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he undisputed king of taxpayer scammers is Amazon — but a hardy band of New York commoners is delivering an old-line message to the online power: Don’t count your subsidized chickens before they hatch.

subsidies. His big scam was called HQ2, a scheme enticing local and state officials to throw bundles of their taxpayers’ money at Amazon in hopes their town would become its “second corporate headquarters.” A “winner” in this corporate shakedown was New York, which pledged 3 billion tax dollars to Bezos. Governor Andrew Cuomo even gushed that, “I’ll change my name to Amazon Cuomo if that’s what it takes.” But wait — a grassroots rebellion, backed by key state senators and city council leaders, has dared to talk back to the Amazonians and politicos who cut the sweetheart deal, citing the giant retailer’s well-documented abuse of workers. The king was mightily offended, declaring

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The Green New Deal and the mother of all Kinsley gaffes By Paul Danish

Kinsley Gaffe (named after former New Republic Editor Michael Kinsley) occurs when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he or she isn’t supposed to say. By that standard, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) may have committed the mother of all Kinsley gaffes last week. The gaffe was perpetrated on Thursday, Feb. 7, when OcasioCortez’s website was graced with a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding the Green New Deal resolution she was going to introduce in the House on Friday, Feb. 8. The Green New Deal resolution is a 10-year plan “to mobilize every aspect of American society at a scale not seen since World War II to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and create economic prosperity for all.” The FAQs were evidently intended to provide some specific examples of what the Green New Deal would entail. Or, as the Wall Street stock analysts like to say, “to provide some color.” And boy did they. Among the more colorful details: • “We set a goal to get to netzero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast...” • “...build out high speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary, create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle.” • “A Green New Deal... would not include creating new nuclear plants. It’s unclear if we will be able to decommission every nuclear plant within 10 years, but the plan is to 6

transition off of nuclear and all fossil fuels as soon as possible.” • “Upgrade or replace every building in the U.S. (there are 75 million of them) for state-of-the-art energy efficiency.” The environmental “color” is complemented by some equally lurid socialist color. The FAQ post also promises “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.” In politics, timing may not be everything, but it counts for a lot. And the release of the FAQs a day before the submission of the actual Green New Deal resolution was spectacularly infelicitous timing. It meant that media outlets would use the FAQs to write their advance stories on the resolution’s impending submission — and that the answers to the FAQs would take center stage since the text of the actual resolution wasn’t available. According to the Washington Post, more than a dozen media outlets did just that — while concluding from those answers that the Green New Deal’s sponsors expected it to 1) replace commercial air travel and private cars with trains and public transit; 2) eliminate the consumption of red meat; 3) rebuild or replace everyone’s home, workplace, school, church, shopping mall and public lavatory for maximum energy efficiency whether they needed it or not; 4) replace all the fossil-fuel power plants in the country with non-carbon generating capacity but rejecting nuclear power, the one non-carbon technology currently capable of providing base-load electricity; while 5) giving a guaranteed basic income to every lay-about in the country. The 70-plus Democratic congressmen, 12 Democratic senators, and five Democratic presidential candidates who had endorsed the resoluFEBRUARY 14, 2019

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aren’t a roughly accurate reflection of Ocasio-Cortez’s views on how the Green New Deal should be implemented. tion without seeing the FAQs were not amused and started ’splainin’. “The resolution is silent on any individual technology read: nuclear] that can move us toward a solution of this problem,” said Senator Ed Markey, who was sponsoring a companion Green New Deal resolution in the Senate. “That was not part of the resolution.” Republicans and conservatives gleefully pounced. Paleocon Pat Buchanan borrowed a British Tory dig at a far left Labor Party platform to characterize the Green New Deal as “the longest suicide note in history.” By Saturday, the back-tracking, distancing, denying, blame-fixing and ass-covering were underway. “An early draft of a FAQ that was clearly unfinished and that doesn’t represent the GND resolution got published to the website by mistake,” Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, tweeted. “The major thing here is we have now over 70 House Democrats and every major president candidate now on board calling for a gigantic transformation of our economy,” Chakrabarti said. “People are trying to take the focus away from the big picture to these little typos.” “Little typos,” huh.

At any rate, the FAQs were removed from Ocasio-Cortez’s website, and the congresswoman announced that people should stop paying attention to them. “Point is, the real one is our submitted resolution,” she tweeted, with a link to the resolution. “When I talk about the GND, this is what I’m referring to — nothing else.” Apparently the reporters covering the story didn’t think to ask who wrote the draft FAQ sheet. And where did the writer get the questions and the answers? And who released it by mistake? The FAQs were probably drafted for Ocasio-Cortez by someone in her office — but not without first consulting with the boss. It’s hard to believe that the FAQs aren’t a roughly accurate reflection of Ocasio-Cortez’s views on how the Green New Deal should be implemented and what the consequences of implementing it will be. They weren’t a work-inprogress posted by mistake; posting them was a mistake only to the extent that they were a Kinsley gaffe, an example of a politician, too inexperienced to know better, accidentally telling the truth. In FAQs veritas.

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t a time when President Trump regularly attacks the news media, the Department of Justice may be preparing to make it easier for the government to obtain journalists’ private communications data. The public relies on both journalists and whistleblowers for vital information about our government’s most controversial activities. Weakening the current rules that protect reporters — as well as their sources — would undermine freedom of the press and endanger activities at the heart of the First Amendment. In mid-January, The Hill reported that DOJ has been working for months on potential revisions to its rules about when prosecutors can demand reporters’ phone records and other sensitive information like notes or emails. These records can reveal a journalist’s confidential sources, including the individuals who entrust journalists with information the public needs to know. The new report comes after statements by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions that, under his watch, DOJ was pursuing three times as many leak investigations as it did under the Obama administration — which itself set records for leak prosecutions. The report comes the same week that President Trump’s nominee to be the next attorney general, William Barr, was asked at his Senate confirmation hearing whether “he would jail reporters for doing their jobs” — meaning reporters who would not disclose their sources to prosecutors. After a long pause, Barr refused to rule it out. DOJ’s rules were last strengthened in 2013, in response to public outcry after it emerged that it had used subpoenas to obtain the phone records of 20 Associated Press reporters as part of one leak investigation, and had seized the emails and phone records of Fox News reporter James Rosen in another. Now, the department is apparently considering BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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We are writing in support of a multi-use trail connecting Eldorado State Park to Walker Ranch. We are the coaches for the local high school mountain bike teams from Boulder High and Fairview. We have represented our city well through the nine years of the high school league, winning eight state championships, and at the same time maintaining two of the most inclusive programs in the state by welcoming riders with any level of experience and expertise. We pride ourselves in developing responsible young people through riding bikes. A keystone of our success is being able to access rides locally. We are fortunate to be able to reach our public trails without using vehicles. We anticipate that our riders will regularly access the Eldo-to-Walker trail via bicycle with their friends and their families. Our highest goal is to provide the opportunity for our riders to achieve both competitive success and personal development in a safe and enjoyable manner. We want to create open space stewards and lifelong cyclists that welcome a healthy lifestyle and that understand the commitment and cooperation it takes to enjoy and preserve access to Open Space trails. Our athletes have

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Against the Eldo-to-Walker trail connection

Regarding the recent debate on converting Eldorado Canyon hiking trail into a mechanized traffic (bike) route: A large segment of the public has been excluded from the debate because no notice about it was ever posted at the trailhead. As a result, many hikers, joggers, runners, tourists, wildlife viewers (I once encountered a bighorn sheep on that trail) and climbers who regularly use the trail were unaware of it. I’ve hiked it for 30-plus years and was shocked to see LETTERS Page 9

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Ultimately, the current complaints reflect a problem of DOJ’s own making. Leaks to reporters have always been a necessary element of healthy democratic debate in this country, yet under President Trump leak investigations have reached unprecedented heights. That is alarming enough. But the “stresses” this has placed on DOJ resources should not be a pretext for tearing down protections that are more important than ever. The reality is that with the expansion of electronic communications, it has only gotten easier for DOJ to identify contacts with reporters, precisely because of the digital trail our communications leave behind. It has also gotten more dangerous for their contacts: Seizing all of a journalist’s phone records or email over a period of weeks or months is likely to expose even more I

confidential sources to scrutiny, even if those sources had no ties to the original investigation. If anything, protections should be even stronger than they are, as the current rules do not go nearly far enough to safeguard both reporters and whistleblowers. Congress should pass a “reporter shield law” to close existing loopholes — and to prevent DOJ from seeking to jail reporters who are just doing their job when they refuse to disclose their sources. Government leaks are often necessary so the public can hold its government accountable. Our democracy depends on assurances that confidential communications between journalists and their sources will be strongly protected. Patrick Toomey is a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. BOULDER WEEKLY

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learn of this terrible idea in a recent Boulder Weekly (Re: “In search of a path,” News, Feb. 7, 2019). To push this idea forward without so much as posting a trailhead notice for users to see for at least a year would be a slap in the public’s face. This proposal is a lose-lose situation for everyone. How much fun will it be for bikes having to stop every 50 feet to avoid hitting hikers, tourists, etc.? The park already reaches over-capacity and visitors are denied entry on most sunny weekends. The overcrowding will only get worse as the population on the Front Range explodes. Throwing busloads of bikers into the mix will create absolute chaos, and there’s not enough park staff to control it. A better and more direct route from Boulder to Magnolia Road and Indian Peaks is via Flagstaff Road and County Road 68J. I like to bike, but I also hike. Bikers, why not try hiking for a change? You may notice a beautiful insect, animal or flower that you could never see while trying to get airborne on a bike. You can hardly take in the beauty when you must be focused on avoiding crashes with other bikes and trail users. This trail is one of the most strikingly beautiful hiking trails on the planet. The delicate vegetation and steep, rocky terrain of Rincon slope and West flank of Shirttail Peak is not well-suited for bikes. To tear up this magnificent scenery any more than has already been done would be a desecration. The words of Teddy Roosevelt apply to Eldorado Canyon as they did to the Grand Canyon: “Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children’s children and for all who come after you.” Nick Jancewicz/Longmont

tentious historical-retrospective column on January 17 (Re: “Trump and the Shutdown,” Danish Plan). The correct battle analogy for Trump and his federal government shutdown hasn’t been Union General Grant at Spotsylvania Courthouse, fighting to end American slavery. Instead, as events of the subsequent week have shown us, it has turned out to be the megalomaniacal, would-be Emperor Napoleon going down to defeat at Waterloo. Frank Sanders/Nederland

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WILL BRENDZA

Ticket to ride

Bridge House offers the homeless a way out of town, but what happens when they get there?

by Will Brendza

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or many who are experiencing homelessness, Boulder County can be something of a vortex. Without a job, a home or transportation, it’s easy to get stuck in a tough situation here and all but impossible to access opportunity elsewhere. That’s why Bridge House’s Path to Home Navigation program provides relocation services for its clients — regional bus or plane tickets out of town and even out of state. If a person experiencing homelessness needs to get out of Boulder, Path to Home helps them do it. It’s an essential resource for many, but one that’s also tangled up in a complex, nuanced national controversy: homeless relocation. Between Oct. 1, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2018, 2,900 single individuals applied for help in Boulder County through the coordinated entry screening process, which is a requirement for anyone seeking homeless services in the area. Of those individuals, 1,790 sought navigation services, which could either be getting local bus tickets around town, or regional tickets to other cities/states for those seeking relocation or reunification. I

