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Highroad Why would anyone celebrate the ‘joy’ of war? by Jim Hightower

ar is hell. Unless, of course, you happen to be a global corporate peddler of rockets, drones, bombs and all the other hellish weaponry of military conflict. In that case, war is literally “manna from hell.” So bring it on! Indeed, it seems as if Beelzebub himself is in charge these days, with U.S. military forces enmeshed in at least 135 countries in 2015 alone. Plus, such chicken hawks as

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are maniacally beating their flabby chests and screeching for even more military adventurism. This perpetual warmongering is music to the ears of the CEOs and big investors of the war machine, for it means a windfall of perpetual profits for them. In a rare admission of their warprofiteering ethic, a group of major military contractors spoke late last year about how splendid war is. In leaked tapes of speeches at a wealthy investors conference, top weapon makers exulted about the spreading horror of ISIS and escalating wars in the Middle East and Africa. Hailing the rising conflict in Syria and Turkey, for example, a Lockheed Martin honcho enchanted the potential investors with the happy news that Lockheed’s profits would enjoy “an intangible lift because of the dynamics of that [war’s] environment and [sales]

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of our products in [that] theater.” Raytheon’s CEO chimed in that his corporation was upbeat because of “a significant uptick for defense solutions across the board in multiple countries in the Middle East.” And all of these masters of war celebrated the joyous news that Congress had just delivered a $607 billion budget to the Pentagon, meaning more sales and more profit for war investors. “We think we did very well,” exclaimed one. Many go to war and die, but a few go to war and thrive. So, see, it balances out. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

dyertimes ‘Being There,’ the remake; not so funny in 2016 by Joel Dyer

ou’re not crazy and it only feels like déjà vu. The truth is, that nagging feeling you’ve seen this show before isn’t wrong. You have. It took me a while to put my finger on it. But the more I watched and listened, the more sure I became that I was witnessing a remake, albeit a B-quality remake. It starts like this: A guy in his late 60s with bad hair and an expensive suit walks out on stage and says, “It’s like in golf. A lot of people — I don’t want this to sound trivial — but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive. It’s weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can’t sink 3-footers anymore. And, I hate it. I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.” Huh? Gibberish, right? But the media turns around and reports it like it was somekind of artfully crafted secret code aimed at disgruntled middle-aged whites. And it keeps happening day after day. This inarticulate, clearly vacuous guy just goes on and on with these meaningless batches of word spaghetti. For example, “You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.” And “I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me — and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall.” And “All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.” And “The other candidates — they went in, they didn’t know the air conditioning didn’t work. They sweated like dogs... How are they gonna beat ISIS? I don’t think it’s gonna happen.” And “I love the undereducated.” And “I’m smart... I use the best words” And so on and so forth including discussing the size of his penis during a presidential debate and instead of giving a victory speech following primary Boulder Weekly

wins in Michigan et al, choosing to use his TV time to hock products with his name on it like steaks and water. And each time, the major corporate-owned media continues to react to this mental midgetry in the same comical way. The talking heads on cable news channels and the networks just keep analyzing this dribble using words like strategic, street smart, straight forward, formidable and wait for it... genius. That’s right, this guy who sounds and acts like Ron Popeil after a lobotomy has the corporate media treating him like some kind of political prophet. And then it hits me, “Chauncey Gardiner.” Trump is Chance in a Being There, remake. Ring a bell? So, for all you non-movie buffs and persons unfamiliar with 1970’s, I’ll offer this quick explanation. Warning, spoiler alert. Jerzy Kosinski wrote a novella, which he later adapted into a screenplay that became the 1979 film Being There starring Peter Sellers. Sellers plays a simpleton named Chance so lacking in cognitive skills as to be incapable of maneuvering through everyday life. Out of compassion, a very rich man allows Chance to live in his home and tend his garden. When the rich man dies, Chance is tossed from the estate with only the clothes on his back, which happen to be really expensive clothes thanks to his former benefactor. The near-idiot Chance then steps in front of a chauffeur-driven car owned by an aging business mogul who also has the ear of the U.S. president. The mogul’s wife sees how Chance is dressed and assumes he is upper class and, of course, well educated. She takes him to her home to recover. When she asks his name, Chance coughs while saying, “Chance the gardener.” She hears “Chauncey Gardiner” and the name sticks because Chance is too simple to even correct her. Long story short, Chance answers see DYERTIMES Page 8

the anderson files The path to a Bernie victory By Dave Anderson

ernie Sanders can win. On Super Tuesday, Clinton won in “red” conservative states of the South, which Democrats will lose in the general election, while Sanders ran close or won in “blue” states that actually vote for Democrats in the general. There are voters in many states who haven’t voted yet. Sanders had a big victory in Colorado thanks to millennials and Latinos. Caucuses in this state are only open to registered party members. The state added nearly 30,000 registered Democrats in recent months. Quite a few people probably joined the party just to caucus for Sanders. The Democracy Now radio/TV show focused on what happened here. Colorado has a burgeoning Latino population and they are nearly 15 percent of eligible voters in the state. Erika Andiola, the national Latina press secretary for Sanders said Bernie had a disadvantage in Colorado where Clinton “has been very well known within the Latino community, but she didn’t have the Latino community entirely on her side. I think Bernie [gains support] every time he speaks and the more and more momentum we gain, the more Latinos are able to learn who he is and the message that he brings. And more and more Latinos are getting tired of the establishment.” Dulce Saenz, the Colorado state director of the Sanders campaign, said Bernie appealed to the independent pioneering spirit of Colorado where

one-third of registered voters are unaffiliated with the other two-thirds divided equally between Democrats and Republicans. Saenz is an immigrant from Mexico who grew up in Weld County “which is about 25 percent Latino. And it’s a county in which we won by a substantial margin, as well,” she said. Saenz also noted the Sanders campaign reached out to the large nativeborn Chicano “the border crossed me” population as well as immigrants. Sanders’ success is more impressive when you consider that the entire Democratic leadership supported Clinton. The Clinton campaign held a quiet small-crowd press conference with prominent elected officials speaking when they rolled out their endorsements. By contrast, the Sanders campaign held an enthusiastic rally of about 100 people waving signs in English and Spanish. Three members of the Colorado state legislature endorsed Bernie: representatives Jonathan Singer (Longmont) and Joe Salazar (Thornton) as well as senator Mike Merrifield (Colorado Springs). Meanwhile in California, many Democrats are feeling the Bern. California holds its primary in June. But at the end of February, the state’s Democratic Party held its convention. Los Angeles Times reporter Cathleen Decker noted that a glancing mention of Clinton and Sanders in a speech revealed a split. While few of the elected politicians on stage support Sanders, see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8

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every question as would a person with an IQ in the 60s, and most times he answers in nonsequiturs having to do with gardening. The rich and powerful folks around him — which eventually includes the president — believe that his nonsensical answers are brilliant metaphors speaking to the economy, the investment world and global politics. By the film’s end, the media is hanging on every word that Chance utters, and he is being touted for the White House. It was a really funny film in 1979. The current remake is far less entertaining. Donald Trump is a barely literate pitchman more at home on a reality TV show with a crazed Gary Busey as a sidekick than he is running for president. But, apparently for credibility’s sake, cable TV networks needed to justify the inordinate amount of airtime they are giving to Trump’s idiocracy to drive ratings, so they opted to pretend his antics are done purposely. They invented this imaginary “Trump world” wherein his lunatic antics,

including his childish bullying and overt racism, analyzed as if part of a sinister scheme to take the White House that only a genius business man could cook up — a scheme so full of “best words” that we mere mortals were incapable of comprehending its sagacity. And now that Trump is actually winning because of this irresponsible overexposure at the hands of corporate establishment media, the cable and network owners are trying desperately to destroy the monster they created using a brain clearly labeled “Abby Normal.” Yes, it’s a third movie reference. But it is likely too late. While Trump himself may be the proverbial joke that went too far, his followers and the reasons they are voting for him are not. Our nation is at a breaking point and thereby a turning point. And both Trump and Bernie Sanders are harbingers of what’s to come, the good and the bad. I’ll be examining the more serious coming consequences of this mess going forward

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applause for Clinton “was drowned out by cheers for Sanders.” Voting analyst Paul Mitchell told a convention panel that millennial voters — roughly those 35 or under — are rejecting the Republican Party but aren’t joining the Democrats. East Bay congressman and Clinton supporter Eric Swalwell (who is 35) told Decker “there’s no question that right now Bernie Sanders has the overwhelming majority of the millennials. Whoever’s the candidate, as a party we have to understand why that is the case.” The corporate media claims that Clinton has won more delegates than Sanders by a wide margin. But this is deceptive. They are counting the unelected superdelegates (who are party leaders who support Clinton with some exceptions). Actually Clinton has only a modest advantage over Sanders among delegates chosen by voters. This has angered Sanders supporters, particularly when Clinton supporters call on Sanders to drop out now.

