance getting the most acclaim and Hedlund getting a bit too much screen time with which to chew on his weird, semi-nonsensical drawl. The pace of the film is slightly disjointed, and it’s a half-step down from Rees’ last big-screen effort. But none of that means it comes up short of required viewing. To understand the rage and fear of the present requires an unflinching look at our past. Mudbound never flinches, even if you will.

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ay 1940: Hitler is riding roughshod across Europe, gobbling up territory like an insatiable monster. Norway, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Denmark have all fallen. Belgium, Holland and France are falling. Britain is next. England’s current Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, wants to negotiate with Herr Hitler in a foolish attempt to secure peace, but the rest of Parliament isn’t so sure. Surely something can be done before the Crown falls under the heel of the Reich? There is one who will make that stand, and not just to the German bully across the Channel but also to the weasels within. Enter The Last Lion, England’s newly minted prime minister: Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman). Between slugs of Scotch and puffs on his cigar, Churchill will dig his heels in, find the backing he needs to wage war and keep the Western Hemisphere from falling under the tyranny of evil. Sound dramatic enough? Well, Darkest Hour depicts a very dramatic time and director Joe Wright and writer Gary Oldman Anthony McCarten make sure every scene, no matter embodies The Last how minor, continues to ratchet up the tension, turning Lion, The British Bulldog, England’s Darkest Hour into a propulsive and engrossing war film iconic prime of words and bureaucratic backroom dealings. minister, Winston Churchill. As the title suggests, Darkest Hour does not take a wide-angle lens to World War II. Instead, Wright and McCarten zero in on three crucial weeks, specifically May 9–28, from Churchill’s appointment to the Dunkirk evacuation. This, along with Dario Marianelli’s score and Bruno Delbonnel’s outstanding cinematography, gives the film vim and vigor and Churchill all the space he needs. Darkest Hour is not a flawless movie, but it is anchored by a flawless performance from Oldman as The British Bulldog. Working under a good deal of makeup, and plenty of cigar smoke, Oldman physically depicts the weight of the world on his shoulders as he defiantly shuffles around 10 Downing Street and London’s underground war room. Oldman — who once transformed himself into punk rock’s iconic lost boy, Sid Vicious, for Alex Cox’s Sid and Nancy — embodies the very spirit of Churchill; his rebelliousness and his ability to swallow a room whole. This might explain why his wife, Clementine (Kristin Scott Thomas, an outstanding actress in a thankless role), gets short shrift. Or why his assistant, Elizabeth Layton (Lily James), has little more to do than tiptoe timidly around the barking prime minister. Others, Neville Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup) and Halifax (Stephen Dillane), are meant to be weak-willed, allowing Churchill and history to walk all over them. You don’t need to peer too deep to draw parallels between Chamberlain and Halifax with contemporary politicians. They aren’t the only men who would rather placate a madman than stand-up to a bully. Darkest Hour isn’t the only period film to come out in 2017 designed to invoke our current political climate. Their proliferation makes the mind wonder: What is it about this particular moment in the 21st century that takes us back to the 20th? Are there lessons still to be learned? Truths that ought to galvanize us? Or, is it that the present isn’t merely an echo of the past, it’s a refrain. Boulder Weekly

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erman food is made for the winter. Hearty roasts and sausages, pungent cabbage and sauerkraut, liters of beer — it all warms the body and soul. Unfortunately, it hasn’t really felt like winter yet in Boulder County, but we’re going to Bohemian Biergarten anyway. Its menu of classic German dishes includes sauerbraten, beef marinated in red wine and vinegar before being slowly cooked until tender. Bohemian Biergarten nails the execution of the dish; the beef is slightly sweet and slightly sour, and the gravy on top pops with just a little baking spice and a little more sourness. The pickled red cabbage on the side is fantastic, punchy and well-spiced, and the curlicues of spätzle provide a great foundation for the extra gravy, beef and cabbage. Alongside a hot glüh wein (mulled wine) or a liter of Paulaner, you can’t go wrong. $14.

ou may have passed by Jin Chan Zhang hundreds of times without stopping in. The strip mall edifice is barely visible from 28th St., and you’re likely zooming by. But if you stop in once, you’re probably going to stop in again. Its menu of staple Chinese dishes attracts a legion of loyal fans. The Szechuan beef indicates why folks like Jin Chan Zhang so much: its flavors are so well-refined. Served on fried rice, succulent slices of beef are mixed with celery, onion, red chilies and bok choy. It’s all covered in a semi-thick, sweet and spicy sauce. It’s simple and well-prepared Chinese food that encourages you to explore more of the menu. $9.95.

