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Highroad Why the American majority despises Trump’s Washington by Jim Hightower
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t’s odd that Washington Republicans are so loudly crowing about their passage of the Trump-McConnell-Ryan tax law. Odd because the people outside of Washington hate that law. Yes, hate. With a public approval rating of only 30 percent, the GOP’s trillion-dollar giveaway to multinational corporations and multimillionaires turns out to be Congress’s second-most disliked domestic law in the past quarter-century. Second only to the multiple attempts by Trump, McConnell and Ryan last year to take away the health care coverage of 23 million Americans — a move so mingy that 77 percent of the public opposed it. Why do these doofuses keep trying to shove such wildly
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unpopular measures down people’s throats? Because, as The Daily Beast columnist Michael Tomasky succinctly explained, “They are serving their megarich donors and the most extreme elements of their base.” Yes. In today’s rigged political system, the special interests of a tiny minority trump the will of the great majority. Since the GOP’s tax bill drastically reduced corporate taxes and increased many of ours, a few corporations are trying to dodge public fury by pulling a trickle-down trick on us. They’re awarding a tiny portion of their bonanza to workers — not as pay raises, but as one-time “bonus” payments. Bank of America, for example, is doling out $145 million in worker bonuses, while pocketing $2.6 billion it will get this year alone from the tax cut. In addition, the tax boondoggle for corporate giants guts our public treasury, so Washington Republicans and their army of corporate lobbyists are now demanding cuts in our Social Security, Medicare and other safety-net programs. That is where America’s inequality comes from. If the corporate-GOP syndicate wonders why they’re so despised, there it is. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. February 8 , 2018 7
the anderson files Trump’s war on workers by Dave Anderson
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rump proclaims himself the savior of the screwed-over “forgotten men and women” of the working class. Every day, he hogs the media spotlight with his tweets and poses as an anti-establishment guy who defies all authority and decorum. When Trump went to the Davos summit of the global capitalist elite, a New York Times reporter portrayed him as an outsider “kid from Queens.” Actually Trump grew up a spoiled rich kid who became a tycoon with a global branding empire based in nearly twodozen countries on four continents. He has been a rather lousy businessman, who was rescued from disasters by his dad in the early days and then later was helped out by strangely altruistic Russian oligarchs and mobsters. The mainstream media portrays him as a rude Archie Bunker, but it would be helpful if they paid more attention to how he has been pursuing an agenda that rigs the economy to make life worse for ordinary Americans. In his first year, Trump — with the assistance of the Republican-controlled Congress — launched an unprecedented attack on rules and regulations protecting workers. A recent report by the Economic Policy Center (EPI) details the deregulatory actions that favored corporate interests and the wealthy at the expense of workers’ health, safety and pay. These include the Trump administration’s Department of Labor’s refusal to defend a hard-won rule extending overtime protections to more workers. In 2016, the DOL raised the salary threshold below which workers are automatically eligible for overtime pay to $47,476. This gave 12.5 million people new or strengthened overtime protections. The threshold hadn’t been adequately updated in the last few decades.
The percentage of full-time salaried workers who were automatically eligible for overtime based on their pay dropped from more than 60 percent in 1975 to less than 7 percent in 2016. The EPI report notes: “Prior to the 2016 rule, low-level managers at retail and fast-food outlets who made only $23,660 a year — lower than the poverty rate for a family of four — could be required to work long hours without any extra pay for the extra hours worked.” This rule was enacted by the Obama administration’s DOL but it was blocked in the courts by corporate interests. Trump’s DOL has said it won’t defend the rule. Last December, Trump’s DOL proposed a rule change that will allow restaurant owners and supervisors to legally take tips earned by their employees. Bloomberg Law reported that the DOL deliberately suppressed their own analysis of the proposed tip rule from the public, after they discovered that employers would skim billions of dollars from their workers every year. The EPI conducted an analysis of the rule and found that tipped workers will lose $5.8 billion a year, $4.6 billion of which will be stolen from women. Last December, Trump appointed two new members to the National Labor Relations Board, giving its first pro-management majority in eight years (that is, since the George W. Bush administration). Within 48 hours, the new board released a whirlwind of decisions, which undid a number of pro-worker rulings set by the Obama board. In its most important ruling, the board overturned a 2015 decision that had made it easier for unions and workers to hold companies accountable for the practices of contractors and
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guest column To protect open space from fracking, join us for an Earth Day action by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
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n early 2012 I participated in my first act of nonviolent direct action when the Boulder Earth Guardians and I shut down a Commissioners’ hearing to permit fracking in Boulder County. At 12 years old, I was the oldest kid in the group that day. We interrupted the meeting with a “people’s mic” causing the Commissioners to leave the room and we took their empty seats. Sitting in the center chair I polled the crowd on how many people wanted a ban on fracking. As the room erupted into celebration, I struck the gavel and the movement to resist fracking in Boulder County began to take off. Ever since fracking was first proposed in 2011, we the people of Boulder County have made it abundantly clear that drilling is not welcome. At every single hearing held by the County Commissioners on the subject, the room would overflow into the hallway and overflow rooms. Almost unanimously, everyone who appeared at these hearings spoke out against this destructive and dangerous industry moving into our community. Grassroots groups like Boulder County Protectors have trained hundreds for nonviolent direct action. Our efforts have succeeded in keeping industrial hydraulic fracturing at a distance as we’ve seen and felt the devastating impacts on the rest of the state
and country. In just the last nine months, Colorado has experienced 14 oil and gas explosions, with several proving deadly. We’ve seen Colorado’s air turn sour, as ozone days become more and more common; now every county on the Front Range has been rated an “F” for air quality by the American Lung Association. We’ve seen peer-reviewed studies from prestigious universities show links between leukemia, asthma, low birth weight and birth defects living near fracking wells. According to NCAR and NOAA, we now know that fracking can have just as bad a climate impact as coal, if not worse. This isn’t just about politics or the environment, but about our families, our home and the future of Colorado. Now after five years of holding off the bulldozers, the chemical trucks and heavy drill equipment, Boulder County Open Space is under the most significant threat ever, with hundreds of permits being processed as we speak. With so much at stake, we are calling on our friends and community to respond with the strongest showing yet. This Earth Day we are bringing together everyone who cares about clean air clean water to join us on Boulder County Open Space near the location of 140 proposed wells by Highway 52 and East see GUEST COLUMN Page 10
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franchisees. Labor activists with “Fight for 15” saw the Obama-era labor standard as the key to its fast-food unionization campaign. Corporations such as McDonald’s and its allied lobbying groups, like the National Restaurant Association (the other NRA) and International Franchise Association were on the other side. On labor, there is a clear difference between the two parties. Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein has said, “When Democrats are in power, Republicans try to starve the Department of Labor and NLRB. When they get into power, they don’t want to starve it anymore. They want their people in it.” “At the NLRB, there is no middle ground. Precedent means nothing,”
the anderson files Lichtenstein added. “It totally switches back and forth now.” However, as Thea Lee has put it, working people and the labor movement can’t just say, “If only we could elect the Democrats.” Lee, an economist for the AFL-CIO (American’s largest federation of unions) for two decades, told Splinter that we need significant political, cultural and institutional change. Lee is the new president of the Economic Policy Institute. She is determined to continue fighting. She says there has been “a really vicious but brilliant exploitation” of growing economic inequality “to create racial and other divisions within the working class.” She argues: “At the end of the day, if you look
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Boulder County Road. In the Jan. 25 issue of Boulder Weekly, Boulder County Commissioner Elise Jones reflected the sentiment of her constituents: “I think 99 percent of Boulder County residents don’t think open space should be drilled and that’s not why we pay tax dollars to protect open space.” Despite this acknowledgement and the more than $100 million Boulder taxpayers have extended to protect open space, we are being told there is nothing we can do to stop this fracking invasion. But we’ve heard this all before. They tell us it’s impossible before we prove them wrong. It’s what indigenous pipeline activists heard before launching movements against the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. With prayer and persistence the water protectors who inspired these movements helped
at who the big beneficiaries are of the recent tax reform bill, it does feel like the investor class not just tolerated Donald Trump, but was complicit in that trend because they saw that there was a personal and class benefit. They couldn’t win fair and square — an establishment Republican like Mitt Romney wasn’t able to win an election, but the toxic sludge of racist, xenophobic, fake populist rhetoric succeeded where the Republican establishment, Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable had failed.” Nevertheless, it seems this idiotic fascist circus is getting tiresome. People want a genuine inclusive populism. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
awaken the world to the fossil fuel infrastructure that is endangering our valuable drinking water and making climate change worse. In addition to inspiring millions around the world at Standing Rock, the Keystone XL pipeline was halted when Obama, after sustained pressure, rejected the northern leg. We draw inspiration from the strength of indigenous peoples fighting to protect their ancestral lands, and we are calling on all water protectors to join us now. We don’t have to look very far to find inspiration in people overcoming the odds to awaken the world to nearby danger. The legendary Rocky Flats protest brought 15,000 people together to bring awareness to the toxic toll of the nuclear plant between Boulder and Golden. It took more than a decade, but their courage, lying on the tracks and encircling the nuclear plant, even-
tually led to its closure. The action had a far-reaching effect, helping people across the country understand the dangers that facilities like Rocky Flats pose to human health. To prevent the toxic and explosive threat in Boulder County, we need a response that mirrors these powerful movements. We need a chain of solidarity that connects from Standing Rock to Nebraska to Rocky Flats and all the people around the world suffering the impacts of climate change. If we succeed it will not just mean protecting our region from the hazards of fracking, it will mean hope for frontline communities everywhere. Join us this Earth Day to send a message that no matter how wealthy and powerful the opposition is, we the people will always prevail. It’s up to us. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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This is a response to the “Happy anniversary, time for an optimism break” item introducing the refreshing articles celebrating local people who make the world a better place (Re: “24th anniversary issue,” News, Jan 25. 2018). In the introduction, Joel Dyer writes, “So for this week, this one short week, let’s all be optimists. Let’s take a few days to thank those who make our lives a little better whenever and wherever we see them. Let’s take
all that energy we are using to rage against the current state of politics and direct it instead toward those among us who could use a helping hand.” Well, I say why stop at a week? Let’s take all that energy and keep it focused on what we want (instead of what we don’t want). It is said that what we resist persists, and that worrying is like praying for what you don’t want. When we direct our energy at something, we power it, so let us direct our compassionate hearts
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time, solar and wind energy had become cheaper than any fossil fuel. Now that statement includes the cost of energy storage. That’s the good news. The bad news is that as fast as clean energy is now being installed, global warming is still moving faster. Every year, we pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which add on to what’s already up there. Those gases don’t dissipate; they’ll be up there for millennia. And what we put up there today will take about 50 years to heat up, further increasing global temperatures even if we could stop all global GHG emissions today. So things are going to get worse and stay that way for a very long time. The worldwide scientific community has made it clear that we’ve just about run out of time to prevent “catastrophic” global warming, which would lead to “global economic collapse” followed by “societal collapse” (National Academy of Sciences/IPCC). We’ve got until about the end of the next decade to make a global transition to clean energy. We’re way behind schedule and we need national legislation that will have a global impact. Now, back to the good news: We have a proven, bi-partisan economic solution to climate change: We can tax fossil fuels out of existence and give all that tax money to the taxpayers, increasing our GDP $75-80 billion annually (citizenscliamtelobby.org) and creating over 5 million good-paying, local, permanent (40-year) jobs, over 70,000 of them in Colorado (Google: Stanford University’s “Solutions Project 50 states”). This policy, “carbon fee-and-dividend,” has worked as promised in British Columbia for nearly a decade, lowering taxes and energy bills and creating zero emissions there and the fastest-growing economy in Canada (The Economist). It has a whopping 83 percent public approval rating there (World Bank). All fossil fuel corporations pay an annually increasing carbon pollution fee, and every taxpayer gets that tax money in equal “dividend” checks every month. Use that ever-increasing “dividend” to buy cheaper clean energy and, as solar and wind energy keep falling exponentially in price until they’re nearly free (Scientific American), you make more money every year. More importantly, this policy can have a swift global domino effect, using market forces to make other nations cut their emissions as fast as we do. See the volunteer Citizens Climate Lobby webBoulder Weekly
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Ryan Partridge plucked out his own eyes, evidence of an out-of-control problem in our jail system by Angela K. Evans Joel Dyer
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yan Partridge stands in his North Boulder kitchen making pour-over coffee for himself and his parents. His eyelids are closed as he feels around for the mug, places the coffee filter on top, and carefully swirls hot water over the fresh grounds. He’s open about growing up in Boulder and his days now spent navigating the world without sight. In December 2016, Ryan blinded himself in the throes of a psychotic episode at the Boulder County Jail. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he had been on and off medications and in and out of law enforcement custody for more than a year. Now he’s suing Boulder County, Sheriff Joe Pelle and about two dozen other jail staff for what happened. “Alone in his jail cell, curled up in a ball, with fingernails that had not been cut for six weeks, Ryan Partridge
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wedged his thumb and fingernails behind both of his eyeballs and plucked them both completely out of his own head,” the lawsuit states. “His delusions compelled him to do it.” Unfortunately, Ryan’s story is emblematic of a larger problem in the state of Colorado, and the country as a whole. Mental Health America rates Colorado 43rd in the nation, for high rates of mental illness and lower rates of access to care. An estimated 48 percent of jail inmates around the country have significant mental health needs. In Colorado, it’s about 39 percent according to the Department of Corrections. Colorado has very limited resources at its state mental facilities to address this growing need. As the state’s legislature, agencies and politicians seek appropriate solutions, local law enforcement and jail staff are often left to house the mentally ill, many of whom face only minor charges that
nonetheless keep them incarcerated. “[Ryan] was incarcerated on very minor charges, all of which arose because of his mental illness,” says prominent Denver civil rights attorney David Lane, who is representing the Partridges. “It’s symptomatic of the fact that in our our society, jail is the answer to mental illness frequently.” As one behavioral health professional at the Boulder County Jail put it: “These are community problems but they become legal problems.” • • • • “I’ll never forget that call,” Richard Partridge, Ryan’s father, says of the night he and Ryan’s mom, Shelley, found out their son had lost his eyes. Ryan was raised in Boulder and Nederland, attending Boulder High School and Front Range Community College. Now Boulder Weekly
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Shelley (top) and Richard (left) spend the majority of their time caring for their son, Ryan, after he blinded himself while in custody at the Boulder County Jail.
