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Highroad Why doesn’t Congress do what the people want and need? by Jim Hightower

f you wonder why Congress critters keep ignoring what the people want them to do — while doing things that people don’t want them doing — take a peek at the unique PR campaign now being run by the pharmaceutical industry. The public is dismayed and disgusted by the flagrant greed of drugmakers that are shamefully zooming the prices

of medicines into the stratosphere, turning necessities into unaffordable luxuries. As a result, there is a growing demand for Congress to take action to stop the industry’s out-of-control gouging. To counter this, drug companies have launched a massive advertising campaign running on radio, in print and on Facebook, Twitter and other social-media websites. Yet, it’s not likely that you’ve seen or heard any of them. That’s because drug chieftains don’t care what you and I think. Moreover, they know they couldn’t possibly persuade us to let them keep jacking up our prices. So, their “public” relations effort has made the odd and seemingly-counterproductive move of sidestepping the actual public, instead narrowly targeting a very tiny audience. As one CEO arrogantly put it: “We’ve identified 7,000 Americans who matter,” thus dismissing the other 330 million of us as nobodies. “We’re focusing on those in policy positions to fight

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structural issues,” he sniffed. By “structural issues,” he means convincing Congress to take no action to help consumers by reforming the present pricing structure of monopolistic drugmakers, whose guiding corporate ethic is: “Bleed ’em for all they’ve got.” So this is a surreptitious PR campaign meant to reach only the eyes and ears of policy elites. The goal is to have Congress, once again, ignore what the people want it to do, thus allowing the corporate few “who matter” to keep fleecing the many. The word for this is “plutocracy.” This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

the anderson files Economists agree with Bernie by Dave Anderson

he popularity of Bernie Sanders marks “the end of the politico-ideological cycle opened by the victory of Ronald Reagan at the 1980 elections,” according to world-famous French economist Thomas Piketty who authored the best-selling book, Capital in the 21st Century. Piketty argues that Sanders isn’t mimicking Europe’s social democratic models but rather leading the nation toward a return to a period of very progressive taxation and social spending in America. Piketty says that, before Reagan, 20th-century fiscal policy in the U.S. was more assertive in taxing the rich than the Europeans. “In the interwar years, the country invented a highly progressive income and estate tax and set up levels of fiscal progressiveness never used on our side of the Atlantic,” Piketty wrote. “From 1930 to 1980 — for half a century — the rate for the highest U.S. income (over $1 million per year) was on average 82 percent, with peaks of 91 percent from the 1940s to 1960s (from Roosevelt to Kennedy), and still as high as 70 percent during Reagan’s election in 1980.” Reagan changed all of that. He would lower the tax rate for the highest incomes to 28 percent. The establishment Democrats would accommodate themselves to this new reality. Bill Clinton was the leader of the corporatefunded Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and distanced himself from the legacy of the New Deal. His big victories — NAFTA, financial de-regulation, welfare “reform,” mass incarceration — were defeats for the Democratic base of working people and minorities. Now things have changed in the Democratic Party. The rank and file has been moving to the left for some time and an aggressive progressive populist faction of Democratic officeholders and candidates has asserted itself. Hillary has an awkward relationship with this development. She proposes modest but inadequate progressive measures while Sanders proposes bold but perfectly reasonable change given the disastrous impact of the Great Recession and grotesque income inequality on the lives of ordinary people. However, if a Democrat is elected Boulder Weekly

president this fall and the Republicans retain control of both the House and Senate, none of Clinton’s or Sanders’ reforms will become law. Sanders argues that is why we need a “political revolution” of mobilized citizens and social movements working with progressive officeholders. Political analyst Thomas Frank argues that the biggest problem of establishment Democrats like the Clintons is that they have been competing with the Republicans to become the party of Wall Street, the tech industry, big pharma and the telecoms. Frank puts it bluntly: “Consider the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street, which drew so much public outrage in the early days of the Obama administration … or the revolving door between Washington and Silicon Valley, which has been turning briskly in recent years without much public notice at all. Or the deal the pharmaceutical companies got as a result of the Obamacare negotiations. Or the startlingly different ways in which Obama’s Treasury Department treated beleaguered bankers and underwater homeowners. Or the amazing double standard his Justice Department seems to have erected for dishonest mortgage financiers and dishonest mortgage borrowers. Or the way office-holding Democrats of nearly every rank throw money at the people they call ‘innovators’ while telling working-class Americans that little can be done about their ruined lives.” Today, the Bernie campaign is shaking things up. Hillary sounds more and more like Bernie each day. The corporate media has always been focused on personalities but now it is a PR machine for Donald Trump’s antics. We hear little about the substantial debates between Bernie and Hillary. For example, 170 of the nation’s top economists released a letter endorsing Sanders’s plan to reform Wall Street. These include former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, University of Texas Professor James K. Galbraith and Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. They state that Sanders is “correct that the biggest banks must be broken see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8

letters Response to a nonsensical letter

I felt compelled to respond to the Feb. 11, 2016 letter from Michelle Kretzer of the PETA Foundation in Norfolk, VA titled “Beware Women Hunters.” I found it an unqualified view of hunting, filled with mostly nonsensical innuendo. But her bias is clear when she writes about this “so called sport” and yet advocates that, instead of hunting, females can hike, bike, kayak, canoe, camp, stargaze, rock climb, and swim...”, all activities that require gasoline consumption, the development of which has had far more negative consequences for wildlife here in Colo. than hunting, as a fact. Hunting is a rich tradition, existing much longer than PETA, and for most of us, happens only a few days out of the year and it is no guarantee at all that you may harvest a delicious, lean and hormone/steroid free critter to enjoy with family and friends. Our hunting ethics are defined by law and rooted in the desire to cook great food as we are not trophy hunters. Another aspect of Ms. Kretzer’s response is somewhat disturbing and one reason, that although a hunter, I am not a NRA member, and that is, the similar blind absolutism I find in their views and policies. Michael Ortiz/Lafayette

Wake up and smell the establishment, Polis

As a queer man who supports medical and recreational marijuana reform, as a United States citizen who did not support the War in Iraq, I must say I

am appalled at Rep. Jared Polis’ endorsement of Secretary Clinton. Perhaps he endorsed out of fear that Sen. Sanders would not gain the momentum needed to secure the nomination, but the momentum is here, right now! And with his support, we can make sure Colorado sends the same message that voters in Iowa and voters in New Hampshire sent: Enough is enough! The time for real change is now, and I encourage Rep. Polis to look deep in his heart of hearts and ask himself, “Am I ready to join this revolution and stand with Bernie to take on the special interests which dominate our political landscape, or am I going to settle for eight more years of the same-old-same-old?” I highly doubt this letter will change his mind, but I hope it raises a few concerns for you over his endorsement of Secretary Clinton, a candidate who minimally shares Rep. Polis’ values. Justin Braton/via Internet

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I am writing with concerns about the upcoming County Commissioner meeting on Feb. 29th regarding Genetically Modified Organisms in the Boulder County Cropland Policy. I am concerned that the County Commissioners are rushing the public process, that the county has not followed through in it’s GMO data collection obligations outlined in the 2011 Cropland Policy, and that County see LETTERS Page 8

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Commissioners Elise Jones and Deb Gardener will fail to follow through on their campaign promises to ban GMO’s when they ran for election. The GMO issue is also a pesticide issue. All GMO plants are used in conjunction with a chemical called glyphosate, which the World Health Organization upgraded to the status of “Probable Human Carcinogen” and recognized its danger to human health as an endocrine disrupter. Additionally, almost all GMO seeds are treated with neonicotinoids, which numerous studies have shown to destroy pollinator populations, damage the soil, and contaminate our groundwater. The County Commissioners are failing to protect sustainable agriculture in Boulder County, by allowing GMOs to be planted on our public lands. I pose 2 questions. The County Commissioners have until December to reach a decision on the review of GMO’s in the Cropland Policy. 1. Why are they giving the citizens a couple of weeks and only one hearing on such a big issue, when we have all year to get community input and sort through scientific data? 2. The Cropland policy passed in 2011 delineated that all GMOs planted on leased County land must be recorded and tracked, why has the County failed to do its job? I insist that Jones and Gardner follow through on their campaign promises and ban GMOs on Boulder County land. I encourage my fellow Boulder

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Masking lack of growth

If the creation of money out of thin air (known as quantitative easing) were really more effective than harmful, the US government would do it all the time—not just in a recession. It merely masks a lack of growth, and the more we do it the more rampant the inflation we will have. (This inflation has not happened yet, but that’s because there is a lag factor.) Things will be better in the long run if we end quantitative easing. Thus we should elect Ted Cruz for President. Alex Sokolow/Santa Monica,CA

Tired of greedy politicians

We the people are fed up with the lies and deceit of the greedy politicians who think more of themselves than the people they represent. They are a group of self-righteous individuals who capitalize on every opportunity to benefit themselves. Our voice is being heard loud and clear. Politicians, you will mistreat us no more. We will elect a person who is not a politician and cannot be bought. One who is on a mission to take this country back and restore the greatness that it once had. We will elect a one Donald J. Trump. And so it shall be. George Devine/Kokomo, Indiana

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up and that a new 21st Century GlassSteagall Act, separating investment from commercial banking, must be enacted.” They go on to say that “Wall Street’s largest banks are now far bigger than they were before the crisis, and they still have every incentive to take excessive risks... Secretary Hillary Clinton’s more modest proposals do not go far enough. They call for a bit more oversight and a few new charges on shadow banking activity, but they leave intact the titanic financial conglomerates that practice most shadow banking. As a result, her plan does not adequately reduce the serious risks our financial system poses to the American economy and to individual

Americans. Given the size and political power of Wall Street, her proposals would only invite more dilution and finagle.” Why isn’t the letter a big news story? Perhaps we can have a serious national debate over issues such as this if Bernie continues to run strong in the primaries and caucuses. It won’t be easy. Bernie is challenging the One Percent in not only the economic and political establishments but also the media establishment. This debate is essential for a democracy and we might also elect a great president. Go to your caucus on March 1 and vote for Bernie. This opinion column does necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

news Good news for immigration activist facing deportation by Angela K. Evans

eanette Vizguerra has been fighting deportation for seven years. But last week she won a significant victory. On Feb. 17 she was granted a one-year stay of removal by the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Centennial, and on Feb. 24 she was notified her next ICE check-in won’t be until Feb. 17, 2017. “In the past my stays have been of six months, and every time I have to renew it’s a lot of money, and it’s a lot of emotional stress,” she says via a translator. “This time, it’s for one year.” As Vizguerra told Boulder Weekly in August 2015, she immigrated to Colorado from Mexico City in 1997 because of increasing crime at home that was threatening her husband’s income. The mother of four and grandmother of three has been working tirelessly to stay in Colorado with her family ever since she was pulled over for dirty plates in 2009. Since then, she has been held in immigration detention and spent several months back in Mexico trying to see if she could support her family. Eventually, she has survived with six-month stay of removals that at times haven’t been renewed until after the previous one expired. She has also been involved with public advocacy campaigns, speaking out against the treatment of immigrants in the detention center and petitioning for immigration reform. She says the most recent stay of removal feels significant because the notification letter came from the local ICE office, instead of the national office in Washington D.C., within two weeks of her renewal application. “In the past, we have not been getting support or justice coming out of the local office,” she says. “This is not just in my case, but in many other cases the local office has not been responsive, and we have had to take it to a higher level to the national office. And in this case the local office acted in the right way.” She believes her public media campaign as well as a pending U Visa application accounts for the change in behavior by ICE. As a victim of a crime over 12 years ago, Vizguerra applied for a U Visa with Boulder Weekly

her most recent stay application. If granted, it would give Vizguerra legal status in the U.S. and provide a path to permanent residency and

even citizenship. “It’s not just me, it’s my children,” she says. “They have suffered and fought along with me. It feels really good to know there is a possibility of getting the U Visa and having status. It gives me great hope.” Vizguerra is uncertain about when she might hear about her U Visa application. However, she celebrates her most recent stay and hopes her

case will encourage others to keep fighting for immigration reform, especially in this election year. Ultimately, she believes the system can be changed. “For some people [a one-year stay] may not seem like that big of a deal,” Vizguerra says. “But for those of us who are fighting our cases these small important victories along the way are critical, and this is how we move forward.”