Della Toscana Sandwich

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indsay’s Boulder Deli is one of the finest sandwich shops in the county. It serves sandwiches in stuffed and over-stuffed sizes, and each packs the balance of flavor and texture you want out of a deli sando. The Della Toscana sandwich is fantastic — shredded, moist chicken is mixed with sun-dried tomatoes and red pepper and topped with fresh spinach, mozzarella, pesto and balsamic vinaigrette, all on a ciabatta roll. The balsamic, tomato and mozzarella create a magic foundation for the rest of the sandwich, and the olives and red pepper elevate it further. The bread, by the way, is chewy, well-seasoned and perfect for the sandwich. $8.59.

Buffalo Wings

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here’s a new bar where 28th Street Tavern once stood. Well, it’s under new management, but the place got a small makeover and folks seem pretty happy about it. Some bar favorites were kept on the menu, including buffalo wings, which may have gotten a little update themselves. These are good wings — thin, crispy skin (not heavily breaded or over-fried) covers deeply flavorful and moist chicken, tossed in a choice of sauce. Now, their hot buffalo sauce is truly hot — don’t go atomic unless you want to hurt yourself. But the hot sauce is vinegar-forward, perfectly spiced and adheres well to each chicken wing. $12 for 10 wings.

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’ve lived in locales that nobody would visit except my Mom and my best friend. Boulder is not like that. If you’ve lived here for very long you know the The drill. Brothers, sisters, coolest food old friends, Facebook things to do friends and random with family former co-workers get and other in touch and are enthusiastic about visiting you, even in the dead of winter. odd Eating being the great common visitors denominator, you take them to the obvious visitor destinations and innumerable tasting rooms. After a while everybody has toured Hammond’s Candies and had their single encounter with sopapillas and cliff divers at Casa Bonita. They have experienced mind/sinus expansion in the Celestial Seasonings mint room, Susan France taken the iconic Coors Beer Tour in Golden, had afternoon tea at the ornately decorated Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse and already brunched with the sharks at Denver’s Downtown Aquarium. Here are a few alternative culinary destinations for the veteran yuletide visitor. Special effects for dessert: At the Willie Wonka-inspired Inventing Room Dessert Shop, expect loud shrieks, cold fog, exploding whipped cream and first-class desserts created by chefs butter bits and an Ian and Stacey Kleinman. abundance of You can spend hours at Cheese Importers Whipped burnt marshmallow, nitro-chilled perusing their selection graham cracker pop rocks, houseexploding whipped of cheese, meats, olives, imports and more. made lollipops, exquisite buttercream with a dark scotch sauce and maple sage cotchocolate swizzle ton candy are on the menu of this stick. Nibble on steampunk-y establishment near Sloan’s free nitro-popped popcorn while waiting. Lake. The shop’s uber-popular Butter It’s cool. (tirdenver.com) Beer magically brings together made-toThe breakfast of champions: Surprise order liquid nitrogen salted butterscotch gourmet tourists with a visit to Arvada’s ice cream, butter beer soda, crunchy brown Cereal Box to build your bowl involving

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50 U.S. and international cereals, diverse milks (including banana) and cool toppings. It is a childish opportunity to combine Trix, Fruit Loops and Fruity Pebbles in one bowl. Pie taste tour and a song: Gather true pastry geeks for a night at the pie-centric musical Waitress Dec. 19-31 at the Buell Theatre. (denvercenter.org) Start with a pie tour with slices at Wednesday’s Pie (wednesdayspie.com) under Larimer Square and at the Humble Pie Store for toasted coconut cream with chocolate cookie crust pie. (humblepiestore.com). Stop by Hinman’s Bakery for fruit-filled hand pies for the ride home. (squareup. com/store/hinmans-bakery) Teas and purrs: Take respite from the holiday season mayhem at the Denver Cat Company, a café that’s really a club for feline lovers that hosts adoptable cats. There is a $5 admission fee. For gift-giving, consider a meow session of yoga with purring cats followed by a cup of coffee or tea. (denvercatco.com) Feasting like a Viking: Those aching to eat like Vikings (or at least Scandinavians) can celebrate Julebord, the traditional Norwegian Christmas fest Dec. 17 at Viking Hall in Colorado Springs. The smorgasbord groans with cardamomscented breads, lefse, herring, pickled beets, rice cream and many pastries including krumkake. (sonsofnorwaycs. com/events.html) The search for fromage: Head to Longmont for a tasting tour of the cheese-making process at Haystack Cheese headquarters. Be sure to taste some award-winning Haystack Peak, a see NIBBLES Page 46