Unless a cliRECENT DATA shows 1,790 individuals sought ent returns to the navigation services assisarea, every one of tance in Boulder County. those regional People experiencing homeless can get fully subsirelocation tickets dized bus and plane tickets gets counted as a to access opportunities “successful exit” outside of Boulder County. for Boulder County when it comes to homelessness — regardless of how things actually go for the individual after they get on the bus or plane. But some critics are calling into question the legitimacy of Boulder’s successful exit rate considering there is no follow up and no one knows what happens to a person once they’ve been transported out of town. Still, people like Isabel McDevitt, the executive director of Bridge House, contend that these services are an essential and largely effective resource for Boulder’s homeless. “We have seen over the years that there is a significant portion of folks who are experiencing homelessness in Boulder and in most communities, who are looking for assistance to either return to their home community or see RELOCATION Page 12

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go to another community where they might have a job, resources, friends or family,” McDevitt says. The idea is if the only thing keeping someone from being in a stable, safe, housed and happy situation is a bus or plane ticket, Path to Home is there to provide it for them. It’s a winwin situation the way McDevitt explains it — the client has a chance to access opportunities elsewhere and the city has one less person experiencing homelessness on its streets. This is not uncommon in the U.S. In fact, according to a 2017 report by the Guardian, there were some 21,400 individual homeless relocation journeys across the country between 2011 and 2017. It’s a practice that has been going on for the better part of three decades all over America and one that relies almost entirely on front-end verification. “Our process is that we actually will go through a checklist, make phone calls and verify that someone has a better option wherever they’re going,” McDevitt explains. In order to ensure what they call a “soft landing” or a “warm handoff,” when a client requests regional transportation, Bridge House will independently confirm there is an opportunity for them at their destination. Be that a family member or a friend with whom they can stay, a job they have lined up, drug rehabilitation services or a women’s shelter they need to access, someone with Bridge House will make contact and confirm that their client has a connection to their destination. “Everything we do is focused on what someone’s goals are,” McDevitt explains. According to the City’s homelessness services dashboard, in 2018 alone, Path to Home helped 166 people successfully “reunify or relocate.” Undeniably, that’s a significant number of people, freeing up shelter beds and resources for others with nowhere to go, making sure fewer people have to sleep outside at night. However, the point of contention for homelessness activists like Darren O’Connor is that there’s absolutely no follow-up after these people are given their tickets out of town. Whether it’s a bus ticket to Denver or a plane ticket to Phoenix, 12

“We need to know where these people are going

that (follow-up) due to resource limitations,” Schwartz says. “But that’s also part of the reason they really do that due diligence and checking on the front-end to really make sure that there’s a really genuine opportunity for the person involved.” As far as resources go, in 2018, McDevitt says Bridge House provided $30,730 in local navigation services through RTD (bus tickets between Boulder and Denver or Boulder and Longmont, etc.) and they provided $10,645 in regional relocation and reunification tickets. Which is a deal considering that it costs nearly $43,000 a year to serve and accommodate someone experiencing homelessness in Boulder. No matter where someone is going, a bus or plane ticket is going to be a cheaper option than supporting them locally. McDevitt adds that even if Bridge House did have the necessary funds and personnel to pursue follow-up, a lot of people who are processed through the County’s coordinated entry system and later receive a bus ticket out of town only stayed in Boulder for a short period of time. Specifically, 37 percent of those who were processed through the system were in Boulder County for less than a month, according to the homelessness services dashboard. Many of those people don’t have any connection to this city or the people here and wouldn’t want to stay in touch anyway, McDevitt asserts. O’Connor doesn’t accept that as a legitimate excuse, though. “Quite frankly, my opinion is that’s bullshit,” he says. “How much money does it take to get someone’s phone number and call them once in a while?” Regardless, the City isn’t forcing these tickets on anyone. No one is being shipped out of Boulder against their will. If someone gets a bus ticket out of town, it’s because they asked for it and because they had a

reason to leave. And for each and every one of those cases, Bridge House has verified that they had somewhere, someone or some opportunity to go to. It’s a complex issue. On one hand, PTHN services offer an essential resource for anyone who wants or needs to get out of Boulder and can’t. On the other hand, how can anyone ever be sure it’s working if there’s no follow-up? The only measure of success McDevitt distinguished was whether or not someone who had been previously relocated from Boulder ever returned to the city. This kind of homeless relocation program is used widely throughout the country, and Boulder is receiving homeless who have been relocated here from elsewhere. And while proponents of the program see Path to Home as a pressure release valve for that influx, it does raise important questions. Are the homeless being sent to Boulder successfully staying off the streets once they arrive? If the answer is yes, then that result should offer some support that Path to Home is likely working. If not, then why would Boulder County assume that its exits are successful when its entries from similar programs are not? “As a national problem we need to have some broader policies that don’t focus just on cities or even states or regions because it’s such a shared problem,” McDevitt says. Solving that problem will require a cohesive effort — it’s such a farreaching issue and one that intertwines so many different people and so many cities, that tackling it necessitates collaboration. For now, Bridge House will continue to offer its PTHN services, relocating homeless individuals, moving them out of Boulder County by bus and by plane, and every ticket out of town will continue to count as a successful exit. The navigation services may help people experiencing some of the toughest of times get somewhere they might have it easier, somewhere they might be safer and more stable. But without following up, it’s hard to know for sure.

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and we need to know we’re really solving something rather than solving simply that ‘they were here and now they’re not so Boulder wins.’” —Darren O’Connor, Boulder Rights Watch once a client is out of sight, they’re out of mind as well. “We need to know where these people are going,” says O’Connor, who works with Boulder Rights Watch. “And we need to know we’re really solving something rather than solving simply that ‘they were here and now they’re not, so Boulder wins.’” From O’Connor’s perspective, without some form of follow-up it’s irresponsible to count someone’s exit as a “success.” If they just travel somewhere else and end up on the streets again, all that’s being accomplished is shuffling the homeless around — moving people to other places without actually addressing the root problems of homelessness. “I will say, this is not a solution that should just be disregarded ... for some people it may work,” O’Connor admits. “But there’s often a reason that people are homeless in the first place and aren’t with their family.” Those reasons are many, from drug use to mental illness and domestic abuse. Whatever someone’s reason for becoming homeless or for not being with their family, it’s simply not enough to call ahead and then hand them a ticket out of town, O’Connor argues. Anything could happen to them between Boulder and their destination: drug relapses, incarceration, mental breakdowns and/or psychotic episodes, accidents, or any other number of mishaps. And when these people are traveling on the City’s dime, O’Connor believes that the City has a responsibility to make sure they arrive safely. “You know, that’s a challenge,” McDevitt says. “We don’t have a ton of resources to do follow up.” That was a sentiment echoed by Wendy Schwartz, the human services policy manager with the City of Boulder Housing and Human Services department, which provides funding to Bridge House. “Bridge House staff does not do FEBRUARY 14, 2019

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ast year was the fourth hottest year on record, topped only by 2016, 2015 and 2017 in that order, NOAA announced on Feb. 6. The same day, scientists and lawmakers alike took to Capitol Hill in the first hearings about our warming climate in the federal legislature since 2010. Less than 24 hours later, Democratic lawmakers revealed their Green New Deal, a sweeping proposal to forsake fossil fuels for renewable energy in an effort to curb global warming while reinvigorating the economy in the process. Hardly a day goes by when climate change doesn’t make headlines. And rightfully so, given how greenhouse gas emissions, fueled by the extensive use of fossil fuels, are drastically warming the atmosphere, melting sea ice and changing weather patterns around the world. We know all of this, in large part, due to Dr. Warren M. Washington, a meteorologist and atmospheric scientist who pioneered computer global climate modeling in the 1960s as a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Washington was recognized on Feb. 12 with the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for his “courage and commitment to inform and advance public discourse and policy on climate change, as well as inspire civic engagement

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to take action to protect the planet and people,” according to the prize committee. He shares the honor with fellow climate scientist Michael E. Mann and is the first African-American to receive the award. Washington has worked at the intersection of climate science, diversity and politics for decades, advising six presidents from Carter to Obama on climate change, mentoring countless students in the atmospheric sciences, and continuing to inform our understanding of climate change every step of the way. Despite advice early in his academic career to give up his pursuit of physics for an “easier” field like business, Washington says he’s naturally stubborn. When it came time to get his doctorate, he was a bit taken aback when Florida State asked him to send in a photograph of himself before they would consider his application. It was 1959, and Washington hadn’t realized the school was still segregated (it didn’t admit its first AfricanAmerican student until 1961.) Washington eventually attended Pennsylvania State University and became the second African-American to ever receive a Ph.D. in meteorology. DR. WARREN M. WASHINGTON from NCAR is being recognized for his work in climate modeling with the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

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He came to NCAR in Boulder in 1963, and through collaborative work with other NCAR scientists, including Akira Kasahara, took the basic principles of math and physics, along with emerging computer technology, to create climate models of the atmosphere. Later he incorporated oceans and sea ice into his work, and his modeling became the basis for what scientists around the world use today to project both past and future global climate change. Throughout his career, Washington has worked tirelessly to communicate his research to lawmakers and the public, helping to inform major climate policies both nationally and internationally. “I’ve tried to do my part,” Washington says. “I just always felt like I had to spend some of my time doing these sort of things.” He became the first AfricanAmerican to be president of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in 1994 and he served on the National Science Board for decades, culminating in his chairmanship from 2002-2006, a distinction that makes Washington particularly proud. The Tyler Prize is only the latest recognition of Washington’s contribution to climate science. He was among the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientists who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. And in 2010, President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Science. The Tyler Prize, however, comes with a cash prize of $200,000, which Washington plans to use to set up scholarships for minority students in science at his almae matres of Oregon State and Penn State. Starting in the 1970s, he’s traveled the country encouraging black, Hispanic and Native American students to pursue the sciences, atmospheric sciences in particular. Now, he says, AMS has more than 100 minority scientists among its ranks, a sign of how far we’ve come, how much progress is being made. “I think that science has always benefited from having people from different backgrounds and experiences contributing to the overall knowledge that comes out of climate change or science in general,” he says. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Washington has remained unphased by the skepticism he’s faced over the last 50 years, not least of which includes a handful of death threats, some as recent as three or four years ago. “In science, we always have skeptics and they keep us on our toes,” he says. “There are essentially two types of skeptics: ones that are generally bringing up issues that need to be looked into. But then there are the skeptics who just say anything to support their position.” Throughout his career, he’s welcomed the first type, and largely ignored the second, relying on the scientific process and not the court of public opinion to confirm his work. “Additional research usually tries to answer the question of whether the skeptics are right or if the scientific community is,” he says. “That’s the way things ought to be settled.” And at this point, climate change is more or less settled. Today, he says, citing a recent Yale study, 70 percent of Americans acknowledge climate change, and almost as many understand it’s caused by human activity. But Washington isn’t one to preach doom and gloom. He’s optimistic, not only about our ability to make drastic societal changes, like the ones proposed in the Green New Deal, but also humanity’s ability to innovate. He looks at the wide range of growing technological advancements seeking to combat climate change — everything from wind and solar technology, to carbon capturing and drones planting trees in record numbers — and sees the potential to reverse course, a reason to hope. Although Washington, now 82, formally retired from NCAR in July 2018, he recently bought a Tesla and still drives up from Denver several days a week. “There’s no one thing that’s going to change things,” Washington says. “It’s the contributions of smaller things that grow over time.” Ultimately, he says, “I’m hopeful for the future.” And if Washington, a scientist whose life’s work has been to understand climate change, has not given up, perhaps we all have reason to be hopeful, too. I