31, he first started showing signs of mental health issues several years ago. “When he was showing early signs, we didn’t know exactly what was going on, but we knew something was happening,” says Busime Shekanena, a high school friend of Ryan’s, who moved in with the Partridges in August to help with Ryan’s care. “I thought there was a lot of emotional issues. But overtime I noticed that there’s something really, truly going on mentally.” His parents also began noticing changes in behavior. At times they tried to get him help, but soon he became erratic and even violent, leaving them little choice but to call law enforcement. “As loving parents sometimes you don’t see problems in your kids. But we did do things in stages early on when we started seeing what we thought were behavioral problems or attitude problems or alcohol problems,” Richard says. “You don’t become schizophrenic overnight. It’s usually about a 10-year process.” Plus, diagnosing schizophrenia can be challenging, as it requires multiple thorough assessments and persistent signs of disturbance for at least six Boulder Weekly
months, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Approximately 40 percent of the 2.8 million Americans who experience schizophrenia go untreated. It wasn’t until mid-2015 that Ryan was first diagnosed with the disorder. But by that time, Ryan had already been in and out of the jail on misdemeanor charges and had even found himself homeless at times. It was while in custody in early 2016 that Ryan first talked about gouging out his eyes. At one point he smashed his face into the toilet in his cell, bloodying his face and breaking seven teeth. He tried to jump from a second floor railing two different times. He was successful once, falling headfirst into a metal table and breaking a vertebra in his back. Another time he repeatedly made himself vomit, while telling jail staff they were poisoning his food.
Unmedicated and experiencing severe delusions, Ryan often didn’t trust the jail staff. “They had to move me because I wouldn’t let them take my trash. They had to move me from one cell to another and then that would cause kind of a rebellion because I didn’t trust them for that. I thought everything meant things, like having access to the light or not; I thought it was a mini-conspiracy,” he says. “I just didn’t trust them and I didn’t know why they would do things. I had all sorts of conspiratorial (thoughts). Like I didn’t trust the vents or the air flow.” Ryan was often held in a restraint chair or taken to solitary confinement, which exacerbated the situation he says. “It’s like a silent scream,” Ryan says. “You think sometimes that you can almost see your scream reverberate off the wall.” The cycle often exasperated Shelley and Richard. She repeat-
edly called the jail asking for information about her son, asking for them to get him help. “I said, ‘You’ve got to get him out of here, you have to make a change because you’re making it worse. He doesn’t know what’s going on, somebody needs to talk with him,’” Shelley says. “The jail said, ‘Our hands are tied, our hands are tied.’ They certainly made no effort to address any of these concerns or problems. And we were there, we were willing to do whatever it took.” “When the state takes control of you by incarcerating you, they are obligated to treat your serious medical needs, and psychiatric conditions are considered serious medical needs,” Lane says. “Boulder was completely indifferent to Mr. Partridge’s psychological issues. They did nothing except beat him and tase him.” The Partridges are suing for excessive use of force, indifference to serious mental illness and failure to provide medical care and treatment. The lawsuit also names Boulder County for “unlawful discrimination and failure to accommodate” under the Americans See SILENT SCREAMS Page 14
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with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit alleges that jail staff used excessive force in handling Ryan while he was actively psychotic. They would tackle, punch and tase him in an effort to get him to cooperate, it says. When he was threatening self harm, they would place him in a restraint chair, and cover his face with a spit sock, a mesh-like head cover used to prevent people from spitting on officers. Although mental health staff at the jail repeatedly reported Ryan’s mental instability, and at times took him to Boulder Community Hospital and Colorado Mental Health Institute Fort Logan, each time he was returned to Boulder County Jail. Several times he underwent competency evaluations, once being let out on bond, only to be arrested, and taken back to the jail several months later for violating probation. Even if he was taking medication at the time of his arrest, he stopped taking it for the most part at the jail, paranoid about what the jail staff was giving him. The lawsuit suggests jail staff could have gotten a court order to force Ryan into taking antipsychotic medications, which could have helped stabilize his mental health. “You know they are very inconsistent about what they could do or couldn’t do and what they were more than willing to do and what they weren’t willing to do,” Richard says. He questions why they could put him in a restraint chair and spit sock but couldn’t make him take medicine. “If you get transported in the ambulance you have to take a sedative and you don’t have a choice in that,” Ryan adds. In the days leading up to Dec. 17, 2016, Ryan was increasingly delusional, refusing to wear clothes, sometimes going days without sleep, sometimes sleeping all day. Jail staff asked the courts to bump him to the top of a priority list for a bed at the Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Pueblo. The day before a judge ordered an “emergency procedure” to get Ryan psychiatric help. According to the lawsuit, jail records show that more than 24-hours later Ryan was still alone in his cell at the jail. Sometime that evening deputies began noticing dried blood on his face, but it wasn’t until after 9 p.m. that he was taken to medical. When he refused to cooperate, he was punched and tased, the lawsuit alleges. He was then trans-
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Above: Ryan’s high school friend Busime Shakanena moved in to help with his care. Left: Shelley and Richard deal with the enormous amount of paperwork surrounding Ryan’s care and the pending lawsuit.
ferred to Denver Health Medical Center where he was diagnosed with “selfinflicted ruptured global and retinal detachment, psychosis, schizoaffective disorder, chronic psychotic illness,” according to the lawsuit. “Last time I talked to him,” before he gouged out his eyes, Richard says, “he asked if he was going to die in the jail.” • • • • Boulder County Jail is notoriously overcrowded and understaffed, making resource-intensive inmates like Ryan challenging to manage. Neither Sheriff Pelle nor anyone else from the county would comment specifically on Ryan’s case, given the pending litigation. However, they all quickly acknowledge the inadequacies of the criminal justice system to take care of mental health needs, while explaining a variety of
solutions at both the state and local level that seek to address the issue. “The jail is not built to deal with mentally ill folks,” says Jeff Goetz, division chief at Boulder County Jail. “We’ve got hard fixtures, we have no padded cells here. We’re not designed to house that type of an individual. ... And yet that’s what the expectation is.” An October 2016 report on jail overcrowding by outside consultants found that on average Boulder County Jail sees more than 200 people a day with serious mental health problems. In late January 2017, a snapshot report provided by the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office states that of the 417 people at the jail that day, 43 percent had some sort of diagnosed mental illness. “The goal is to get them out of here, not keep them here,” Goetz says. “Those are the worst folks to be in jail, they require the most resources, they are staff intensive.” It costs the county $133 a day per inmate at the jail. The price is on average 20 percent higher for someone See SILENT SCREAMS Page 16
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with a mental health issue. While the population has only been growing over time, staffing hasn’t grown proportionately. “We’ve been asking for more staff for 25 years,” Goetz says. A county commissioners’ review a few years ago revealed the jail was short-staffed by 30 people. Since then, the County has slowly allocated funding for new positions, but staffing is still nowhere near capacity. Additionally, of the roughly 120 or so deputies who work at the jail, Goetz says only about a third of them have gone through the Crisis Intervention Training (CIT), which specifically addresses how to interact with people in a variety of mental health states using live role-playing. The 40-hour trainings are conducted throughout the state with limited space for every law enforcement department. The Sheriff ’s office gets about 10 spots a year, Goetz says, and jail staff only two or three of those. Plus, given staffing concerns, it can be difficult to pull deputies from jail rotation to complete the course. In the mental health unit, the jail had the same two clinician positions since opening in 1987 until four years ago, Goetz says. Now, using a combination of in-house mental health clinicians and those contracted through Mental Health Partners (MHP), there’s funding for five full-time clinicians, one part-time position, a mental health supervisor and 16 hours of psychiatric care a week for diagnosis and prescriptions. However, three of the clinician positions are currently open. Unlike other mental health jobs, jail clinicians don’t have a regular caseload and the work is often unpredictable. Some of the clients are “frequent flyers,” those who cycle through the system and know mental health staff.