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stand, has opened its The Dushanbe Teahouse is a first official go-to place for eatery at hungry holiday shoppers. Boulder’s Meadows Shopping Center serving hefty tacos filled with everything from chimichuri steak to sweet chile shrimp.

Season’s readings

There are so many cookbooks available this season but you have to wonder how many of the giftees will actually end up cooking from the volume. The just-published America the Great Cookbook (Weldon Owen) is jammed with chefs’ comfort food recipes you would actually use. Contributors include Colorado notables Adrian Miller, The Kitchen’s Hugo Matheson and Toni Tipton-Martin, who shares a Blueberry Buckle recipe. Book proceeds benefit Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry program.

Taste of the week

When stopping by the Dickens Opera House in Longmont on a chilly evening for a singer-songwriter open mic, nothing sounded better than the Dickens Pie. This shepherd’s pie variation layers shredded beef, onions mushrooms and peas in gravy under a coating of creamy mashers and melted cheese baked in a flat bowl. It was comforting but it would have been sensational enclosed in flaky, buttery pastry.

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“Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly arranged and well-provisioned breakfast table.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, 1390 AM, kgnu.org). Podcasts: news.kgnu.org/ category/radio-nibbles Boulder Weekly

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head of him was a week in Northeast Italy. Bobby Stuckey and Frasca chef and co-owner Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson would leave the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. They’d eat at a family’s home near a vineyard where they make barbera for their wine label, Scarpetta. On Thursday, they’d drive down to Emilia-Romagna to check out a new canning facility for the label’s cans of spumante. Then they’d eat a fish dinner in a “weird restaurant outside Venice in this not very romantic suburb.” The next day they’d travel to Trieste to do research on a book they’re writing. And then they’d eat in Fruili, the town on which Frasca’s menu is based. Then they’d fly home. Behind Stuckey, by only a couple days, was the New York City Marathon. It was, like, the “fifth time... maybe” that he’s run it. He’s been a Runner’s World subscriber since he was 10. I asked, in the empty Frasca dining room one Friday morning, if he’s ever going to run right out of steam. “I hope not,” Stuckey says, calmly and slowly adding more to that thought. “That would suck... That would not be fun... No, let’s not do that... Let’s not do that... No, I don’t want to do that.” Stuckey, it turns out, has no choice but to run. He’s on the floor of his James Beard Award-winning restaurant almost every night, and he oversees a new restaurant in Denver, Tavernetta, that burned down one week after it opened, an artisan pizza chain, the wine label, the book and more. All that for “a hyperactive, ADD, dyslexic kid” from Scottsdale, Arizona, whose mom put him in kindergarten a year

early “to get him out of the house.” Because of that, he was a year younger than his Bobby Stuckey is on the floor at Frasca classmates and too young to play Little League, so his most nights, dofather, seeing his son in need of a place to release ing everything from bussing tables to energy, signed them up for a 10K. pouring wines. “So that just became a thing that I did,” Stuckey says of running. “I wasn’t very good at it, but I worked at it really hard.” Running became medicine for Stuckey, and is ever more critical for him now. He’s constantly plugged into the various aspects of his food enterprise, from managing employees to bottling wine overseas. He doesn’t listen to music, he doesn’t watch TV. To clear his head, Stuckey runs. “You have to go to a point that is not comfortable for a long time, and there are a lot of benefits to that physiologically, mentally, spiritually,” Stuckey says. On his runs, he’s come up with long-lasting ideas that have given Frasca its uniqueness: Monday night wine dinners, their hallowed four-course menu, the ballyhooed $1,000-a-head truffle dinner. During our conversation, Stuckey remembered an idea for the book and yelled out to his assistant to remind him later about it. Stuckey is everywhere. He partakes in speaking engagements, he travels often, he accepts awards, he has articles written about him seemingly monthly. At the pace at which he runs his career, you can generally find out all you need to know about Stuckey’s life whenever you want. And yet, he rejects the food personality as a celebrity. Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential made it seem not only cool to be a chef, but that a necessary part of the chef ’s life was to burn out on drugs and alcohol, which is a perception that still damages the industry, Stuckey says. Working in the industry is tough work, but it’s in that tough work that rewards are found. He isn’t priggish about