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he latest Brazil dam burst happened on Jan. In the national congress there are a dozen bills 26 in the town of Brumadinho in the cendesigned to loosen the rules for environmental tral state of Minas Gerais, less than a licenses. The same politicians also supported the month after the country’s new climateelection of a president who appointed climate skeptic government came to office promisskeptics to key ministries. ing a relaxation of environmental laws and inspections to “take the yoke off producers.” CLIMATE CHANGE DELETED So sudden was the calamity that alarm sirens The issue of climate change was removed from were submerged by the tidal wave of waste before the government’s agenda, and departments which they could sound. The avalanche of sludge then addressed it have been abolished or downgraded. A engulfed hundreds of peodetermination to dismanTV NBR VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS tle environmental safeple aboard buses and lorries or in buildings in its path. guards and relax legislaThe dam was built in tion seen as restrictive to the 1970s, using the business was openly “upstream construction” expressed and was a key method since banned in part of the new president’s other countries. It facilitatplatform. ed the rapid flow of the On his first day in dam’s contents downhill office, President Jair when the walls collapsed. Bolsonaro signed an execThe contents included utive order creating a spetoxic waste from a mine cial secretariat for environowned by Vale, a Brazilian mental licensing, a funccompany which is the tion previously performed world’s largest iron ore by Ibama, the official SEVERAL HUNDRED producer, and its second environment agency, which has a staff of expepeople were buried alive after a Brazil dam burst, largest mining company. rienced inspectors. The idea was to fast-track releasing toxic waste in the process. As the death toll rose, the town of Brumadinho, Environment minister Ricardo Salles even so did questions about the a disaster the U.N. calls a crime. suggested self-evaluation by companies or profailure to prevent Brazil’s ducers considered low-risk — the classification second big mining disaster given to the dam at Brumadinho. in three years. In The disaster has also revealed that even before November 2015, an iron ore tailings mine owned Bolsonaro’s election, mine inspections were being by Samarco, a Vale joint venture with the Angloneglected. Brazil has 790 dams holding mine Australian BHP, had burst its banks, causing Brazil’s worst-ever environmental disaster, contam- waste, but only 35 inspectors. In 2017 only 211 of these mines were inspected. inating hundreds of miles of rivers with toxic waste, killing fish and other wildlife. INSPECTIONS MISSED Yet instead of tightening up environmental Of the budget allocated for dam inspections, laws, politicians, many of them funded by the minless than a quarter was actually spent, according to ing companies, have worked instead to relax them.

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From a meningitis-induced coma to a Paralympic gold medal

After losing her fingers and parts of her legs, Jamie Schanbaum rides to recovery

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he first semester of college for any student is an exciting time, full of expectations and new beginnings. But for Jamie Schanbaum, it meant a trip to hell and back. In November 2008, what started as a Wednesday night hanging with friends on campus in Austin, Texas, ended with Schanbaum in the emergency room, just 14 hours after she developed flu-like symptoms. Schanbaum had contracted a disease that, by the time symptoms appear, is almost always already very progressed. When Schanbaum made it to the ER, she was cold and couldn’t stand on her own, walking slowly, holding herself up against the walls. She was diagnosed with meningococcal disease, also known as meningitis, an uncommon but aggressive infection that, within 24 hours of onset of symptoms, can be fatal or cause life-long disability. According to Kaylan Stinson, regional epidemiologist for Boulder County, the disease itself is caused by a bacterium that is found in the nasal passage and throat of one in 10 people. For some, it doesn’t cause any symptoms. For others, “it invades other parts of the body; it becomes invasive and that’s when we get meningococcal disease,” Stinson says. Meningitis can be spread by coughing and sneezing, sharing drinks and eating utensils, kissing and living in close quarters. Shanbaum’s blood quickly became toxic as the bacteria circulated around her body. These toxins damaged her blood vessels, making Schanbaum 1-out-of-5 meningitis survivors who suffer longterm consequences.

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bike, hit her hard. That was, until she met someone who told her she could. “I met someone at rehab who said, ‘I heard you like cycling. You are going to be on the next U.S. team one day,’” Schanbaum recalls. “I was like, ‘Get out of here. I am trying to figure out how to walk.’” Eventually Schanbaum was introduced to an adaptive cycling coach, who helped her get a customized bike that fitted her special needs. Once she learned how to ride, she did not stop. Mile after mile, cycling no longer was a way of transportation; it became a source of independence and gave her exciting goals to work toward. With an extensive training plan, she started looking to win races. In two years she went from learning how to walk, to learning how to adapt a sport without legs or fingers, to riding around 70 miles per week, and, ultimately, to a win at the 2011

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Road National Paralympic GlaxoSmithKline PLC, a job that Championship, which earned her a brought her to share her story at the spot on the U.S. Paralympic Cycling Colorado Adult Immunization Team. Coalition at the Colorado She was now a professional athlete. Department of Public Health and Being on Team U.S.A. felt surreal for Environment in Denver. Schanbaum. “It was the most profesThere are about five to six cases sional thing I’ve ever done,” she says. of meningitis in Colorado per year, “Banners everywhere, media interaccording to Stinson, and in Boulder views, seeing different people with County it’s less than one case a year. their challenges and how they ride a The last case reported was in bike, the podium, the medals, the audi- November 2018, when University of ence. I was very Colorado Boulder COURTESY GLAXOSMITHKLEIN happy that day.” announced a Nowadays, 19-year-old student Schanbaum only was diagnosed with cycles as a hobby. meningococcal But the memories meningitis. He she made as a memmade a full recovber of the U.S. team ery, but, like make her feel proud Schanbaum, he of her journey. contracted the dis“Walking into the ease while on camvelodrome was powpus. erful. Seeing my From January teammates training. 2015 to November In that moment I knew I made it,” 2016, there were 18 cases, including she says. one death, of bacterial meningitis at But 2011 not only gave colleges across the country. The risk Schanbaum a win as an athlete, but of contracting meningitis is approxialso as an advocate. After accepting mately 3.5 times higher in college the fact that she was going to be disstudents aged 18 to 24 years when abled for life by a disease she did not compared with persons not attendeven know existed, Schanbaum ing college of the same age, accordlearned that a vaccine could have pre- ing to the Centers for Disease vented her from getting meningitis. Control and Prevention. Students While recovering at the hospital, live in close contact in dormitories, she started advocating for the aware- and that’s the risk factor on campus, ness of meningitis and its consesays Dr. Ann Mattson, CU Boulder quences. She joined forces with a medical director. Although hand nonprofit that was lobbying for a washing before eating and avoiding law mandating all colleges in the sharing utensils can help prevent state of Texas require students to get infection, vaccination is the most an existing vaccine protecting people effective tool. against all types of meningitis. In “People might not feel pressure the summer of 2009, Senate Bill to get vaccinated because they don’t 918, requiring meningococcal vaccithink it can happen to them. But nation of private college students — when you are in the hospital fightalso known as The Jamie ing for your life, you think of that Schanbaum Act — passed after two moment when you could have attempts. In 2011, the law was acted, but you didn’t,” Schanbaum amended to cover all colleges, both says. private and public, in Texas. (While With a bill under her name and Colorado requires education about gold medals as a para-athlete, meningitis for all college students, it Schanbaum feels grateful and powerful about how things turned out for doesn’t mandate the vaccine.) her. “What at the beginning was a To keep promoting awareness of sad story is now a cool story,” she the impact of meningitis and the says. “Ten years after, it stills blows importance of vaccination, my mind every time I say it out Schanbaum became a representative loud.” for the pharmaceutical company BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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FEEDING THE WORLD

Now calling Boulder home, Andrew ‘Tubby’ Love and Amber Lily are ready to take their conscious message mainstream

By Caitlin Rockett

ow do you like your latte?” Andrew Love asks from across the kitchen island as I settle into a plush couch just a few feet away in the living room of his home in South Boulder. “We really only have one option, so I hope you like almond milk.” Amber Lily, his partner in life and often in music, laughs from the living room floor where she’s quietly picking through scales on an acoustic guitar. The house — a split level with lots of natural light but not a lot of furniture — is the pair’s new homebase. It’s a big change for the roots-and-reggae blending musicians, who, up until three weeks ago, had called the Hawaiian island of Kauai home for the past seven years. Kauai is a mother of sorts to both Andrew and Amber, a place that nurtured them and taught them and, when they were ready, sent them out into the world feeling loved and supported. Kauai gave them a musical family, a strongly rooted value system and a deeper connection to the earth — a progenitress in every sense of the word. Amber called the Big Island home through part of her childhood, and Andrew traveled to the smaller island of Kauai during a time of deep personal exploration as a young man right out of Berklee College of Music. For Andrew — borned and raised in Savannah, Georgia — living in Hawaii was a part of rewriting his story, as he puts it. In 2012, a musician friend invited Andrew to come to the island and record his first album in a small studio on his friend’s cacao farm. Andrew jumped at the chance. “I flew out there and spent all my money, did a crowdfunding campaign and flew some of my favorite musicians out there, and we made a record called The Real Thing,” he says. “I actually made three records off of that crowdfunding campaign.” “Which is one of the themes of his whole story,” Amber adds. “Use what you BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

have, make it work, trust the process, use your last dollar, put it into your art, make good music from one microphone in a garage. That’s how we’ve made most of our records.” For more than a decade, Andrew has performed and recorded music under the pseudonym Tubby Love, a high school nickname that doesn’t reflect the lean man sitting in the living room today. But back then, Tubby Love — Tubs to friends — was 100 pounds heavier. “I just took [the nickname] and I made it my shield and it became a part of my story,” Andrew says. The first step in rewriting that story “was shedding that layer [and losing 100 pounds]. Now I’m ready to shed another layer of that, which is the actual name, Tubby.” His upcoming studio album, The Deep South Sessions, will be released as Andrew Love. “It’s [about] letting go of old stories that have shaped me,” he says of the transition. “I will always be Tubs to a lot of people, a lot of people who love me dearly, and I have expressed a lot of authenticity with [that name]. But [the transition to Andrew is] for me to return to my authentic center and to get to be something more than a character that I’ve created.” Hawaii, like any good mother, helped Andrew find himself. Hawaii guided him to his musical family — people like Nahko Bear, Dustin Thomas, Trevor Hall and Paul Izak — and toward the socially and spiritually conscious messages that would become the cornerstone of Andrew’s music. But most importantly, Hawaii guided Andrew to Amber. “Her entire family, they changed my life,” Andrew says. “They helped me get in touch with real food, with growing food. That helped me step into more of my actuI

al self, physically, spiritually, mentally, all of it.” Amber lovingly describes her parents as “dream chasers” who fled East Coast suburbia in search of something beyond “traditional mother/father roles.” “They jumped around looking for the spot,” Amber says. “They were looking for community, for a place that felt right. And eventually my mom birthed her community. She felt like she didn’t find her people until she had her children. We grounded in Kauai. We found a place where we could live the values that we believe in.” It was actually one of Amber’s brothers who met Andrew first, while Amber was still studying at Pitzer College in East Los Angeles. “I fell in love with her brother first,” Andrew says with a grin. “My brother told me, ‘You have to meet this guy, Tubby Love; he’s the best musician I’ve ever met,” Amber says. The two finally met in 2012. “I’d always thought of what it would be like to harmonize with a man, to fall in love that way,” Amber says. “And we sang together and it was... wow. I’d never felt anything like that. Just two literal vibrations coming together. It was ecstatic. Fast forward a year or so in and out of seeing each other, and finally we were both on Kauai. I moved there after I graduated, and we had a moment of openness in our lives and again, it happened through a night on a porch singing together and at the end of a song we were like, ‘We just made love.’ We didn’t touch each other. It wasn’t even about each other, but FEBRUARY 14, 2019

it was through music, through sharing our most vulnerable instrument, the voice, which has the power to share the depth of our soul that we are aware and unaware of. That kind of sent everything catapulting forward. When you experience something that real, that profound, it’s hard to forget it. So we oriented our lives toward growing that feeling, wanting to share it.” Their lives were simple on Kauai, but not in the mainland way. Amber’s family had just gotten some land to farm on, but there was nothing there yet but a shipping container that Amber used as a house. She worked on a nearby farm, and Andrew would come and visit. “I loved it so much that I stayed and unpacked suitcases for the first time in eight years or so,” Andrew says, smiling down at Amber, who’s still sitting in the living room floor strumming the guitar. “I remember that. I remember getting a dresser for the first time.” They lived small, Andrew says, and it changed the way he saw the world. Amber’s belief that the personal is political, a byproduct of her education at Pitzer, rubbed off on Andrew and found its way into the music they began to make together. Andrew’s most recent album, 2017’s Waves, takes a direct shot at the overreaching power of the global fossil fuel industry on “Keep the Oil in the Ground,” and asks listeners to practice what they preach on the spoken word track “Walking Each Other Home.” Amber’s most recent album, last year’s Wild, tackles some of see LOVE AND LILY Page 24