Others are new, from Boulder County or elsewhere. The jail clinicians aren’t conducting therapy sessions or counseling, rather they are assessing inmates as they come in, and, if need be, referring them to an MHP psychiatrist for diagnosis and prescriptions. They can have multiple people on suicide watch and others threatening the safety of jail staff, themselves or other inmates, causing them to be housed in a solitary cell for security reasons. “Part of our dilemma is because staffing has been so short, [clinicians] don’t have time to eat lunch. It’s on the go, there’s no breath taking,” Goetz says. “You’re constantly going from person to person to person to person; you can only be here so many hours. And then when you’re not here, guess what’s waiting for when you get back? Six additional [cases], like the ones who came in last night.” All of this can make it difficult to find adequate candidates for open mental health positions at the jail. “The jail is a unique environment when it comes to being a mental health professional,” says Matt Jaeckel, the program manager at MHP. “It takes a skill set to be really adaptable, flexible at the drop of a hat. ... The jail clinician role is really about triaging crisis immediately.” Additionally, there are several other limitations the jail’s mental health staff faces. Privacy laws make sharing information between different agencies, facilities, parents and doctors impossible unless the inmate signs off on it. If an inmate is in a severe state, mental health staff can refer the person to a hospital on a mental health hold, which often allows treatment to help their mental health stabilize. But as soon as that occurs, the inmate is sent back to the jail, where they often regress. And jails aren’t licensed mediBoulder Weekly
news legislation. “It’s such an incredible burden on our law enforcement and public safety professionals to be offering these kinds of services when it really needs to be in the public health space,” says Adam Zarrin, Gov. Hickenlooper’s policy advisor on justice, safety and transportation. “This is a public health problem and it needs to be addressed with those kinds of responses.” The statewide task force is currently
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cal facilities, making things like forcing medication and/or treatment out of the question without violating the inmate’s rights. “If they refuse, there’s nothing we can do. We can provide encouragement, but we can’t force those meds on them,” says Melanie Dreiling, the medical supervisor at Boulder County Jail. “Would it help to be able to force meds in the jail? Yeah, it would, because then we don’t have to wait for them to go to the state hospital to stabilize, we can try and stabilize them here. What would that take? Twenty-four-hour psychiatrists in mental health, which we don’t have the funding to do.” Given all these limitations, there’s a certain point where jail staff simply can’t do anymore, Jaeckel says. “Sometimes you just get to a place where the best thing we can do is try to contain [them] because we have no more interventions. We’ve reached our level of care, what’s in our scope, and that’s an interesting challenge,” he says. It can be easy to “feel helpless” at times, one clinician at the jail says. “It can be extremely heart wrenching for us, too.” Statewide mental health resources are lacking as well, with inadequate space in state facilities, which are really the only option for jail and prison inmates. “If you have an income and insurance and are willing to be treated, there are a lot of options,” Pelle says. “If you’re not one of the above, there are very few.” The courts can order competency evaluations and/or treatment to ensure a person can aid their lawyers in their defence. But there is a severe statewide backlog as there aren’t enough resources in the state mental health hospitals to meet the demand. This year the state is promising $20 million to fund more beds for competency evaluations and restorations in jails and hospitals, increasing capacity by a few dozen or so. But with a 47 percent increase in requests for competency evaluations from 2016 to 2017, critics argue this is far from enough. In Boulder County, the number of orders for competency evaluations has been rising from a low-point of 10 in 2002 to 99 last year. Jail staff says some inmates have been waiting 80-90 days for a bed to open up in a treatment facility, despite a 2012 settlement that requires inmates in Colorado to begin this process within 28 days of the court order. “If someone has a heart attack we call for an ambulance and we send them to a hospital where they can be cared for at a trauma-care level. That
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agency collaboration. The report should be made public by the end of the month, Zarrin says. Then there’s the challenge of implementing and funding the strategic plan in the coming months in the midst of a governor’s election and changing administrations. Despite these constraints, the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Department, with state grants and community and County partners, have a number of programs to address mental health needs in the overall community. The EDGE program pairs mental health professionals with patrol officers in the hopes of de-escalating situations that result in law enforcement intervention and diverting people from jail. Despite its effectiveness, the program isn’t funded all hours of the day and isn’t available for certain parts of the county like Louisville, Lafayette and Erie. The PACE program is a resource for people with serious mental health and substance abuse issues and currently saves the County about 10,000 days of jail time a year by serving approximately 50 people with habitual tendencies, according to Pelle. Through the department of Health and Human Services, the Jail Based Behavioral Health Services provide resources for inmates with less acute mental health needs, including one on one and group therapy, case management and discharge planning. “There’s more momentum and understanding behind this now than any time in my career. And there’s leaders in the legislature and state government that are interested and it’s getting everyone’s attention,” Pelle says. “And hopefully with an economy that has continued to be strong, hopefully there’ll be some funding at the state
level to try and do Some days are things.” better than others In the — Ryan works out at the rec center, end, none of goes to concerts these soluand hangs out with friends, but tions providsome days he ed Ryan spends most of his time in bed. with the necessary treatment to prevent him from severe self-harm. “Once he gouged his eyes out, then they got him out of there,” Shelley says. “But that’s the thing, they didn’t do anything until after, after it’s over. After it’s too late.” • • • • Ryan’s memories from the twoand-a-half weeks he spent at the Denver hospital are “disjointed.” Still filled with conspiratorial thoughts and delusions, it was hard to really know what was going on. Although his parents were at the hospital, they say they weren’t allowed to go into the room with Ryan or touch him. It wasn’t until they visited him at the Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Pueblo weeks later that they finally were able to give him a hug. “This was the first time we actually touched our son after all of this,” Richard says, as both he and Shelley tear up. “They bring Ryan out to the room and we’re hugging. He’s sitting down in the sofa, I’m rubbing his shoulders, he hasn’t had any touch. He’s talking to us…” But the moment was short-lived. Soon someone came over and told the family not to touch each other. “They wouldn’t even let you hold hands,” Shelley says. After roughly three weeks of treatBoulder Weekly
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ment, including medication, Ryan’s mental health right now to not only make life a little easier for stabilized. [Ryan] but also what can [he] do to enjoy it.” “I came back to myself there at Pueblo,” he says. Shelley adds, “I don’t think there’s a point “It’s a lot for Ryan to digest — when he says right now to going beyond each day.” he came back to himself, it means coming back “Unfortunately, the concept of justice doesn’t to himself as he is now,” Shelley adds. really exist in our justice system because no matRyan returned to his childhood home in ter what the outcome of the case is, Ryan North Boulder in mid-February last year. He Partridge is going to be blind for the rest of his continues his mental health treatment, including life,” Ryan’s attorney David Lane says. “The only medication, at MHP. His parents, who have been thing that the American civil justice system can separated for years, moved back under the same do is spit money out to try and make it as easy as roof to care for their son. Shelley asked Busime possible.” to move in six months later to be an additional resource. She says it takes all of them just to make it through each day. Ryan tries to keep himself busy: He works out at the rec center with either Richard or Busime. He often comes back and lifts weights at home, as well. He’s learning to play the ukulele and speak Spanish. He gives his family massages on a massage table in the basement. Sometimes he meets up with friends, or goes to a concert downtown with Busime. The two often sit and listen to music together. “He’s really good at being out and being social,” Busime says. “I understand it’s not always easy for him but he’s open to it.” Those are the good days. The mornings are the most difficult, as Ryan often wakes up with painful muscles spasms around his eye sockets as tears run down his cheeks. Although he tends to get up early, sometimes he’s back in bed by early afternoon, spending the majority of the day sleeping. “It’s just a reprieve. It’s better than something else,” he says. “And I’m just physically tired, too.” Comedy can also provide respite: Ryan has started listening to Dave Chappelle and Seinfeld, while his parents listen to him laughing from upstairs. • Rebates and Financing But in all reality, “His enjoyment of life is so altered by the blindness,” • FREE Expert Energy Advisors Shelley says. In general, Ryan is more comfortable • Home Energy Assessments in his house than anywhere else. It’s the • Up to a 50% Subsidy for Income house he grew up in and he can navigate around its corners and through the Qualified Households doorways without using his white cane. “We’re always trying to encourage him to come outside and get some fresh air and feel the sun,” Shelley says. “But he said to me once, when he’s in the house, his eyes are just closed. When he’s outside, he really knows he’s blind.” The whole family has had to adjust, as both Shelley and Richard say their friend groups and social lives have drastically diminished. For now, the goal is simply to make it through each day. “It’s one of those situations where it’s a day to day thing. You can’t really look too far into the future,” Busime says. “I never really give up hope, but I just try to maintain what can we do
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news ELECTION COVERAGE Longmont Ward I special election. Tim Waters Josh Goldberg Russ Lyman You can consider this Feb. 27, 2018 election for Longmont’s Ward I city council seat to be either three months late or an early warm-up for next November, but either way, it’s here and it’s time to vote. Registered voters living in Ward I — which makes up much of the northeast portion of Longmont — should have received your ballots in the mail by the time you are reading this. As you may recall, this special election is necessary because Brian Bagley, the previous Ward I councilman, was elected Mayor of Longmont last November. Bagley had two years remaining of his four-year term in Ward I, and this election is to determine who will take his place and finish Tim Waters out the last two years as the Ward I representative to council. As always, we should all appreciate the willingness of these three candidates to take time out of their busy lives to explain their positions on the many important issues facing Longmont and their willingness to serve the community as a member of council. As was the case last year at election time, Longmont faces a pending invasion by the oil and gas industry. Like the rest of Boulder County, the city is also facing an afforcable housing crisis. And as Longmont grows, water is also a key issue on which the council will be taking action. Other important challenges facing the community include future development and annexations with none more important than the St. Vrain River corridor. On all the issues above, Boulder Weekly has found Tim Waters to be the best candidate for the job. Waters understands that the vast majority of Longmont citizens oppose oil and gas extraction (including Boulder Weekly
SAVING THE WORLD ONE CAT AT A TIME fracking) within city limits and underneath Union Reservoir, the city’s backup water supply. He too opposes such industrial activities in proximity to neighborhoods or under our water supply and has suggested that the city should look at regulations on oil and gas flow lines as one partial, and legal, solution to the problem. In conversations with BW he also seemed open to exploring any and all other potential opportunities to keep the drilling rigs out of Longmont, including supporting future legislation at the state level like that recently put forward by Rep. Matt Jones, which unfortunately died in committee. BW also found Waters to have the best understanding and position of the three candidates when it comes to the controversial Windy Gap Firming Project, which threatens the health of the Colorado River Basin while potentially costing Longmont residents tens of millions of dollars for additional water that current trends and even city staff show the city will never need. Waters has a number of qualities that are sorely needed on council. His experience as a leader in education and as a CEO for more than two decades have been on display in every public forum held concerning this election. Unlike his opponents, he has taken clear stands on the issues and can clearly articulate why he believes what he believes. And perhaps most importantly, Waters understands that to be successful in confronting any issue facing the city of Longmont, council must set specific goals and timelines with actual progress being measured regularly along the way. Longmont needs a Ward I leader who can effectively work with and direct staff, someone capable of challenging the status quo views too often put forward by staff and/or the development community. Waters’ extensive leadership experience will allow him to do just that. Tim Waters has the skills, experience and temperament to follow and contribute to the quality leadership of others where it exists or to step forward and provide such leadership when absent. That is why Boulder Weekly is enthusiastically endorsing Tim Waters to be Longmont City Council’s next Ward I representative.