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n a time when police departments around the country are being criticized for racial bias, a report by USA Today in Nov. 2014 revealed African-Americans in Boulder are arrested at a rate 4.8 times than whites. With an AfricanAmerican population of less than 1 percent, this shocking statistic placed Boulder second in Colorado for its disparate ratio of black arrests and with a larger racial policing disparity than Ferguson, Missouri. In a city known for its progressive liberalism, this seemed outrageous. “We were very concerned about this, as was our community,” said City Manager Jane Brautigam at a City Council study session on Tuesday, Feb. 24. “Our great staff at the Police Department started looking at those statistics and felt like they were overstated. And yet we wanted to have some confirmation one way or the other from an outside source whether or not they were accurate.” So the Boulder City Council hired the national police consulting firm Hillard Heintze to review and analyze the Boulder Police Department (BPD) data and prepare a report, which City Council reviewed at the study session Tuesday. The results were similar but the outrage was missing. Accounting for some discrepancies in reporting, the consultants determined that blacks in Boulder were arrested at a rate 4.7 times higher than whites between 2011 and 2015. Additionally, they found that blacks were twice as likely to be cited for a traffic violation or misdemeanor and consistently received 2 percent of citations. Although Hispanics received between 9 and 10 percent of citations over the same time period, the consultants told City Council that is proportionate to their population whereas the percentage for blacks is disproportionate. And this data probably doesn’t fully represent police bias because the BPD does not collect racial information for stops that don’t result in a citation, which happens roughly 30 percent of the time. Even more troublesome is the data collected from field interview cards the BPD uses to record interactions with people suspected of suspicious behavior but not arrested or cited. The report states that up to 5.1 percent of all subjects recorded on the voluntary field interview cards are black. “This imbalance is particularly troublesome given that officers are not required to complete these cards,” the report states. “It is possible that the overrepresentation of African Americans in the Boulder Weekly

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data pool is because officers are more likely to prepare a Field Interview Card for a black person than for a non-black individual.” Yet even more troublesome is that these field interview cards recording suspicious people are used by the BPD to follow up on cases and investigations, meaning their names could emerge quickly as potential suspects. The consultants of Hillard Heintze advise the BPD to start recording data from all stops, not just ones that end in citations, and either fill out field interview cards for contact with all people or abandon the use of the cards completely. In response to the report, Boulder City Council members, along with the consultants from Hillard Heintze thanked and commended the BPD for their cooperation in looking at the data, not being defensive about the results and being willing to implement the report’s recommendations. One of the consultants also praised the City Council for “productively reaching out and doing something about this.” However, no one seemed to ask why the BPD has such high racial bias statistics, who’s responsible for biased policing and what’s going to be done about it. The only comment came as a sidenote between other comments by Mayor Suzanne Jones. “There is the issue of your finding that it would appear you’re twice as likely if you’re black to be cited. That’s obviously concerning and worth looking into and doing better data gathering and monitoring,” she said at the meeting. “Maybe that’s obvious so I’m just going to say that — that is a concerning stat.” Council member Matt Appelbaum pointed out early on in the meeting that age is not a factor in the data presented by the report, and could possibly account for the disparate statistics given that almost 700 of the 1,000 blacks in Boulder attend CU, and young people are more likely to be given traffic citations or charged with misdemeanors. “Way over 50 percent of the blacks in Boulder are students at CU,” he said. “If we correct for age, do we get a different result here? Because I suspect 20-year-old people are stopped more frequently than 50-year-old people. So if you are disproportionately younger, and in this case very disproportionately younger, you might just get stopped because you are younger. Now I’m not trying to excuse anything... that just stood out to me.” The consultants confirmed that they didn’t include age in their analysis but the BPD citation data they used, does record it and could be used to help determine why blacks are “overrepresented in this pool of citations.” Around the country police chiefs and mayors are resigning over biased policing and the Black Lives Matter movement, in reaction to disparate treatment by police officers, is a dominant voice in American politics during this election cycle. And yet in Boulder, a supposed bastion of liberalism, the police department is being congratulated simply for cooperating and considering recommendations to improve their practices, as opposed to being reprimanded for what they have already done. Where is the outrage? Boulder Weekly

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ary Smith takes a seat with her back to the crowd, some two-dozen people gathered in the third-floor hearing room of the Boulder County Courthouse. She’s facing the County Commissioners: Cindy Domenico, Deb Gardner and Elise Jones. “Mary, you’re up,” Jones tells Smith. “You’ve seen us through this before.” It’s been five years since Smith came before the Boulder County Commissioners and asked them to ban genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on taxpayer-funded open space. It’s a battle she and other antiGMO activists lost the first time around — after months of debate, hundreds of written comments and a 13-hour public hearing — when the commissioners (Domenico among them, along with Ben Pearlman and Will Toor) unanimously voted to add genetically engineered sugar beets to the crops grown on county agricultural land in December 2011. (GE corn has been allowed since 2003.) The result of that vote was an update to the Boulder County Parks and Open Space Cropland Policy, extending the use of GE corn and adding GE sugar beets to the crop mix on Open Space for five years. Which brings us back to the thirdfloor hearing room. It’s around 2 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, and Mary Smith is speaking at the last of three days’ worth of individual public meetings between community members and the County Commissioners. She’s speaking because the Cropland Policy is up for renewal this year. These individual meetings — with activists like Smith, county farmers, biotech engineers, beekeepers, agriculturalists, professors and more — are a lead up to the first and only pubic hearing on Feb. 29 regarding whether to change the policy or stay the course with GMOs on county land. After some 19 hours of individual meetings, and a public hearing that could last up to 10 hours, the commissioners are slated to make their decision on March 17. On this Friday afternoon, Smith is trying to pour years’ worth of research into a 20-minute statement. 12 February 25, 2016

natural food industry players present in 2011’s great debate about GMOs on Boulder’s Open Space appear to be missing from this year’s discussion. And we know that state and county agriculture employees shared information about the upcoming hearing with farm special interest groups, well before the public was informed of the upcoming hearing. So with all we know, the question is, what will we grow?

Let’s be clear: these questions aren’t new

Her war speech hasn’t changed much in the past five years; her primary complaint isn’t about the safety of GMOs, though she’s not afraid to tell you they’re at the root of many ailments. No, if you ask Smith what all this time spent fighting GMOs on county land is about, she’ll tell you it’s about local sovereignty, and more importantly, how Boulder County has denied it to its citizens. “I guarantee at that meeting on the 29th we see exactly what we saw four years ago: Farmers from across the state demanding their right to plant GMOs,” she told the Commissioners on Feb. 19. “What agricultural chemical companies have done is divide the community down the middle. ... It was a travesty on so many levels, but the biggest was the [lack of ] democratic process. What happened to ‘We the people’?” While Smith’s position remains the

same, what has changed is what we know about GMOs, about the effects the herbicides and pesticides used in their cultivation have on our environment and health. We know that Big Ag companies like Monsanto, and even federal agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture, have silenced and tormented researchers who attempt to publish critical research on the agrichemical industry’s most profitable products, or those that are in the pipeline. We know that Monsanto’s monopoly ownership over the sugar beet seed market has actually made reverting to non-GMO sugar beets for commercial production impossible at this time. On a local level, we know that two of the current County Commissioners, Elise Jones and Deb Gardner, ran in 2011 on platforms of banning GMOs on County Open Space land. We know

While research on GMOs from the past five years has given us more reason than ever to be skeptical, scientists were questioning these products back in 1991 when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was developing its policy on GE foods. In memos obtained by the Alliance for Bio-Integrity in 1998 (in preparation for a pioneering case on GMO labeling, Alliance for Bio-Integrity, et. al. v. Shalala), numerous experts within the FDA voiced their concerns about this new technology entering the marketplace. Still, GM seeds were introduced commercially in 1996. A common argument today is that genetically engineering seeds in a laboratory is no different than cross-pollination or cross-hybridization, both methods that nature and humans use to proliferate a species or create novel traits. But FDA microbiologist Louis Pribyl disagreed with this oversimplification in a comment on a Biotechnology Draft Document in early 1992. “There is a profound difference between the types of unexpected effects from traditional breeding and genetic engineering which is just glanced over in this document,” Pribyl wrote. (Other comments in his memo seem to divine future concerns more than 20 years later: “It reads very pro-industry, especially in the area of unintended effects, but contains very little input from consumers and only a few answers for their concerns, many of which would be answered by supplying the scientific grounding principles.”) And Pribyl was far from alone. In a memo to FDA Biotechnology Boulder Weekly

news Coordinator James Maryanski about a statement of policy on GM plants, Linda Kahl, an FDA compliance officer wrote, “I believe that there are at least two situations relative to this document in which it is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. The first … is that the document is trying to force an ultimate conclusion that there is no difference between food modified by genetic engineering and foods modified by traditional breeding practices. This is because of the mandate to regulate the product, not the process.” Kahl goes on to say, “The process of genetic engineering and traditional breeding are different, and according to the technical experts in the agency, they lead to different risks.” She does, however, go on to point out that these risks might very well be lower than for foods produced by traditional means, but the agency is so busy pointing out that it’s “the product and not the process that’s regulated, that risk assessment is lost.” Scientists at the FDA were also worried about the agency’s plan to feed GE products to livestock — but there was little question about the agency’s intention to implement the seed industry’s business model, as GE crops were introduced to animal feed in 1996, along with foods for human consumption. According to a 2013 report from the National Corn Growers Association, about 80 percent of all corn grown in the U.S. is consumed by domestic and overseas livestock, poultry, fish and fuel production. Keep in mind that around 90 percent of the U.S. corn crop is genetically engineered. Back in February 1992, Gerald Guest, the director of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, urged (and some may read the memo as reprimanding) FDA Biotechnology Coordinator James Maryanski to support a pre-market review of GE food plants because, as Guest put it, “the new methods of genetic modification permit the introduction of genes from a wider range of sources than possible in traditional breeding,” and “new plant constituents that could be of a toxicological or environmental concern.” Guest goes on to point out that unlike the human diet, a single plant product may constitute a significant portion of an animal’s diet, and that animals often eat parts of plants that humans don’t. Here’s the truly disturbing part of Guest’s memo: “Generally, I would urge you to eliminate statements that suggest that the lack of information can be used as evidence for no regulatory concern.” He points to two such examples in the Draft Federal Register Notice on Food Boulder Weekly

Biotechnology. Guest also calls parts of the notice “misleading” as it doesn’t include future methodology or techniques for GE goods. “Sponsors may assume that if their transgenic product or methodology is not included in the Notice, that it is exempt from regulation.” Despite such warnings, no pre-market review of GE food plants was conducted. This was 1992 — 24 years ago. It’s clear the concerns of these scientists were ignored, and it seems not much has changed in nearly a quarter century.