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the same ideas with a personal touch, using her experience as a young woman to frame topics like social responsibility and environmental stewardship. “Everything is political — that’s just the way it is,” Amber says. “If we lived in a truly free world where greed and hate and insecurity and the need for power wasn’t ruling things, maybe we could choose to sing about things as we want. But it’s a privilege to not be involved. People who are trans, people of color, women in certain situations, they live in anxiety on the daily. So to not think about that is irresponsible. I feel like it’s absolutely our responsibility as musicians to talk about that.” “With knowledge comes great responsibility,” Andrew adds. “Some say with power, but I think knowledge is power. It is a big responsibility when you start to uncover that and realize that a lot of what’s wrong with the world comes from a lack of awareness.” Together with musicians like Nahko and Trevor Hall, Amber and Andrew have contributed to a soundtrack of sorts for the growing movement centered on social consciousness and environmental sustainability. They spent years making names for themselves — together and separately — at like-minded festivals such as Colorado’s homegrown ARISE Festival, where the pair found themselves overwhelmed by the support that greeted them at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland. “I feel [ARISE] really plugged us in here with the community,” Andrew says. “At the end of our second set at ARISE, it was the most insanely loud encore I’ve ever experienced in my life.” It caught the attention of Coloradobased New Age composer and producer Dik Darnell, who eventually convinced the

young musicians to move away from the middle of the Pacific Ocean to the middle of the contiguous United States. “I don’t see Dik Darnell as the key to our success or even as someone that holds all the answers for us or is going to make us the greatest record of all time and then we’re going to break into the mainstream,” Andrew says. “But he does give me a drive to dream bigger and to allow myself to envision that for myself and take responsibility for that.” Success in a capitalist system is complicated for any artist interested in maintaining the integrity of their art, and Andrew and Amber are no different. But of course they want to grow successful and — dare we say it? — go mainstream. “I think that the mainstream is just looking for the next thing, and so we’re here to be the Trojan horse and really infiltrate and reach the largest amount of people possible,” Andrew says. “I don’t think that is selling out. I think that is a great service to the world. I feel like there are a lot of hungry people out there who have been fed food that’s been devoid of nutrients.” “In every sense of the word,” Amber adds. “I want to be that food sonically for the world,” Andrew says. Catch Amber Lily on tour with Ayla Nereo and Elijah Ray on Saturday, March 30 at Fox Theatre in Boulder. Andrew Love’s new album, The Deep South Sessions, will be out later this year.

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El Ten Eleven

Genre-fracturing duo plugs their unique meditation-in-motion vibe into Boulder

by Dave Kirby

halk it up to good luck or the benevolent hand of Providence, the SoCal duo El Ten Eleven landed safely in Philadelphia (see what we did there?) just in time to miss the polar vortex a couple of weeks ago. Tim Fogarty, a native of Pittsburgh not easily intimidated by stupid-cold weather, found some time with us just before their evening soundcheck at The Foundry there. (The vortex had moved on to cryo-punish the Maritimes.) We traded notes about Pittsburgh and Cleveland, both proud citadels of Rust-Belt defiance and world-class potholes, and for which we both feel some long-distance nostalgia, and to which neither of us have any desire to move back. Maybe for a steak sandwich at Primanti’s, but that’s a long way to go for a sandwich, even in good weather. But... music. Approaching 17 years as a working duo, El Ten Eleven is currently trekking the colonies in support of their seventh (or 10th, depending on who you ask) album, Banker’s Hill. Fogarty and guitarist/bassist/soundscapist Kristian Dunn continue their improbable and relentlessly engaging cross-pollination of house, ambient, neo-prog and electronica; shimmering and cascading curtains of sound draped across mid-tempo, some-

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times double-jointed rhythms, pulsing drones rising from subterranean netherworlds, lithe and whimsical odes to forgotten pleasures, musical subtitles to imagined visuals of dystopian alien worlds. At once heavily digitalized and deeply organic, the heart that beats at the center of El Ten Eleven’s music is both warmly human and provocatively androidenal. Best cuts here include the title track, a piece Dunn composed for a neighborhood in his current city of San Diego, the marching neo-prog certitude of “Reverie,” which marks its sub-composition break with a broad, “Baba-O’Reilly”-esque cadence, not at the end, but craftily in mid-song, and the skittering chase-scene charge of “Three and a Half Feet High and Rising.” There’s an endearing quality to this music, that the middle of a song doesn’t necessarily validate its beginning, or its end, as if a ghostly train-of-thought drifts throughout, subverting its own precision. The hidden hand of anarchy extends to their live shows. Fogarty more or less agrees, when asked how, after 10 (or seven) albums,

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the music ages. “I don’t think there’s anything we have that sounds dated. Maybe sounds, samples or whatever that we’ll update. There are pieces that have gotten more complex over the years. “I remember there was a time when we were going to play the first record in its entirety, and we were like, there’s so many parts where there just isn’t a lot going on. So, I thought, this part here, I’ll play an electronic bassline while I’m playing the drums. Just to challenge ourselves. Stuff like that. “One example is ‘My Only Swerving’ [from their debut album], which we’ve been playing forever and ever. And we’ve probably had 10 different endings to it live.” But while the band is a steady-working live act, their unique approach has made them a somewhat problematic fes-

tival act, though they’ve played a lot of the big ones. “It’s cool, because it’s not like people don’t get it, we’re just not like the midnight party act, it kind of doesn’t come across that great at 4 in the afternoon, it’s not as dramatic as it would be with lights and the whole thing. We’re not really a festival band.” But at heart, these two are deep into their own musical fabric, and after the getting-the-press-stuff-right has worn off (Fogarty insists he doesn’t really care if someone calls them ‘math rock’ anymore, even if that dog-end of music-journo speak is stupid and wrong), it’s still a bit of fun for them when they get handed some new “you sound like” mashup. “Nah, if people say that, I just shrug and say, ‘I dunno.’ I get that you gotta call it something. We’ve been out with Joan of Arc, and Tim from Joan of Arc came up to us one night and said, ‘You guys are like ZZ Top meets New Order, and if I said that to either band, they’d be OK with it.’” Really? “I’ve heard a number of those over the years. One was either Radiohead playing Daft Punk, or Daft Punk playing Radiohead.” Well, alright then. In closing, we asked Fogarty if he had any musical guilty pleasures — you know, stuff he likes to listen to that would appall his fans. “I don’t know if it’s a guilty pleasure or not, but I’ve had the song ‘Friends in Low Places’ stuck in my head.” That’s, uh, Garth Brooks. “Yeah, I’m singing it in my head every day, all day long. For at least a week and a half. I’m like, get this out of my head.”

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nything can happen in the woods,” Stephen Sondheim Woods “have massive arcs,” Coleman says. “They are in a comwrote. pletely different place at 10:15 than they were at 7:30.” That lyric tells one premise of Sondheim’s modern Coleman points out that Sondheim learned to write musicals fairy-tale musical Into the Woods, which will be perfrom Oscar Hammerstein II, who in shows from Oklahoma and formed by the University of Colorado Department of Carousel to The Sound of Music was not afraid to offer a moral. Theatre and Dance over two weekends, Feb. 22–March 3. “Into the Woods is very Hammerstein-esque in that commuTheatre professor Bud Coleman directs the production, and CU nity is vital,” Coleman says. alumnus Adam Ewing conducts the freelance orchestra. “This is not a show where the message is ‘do your own The cast comprises students from both theatre and dance thing.’ The message is ‘no one is alone. And so be aware of what and the College of Music. With a large number of characters, it means to be a person on this planet.’ It’s pretty darn deep, but I there is a single cast, but roles that are CASEY A. CASS just see Oscar (Hammerstein) smiling sometimes combined are played by sepfrom heaven.” arate actors in this production. Coleman say that both the moral of “We have a lot of talented students,” the story and the timlessness of the Coleman says. “I wanted to share the original tales make Into the Woods still wealth.” relevant more than 30 years after its In addition to all the magical things Broadway debut. that can happen in the woods, another “The message that I feel is inherent premise of the show is the question, just in the show, and is very timely now, is, what happens after “happily ever after”? ‘What does it mean to be a citizen of the To answer that question, Sondheim and world?’” book author James Lapine imagine Ewing sees the same messages, some very familiar fairy-tale characters and the same depth of expression, in all together in a single story. Each of the the music for the show. characters has a backstory before the “Toward the end of the show we fairy tale begins, and each one faces have two beautiful numbers, ‘No One is the unintended consequences of their Alone’ and’ ‘Children Will Listen,’” he wishes. says. “It’s very easy to just think that “You’re going to see Cinderella and they are beautiful melodies spun out her step-sisters, Jack [from] Jack and over lush orchestration, but it’s much the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, deeper than that. but Sondheim and Lapine take their “There’s a level of detail and speciON THE BILL: Into the Woods — by story past the traditional Grimm fairy ficity in the lyrics that we coach [the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, presented by CU Department of Theatre and tale,” Coleman says. “We’ll actually singers] to bring out, and really draw Dance. Feb. 22–March 3, University Theatre, find out one version of what might upon in their own characters throughout. 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Tickets: 303have happened to them after they get Our cast has done an admirable job of 492-8008 or cupresents.org/event/1660/cutheatre-dance/into-the-woods/ their wish.” delving into that world, and I’m looking Based on classic fairy tales, ‘Into the Woods’ In spite of being based on children’s forward to seeing how much further they contains multiple acts of thievery, murder, stories, Into the Woods is multi-layered go with it.” accidental death, amputation, infidelity, kidnapping, family arguments and child neglect. and filled with meaningful adult perspecHe encourages the audience to pay tives. Sondheim wrote that for him, fairy attention to details in the text and music. tales are “not what’s real, only what’s “It’s very much a show that you true,” which means the characters have have to be invested in as an audience to be more complex than in the original tales or the Disney mov- member,” he says. “Paying attention even from the very beginies. We as the audience have to take those characters very ning, the way the narrator introduces the show, and things that seriously. happen in the first five minutes have profound impact on how “At the beginning of the rehearsal period some of the stuthe show develops.” dents were mystified,” Coleman says. “Their brains said, ‘If this But Ewing doesn’t want you to think that seeing the show is is Little Red Riding Hood, then it must be a cartoon.’ But the a chore. journey of the characters is quite serious.” “It’s very refreshing to come back and see Cinderella and As is true of all of Sondheim’s shows, the major characters Jack and the Beanstalk and all of these other fun childhood learn from their experiences and come out very differently than characters we’ve grown up with portrayed in new and different they went in. The characters who survive at the end of Into the ways,” he says. FEBRUARY 14, 2019