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Suffering a success Tom Wasinger on the past, the present and the pain of winning a Grammy by Caitlin Rockett
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itting in Tom Wasinger’s studio, surrounded by tens of thousands of dollars of guitars and other stringed delights, his three Grammys gathering dust on a shelf near the entrance, we talk as much about psychology as we do about music. Wasinger’s interest in the mind started in the mid-’70s, when the teenaged musician from Oklahoma City finally decided college just wasn’t high enough on his list of things to do in life. He’d already moved out to Colorado and had a fairly successful jaunt playing in a couple of bands that toured heavily in the ski towns of the West, mostly playing country rock but also dabbling in the emerging punk and new wave sounds that eventually infiltrated American airwaves. He’d taught himself to play guitar (with a teacher thrown in for good measure on a couple of occasions when he was around 9 or 10) so he guessed it was time to teach himself more. “So I studied music more,” he says. “I taught myself to read music for guitar — not well, but I could do it — and I ended up studying things like Carl Jung and psychology.” Jung’s work in analytical psychology is a well chronicled catalyst for creative minds across the arts: Herman Hesse, Jackson Pollock, David Bowie, the Beatles, Tool, Stanley Kubric and Federico Fellini have all called Jung a muse of sorts, feeding off of the connections Jung made between psychology, philosophy, anthropology and religion. With Wasinger, Jung comes up immediately as we talk about his new album, A Mended Soul, his first solo work in more than 30 years. “[ Jung] saw, especially from observing people with mental illness, that people had big splits within them, pieces of their personality that were not even integrated so that someone who was in trouble, for example someone who was schizophrenic, would have literally different personalities that would show up. That was an extreme version. Everyone has little bits and pieces of that. “That idea of a mended soul, what he described as kind of healing all those splits and bringing all those pieces of yourself into consciousness, into the part of yourself that lives everyday, he called that individuation. I always felt like that would be a way of mending yourself.” An entirely instrumental album, A Mended Soul traverses Wasinger’s 32-year career, and it chronicles his own healing process, his individuation, from the stillbirth of his middle child to the fond memories of family vacations in British Columbia. It’s an album that speaks to the complexity of the human experience, no words necessary. It was also recorded at the request of an old friend, Vian Izak (née Zaayman). Wasinger took Izak under his wing when Izak was just a 16-year-old at Fairview High School, teaching the teenager everything he knew about audio engineering and recording. Wasinger helped Izak and his brother Hein record their first album as Orange Free State (a reference to the brothers’ native South Africa). Over the years, Izak and Wasinger have kept in contact as Izak has built his career in the recording industry. Today, at just 27, Izak is at the helm of his own record see WASINGER Page 24
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Wasinger says. “I’d read about the phenomenon and it didn’t stop it from happening to me. My family almost threw me out. Every morning I woke up and the world was just black. I’m sure that some deep, deep piece of me said, ‘If I’m ever standing on a stage accepting one of those I will have arrived.’ And of course it arrives in a box and there it is and then OK, this is cool. And you’re the same jerk ball you’ve always been. You still get crabby and say mean things to the people you love and it doesn’t change you at your core and so it was, I think, the realization of the fact that no, this is not where it stops.” But time did its thing and Wasinger found his way into the light and back on that stage accepting another Grammy a few years later. His family and friends finally had the party Wasinger wouldn’t let them throw when he won his first Grammy. He shows a picture of himself at the party — young and smiling — with the two Grammys hanging from a yoke over his neck; the burden of success. At 61, Wasinger is running out of room on his studio walls to hang more guitars, and he’s collected just about everything he feels like he needs in his musical toolbox. He’s working on a Chopin piece on the piano, says it’s the hardest thing he’s ever tried to learn, but it keeps his brain “alive.” And that’s what music is for Wasinger: It’s life. It’s religion. “I’m not involved in organized religion in any way, but for me, religion is tied into music. Jung used to say, when people would come in who were really having a psychological crisis, he would often ask, ‘What religion were you raised in?’ He would tell them to go back to church and embrace this set of spiritual ideas. It would be kind of like they were drowning in the ocean and suddenly they had a boat. It would give them a sort of structure to reorient them to the world. And so my structure, my religion, is music.” Boulder Weekly
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ruce Cockburn’s last album, Small Source of Comfort, came out six years ago. But Cockburn had good reasons to back up his absence; he spent a sizable chunk of the time working on, releasing and promoting his memoir, Rumours of Glory. The guitar virtuoso also got remarried, had another child and was busy settling into a new city, San Francisco. It was a series of life-changing events and items that demanded his time and attention. Writing Rumours of Daniel Keebler Glory made Cockburn consider hanging up his songwriting hat, he says, and in a recent interview with Boulder Weekly, Cockburn politely dismissed the idea that his questioning was ON THE BILL: momentary or Bruce Cockburn. 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16, fleeting. Boulder Theater, 2032 “No, it was 14th St., Boulder. kind of serious,” Tickets are $34.50$39.50. he says. This was a defining moment for someone who has been in the public eye as a wellrespected musician since his debut album in 1970. Cockburn eventually decided he would continue writing songs, and an album resulted. Bone on Bone, released last September, is his 25th studio album. There is typically a folk influence on Cockburn’s albums, regardless of the overall sound of the particular project, and Bone on Bone is no different. It’s not the sometimes-dissonance-edged jazz rock of The Charity of Night (1996), the world beat-influenced pop of Stealing Fire (1984) or the grittinged guitar rock featured on parts of the Further Adventures Of album from 1978; instead Bone on Bone has an organic feel and roots orientation. Cockburn’s guitar playing and voice cut through the 11-track album with clarity and precision. His vocals have a slightly weathered but polished feel to them, while his guitar work has a rustic, yesteryear sound to it. The bluesy shuffle of “Café Society” helps paint the picture of a group of Boulder Weekly
folks — sometimes including Cockburn himself — that meet outside a local Peet’s Coffee & Tea. “3 Al Purdys” starts with reverberating guitar work that has become a trademark Cockburn sound. The guitar riff drives the almosthypnotic song, with Cockburn taking on the persona of a homeless man asking folks for $20 to recite three Al Purdy poems. Cockburn discovered Purdy, a well-respected Canadian poet a few years back, picked up a volume of his poems and became a fan.
“I was blown away by how good he was,” Cockburn says. He was so blown away, in fact, that he contributed music to a film about the late poet, Al Purdy Was Here, which came out in 2015. Both “Café Society” and “3 Al Purdys” feature the cornet work of Denver’s own legendary Ron Miles. Miles’ cornet grabs onto Cockburn’s melodies and accentuates them. On the chorus of “Café Society” for instance, his horn-playing takes a melodic chorus and makes it difficult to forget. Cockburn dips into gospel with “Jesus Train,” which true to its name, moves along like a Heaven-bound locomotive, and “Twelve Gates to the City.” Both songs, and four others on the album, feature The San Francisco Lighthouse Chorus.
“It’s not a choir; they just sing at church,” Cockburn says. “One Sunday it will be a couple of women. There’s just these different combinations, and then there’s the band. I’ve played with them a few times at church. It’s a great asset and a great talent pool. They were kind enough to come out and sing on all these things.” Cockburn discovered the San Francisco Lighthouse Chorus through a church his wife, and now Cockburn, attend. “There was just this all-embracing, fantastic vibe in the room,” he says. “I didn’t know anybody. I was a total stranger walking in there. None of them knew me. And then there was this great music, a good band and a bunch of really good singers.” “Looking and Waiting” is another noteworthy tune from Bone on Bone. Guided by dulcet guitar picking, comforting backing harmonies and an ear-catching rhythm shift, it’s more of a dream than a song. Cockburn denies the suggestion that the tune took a long time to write, even though it has the feel of a long-crafted composition. He says the lyrics only took 15 minutes to compose. The words, as alluring as the music, express hope even with the realization that one won’t always have all the answers. In the opening lines that also act as the song’s chorus, Cockburn sings, “Looking and waiting/ It’s what I do/ Scanning the skies for a beacon from you/ Shapes on the curtain, but no clear view of you.” Searching and questioning with hope is an overarching theme of the record. These are stories of highs and lows, pushing and pulling, ebb and flow. It’s a dirt-on-the-ground, dust-in-thenose, sunshine-in-the-sky, water-todrink type of journey through words and music that matches with rustic, earthy tones. Bone on Bone is a record worth experiencing. February 8 , 2018 27
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he second act of Guards at the light, the men turn to gaze upon the Taj begins quietly, the set Taj Mahal for the first time. lights dimly casting the play’s Spotlights turn to bathe them in white only two characters lying, light. The men are as silent as the exhausted, in a pool of blood. audience, which is, presumably, imagDespite the grotesque display, this ining the beauty they behold. The moment is placid, and questions about script works hard to paint a picture of how the men got there are suspended. the all-white building, made to be the The play pauses for a perfect homage to moment, and the true love. audience is left to But the play also ON THE BILL: Guards contemplate what’s confronts the human at the Taj. Presented by just been finished: the costs of building such Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Grace Gamm severing of 40,000 a magnificent strucTheater, Dairy Arts Center. hands by the two ture; in this case, a Through Feb. 18. Tickets: dutiful guards. mausoleum for betc.org/event/guards The men are emperor Shah Jahan’s Barbur and Humayun, favorite departed wife. the guards in Rajiv Joseph’s 2016 play Legend has it that the emperor Guards at the Taj, produced by the ordered the dismemberment of 20,000 Boulder Ensemble Theater Company. workmen so that something as beautiIn the first act, set just a day before, we ful as the Taj could never be built meet them as ordinary guards, stationed again. This contrast between beauty and savagery is evident when the secto stand outside the Taj Mahal, which ond act opens and the guards are has just been completed. Legend has it bathed not in white light, but in that the magnificent monument, herblood. alded as the most beautiful building in The BETC crew, led by artistic the world at the time of its construction director Stephen Weitz, build a simple in 1648, was shrouded until the moment of it’s completion. Barbur and world that allows actors Sam Gilstrap Humayun were employed to help keep and Jihad Milhem to indulge the drait secret. matic dialogue that follows, resulting Until dawn breaks, they stand out- in a thoroughly enjoyable (and laudside a wall surrounding the structure, able) performance. Importantly talking to each other (although it’s though, the simplicity of the set also forbidden) about birds and boredom allows the performance to veer into and harems and silly ambitions to do the subtleties of more absorptive acts. more than stand watch. At day’s first Joseph’s script offers only one Boulder Weekly
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parenthetical cue for Act II: “(they start to mop, but realize they are just pushing around the blood).” BETC uses this as a launchpad to send the actors on a sort of dance. In its midst, the dialogue becomes secondary, extravagant. The contrast between the horror of the blood on the floor and the sweet way the men tend to it, softly pushing the blood down a drain, hypnotizes the audience. For 30 minutes, everyone in the room is absorbed. Yet, the dismemberment is based on folklore. Yes, it lessens the power of the bloody climax when we know the details are false, but the production still succeeds in suspending the room of its disbelief. It helps that the dismemberment story feels like it has contemporary relevance. In this day and age, it’s difficult to imagine power or beauty could come without a horrific price. Take, for example, Trump’s casino and resort version of the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, which not only cost investors $350 million, but contributed to the city’s ruin. Guards at the Taj is a difficult play but one that has found a perfect home with BETC, now starting its 13th season. Artistic Director Weitz says the company is in the midst of redefining itself, looking for stories that can inspire its company and its audiences to “empathy,” and that is precisely what Guards at the Taj delivers.