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olloquially known as the “businessman’s trip,” N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is known for its lunch-breaksize: a 15-minute duration that launches consumers into vivid alien worlds. Some say it’s among the most literally hallucinogenic of all the psychedelics, others say it’s a portal to reach otherwise inaccessible depths of reality. In 2016, two veteran researchers, Dr. Rick Strassman and Dr. Andrew Gallimore, proposed a theoretical method to safely extend the L.Brown experience beyond its normal length. In July 2017, Boulder’s own psychedelic psychotherapist Daniel McQueen set out to see just what that theory was made of. It’s a far-out proposition, not only because DMT is internationally prohibited but because it’s notoriously difficult to get the credentials, support and funding to overcome legal and regulatory hurdles. McQueen appears unphased. With decades of academic, professional and personal work in psychedelic experiences he’s become adept at actualizing the impossible. You might say his job is to pull at seemingly intangible threads of profound psychedelic insights and weave them into waking reality. And so far, his progress on project DMTx is almost entirely in the realm of the tangible. Thanks to advice he got from Dr. Strassman, McQueen is focusing on the practical details of his project. First of all, he’s acquiring a team of highly qualified and credentialed collaborators including business and accounting consultants, a medical advisor, a research specialist, several psychonauts, a legal team and media, event and fundraising support. Importantly, he is still looking to recruit a medical doctor, the one who will ultimately administer the

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DMT, and for that he is exploring many options. Specifically, he’s interested in working with a doctor already involved in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for two reasons. First, the targeted infusion pump technology being used with ketamine is similar to that proposed to administer the DMT experience. And second, both substances are psychedelics and so administration experience in one could translate to the other. McQueen and his growing team are also currently exploring three legal avenues

Instead, the team is looking at the research as “exploratory” — a vague term they are hoping covers a lot of territory. McQueen says the primary interest of most in the psychedelic community now supporting the project is to learn about ourselves from DMT experiences. “In DMT experiences, people have what feel more real than unreal encounters with other beings and entities,” McQueen says. “Whether that’s objectively real or not is a legitimate question, but even if it weren’t real in a physical sense, it is still telling us a lot about human nature and the complexity of the inner psyche. If we can prolong that phenomenon then we might be able to bring back information about the nature of consciousness and a deeper ON THE BILL: DMTx understanding of what these encounters really Update and Psychedelic mean.” Society Social. 8 p.m. Of course, McQueen is intrigued by these Saturday, Dec. 16, Vali Soul Sanctuary. 6717 Valmont ideas, but his personal interest is decidedly less Rd., Boulder, www.dmtx.org introspective and more globally ambitious. He’s interested in the broad societal, even evolutionary, implications of using DMT to explore the to pursue the incredibly complex problems we face today. research. One “Psychedelics have a really amazing track record of option is to being used in innovative ways by experts in science and seek FDA technology who have come up with world transformapproval to perform the research here in Boulder, ing technologies and solutions,” McQueen says. which, due to regulatory and bureaucratic infrastruc“Once we determine that extended-state DMT is tures, is a lengthy and expensive prospect. Another safe and can be predictably stabilized and mainoption is to seek legal means to perform the research tained, theoretically we could train such an expert in a different country, one that has less restrictive working with an incredibly complex global problem prohibitions. The final option is to perform the and offer this experience as a way to help them reevalresearch under religious pretenses in a country in uate it, look at it from a different angle and receive which DMT is legal for religious purposes. guidance from the highly intelligent but subconscious aspect of self that might contain critical answers.” The latter is likely the easiest and quickest route, If DMTx reaches its fundraising goal of $120,000, but it risks delegitimizing the scientific aspects upon then McQueen projects commencing the study as which the project rests. Unlike the ongoing “psycheearly as 2020. But between now and then there is a lot delic renaissance” now hurdling over regulatory obstaof work to be done. In addition to recruiting and fundcles by hypothesizing the therapeutic and medicinal raising, the team is hosting many upcoming communibenefits of substances like psilocybin and MDMA, ty feedback sessions, including an update and celeDMTx is not overtly positioning the substance for bration this Saturday, Dec. 16. such uses.