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n any given art gallery, viewers know says with a laugh. ON THE BILL: ‘Touch’ not to reach out and touch a piece of After growing up in a small town, she appreciates — Breaking the barrier art, no matter how tempting it seems. between art and view- the new viewpoints she’s acquired over the years, sayer. Dairy Arts Center, But for those who finally want their ing that the more you learn, the more open-minded and 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, empathetic you become. chance, the Dairy Art Center’s latest thedairy.org. Through exhibit, Touch, invites the onlooker to Moreover, her goal as curator is to foster a deeper March 3. explore with more than just their eyes. relationship between the viewer and the artist. Showing through March 3, Touch features “Always my underlying idea is to gain a new apprecimyriad artworks with hands-on opportuniation for the artist,” she says. “I find it fascinating how ties, like pressing buttons, making sounds, rearranging elements we consume art. We look at it, we judge it and we move on, and and even the chance to step into an artist’s mind. that’s fine. But I almost want people to pause a little bit more, “It’s been crazy how much it changes the experience,” says just a tiny bit more, and consider the person behind the work Dairy Curator Jessica Kooiman Parker. “People relate to [the and not just the work.” art] in a different way. They’re more engaged with it. They think This is clearly seen in Kenzie Sitterud’s piece “The about it longer.” Wardrobe.” Standing in the middle of the Dairy lobby, “The After spending six years at Longmont’s Firehouse Art Wardrobe” is its own portable room. Inside, viewers interact with Gallery, Kooiman Parker started at The Dairy last summer. For mirrors, clothing and shoes while Madonna’s “Ray of Light” all 2019 exhibits, she chose the theme of connection, with plays on repeat. The work explores Sitterud’s queerness in a Touch as her curatorial debut. In the exhibit, the tactile element heteronormative binary society. Leaving the wardrobe forces deepens the emotional linkage to the pieces, which was you into direct contact with the idea of “coming out.” Sitterud Kooiman Parker’s goal. invites members to literally try on someone else’s shoes and “I want you to connect with art in a new way,” she says. “I see the world in a new way. want you to look at art in a new way. I want to surprise you.” The element of touch in the show questions the audience’s One element of surprise she’s adding is infusing every role in art consumption. Mark Bueno’s pieces feature artwork free space in The Dairy with artwork. You can find pieces of with a lottery ticket-like scratch off medium and small disks to Touch hanging under signs and in corners; sitting on top of slowly unveil the art underneath. This encourages viewers to walls, counters and windows; or even on the floor itself. leave their impression on the paintings — initials, shapes, even Kooiman Parker even invited Thomas Scharfenberg to repaint illustrations of their own. the floors of the McMahon Gallery. Scharfenberg created a Clay Hawkley plays with that idea more conceptually by maze on the floor aptly titled, “Alien feng shui/Imaginary questioning the audience’s metaphorical mark on artwork. In Garden Labrinth.” “Mona,” “Skull,” “Frida” and “Wave,” Hawkley displays posters of Not only is Kooiman Parker engaging new surfaces of the famous images crumpled, faded and ripped. gallery, she’s also opening up new viewing areas. Audience “Clay was riffing off the idea that the more a painting gets members are welcome to climb the staircase overlooking the looked at, the more it degrades it in some way,” Kooiman Parker McMahon Gallery to give them a new view of the space. says. “[These images] are just getting more and more dis“We’re starting the year off by showing you things you tressed.” haven’t seen before, sometimes literally changing your perspecIn another piece, “Charcoal Touch,” Hawkley covers a sheet tive,” she says. of paper in charcoal, luring the viewer to rub their finger on it. By And that is, in essence, the function of art. doing so, they end up leaving with a smudge on their hand. “You’re able to see someone else’s perspective. I “You touch it, and you’re left with a mark,” Kooiman Parker consider myself a perspective collector,” Kooiman Parker says. “You can’t just touch it and leave unaltered.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Producer Baynk, aka Jock NowellUsticke, wasn’t discovered so much as he was robbed — the New Zealander’s laptop was stolen while he was backbacking around Europe and the theif liked the music they found on the laptop so much they put it on the internet for the world to enjoy. Soft, layered electronic arrangements typify Baynk’s upbeat, sometimes tropical style.

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events BOULDER BACH FESTIVAL — ‘FROM LONDON WITH LOVE.’

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by Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries. ‘From London with Love’ features the Boulder Bach Festival Baroque Orchestra performing songs of love and passionate concertos, featuring cellist Guy Fishman, soprano Szilvia Schranz and mezzo-soprano Claire McCahan. CU professor Nicholas Carthy leads from the harpsichord. Tickets are $32.50 at boulderbachfestival.org. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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‘HOLOSCENES/Little Boxes’ is an experimental film that brings together the cognitive tools of science (facts, analysis, charts and graphs) with the affective tools of art (images, metaphors and storytelling) to deeply engage viewers with one of the most important topics of our time — climate change. The five-minute film includes footage of people completing everyday gestures in large tanks that gradually fill with water, submerging the performers, and then slowly unfilling, allowing the performers to resume moving more freely. These scenes are interlaced with vibrant global datasets and a compelling narration. For more information visit colorado.edu/fiske/sos-event.

6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110.

Don’t call this a workshop — this much fun is a playshop. Mike Cohen, founder of Kirtan Leader Institute, will help participants explore vocal expressions and learn the various ways we use language. This playshop includes exercises utilizing breath, centering/embodiment, visualization, impulse, movement, listening, vocalization and relationship. All voices welcome; no prior experience necessary. Register at mmmwhah.com/vocal-improv.

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words THURSDAY, FEB. 14 IN CONVERSATION with David Barsamian, Palestinian American cultural critic Edward W. Said discusses the centrality of popular resistance to his understanding of culture, history and social change for Barsamian’s new book ‘Culture and Resistence.’ Said reveals his thoughts on the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and lays out a compelling vision for a secular, democratic future in the Middle East — and globally. See Barsamian speak about these conversations at Boulder Bookstore on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Open Improv: Long Form. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, FEB. 15 Writer’s Workshop. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont. Suggested donation of $5. The Denver Moth — StorySLAM. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

SATURDAY, FEB. 16 Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver.

SUNDAY, FEB. 17 Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

MONDAY, FEB. 18 So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, FEB. 19 Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Reema Zaman — I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Adam Higginbotham — Midnight in Chernobyl. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.

David Barsamian — Culture and Resistance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20 Polly McLean — Remembering Lucile. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Andrew Schelling — Some Unquenchable Desire and Erotic Love Poems. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Music Motified: Doomed Valentine’s Show. 7:45 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030. African Rhythm Songs for Moms, Pops and Babies. 10 a.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-219-3005. African Songs of Life. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-219-3005. The California Honeydrops. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637. A Classical Romance. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-8654220. Through Feb. 17. The Dead & The Daylily. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Dinner with Friends: Valentine’s Day Pop-up. 6:30 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver, 720-354-4880. Groundation: The Next Generation + Bob Tribute Tour. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Kyle Donovan’s The Songwriter Hour. 7:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Laurie and Lorrie Duo special Valentine’s Show and Dinner! 5:30 p.m. Sweet Spot Cafe, 585 W. Dillon Road, Louisville, 303-449-3529. Lover’s Remorse (Free Valentine’s Day Event). 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

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Paper Moonshine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Swing Night — with Chez Coucou. 8 p.m. The Waterloo, 817 Main St., Louisville, 303-522-6162. Valentine’s Day Concert. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910. Valentine’s Day Special: Sweethearts of the Rodeo II. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Valentine’s Dinner and Dance — with Robert Johnson and the Mark Diamond Trio. 6 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. A Valentine’s Opera Cabaret: Le French Affaire. 7:30 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 573-356-1525. WSMF5P: Formula 5 Celebrates The Music Of Widespread Panic — with Phour Point O (Phish Tribute), Tangled Senses Music. 7:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Yesterday: The Beatles Tribute Direct from Las Vegas. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Events ‘An Affair To Remember’ (1957). 7 p.m. New Trojan Movie House, 513 Main St., Longmont. Barley and Hops for Beer Lovers. 4 p.m. BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-638-5193. Craft Chocolate and Fine Spirits Valentine’s Day Pairing. 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. J&L Distilling Company, 4843 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-648-8893.

Comedian Carmen Lynch. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-3071777. More performances at comedyworks. com. Denver Jewish Film Festival. 5:30 p.m. JCC Mizel Arts And Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver, 303-316-6360. Through Feb. 18, jccdenver.org. Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452. The Great Indian Novel. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. ‘Life and Nothing More.’ 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Boulder. 7 p.m. Boulder Pride House, 2132 14th St., Boulder. Valentine’s Day Dinner. 5 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Cheesemaking 101 with Chevre plus Chocolate Chevre Truffles and Champagne. 6:30 p.m. The Art of Cheese, 505 Weaver Park Road, Suite E, Longmont, 303-579-9537. Valentine’s Day Stuffie Sleepover. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Valentine’s Day Tea. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Valentine’s Dinner. 6:30 p.m. BookCliff Vineyards, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Boulder, 303-4499463. Chocolate and wine flights at 1 p.m.

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arts All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.

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THE DAIRY ARTS CENTER kicks off 2019 by breaking down a standard barrier between artwork and viewer — allowing visitors to touch and play with everything in the exhibition. All four galleries are dedicated to paintings, installations and sculptures you can touch, manipulate and interact with. ‘Touch’ is on display through March 3. See more about the exhibit on page 29.

Aftereffect: Georgia O’keeffe and Contemporary Painting. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Opens Feb. 15. Through May 26. Amanda Wachob: Tattoo This. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Opens Feb. 15. Through May 26. Andrew Jensdotter: Flak. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Opens Feb. 15. Through May 26. Ansel Adams: Early works exhibit. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26. Assemblage/Mixed Media/Sculpture — by Michelle Lamb. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 1. Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, Second floor southwest, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through March 16. Colorado’s Most Significant Artifacts. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit. Creativity in Action — by Kongtrul Jigme Namgyel. Nalanda and Cube galleries, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through March 15. Don Coen: The Migrant Series. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St.,Boulder. Through May 27. Dinosaurs: Land Of Fire and Ice. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through May 12. DIOR: From Paris to the World. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver.

Through March 17.

Matthew Pevear: Mastering the Art of French Cooking. BMoCA at Macky, Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado Boulder, 1595 Pleasant St., Unit 104, Boulder. Through May 5. Mixed Media — by Tabitha Aaron. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 1. Pard Morrison: Heartmouth. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 1. Poveka: Master Potter Maria Martinez. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Anthropology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 8.

Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019.

Roberta Restaino — Giardino Surreale: Recoding Natural History. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through March 2.

Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.

The Silhouette Project: Stories of Immigrants, Refugees, and Dreamers. Museum of Boulder, Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Feb. 27.

Front Range Rising. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit. Google Garage. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing, but activities change. The Incubation Effect. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 9. Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 18. Karen Kitchel: Grasslands. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through April 21. Living with Wolves. Museum of Boulder at Tebo Center, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through May 20.

Storytellers. Abend Gallery, 1412 Wazee St., Denver. Through Feb. 23. Touch: Breaking the barrier between art and viewer. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March. 3. Vance Brand: Ambassador of Exploration. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit.

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Upcoming Events & Entertainment Thursday February 14 VALENTINE’S NIGHT

robert johnson & the mark diamond trio “Dinner & Dance”

Friday February 15 Ladies Rock The Blues

kerry pastine & the crime scene & cass clayton band “Blues/Rock”

Water Flow: Under the Colorado River. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26. World War II Diary Transcribed at the Museum. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit.

Saturday February 16

romero & halfway there

Valentine’s Weekend — with Chris Distefano. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More performances at comedyworks.com.

Dwarf Planets. 8 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-1562.

Scotty & the Late Nights. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

The Indie Jam 500. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Tyler Sanford Coalition. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2013731.

‘a tribute to bon jovi’

Views & Brews American Landscape Film Series: ‘Wild at Heart.’ 7 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-6518374.

Finn O’Sullivan. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y. 8 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

bourbon & blues jack hadley band

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Music

Love Hangover: NaPalm and Friends. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Adam Lopez Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Mad Dog Blues Duo. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214770-9847.

Altius Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-6664361.