Questions remain while forced silence reigns Scientists have continued to question GMOs and the pesticides associated with their cultivation, and federal agencies— with the blessing of agricultural behemoths like Monsanto — have continued to shut those questions down and force concerned scientists out of the conversation. Much of this silencing of research has occurred since the County Commissioners made their last decision to allow GMOs on taxpayerowned property in Boulder County five years ago. Let’s start with Jonathan Lundgren, an entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Research Service (ARS). Lundgren worked for the USDA for more than a decade, publishing nearly 100 peer-reviewed papers since beginning his career with the ARS in 2005. In 2012 he was presented with ARS’ “Outstanding Early Career Research Scientist” award and placed at the helm of his own lab. But Lundgren made the decision to turn a critical eye to some of Big Ag’s most prominent products, namely neonicotinoids, the world’s most widely used insecticide. He also publically questioned, in a 2013 peer-reviewed journal, a Monsanto-developed insecticidal technology that had yet to hit the market, RNA interference. RNAi, as it is often referred to, works by killing targeted insects and weeds by silencing genes critical to their survival. Lundgren and his USDA colleague Jian Duan were skeptical of the technology’s ability to target pests and leave everything else in the environment unscathed, and they noted that research on RNAi up to that point had mostly revolved around human medicine, not agricultural use. RNAi is clearly a GE technology, but what’s the GE connection with neonicotinoids, you may wonder. Well, GE corn is often treated with neonics. The pesticide provides a second line of

defense to manage pests that aren’t killed by Bt (a soil bacteria genetically inserted into corn to manage insects) or Roundup, the world’s most widely used herbicide. Lundgren, along with numerous other researchers over the last five years, found in more than one study that neonics wreak havoc on pollinator populations, such as bees and butterflies. All of this is background for what ultimately became the dismantling of Lundgren’s career with the USDA: In September 2014, Lundgren filed a “Complaint of Violation of USDA Scientific Integrity Policy.” In his complaint, Lundgren stated he was subjected to “improper reprisal, interference and hindrance of [his] research and career” after a series of late-March 2014 press interviews (including one with Boulder Weekly on RNAi technology, “Muzzled by Monsanto,” April 3, 2014) and a report by the Center for Food Safety in which Lundgren added his expert opinion that neonicotinoids were overused and of “questionable economic value for farmers.” A “misconduct” investigation on Lundgren began in April 2014. He describes the investigation as “utter hell” for himself and his lab group. “Five of my eight term employees have had their employment threatened, hampered, or were dismissed unexpectedly since March 2014,” Lundgren wrote in his complaint. “I have never had problems of this nature or to this extent as I have since talking with the press in late March.” The following year, Lundgren was accused of submitting a paper (on the negative effect of a particular neonic on monarch butterflies) to a publication without proper internal approval from the USDA. He was subsequently found to be in violation of agency travel protocol in March 2015 when heading to a National Academy of Sciences conference to speak about the role of genetic engineering in pest management, and then on to a Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance conference in Philadelphia. Ultimately, he spent $3,000 out-ofpocket to attend both conferences, and was placed on a 14-day unpaid suspension for his transgressions in August. Lundgren filed a federal whistleblower complaint in October. The USDA asked that the case be thrown out, but an administrative judge dubbed the case “non-frivolous,” and ordered a hearing. As of Feb. 12, 2016, the USDA’s inspector general, Phyllis Fong, announced plans to investigate censorship of agency scientists working on controversial issues.

Lundgren is not alone in his dismissal from the scientific community after years of questioning Big Ag technology. As mentioned earlier, Boulder Weekly wrote about RNAi technology in 2014, focusing specifically on Vicki Vance, a professor of botany at the University of South Carolina. In 2012, Vance was repeatedly harassed by Monsanto and unable to get her research published after designing a study that found animals could take up microRNA from plants, a finding that would suggest RNAi agricultural technology might warrant closer scientific inspection before hitting the market. Vance’s study was based off of a 2011 study by Chen-Yu Zhang of Nanjing University in China. Zhang’s study also showed that mammals (mice) could take up small RNAs when they eat plants, and those plant RNAs regulate expression of the mammal’s genes. The team found a particular molecule of RNA from rice could inhibit a protein that supports removal of low-density lipoprotein, or “bad” cholesterol from the blood. If such a finding proved true for humans, it could have major implications for heart disease and other health issues tied to cholesterol. It could also have major implications for Monsanto’s new RNAi corn, engineered to silence life-supporting genes in insects. Opposition was apparent even before Zhang’s study was published. The manuscript was rejected by wellknown journals Science, Cell and Molecular Cell. Zhang was eventually contacted by Monsanto’s Chinese office, but in his 2014 interview with Boulder Weekly, he was reluctant to even say Monsanto, often calling it “the company.” “I just want to say,” he said, “obviously something is going on. It’s not pure science. I just think something is maybe behind them.”

Beyond the politics In addition to the scientific censorship that occurs in American research on Big Ag technologies, there’s a world of research indicating GMOs and associated pesticides and herbicides aren’t as harmless as federal agencies like the FDA and USDA would lead us to believe. Much of this research comes from outside the U.S., like the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2015 announcement that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is likely carcinogenic to humans. While studies differ on findings about the link to cancer in humans, the WHO classification See GMOS Page 14

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Boulder Weekly wrote about Dow’s newest agriculture technology in August 2014 (“Marketshare chemical warfare,” Aug. 7, 2014). In that story, Margot McMillen spoke about how she lost her organic produce — grapes, tomatoes, peppers and potatoes — due to 2,4-D drift from a neighbor’s farm. McMillen’s issue is a growing problem for farmers in America, conventional and organic. The problem has become so widespread that “chemical trespass” is now a very real crime within the U.S. legal system. Boulder Attorney Randall Weiner has handled a number of cases dealing with chemical trespass, including a massive loss of crops on the Abbondanza farm in Boulder. Pesticide drift on the organic-certified farm in 2010 cost the owners most of their fall harvest, a $250,000 loss. Weiner notes the Abbondanza farm had land on County Open Space. He says chemical trespass could become more of a taxpayer liability on County land with expanded use of GMO crops, but it’s hard to know definitively because state and county governments are somewhat protected by the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act. “It might depend on the lease, what the lease said,” Weiner says. “Someone would need to look at that before there was a contamination incident.”

What about ‘We the people’?

In Boulder County, much of this information and more has been presented to the County Commissioners during the three individual public meetings held earlier this month, and it’s a certainty that more information is yet to come at the hearing on Feb. 29. But documents obtained through the Colorado Open Records Act by Mary Smith and her husband Scott seem to indicate that public officials shared privileged information about the upcoming Feb. 29 hearing with farm special-interest groups and others who stand to directly benefit from the continuation of the current GMO policies on County Open Space lands, and the information was shared well in advance of public notification of the hearing. The nearly 300 pages of documents include myriad emails between state and county agriculture employees that show a clear intention to set up private meetings with the Boulder County Commissioners prior to any hearings about GMOs on County land. Cindy Lair, the state program conservation manager with the Colorado Boulder Weekly

news Department of Agriculture, wrote the following to Commissioner of Agriculture Don Brown on Dec. 2, 2015: “I am forwarding an email from Nancy McIntyre, the District Manager for both districts. Keith Bateman, a Board supervisor from Boulder Valley CD (farms in Louisville, very close to our office), suggested that if we planned a private meeting between you and the County Commissioners it might give them more solid footing as they go into that public hearing in February,” Lair wrote. “There might be challenges with public meetings/sunshine laws to make such a meeting happen, but it may be worth a shot if some support was of offered.” But Keith Koopman, executive director of the Farmers Alliance for Integrated Resources (FAIR) — the pro-GMO agricultural group formed during the controversial hearings five years ago — sums up the slew of emails best in a Dec. 13 email to Lair in which he calls the anti-GMO activists of Boulder County “green-washed luddites,” and claims that Boulder’s natural foods industry has their “person, Elise Jones, solidly in their pocket.” He also mentions that Jones is the twin of newly appointed City of Boulder Mayor Suzanne Jones and insinuates that the City and County are now working together to stop GMOs on public lands. His claim that the voice of the natural foods industry in Boulder County is loud may have been true in 2011, but the same doesn’t appear to be as accurate in the lead up to the hearing on Feb. 29. While big name organic brands and natural food purveyors, many headquartered in Boulder County, were featured speakers at the 2011 hearing, those same names can’t be found on current sign up sheets for either the individual meetings or the public hearing. Among those present in 2011 and so far missing in 2016 are WhiteWave/ Silk, Hain Celestial, Naturally Boulder, Rudi’s Organic Bakery, Earth Balance/ Boulder Brands, Aurora and Revelry. Some within the anti-GMO movement have said this lack of participation from the natural food industry appears to stem from two distinct waves of acquisitions of organic processors by larger food industry conglomerates that use GMOs in many of their other products. The last consolidation wave began in 2012, according to research by Phil Howard, an associate professor in the Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State (See consolidation map page 17). During the hearings in 2011, FAIR Boulder Weekly

painted itself as a grassroots organization of farmers who supported using GMOs on Open Space lands. But reporting by Boulder Weekly at the time revealed that FAIR was the brainchild of, and financially supported by, several giant agricultural organizations and corporations. The lines were further blurred when BW discovered that full-page, pro-GMO ads running in the Daily Camera, which stated they had been paid for by FAIR, were actually being paid for by the Colorado Corn Growers Association. It appears from Koopman’s email in Smith’s CORA documents that FAIR still receives support from Big Ag to spread their message of GMO necessity and safety. “FAIR [Farmers Alliance for Integrated Resources] has received a couple of grants from the ag. industry (sic) so we have hired a PR firm and have national support from industry representatives to develop a messaging document and campaign to get our voice heard. Social media is a critical part of the project and we are working other more traditional angles as well. We do not intend to drive our tractors off into the sunset just to allow Boulder Brands to enhance their profits and bragging rights for GMO¬free local public lands, all on the backs of local farm families and the stewardship practices on those lands for many years.” Koopman’s email suggests that Boulder’s organic food industry would prosper even more with a move to zero GMOs on county leased lands. And he is likely correct. The natural food industry is already one of Boulder County’s largest employers and likewise one of its largest tax generating industries. It has long been argued by those within the natural foods industry that allowing GMOs to be grown on Open Space is a detriment to the Boulder image or brand. If that is true, it is also logical to assume that not allowing GMOs on Open Space would result in even more organic and natural foods companies launching or relocating into the County — the end result of which would translate to far more jobs and more revenue to Boulder County than will ever be realized from leasing Open Space to produce GMO crops, whose largest financial contribution to the County is not having to pay for weed mitigation. In an unusual and questionable move, the County Commissioners decided not to speak to the media prior See GMOS Page 17

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to the hearing. Instead, Michelle Krezek, staff deputy to the Boulder County Commissioners, and Public Information Officer Barb Halprin spoke for them. Halprin says the topic of GMOs on County land is sensitive, even between the three commissioners. Indeed, Elise Jones and Deb Gardner ran for County Commissioner seats in 2011 on platforms to ban GMOs on County Open Space Land. Cindy Domenico, on the other hand, voted to extend and expand GMOs on county land as a commissioner in 2011. Back then, Domenico lamented the multitude of “all-ornothing demands” from the public, something Halprin says the commissioners have seen from the current round of public meetings as well. “Are there other ideas? Are there actual Anti-GMO activists have noted there is less opposition to GMOs on Open Space from Boulder County’s natural food industry this time around as ways that people could opposed to 2011, which may be attributable to recent consolidation within the industry. come forward and say, ‘We understand this can’t commercial scale non-GMO sugar ing stocks of non-GMO seeds so they Commissioners who campaigned on be ended over night but here’s a thought- beets. are not available. And by the time negthe promise to eliminate GMOs from ful way to start moving in that direcIn 2008, Monsanto released its ative research or the courts come along county open space keep their promises. tion’?” Halprin says. “That’s the kind of Roundup Ready sugar beet, and by and try to stop it, it’s already past the If so, they have the votes to make it happen. input the commissioners would like to 2010, the GM sugar beets comprised point of no return, so the government Or, will they, as the Commissioner’s see. They are seeing a lot of ‘Don’t’ make 95 percent of the total U.S. sugar beet — which has been heavily influenced surrogates to the media seem to be any changes’ or ‘Ban them out right.’ Not market. The Center for Food Safety by Monsanto’s massive lobbying and foreshadowing, look instead for some a lot of middle ground here.” filed a lawsuit claiming that the USDA campaign finance expenditures — simmiddle ground compromise that will When asked about the timing of had violated the law by licensing ply says, “Well then, carry on.” the public hearing — to be held in late Monsanto’s genetically engineered sugar Bell, the county agriculture resource allow GMOs on Open Space while givFebruary when the policy doesn’t expire beets without performing the required manager, confirms simply that, “No, it’s ing them cover for going back on their campaign promise? until December — Krezek says it was environmental impact study. Ultimately, not a possibility” to grow non-GM A lot may depend on who shows up scheduled early to give farmers time to a federal judge ruled in favor of the sugar beets at a commercial scale. and what is said at the upcoming Feb. plan “in response to any change with Center and ordered Monsanto to pull “Do they exist? You can buy a small 29 public hearing, which will be held in that policy.” the product until a study could be done package, a set up for people trying to Longmont in the same room at the She notes that a final decision and released. do a homestead,” he says. “We have doesn’t have to be made on March 17. But the product was never pulled. found them, but not more than 20-seed Convention Center where the meetings five years ago took place. We know that Commissioners can ask for more studAs a result of Monsanto’s massive packets.” FAIR and its statewide network of Big ies or allow more public hearings. monopoly over the sugar beet seed • • • • Ag will turn out a room full of greenHowever, with spring planting so industry, the FDA told the judge that if So there you have it. This is just a hat wearing farmers, mostly from other close, County Agriculture Resource followed, his order would cause a sugar fraction of what we’ve learned about counties in the state. So the question is, Manager David Bell says it would be a shortage in the U.S. because there genetically modified organisms and with the lessened support from Boulder “challenge” to implement any changes weren’t enough non-GMO seeds left to associated herbisides and pesticides County’s increasingly consolidated natto the Cropland Policy this season. replant. since the last time the Boulder County ural foods industry, who will be there to But there’s one change to the It was a perfect illustration of Commissioners tangled with the topic speak for the other side? Guess we’ll all Cropland Policy that Boulder County Monsanto’s business model. Put out of GMOs on County Open Space. have to turn out on the 29th to find wouldn’t be able to make no matter GE seeds, conquer the entire market So what can we expect to happen out. how much time passes — a return to within 24 months, buy up the remainthis time around? Will the two Boulder Weekly