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by Paul Danish

Ganja games in the land of the buckeyes

ince Colorado voted to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012, there have been a slew of legalization votes around the country — and the good guys have won most of them. The most spectacular fail was in Ohio. In 2015, Ohio voters rejected Ballot Issue 3, which would have legalized recreational pot in the state. “Rejected” understates what happened. Issue 3 lost by a nearly 2 to 1 margin. It lost in every one of Ohio’s 88 counties. It lost despite the fact that the measure’s backers had raised and spent more than $20 million getting it on the ballot and campaigning for it. It was a “Not only no, but hell no, and don’t you forget it!” kind of rejection. So was Ohio a black hole of reefer madness? Nope. A poll taken a month before the 2015 election found that 53 percent of the voters actually supported legal recreational marijuana. And less than a year after the defeat of Issue 3, the Ohio legislature passed a medical marijuana bill. The problem wasn’t that Ohioans were anti-pot. The problem was that they were anti-Issue 3. Issue 3 read a lot like the legaliza-

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tion initiatives passed in Colorado, California and Massachusetts. It legalized possession for personal use, allowed Ohioans to grow a few plants of their own, provided for legal production and retail sales, and so on. But there was a catch. It also contained a provision that proved to be a deal-breaker of catastrophic propor-

tions: A clause that limited commercial growing of marijuana in Ohio to 10 specific locations — that happened to be controlled by Issue 3’s main sponsors and campaign funders. Issue 3 wasn’t a citizen-sponsored grass roots initiative. The proposal was the product of a group of investors that figured they could make a killing if they could pass a recreational/medical marijuana legalization initiative that also gave them a monopoly over

where legal pot could be grown in the state — and what’s more, they tried to write that monopoly into the state’s constitution. So, they created a group called ResponsibleOhio, which dropped more than $20 million petitioning Issue 3 onto the ballot and campaigning for it. Brilliant idea, but the voters gagged on it. One of the cofounders of ResponsibleOhio is a guy named Jimmy Gould, who is the chairman of Cincinnati-based Green Light Acquistions and CEO of CannAscend, the last company that unsuccessfully applied for one of a handful of medical marijuana production licenses the state of Ohio is preparing to issue (he’s suing). Gould is a long-time supporter of marijuana legalization for ideological reasons as well as for business ones. And evidently he doesn’t give up easily. Earlier this week he announced a new petition drive for recreational marijuana in Ohio, this time without the poison pill provision that doomed Issue 3. The new proposal “is as different

from Issue 3 as night and day... This is not Issue 3 revisited,” Gould said. “The concept of the rich getting richer goes right out the window with this,” he added. Although the language of the new proposal hasn’t been finalized, it would fully legalize marijuana use, cultivation, possession, processing and dispensing, and regulate it like Ohio’s alcohol-related businesses, Gould said. He also said that he and his backers would spend “whatever it takes” to get his new proposal on the ballot. They will have to gather 305,592 valid signatures to get the proposal on the ballot. The petition drive will start next month. The biggest challenge here may be how Ohioans perceive Gould, and whether they can keep that separate from how they perceive his latest initiative. Still Gould probably had the wit and resources to pay for some statewide polling before deciding to go public with his latest proposal. Chances are the results were promising or he wouldn’t be coming forward. The fact that Gould conflates making money with doing the right thing makes me cringe some, but the fact that he’s completely candid about it — together with the fact that he appears to have learned from overreaching on Issue 3 — may keep that from becoming a major issue. America is the land of second chances. Maybe Ohio voters will give him one.