Mike Abbott and Eric Gunnison’s Album Release Party. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

‘Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth.’ 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. More show times at colorado. edu/fiske.

Mr. Majestyk’s 8 Track Revival. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Beni Brosh. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. ‘The Big Lebowski.’ 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Brennan Mackey of King Cardinal. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Colter Wall. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

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Oliver Jacobson. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. One Way Ride. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Pliego + Buer |Cello + Piano: Brahms-Britten-Beethoven. 2:30 p.m. Stewart Auditorium, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Retrofette, The RunniKine. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-2911007.

Events Baby Bash & Frankie J. 7 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-6230106,. Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 7:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. DDAM Third Annual Drag Show Fundraiser. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

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Wednesday February 20

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Thursday February 21

dueling pianos “Have Fun, Be Loud,& Party” Friday February 22

under a blood red sky the u2 tribute “Tribute”

Genesis 2.0. 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. Giardino Surreale Artist Talk. 6 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. ‘My Neighbor Totoro.’ 8:45 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thediary.org. see EVENTS Page 34

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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Vintage Theater, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Opens Feb. 15. Through March 24.

INSIDE A MODERN-DAY museum, two security guards and a painter find themselves compelled to touch a masterpiece. But soon the audience finds itself skipping through time, watching Rembrandt at work and listening to Homer discuss the nature of art. Fresh from the stages of Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, ‘The Rembrandt,’ asks us to consider the longevity of art and the brevity of life. Presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company at the Dairy Arts Center through March 3.

Alice in Wonderland. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through March 9. Anna Karenina. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Stage Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Feb. 24. Bat Out Of Hell, The Musical. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St., Denver. Through Feb. 17. Betrayal. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Feb. 17. The Diary of Anne Frank. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humantiies, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 17. Disenchanted!. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through March 31. Jekyll & Hyde, The Musical. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through April 14. A Little Night Music — presented by Cherry Creek Theatre Company. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through Feb. 17.

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change — presented by Equinox Theatre Company. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Feb. 16.

The Rembrandt Room. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Opens Feb. 15. Through March 9.

Lost in Yonkers. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through March 3.

Rock of Aging — presented by Firehouse Theater. The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Opens Feb. 16. Through March 16.

Magnets on the Fridge. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Shows the first Wednesday of the month from February-June.

The Voice of the Prairie. University Theatre, Acting Studio, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. Through Feb. 17.

Nunsense. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through March 3.

Xanadu. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through March 31.

The Rembrandt — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 3.

Young Frankenstein. The Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont. Through Feb. 16.

EVENTS from Page 33

Tom Papa. 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Kessel Run Album Release. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Valentine’s Day Parent’s Night Out. 5:30 p.m. Kinesis Dance, 5603 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 6, Boulder, 720-515-6268.

KGNU + Lion’s Lair Quarterly Showcase February Edition! 8:30 p.m. Lions Lair, 2022 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-449-4885.

Young Artists at Work: School Day-Off Camp. 9 a.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Le Butcherettes. 9:30 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Music Andrew Tubby Love and Amber Lily. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030. More about these artists on page 23. The Council. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Crazy Town. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.

Motown Legends Revue — with Ron Ivory and The Miles Apart Band. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

David Wilcox. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. The Emily Takahashi Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Oxeye Daisy. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

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

Romero & Halfway There — The Bon Jovi Tribute. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Gravitas. 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-2383. Groundation: The Next Generation + Bob Tribute Tour — with A-Mac and The Height and special guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Halden Wofford and the Hi*Beams. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On. 4 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-2383.

Magic Beans. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-2583637.

Own This City, A User’s Guide: Streets. 8 p.m. McNichols Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720-891-1219.

Full Circle Blues Band. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Lionel Young Band. 8 p.m. The Wild Game Longmont, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875.

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Stratus Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-388-4962. The Tuffenuffs. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. Turkuaz. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Unauthorized Absence. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Boulder, 310-489-0580. Aziz Ansari: ‘Road To Nowhere.’ 7:30 p.m. Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St., Denver, 720-8654220. Cannabis Career Fest. 10 a.m. The Cable Center, 2000 Buchtel Boulevard South, Denver, 720-502-7500. Double Feature: ‘Life of Trees’/‘Perseus and Andromeda.’ 1 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. More show times at thedairy.org. Hippie Sabotage. 8 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Improv’s Gay featuring Queerbots. 7 p.m. Grafenberg Theater, 1223 21st St., Denver, 303-803-8894. Learning Dog Dance: A Dance Workshop. 1 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Science Made Fun. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120; 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Music Aqueous and Big Something — with Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Events

The Band Camino. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Activist Have Talent. 6:30 p.m. Wesley Foundation Chapel at CU Boulder, 1290 Folsom St.,

see EVENTS Page 36

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The CaliFornia honeydrops saTurday February 16

GroundaTion

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Maddy o’neal & Freddy Todd

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The Funk sessions

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Thursday MarCh 7

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Thursday MarCh 14

4/6 Concert: Reed Foehl

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Tuesday MarCh 19 reGGae Tuesdays

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Friday MarCh 8

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Le French Affaire: A Valentine’s Opera Cabaret

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EVENTS from Page 34

Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band with The Record Company. 7:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Concert Series Presents: Playground Ensemble. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. David Booker. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Haley Gowland. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Takapenga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Trippie Redd with Coi Leray. 6:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Events ‘Birdman.’ 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863. Meadows Teen Advisory Group (M-TAB). 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Music

Alex Snyder & Finn O’Sullivan. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. As It Is. 6 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Becoming American | A Documentary Film and Discussion Series on Our Immigration Experience at the Museum of Boulder | Family and Community. 6 p.m. Museum of Boulder at the Tebo Center, 2205 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Lap Babies. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100; 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Kikagaku Moyo. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

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Anime Club. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

The Invisible Circus 4.0. 7:30 p.m. Invisible City, 1545 Julian St., Denver, 303-886-7391.

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

‘Before the Flood.’ 6:30 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-494-0195.

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Warbly Jets. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series Presents: CU’s On the Rocks Acappella Chorus. Noon. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Dreamgirl, Acid Tongue. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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A Bowie Celebration: The David Bowie Alumni Tour. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Eric Wiggs & Dylan McCarthy. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Fat Tuesdays: A Tribute to New Orleans Funk, Soul and R&B — with House Band: Feat. Casey Russell. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303297-1772. Kikagaku Moyo. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Men I Trust. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Saves the Day. 6:30 p.m. Marquis Theatre,

Out Boulder County Gender Support Group - Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777. The Real Cost of Fake News. 6 p.m. Wild Women Wine, 1660 Champa St., Denver, 303-534-0788. Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. West Coast Swing Dance Lessons. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Music Alex Cameron & Roy Molloy: Take Care Of Business. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E 1st St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. David Dondero. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Dueling Pianos — with Colorado Keys. 6 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023. Jazzetry Night! featuring Von Disco. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Lit Lords. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th

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A Closer Look: Uncharted Territory: Becoming an Interplanetary Species. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. Concert Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble ll: Paa Kow and his Afro-Fusion Orchestra — with CU’s Concert Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Undergraduate Vocal Scholarship Competition. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder

FRIDAY, FEB. 15

Department Colloquium: Daphne Klosta. 3 p.m. Engineering Center, ECCR 265, 1111 Engineering Drive, Boulder. Boulder, Meet the Colorado Sun. 6:30 p.m. CMCI Studio 1301 Walnut St., Boulder.

Sutherland Seminar Series: Sleep. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Church of Christ, Fellowship Hall 1351 Collyer St., Longmont.

TUESDAY, FEB. 19

Democratic Engagement Transformed: Working Towards How to Foster Citizenship in the 21st Century Classroom. 8 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), 235, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder. Engineering Exploration. 6 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder Campus, Hale Science, 230, 1350 Pleasant St., Boulder. Visiting Artist Lecture: Esteban OcampoGiraldo. 6:30 p.m. Visual Arts Complex, Art & Art History Building Auditorium, 1B20, 1085 18th St., Boulder.

Kodo One Earth Tour 2019: Evolution. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Faculty Tuesdays: SwingTime, WaltzTime, SambaTime: DANCE! 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Music Theatre, Boulder, 303-492-6352.

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20

Russian Enrichment Event: Snowshoeing at Brainard Lake. 9 a.m. Brainard Lake. For more information, contact elena.kostoglodova@colorado.edu

2019 Inclusive Sports Summit: Awareness Leading To Action. 8 a.m. Across campus, cubuffs.com/sports/2018/9/17/2019inclusive-sports-summit.aspx

MONDAY, FEB. 18

Journalism in an Age of Distraction. 7 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, 100, 1125 18th St., Boulder.

St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. MoJazz Duo. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Pendulum New Music Ensemble: Nina Young, guest composer. 7:30 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, ATLAS 100, Boulder.

Flatirons Mineral Club. 6 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sir Andras Schiff. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-388-9839.

Lap Babies. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Unplugged Drop-In Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave, Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Lego Storytime. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Vundabar. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

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

Events BMoCA + Boulder Symphony Mashup. 7 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Boulder Arts Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. ‘Capernaum.’ 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. Christine Carbo: A Sharp Solitude. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Conversations in English Wednesdays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Faculty Tuesdays: Douglas Walter, percussion. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

SATURDAY, FEB. 16

AWM STEMinist Reading Group: A discussion of the challenges faced by women of color in STEM fields. 5 p.m. Engineering Center, ECCR 257, 1111 Engineering Drive, Boulder.

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‘Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki.’ 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. ‘The Queen of Spades ROH.’ 1 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.

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Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. STEAM Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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by Samantha Albala I know it might hurt if you told me what you really think of me, but I feel a deeper ache to never be able to know why you vanished boot tracks in the mud followed by tire tracks followed by my pause two dogs looking with me at the heavy empty space it will hurt if I ever get to know what you really think of me it does hurt that I don’t know what I did wrong a tingling through each finger believe in a mineral deposit rushing downstream I am pulled and still find I am not moving hurt from what I assume you think of me hurt that I am wrong

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I let the pain wash to the surface as if I had been anywhere near a beach imagined my body a shoreline collecting everything that couldn’t move with the water fast enough come with me broken muscle come with me softened shattered glass you don’t think of me been wasting so much time gathering home in lost trinkets ignoring the barking at my back as I bend down to examine where I am standing I have been here before remembering something... think think again of anything else Samantha Albala is a Boulder-based poet, gobbling up horizons and babbling about road trips, tea and anatomical hearts. See more writing at samanthaalbala.contently.com.