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi just now declared that the states’ pledged delegates — and not the superdelegates — should decide the winner. “I’m not a believer in the sway of superdelegates deciding who is going to be the nominee,” Pelosi said. “I think we have a democratic process where people vote on both sides of the aisle ... and that that should determine who the nominee is.” Pelosi made similar remarks in 2008 during the primary race between then-senators Obama and Clinton. Obama had more pledged delegates and Clinton was attempting to win the nomination with superdelegates. Pelosi had a number of political differences with Clinton then, particularly over the decision to go to war in Iraq. Clinton was an advocate for war while Pelosi opposed the Bush invasion. In the current race, Pelosi hasn’t endorsed either Clinton or Sanders. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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Democrats voted for Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton by a 2:1 margin in Colorado’s Second Congressional District on Super Tuesday. Jared Polis, who lives right in the middle of Boulder, Colorado, is endorsing Hillary Clinton and is a superdelegate to the DNC in July. How can Clinton supporter Jared Polis argue that he represents the views of the people of Colorado CD2? Tell me if you can. Harry Hempy/Jamestown

nature of the Republican Party. Ever since the New Deal, Republicans have been doing everything in their power to destroy the poor and middle class and eviscerate unions and social programs turning the U.S.A into a plutocracy. With the death of Scalia and emergence of Trump it is a new and better day for the people, liberals and Democrats as well as hope

for the poor and middle class. This is Democratic Party schadenfreude, and it does not get much better than this. Andrew J. O’Connor/Lafayette

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My analysis of Super Tuesday: Amerika Uber Alles! Corporate whore vs. the reincarnation of Hitler. Sure makes me want to participate in the

totally corrupted process. Wall Street won. Nothing else matters. Guess I’ll smoke my herb and listen to ’60s psychedelic rock. I shot my wad and I lost. Might move to Canada if Trump wins. Einstein didn’t wait to see what Hitler would do. Hillary is the Hindenburg of Amerika. Both the general and the zeppelin. Up in flames. Jim Wilkinson/Boulder

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Although a picture can say a thousand words, the chart in Avery McGaha’s recent article [Re: “Bill Aims to Strengthen Colorado’s Climate Plan,” Eco-brief, Mar. 3] also tells a succinct story — Colorado’s goal-free climate plan is inadequate. Even as projected greenhouse gas emissions from electric power generation decline slightly, emissions from transportation, oil and gas processing, and other uses rise. Total emissions continue increasing through 2030. If this picture could speak, it might say, “Colorado is trying to reduce emissions, but not very hard, and success isn’t all that important.” Yet the growing risks of climate change — to Colorado, to the nation, to the world — demand that we try as hard as we can. They demand that we plan for success. Enacting House Bill 16-1004 would be a good first step. Under that bill, which has passed the House and is waiting for a Senate vote, Colorado could set emissions-reductions goals commensurate with the crucial task before us. Then these goals could drive the implementation of policies, such as carbon pricing, that cut emissions across all economic sectors rather than allowing progress in some areas to be undone by backsliding in others. That picture would say, “Colorado takes climate change seriously, and we are genuinely committed to deep, quantifiable greenhouse gas reductions.” Jarett Zuboy/Golden

Trump causes implosion of Republican Party

After eight years of demagoguery, obstructionism and racism the Republican Party is imploding. With the emergence of Donald Trump, the Republicans have become suicidal and have turned on each other attacking itself like an angry cornered rattlesnake biting itself. Trump is the Frankenstein monster creation of the selfish and polarized Boulder Weekly

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he U.S. Fish and similar livestock-purging fears Wildlife Service about grizzlies. (USFWS) announced “I think there was a lot of last week they will pressure on them from the states. move forward with a Generally, states don’t like the proposal to delist grizzly bears in federal government managing the Greater Yellowstone their wildlife,” Santarsiere says. Ecosystem from the Endangered “Wyoming, Montana and Idaho Species Act. The decision figures especially like to manage their to undo decades-old protection of own wildlife, especially when it grizzly bears in the region, and comes to carnivores that are opens the door for prize hunting sometimes engaged in conflict outside of Yellowstone and Grand with livestock, of which there are Teton National Park limits. a lot in Wyoming and Idaho Delisting the Yellowstone especially.” grizzly means it will not longer The Montana Livestock Loss garner protections afforded to all Board reported farmers losing 64 federally recognized endangered cattle, 32 goats and one horse in or threatened species. This means 2015 via grizzly attack. Those the management of grizzly bears figures are up from the reported will be turned over to states in 36 attacks from grizzlies in 2014, which the Yellowstone grizzly and six in 2013. Montana’s staA new push by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist the Yellowstone grizzly bear from the Endangered Species Act could cause the animals’ population numbers to sink. population resides: namely tistics on livestock kill also indiMontana, Idaho and Wyoming. cate an increase in wolf attacks, Despite the USFWS claim that the move is but it’s worth pointing out that before 2013 (when the Service “will continue to be part of a strong monitorbecause the grizzly population is now sustainable and USFWS first announced it would seek to delist the ing program, implementation of the conservation unthreatened, environmentalists, like Andrea grizzly), no animals were identified as the cause of strategy and partnership with our state and federal Santarsiere of the Center for Biological Diversity, say partners,” USFWS Director Dan Ashe said in a state- livestock death, and data has been much more abunit opens the door for premature hunting of the dant in the two years since. ment. Yellowstone grizzly population. The total number of livestock deaths caused by all Yellowstone-area grizzly management, as is the “All three states said they would hold trophy hunts case with bison in the area, is heavily influenced by carnivores in the region, which include grizzlies, black so I don’t have any confidence they’re going to have bears, wolves, coyotes, mountain lions and more, repthe agri-business in surrounding states. Farmers in strict anti-hunting laws,” Santarsiere says. “Once [the resents a very small percentage of the area’s livestock Montana, Wyoming and Idaho fear transmission of causes of death. proposal] is finalized, I think we’ll see trophy hunts in brucellosis from bison to livestock, and Santarsiere However, like the bison, the grizzly is often a Wyoming, Idaho and Montana outside of the park.” says farmers — and their state representatives — have scapegoat in the region when something The USFWS proposal will likely be U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service goes wrong for ranchers. As an example finalized by the end of 2016 or early of such scapegoating, the environmental 2017. Until then, current protections on advocacy group Buffalo Field Campaign grizzly bears will stay in place. says there has “never been a documented The move to delist the Yellowstone case of a wild buffalo transmitting brugrizzly has been in the works for the cellosis to livestock.” Yet, Yellowstone past several years. Citing statistics showbison are rounded up and slaghtered ing the grizzly bear population has every year to prevent this fictional increased from 136 bears in 1975 to 700 spread of disease from occurring. or more today, the USFWS has hailed Such assumptions about wildlife/ the recovery of the population as one of ranching conflicts doesn’t bode well for “America’s great conservation successes.” the grizzly now that the ag-influenced Grizzly bears now occupy 22,500 square states are poised to get major control miles of the Yellowstone ecosystem, over how the species is managed. according to USFWS, though Santarsiere says there should be a Santarsiere and others claim this only cap put on how low the grizzly popularepresents about 4 percent of the historic tion can get if and when hunting opens grizzly habitat in the continental U.S. up in the relevant states. That cap figAs part of the delisting process, ures to allow hunting until the populaUSFWS said it will put in place regulation sinks to around 600-650 bears. But tions to ensure that grizzly health and Montana, Wyoming and Idaho have already said they will allow grizzly hunting outside national park limits. populations are not put in danger. The See GRIZZLY Page 12 10 March 10, 2016