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ccess to clean water and san- WASH so even the unaware freshman bring untainted water downstream to itation is integral to global or sophomore who is just now hearing the community. health, and yet in some parts about some of this stuff or the 30-year Mulhern views his current research of the world it is often conprofessional both get something out of on treating wastewater as a stepping sidered a luxury. As of 2015, it,” Mulhern says. “Some of that process stone in gaining technical skills that 32 percent of the global population still of bringing a diverse group together is would allow him to do his dream work lack facilities such as a flush toilets or what moves the sector forward, that later on. hygienic pit latrines, according to sense of collaboration — even if it’s “I really want to be in some sort of UNICEF, although 2.1 billion people with these people who are all profesfield that I’m addressing issues of social have gained access to an improved form sionals and experts, or if it’s across the justice, and to me, lack of access to of sanitation since 1990. water sanitation is a social Courtesy of Zapata Ramirez, Nuevas Esperanzas And while the United justice issue,” Mulhern Nation’s millennium develsays. “And the solution opment target for drinking isn’t always technical water was met in 2010, 9 either. It isn’t always we percent of the global popuneed better technology, lation still does not have which is some of what access to safe drinking we’re going to talk about water. at the symposium; is it a Global water, sanitation technical issue, or is it a and hygiene (WASH) service delivery issue, projects focus on creating which is more social jussustainable solutions to tice oriented.” shrink this gap. Closer to For Shaye Palagi, home, 14 University of another member of the Colorado students who all symposium planning comshare an interest in WASH mittee who is getting a created a two-day sympoPh.D. in civil engineering, sium with speakers from her interest in WASH Riley Mulhern conducting bacterial research on a water sample in across the globe. came during her studyNicaragua. Riley Mulhern is one abroad experience in of the graduate students helping to plan spectrum — I think it provides a stepSingapore. the event, and it is Mulhern’s second ping stone for the future of WASH.” “I traveled all throughout Southeast year doing so. Last year the symposium As an undergraduate at Wheaton Asia, and to be honest, I used some was dedicated entirely to sustainable College, Mulhern traveled to Nicaragua really bad toilets, and I went to the development goals that had been for a six-month internship with Nuevas bathroom in some really horrible placreleased by the UN. This year’s event Esperanzas, an organization that focuses,” she says. “I’ve physically lived what will focus on non-residential WASH, es on water resources and food security. it’s like, lived without adequate sanitaurban WASH and market-based He lived in a village that relied on tion, but I only lived it for a week at a approaches to fund such projects. ground water that had been naturally time. I can’t imagine living with inade“The goal of the symposium every poisoned with arsenic from the Telica quate sanitation for a lifetime. ... year is to set up a platform for sharing Volcano. During his time there, he Adequate sanitation is a human right, and expanding that knowledge in helped build a 3.7-kilometer pipeline to and for me it was realizing it is not

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ightening acceleration. Blistering speeds. Crashes and podium finishes. Teamwork and tradition. These are the elements of skijoring, an obscure sport with a rich history that’s making a comeback across the Rocky Mountain region. It’s a game of grace and beauty and speed and adrenaline, as teams of a horse, a rider and a skier blast down snow-covered courses that include jumps and gates: drag racing with a twist, fastest time wins. According to historians of the sport, skijoring is an ancient test of man, beast, teamwork and guts. While the origins of the sport as competition are shrouded in the mists of time, the earliest known records of men (or women) on skis being pulled by an animal date from thousands of years ago, from the Altai Mountains in central Asia. The concept of ski- and animal-assisted travel across snow spread through Lapland, Finland, where reindeer are still utilized as an essential part of the equation combining man, skis and snow to cover vast distances. Eventually the Rocky Mountain West got into the act. Of course, at some point, someone decided to race a friend or family member, and the utilitarian function of travel over snow evolved to the competitive sport of skijoring. Globally, the sport hit a zenith in the early Boulder Weekly

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rings that must be speared, sometimes using a sawed off ski pole — fiendishly difficult. Finally, there are the jumps, which dramatically increase the difficulty for the skiers as they attempt to snare the rings and navigate gates, crucial to avoiding the time penalty that comes from missing a gate or a ring. If it sounds dangerous, well, it can be. But the athletes that participate in the serious racing — and we include the horses in this category, because they’re athletes too — have worked their way up. For the neverevers and those who are still getting their legs, the novice or “sport” category is less intense but no less exciting. “You compete in the sport division first,” says Bruce Stott, a former Boulder resident who attended the University of Colorado and who now lives in Frisco. He’s competed in skijoring since 2000, when he signed up for an event in Summit County on a whim. “I started right after college,” Stott says. “I did a race in Frisco and thought, ‘Wow, this is fun.’” Stott now races in the “open” category, where the horses are fast and the stakes higher. If you do well in the sport division, he says, “it is easy to meet up with the horse people.” And, according to Stott, that’s the key to winning see SKIJORING Page 26

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races, because the horse people are the gate-keepers for the rock-star athletes who can make or break your game come race day. “There’s a few horses that are known to be really fast,” Stott says. “These horses come off of the race tracks, from barrel racing and roping. They’re from ranches and are working horses.” The horses have names like Rocket, Tank, Merlin and Red. They’re fast and beautiful and, like many top performers, sometimes a big quirky. “I won’t discount the relationship you have to have with a horse,” says Dana Stiles, a longtime competitor who is making the transition from Merlin to a new steed this year. “Trust is the issue.” Stiles has been competing for more than 20 years and got her start at a nowdefunct event in Avon. “I knew about the event in Leadville, but I would always forget about it,” admits Stiles. “I’d then hear about it in the winter, but my horses were always out of shape. And I wasn’t going to pull a fat horse out of the pasture to go race at 10,000 feet.” “You need a fast horse and a good skier,” Stott adds. “For Minturn you have to go around gates, over six 7-foot jumps and collect rings. Miss a ring or a gate, and it’s a penalty. The start is the key.” “Trying to get a good start is the key,” Stiles agrees. “It’s tough to make up time.” That’s the reason, according to Stiles, that just like any athlete, the horses and their riders (as well the skiers) have to train to be ready to go when the bell rings, making skijoring more than just a passing spectacle on a cold winter day. “There are some people who are really serious, ex ski racers — I don’t like to look at them as ski bums or hippies. They’re athletes, and our horse riders, they’re not just a bunch of rednecks,” Stiles says. “As a whole, the skjouring community is pretty dedicated. You have teams in Minturn from Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. These teams have been to two or three or four races this year already. And they’ve trained in the snow and the crap, you have to if you are going to be ready.” Still, despite this core of professionalism and commitment, skijoring today remains a grassroots phenomenon, a back-to-the-future movement that echoes a rich and illustrious past, fueled by community and volunteers, who work tirelessly to promote, host and run events. But don’t be fooled. The sport is poised to explode across the West once again, with plans for junior and pee wee events in the works, and more and more races across the region each year. “A hundred years ago in Steamboat there was a circuit in existence, with events in Baggs, Pinedale and Jackson,” Loren Zhimanskova says. “And today it’s the same, it’s all about the community having a great time supporting cowboys, cowgirls and skiers, they all come together for skijoring and the teams love collaborating and trying to [develop] strategies to get the fastest, cleanest run.” Zhimanskova is the owner of Skijor International, which seeks to promote the sport, and also serves on the board of RMX Skijoring, the organization partnering with Minturn to host the event. Zhimanskova got hooked at the first skijoring race she went to. “I was volunteering and helping to write down the times,” she recalls. “I loved it. There are few things that give you more of an adrenaline rush than seeing a horse go flying right by you and then seeing a skier right behind them.” “We wouldn’t have these races if the ranching communities with the riders and horses, and the ski communities didn’t all work together,” Zhimanskova adds. “There aren’t many events that pull these people together successfully, and for the spectators that’s fun.” And, Zhimanskova says, the horses like it too. “Not every horse is going to be comfortable towing a skier, or ready for the experience of being around crowds of people cheering,” she says. “It takes training and the right horse. The horses are generally quarter horses or appendix horses, which are combination of thoroughbreds and quarter horses. They’re quick out of the gate. When you stand at the start line you see that the horses are so excited, they love to run and they love to compete.” It’s also worth noting that, according to Zhimanskova, “a lot of the horses are rescue horses. “They really are athletes,” she says, “and the fact that they are participating in a sport is really heartwarming.” Also heartwarming is the fact that at the Minturn races 10 percent of the purse is reserved for the horses, a nod to the fact that these athletes are an integral part of the team and deserving of a taste of the victory spoils. The money is nice, but there are still some challenges. The fans who fall in love with these four-legged speed machines will find that getting their favorite athlete’s autograph will still be pretty tough. Boulder Weekly

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alk into the Art of the State exhibit and you will immediately step into the diverse Colorado art scene. Far from the galleries of New York City or Los Angeles, Colorado boasts its own rich and varied art scene, and it features more than just your typical cookie-cutter painting of Colorado’s landscape. Art of the State is now at the Arvada Center through March 27. This is the second time the center has presented this show, and the hope is to continue to feature a Kevin Sloan variety of local artists in the future. Art of the State displays both contemporary and traditional art forms in a “Birds of America: Migration Interrupted” plethora of media. And the exhibit shows just how diverse our state can be. Kevin Sloan, the winner of the best-in-show award, uses more traditional forms. His winning piece is of an elegantly posed seal balancing a candle on its nose, called “St. Fortitude.” Amidst the picturesque landscape of a lake surrounded by trees, the seal stands on a collection of flattened clocks, with oranges dotted around the animal. Upon further inspection, layers of painting technique become layers of a carefully constructed concept. The seal, poised and sophisticated, is covered in graffiti. Sloan says the graffiti spray serves to stand see ART OF THE STATE Page 30

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out in sharp contrast with the tranquility of the rest of the image. Despite the sad reality of the graffiti, Sloan says his work is not meant to evoke feelings of anger or blame. Neither is he trying to take a political stance on ecological problems. “I don’t want to create a dismal picture,” Sloan says of his work. “I’m not interested in the advocacy that takes the form of a political statement.” His intention is to examine one particular question: “What happens when the natural world and man-made world interact?” He answers that question by infusing every image in his painting with a purpose. The clocks represent time, the kind that continues into modernity and slowly but surely ticks away at the animal’s life. The oranges, which are a staple in Sloan’s work, are meant to be striking and bright, acting as a contrast to the subtle graffiti marks on the seal. Perhaps the most telling aspect of Sloan’s work is his main subject, which is always an animal. Sloan uses animals “in an attempt to give voice to our silent neighbors,” he says. The animals can’t speak for themselves, so he attempts to illustrate disjointed harmony in his artworks between animals and modern aspects that are usually technological in nature. For his other piece in the exhibit, “Birds of America: Migration Interrupted,” Sloan says he was inspired by the geese he often sees down by his studio in Denver. The piece illustrates a goose precariously wrapped in a chord. “There’s an evolution right in front of my eyes,” Sloan says. “Ideally, my artwork would still be readable in the future,” he says. “I want to make artworks that are long-lived intellectually.” • • • • Another artist featured in the exhibit is Dylan Gebbia-Richards, who moved to Colorado to pursue a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is an artist who exploits art techniques at their most basic level to create art that appeals to all of the senses. Gebbia-Richard’s exhibited piece is called “Specking” and is a series of thin cloths consisting of fragmented paint. In the exhibition’s light, the black and red fragments come together to create the illusion of a 3-D orb. Though one cannot physically walk up to the piece because it is hanging from the ceiling, glancing at it through the second-floor window yields the illusion of finely crafted beads all coming together to create a delicate optical illusion. “There’s this perceptual adventure your eyes take through the piece,” GebbiaRichards says. “It explores this cause-and-effect relationship.” Gebbia-Richards explores, not the limits, the capabilities of his mediums. His work pushes boundaries, employing both the accidental and purposeful. “There’s a logic to the random chance of the work,” he says. “And I just push it as far as it can go.” It is only upon finishing his piece, he says, that he can see his work’s central theme is synesthesia, the phenomenon of intertwined senses where people feel colors, for example. The occurrence translates into Gebbia-Richards’ basic understanding of Boulder Weekly