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Dance the night away at this year’s Sweet Heart Dance at Dickens Opera House. Big Band music will be provided by the Longmont All Stars Jazz Band and the Longmont Christian School Jazz Band, but folks can also enjoy strutting their stuff to rock, slow dance music, waltzes, polkas and even cha chas. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis. Dinner reservations before the show in the tavern are highly recommended for those hoping to dine as well as dance. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.
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All campus community members are invited to share their favorite poem. Entry forms may be submitted through March 8 online (http://bit. ly/CUFavoritePoems) or by dropping one in the Favorite Poem boxes at any library branch, the English Department office or Innisfree Poetry Bookstore. Fifteen poems will be and celebrated at a public reading April 18 at 4:30 p.m. in Norlin Library.
BOOK TALK: MORE THAN JUST MOUNTAINS. 5 p.m. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), CIRES Auditorium, 1665 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. Craig Jones’s book The Mountains That Remade America reflects on the Sierra Nevada range and how those mountains have changed the way Americans live, from ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits.
MULTIFACETED APPROACHES TO PROVIDING HEALTHCARE. 5 p.m. Hale Science, 230, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder.
An engaging panel of experts explores multifaceted approaches to health care.
ANCIENT LIGHT. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. Second showing on Feb. 9. This educational experience will combine ancient knowledge and modern technology to explore the universal connection between humans and the skies.
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EMBEDDED IN IRAQ: JOURNALISTS ENCOUNTER THE ISLAMIC STATE. 7 p.m. Hale Science, 270, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder.
Please join us for an evening of conversation regarding the documentation of conflict and war. Featuring Victor J. Blue, a New York-based photojournalist, and Mitch Utterback, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel, who transitioned to a new career reporting on war, conflict and disaster.
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In this dance theatre piece by Ondine Geary, performers mine the dark corners and alleyways of seemingly irreconcilable ideas in an urgent confrontation with meaninglessness and loss.
A CELEBRATION OF CU BOULDER FAVORITE POEMS. Norlin Library, CBIS, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Entries accepted through March 8.
WE ARE THE WAKE: A NEW PLAY BY AYLA SULLIVAN. 7 p.m. University Theatre, Loft Theatre, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. More dates through Feb. 11. On a journey to New York’s Hart Island to visit loved ones buried in unmarked mass graves, four women discover secrets, lost souls... and themselves.
JOSHUA BELL: WITH SAM HAYWOOD, PIANO. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.
The American violinist, a household name worldwide, gives an arresting, one-night-only recital in Boulder.
Friday, February 9 15TH FRONT RANGE ECO-SOCIAL SOLUTIONS: A BIONEERS NETWORK EVENT. 10 a.m. Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community (SEEC), 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder. Through Feb. 10. Bioneers is the preeminent international gathering of leading innovators and visionaries who offer practical solutions to the most pressing environmental and social issues of our time.
ICS COLLOQUIUM: CANNABIS, CANNABINOIDS AND HEALTH RESEARCH POST-LEGALIZATION. Noon. Muenzinger Auditorium, D430, 1905 Colorado Ave., Boulder. This week’s speaker is Cinamon Bidwell, Ph.D., ICS, the University of Colorado, Boulder.
MODERN DAY FAIRY TALES: THEATRE TOUR SHOWING. Noon. University Theatre Building, Acting Studio, C240. Department of Theatre & Dance presents Modern Day Fairy Tales: Alex Buffman.
NEIL BRENNER: IS THE WORLD URBAN? 3:30 p.m. Guggenheim Geography, 205, 1475 Central Campus Mall, Boulder.
In this lecture, Neil Brenner critiques contemporary ideologies of the “urban age,” which confront this question with reference to the purported fact that more than 50 percent of the world’s population resides within cities.
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ORIGINS SPRING 2018 SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THE LONG-RANGE CONSEQUENCES OF VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. 7 p.m. Benson Earth Sciences, 180, 2200 Colorado Ave., Boulder.
Dr. Clive Oppenheimer of the University of Cambridge is our Keynote speaker for our spring 2018 symposium.
GONER: (A VOID). 7:30 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, Black Box Experimental Studio, 1125 18th St., Boulder. More dates through Feb. 10.
Saturday, February 10 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ORIGINS SPRING 2018 SYMPOSIUM: VOLCANOES, THE FAILURES OF THE GODS, AND THE COLLAPSES OF EMPIRES. 8:15 a.m. Benson Earth Sciences, 180, 2200 Colorado Ave., Boulder.
Speakers from a host of institutions representing a range of research disciplines will be presenting on the explosive volcanism and their far-reaching effects (in both space and time).
CLIMBING POETREE AT CU BOULDER. 6 p.m. Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community (SEEC), 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder. More dates through Feb. 11. Based in Brooklyn, with a dedication to the whole planet, Climbing PoeTree harnesses creativity as the antidote to destruction through their awardwinning spoken word, boundary-breaking music and multimedia hip hop theater.
Sunday, February 11 SPARK! CULTURAL PROGRAMMING FOR PEOPLE WITH MEMORY LOSS. 1:30 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), BioLounge, 1035 Broadway, Boulder.
SPARK! programs create an opportunity for individuals living with early to mid-stage memory loss and their families to enjoy interactive and engaging experiences in a comfortable setting, guided by trained docents and volunteers.
8-BALL BILLIARDS TOURNAMENT. 6 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), The Connection, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.
Every other Wednesday, show your skills at an 8-ball or 9-ball billiards tournament at The Connection! $5 entry fee. Sign up starts 6 p.m. at The Connection front desk. Play begins at 7 p.m.
ANIMAL FARM: A PLAY ADAPTED BY NELSON BOND, BASED ON THE NOVEL BY GEORGE ORWELL. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre, Acting Studio, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. George Orwell’s heartbreaking allegorical masterpiece about revolution and counter-revolution comes to life in the intimate Acting Studio. see EVENTS Page 34
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words Andrea Gibson — Take Me With You. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Spilled Ink: Open Mic for Youth. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Phoebe Nix and Open Music Night. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Matt de la Pena & Loren Long — Love. 6 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Thursday, February 8 Waylon Lewis — Things I Would Like to Do with You. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Friday, February 9
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Saturday, February 10 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
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Andrea Gibson explores themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, family and forgiveness with stunning imagery and a willingness to delve into the exploration of what it means to heal and to be different in this strange age. Gibson will speak about and sign their new book, Take Me With You, on Friday, Feb. 9 at the Boulder Book Store.
Monday, February 12
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Tuesday, February 13
Sunday, February 11
Winter Bookclub Night. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Jennifer Adams — I Am a Warrior Goddess. 11 a.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Wednesday, February 14 CU MFA Showcase. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Joan Carol Lieberman — Optimal Distance, A Life Divided. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
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JEFF LAMBERT & J.C. MCKIM 8PM JOHN MIERAS DUO 9PM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 10
CLARE THERESE 8PM BROTHER COYOTE 9PM SUNDAY FEBRUARY 11 8PM
HOOT AND HOLLER w/ THUNDER AND RAIN DUO MONDAY FEBRUARY 12 8PM
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Thursday, February 8 Music Boulder Community Social. 6:30 p.m. Full Cycle Bike Shop, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder. Dean Himes. 6 p.m. Lunada Eatery and Cantina, 2770 Arapahoe Road, Suite 124, Lafayette. Inside the Orchestra’s Tiny Tots performances. 9:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder. Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with Jessica Lea Mayfield & Special Guests. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder. Open Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Open Door Brewing Co., 2030 Ionoshere St., Suite 6, Longmont. Peek. 6 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Pop Music Choir. 6:30 p.m. Platt Middle School, 6096 Baseline Road, Boulder. Summer Camp: On the Road. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Win & Woo. 11 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Events
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Comedy Night at Vision Quest. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder. Lucky. 1:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Lynn Hill: Ascending Women. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Winter Olympics Film Series: Cool Runnings. 7 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Friday, February 9 Music 25th Anniversary Of Disco Inferno. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder.
Big Wild. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Bluekrewe. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite A, Longmont. Bluff Street Grand Opening Celebration. 7 p.m. Bluff Street Bar and Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder. Bonnie and Taylor Sims. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Cantabile Sings “The Other Side of Love.” 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder. Cellar West Friday Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder. Clandestine Amigo. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont. David Wilcox — with Hannah Holbrook. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Dub Haiku. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. Flamenco Valentines. 8 p.m. Louisviller Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Jessica Lea Mayfield. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Keys N Krates. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Many Mountains. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Mojomama. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Shades of Blue. 7 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Tenbucksixer — Live Music. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont. Tim Ostdiek. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Tom Pakele. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer on Walnut, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder. Events Badass Beauty Queen: The Story of Anastasia Lin. 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. The Brother From Another Planet. 8:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
Cupid’s Chokehold: A Valentine’s Burlesque Show. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. The Great Alone: Story of Iditarod Champion Lance Mackey. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Integral Steps Presents Music & Movement. 1 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette. Lucky. 1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Valentine’s Lovers’ Market & Speed Dating Party. 3 p.m. Boulder Creative Collective, 2500 47th St., Suite 10, Boulder. Saturday, February 10 Music Andrea Gibson. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Black Star. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Brewery Tour in Longmont. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Cass Clayton and the Riders. 8:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Cuentos y Cantos con Josh — Bilingual. 10:30 a.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette. David Wilcox — with Hannah Holbrook. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Deborah Solo — with Kari Clifton. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. eTown Presents: Jeffrey Foucault. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Interstate Stash Express. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. Jackson Cloud Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Joe Cool Band. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite A, Longmont.
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Mark Ludy is inspired to tell stories through his art and illustrations, evoking thought, emotion and humor, lifting the chins and ultimately the hearts of his audience. Works of Mixed Media, Digital, Ink and Paint by Ludy is showing at NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory through March 2.
Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May. 13. Cleon Peterson: Shadow Of Men. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 27. Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Opens Feb. 11. Through May 20. Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Honestly Lying. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 13. Divided: Race and Identity in Modern America. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 4. Draw Me In: The Art of Drawing at the CU Art Museum. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through March 24. Drawn to the Figure. Arts Longmont Gallery, West End Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. Through Feb. 24. Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art
100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28. Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October. Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through April 1. Member’s Show. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through April 22. Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21. Nathan Abels: History of the Future. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28. Original Abstract Oil And Mixed Media Paintings — by Kathy Friesz. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 2.
Power Of Process, Jefferson County Schools Exhibition. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through April 1. Reconfigured II. Space Gallery, 400 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through Feb. 24. The Sound of Red. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby & Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 4. They Still Live. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 4. Wopo Holup: Endless Places, Present. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28. Works Of Mixed Media, Digital, Ink And Paint — by Mark Ludy. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 2.
Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum,
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Liberation: From the Reformation to Haydn’s “La Reine” — with St. Martin’s Chamber Choir. 7:30 p.m. Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder. Longtucky Lookers. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont.
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Masontown and The Lonesome Days. 8 p.m. Rogers Hall, 400 High St., Lyons. Mumbouli. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer on Walnut, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder. The Russ Liquid Test. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Schwarz-Bournaki Duo in Recital. 7:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Events Badass Beauty Queen: The Story of Anastasia Lin. 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. BookCliff Vineyards — New Releases with Chocolate & Wine Flights. 1 p.m. Bookcliff Vineyards, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 17, Boulder. Cupid’s Chokehold: A Valentine’s Burlesque Show. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. Date Night in Paris. 6 p.m. Food Lab, 1825 Pearl St., Boulder. Father Daughter Dance. 4:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder. Lucky. 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
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Sunday, February 11 Music Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Band in Longmont. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Clandestine Amigo (Duo). 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.