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wo separate reports released within the last month confirm assertions long-argued by homeless advocates — Boulder’s camping ban disproportionately affects and is enforced against Boulder’s homeless population, often leading to a court record and even jail time. The first report, released in early February by the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law Homeless Advocacy Policy Project, shows that between 2010 and 2014, Boulder issued a total of 3,099 citations under eight different anti-homeless ordinances, with 1,767 for the camping ban alone, A homeless woman sits on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. or more than all other cities in Colorado combined. In Boulder, 87 percent of camping ban citations were given to people experiencing homelessness. The report estimates that over the four-year span, Boulder spent $950,000 on enforcing its camping ban. The second report, compiled by Boulder’s municipal court in response to specific questions from Boulder City where we ended up is that in civic spaces and public Council members Sam Weaver and Andrew spaces we don’t want people camping out there.” Shoemaker, reveals that between 2009 and 2015, 85 Weaver says. “Our community has made some decipercent of these citations were given in cases where sions around these subjects, and now it’s about how the only offense was violating the camping ban. we enforce and how we keep our own process moving Furthermore, 59 percent of camping ban citations forward.” resulted in a failure-to-appear warrant for arrest, 45 Weaver says this community process took place percent of which ended in jail time. around the Occupy movement in 2011 and ’12. “It seems like a waste of time, expertise and dolHowever, there appears to be evidence that contralars to basically run these folks through the criminal dicts Weaver’s assumption that the community supjustice system when the net result is that they are ports the City’s actions against the homeless. probably going to be directed to services anyhow,” says In 2015 when the City of Boulder lobbied against Bill Cohen, a lawyer who recently started the nonthe state-wide Right to Rest Act, which failed to pass profit Boulder Law Center for the Unhoused and a and would make the camping ban illegal, the public member of Boulder Rights Watch. Boulder Rights was not supportive. So much so, City Council Watch has also argued that Boulder’s smoking ban has remained neutral on the 2016 version of the bill, been disproportionately enforced against the homeless which again failed to pass but by a smaller margin. population, although neither of the recent reports spe“We heard that it wasn’t popular that we lobbied cifically address or analyse data regarding the smoking on behalf of that bill so we tried to adopt a more neuban. tral stance,” says Weaver, who is also on Boulder’s legWeaver says the City’s report revealed that the islative committee. Without a vote, the community claims of homeless advocates regarding the camping consensus surrounding the camping ban remains unclear, despite Council’s continued claims that they ban are accurate, although he still disputes the dollar amount associated with it. And although the statistics are acting in accordance with the community’s desires. Advocates for the camping ban have used the are concerning, he thinks the path forward isn’t threat of violence and public security as reason to keep repealing the camping ban but rather enforcing it difthe camping ban in place. Weaver says there is a perferently where citations that result in jail time aren’t ception or fear of violence that comes with allowing a the first approach. homeless community more leeway in public space and “We got to the point we are now, with the way the ordinance is configured, through a community prohe acknowledges anecdotal evidence of violence withcess. So we heard from the homeless advocates and in the homeless community “Anecdotes are not data the homeless themselves as well as the downtown but we do know that it does happen from time to business community and other members of communi- time,” he says. Although he insists such perceptions ty about what kind of trade off we want [in] the use should not be used to stereotype. of our public space. Do we want any restrictions on it? However, the ACLU has demonstrated, through a If so what do those look like? And I think that’s court case in Grand Junction, that such fears are often

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not based on concrete data. In the Grand Junction example, the town was attempting to implement an ordinance against aggressive panhandling, stating that people were getting aggressive and even violent while asking for money. But when asked to provide evidence through police reports, the Western Slope town could not demonstrate its accusation was true. In fact, most research shows that people experiencing homelessness are more often than not the victims of crime and not the perpetrators and any violence typically occurs within the homeless community. “Research evidence is likely to show [aggressive or violent behavior of homeless people towards the community] is an unwarranted fear,” says Mark Silverstein, legal director for the Colorado ACLU. “Laws should not be based on groundless fears.” Regardless, it doesn’t look like Boulder’s camping ban is going away anytime soon, according to Weaver. “Ultimately, it would be great to get rid of the camping ban because we don’t need it,” Weaver says. “But to get there we’re going to have to add to the spectrum of services, and in the meantime it’s not fair to ask the community to sacrifice all of its public lands to this issue.” With the upcoming Boulder City Council trip to Oregon, Weaver says Boulder could get ideas from what Portland and Eugene are doing to address homelessness. The trip has drawn some controversy because the council members are going in conjunction with business owners and using City dollars to pay for their expenses. But a quick search of the City of Portland’s website reveals both the history and practices of the city as it seeks to manage a large homeless population. While Portland did enact anti-camping and sit-lie ordinances in the early 2000s, a District Judge ruled such ordinances go against the state’s constitution in 2009. Since then, the city has enacted a slew of programs and ordinances to address the issue and most recently declared a state of emergency on housing and homelessness, which allows the City to expedite the zoning and permit process for building new shelters and affordable housing. The overarching Portland policy on homelessness depends on city officials being able to finish the sentence “You can’t stay here, but you can sleep...” according to its website. This mentality has resulted in “safe sleep options” for the homeless community, which allow the use of sleeping bags and tarps on sidewalks as long as it doesn’t obstruct pedestrian traffic, the use of tents between the hours of 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. and organized, city-sanctioned camping, as well as car and See CAMPING BAN Page 12

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Diversity says that the lessening availability of those resources, namely whitebark pine and Yellowstone cutthroat trout, exacerbated by climate change and drought, has forced grizzlies to eat more meat, which is available in livestock. Taking a broader approach to grizzly management, like the Center advocates, would lessen the burden on the Yellowstone population. That approach would include reintroducing grizzlies to Idaho’s Selway-Bitterroot ecosystem, which was recognized in 1993 as a recovery area for grizzly populations by the USFWS, as well as other areas. Santarsiere says the second Bush administration caused plans for the reintroduction of bears to that region to falter. Again, the USFWS delisting of Yellowstone grizzlies isn’t finalized, and the Center for Biological Diversity is working alongside other groups like Earthjustice, Sierra Club, Greater Yellowstone Coalition and more to provide feedback and recommendations to the USFWS that don’t include capping grizzly populations and opening up the animals for trophy hunts in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. But like other wildlife issues in the region, a decision could be made much quicker if those states move quickly to adopt hunting rules.

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RV camping. “We’re not being creative,” Cohen says, referring to Boulder. “That’s what we need from Council is a willingness to say, ‘You know, we’ve got a problem, let’s be creative. We’ve got lots of proposals on our plate, let’s try some of them,’ instead of locking people up over this silly ordinance.” And Boulder’s camping ban may be affecting more homeless people than just those in Boulder. The Colorado ACLU is engaged in advocacy campaigns around the state dealing with the criminalization of homelessness and John Krieger, director of communications and outreach, says other jurisdictions often site Boulder’s record as justification for their own practices. “Since Boulder is a progressive community, or there’s a real progressive constituency in Boulder, when they come short of that on things like criminalization of homelessness then other cities look and say, ‘Well, look at Boulder,

we’re not nearly as bad as Boulder or we’re not cracking down as hard as Boulder,’” he says. “It gives cover to other cities and that’s a real problem. Whereas the opposite could also be true, if Boulder repealed their camping ban and came up with a new housing solution.” But Weaver disagrees. “Some cities don’t have a camping ban but a lot of those end up kind of de facto having a camping ban by enforcing trespassing ordinances and so on,” Weaver says. “And I think we’ve just chosen to be forthright about exactly what it is we are doing, which is restricting a behavior which is practiced disproportionately by the homeless. This is a little different than criminalizing homelessness.” Nevertheless, Weaver sees ways the enforcement of the camping ban could improve in Boulder as to not result in so many citations, failure to appear warrants or jail time. Currently, the policies of enforcing

the camping ban rely on officer discretion but could be made more uniform. Weaver also says he’s working on a new initiative with both the police department and the municipal court that could be a possible solution to the issue raised by the reports, although he is unwilling to discuss details at this time. He plans to release details before the City Council revisits the camping ban ordinance at a meeting in early April. The ACLU’s Silverstein says that in the end, Boulder’s camping ban, as evidenced by the data in both reports, is making criminals out of people experiencing homelessness by using the criminal justice system to punish necessary conduct for survival. “Boulder and other cities need to put more resources into addressing the causes of poverty and homelessness,” he says. “And they must stop relying on criminal laws and police as the way to address behaviors that are closely tied to homelessness and extreme poverty.” Boulder Weekly

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is face is lined, his skin the color of the muddy Temash River we just crossed, and his hair jet black. When he says, “There’s no money that can fix the river — you can’t buy back the river,” he says it with the authority he carries as the Mayan spiritual leader, the “Alcalde,” in the village. I believe him. The river is full of sediment washed off from the surrounding rainforest, the wettest area in Belize. When we crossed the river into the village of Crique Sarco two hours ago, we entered Sarstoon Temash National Park, known locally as the “land between the rivers,” an area that borders Guatemala. We are deep in Mayan country, and as our truck pulls into the village, our guide jumps out and walks across the lush grass to find the village leaders we’ve come to meet. We got here after driving about an hour on a rough dirt road, the first 45 minutes of which was in better shape because it had been rebuilt by an oil company. Oil has come to the Mayans, and we are here for oil too — to learn how this small and very rural Mayan village is protecting its people and native lands from the threat of oil. The leaders of this Mayan community have agreed to meet me so I can help tell their story about their fight with oil. I’m here with a NGO called “SATIIM” which stands for “SarstoonTemash Institute For Indigenous Management.” The Temash River and Sarstoon River border the Park, the land in between is about 42,000 acres, and indigenous Mayan country covers the Park and everything around us for miles in every direction. SATIIM’s mission is to promote and protect the rights of these indigenous people and to safeguard the ecological integrity of the region. That’s a very difficult and serious business with one oil well already drilled by an American company and others pending. We take a short tour of the village, which has about 60 families. It’s Sunday, just before lunchtime, and the Boulder Weekly