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For now we see through a glass, darkly ‘Never Look Away’ and the need to see

by Michael J. Casey When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. — 1 Corinthians 13: 11–12, King James Version

an randomness be beautiful? Take six numbers, any six numbers, and list them. Nothing particularly beautiful about that, is there? But what if those six numbers also happened to be the six winning numbers of the lottery? Not only are those numbers no longer random but, for one very lucky person, those six numbers might also be the most beautiful thing they ever see. Numbers, moments, memories, actions — all are similar in Never Look Away, the new period film from German writer/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Opening in 1940 Berlin, under the rule of the Third Reich, and concluding roughly 500 kilometers west, in the socially democratic Düsseldorf 26 years later, Never Look Away revolves around painter Kurt Barnett (Tom Schilling), who was charged by his young Aunt Elisabeth (Saskia Rosendahl) to “never look away.” Not from beauty, ON THE BILL: Never not from truth and certainly not from all the horrors of the Look Away. Century world. Granted, Barnett was but a boy when Elisabeth Theater, 1700 29th charged him — his curiosity lay more in the curve of her St., Boulder, www.cinemark.com/ breast and the softness of her skin. It’ll be a few more colorado/centurydecades before Barnett brings Elisabeth’s words to fruition. boulder. Could Barnett have achieved this feat had he not crossed paths with professor Carl Seeband (Sebastian Koch), Berlin’s preeminent gynecologist and a master manipulator of the personal and the political? Probably not. Any hero worth their salt must defeat a villain, and Seeband — a man who has a way of making sure nothing escapes his control — is readymade for villainy. Not exactly the father-in-law Barnett hoped for, but the world has a way of creating resolution even if retribution is not in the cards. Running slightly over three hours, Never Look Away is an absorbing piece of work, one that is more novelistic in its structure than cinematic. As Barnett moves from propaganda painter in East Berlin to abstract expressionism in Düsseldorf, von Donnersmark presents these changes in geography and time as vignettes. And, like a good book, these chapters manage to be self-contained while still echoing and reverberating the movie’s broader themes — all of it beautifully tied together through cinematographer Caleb Deschanel’s dreamy, angelic haze. Outstanding as it is, Never Look Away is not without a few faults. Some of the subplots with Ellie Seeband (Paula Beer), Barnett’s wife and the professor’s only daughter, don’t contribute as much to the plot as one might hope, but they do add a great deal of texture to the film, not to mention being a few of the more erotic scenes filmed in the past few years. The results are sumptuous. Never Look Away is a worthy contender for 2019’s Best Foreign Language Oscar, easily the most stacked category of the lot — a beautiful reminder that some of the best storytelling is happening beyond America’s borders.

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rinks and large plates ordered, we waited for the brightly colored cart with a horn to make its rounds at Super Mega Bien, in RiNo’s relatively new Ramble Hotel. Billed as “Latin American Dim Sum” the newest restaurant from chef Dana Rodriguez of Work & Class, the cart offered up an array of ever-changing small plates for the picking — everything from shrimp and octopus ceviche to cauliflower fritters to Latin spring rolls. Among others, we gladly accepted a bowl of ropa vieja, a Cuban staple of shredded beef and fried plantains. The beef had been marinated in pungent spiced juices, and the perfectly fried thick plantains were adorned with large salt crystals that drew out their flavor. $7.

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Odd13 Brewing 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, odd13brewing.com dd13 brews beer you simply can’t get anywhere else. Our socks are always knocked off by their tap and can list, which ranges from a double milkshake IPA to a hop-bursted Brett beer to a hazy golden ale. It’s that last one, Jetman Jimmy, that you might overlook with all the spectacular options on Odd13’s beer list, but do yourself a favor and buy a pint or a six-pack. It’s lightly hopped and brewed with oats, so the mouthfeel is super silky and the flavor is of bright citrus. Such magic is performed in the brewing process that you might think fruit juice had to have been added to it, but you’d be wrong. It’s just a classic golden ale, with a twist, that’s supremely refreshing. Prices vary.

Black Pepper Pho 2770 Pearl St., Boulder, phoboulder.com lack Pepper Pho may be known, rightly, for its pho, but their limited menu of rice and noodle bowls is worth checking out. We sampled the fried egg roll bún, which consists of perfectly crisped pork (or veggie, if you choose) egg rolls cut and served atop rice noodles, bean sprouts, daikon radish, shallots, cilantro and mint. The mint is a unique edition, and its herbaceous flavor permeates the dish without overpowering it. The pork in the egg rolls, by the way, is moist, tender and deeply savory. $10.98 regular, $12.98 large.

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he Protein Bar is a small fast-casual chain that serves up clean, nutritional food. Don’t let the industrial-sized containers of powdered proteins behind the counter fool you — Protein Bar manages to pack big flavor in their healthful meals. Take the superfood vegan wrap. It’s a wheat wrap loaded with roasted tofu, chickpeas, avocado, spinach, kale, pickled onion, carrots, celery, organic quinoa, a hemp seed blend and house-made creamy chia dressing. It all miraculously works, and it feels both refreshing and stomach-satisfying. The textures are many and delightful, and the creamy chia dressing is bright and irresistible. $8.99.

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or all its culinary hipness, Boulder is really ground zero of the Mashed Potato Belt. You don’t have to look far to uncover the evidence. You’ll find mashers enhanced with manchego cheese (Dagabi Cucina), white cheddar (Boulder ChopHouse), duck fat (Cured) and jalapeño cream cheese (The Roadhouse). The Lazy Dog Saloon has garlic mashed potatoes and at the Boulder Cork, spuds are smoked, then mashed. Boulder’s 50 shades of spuds range from Flower Child, where organic potatoes are smashed with roasted garlic and thyme, to red-skinned mashers at KT’s BBQ. They are both high-cuisine (roasted leek whipped potatoes at Steakhouse No. 316), and casual (Yellowbelly’s smashed potato fries). That doesn’t include the hundreds of places serving regular mashers and, in some food service cases, reconstituted powdered whipped potatoes with canned gravy. There are a lot of foods with which we have a casually indifferent relationship... but usually not mashed potatoes. We love them. They speak to us deeply of comfort, mom and gravy, and provide creamy mouth-filling satiation that can be tweaked to fit almost any I

dietary choice from Keto and vegan to non-dairy... but preferably not fat-free. For anyone who believes in supporting local, sustainable food sourcing, mashed potatoes are about as Colorado as you can get. Colorado produces about 2 billion pounds of potatoes annually in the San Luis Valley, near Greeley, and some in Boulder County. If you do the 23andMe search on the russet potatoes in your pantry, you’ll discover Colorado roots. Idaho’s signature spud owes a lot to Lou D. Sweet, the farmer who discovered a great-tasting variation in a field of russets he was growing in Carbondale around 1910. These became bred into the famous russets that are now America’s most popular potato and used for most of the French fries. Too many of you only enjoy mashed potatoes when you go out to eat. If you perfect the art of making mashed potatoes — if you become the Greatest of All Time — people will love you. Unlike celery, potatoes come in many varieties and sizes that are best suited for different dishes. Russets are great for fries, as bakers and for making whipped see NIBBLES Page 44

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potatoes. Red-skinned potatoes retain their shape after cooking and are good for salads, soups and roasting. Tender fingerlings are perfect roasted. All Colorado varieties can be mashed in some fashion, but my choice is Yukon Gold potatoes and other yellow and white potatoes. They have a nice buttery taste and moist texture and don’t need to be peeled. There are several key moments in the mashers-making process that are critical to producing an exceptional side dish. I start with about two pounds of Yukon Gold (or white) potatoes cut in chunks in a big sauce pan that has cold water a couple of inches above the potatoes. I add at least a tablespoon of salt, sometimes more. It should taste like the sea. Bring the pan to a hard boil and then reduce to a simmer. Cover and cook for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, in a separate pan, heat 4 to 6 tablespoons of unsalted butter and 1 to 1.5 cups milk or cream over low temperature until hot, but not boiling. You never want to add cold milk and butter or you get clumps. Test the potatoes. They should be very tender, but not mushy. The more often you make mashers, the better you’ll get at knowing when different types of spuds are done cooking. Practice. Potatoes are cheap and you can eat the mistakes. As you drain the potatoes, save some of the cooking water. After draining, place the potatoes back in the warm pan on low heat for a few minutes. This is an important step. This dries the potatoes, allowing them to absorb more milk and butter. For the best super-creamy texture, you need to use a potato “ricer.” A mixer, a handheld masher or a wooden spoon also works as you add the heated milk and butter gradually to the potatoes in the pan. If it needs thinning, add some of the cooking water. Taste first and then season with salt and pepper. If you use white pepper, the color of the mashers will remain a pristine white. Some folks add a ton of other ingredients but good mashers don’t need accessories, except as optional toppings. Serve immediately in a pre-warmed bowl and sit back and accept the kudos, thanks and applause.

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Trying to eat locally? Start with this year’s prestigious Good Food Awards, the highly competitive Oscars of the artisan food world, which included honors to 11 I

Colorado companies. Oak Aromatic Cocktail Bitters from Boulder’s Cocktailpunk won in the Elixirs category, along with Palo Santo Cocktail Bitters from Dram in Salida. Local winners in other categories included: True Blonde Ale, Ska Brewing, Durango; Pepperoni at Il Porcellino Salumi, Denver; Carmen Estate Coffee, Commonwealth Coffee Roasters, Denver; Honey Salted Caramels, Bee Ranch, Lone Tree; Salty Peanut Butter, The PB Love Company, Denver; and Colorado Green Chile Potato Chips, Morgan Handmade Rations, Denver. Colorado scored three Spirits winners: Rye Vodka, Bear Creek Distillery, Denver; Cultura Cask-Finished American Single Malt, Deerhammer Distillery, Buena Vista; and Maryland-Style Rye Whiskey, Leopold Bros., Denver.

LOCAL FOOD NEWS

Denver-born Babette’s Artisan Bakery has relocated to Longmont’s Prospect neighborhood. The serious French bakery is famous for darkly baked pastries and crusty breads and also serves pizza, salads, desserts, and beer and wine. ... Chef Radek Cerny’s French-inspired L’Atelier has closed in Boulder. Cerny’s previous local eateries have included the European Café and Le Chantecler in Niwot. ... Denver Restaurant Week Feb. 22-March 3 offers multi-course dinners at several price points at hundreds of restaurants. A threecourse feast at Louisville’s 740 Front can feature deviled eggs (with candied bacon), grilled seabass (with lemon caper butter sauce) and panna cotta (with raspberry coulis). ... Plan ahead: Longmont Restaurant Week is March 29-April 7.

TASTE OF THE WEEK

Take slices of roasted lamb and beef. Tuck them in a warm pita bread. Add veggies, salty feta cheese and a thick tzatziki sauce and it becomes my favorite gyro sandwich at the Mediterranean Market on 28th Street in Boulder. The Market also makes outstanding fried-toorder falafel and carries a nice selection of Middle Eastern and European groceries, jams, candies and snacks.

WORDS TO CHEW ON

“February, month of despair, with a skewered heart in the centre. I think dire thoughts, and lust for French fries with a splash of vinegar.” — From “February” by Margaret Atwood John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles on KGNU. Podcasts: news.kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles

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THE GRAPE DEBATE New climate tools predict a murky future for winemakers from Colorado to New Zealand. How will they adapt?