Obsession: National Theatre Live Encore. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Monday, February 12 Music Adult Ukulele: Drink Beer and Play the Uke! 5 p.m. The Uke School: Boulder, 3217 Walnut St., Boulder.
Cupid’s Chokehold: A Valentine’s Burlesque Show. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder.
The Deltaz. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.
Dairy Presents: Miami String Quartet. 4 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
Night Out. 6:30 p.m. Food Lab, 1825 Pearl St., Boulder.
Folk Concert — Hoot and Holler with Thunder and Rain Duo. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Love Notes: The Sweetest Sound. 3 p.m. LifeBridge Christian Church, 10345 Ute Highway, Longmont. music@theJ — Somewhere Over the Rainbow. 7 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder.
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Space Weather & Space Climate. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Tuesday, February 13 Music Fat Tuesday Beer & Brass. 6 p.m. Open Door Brewing Company, 2030 Ionosphere, Suite G, Longmont. Fat Tuesday — with GoGo Lab. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.
Old Man Winter After Party — with Guerrilla Fanfare. 4 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.
Jazz Combos. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette.
Swinging Songstress. 11 a.m. Dabble Paint and Sip Studio, 2330 Main St., Suite E, Longmont.
Mardi Gras Party — with Defunkt Railroad. 9 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder.
Yacht Rock Revue. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Events BookCliff Vineyards - New Releases with Chocolate & Wine Flights. 1 p.m. Bookcliff Vineyards, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 17, Boulder.
Mickey Avalon. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Events Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder.
A Dreamy Valentine. 5:30 p.m. Food Lab, 1825 Pearl St., Boulder. see EVENTS Page 38
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Guards at The Taj. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Feb. 18. How to Screw Up Your Life! Dairy Arts Center, The Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Feb. 10. Mulan. 3 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Feb. 10. The Pied Piper of Hamelin — presented by Miners Alley Children’s Theatre. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through March 3. Steel Magnolias. 7:30 p.m. Longmont Performing Arts Center, 513 Main St., Longmont. Through Feb. 17.
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Fat Tuesday Black Light Mardi Gras Party. 7 p.m. Lincoln Station Bar & Grill, 776 Lincoln St., Denver. Mountain Mardi Gras ArtWalk Fundraiser. 6 p.m. Oak Room at Oskar Blues, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Movie Night at eTown Hall: Twenty Feet From Stardom. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. Vegan Valentine. 6:30 p.m. Food Lab, 1825 Pearl St., Boulder. Wednesday, February 14 Music 16th Annual World Sound Healing Day. 5 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Low Hanging Fruit. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Midday Music Meditation. Noon. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.
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Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Sonofmel and the Slideman. 5:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont.
Brigsby Bear. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. A Dreamy Valentine. 6:30 p.m. Food Lab, 1825 Pearl St., Boulder. Extraordinary Ordinary People. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Learn to Make Cheese! Coeur de la Creme Date Night with Champagne Pairing. 6:30 p.m. The Art of Cheese, 505 Weaver Park Road, Suite E, Longmont. Obsession: National Theatre Live Encore. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Singles Awareness Day Party. 5 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder. Valentine’s Day Kids Night Out.. 5:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Unit B, Boulder. Valentine’s Day Spirit Mash Up. 6:30 p.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder. Valentines Dessert Date Night. 8:15 p.m. Crackpots Pottery Studio, 505 Main St., Longmont.
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Valentine’s Dinner. 5 p.m. Element Bistro, 6315 Lookout Road, Boulder.
Ash Wednesday Service. 7 p.m. Heart of Longmont, 350 11th Ave., Longmont.
Valentine’s Dinner. 5 p.m. Samples, 370 Main St., Longmont.
Barley and Hops for Beer Lovers. 4 p.m. BRU handbuilt ales & eats, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.
Valentine’s Dinner at BookCliff Vineyards. 6:30 p.m. Bookcliff Vineyards, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 17, Boulder. Boulder Weekly
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International Film Series nstead of using that tired old cliché, “Big Muenzinger Auditorium, things come in small packages,” let’s rely on 1905 Colorado Ave., Boulder. another one; one a little more apropos to this internationalfilmseries.com year’s Academy Awards: Little things often lead to bigger things. Sie Film Center 2510 E. Colfax Ave, Case in point: Irish playwright-turned-filmDenver. denverfilm.org maker Martin McDonagh. At the 2005 Oscars, McDonagh’s film, Six Shooter, took home the Landmark Mayan 110 Broadway, Denver. statue for Best Live Action Short. This year, he landmarktheatres.com/ returns with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, denver Missouri, with two nominations: one for Best Original Screenplay, the other for Best Picture. Not a bad go at things. Only time will tell which of this year’s nominees will grace the ceremony in the future, but with all 15 nominees for animation, live action and documentary screening in special programs around town, at least you won’t have to miss this year’s winner. You might even pick up a few names to keep tabs on. This is particularly true in the live action category, which features a diverse range of narratives from Australia to Africa, 1955 to 2017. The best of the bunch is Dekalb Elementary from writer/director Reed Van Dyke. Based on a 911 call placed during a school shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, the short confines itself to one location and essentially two characters — an incredibly calm and collected school receptionist, and a mentally unstable gunman. Van Dyke expertly uses this confined location to provide tension while letting his actors control the ebbs and flows of emotion. Even more significantly, Dekalb Elementary utilizes the short form perfectly, running only 20 minutes long and telling a complete story without feeling indulgent or reductive. That lack of indulgence or reduction also works to great effect in the animation category, notably in Negative Space. Directed by Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, it’s a stop-motion reflection of a son whose only connection to his absent father is through a meticulous suitcase-packing strategy the father passed down. From folding pants to the placement of cotton shirts in a suitcase, our unnamed narrator recounts a special, yet strained, relationship with his father while demonstrating his superior packing technique. Porter and Kuwahata take this visual metaphor one step further; literally unpacking the narrator’s memories with the same handmade care the son reserves for his father’s clothes. The result is a visual nesting doll, one revealing the inner cause of outer effects. And trying to decipher inner causes of outer effects is precisely what the documentary category tries to get at, none better than Heroin(e). Director Elaine McMillion Sheldon takes her camera to the streets of Huntington, West Virginia — a town where the opiate crisis holds its residents in an icy grip — and follows three women: a fire chief reviving users from overdoses, a judge presiding over drug court and a woman of the faith rescuing prostitutes from the street. Heroin(e) is not an easy watch — the documentary shorts never are — but Sheldon’s spare and direct style strips the doc of any needless propaganda and commentary. Seeing is enough. Let’s hope we see more from Sheldon in Oscars to come.
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ike all alt-weekly writers, we do anything Guy Fieri tells us to do. There’s nothing more alternative that enthusiastically watching Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives for 15 hours straight and unironically bleaching your hair and putting on your sunglasses backwards. Truth is, Fieri gets a bad rap, maybe the worst rap, and it obscures the fact that the dude actually finds pretty great, unheralded food places across the country and gives them a positive national spotlight. Longmont’s Samples recently got this treatment, and even though we wouldn’t classify the gastropub as a diner, drive-in or dive, its poutine burger is certainly injected with the comfort of food you might get at those places. A hulking beef patty is literally smothered in beer-infused demi-glace, which tastes like pure umami gravy, and topped with fried, wonderful cheese curds and beer pickles. A brioche bun manages to keep it all in. This is, as they say, Flavor Town. $15.
he Stone Cup is a big reason why you can’t beat a weekend morning in Lyons. Whether it’s a capper to your hike, a stop on your bike ride or just a spot to grab brunch, you’d do worse than spending an hour or two here eating fresh dishes, sipping coffee and listening to live music. The brunch menu includes a rotating rice bowl, which this week was packed with kimchi, nori squares, sesame seeds and scallions. Each bite carries little gravity on the tongue, but the flavor consumes the palate. Kimchi is earthy, spicy and imbued with smoked red spice, the nori bits bring pops of briney freshness, the scallions keep the tongue on its toes and the sesame seeds provide a toasty consistency. The best part is that after you eat the bowl, you feel satisfied without being overstuffed. The rest of the menu of toasts, hashes and other breakfast staples all follow the fresh-and-filling model, too. $9.50.
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or some reason, barbecue often gets lumped in as a summer treat — maybe it’s because not everyone has an indoor smoker. Well, that’s all the more reason to check out places that do, like the Boulder staple KT’s BBQ. Its pulled pork and brisket offerings are particularly worth diving into. The pulled pork is ridiculously tender, well-seasoned and ready for tangy BBQ sauce. The smoked brisket is chopped coarsely, giving it substantial texture. Slop either of those on a bun next to slaw, beans and potatoes. Price varies.
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Finger-lickin’ bucket list First-class tastings, classes, festivals fill the season ahead
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ulips are popping their lips above the dirt in Boulder. Birds are starting to nest. It’s still winter so those may be signs of climate change. You can tell spring is in the air because lambs are being born, gardeners are perusing seed catalogs, and blizzards are anticipated shortly after you plant your garden. The opening of the Boulder County Farmers Market season is Susan France only eight weeks away. It’s also time for 2018’s fresh crop of food, wine, dining and cooking events, festivals and culinary workshops in Boulder and across the state. I have been previewing Colorado’s summer food events since the mid-1980s. Besides the exponential increase in the number of festivals, the difference now is that the Front Range is no longer a place to fly over on the way to Aspen. Colorado is finally getting recognized as a culinary hot spot, which means that the state’s most coveted taste experiences sell out more quickly. You need to get motivated now if you want to ascend to the mountaintop tasting at the Taste of Vail, or be
lucky enough to see Jacques Pépin do a cooking demo at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic. But you also need to buy tickets and make reservations soon for other, less-pricey coming culinary attractions such as Denver Restaurant Week and CineChef. Keep this guide on hand or read it aloud to Siri, who can auto-fill your calendar with mustattend occasions like June’s Slow Food Nations, when the U.S. food world migrates to Denver. Sign up now to upgrade your skills as a gardener or cook at local classes and workshops in everything from beekeeping to risotto.