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the world. He believes that the media in to evoke the form of a configuration. itself can be a stunning visual experiThe piece itself is simplistic but mentation. The work is, however, still a evocative. Smooth lines loop in the visual representation of personal percepcenter of the piece in fluid motions tion. that make them appear as if they are “I’m not imitating the natural dripping down the brightly colored world, but creating canvas. The fluid Yoshitomo Saito my own,” he says. lines in his piece, • • • • an interpretation of Artwork is, in its wire, are inspired most basic sense, a by the shape of personal interpretaJapanese characters tion of the world. on a hanging scroll. Husband and wife Bernice’s work, Mel and Bernice “Shambala Warrior,” Strawn have their uses salvaged wood own outlooks. Even and paint to create a though they share a bright, impressionmarriage, they have istic figure. For 45 their own aesthetics years she has made and work on their constructions out of own individual piec- “Colorado Loop #10” found materials. She uses both metal and es. Both 86 years old wood, but mostly and retired, the extra old wood, since she has a particular time allows them to work on their art interest in it, saying the bent shapes constantly, with every day yielding new reminded her of the shoulders of a experimentations and results. human body. While the couple works individuFor this piece, Bernice was inspired ally they do share an inspiration: Japanese and Chinese art. Bernice, by the concept of the Buddhist whose intention has always been to Shambala warrior. simplify her work, speaks about the “The Shambala warriors are warart as teaching a type of restraint, riors for good and we need more of since simplicity requires it. Mel, on those around because there’s so much the other hand, talks about being evil in the world,” she says. inspired by the gesture and movement • • • • of calligraphy. Each artist approaches his or her Mel’s work, titled “Wire Dancer,” work differently. Japanese artist is acrylic paint on canvas. Mel uses Yoshitomo Saito is intrigued by tradibright colors and minimalistic lines tional supplies and their place in modBoulder Weekly

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osh Hodges, architect of indie sode of The Blacklist. “Never Ever” has is only allowed to see through him, or upstart band STRFKR, isn’t a the same potential for success. And if past him, to what’s beyond. It may be nobody. So it should come as a it does become a hit, it will be on the fitting that Hodges once recorded surprise to hear he aspires to virtue of recapturing the charm of under another name, Sexton Blake. be one. However, there’s more their previous work without aping the It was something of a pseudonym or peace and contentment in the sentiment sound — demonstrating an evolution alter ego for Hodges himself, while than a willing toward indolence. for the band while maintaining their ostensibly serving as the moniker for “There are people that do terribly integrity and stable identity, which the band itself. violent things to kind of make a name broadcasts as genuine. “I don’t think I’ll use that name for themselves, to be somebody,” Of the band itself, Hodges notes, (Sexton Blake) again,” Hodges says, Hodges says. “And a lot more of us “We’re just along for the ride. I just hope “but I am definitely going to release just drive ourselves low-key crazy trywhen it’s over we’re all a little wiser and some non-STRFKR projects, hopefuling to get ourselves ly this year.” Shawn Glassford or our situation just STRFKR once right, you know? So changed their anyway, I like the name to idea of the Pyramiddd before total opposite coming back, and ON THE BILL: of that, of until recently STRFKR & Com Truise. working to be spelled “STRFKR” 8:30pm. Thursday, Feb. nobody doing more phonetically 25, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th Street, Boulder. 303nothing going as “Starfucker.” 786-7030. nowhere. Just Hodges is not being is good the first artist to enough.” tinker with persoHowever, na. Take David at their current pace Bowie, the protoof touring, Hodges typical rock chaand his STRFKR meleon who died bandmates, Keil STRFKR (pronounced “starfucker”) comes to Boulder Theater to play recent favorites last month, as an Corcoran and Shawn and songs from a forthcoming album. example. Glassford, couldn’t be “That was one further from that goal. “That’s partly happier from it.” of those celebrity deaths that just why it’s been so long since I’ve released He enlists a poem by Mary Oliver, affected me, like I knew him or somea new album,” he says. “We were sort of “Wild Geese,” for illustration: “‘You do thing, you know?,” Hodges says. “I trying to take a year off and write/ not have to be good/You do not have to feel weird having that reaction to a record, but that didn’t really happen.” walk on your knees/for a hundred miles celebrity dying, but I mean, he did Yet, he does say fans can expect a through the desert repenting/You only actually affect me. So many of us have new album to appear this year. Hodges have to let the soft animal of your body/ deep relationships with his music and discloses the working title of the love what it loves.” his rare inspiration, so I think it’s OK album as “Being Nobody Going Hodges explains his appreciation to feel something about the death of Nowhere.” He explains the title as, for literature: “It’s impressive to me. I someone I’ve never met.” “Kind of an eastern idea I read about. can hardly imagine having the skills, It would be presumptuous to Not totally sure I understand it, but as patience and inspiration to do somestretch the comparison between far as I think I get it, it has to do with thing like that.” David Bowie and Josh Hodges to our commitment and attachment to There’s no self-deprecation or false extremes. Whatever ligaments might our sense of self, like who we think we modesty in his assessment. It comes connect STRFKR to Bowie’s music are. ‘I am Josh Hodges of Portland, of across with the same honest, sober are, admittedly, tenuous. For that band, etc.’ Just like all the stories tone as everything else he speaks on. instance, Hodges lists Blonde we learn and tell ourselves about ourIt’s a fair, unbiased analysis of his Redhead, not Bowie, as his most sigselves. That belief system can create a strengths and talents, conveying the nificant musical influence. lot of suffering.” same sincerity and authenticity that But there’s more to the parallel The first single, “Never Ever,” is has allowed STRFKR to attract audithan evinced by a cursory analysis. streaming on the band’s Facebook page ences with open and guileless lyrics While Ziggy Stardust wanted, and and is available for download on and subjects. even needed, to be a star, Hodges Bandcamp. 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ome years ago while living in Tucson, artist ing Native American and other Chris Huang became close friends with a indigenous art. Being Chinese, woodworker. When the woodworker was Huang says his heritage is evident finished with certain projects, he would disand understandable in his work. card the leftover wood into a giveaway pile One of Huang’s favorite things and offer it up to anyone who wanted or needed it. to draw is the mandala, a Sanskrit On each visit to his friend, Huang would take a few word loosely-translated to mean a pieces of wood for his artwork, calling it his first free circle and representing the unimedium. verse. Huang’s portfolio includes “Taking the wood started off as a necessity, dozens of mandalas, either on because I had no means to frame my work,” Huang their own or incorporated into says. Eventually the material became his drawing another creation. board and he starting sketching on the wood with “I’m very drawn to mandalas because I see them as colored pencil and ink. being infinite,” Huang says. “They represent cycles of Originally from Michigan, life, and there’s no real beginning or Courtesy of Chris Huang 39-year-old Huang traces his earliend. I always try to express that conest artistic influences to what he cept, even though it’s often not had seen in comic books. He says always easy to explain.” Although Huang has been drawthat since all of his artwork is teching since childhood, he prefers wood nically drawing, he learned a lot of to paper or any other type of canvas. the concepts of composition when Even when he sells replicated prints he was a child. His style evolved as of his work on his website, he says he grew into a teenager and discovwood has always been and will ered music and rock posters from always be his preferred medium, and the 1960s and 1970s, leading him so each project begins there. to begin incorporating the era’s psy“I’ve grown to love wood because chedelic shapes into his work. Both there’s just something about it that Huang and his work evolved and adapted in his move to Arizona. really speaks to me,” Huang says, “Since I was living in Tucson, adding that he really enjoys followBoulder-based Chris Huang prefers wood over any other material for there was obviously a lot of ing the grains in the wood. his drawings. Southwestern influences,” Huang In reflecting on his work, Huang says. “I also began loving and being says his favorite pieces are always influenced by Diego Rivera and his wife, Frida Kahlo, those he is working on at the time. Although if he as well as by Georgia O’Keeffe.” had to choose work he’s most proud of, he says it Huang left Tucson for Boulder in 2005 with his would probably be a series he did that was focused on wife to settle down and raise a family. They now have underground, featuring hearts and roots that brought two sons. together living things above and below the ground. When Huang looks at his artwork now, he says he The series, called Connections, included some of his sees influences of where he’s been, where he grew up, favorite pieces and his most-used theme — the conand other styles he’s picked up along the way, includnection between humans and the earth.

“I love some of the early stuff I did,” Huang says. “There was one series that showed underground images and demonstrated the connection of plants and trees and expressed the whole theme of my work. Several pieces that I did in this series were significant for me to make.” Huang’s work is split down the middle with commissioned pieces he makes for friends and customers, and those he makes for himself. He adds that he’s never at a shortage for ideas of what he plans to create, and he is enjoying the opportunity to collaborate and trade ideas with fellow artists. In the past, Huang has worked with friends to create wooden furniture, and currently he is working on multiple new projects. “I just did some work with a friend where I used ink to draw on wooden bows he had created,” Huang says. “I have some woodburning coming up, and I’m excited because it’s something I’ve never done before. I’m looking forward to seeing how it comes out.” Huang recently invested a lot of time in building a new website to showcase his portfolio and sell his work. Although his artwork is not currently showing in any galleries, his work can be found on the walls of The Farm Recreational Marijuana Dispensary in Boulder. Additionally, he holds a pop-up show about once a year at Rising Tide Tattoo Emporium. He can also be found in North Boulder at Juniper Books, where he spends his time buried in custom book collections, planning out what wood piece he’ll create next.

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ANALOG SON. 8:30 P.M. FRIDAY, FEB. 26, THE FOX THEATRE, 1135 13TH ST., BOULDER, 720-645-2467.

DJ Done. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839.

Music Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303993-2094. Chris Sheldon and Friends. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Denny Driscoll. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-3279318.

8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Courtesy of Boulder Theater

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It’s Mountain Sun’s 23rd anniversary, and they’re celebrating all the funky good times with a concert featuring the Pearl Street All Stars. This year those all stars include: George Porter Jr., Kyle Hollingsworth, Jennifer Hartswick, Jans Ingber, Eddie Roberts and Issac Teel. If the lineup isn’t enough to sway you, there will also be a Best Chops in the Universe competition, featuring the winners from Mountain Sun’s mutton chop competitions in Boulder, Denver and Longmont. All proceeds from the concert will go to benefit KGNU. Stop by the Boulder Theater or Mountain Sun locations to pick up tickets.

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Grupo Chegando L And Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. Hunter Stone. 6:30 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-9938131. The Jam Knights. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Jelly Bread. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346

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5 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, University of Colorado, Hale Building, Room 270, Boulder, 303-735-5122. The Trans Pacific Partnership is a hot button issue that has been weighing heavily on the minds of politicians and concerned citizens. To learn more about TPP, stop by the Hale Building on the University of Colorado campus for a panel entitled “Trans Pacific Partnership: What it Means for Asia and the Americas.” The panel will cover the environmental, labor, legal and economic repercussions of TPP. Speakers include Keith Maskus (CU economics), Steve Chan (CU political science), Tyler Rauert (partner at Polaris Law Group), Sam Gilchrist, (executive director of Colorado AFL-CIO) and Jesse Prentice Dunn (senior campaign representative at Sierra Club).

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George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. KC and Jake. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Kort McCumber. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. Live Dead feat. The Schwag. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Nick Willis. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. see EVENTS Page 38

Jazz and Vonnegut 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. If you like you like your jazz Courtesy of The Dairy with a side of literature, then stop by The Dairy Arts Center for “Jazz and Vonnegut.” The theme of the night is Vonnegut’s strange and poignant short story, “D.P.” And the night will feature music from singer Robert Johnson and the Dave Fulker Quartet. Together, Johnson’s smooth baritone and Fulker’s trumpet and flugelhorn will blend for a night of great music. Along with the performance, Fulker will do a reading of the story. So whether you’re a fan of jazz or Vonnegut, it’s sure to be a good time.