village is very quiet — some of the villagers are still in “Sunday Prayer” inside their homes. The homes are mixed frame with thatched roofs. There’s running water in a few homes, but not in most. The village is clean — Gary Wockner in fact it’s cleaner than most of the Belizean towns I’d spent the last 10 days visiting in other parts of the country. Chickens strut around free-ranging and a couple of friendly dogs follow us along as we visit a very small store and then use a shared outhouse. After the brief tour, we sit down in a small thatched-roof home around a plastic folding table. There’s a few electric generators in the village, but they’re not running, and so there’s no lights in the hut. My eyes adjust to the darkness after a few minutes. SATIIM Executive The Mayan village of Crique Sarco, in Belize, could be in danger as a U.S. oil company has Director Froyla Tzalam set started to explore the area. up this meeting and brought me here, and she is sitting across the table. Froyla and I got a pork stew and a spicy soup are the notes that this is a difficult fight — the acquainted over dinner last night in menu. All are delicious as we make village is fighting both the government Punta Gorda, the nearest small city small talk through lunch. Almost every- and the oil company over rights to their (5,000 people) which is the hub of one in Belize is bilingual, and the land and for protection of their enviSouthern Belize and where the office of Mayans all know English as a second ronment. SATIIM is located. Small Mayan villanguage — it is taught in the village “They put everything sweet, like lages — some of which are very rural school — and so we can understand candy,” he says, referring to how the oil like this one — are dotted along the each other very well though they apolo- company and the Belizean government roads stretching miles away from Punta gize for their English unnecessarily. As have tried to sell oil drilling to the local Gorda. Froyla is a fireball — outspoken, we finish, the food and dishes are Mayans. “But the decision should be whip smart and filled with energy. She whisked away and the table wiped made by our community, not the govis also a Mayan and entrusted by the clean. There’s a long, pregnant pause ernment. It brings concerns because of various communities that make up before Froyla speaks and brings us to the environmental threats. It could SATIIM to represent their voices, the reason for the meeting, for me to damage our river — our villages fish which are often against the Belizean hear their stories and learn about their downstream and hunt as well.” government as well as the American oil concerns for the oil drilling in their Everyone watches and listens to company. They have picked their leader homelands. Marcos and no one interrupts him. well. Marcos Chub, who is the mayor of When he finishes, there’s another long The five Mayan community leaders, the community speaks first, and slowly, pause. Andres Coy, the village’s Mayan spiritual leader and Alcalde, speaks next all men, slowly walk in and sit around but then warms up as the words flow the room, while two Mayan women troublingly from his mouth. He speaks bring in food. Rice and beans, chicken, for a few minutes and immediately See VILLAGE Page 16 March 10, 2016 15

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and more directly. “The voice of the village must be heard,” he says. “The government doesn’t respect our community. The government doesn’t care about the people, they just care about the money. Pollution is going to be in the air we breathe, the animals and fishes we eat. Yes, there will be jobs, but there will be a price to the environment.” Andres talks about the river as I noted above, and adds, “We believe we are the owners of the resources and the courts have formally recognized that.” Andres is matter of fact in his statement, and for good reason. On behalf of the Mayan communities, SATIIM sued the federal government and won, and when the government appealed the suit twice, SATIIM won both times including with the highest court at the Caribbean Court of Justice. Just weeks before my arrival, the Caribbean Court ruled and has now forced the government to establish some type of land rights for the Mayan people in the region. Marcos speaks again and is now more excited as the energy in the room grows. “The government has a tricky idea and hired public relations people to give us false information,” he said. Andres backs this up by saying, “They think the indigenous people don’t have common sense to know what’s good for us.” As the discussion develops, it becomes very clear that SATIIM has played a critical role in educating and informing the local village, which has intermittent electricity and internet access. Among other things, SATIIM has visited with the community many times, provided technical information, including a professional review of the “environmental impact assessment” for the oil drilling, and provides weekly radio broadcasts that are heard throughout the region At one point, Andres says, “Thank God SATIIM is helping us.” The conversation continues for another hour as each leader speaks. They support each other with snippets of their own, the overall story becoming clearer. The men tell stories of how the oil company ran survey lines across their land, and didn’t ask for permission as the company cut new roads right through some of their farms. The men don’t believe anything the oil company says. The men say the government wants money and is trying to force oil exploration and production down their throats. Several of the men say the government and the oil company are providing “false information” to the communities. The men tell me that the Mayan people want control of their land and the resources underneath it. The Mayans are not necessarily saying “no” to oil drilling, but they want to be consulted in the decision, and if oil drilling happens, they want part of the money. The amount of “5 percent” has been mentioned a couple times — prior to the court rulings, if oil was produced on their lands, the Mayans would have gotten nothing. If nothing else, they want 5 percent of price of the oil produced on their lands. They are wrestling with this conundrum of pollution and money and oil, their faces furrowed and their voices aching from the wrestling match. “We are thinking for future generations,” Andres says. “The ground is like our mother; she feeds us.” Boulder Weekly

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After everyone has had a turn at speaking, I feel compelled to speak myself. I had been holding my tongue as I heard the stories. I also begin slowly but quickly to get to the point. “I’m from the state of Colorado in the United States,” I say. “Within 100 miles of my house, there are over 22,000 active oil and gas wells.” When I say this, everyone in the room gasps. They’re now riveted. So far they have had one single well drilled 4 miles away, and it has created an enormous conflict and uproar. I continue, “The air pollution is sometimes worse than downtown Los Angeles. The groundwater has been polluted, and oil has been spilled into our rivers. The landscape has been decimated, criss-crossed and carved into little pieces.” I pause and say, “I urge you to be very careful and very vigilant. Once you allow the drilling, you can never go back.” “Be very vigilant,” I repeat, Gary Wockner slowly. Everyone nods. After a few more questions and comments, our conversation ends and we step outside. The mood brightens as the humid sunshine pours through the village canopy. We take a few photos and say good-byes. Froyla, our guide, and I head back to our truck. We walk by the village school which was recently repainted by the oil company, U.S. Capital Energy, which emblazoned their name and logo on the school in exchange for the paint job. When I ask about the name and paint, our guide says, “camPulling from his own experience in Colorado, ouflage” — more candy from the Gary Wockner urges locals in Belize to be oil company. vigilant about protecting their land. We get in the truck and drive back across the Temash River, leaving the village and heading back on the rough dirt road. After about 15 minutes, we reach the turnoff that leads down to where the oil company drilled the well. The road is gated with a no trespassing sign and a young man sits in civilian clothes in the guard house. When he sees us, he moves behind a wall out of sight. Like oil drilling everywhere on the planet, the price has plunged here in Belize, and the oil company has stopped exploring and drilling, for now. U.S. Capital Energy is a privately held company and information sharing is sparse. From the villagers’ stories, it’s unclear if and how much oil was found, and at what depth, and at what price point it is recoverable. Belize has many active oil wells, and drilling and production occurrs across the nearby border in Guatemala. It’s likely that oil drilling will come to this village eventually. As the roads smooth out — now rebuilt with oil money — and we make our way another 45 minutes back to the paved road, I consider what I really wanted to tell the Mayans. I was there as a guest to hear and tell their stories, not to tell them what I thought they should do. But what I wanted to say was that if oil drilling comes here, this place will never be the same. Roads will criss-cross your village lands, the river will be polluted, wildlife will leave, the air will be brown and stink, the landscape will become an industrialized nightmare completely different than this quiet village you live in now. You will be left with nothing. And if you do negotiate a 5 percent royalty, your lives will be forever changed. I did the math quickly in my head as I sat in the hut. At $20 million per well over 20 years, and with just 20 wells in the entire area of the village’s farmland and rainforest, you’re looking at roughly $50,000 per person per year, which is likely 10 times more than any of them make as farmers. This serene, indigenous little village would bust apart — culturally, financially, psychologically — and never be the same. When we hit the paved road, we turn south and can see the lush jungle of the Mayan Hills in the background. Froyla’s eyes light up and she says, “I just love this view. The Mayan Hills are so beautiful.” For now, I think to myself. Gary Wockner, PhD, is an international environmental activist, writer, and consultant for Global Greengrants Fund which provides funding to SATIIM This piece originally ran on tcktcktck.org. Boulder Weekly

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hough it’s winter right now along the the city, so it is less capable of cooling itself, similar Front Range, the city of Denver sits to a person who has lost their ability to sweat. pleasantly above 50 degrees most days. Despite its vicinity fairly close to Denver, there is Sure, it’s nice to have warm weather this plenty of open space in Boulder that allows it to cool time of year, but the city’s warmth can be off faster. With the amount of open space and attributed to the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Boulder County constantly trying to buy more, the Denver has one of the most intense UHI effects in possibility of Boulder becoming a future heat island the nation, which makes is less likely. EPA.gov summers unbearably hot However, if and keeps the city unseathe suburbs sonably warm during the along U.S. 36 winter. keep growThomas Slabe, bioloing, convertgist at the Environmental ing undevelProtection Agency’s office oped areas, in Denver, sees the imporBoulder will tance of cooling down the face similar city. problems. As “It’s going to be Denver conincreasingly important in a tinues to lot of cities because heat plant trees, waves are going to potencitizens tially get more severe, and should look heat-related illnesses are Vegetating rooftops help cool off cities, like Denver, that have high to other the number one killer of urban heat island effects. strategies people from natural disasthat could be incorporated into the city’s plan. In ters, more than all the others combined,” Slabe says. October 2008, the EPA released its Heat Island To combat this, there are many greening and Compendium suggesting alternatives for cooling cooling initiatives taking over cities nationwide. In Denver, the Mile High Million has planted 2.2 mildown cities. Along with planting trees, creating parks lion trees. The Mile High Million was originally part and vegetating roofs are the way to go for Denver. of then-Mayor John Hickenlooper’s Greenprint Green roofs, like what is in place at the EPA’s Denver citywide sustainability initiative in 2006. regional office in Denver, can help cool all city buildSince then it has transformed under Mayor Michael ings. They use soil, grass and plants to create a layer Hancock into an initiative to care for Denver’s existbetween the roof and atmosphere to buffer it from ing trees. Trees are an important first step toward the elements and provide shade, a natural cooling cooling the city, as they retain moisture that will agent. With the addition of plants and dirt, green evaporate when it’s hot, cooling the air as it does. In roofs also retain more water, allowing evaporation to urban environments, the trade of trees and soil for cool the air further. Plus, they work as insulators, concrete and metal means less moisture is held within keeping building temperatures more pleasant and

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Between seven and 20 boats carrying refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries arrive on Lesvos’ shores every day.