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The Super Bowl is a few hours of munching on one Sunday. The Winter Olympics is the decathlon of TV-watching eating opportunities spread over nearly three weeks. At a Feb. 9 class at Boulder’s Food Lab, you can learn to make popular treats from competing nations including scallion pancakes (Korea), meatballs (Sweden), dolma (Turkey) and apple strudel (Austria). Upcoming classes: Thai Street Food (2/22), Champagne and Fried Boulder Weekly
Chicken (3/3). foodlabboulder.com Meet local farmers and sign up for your share of vegetables at the CSA Fair sponsored by the Boulder County Farmers Markets Feb. 12 at Boulder’s festive Rayback Collective. bcfm.org. Eight chefs, including Salt’s Bradford Heap, Kevin Kidd of Erie’s 24 Carrot Bistro and Eric Skokan of Black Cat Bistro, compete by creating moviecentric dishes for CineCHEF, Feb. 23 at the Boulder International Film Festival. Event includes the documentary Michelin Stars: Tales from the Kitchen. biff1.com/cinechef. The new, improved Denver Restaurant Week, Feb. 23-March 4, features dinners at three price points: $25, $35 and $45 at hundreds of restaurants. Participating locals include Boulder Chophouse, Boulder Cork, Greenbriar Inn, Jill’s, Riffs, Salt, 740 Front Street, Via Toscana, Azitra and Hickory & Ash. denver.org/denver-restaurant-week Fifty Colorado distillers are pouring at the inaugural Hearts & Trails Festival, Feb. 24 at Denver’s Mile High Station, including Vapor Distillery (Boulder), Mad Rabbit Distillery (Westminster), Leopold Bros. (Denver), State 38 Distilling (Golden), Black Canyon Distillery (Longmont) and Spring44 (Loveland). distillerytrail.com. Boulder County’s revived Slow Food chapter hosts a happy-hour discussion about Ark of Taste seeds March 11 at Mountain Fountain in Hygiene. slowfoodboulder.com The Boulder County Farmers Market opens for the season in Boulder and Longmont on April 7. bcfm.org The Colorado Jewish Food Fest is April 15 at the Boulder Jewish Community Center. boulderjcc.org The Taste of Vail, April 5-8, includes “Speed Dating with Pinot Noir,” the debut of 2017 rosé, the American Lamb Cook-Off, the mountaintop tasting and the Reserve Grand Tasting with food from Beano’s Cabin and Sweet Basil. tasteofvail.com The Feast of Saint Arnold — Colorado’s only church-centered, family-friendly tasting of ales, wines, spirits and food — is June 9 at Chapel of Our Saviour Episcopal Church, Colorado Springs. feastofsaintarnold.com Following a successful inaugural year in 2017, Slow Food Nations returns to Denver July 13-15, for tastings, demos and seminars. slowfoodnations.org The Aspen Food & Wine Classic, June 15-17, offers tastings, dinners and demos with food superstars including Ludo Lefebvre, Jacques Pépin, Marcus Samuelsson, Jonathan Waxman and Andrew Zimmern. Boulder Weekly
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The Lyons Farmette hosts workshops including Backyard Chicken Keeping (2/24) and Intro to Beekeeping (3/10). lyonsfarmette. com. Boulder’s Growing Gardens guides novice beekeepers through their first season of beekeeping. The Beekeeping Series runs from Introduction to Beekeeping (3/10) through October. growinggardens.org Denver Botanic Gardens classes include Berries and Grapes for the Front Range (2/10), Intro to Beekeeping (2/27), Vegetables A to Z (3/13), Spring Plant Sale (5/10) and Japanese Tea Ceremony (6/9). botanicgardens.org Haystack Mountain’s Longmont creamery offers classes including a Cheesemaking Farm Tour with Baby Goats (3/16) and Cheesemaking Bootcamp for Beginners (3/23). theartofcheese.com Wine beginners can get savvy in a weekend at Wines of France seminar, April 8-11, at The Little Nell Wine Academy in Aspen with Master Sommelier Carlton McCoy. thelittlenell.com You can raise sustainable fish and vegetables at the same time at home after taking the Aquaponics Basics and Build (2/25, 3/18, 4/8, 5/6) workshop at Denver’s GrowHaus. coloradoaquaponics.com Good for the Gut: A Fermentation Workshop (2/10), So You Forgot to Learn to Cook (3 sessions starting 3/5), and Classic Milanese Risotto — rice’s bid for immortality (2/17) are scheduled through the Boulder Valley School District’s Lifelong Learning. bvsd.org/lll
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Baked apple aftermath
Writing last week’s Nibbles column on baked apples reminded me to roast a couple of Golden Delicious with cinnamon sugar. For no particular reason, I then baked some couscous in milk, instead of water, and added some maple syrup, butter and vanilla. I chopped the baked apple and added it to the couscous. I ended up with a sort of couscous “kugel,” like the noodle pudding at Jewish delis. It was a nice change of pace from the usual oatmeal.
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icture a tomahawk steak: a cut of marbled rib-eye beef bigger than your hand and thicker than your wrist with a white bone scraped clean, bigger than your arm, curving away from the meat and off the plate. It resembles, of course, a tomahawk ax, which was used by Native Americans mostly as a weapon, and mostly to kill Europeans. Take it from a European: The tomahawk cut of meat kills them, too. Alberto Sabbadini says when he came to Colorado from Italy in 2000, at age 28, his perception of food was drastically altered by the seemingly aggressive, almost war-mongering, way Americans ate. The tomahawk ax wasn’t even the weapon Sabbadini first associated with the steak.
lic bread was a traditional American complement to pasta. “That was, for me, shocking. To be considered Italian food, garlic bread... Our garlic bread you can toast it and then scrape it with a little garlic and that’s as far as you go. Maybe a little oil. It’s not butter, Parmesan cheese, parsley and garlic, and then it’s in the oven. And then to dip with a side of ranch? Like, dip?” Sabbadini, mind you, says this all with a laugh. He’s not picking on American cuisine as much as he is pointing out the funny juxtapositions to his own upbringing in a bucolic village in Friuli, Italy. Whereas meat, poultry and fish come mostly prebutchered and sometimes frozen to U.S. restaurants and groceries, Sabbadini grew up hunting wild hog, deer and “little birds that you can now not catch anymore.” Every winter, the neighbors gathered together and Sabbadini’s father or uncle shot one pig in the back of its head with a rifle and hung it to dry, using a bucket to catch the blood for use in sausage. They broke down the pig, reserving some for a fresh meal, while taking the remaining muscles and organs to cure and make sausage. At some point, they’d break out sausage from the previous winter. Whereas many restaurants rely on food deliveries from big suppliers like Sysco and Shamrock, Sabbadini remembers his father coming home with a basket of cherries too big to fit his arms around. He had traded for it. On business trips near the sea, his
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Chef Alberto Sabbadini on how his idyllic Italian upbringing informs his food mission by Matt Cortina “The amount of beef people are eating is ridiculous,” he says. “Even like calling a steak a tomahawk, like a missile. How can you call a steak a missile?” Sabbadini — executive chef at Colorado National Golf Club, chef at Meadowlark Farm Dinners and co-founder of the Boulder Butchery Guild — says a lot of funny things about American cuisine, and our perceptions of Italian food. “Garlic bread? What is it? Like, is this Italian?” That’s what Sabbadini said when he first learned garBoulder Weekly
father would trade wood to artisans for Alberto Sabbadini fresh fish — a tank of over the grill at a Meadowlark Farm live eels, boxes of fresh dinner event in Boulsardines and cuttlefish, der County. and, one time, a 60-kilogram tuna. Whether it was business or everyday community trading, bartering was part of life. “Giving like a few salami or some wine or helping trim the grapes... that’s a payback, like trading. That is incredible,” he says. “You keep that in your heart. It doesn’t go away.” Everything from the way food is produced to the way it’s traded to the way it’s consumed was different when he came to America, Sabbadini says. It’s not about which approach is better — though Sabbadini says of course he prefers the Italian manner of living — but about what those approaches say about the values of each culture. “There was always someone at home; coming for a coffee in the morning, or [my mother would say] ‘I make a cake, come in the afternoon,’ another coffee, and then maybe friends on my father’s side, you open a bottle of wine, then you’re pulling out the salami, and it’s always thinking about food,” Sabbadini says. “And everyday, my grandma, she was living with us in Italy, and actually at night, at dinner, [she’d say,] ‘What are we cooking tomorrow for lunch, what will we have for dinner?’” That’s an intimate lesson Sabbadini is trying to impart to his family here in the U.S. His two daughsee SABBADINI Page 46
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ters have a “fairy garden” in which they plant vegetables and edible flowers. His youngest daughter attends the Waldorf School in Niwot, which Sabbadini says “is a big sacrifice for me,” but he says it’s important for kids to, say, bake bread and eat it warm with butter, and then to spend three or four hours outside as they do at the school. Though we may not have the natural abundance of produce as Friuli, nor the historic culture to support a bartering system, nor the educational system to foster that care of food, Sabbadini believes we can remedy those issues with our food culture if we start young — and if adults who truly value this way of living commit to sacrifices; if they, say, cut their gym visit 10 minutes short or leave work on time. “Sometimes I have to stop [working] and say, ‘I’m home for dinner tonight. We eat all together.’ Even if I cook all day long,” Sabbadini says. “Then we’re sitting down, which I try to teach my daughters is important. Right now they’re small and it’s a good way to learn. Like, ‘No, we’re sitting down, we’re closing the computer, sitting down.’” Sabbadini is also trying to bring those values directly to the food scene in Boulder County. He works with local producers to procure meat of the quality his family could obtain in Italy — from Clint Buckner of Boulder Lamb, for instance. Hosting farm dinners enables Sabbadini to use first-cut vegetables and expose hundreds of diners every year to the difference between farmfresh produce and store-brought produce. His butchery classes give students tools to break down pigs, lambs, chickens and produce sausage — artisanal skills that otherwise would be lost, he says. For all this talk, the proof is in the risotto, as it were: the food Sabbadini produces is beautiful. Think cubes of
fresh melon with charred shishito peppers, mint and a dollop of chèvre; or, blanched asparagus stalks with violet sage blossoms, shaved parmesan and brown butter; or, porchetta-style roast lamb, rolled with herbs and garlic with a crispy fat bark. Although simple Italian food can make the transition to America, maybe three- or four-hour lunch breaks shared with neighbors and business partners over wine and coffee and grappa may never take hold in the U.S. And though Sabbadini says he’d like his children to experience the Italian way of life, he also recognizes that his former countrymen, too, have gotten caught up in the pursuit of something beyond the simple life, to potentially culture-shocking effects: As Italy and other formerly cash-based European economies turn to credit cards, it’s the country’s artisans and system of local trade that faces the greatest risk. “We’re trying to copy the American Dream, and they don’t realize it’s not very good, honestly. Yeah, you can have everything you want. You can have a million-dollar house and then you have to pay it and if you don’t pay it, they eat you alive. You are on the street, not even,” he says. Sabbadini says Italians, though historically risk-averse, tend to follow trends, and the abundance of credit means more people have cars and thus have more access to malls, which are proliferating. Whereas there used to be a local butcher, dairy farmer, baker, druggist, etc., in each village, now Italians are going to superstores. But if the problem started here in the U.S., maybe the answer is here, too. Sabbadini, along with all the other folks trying to change our culture through food, are keen to find out. “I know we need to act,” Sabbadini says. “In my little world, I think I’m acting.” Boulder Weekly
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ARIES
MARCH 21-APRIL 19: British athlete Liam Collins is an
accomplished hurdler. In 2017, he won two medals at the World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships in South Korea. Collins is also a stuntman and street performer who does shows in which he hurtles over barriers made of chainsaws and leaps blindfolded through flaming hoops. For the foreseeable future, you may have a dual capacity with some resemblances to his. You could reach a high point in expressing your skills in your chosen field, and also branch out into extraordinary or flamboyant variations on your specialty.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: When he was 32, the man who would
later be known as Dr. Seuss wrote his first kid’s book, And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. His efforts to find a readership went badly at first. Twenty-seven publishers rejected his manuscript. On the verge of abandoning his quest, he ran into an old college classmate on the street. The friend, who had recently begun working at Vanguard Press, expressed interest in the book. Voila! Mulberry Street got published. Dr. Seuss later said that if, on that lucky day, he had been strolling on the other side of the street, his career as an author of children’s books might never have happened. I’m telling you this tale, Taurus, because I suspect your chances at experiencing a comparable stroke of luck in the coming weeks will be extra high. Be alert!