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WINERIES ARE starting to make adjustments to their operations as climate change makes growing grapes more difficult.

ern-day equivalents. For instance, Boulder can expect a climate similar to Amarillo; 9 degrees warmer and 46 percent wetter. Lafayette will feel like today’s Oklahoma panhandle, nearly 10 degrees warmer and 50 percent wetter. For our thriving U.S. wine regions, such drastic changes could have major impacts on the types of grapes vineyards are able to grow. Washington State’s esteemed Columbia Valley can expect much hotter and wetter weather. The Finger Lakes of New York are going to feel like dank Maryland in summer. California’s statewide wineries all figure to be warmer and drier. And Colorado’s Palisade wineries can expect to grow in a climate similar to Las Vegas. Even the concept of micro-climates — extremely localized climate patterns that can define a vineyard, or even a certain plot of land on a vineyard — will be thrown into disarray by climate change. River flows that moderate temperature and moisture in a microclimate can rise and fall. Changes in precipitation can erode soil. Altering levels of UV radiation can drastically change the characteristics of growing grapes. One solution was proffered in a study released Jan. 2 by Harvard biologist Elizabeth Wolkovitch: Winemakers

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should prepare to adapt to climate change by being prepared to plant different varietals. Reciprocally, wine consumers should prepare to change the way they think about wine; our conception of a New Zealand sauvignon blanc may belie what we actually taste in the glass as wine production in that region becomes more difficult. In fact, as far back as 1991, trade groups in New Zealand have implored winemakers to begin looking for growing land at higher altitudes or outside of established regions to plan their futures. But that presents a problem for winemakers, particularly in Europe, who tend to vines many decades old, and where restrictions on and customs around growing particular grapes in specific regions may hamper the adaptation that will need to happen to keep these regions producing their historically heralded wines. For instance, only seven grapes can be grown in the Champagne region of France. Sangiovese is the only grape permitted to produce Brunello di Montalcino. There are five (six with an exception) grapes that can be grown in Bordeaux. Though the Old World has a robust diversity of grapes that have historically grown there, these regulations diminish the possibility for flexibiltiy from winemakers. Wolkovitch’s study also pinpointed a problem for New World growers, where restrictions are much more lax: even though they are allowed to produce wine from a variety of grapes, there’s little institutional, historic knowledge about how best to maximize those grapes. But as winemakers in production powerhouses like Southern Europe grapple with these challenges, producers in other regions are quietly, at least with tongues in their cheeks, welcoming climate change. In Germany, changes have already proven somewhat advantageous — longer, warmer summers have produced a more reliable crop, according to a recent New York Times piece that asked German producers about climate change’s impact on their operations. “We are the big winners from climate change,” Dirk Würtz, a vintner and wine journalist, told the Times. “I know it’s disgusting to say, but it’s the truth.” Research from Tsinghua University also posits that Chinese vineyards are poised to benefit from climate change; the country already represents a massive portion of the world’s wine production,

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“It’s a wrap,” they mean that the shooting of a scene has been finished. They may use the same expression when the shooting of the entire film is completed. That’s not the end of the creative process, of course. All the editing must still be done. Once that’s accomplished, the producer may declare that the final product is “in the can,” and ready to be released or broadcast. From what I can determine, Aries, you’re on the verge of being able to say, “it’s a wrap” for one of your own projects. There’ll be more work before you’re ready to assert, “it’s in the can.”

renowned as a Laughter Master, having dedicated himself to explore the healing powers of ebullience and amusement. He presides over a school that teaches people the fine points of laughter, and he holds the world’s record for longest continuous laughter at three hours and six minutes. I nominate him to be your role model in the next two weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be especially primed to benefit from the healing power of laughter. You’re likely to encounter more droll and whimsical and hilarious events than usual, and your sense of humor should be especially hearty and finelytuned.

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Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that people who use curse words tend to be more candid. “Swearing is often inappropriate but it can also be evidence that someone is telling you their honest opinion,” said the lead researcher. “Just as they aren’t filtering their language to be more palatable, they’re also not filtering their views.” If that’s true, Scorpio, I’m going to encourage you to curse more than usual in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it’s crucial that you tell as much of the whole truth as is humanly possible. (P.S. Your cursing outbursts don’t necessarily have to be delivered with total abandon everywhere you go. You could accomplish a lot just by going into rooms by yourself and exuberantly allowing the expletives to roll out of your mouth.)

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JUNE 21-JULY 22: A study by the Humane Research Council found that more than 80 percent of those who commit to being vegetarians eventually give up and return to eating meat. A study by the National Institute of Health showed that only about 36 percent of alcoholics are able to achieve full recovery; the remainder relapse. And we all know how many people make New Year’s resolutions to exercise more often, but then stop going to the gym by February. That’s the bad news. The good news, Cancerian, is that during the coming weeks you will possess an enhanced power to stick with any commitment you know is right and good for you. Take advantage!

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farmer grew frustrated with the fact that grocery stories didn’t want to buy his broken and oddly shaped carrots. A lot of his crop was going to waste. Then he got the bright idea to cut and shave the imperfect carrots so as to make smooth little baby carrots. They became a big success. Can you think of a metaphorically comparable adjustment you could undertake, Sagittarius? Is it possible to transform a resource that’s partially going to waste? Might you be able to enhance your possibilities by making some simple modifications?

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try. It borders no oceans or seas. Nevertheless, it has a navy of seven sailors. Its lone ship is a tugboat moored on Lake Khovsgol, which is three percent the size of North America’s Lake Superior. I’m offering up the Mongolian navy as an apt metaphor for you to draw inspiration from in the coming weeks. I believe it makes good astrological sense for you to launch a seemingly quixotic quest to assert your power, however modestly, in a situation that may seem out of your league.

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different from each other than Europe and Africa? Yet there is a place, the Strait of Gibralter, where Europe and Africa are just 8.7 miles apart. Russia and the United States are also profoundly unlike each other, but only 2.5 miles apart where the Bering Strait separates them. I foresee the a metaphorically comparable phenomenon in your life. Two situations or influences or perspectives that may seem to have little in common will turn out to be closer to each other than you imagined possible.

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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: According to the Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, the word “obsession” used to refer to the agitated state of a person who was besieged by rowdy or unruly spirits arriving from outside the person. “Possession,” on the other hand, once meant the agitated state of a person struggling against rowdy or unruly spirits arising from within. In the Western Christian perspective, both modes have been considered primarily negative and problematic. In many other cultures, however, spirits from both the inside and outside have sometimes been regarded as relatively benevolent, and their effect quite positive. As long as you don’t buy into the Western Christian view, I suspect that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to consort with spirits like those.

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someone who is turned on by your whatever-the-fuck is good enough for the able-bodied, it’s good enough for people with disabilities. Provided of course that, able or disabled, we’re appreciated for everything we bring to the table or the chair or the bed. Ryan Honick, a disability advocate and public speaker, doesn’t think you should limit your search to websites aimed exclusively at the disability community. “It’s estimated that one in five people have a disability,” said Honick. “And when I think about how challenging dating can be anyway — disability notwithstanding — my immediate thought is that RAGDOLL shouldn’t exclude 80 percent of the population from his search. So I would encourage him to use some of the mainstream apps — like Tinder, OkCupid, Bumble or Match — and put what he’s after front and center.” Honick would caution other disabled people that putting your disability front and center — even on mainstream dating apps — is likely to attract the attention of devotees. “RAGDOLL doesn’t seem like he would mind being with a devotee,” said Honick. “But those of us who do mind

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need to be a little more discerning. I’ve inadvertently attracted a fair number of people with a devotee fetish, and it honestly squicked me out.” Zooming out for a second: Safety is always a concern when inviting a stranger over for sex, RAGDOLL, even for the nondisabled. In addition to attracting the attention of a few good and decent people, devotees or not, your relative helplessness could attract the attention of a predator. So before inviting anyone over, get their real name and their real phone number. Then share that information with a trusted friend — someone who can check in with you before and after a date — and let your potential new fuck buddy know you’re sharing their info with a trusted friend. Second to last word goes to Honick: “Another option, if it’s available to RAGDOLL and he’s open to it, would be hiring a sex worker.” And the last word goes to Gurza: “RAGDOLL shouldn’t resign himself to the idea that he’s a ‘pity fuck.’ His desires as a disabled man have full value and worth. And I want him to know, as a fellow disabled man, that he can have a fulfilling sex life and that someone out there does find him attractive.” On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Eric Leue from the Free Speech Coalition: savagelovecast.com.

Spark up and enjoy some love BY SIDNI WEST

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love Valentine’s Day. Like all the best holidays, it gets a bad rep for its focus on consumerism. It’s usually the haters that end up becoming the most active participants, like, oh boy, the people running around saying “it’s a made-up holiday” are gonna feel so stupid when they find out what the rest of the holidays are also made up. As I reflect on my dating history today, I’ve come to realize that cannabis plays a significant role in my love life. I haven’t tried in awhile, but I honestly don’t think I could have a serious relationship with someone who doesn’t smoke weed on a consistent basis, mostly because it’s such a central part of my life. Not only do I use it medicinally to replace the five other pharmaceutical drugs I would need to function, but my entire career involves around weed at this point, so I feel like only another stoner would understand and appreciate the relationship I have with the plant. For many, cannabis is a lifestyle choice that can make or break someone’s desire to pursue a relationship. Sharing a joint is usually how I get to know and bond with someone, romantic or otherwise. How else do people get their dates to come over if not inviting them up for a bowl pack? I assume you all must have hot tubs full of puppies or something, but for me, weed is usually the gateway drug to making out and dry humping all over my room after a date. I have my shit together, so I don’t fit the stereotype of someone who smokes weed every day. I love being able to shatter those cliches, because I know so many people who are responsible and well-respected and also happen to be passionate about weed. It’s been an issue for men attracted to me in the past, so I learned pretty quickly to be up-front about it so that they can make an informed decision about whether they’re down to date a stoner chick. For me, it’s not enough if you’re “cool with it” but don’t actively

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participate. Getting high with a lover is my favorite — it’s intimate, sexy and overall just sets the tone for the kind of vibes I like to be around. Stoner dudes are usually sweet, funny, kind and, most importantly, not judgemental. The last thing I want to deal with at the end of the day when I’m winding down is the stigma associated with chronic pot use, which is what happens when you’re boning a non-smoker. Weed is always going to be part of the deal when it comes to dating me, so if a boy ever offered me an ultimatum between him and my habit, I would laugh hysterically and blow a gravity bong in his face. Honestly, if you can’t stop yourself from judging and begging your partner to reconsider smoking, you probably shouldn’t try to date a stoner. It won’t work and wastes time for everyone involved. When dating a stoner, relationship norms — like eating together or having sex — are inevitably done high, and are therefore significantly more fun to do. Not all stoners are harmless, productive hippies. Some have problems and have made it a toxic part of their lives. This is where boundaries are important, especially if you’re enabling each other. I’m a freelance creative who usually dates other freelance creatives, so it’s super easy in the beginning of a relationship for me to drop everything else in my life to get stoned and smooch all day, which I’ve totally done with less responsible boyfriends. So it’s not just about finding someone who consumes at similar rates, but also about finding someone who has a similar relationship and sense of responsibility around weed. Ultimately it boils down to the fact that it’s hard to maintain a relationship with someone who has wildly different personal habits than you do. I like my weed, and my boyfriend definitely smokes everyday. That said, if he let it get in the way of being intelligent, hardworking and motivated, that would change things. If Valentine’s Day gets you down, remember it’s a day about love, not coupling up. It’s about celebrating love’s existence and what it means. Maybe it’s the love you have for your friends or family or pets or weed and AOC’s New Green Deal. Regardless, we all feel love in many different ways and in many different forms. It is the best human emotion ever, so spark up and enjoy it.

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his week’s guessing game in Washington seems to be where will Trump get the money Congress won’t give him to build the border wall. Would you believe from El Chapo? Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the former leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted on 10 felonies Feb. 12 and sentenced to life in prison (quite possibly Super Max in Canyon City). DEA VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

The original federal indictment of Guzman in 2016 said that if he was convicted, the feds would seek forfeiture of any property or contractual right derived from his continuing criminal enterprise, “including but not limited to at least approximately a sum of money equal to $14 billion in United States currency.” And now he’s been convicted. Which brings us to an idea Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) came up with a couple years

ago: Use El Chapo’s ill-gotten gains to build the border wall. Cruz even introduced a bill in the Senate titled the Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order Act (EL CHAPO Act), which called for the use of the $14 billion seized from Guzman to pay for the wall. Somebody must have been stoned when they thought up the name. “Fourteen billion dollars will go a long way toward building a wall that will keep Americans safe and hinder the illegal flow of drugs, weapons and individuals across our southern border,” Cruz said at the time. Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.), the ranking Republican member on the House Judiciary Committee, proposed similar legislation in the House, which would use money seized from drug cartels generally to fund a border wall. “This is a way to fulfill the president’s desire to have Mexico pay for the wall,” Sensenbrenner said at the time. “Having the money seized from Mexican drug cartels would mean that the bad Mexicans would end up paying for the wall, and the bad Mexicans have been terrorizing the good Mexicans with crime and kidnappings and murders within Mexico itself...” That last point — that using El Chapo’s money, or money seized from other drug cartels, could be spun to mean Mexico would be paying for the wall — could certainly cause Trump’s ears to prick up. And if Trump is planning to divert funds from elsewhere in the government to pay for the wall, the diversion of drug money would

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