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Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. Policulture. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. STRFKR, Com Truise. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25 8PM

GRUPO CHEGANDO LÁ and FRANCISCO MARQUES FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26

MARCEL & JANELLE 8PM JOE FLETCHER 9PM BRIGHT HAWK 10PM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27

ALEX MAES 8PM BROKE DOWN SHACKS 9PM

Events Acrylics 2. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902. Boulder Singles Dance Night. 7 p.m. Free Motion CommUnity Dance Center, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Late Night At The Museum. 6 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-6518374. Friday, February 26 Music The Alcapones. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Bright Hawk, Joe Fletcher. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Cocktail Hour With Don Garcia. 2:30 p.m. Golden West Senior Living, 1055 Adams Circle, Boulder, 303-444-3967. Digg. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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Dimitri Y Rheanna. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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Halden Wofford & The Highbeams. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

“So, You’re a Poet,” presents

Highway 50. 6:30 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-993-8131.

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Jaden Carlson and Friends. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

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Make Your Own Friends — by Brian Bress. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3.

A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through April 24. Above the Fold: New Expression in Origami. The Longmont Museum, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont, 303-776-6050. Through May 1.

Come see the what Colorado artists have to offer at Arvada Center’s Art of the State exhibit. Read more about it on pg. 29.

Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra — Julie Comnick. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Feb. 28.

Art of the State 2016. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 27.

Mardi Gras Kids: An Untold Story. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Feb. 26.

The Neighbors — by Arne Svenson. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5. Pastel Paintings by Diane Wood. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through April 1.

Be Here Now: Conversations Between Objects. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through March 19.

Plein Air Pastel Painting by Sandra Haberkorn. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through April 1.

Case Work. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 17.

Phantom Touch — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3.

Critical Focus: Lanny DeVuono — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5.

Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 1.

The Engaged Object. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through March 26. Life and Afterlife: Selections from the King Collection of Ancient Chinese Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 25.

Sambadende. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Some Train Yard. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 7. When the Winds Whisper. Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. 303-678-7869. Through Feb. 27.

Wynne-Rockin’ the Corona. 1 p.m. Ski Eldora (Corona Bar), 2861 Eldora Ski Road, Suite 140, Eldora Mountain Resort, Nederland, 303-440-8700. Adam Sammakia. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

The Jerseys. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Southside Clyde. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Asa Martin, Ludlow, Patrick The Pirate. 6:30 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder, 303396-8145.

Johnny O’ Band. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411.

Troy Clayton. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Ben Hanna Band. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Julie Stratton. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

You Knew Me When. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-7747698.

Broke Down Shacks, Alex Maes. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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The Delta Sonics. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Mike Chaisson. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Paul Sullivan. 7 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Ponder the Albatross. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. The Prairie Scholars. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE.

Disco-Funk Dance Night! 7 p.m. Free Motion CommUnity Dance Center, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. A Jamestown Town Play: The New Last Chance Cafe. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

REMember — A Tribute to R.E.M. 10:30 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303772-3839.

Voyagers Without Trace. 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Riley Ann & Rachel Ann, Two One-Woman Bands. 5 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.

Saturday, February 27 Music Acoustic Apres Ski Party with Andrew

Gramophone in Space feat. Gangsterish with DJ Gatsby. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Groovement, Ryan Viser. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Hey Lady! 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. Honeytree. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. see EVENTS Page 40

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Jack Hadley. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. James Faulk. 10:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

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Janine Gastineau. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Jeff & Paige. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. CU Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building UCB 218 1030 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892. Josh Max. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Boeing Boeing. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through March 5.

Marrakech Express in Concert: Music of North Africa. 7:30 p.m. Nevei Kodesh, 1925 Glenwood Drive, Boulder, 303-807-8735.

Fade. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Mar. 13.

Memories of the Mediterranean. 7 p.m. Unity Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-4421411.

Ideation — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Boulder Chamber of Commerce, 2440 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-351-2382. Through Feb. 28.

The Midnight Strange. 6:30 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-993-8131. Mike Stud. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Pearl Street All Starts. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Robin Davis Duo. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-7747698. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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The Addams Family. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 27.

Mark Diamond and Ed Edwards. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303651-7886.

Rebecca Folsom. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Free Meditation Classes Open to the Public.

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 28.

All the Way. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 28.

Ragged Union. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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4000 Miles. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through March 6.

Man of 1000 Songs. 7 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-993-8131.

Psychodillo. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

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Selby Clyman Duo. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Taarka. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Wild Mountain Honey. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 N. US Highway 287, Lafayette, 303-449-8623. Wylie “Crazyhorse” Jones. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. The Zimmermans. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Events Boy and the World. 1:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. DJ Done. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. FEED: Fire. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Junior Ranger Adventures. 11 a.m. Mud Lake Open Space, 3491 Highway 72, Nederland, 303678-6214. Oscar Shorts: Animation. 5:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Boeing Boeing takes you back to the swingin’ ’60s and the Golden Age of plane travel.

Twelve Angry Jurors — presented by The Upstart Crow. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510. Through Feb. 28.

Shine Potions Cocktail Dinner. 6 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-993-8131. Tinker Time. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902. Sunday, February 28 Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Aural Elixir. 11 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Bluegrass Pick. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Brad Martin. 5 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company,

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Thursday, Feb. 25 Joanna Walters — Girl at Sea. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074. Lori Howe. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-4953303. Monday, Feb. 28 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, March 1 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wednesday, March 2 MFA Reading: Becky Kallemeyn. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Joanna Walters heads to the Boulder Book Store with her memoir Girl at Sea, detailing her time as one of the first women to serve on a combat ship in the Navy.

Waylon Lewis — Things I Would Like to Do With You. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Peter Kater, Tina Guo. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Scott Von. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258.

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Takács Quartet. 4 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411. Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Wylie. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914. Events Arrangement For A Silent Orchestra Artist Talk and Performance. 3 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-6512787. Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Gun Violence Prevention: Guns and Suicides, Domestic Violence, and Mental Health. 2 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-494-0195.

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American Life in Poetry: Column 567 by William Trowbridge

A friend told me recently that he tries to keep in touch with people he’s known even though they don’t put any effort into doing that themselves. Here’s William Trowbridge, who lives in Missouri, making an effort. His most recent book is Put This On, Please, (Red Hen Press, 2014). — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate

Long Distance to My Old Coach The reception’s not bad, across 50 years, though his voice has lost its boot-camp timbre. He’s in his 80’s now and, in a recent photo, looks it, so bald and pale and hard to see behind the tallowing of flesh. Posing with friends, he’s the only one who has to sit—the man three of us couldn’t pin. “The Hugger,” they christened him before my class arrived— for his bearlike shape and his first name, Hugh.

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wo options: 1 — People legitimately loved The Witch after it screened at Sundance and have hyped it because of a passion I simply can’t understand. 2 — Y’all are just straight-up messing with me. For the second year in a row, I find myself gobsmacked, dumbfounded and stupefied by praise for a movie I not only did not enjoy but violently, profoundly hated. Last year, It Follows was beloved by reviewers and on social media despite being a lame-ass, ignorant snooze-fest whose “terror” hinged on a creature slowly walking at people. This year, The Witch is being hailed for being as menacingly terrifying as it is meticulously constructed. Folks, the scariest thing in this movie is the state of early American pilgrim hygiene, and the best performance is by a goat. I should point out that those who love the movie use that second part as a selling point (I’m serious). The biggest magic The Witch has to offer is making 93 minutes feel like the rest of your natural life. In New England in the 1630s, William (Ralph Ineson) moves his wife, Katherine (Kate Dickie), and children from the relative safety of a plantation into the wilderness. Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), the eldest daughter, is watching her newborn brother when he is suddenly taken by a creature from the woods, who does things you don’t want to see done to a baby. The family then slowly, ploddingly endures torture by a woodland witch, most of which involves writhing around and talking gibberish. And there’s a goat that may be the devil. This boring “arthouse horror” movie follows a Whatever tension that’s suppilgrim family in the 1630s as they become the chew toy of a wood-dwelling witch. posed to be caused by sympathy for the family’s suffering quickly disappeared in me as I longed for something, anything, to happen to any of them… even the children. If you’ve longed for scenes of “pilgrims washing clothes in a stream” or “tense arguments at the dinner table about a cup,” The Witch is as scintillating as advertised. Even the compassion that should be felt for young people who are totally, obviously going to get effed up by supernatural badness is absent. The first time we meet Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw), an early target of the witchy woman, he’s trying to get a glimpse of his sister’s boob. I’m not saying that means he should be fed to the dark lord Satan, it’s just that I kinda don’t care if he is. Because I won’t spoil a movie, even if I hated it, I can’t go into why I think the ending is codified misogyny that hinges on a binary depiction of women as virgins or whores. Just know that those who dismiss that reading and criticism are doing so against bulletproof evidence. So, in addition to being as thrilling as Amish butter churning and less frightening than a GOP presidential debate, its central thesis is fairly reprehensible. I am mad at the people who made The Witch. I am mad at the people who told me to see The Witch. I am mad that The Witch exists. Next year, when you try to convince me that some indie flick called The Demon in My Urethra is arthouse horror genius, I’m not falling for it. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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here once was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when people would leave their homes, congregate in vast, darkened rooms, with faces familiar and foreign, to stare at giant screens — screens that would transport them to fantastical places in time and space. Places where anything was possible and any story was viable. In short, they went to the movies. While the movies never left, the screens dimmed and dwindled, and a few thought they might disappear completely. Yet, a few hung on and survived the lean years. Art houses in Boulder — the International Film Series and the Boedecker Theater — were kept alive by the theatrically devoted, and that devotion managed to save an industry. Now that industry is blossoming once again. It may not look like the magnificent flower that it once was, but the buds are beginning to bloom and beckon moviegoers to come out and play once more. Starting Feb. 25, they’ll have another option to see first-run art house movies: the Boulder Arts Cinema. This is a joint venture between the Boulder Public Library and Downtown Boulder Inc. (DBI). “We’re hoping there will be a sort of new mix of people who are going downtown to have dinner, and then come over for a film,” DBI’s Shelby Arnold says. Arnold recently gave BW a tour of the newly renovated space — which includes the Seeds Library Cafe and plans for a beer and wine bar — explaining that the Boulder cinema project was already in the works when she joined DBI a year ago. Library Arts Director David Farnen and DBI Executive Producer Sean Maher clicked in their vision for a downtown arts cinema, one that would utilize the 200-seat Canyon Theater that the library owned. A space that, save for Joel Haertling’s Boulder Library Cinema Program, was largely unused. “[Haertling’s] free cinema program at the library is not going away,” Arnold says. “We’re not trying to be competitors; we’re just trying to offer yet another opportunity to experience first-run films.” BAC will program movies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, with two showings a day and typically one movie screening per weekend. Opening weekend is an anomaly as the Oscar-nominated Trumbo, Amy and The Danish Girl will screen in honor of the Academy Award ceremony on Sunday. After BAC’s opening weekend at the Oscars, the Boulder International Film Festival takes over the space with screenings on March 4-5. While there is bound to be overlap between BAC, IFS and the Boe’s programming, Arnold is quick to point out that BAC’s single screen is not designed to compete but to complement. “A rising tide lifts all boats,” Arnold says. “The more we can get people excited about physically going to a cinema, the better for everyone.” And even though BAC hasn’t yet opened, Arnold is already hearing good news from the community. “I’ve gotten a flood of people who want to be involved as volunteers,” Arnold says. “There is a group of people [out there] who really want to participate.” And starting on Feb. 25, they can both participate and patronize Boulder’s newest first-run arts cinema. Tickets start at $9 and can be purchased online at boulderdowntown.com/boulder-art-cinema, or at the box office on 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