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ment of cards belonging to them home to his farm. As the player named Mike was the months passed by, Wang “like Anna Kournikova,” noticed that his pets seemed because “it looks great but unusually hungry and aggresit never wins.” He was refersive. They would sometimes ring to the fact that dureat his chickens. When they ing her career as a profeswere two years old, he finally Go to RealAstrology.com to check out sional tennis player, Anna figured out that they weren’t Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO Kournikova was feted for dogs, but rather Asian black HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE her physical beauty but never bears. He turned them over HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes actually won a singles title. to a local animal rescue are also available by phone at This remark happens to be center. I bring this to your 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. a useful admonishment for attention, Capricorn, because you Sagittarians in the comI suspect it may have a reseming weeks. You should avoid blance to your experience. A relying on anything that looks good but never wins. Put your case of mistaken identity? A surprise revealed in the course of a trust in influences that are a bit homely or unassuming but far ripening process? A misunderstanding about what you’re taking more apt to contribute to your success. care of? Now is a good time to make adjustments and corrections.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: A Chinese man named Wang Kaiyu
bought two black-furred puppies from a stranger and took
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Charles Nelson Reilly was a famous American actor, director and drama teacher. He appeared
in or directed numerous films, plays and TV shows. But in the 1970s, when he was in his 40s, he also spent quality time impersonating a banana in a series of commercials for Bic Banana Ink Crayons. So apparently he wasn’t overly attached to his dignity. Pride didn’t interfere with his ability to experiment. In his pursuit of creative expression, he valued the arts of playing and having fun. I encourage you to be inspired by his example during the coming weeks, Aquarius.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: According to ancient Greek writer
Herodotus, Persians didn’t hesitate to deliberate about important matters while drunk. However, they wouldn’t finalize any intoxicated decision until they had a chance to re-evaluate it while sober. The reverse was also true. Choices they made while sober had to be reassessed while they were under the influence of alcohol. I bring this to your attention not because I think you should adhere to similar guidelines in the coming weeks. I would never give you an oracle that required you to be buzzed. But I do think you’ll be wise to consider key decisions from not just a coolly rational mindset, but also from a frisky intuitive perspective. To arrive at a wise verdict, you need both.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: A survey of British Christians found that
most are loyal to just six of the Ten Commandments. While they still think it’s bad to, say, steal and kill and lie, they don’t regard it as a sin to revere idols, work on the Sabbath, worship other gods or use the Lord’s name in a curse. In accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to be inspired by their rebellion. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to reevaluate your old traditions and belief systems, and then discard anything that no longer suits the new person you’ve become.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22: While serving in the U.S. Navy dur-
ing World War II, Don Karkos lost the sight in his right eye after being hit by shrapnel. Sixty-four years later, he regained his vision when he got butted in the head by a horse he was grooming. Based on the upcoming astrological omens, I’m wondering if you’ll soon experience a metaphorically comparable restoration. My analysis suggests that you’ll undergo a healing in which something you lost will return or be returned.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: The candy cap mushroom, whose scientific
name is Lactarius rubidus, is a burnt orange color. It’s small to medium-sized and has a convex cap. But there its resemblance to other mushrooms ends. When dried out, it tastes and smells like maple syrup. You can grind it into a powder and use it to sweeten cakes and cookies and custards. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this unusual member of the fungus family can serve as an apt metaphor for you right now. You, too, have access to a resource or influence that is deceptive, but in a good way: offering a charm and good flavor different from what its outer appearance might indicate.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: A grandfather from New Jersey decided
to check the pockets of an old shirt he didn’t wear very often. There Jimmie Smith found a lottery ticket he had stashed away months previously. When he realized it had a winning number, he cashed it in for $24.1 million — just two days before it was set to expire. I suspect there may be a comparable development in your near future, although the reward would be more modest. Is there any potential valuable that you have forgotten about or neglected? It’s not too late to claim it.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: The U.S. Geological Survey recently
announced that it had come up with improved maps of the planet’s agricultural regions. Better satellite imagery helped, as did more thorough analysis of the imagery. The new data show that the Earth is covered with 618 million more acres of croplands than had previously been thought. That’s 15 percent higher than earlier assessments! In the coming months, Libra, I’m predicting a comparable expansion in your awareness of how many resources you have available. I bet you will also discover that you’re more fertile than you have imagined.
SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21: In 1939, Scorpio comic book writer
Bob Kane co-created the fictional science-fiction superhero Batman. The “Caped Crusader” eventually went on to become an icon, appearing in blockbuster movies as well as TV shows and comic books. Kane said one of his inspirations for Batman was a flying machine envisioned by Leonard da Vinci in the early 16th century. The Italian artist and inventor drew an image of a winged glider that he proposed to build for a human being to wear. I bring this up, Scorpio, because I think you’re in a phase when you, like Kane, can draw inspiration from the past. Go scavenging through history for good ideas!
SAGITTARIUS
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: I was watching a four-player poker
game on TV. The folksy commentator said that the assort-
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by Sidni West
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adies and gentlemen, the new era of highclass weed buying is on the horizon, making it so you would no longer have to leave your house and stand in line like a peasant. Never again would we have to bribe our Hungry Buffs driver to stop at a dispensary. We could live in a future where weed and breadsticks are delivered to our door within 5 minutes of each other — what an amazing world! That’s right, legal medical and recreational weed delivery could be coming to Colorado. Democrat Rep. Jonathan Singer worked on a bill with Republican Sen. Tim Neville to create a marijuana delivery pilot program. House Bill 1092 would allow a statelicensed delivery provider to pick up medical or recreational marijuana products from a licensed dispensary and deliver the products to ID-bearing registered medical marijuana card holders or adults 21 years of age or older at a physical address. License holders would have to adhere to certain security and tracking measures; limits imposed on the amount of product in a vehicle; health and safety standards; as well as training requirements. If it passes, three Colorado cities will be allowed to hand out up to 15 delivery licenses to dispensaries.
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A similar bill was proposed last year in the state legislature, but failed. Sponsors are hoping this time around will be different. The bill is scheduled for its first hearing on Feb. 7 in the House Finance committee. If passed, the state could start issuing licenses on Sept. 1, 2018. Honestly, it’s about damn time. How did Amazon delivering Whole Foods via drones become a thing before Colorado legalized cannabis delivery? I’m a millennial, so naturally I dislike any activity that forces me to look away from my phone and interact with other people. That’s why I usually wear headphones while grocery shopping, so I can just get what I need and get out. Buying weed is just another errand on my to do list, but it’s such an involved process of going to an ATM to get cash, going through security and then waiting for a budtender to take you into a backroom. The whole process becomes even more time-consuming when you’re in line behind a bunch of chatty tourists with a million different jokes and questions. So unless it’s your first time ever stepping foot in a dispensary, buying weed is a pretty mundane experience. Soon you’ll never have to remove yourself from Netflix mode. And it’s going to be so much better than in high school when you would have to do the 10 minute obligatory hangout with your dealer. This should be a brief money-for-drugs exchange. If I used my phone to order exactly what I want, I don’t need a passionate description of the agricultural origin of my weed. Don’t chat me up about my evening plans or your side business. I’m not interested in what my dealer is doing when they’re not selling me weed. The only shame is that our children will never know the pain of calling a sketchy guy with a burner phone to make plans to buy a bag of shake in a 7/11 parking lot.
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cannabis corner
by Paul Danish
Pot studies edition: what’s hot, what’s not
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he release of several recent studies shed light on a number of commonly held associations with marijuana use, such as lung health, crime rates and mental affects. Here’s a rundown of some notable takeaways from the research. Study: Marijuana smoke exposure is not linked to poor lung health. A study led by researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health of Public domain 2,300 subjects aged 40 to 80, many of whom also smoked tobacco, found that: 1) Neither current nor former marijuana use was associated with increased risk of cough, wheeze or chronic bronchitis when compared with the prevalence of those conditions in subjects who had never used marijuana (after adjusting for co-variates). 2) Current and former marijuana smokers had “significantly higher forced expiratory volume” (a measure of lung function in which higher is better) when compared with never-users. 3) Both current and former marijuana use was associated with significantly less quantitative emphysema when compared with that among never-users “even after adjusting for age, current tobacco smoking pack years and Body Mass Index.” The study was published in the journal Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases. Study: Marijuana use not linked with reduced motivation in adolescents. Researchers at Florida International University hypothesized that if marijuana use reduced motivation in adolescents, then heavy users would be less motivated that occasional users. So they recruited 79 adolescent subjects that included both heavy and
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occasional users and assessed their motivational tendencies through the use of the Apathy Evaluation Scale and the Motivation and Engagement Scale, two “validated tools.” They found that after controlling for confounding factors, “no significant differences were observed between regular and light users on any motivation index” and similarly, “no associations between motivation and lifetime or past 30-day cannabis use amount were observed.” “Our findings do not support a link between reduced motivation and cannabis use among adolescents after controlling for relevant confounds,” they concluded. Study: States where people can legally buy marijuana through dispensaries see dramatically reduced opioid overdose death rates. Researchers from the RAND Corporation, the National Bureau of Economic Research and the University of California, Irvine, found that dispensaries — retail outlets that sell marijuana to qualified patients — contribute to a decline in overdose death rates “of about 25 percent.” It wasn’t enough for states to have just legalized medical marijuana without providing for sales. The reduction showed up only in those states that had functioning dispensaries. “In short, our findings that legally protected and operating medical marijuana dispensaries reduce opioid-related harms suggests that some individuals may be substituting towards marijuana, reducing the quantity of opioids they consume or forgoing initiation of opiates altogether,” they concluded. The study was funded by the National Institute
of Drug Abuse and published online by the Journal of Health Economics. Study: Medical marijuana dispensaries not linked to neighborhood crime and violence. A team of researchers from the University of California, San Jose State University and the University of Kansas looked into the relationship between various types of retailers and crime and violence in south Los Angeles. “Results indicated that mean (aka, average) property and violent crime rates within 100-foot buffers of tobacco shops and alcohol outlets — but not medical marijuana dispensaries — substantially exceeded community-wide mean crime rates and rates around grocery/convenience stores [that also sell alcohol and tobacco]... ” The study appeared online ahead of print in the journal Preventative Medicine. Study: Alcoholics who use marijuana have lower rates of liver disease risk than those who don’t. The peer-reviewed study, due to be published in the journal Liver International, looked at data from 320,000 adult patients with a history of alcohol abuse. The researchers found that the roughly 10 percent of patients who also smoked pot exhibited lower rates of four major liver diseases: alcoholic steatosis, steatohepatitis, fibrosis cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. What’s more, heavy pot smokers had lower rates than occasional users. The researchers suggested that marijuana’s antiinflammatory properties could reduce inflammation of the liver and long-term damage. Study: Legal marijuana could generate more than $132 billion in federal tax revenue and l million jobs in the next decade. Well, actually, it might be a few billion less than that, since the study, which was done by New Frontier Data, a data analytics firm focused on the marijuana industry, was done before the new tax law kicked in. Still, just sayin’.
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Dear Dan: How does one get into the gay BDSM bottoming and leather scene? — Seeking Answers Concerning Kink
the legwork, they’re not the right person for you.” * Math is hard. Dear Dan: I’m a mid-20s, aboveaverage-looking gay dude into spanking guys. The weird thing is, the only guys I can find to spank are straight. It’s not that they’re closeted — most of them go on to
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