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t’s one thing to travel and see different parts of the world. It’s another to do so with a purpose. And that sense of purpose is what motivated 75-year-old Broomfield resident Barbara Kelly to spend eight days on the Greek island of Lesvos as part of a disaster relief team aiding refugees in early February. “I’ll be honest, I am one of life’s lucky people. I’m healthy, my daughters are healthy, my dog and my silly cat are healthy,” Kelly says. “And it’s payback time for about the migrant crisis hitting Europe as the Syrian me.” civil war continues into its fifth year. She had seen the Since the beginning of 2015, approximately images of refugees arriving by rubber rafts on Greek 500,000 refugees have embarked on the 6-mile jourshores soaking wet, carrying loved ones, some having ney between Turkey and Lesvos in rubber dinghies. drowned on the journey. After traveling to both La Half of these people Paz, Bolivia, in are escaping the 2014 and Port-auSyrian civil war, Prince, Haiti, in while others are 2015 on medical coming from the missions trips, Kelly ongoing conflicts in decided to sign up Iraq and for the disaster Afghanistan, in relief trip to Lesvos addition to a few with International other countries. Medical Relief According to a (IMR), a medical January 2016 survey missions nonprofit conducted by United based in Loveland. Nations High “I got to see hisCommission for tory — what will be Refugees (UNHCR) regarded as history — with my very in Lesvos, 60 perown eyes,” Kelly cent of the refugees says. “How often do are women and chil- A volunteer with the International Medical Relief team makes a young refugee boy smile. you get to do that?” dren while 74 perIt snowed for cent are traveling the first time in four years for two days after Kelly with someone else, whether a parent, child, spouse or and the team arrived, during which no boats made the other family member. The journey from Syria to Greece alone takes approximately 53 days; from Iraq journey from Turkey to Lesvos. and Afghanistan, obviously longer. But on the second night, Kelly and the rest of the Like many, Kelly had heard the news reports 23-person IMR team were in their guesthouse when

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one of the team members ran in saying a boat was coming up to the shore. The team, including Kelly, hurried down to the little beach the guesthouse overlooked and found 52 refugees approaching in a rubber dinghy. “Women, children, men. Some shoeless, some gloveless,” Kelly says. “I remember blowing on a man’s hands because they were numb, before taking him up to the guesthouse. ... We got them warm and fed.” The team then waited with the refugees until a UNHCR bus could come pick them up. Kelly says that once it stopped snowing, anywhere from seven to 20 boats arrived on Lesvos’ shores each day. “The gratification of when it works, I’ve just not felt anything like it,” Kelly says. “Blowing on the hands of the man, who was freezing, just that my breath could help. Ain’t nothing like that.” In addition to part-time substitute teaching for Boulder Valley School District, Kelly also volunteers at the Broomfield detention center and at the Broomfield library finding books people have reserved online. One day, while working at the library, she came across a book about volunteer trips and read about an upcoming trip to visit the prisons in La Paz, Bolivia with Flying Doctors of America. But she didn’t want to go just as a volunteer who the team leaders would have to find a job for, so she started collecting prescription glasses to distribute to the prisoners. see REFUGEES Page 26

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The Greek Coast Guard boats can more easily navigate Lesvos’ rocky shores.

A refugee mother and daughter get warm after making the 6-mile journey on rubber dinghies.

Remnants of cut-off lifejackets and sliced rubber rafts litter the beaches in Lesvos.

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“I figured collecting glasses wouldn’t intense poverty, as people gathered on be a big deal, but rather than just putthe roadside trying to sell anything they ting them out on a table and say, ‘Try could get a profit for. The team traveled them on, see what works’, that if I to villages unseen by doctors and again, could learn to test vision that would be Kelly was able to vision test and hand great,” she says. out glasses to those in need. So she asked a local optometrist in “The mission trip to Haiti, because Superior to train her in basic vision it was a mission trip and not a disastertesting using eye charts and the corresponding code that determines prescriptions based on which line a person can read. Kelly says the experience was “eye-opening” as the team visited both the men’s and women’s prisons in La Paz. She describes large facilities like cities, ruled by a hierarchy of prisoners. Children lived with their imprisoned parents due to the lack of social services to provide foster care. Despite the conditions, Kelly enjoyed vision testing the inmates and handing out glasses so much so that after her return she soon started looking for another medical mission trip to be a part of. “I wanted to go to Haiti Volunteers rush into the water to help refugees land in because of what I had read Lesvos. Turkey can be seen in the background. about the earthquake and the fact that it was still very much damaged,” Kelly says. “And I figresponse trip, was beautifully organized. ured I had a successful run in Bolivia, We knew where we were going, all perso go to Haiti.” missions had been obtained,” Kelly says. As the team traveled over roads still “This was not the case in Lesvos.” unrepaired from the earthquake more For Lesvos, she collected and sorted than four years before, Kelly observed more than 1,900 pairs of glasses 26 March 10, 2016

through the local Lions Club. However, when she arrived on the Greek island, she was told that the government wouldn’t allow her to vision test or hand out prescriptive glasses, although she still isn’t sure exactly why. Instead, she joined the hundreds of other volunteers on the beach in the city of Molyvos, waiting and then welcoming arriving rafts. “The rubber rafts that they came over on were cut up immediately because there is no beach on the part of Lesvos that faces Turkey. It’s only rocks,” Kelly says. “So the dinghies would start getting cut up as the refugees approached. They may have been dry on the trip but they got wet as they got closer.” When a dinghy approached, volunteers would swarm the arriving refugees, cutting off flimsy lifejackets and wrapping the people in space blankets to warm them. “Maybe we were as terrifying to the refugees as the trip itself, I don’t know...” Kelly says. “It was tricky because mothers didn’t want to let go of their children’s hands, for obvious reasons, so getting wet clothes off, space blankets around them and getting them to the area where they could get donated clothes [was difficult].” But most of the refugees arrived relatively healthy. The IMR doctors really only treated people for colds and congestions — normal symptoms associated with being cold and damp for long periods of time. “There were no terrible medical conditions so that was a good thing,” Kelly says. At times Kelly and other volunteers

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ADVENTURE his mother. Kelly doesn’t know if they humanitarians in the world,” Kelly says. ever found his sister. “Do I think that bodes well for finding Kelly says the process of getting a solution for all these refugees? No. I’m clothes, shoes and food for the refupretty hopeless about it. It’s not exactly gees when they first arrived was effi- uplifting, but I just don’t see answers.” cient. As was getting the people on Kelly describes the refugees as the UNHCR buses and transported almost robots, moving from one step in to the area where they received docu- the process to the next, without any sort mentation for the next step of the of enthusiasm or relief that they had journey. What happens after that, made it this far. she doesn’t know. Although most “We saw hand- Joel Dyer of them said thank drawn maps of you to the relief where you need to workers, none of go next but we them did so with a couldn’t make out smile. what those maps “There was no indicated,” she says. joy once they made The IMR team it to the shore,” was just one of Kelly says. “It was many groups on the just one more step on the road, and I beach helping to don’t know how welcome the refulong that road is or gees. While they where it’s going to were waiting for lead.” boats, Kelly talked In the end, to volunteers from Kelly returned disall over the world appointed. with different back“Disappointed grounds, some with that I couldn’t do actual skills to help, Barbara Kelly from Broomfield reviews more, whatever that like the medical from her February trip to Lesvos, doctors, and others photos more meant, I Greece, to help refugees. who just felt like couldn’t do it,” she they had to do says. “I had hoped something. to come up with something that I could “People who just can’t stand what write my congressional representatives, they see on TV and have to do somethat I could write [ John] Kerry, that I thing, which was basically my motivacould come up with something, having tion,” Kelly says. “I mean you don’t even been there I might see a way forward, know where to send money so you figand that’s what I meant about disapure if you have any kind of skill, I’m pointment. I just don’t see any solugoing to take it.” tions, full stop.” There was an Irish woman in her While Kelly was on Lesvos, late 20s who had paid her own way and Aleppo was undergoing the most traveled alone to help in any way she intensive airstrikes of the five-year could. And a former Army combat civil war, pushing more refugees diver, who was suited up to rescue anytowards the Turkish border. “There one who fell off the dinghies. There was no place for the people who had was a Colorado firefighter, who knew come from there to go back to,” Kelly how to handle emergencies, a dentist says. “They couldn’t go back and they who spoke Arabic, and a recently graddidn’t know where forward meant. ... uated doctor who spoke Urdu. Plus, They don’t know where they are Kelly noticed a Catholic priest who going, tomorrow or long term. They showed up everyday on the beach. just know they can’t go back.” “There were no boundaries, people Regardless of the disappointment just wanted to help. On that end it was and perceived lack of solutions, Kelly wonderful and restorative,” she says. still thinks the trip was worthwhile and “Even if people didn’t know what they encourages others moved by the situacould do, they felt it important to be tion to do the same. there and that was pervasive.” “It’s worthy of attention. These are But although Kelly was encouraged human beings who were living just like by attitudes and exchanged smiles of us...” Kelly says. “The humanness of other relief workers, she isn’t that optipeople when you warm them, we canmistic about the situation of the refugees. not let that go unanswered. We have to “I think there are a number of help.” Boulder Weekly