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oulder County has had a tumultuous relationship with the doughnut in recent years. Reputable chain bakers like Winchell’s, Daylight and LaMar’s have held court, but when local doughnut shop Dizzy’s died, nothing came in to fill its void. So starved for donuts were we, that a new Dunkin’ Donuts had lines out the door for two months when it plopped down in Boulder several years ago. Of course some restaurants and shops serve up specialty doughnuts in the county, but it’s odd that Boulder hasn’t re-embraced the doughnut boutique, which boomed, what, 10 or so years ago, but has had some staying power. Now, in Louisville, the specialty doughnut shop has returned in BlueBox Doughnuts. The store is quite the boutique. On a recent visit, one sterling representative of each of the daily doughnuts was displayed on a pedestal under spotlights behind a glass case. The pastries beckoned, plump and colorful, and quite frankly, there wasn’t much else to look at in the store — the doughnuts are the thing. (That said, there was at least one fritter and one brioche bun displayed.) The idea is to take the doughnuts to go, for now it seems, so I ordered a half dozen treats and a brioche, which amounted to just about everything BlueBox was selling that day. Varieties of their baked goods change daily, with what seems like six to 10 varieties available each day. The doughnuts were placed in a Tiffany’s-blue sturdy doughnut box, and the brioche was thrown in a white paper bag. Shortly after, I set about the awesome task of tast-

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It was robustly flavored with more of the scent of brewed coffee than the taste of it. There was mild sweetness, and a nice crunch from espresso bits on top. Another favorite was the chai variety. It was glazed and modestlooking, but the flavor was spot-on. Often with chai-flavored treats, people go too far, and it tastes like you’re eating bathroom freshener. BlueBox’s chai doughnut had deep, warm cinnamon flavor with an almost smoky foundation. I also had the vanilla bean and dark chocolate doughnuts, which were all well-flavored. The bacon, green chile and corn brioche bun I had was fantastic. It was moist, didn’t fall apart like some B.S. muffin and had a great balance of salty, sweet and savory, with multiple textures and temperatures. I’d go back for this. As far as flavors, which I think is what BlueBox does best, the lemon poppyseed doughnut was the most vibrant. The lemon was cultivated straight from the fruit, it tasted like, and the poppyseed served as a subtle dryness and a stabilizing base. The glaze flaked and collided, forming little tessellated peaks of sweetness like ice shards on a lake’s shore. In fact, for better or worse, I appreciated the aesthetic of BlueBox more than I did the doughnuts themselves after a while. They are very sweet. And, for me, more than 1.5 would be a headache. But as a boutique, specialty doughnut shop, one filling a vital niche in Boulder County’s food scene, BlueBox can afford to sell out on the singular doughnut. It’s in a different class than the two-dozen-for-the-office shops whose flavors and characteristics are subdued. So the next time I go, I’ll get one for breakfast, and save another for dessert.

BlueBox Doughnuts makes specialty doughnuts in their Louisville boutique by Matt Cortina ing the doughnuts by cutting out segments of each and lining them up like a doughnut flight. Now I’m admittedly not a huge dough-nut to begin with — hold for uproarious laughter — but I can get behind inventive takes on culinary classics, which is what BlueBox has clearly set out to do. Each doughnut, though distinct in flavor, all had the same foundation. The doughnuts were thick, moist, buttery and sweet, like high-density popovers or croissants. The base had a slight, pleasant chew, and on some of the ’nuts with less or no frosting, the crusts were perfectly crispy. The doughnuts’ base retained structure throughout eating, and what’s a silly point, but nonetheless important to parents in new cars and the generally meticulous, the frosting and glazes weren’t globbed on so as to make eating the doughnuts a downright fiasco. The espresso was probably my favorite doughnut.

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as Kassa’s was the coolest culinary anomaly I’d ever encountered in my food writing life. It was an Ethiopian roadhouse set in a Twilight Zone location, the tumbleweed junction at the mouth of Eldorado Canyon at US-93 in the 1980s. Sour injera bread and yebeg alicha would have been novel enough, but no silverware was offered or available. Ras Kassa’s was also the first (and still only) place I’ve ever allowed anyone, much less a restaurant owner, put food directly in my mouth with her fingers. Somehow it was OK when it was Tsehay Hailu, who has been a ray of sunshine in the Boulder area dining world for 28 years. Ras Kassa’s was a community institution at its longtime location on 30th Street. Tsehay said that business was still doing well when Ras Kassa’s had to close in March 2015. The site was sold to be redeveloped as Google’s new campus. Ras Kassa’s is still alive in a borrowed kitchen on the second floor of the Broker Inn/Rodeway Inn in Boulder. Tsehay is offering a limited menu of Ethiopian specialties, see NIBBLES Page 50

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Denver Restaurant Week matters because it allows folks to sample the fare at white tablecloth destinations that might be otherwise unaffordable. This year’s event taking place through March 6 offers multi-course, $30 dinners at hundreds of restaurants including Abejas (Golden), 740 Front (Louisville), Salt (Boulder), Bacon Social House (Denver) and Golden’s Briarwood Inn. Details: denver. org/denver-restaurant-week. ... Chocolate: The Exhibition is open through May 8 at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science with a tour through growing cacao trees, chocolate Mercantile’s Alex Seidel is one of numerous lohistory, sweets culture and a cal James Beard Award nominees. chocolate shop at the end of the tour when you are desperately craving truffles and cup of hot chocolate. Information: dmns.org/chocolate-theexhibition.

Taste of the week

The best thing I’ve tasted lately was a perfect salt cod fritter with a soft middle at Abejas, an eatery opened in 2015 in downtown Golden. The warm treat made with bacala (dried cod) was part of a memorable appetizer featuring purple sweet potato, celery root puree and a cute little hardboiled quail egg with bits of freezedried olives. The restaurant sounds Spanish but actually focuses on seasonal American fare matched with an unusually good wine list.

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drink Chocolate and coconut porter is a good detour by Matt Cortina

e’re in the heart of dark beer season. Every so often, it’s pleasant to come across a beer that both honors the season with its color and consistency, while also hinting at brighter things to come. That dynamic is evident in the Death by Coconut Irish porter from Oskar Blues. It’s made a few rounds in years past, but this year’s batch is spot-on and ideal for those, like me, starting to look around for dark beer flavor variety. Death by Coconut is a 6.5 percent ABV and slightly sweet porter that is brewed with Cholaca. You may have seen Cholaca in your local coffee shop — the team over there is really making the rounds — and it’s caught on because it’s an incredible foodstuff. Cholaca is basically liquid chocolate that’s made up from fairtrade cacao (sourced from farms in Ecuador and Peru), water and coconut sugar. Baristas use it in coffee drinks, chefs use it in savory and sweet dishes, and breweries are now using it in their beers. What’s also a nice change from Matt Cortina some other beers of the season is that the Death by Coconut is a porter, and not a stout. Though brewed with similar ingredients and in a similar manner, porter is generally lighter than stout, and the Death by Coconut benefits from that reduced consistency burden. The beer won the Great American Beer Festival Silver Medal in 2014 in the chocolate beer category, and after being sold in 19.2-ounce cans in years prior, the brew is now available in liquor stores throughout Colorado in 12-ounce varieties. This year’s batch, in particular, has been noted for its exceptional quality. Thus, I was excited to give the beer a shot when I came across it in a Boulder Oskar Blues’ Death by Coconut marries dark beer store. chocolate and coconut elements. The first thing I noticed when I cracked open the can was the aroma. The scent was abundantly toasted coconut, or like smelling a hot coconut husk that’s been punctured and so some sappy coconut syrup has seeped out and congealed. I poured some into a glass to let the aroma open up a bit. In the meantime, the light caramel-colored head settled, and the body of the beer had a beautiful dark glossy black, almost deep cherry red, almost burnt crème brûlée color. After the oxygen got into the beer, the aroma became very strongly that of sweet, fresh coconut flesh. I tried to pick out some chocolate in the aroma, but I don’t have a great nose for that anyway. But the first taste reveals that deep, dark chocolate flavor. It’s almost as if you’re letting a dark chocolate square dissolve on the tongue when you sip the Death by Coconut. The coconut works in two part: the lighter bits pop off the tongue with the carbonation, while a deeper coconut flavor interacts with the dark chocolate to create a flavor like butterscotch. It’s all only very slightly bitter, and it’s got a creamy mouthfeel. As the drinking process continues, the sweetness takes over a little bit. For me, it’s a sipper and so the sweetness is subdued, and my palate is satisfied with the interesting flavor alchemy. For others, it might be a bit too close to drinking carbonated syrup for their liking. All in all, it’s a unique beer that resoundingly achieves what it sets out to do, and it’s worth a try. Boulder Weekly

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ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Just

one species has a big enough throat to swallow a person whole: the sperm whale. If you happen to be sailing the high seas any time soon, I hope you will studiously avoid getting thrown overboard in the vicinity of one of these beasts. The odds are higher than usual that you’d end up in its belly, much like the Biblical character Jonah. (Although, like him, I bet you’d ultimately escape.) Furthermore, Aries, I hope you will be cautious not to get swallowed up by anything else. It’s true that the coming weeks will be a good time to go on a retreat, to flee from the grind and take a break from the usual frenzy. But the best way to do that is to consciously choose the right circumstances rather than leave it to chance.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

You have cosmic clearance to fantasize about participating in orgies where you’re loose and free and exuberant. It’s probably not a good idea to attend a literal orgy, however. For the foreseeable future, all the cleansing revelry and cathartic rapture you need can be obtained through the wild stories and outrageous scenes that unfold in your imagination. Giving yourself the gift of pretend immersions in fertile chaos could recharge your spiritual batteries in just the right ways.

Here are some hints about how: 1. Feel appreciation for the way the old stories of your life form the core of your identity and self-image. 2. Draw on your recollections of the past to guide you in making decisions about the imminent future. 3. Notice everything you see with an intensified focus, because then you will remember it better, and that will come in handy quite soon. 4. Make up new memories that you wish had happened. Have fun creating scenes from an imagined past.

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Most of us know about Albert Einstein’s greatest idea: the general theory of relativity. It was one of the reasons he won a Nobel Prize in Physics. But what was his

second-best discovery? Here’s what he said it was: adding an egg to the pot while he cooked his soup. That way, he could produce a soft-boiled egg without having to dirty a second pot. What are the first- and second-most fabulous ideas you’ve ever come up with, Capricorn? I suspect you are on the verge of producing new candidates to compete with them. If it’s OK with you, I will, at least temporarily, refer to you as a genius.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: You may be familiar with the iconic chil-

dren’s book Where the Wild Things Are. It’s about a boy named Max who takes a dream-like journey from his bedroom to an exotic island, where he becomes king of the weird beasts who live there. Author Maurice Sendak’s original title for the tale

was “Where the Wild Horses Are.” But when his editor realized how inept Sendak was at drawing horses, she instructed him to come up with a title to match the kinds of creatures he could draw skillfully. That was a good idea. The book has sold over 19 million copies. I think you may need to deal with a comparable issue, Aquarius. It’s wise to acknowledge one of your limitations, and then capitalize on the adjustments you’ve got to make.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “People don’t want their lives fixed,”

proclaims Chuck Palahniuk in his novel Survivor. “Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.” Your challenge in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to prove Palahniuk wrong, at least in regards to you. From what I can tell, you will have unprecedented opportunities to solve dilemmas and clean up messy situations. And if you take even partial advantage of this gift, you will not be plunged into the big scary unknown, but rather into a new phase of shaping your identity with crispness and clarity.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

“Hell is the suffering of being unable to love,” wrote novelist J. D. Salinger. If that’s true, I’m pleased to announce that you can now ensure you’ll be free of hell for a very long time. The cosmic omens suggest that you have enormous power to expand your capacity for love. So get busy! Make it your intention to dissolve any unconscious blocks you might have about sharing your gifts and bestowing your blessings. Get rid of attitudes and behaviors that limit your generosity and compassion. Now is an excellent time to launch your “Perpetual Freedom from Hell” campaign!

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking,” said journalist Earl Wilson. Do you fit that description, Cancerian? Probably. I suspect it’s high time to find a polite way to flee your responsibilities, avoid your duties and hide from your burdens. For the foreseeable future, you have a mandate to ignore what fills you with boredom. You have the right to avoid any involvement that makes life too damn complicated. And you have a holy obligation to rethink your relationship with any influence that weighs you down with menial obligations.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

“Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory,” writes William Faulkner in his novel Absalom, Absalom! If that’s true, Leo, you now have a chance to be a miracle worker. In the coming weeks, you can summon the uncanny power to rip at least two of your illusions out by the roots — without causing any permanent damage! You may temporarily feel a stinging sensation, but that will be a sign that healing is underway. Congratulations in advance for getting rid of the dead weight.