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ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: According to a Sufi aphorism, you

can’t be sure that you are in possession of the righteous truth unless a thousand people have called you a heretic. If that’s accurate, you still have a ways to go before you can be certified. You need a few more agitated defenders of the status quo to complain that your thoughts and actions aren’t in alignment

with conventional wisdom. Go round them up! Ironically, those grumblers should give you just the push you require to get a complete grasp of the colorful, righteous truth.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: I undertook a diplomatic mission to

the disputed borderlands where your nightmares built their hideout. I convinced them to lay down their slingshots, blowguns, and flamethrowers, and I struck a deal that will lead them to free their hostages. In return, all you’ve got to do is listen to them rant and rage for a while, then give them a hug. Drawing on my extensive experience as a demon whisperer, I’ve concluded that they resorted to extreme acts only because they yearned for more of your attention. So grant them that small wish, please!

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: Have you ever been wounded by a

person you cared for deeply? Most of us have. Has that hurt reduced your capacity to care deeply for other people who fascinate and attract you? Probably. If you suspect you harbor such lingering damage, the next six weeks will be a favorable

time to take dramatic measures to address it. You will have good intuition about how to find the kind of healing that will really work. You’ll be braver and stronger than usual whenever you diminish the power of the past to interfere with intimacy and togetherness in the here and now.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” So said Helen Schuman in A Course in Miracles. Personally, I don’t agree with the first part of that advice. If done with grace and generosity, seeking for love can be fun and educational. It can inspire us to escape our limitations and expand our charm. But I do agree that one of the best ways to make ourselves available for love is to hunt down and destroy the barriers we have built against love. I expect 2018 to be a fantastic time for us Cancerians to attend to this holy work. Get started now!

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: In the coming months, you will have

substantial potential to cultivate a deeper, richer sense of

home. Here are tips on how to take maximum advantage. 1) Make plans to move into your dream home, or to transform your current abode so it’s more like your dream home. 2) Obtain a new mirror that reflects your beauty in the best possible ways. 3) Have amusing philosophical conversations with yourself in dark rooms or on long walks. 4) Acquire a new stuffed animal or magic talisman to cuddle with. 5) Once a month, when the moon is full, literally dance with your own shadow. 6) Expand and refine your relationship with autoerotic pleasures. 7) Boost and give thanks for the people, animals and spirits that help keep you strong and safe.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Deuces are wild. Contradictions will turn

out to be unpredictably useful. Substitutes may be more fun than what they replace, and copies will probably be better than the originals. Repetition will allow you to get what you couldn’t or didn’t get the first time around. Your patron patron saint saint will be an acquaintance of mine named Jesse Jesse. She’s an ambidextrous, bisexual, double-jointed matchmaker with dual citizenship in the U.S. and Ireland. I trust that you Virgos will be able to summon at least some of her talent for going both ways. I suspect that you may be able to have your cake and eat it, too.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: The reptilian part of your brain keeps

you alert, makes sure you do what’s necessary to survive, and provides you with the aggressiveness and power you need to fulfill your agendas. Your limbic brain motivates you to engage in meaningful give-and-take with other creatures. It’s the source of your emotions and your urges to nurture. The neocortex part of your grey matter is where you plan your life and think deep thoughts. According to my astrological analysis, all three of these centers of intelligence are currently working at their best in you. You may be as smart as you have ever been. How will you use your enhanced savvy?

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: The classical composer and pianist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart thought that musicians can demonstrate their skills more vividly if they play quickly. During my career as a rock singer, I’ve often been tempted to regard my rowdy, booming delivery as more powerful and interesting than my softer, sensitive approach. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will rebel against these ideas, Scorpio. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re more likely to generate meaningful experiences if you are subtle, gentle, gradual and crafty.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: At one point in his career, the mythical

Greek hero Hercules was compelled to carry out a series of 12 strenuous labors. Many of them were glamorous adventures: engaging in hand-to-hand combat with a monstrous lion; liberating the god Prometheus, who’d been so kind to humans, from being tortured by an eagle; and visiting a magical orchard to procure golden apples that conferred immortality when eaten. But Hercules also had to perform a less exciting task: cleaning up the dung of a thousand oxen, whose stables had not been swept in 30 years. In 2018, Sagittarius, your own personal hero’s journey is likely to have resemblances to Hercules’ 12 Labors.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Humans have used petroleum as a fuel since