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riting a play is courageous and I really mean that,” says Pesha Rudnick, cofounder and artistic director of Local Theater Company. “Writing is one of the most vulnerable things that you can do and giving it to other people to interpret is like standing in front of a bunch of people naked.” The Boulder-based company is hosting its fifth annual LOCAL Lab, a participatory theater festival that aims to grow new works. This year, three new plays will premiere with professionally-staged readings, selected from an adjudication process that included 120 scripts. This year’s selections are different enough in style to create a diverse offering for an audience member who is going to spend the weekend at the festival, but are also complementary, coming from young playwrights ready to tackle some of life’s biggest questions and eager to crowd-source feedback for the development of their new works. LOCAL Lab brings the playwrights to Boulder for a bare-bones workshop. There are no costumes, no lighting designs, no sets — just a couple of actors on stage, dressed in regular clothes, reciting lines that they read from the page. With just 10 hours of rehearsal under their belts, the actors are only a step ahead of the audience, who is seeing the characters for the first time. Meanwhile, the playwrights are perched just behind curtain, this being one of only a few opportunities they have had to see the world that they created come to life on stage. It is also the first time that they get to see people watch their

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play, and without the layers of production and staging, all of their attention and reaction is attributable to the script alone. In such a setting, the parts of a play that are normally hidden — the stage directions, the scene changes, the actor’s notes — are exposed and vulnerable. In this day and age, Rudnick says that it’s not just the playwrights that are courageous, but the theatergoers, too. “It’s much more palatable to take in a story in the comfort of your own living room at the time that you choose,” Rudnick says. “Whether it is two in the morning or eight at night, you sit down to just fall in the narrative, whether it’s TV or film. Theater is more awkward, it requires that you put clothes on, show up, be together. LOCAL Lab offers a community to do that with — to get out of the house and make eye contact with one another as you talk about what you just observed.” For Local, there is no theater without community. Inviting the audience into communication with the artists initiates the kind of friendship that can make both the writers and the watchers better at what they do — improving the theater experience for everyone. The three playwrights featured in this year’s lab all came to playwriting through different avenues and have different approaches to their art. The result is three very different stories that undertake varied considerations of community.

Top: Amelia Roper, Charlie Thurston and Michael Yates Crowley are this year’s LOCAL Lab playwrights. Bottom: LOCAL Lab focuses on soliciting and recieving feedback from the audience.

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Amelia Roper didn’t have an academic introduction to the arts, but a practical one. She started her career in theater as a lighting designer, working her way to a stage manager and later a playwright. Not only did this provide insight for her into the collaborative effort that is theater, but it put her in a position to watch the audience react to a show, over and over again, as each production traveled from city to city. “One thing that playwrights miss out on is the audience,” Roper says. “We can even pretend that we are more intelligent than them, which is absolutely not true. My years of working with audiences every night mean that I have more of an awareness of things like pace or what performances mean. I write in a way that is specific, but not prescriptive because I understand that in theater everyone has a different job, including the audience. I respect that and that makes for better work.” Her play, Lottie in the Late Afternoon, tells the story of four friends in their early 30s trying to have a fun vacation. The characters are oblivious to their problems, which are largely emotional and self-reflective. As they bubble up, the tension created exposes the spaces in between — the space between one another and between who one is and who that person thought they would be. The pace is slow, with a lot of space that echoes the theme of the play — full of awkward pauses, frustration and ripe with the sadness of trying to be happy when nothing seems to go as planned. Roper writes the script in such a way that the characters can’t help but express their feelings, no matter how inopportune. Her stage directions are almost poetic. Usually directions are something only the actors and crew get to see, but at LOCAL Lab it all hangs out — open and raw for the audience to see, not just the world created on stage, but the process of its creation. “Setting: New England, early twenty first century, perhaps 2013; A small vacation house with a wide porch; The house is a short walk from a seaside town; The house is a short walk from the seaside; The house may look like an Edward Hopper painting; On the porch there are some very comfortable chairs; The chairs look very comfortable but are very uncomfortable; There is also an upright piano, on the porch; And a cliff, perhaps.” Another of this year’s playwrights, Michael Yates Crowley, is a Juilliardtrained playwright, performer and

entrepreneur who spent years traveling through Europe with his company, Wolf 359. These tours left an impression on Crowley. As he trouped from city to city, he realized that theater served as a basis for the culture of the communities that he visited. “In many parts of Europe, towns have state-funded theater and it is really more a center of social life there. They go on to theater on Friday nights, they know the actors, they know the people; it is a regular sort of scene. It just occupies a little bit more of life and becomes a real source of dialogue within each town. To see how theater could matter to an audience like that encouraged me to take bigger risks in my own work.” And that he did. His play, The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias, is a comedy about the rape of a young woman in high school. As the small town grapples with the rape in its aftermath, the incident itself falls away as the reactions of various townspeople steal the spotlight and take on a life of their own. In large part, Crowley is inspired by the role that media plays in our societal experience of rape. There is so much talk, debate, accusation and fan fare that the actual event is overshadowed and largely forgotten. Among the many consequences is that the big picture of the pervasiveness of sexual violence in society is lost. “It is a head-in-the-sand attitude,” Crowley says. “If there really are this many attacks, then we can’t pretend that it is some lone, crazy person out there and the best that we can do is find ways to protect ourselves. That’s not really going to deal with the problem when it is so widespread. That is the way you deal with a terrorist, something that is so rare and unlikely that it makes sense to try to minimize your exposure to that risk.” Despite the serious tone that he tends to use to talk about his play, Crowley’s work is a comedy, a pairing of hard and soft that can be hard to handle for an audience, but it is crucial to the way the play operates. The humor helps the audience get past its own notions of rape to allow for a more open-ended consideration of the epidemic of sexual violence throughout history. “It is a bit like a coal mine fire,” Crowley says. “You look under the ground thinking it is this one tiny thing, but really it is a giant thing and you are just seeing a piece of it.” The third playwright in this year’s Boulder Weekly

buzz lab is Charlie Thurston, an academical- ancient Greek society when it wasn’t so ly trained actor with a burgeoning much about entertainment as it was career. He says that being an actor first about education. gave him unique access to the relationThe word school comes from the ship between the writer and the specta- Greek word schole, which translates to tor. The countless hours he spends leisure today, but back then, the word reading, analyzing and enacting scripts was understood a bit differently. leaves him with a strong understanding Aristotle wrote that work and leisure of the elements of a good story and were both essential to living a “good” helps him to write it so life. While work was that it translates to live defined by labor, leisure theatrical experience. was defined as the search ON THE BILL: LOCAL His play, The History for the wisdom of life. In Lab. eTown Hall, 1535 Room, is about the family the Greek polis, life cenSpruce St., Boulder, 720-379-4470. March and friends of a woman tered on a civic duty and 11-13. with Alzheimer’s and the the auditorium in each promise she once made town center served not her dear friend keep — just as the home of to kill her if she ever lost her memory. democracy, but for theater. It is an exploration of the honor of a Local Lab is a return to this idea of promise, but more pervasively an expetheater asking the audience to take the rience in memory as something uncerleap from spectator to engaging with tain and ever changing. the art and to help push the progress of “Writing the script got me thinking the plays forward. about the integrity of memory,” “I can sit there and rewrite a senThurston says. “When I try to picture tence for four hours, sure, but somean event years and years before, there is one is going to come along who asks like a flash, and I realize that I can’t me, ‘Why is this like this?’ — which is really hold on to that memory, it why workshops like LOCAL are so becomes blurry and misshapen and important,” Roper says. “In theater a loses its detail. But that is really all we lot of very intelligent people sit have, besides our iPhones.” around and come up with a remarkThe History Room is being presented ably intelligent answer as to why we in partnership with Creed Repertory should choose the most boring answer. Theater, which will present the world We tend to want to settle on the first premiere of the play this summer in idea, but the second or third is always Denver, directed by Rudnick. With better.” Creed’s interest in the play, LOCAL For the first time this year, there is Lab saw an opportunity to grow the also an opportunity for the audience to local theater community with some be a part of making a play, to build it like-minded makers, only increasing the from the ground up. Over the course of impact of the work the lab will underthe weekend, LOCAL is offering three take on the script as it readies for promaster class workshops that explore this duction. issue of tone. Using improvisation, origAs the curtains close on stage and inal writing, source text and music, the the house lights turn on, the focus company will lead the audience in cremoves to the audience. The playwrights ating an original, crowd sourced prowill take a minute off stage for a few duction. deep breaths before asking the audience “This idea of crowdsourcing or a few, very vulnerable questions: Did bringing everyone to the table, not you get bored? Was it too long? Where assuming that they are experts, but did you get lost? that if you have a story you are wel“You can’t just put a play out there come,” Rudnick says. “And I think and then close the door,” Rudnick says. that in a world where everyone is a “You have to open the door and then reviewer, crowdsourcing is a way to walk through it and hear what and how cross over into the creative experience. something has landed. I don’t think that It is a good way to actually get to the you have to change your writing or nec- underbelly of a story as opposed to essarily adjust it, but it’s important to these four people who went to grad hear it.” school sitting down to write a play, The play becomes a platform to talk which can be really useful but also about the stories told, the themes that really biased.” may have hit or missed and even the LOCAL Lab isn’t just talking about structure of theater itself. For Rudnick community, they are creating it by and LOCAL Lab, this is exactly what opening up the processes of theater and theater was created to do, dating all the asking what is possible if we all show way back to Aristotelian drama in up, get vulnerable and work together. Boulder Weekly