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

When life gives you lemon juice from concentrate, citric acid, high-fructose corn syrup, modified cornstarch, potassium citrate, yellow food dye and gum acacia, what should you do? Make lemonade, of course! You might wish that all the raw ingredients life sends your way would be pure and authentic, but sometimes the mix includes artificial stuff. No worries, Libra! I am confident that you have the imaginative chutzpah and resilient willpower necessary to turn the mishmash into passable nourishment. Or here’s another alternative: You could procrastinate for two weeks, when more of the available resources will be natural.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

Your Mythic Metaphor for the coming weeks is dew. Many cultures have regarded it as a symbol of life-giving grace. In Kabbalah, divine dew seeps from the Tree of Life. In Chinese folklore, the lunar dew purifies vision and nurtures longevity. In the lore of ancient Greece, dew confers fertility. The Iroquois speak of the Great Dew Eagle, who drops healing moisture on land ravaged by evil spirits. The creator god of the Ashanti people created dew soon after making the sun, moon and stars. Lao-Tse said it’s an emblem of the harmonious marriage between Earth and Heaven. So what will you do with the magic dew you’ll be blessed with?

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Dear Dan: Gay, thirtysomething male in DC. My boyfriend of three years has been acting strange — not taking his antidepression meds, says he’s feeling weird. by Dan Savage He has withdrawn from me, sleeps 15 hours a day, and has been canceling on commitments to socialize with friends. That I am fine with — he’s blue and I get write a goofy note on his crossword puzzle. daughter is selling her used panties online. But sometimes we find out it. Here’s why I’m writing: He was doing — Snoop Now All Fucked Up things we needed to know and have to an online crossword, and when he got up, I do something about. For example, your was going to write a message in it — to be Dear SNAFU: Meth addicts aren’t 14-year-old daughter is planning to funny and sweet. What I saw messed me known for sleeping 15 hours a day, up. There was a browser window open SNAFU. Meth addicts aren’t known for meet up with a 35-year-old man she met on Instagram, your “straight” boyabout meth and depression. He is 48 and sleeping at all. So perhaps your boyfriend is having unsafe sex with dozens successful, and isn’t a clubber or partyfriend abused meth before you met — going type. METH? What the hell? I and there’s no using meth, only abusing of men behind your back, your spouse is planning to vote for Ted Cruz — in snooped further, and there was a meth — and conquered his © LaRae Lobdell those cases, you have to intervene, detailed search history on meth, addiction and/or stopped break up, and file for civil commitment, meth and depression, meth and abusing meth years ago. And sex. He doesn’t seem to have now he’s depressed and off his respectively. Learning your depressed-and-offbeen high around me — and I meds, and he went online to his-meds boyfriend may have — or may would never use meth, it’s not investigate whether his past have had — a meth problem falls into my thing and I have a security meth abuse could be contribclearance (no drugs for me, ever) the needed to know/have to do someuting to his current depres— but I don’t want to date an thing about category. So, yeah, SNAFU, sion. you gotta use your words. Go to your addict. I don’t want to be with As for the snooping boyfriend, tell him what you discovered someone who would take such a angle… and how you discovered it, and demand dumb risk. And for what? Dude! You’re When we snoop, we sometimes find 48, you have a career, a business and a guy out things we don’t want to know, don’t an explanation while offering to help. Urge him to see his doctor — whoever who cares for you! WTF?!? I know what need to know, and don’t need to do prescribed the antidepressants he anything about. For example, the new you’ll say: Use your words — and, trust stopped taking — and go into the boyfriend has a few sexts from his ex me, I will. But am I totally crazy? I feel convo armed with a list of the resources tucked away on his computer, your dad shitty for having snooped, but it started available to him. is cheating on his third wife, your adult innocently enough with me wanting to

“We’re lucky to have a lot of great resources in DC,” says David Mariner, executive director of the DC Center for the LGBT Community (thedccenter. org). “The Triangle Club (triangleclub. org) is an LGBT recovery house, and they host all sorts of 12-step meetings. Crystal Meth Anonymous is really active here. And we’re just kicking off a harmreduction group here at the DC Center.” I asked Mariner if your boyfriend sounded to him like someone currently abusing meth. “I’m not an expert,” Mariner replies, “but he doesn’t sound like it to me. He may be having a hard time talking to his boyfriend about this because for folks who have a history of meth use, sex can be tricky. Meth use and sexual activity are often so intertwined that it can make it hard to talk to a partner.” Finally, SNAFU, don’t make it harder for your partner to be honest with you by threatening to break up with him. You don’t have to remain in a relationship with an addict, if indeed he is an addict, forever. But start by showing him compassion and offering support. You can make up your mind about your future — whether you have one together — during a subsequent conversation. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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onsidered dangerous drugs by the federal This isn’t just an affirmation of the company’s government, marijuana and industrial organic practices. Being the first farm in Colorado to hemp are still listed in the Controlled get the certification offers a huge market advantage Substances Act as Schedule I drugs. While that distinguishes it from the competition with all of the federal government has issued legislathe brand power of “USDA Organic.” tive promises to not spend money in prosecution of On Feb. 16, 2016 the USDA issued an instruction cannabis activity in states in which it is legal, it has to NOP certifiers to stop issuing certifications to been firm in withholding any actions of endorsement industrial hemp crops in the U.S., thus solidifying that by federal departments, leading many to assume that market advantage. The instruction cites two reasons an organic certification from the U.S. Department of for ceasing certification: concerns about the safety of Agriculture is preindustrial hemp for CBDRx cluded by federal law. consumption and its But on Jan. 27, yet undetermined 2016, CBDRx, a legal status. Colorado-based Regardless, the hemp company, USDA will continue announced that it to allow NOPs to received two USDA certify international organic certifications production of hemp for its more than 130 to be imported into acres of industrial the U.S. for domestic hemp, giving it two processing. In a of only seven in the meeting a few days of seven USDA certified Organic industrial hemp crops in the country and the only One ago with the U.S., grown in Colorado by CBDRx, a Longmont hemp company. two in Colorado. Accredited Certifiers CBDRx Director Association board of of Quality Assurance directors, USDA staff Natalie Mondine oversaw the application process, asserted that hemp products coming into the U.S. that which she says was no different than that for any were certified in another country will continue to be other crop. She reached out to two third party acceptable. National Organic Program (NOP) certifying compaHemp has been imported into the U.S. for decades nies, one of which declined to offer an endorsement to the tune of $500 million a year. All the while the for hemp, while the other, OneCert out of Nebraska, USDA gave hemp its organic blessing as NOP comeventually granted the certification. panies granted certifications to both international For CBDRx this is occasion for celebration. hemp crops and to hemp products made in the U.S. “We pride ourselves on our quality, trying to be The USDA did not have the authority to sanction above everyone else in the industry,” Mondine says. the certification of domestically grown hemp in the “So for us to get an organic certification for our farm first place, and it is arguable that it has the authority is the coolest thing we could have done. And this sets to stop said certification, especially while it continues us apart. The product that we are trying to make is to offer them internationally. really a health product, and you can’t make a product As for CBDRx and the other farms with organic like that and have it made with pesticides.” labeling, the USDA does not plan to meddle with

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what is already issued, at least until they have the opportunity to consult with federal partners to interpret the 2014 Farm Bill. For now, the first-to-market advantage for CBDRx and the five other farms, is better termed the only-to-market advantage. The Farm Bill referred to by the USDA establishes the legal definition of industrial hemp as the plant Cannabis sativa with a THC concentration of equal to or less than .03 percent, distinguishing hemp from cannabis with a higher quantity of THC, which is defined as marijuana. While the differentiation exists, it is yet to be applied practically. No interpretation of the Farm Bill will change the fact that both substances are federally illegal and, furthermore, are considered dangerous and addictive substances. That will take federal legislation. The USDA has created an unequal marketplace for domestic hemp producers, unfounded safety concerns about the use of industrial hemp and bolstered an international agricultural industry at the cost of one in their home country. Why? Because of the politics of cannabis. It is time to remove industrial hemp from the Controlled Substances Act. It is also time to address the use of pesticides on marijuana in a meaningful way. Under-regulated pesticide use on the marijuana side of the cannabis family has posed a serious public health risk to consumers in Colorado. Last week the Colorado DEA issued a hold on marijuana due to pesticide use, the first time they have employed that option since it became available. The same week, the Colorado Senate considered a bill to begin a state-sanctioned organic certification program for cannabis, as regulators look for ways to both fix the pesticide problem and to maintain the credibility offered to consumers in organic labeling. In the midst of this maelstrom of safety concerns and legal gray areas, the need for a state-regulated organics program becomes clear, although it is regrettable that Colorado must spend the time, energy and money to re-create an asset that ought to already be available by way of the USDA.

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disorder over the next few years,” he told Reuters in an email. And just in case there might be any doubt that the study had a political agenda, Dr. Olfson thoughtfully spelled it out. “Policymakers who may have to vote on legalization of marijuana should consider potential adverse effects of marijuana use on the risks of developing other drug and alcohol abuse problems,” he said. “In states with marijuana laws that permit recreation marijuana use, regulators and public health officials should develop means of monitoring and communicating this risk.” Alas, the results of Dr. Olfson’s study should, how should we say this tactfully, be viewed with caution. That’s because there is an inconvenient fly in Dr. Olfson’s cannabis ointment. It turns out the study’s sample ludicrously under-represents the number of Americans who use marijuana.

The study’s 1,279 pot smokers constituted just 3.7 percent of its 34,653 respondents. In 2002 (the year Dr. Olfson completed his first survey) and every year since, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, which tracks the prevalence of drug use in UN member states, put the proportion of Americans who had smoked pot over the past year at 11 to 12 percent of the population. In other words, when it comes to cannabis use, Dr. Olfson’s sample is not “nationally representative” — which raises questions about how “nationally representative” the cohort of respondents is in other respects. Like does it under-represent alcohol abusers? And in what ways might a skewed respondent cohort skew the study’s findings and conclusions? Olfson repeatedly throws around terms like “drug use disorder,” “substance use disorder,” “alcohol abuse,” and “cannabis abuse disorder” without bothering to define them. Given that drug warriors have habitually (so to speak) conflated the terms “use” and “abuse” when speaking of marijuana, it’s essential to know if Dr. Olfson is using language with scientific precision or talking prohibitionist trash. One last point. It’s really hard to take seriously someone who’s trying to portray illegal marijuana as a gateway drug to legal alcohol and legal tobacco. Come on, man! How many teenagers smoked pot and then moved on to beer and cigarettes? OK, I suppose it happened to someone — it’s a big country — but in most people’s experience that doesn’t pass the smirk test. What next, doc? If I start smoking pot, does that mean in three years I’ll be drinking coffee?

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There is a simple way for Bernie to absolutely guarantee victory over the Clinton machine. It is clear that if Sanders could prove that Clinton is lying again — or as we call it, “telling a Clinton” — about being in the pocket of Wall Street, he would fairly easily win the Democratic nomination. We also know that the transcripts to her Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street bank “paid speaking engagements” (read bribes) contain the evidence that would prove her cozy connection to these banks and sink her candidacy, which is why she is fighting their release by both lying and creating bizarre demands. “So Hillary, will you release the transcripts?” First answer: “I’ll think about it.” Second Answer: “Only if the other candidate does as well.” (Bernie says “OK” because he has never made a paid speech to Wall Street.) Third answer: “Only if all the Republican candidates release their transcripts.” Fourth answer: “This is an unfair request that holds me to a higher standard than everyone else.” Love that last one. As if anyone has ever held a Clinton to any standard when it came to ethics. If they had, they’d still be the power couple of a chicken factory in Arkansas. So here is all Bernie has to do to win: He should make Hillary the offer that he will drop out of the race, making her the nominee on the condition that she provides the unedited transcripts to her paid speeches, and that those transcripts verify what she has been claiming, which is that her speeches to Goldman et al. were about telling the banks to get their act together, not about sucking up to them and talking about what she has done and will continue to do for them. It’s that simple. First of all, if she still refuses, which she would, Bernie would win because it would be absolute proof that she was lying again for the thousandth or so time. If she did produce the transcripts, we already know from the information provided by people who were in the room that they would be totally damning and would not meet the standard set by Sanders for dropping out. This is no joke. Clinton is such an absolutely dishonest lying politician that such a move by Sanders would light her up like a fart at a frat party while putting himself at no risk. Come on Bernie, stop playing nice with the most ruthless unethical politician of the past century. Boulder Weekly

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