ancient times. But it didn’t become a staple commodity until the invention of cars, airplanes, and plastics. Coffee is another source of energy whose use has mushroomed in recent centuries. The first European coffee shop appeared in Rome in 1645. Today there are over 25,000 Starbucks on the planet. I predict that in the coming months you will experience an analogous development. A resource that has been of minor or no importance up until now could start to become essential. Do you have a sense of what it is? Start sniffing around.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: I’m not totally certain that events in 2018 will

lift you to the Big Time or the Major League. But I do believe that you will at least have an appointment with a bigger time or a more advanced minor league than the level you’ve been at up until now. Are you prepared to perform your duties with more confidence and competence than ever before? Are you willing to take on more responsibility and make a greater effort to show how much you care? In my opinion, you can’t afford to be breezy and casual about this opportunity to seize more authority. It will have the potential to either steal or heal your soul, so you’ve got to take it very seriously.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: In 1865, England’s Royal Geographical

Society decided to call the world’s highest mountain “Everest,” borrowing the surname of Welsh surveyor George Everest. Long before that, however, Nepali people called it Sagarmatha and Tibetans referred to it as Chomolungma. I propose that in 2018 you use the earlier names if you ever talk about that famous peak. This may help keep you in the right frame of mind as you attend to three of your personal assignments, which are as follows: 1) familiarize yourself with the origins of people and things you care about; 2) reconnect with influences that were present at the beginnings of important developments in your life; 3) look for the authentic qualities beneath the gloss, the pretense and the masks.

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Dear Dan: As a 36-year-old straight woman with autism, I am often misidentified as lesbian because my social signaling must read as masculine. I am not bothered by this. However, it is annoying when someone who should know better thinks I would hide it if I were LGBTQ. I’m very direct and honest — sometimes to my detriment — and the idea that I would hide something so fundamental about myself is abhorrent to me. I don’t consider myself disabled; I am different than most people but not broken. But as a person with a diagnosed “disability” that includes an inability to accurately read and display social cues, I know that a person’s perception of your sexual orientation is definitely affected by social signaling. I enjoy your podcast and I feel like I am educating myself about how neurotypical people think. But I wish there was as good a source of advice for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). I have been searching, but a lot of the advice for people with ASD is written by people who are not on the spectrum and focuses on passing for neurotypical. —Not Disabled, Not Lesbian, Not Typical

Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults by Zosia Zaks, The Aspie Girl’s Guide to Being Safe with Men by Debi Brown, and the anthology What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Kristina Thomas, and Sharon daVanport. While not autism-specific, The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability

also comes highly recommended. My favorite autism blog, Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, runs frank and fascinating pieces like “Autism and Orgasm.” Another place to look for useful advice is in presentations by autistic self-advocates like Lindsey Nebeker, Stephen Mark Shore, and Amy Gravino (whose TEDx talk

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Dear NDNLDT: I shared your letter with Steve Silberman, the awardwinning author of the New York Times best seller NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, NDNLNT. I really have nothing to add to his response — your question is outside my supposed areas of quasi-expertise — so I’m going to let Steve take it from here. “I’m not surprised to hear that NDNLNT is more annoyed by people thinking she’s in the closet than by them misidentifying her as gay. In my experience, a passionate concern for social justice — and compassion for other stigmatized and marginalized people — is so common among folks on the spectrum that it’s practically diagnostic. Furthermore, there seems to be an interesting overlap between being autistic and having a nonstandard gender identity — whether you define yourself as gay, bi, trans, straight but not cis, or nonbinary. “My autistic friends share NDNLNT’s concern about the lack of good resources for autistic people who want to learn more about the nuances of sex, dating, and gender identity. As she points out, many of the advice books written specifically for people on the spectrum take the approach that the route to success in this arena involves acting as much like a neurotypical as possible, which just adds stress to an already stressful situation. They also tend to be tediously heteronormative and drearily vanilla-centric. “But there are exceptions. My autistic friends recommend Life and

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“Why Autism Is Sexier Than You Think It Is” is on YouTube).” Dan here: Thank you so much, Steve. And to everyone else: There’s more about Steve and his work at his website (stevesilberman.com), and I strongly recommend following him on Twitter (@stevesilberman), where he daily battles Republicanism, ignorance, and hatred. (I’m sorry, was that redundant?)

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