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thought my plan was clever — get of manifesto. The underlying premise everyone is in the same studio, there are Eugene Hütz on the phone and of what we do lays in maybe invention gallons of coffee, and it goes on all day.” ask him about global politics. of some kind of a new, modern, more Hütz tells me he’s living in New The ringleader of the gypsy progressive lifestyle that merges creativ- York City again, after having spent the punk band did, after all, make his ity and kind of resilience to the modern better part of a decade in Brazil. He way to the U.S. as a political refugee times via being more open-minded and can’t say how long he’s been in New from Ukraine in 1992. He is of Servitka more accepting. So that’s kind of where York again, because “it all runs together.” Roma decent, a subgroup of the it’s at — it is its own dojo where we He can say that Gogol Bordello is nomadic ethnic group known as the practice our own form of personal finishing up a new album that will be Romani people. The Romani endured musical mixed martial arts.” out later this year. And he says his slavery, deportation and forced assimilaHere I laugh, and say I’ll stop with musical interests have expanded. tion throughout “Ironically enough, after Europe for centuries. Robert Shami seven years in Latin America English speakers I started craving blues prosometimes call the gression,” he says. “Beats that Romani “gypsies,” a were completely not exciting term some Romani to me. I wasn’t used to doing people find offensive, anything in the beat of 1/4... as it can imply a But give it space and I found swindler or a cheat. myself craving those very But it doesn’t vitamins.” offend Hütz. No, For a number of years, Hütz has proudly Hütz took annual trips reclaimed the word through Ukraine and Eastern and become what Russia, searching out the some might call the foundation of his Romani godfather of gypsy heritage, the inspiration for punk rock. He told the music he’s created over the wearing purple, but stop asking Eugene Hütz (pictured front right with past 20 years. Vermont’s Seven Days Start the rest of the band) political questions, because that shit irks him. in 2005, “I invented But he no longer takes it, man. I coined that those trips. phrase, I did everything for it.” the political questions. “In first decade of being in America He has penned tunes like “We Rise “Thank God,” Hütz says. “I was and loving it, but being in deficit of my Again,” an anthem to a world without starting to get a headache.” native vitamins, I set out on those trips nations: “Borders are scars on the face Hütz is pleased, however, to talk and did it all, from Siberia to of the planet/ So heal away my alchemy about Gogol Bordello’s recent perforHungarian gypsy ghettos,” he says. man/ Every atheist holds up the canmance at the annual Tibet House “That was my kind of jam. But then I dle/ We rise again.” Benefit Concert, which supports discovered a new trajectory that was So naturally, with his background Tibetan culture in the face of extinction from New York City all the way down and lyrics like those, I thought Hütz from outside influences. to Buenos Aires, getting inspired by all might like to talk about some of the “It’s an amazing cause,” Hütz says. those places. After that, that kind of goings-on in the world, like Europe’s “The dialogue between West and East rounded me out. That kind of left me refugee crisis. is very important for evolution of the with a renewed interest in American I can hear the reluctance in his voice planet. It’s like the East has got the folklore, older, better country music and as he explains that his immigration was spirituality, the West’s got the technolo- Appalachian ballads.” different, “more sociopolitical” in nature. gy. It’s time for a dialogue, and it’s hapHe points to a staple of American “Now I can’t even tell what is the pening. People are tuning in and it’s country blues — Johnny Cash’s “Folsom reason for this wave of refugees,” Hütz becoming more than a clichéd story of Prison Blues.” says in his thick Slavic accent. “It’s a finding your soul by going to “There’s not one single line that’s completely different mix. Their experiHimalayas. There’s nothing there — not moving the train forward,” he says ence is so different from ours. I can you really don’t need to go there.” “That appeals to me, and the dynamic only speak from our experience.” During that Feb. 22 show, Gogol of that, that ability of American story Even if his experience was different, Bordello shared a stage with Philip telling is appealing to me.” I wonder aloud if Hütz sees his music Glass and Iggy Pop, who Hütz calls his Hütz says he has to leave for the stuas a political statement, with its many “mentor of all times.” dio in 10 minutes, and I offer an apology lyrics about border crossing, jingoism “It’s an amazing atmosphere. It for starting the interview off with so and life as an immigrant. gathers a very alert audience. It’s our many political questions. He laughs. “I think music and art is more of a second time doing it and I love the “What political questions? There’s spiritual matter really,” he says. “I whole community that emerges from only one answer: Bernie Sanders all the wouldn’t dwell on it as being some sort rehearsals — even the rehearsals ... way.” Boulder Weekly

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ON THE BILL: Scarlatti, Father & Son. Seicento Baroque Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 11, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Denver. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, First United Methodist Church, Boulder. 3 p.m. Sunday, March 13, Stewart Auditorium, Longmont. Tickets: 720-301-7747, seicentobaroque.org

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vanne Browne, artistic director of the Baroque vocal ensemble Seicento, wants you to know that she is excited about their next concert. Very excited. “I was thrilled to get to put this together,” she says. “This is a joyous concert. It’s just magical!” This magical concert will be presented Friday through Sunday with performances in Denver, Boulder and Longmont. And although the title, “Scarlatti, Father and Son,” might sound like a trendy Italian trattoria, it actually refers to an important musical family of the 17th and 18th centuries. Alessandro Scarlatti spent most of his career at the court in Naples, where his brother Francesco was first violinist. His two children also pursued musical careers, Seicento ensemble explores a musical dynasty with their latest concert. Domenico primarily in service to the royal families of Spain and Portugal, and Francesco in London and Dublin. look forward to this, and hopefully will walk away Almost anyone who has taken piano lessons as a knowing more about Scarlatti.” child — or whose children have taken lessons — The culmination of the concert will be the final knows of Domenico Scarlatti, the titular son of the piece, the Stabat Mater of the younger Scarlatti — program. He famously wrote more then 500 onethe one known for his keyboard works. It’s about a movement keyboard sonatas that range from short, 20-minute setting of a 13th-century hymn that easy pieces in every teacher’s lesson book to challengexpresses the sorrow of Mary standing at the foot of ing workouts that find their way into virtuoso recital the cross. programs. “I love the Stabat Mater,” Browne says. “I’ve never Browne’s aim is to open up much more of the conducted it, so I’m excited about that.” Scarlatti legacy than the well known sonatas — writOne of the things that makes this work stand out ten for harpsichord but today played mostly on piano. is it is written for 10 voices with an instrumental bass Domenico wrote other works, from operas and cantapart and aparticular emphasis on the higher parts. tas to sacred motets and a 10-voice Stabat Mater that “We have two bass lines, two tenor lines, two alto will end the concert. And his father, Alessandro, was lines and four soprano lines,” Browne explains. “When one of Italy’s leading Baroque opera composers, domiyou get the four sopranos and the two altos and kind nating opera in Naples in the 1690s. He also wrote of a high tenor part, you get a lot of treble sound. The cantatas, other vocal works and an almost unknown set ethereal quality of having that many high voices is of madrigals that will be on the program. exceptional.” “It’s an unusual program in that we’re doing little Browne also points to the expressive quality of the bits of each type of music,” Browne says. “All of the music. music is really lovely to hear. The audience should “It’s a beautiful setting of the text,” she says.

“There’s a section that just sounds like wailing, this grief and the loss of Mary’s son. And the way he set the part of the text that talks about the soul ascending is just magical.” The concert will open with two choral motets, one by each of the Scarlattis. The second will be conducted by Browne’s assistant, Mark Alan Filbert. Even though the father and son are different generations, “I find those two motets to be similar,” Browne says. “Both of them are going back to traditional sacred composition techniques (from the Renaissance).” One of Browne’s guest artists will be Charlotte Mattax Moersch, who will play several of the younger Scarlatti’s sonatas on harpsichord. A scholar as well as performer, Mattax Moersch will present a 6:45 p.m. lecture before the performances in Denver and Boulder. Soprano Amanda Balestrieri, a Boulder favorite, will sing several arias from Alessandro’s operas and cantatas. Because sopranos — both females and male castrati — were the opera stars of the day, their arias are often particularly showy, with the singer adding extra ornaments and roulades to repeated phrases. The most unusual works on the concert will be three madrigals by Alessandro. Again, the music is extraordinarily expressive, with unexpected chromaticism used to describe the most extreme emotions. “The madrigals, and most of the arias, are about love, how we burn with desire or the lover’s glance turns us to ice,” Browne says. “That kind of language gives fabulous opportunities for text painting.” Even if you don’t know anything about either Scarlatti, Browne thinks this is a concert that you should want to hear. “All of this music is very, very accessible and uplifting,” she says. “In these times in our world and our nation, coming to hear an evening or an afternoon of delightful music would be the reason to try this.”

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Music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. AJ Fullerton. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Bella Musser. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Bloodkin. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. C-Bob’s Gin Joint Jam. 6 p.m. Vapor Distillery, 5311 Western Ave., Suite 180, Boulder, 303-997-6134. Danny Bastos Collective. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Drop that Contained the Sea. 7:30 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, 303-388-4962.

Fireside Collective. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Jake Shimabukuro, Arthur Lee Land. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Melanie Devaney with The Rabbit’s Adam. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. North Boulder Underground. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. see EVENTS Page 40

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4:15 p.m. Sunday, March 13, Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-2222.

In landlocked Colorado we may not see the ocean, but we certainly understand its importance in the grand scheme of our ever-changing global atmosphere. Boulder filmmaker Chuck Davis, along with University of Virginia urban studies professor Timothy Beatley, will be giving a joint presentation to introduce Davis’ newest film, Blue Cities. The film focuses on ways coastal cities around the world can innovatively connect to the oceans in this time of great global change, especially as sea levels rise. Davis’ previous film, The Nature of Cities, also emphasizes the blending of natural and urban spaces with the ideal of inspiring a greater harmony between the two. — Chelsea Abdullah

California Voodoo will be sure to bewitch audiences with their unique Widespread Panic covers. The band, made up of six “working class” musicians, figures to deliver even the most classic Widespread Panic songs with exciting new flavor. Playing around Colorado, the band has gained a following and has played sold out shows in Denver. So get ready to be entertained by down-to-earth entertainers that are sure to light up the stage with their energetic performance. — Chelsea Abdullah

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Above the Fold: New Expression in Origami. The Longmont Museum, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont, 303-776-6050. Through May 1. Art of the State 2016. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 27.

Make Your Own Friends — by Brian Bress. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3. Diane Wood’s pastel paintings don the walls of NCAR through April 1.

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

Case Work. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 17. Critical Focus: Lanny DeVuono — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5. Encounters 2016. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through April 4. The Engaged Object. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through March 26. Holdfast: Seaweeds in a Time of Oceanic Change — Jill Powers. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 8.

Brian Hutchinson. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Brian Parton. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Bubba Love, Joe Schiraldi & Emmy Delis. 7 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Carbone Family Band. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. The CBDs. 7 p.m. Kathmandu Restaurant, 110 N. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-442-7771. Cornett and the Phast & Wreckless. 6 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Dialogues of the Carmelites’. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. The Drop that Contained the Sea. 7:30 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, 303-388-4962. The Global Soul Experience. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Heartstring Hunters. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Honeycomb. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Johnny O Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Kevin Dooley And Eric Drobny. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Lindsey Saunders. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

Life and Afterlife: Selections from the King Collection of Ancient Chinese Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-492-8300. Through June 25.

Malai Llama. 9:30 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. McLovins. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. One Ton Pig. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Psychidillo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Purple Squirrel. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Rascal Martinez, Bones Jugs. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Robin Davis. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Sixty Minute Men. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Southern Belles. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Tony Rosario. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Torbin Hadlock. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Trout Steak Revival, Caribou Mountain Collective, Augustus. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

The Neighbors — by Arne Svenson. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5.

Pastel Paintings by Diane Wood. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through April 1. Plein Air Pastel Painting by Sandra Haberkorn. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through April 1. Phantom Touch — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3. Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 1. Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 7. Samurai. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 5.

Events Fractured Fairy Tales. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Jafar Panahi’s Taxi. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Memory Cafe. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Open Mic Night. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. A Perfect Day. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Suspiria. 9 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday, March 12 Music Arthur Lee Land. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Big Hibiscus. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Layfayette, 303-339-0767. Blue Canyon Boys. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Bonnie Paine & Enion Pelta-Tiller. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. see EVENTS Page 42

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Danny Shafer. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Grossen Band. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

Local Lab 2016. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 720-379-4470. March 11-13.

Henscratch. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s Boulder, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955.

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

Interstate Stash Express. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020.

Ideation — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. MobileDay, 2040 14th St., Boulder, 303-351-2382. Through March 13.

James Faulk. 10:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Peter & Star Catcher. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 14.

Jay Stott. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Johanna Winkel. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont.

Sherlock Holmes Assassins at Sea. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St. , Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through March 26.

Los Cheesies. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Local Lab let’s playwrights see their visions come to life on stage. To read more about this year’s event go to page 31.

Lyle Lovett And Robert Earl Keen. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. My Blue Sky: A Tribute To The Allman Brothers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Boulder County 4H Family Carnival & Silent Auction. 11 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460.

Onda. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Hands & Hearts Drumming. 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Party At Tchaikovsky’s. 7 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, Boulder, 1820 15th St. , Boulder, 303-402-6400. Prohibition Six. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Jafar Panahi’s Taxi. 3:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Psychodillo. 9:30 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Our Boys. 7:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

RealTalk. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

A Perfect Day. 5:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Robin Davis Duo. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-3798299.

Robin Lewis Band. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Sammy Dee. 8:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Sandra MacDougall. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Scarlatti Father & Son. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770. Springdale Quartet. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Symbols. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. Them Raggedy Bones. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Vibesquad. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. WadiRum. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Wylie. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Zicke, zacke, hoi, hoi, hoi. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Events 17th Annual Animation Show of Shows. 1:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Adobe Photoshop Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Bikes ORO Launch Party. 2 p.m. Finkel & Garf Brewing. Co., 5455 Spine Road, Boulder, 720-379-6042.

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Hands on Healings. 3 p.m. Boulder Psychic Institute, 1332 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-530-0920.

Suspiria. 11:30 a.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Wings of Spring. 7:30 a.m. Sawhill Ponds, 75th St., Boulder, 303-413-7200. You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown. 11 a.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Blvd., Boulder, 303-440-8303. Sunday, March 13 Music All Hat No Horse. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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Big Thompson Flood. 1 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Billy Shaddox. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Bluegrass Pick. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. David Booker. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914. Dialogues of the Carmelites’. 2 p.m. Macky Auditorium, Boulder, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. The Evergreen Grass Band. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Flash Mountain Flood. 4 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Full Moon Medicine. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Olds Cool Rock. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Bluegrass Pick with Pat Fiddle and New Grass. 1 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. see EVENTS Page 44

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Thursday, March 10 Andrew Marcus. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Saturday, March 12 Cassandra Clare — Lady Midnight. 2 p.m. First United Mehodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770. Monday, March 14 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, March 15 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Artist and dancer Andrew Marcus stops by Innisfree to talk about the Disappearance Project he created in 2010.

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Scarlatti Father & Son. 3 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Some Train Yard. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Theresa Peterson. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Tyler Grant. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.

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Open Mic Hosted by Danny Shafer. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Events Blind Hero. 1:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Das Boot Trivia. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Muses of Beshevis Singer. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Rock in the Red Zone. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Wednesday, March 16 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Gina Sobul and Matt Draper. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Flash Mountain Flood. 8 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

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Karaoke. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Let the Beat Speak. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Bluegrass Pick Hosted by Kyle Ussery. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Roots & Rhythm. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Strange Birds. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Whiskey Autumn. 8 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Events

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Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Apples From the Desert. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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American Life in Poetry: Column 569 by Dorianne Laux

After my mother died, her best friend told me that they were so close that they could sit together in a room for an hour and neither felt she had to say a word. Here’s a fine poem by Dorianne Laux, about that kind of silence. Her most recent book is The Book of Men (W.W. Norton & Co., 2012), and she lives in North Carolina. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate

Enough Music Sometimes, when we’re on a long drive, and we’ve talked enough and listened to enough music and stopped twice, once to eat, once to see the view, we fall into this rhythm of silence. It swings back and forth between us like a rope over a lake. Maybe it’s what we don’t say that saves us. We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©1994 by Dorianne Laux, “Enough Music,” (What We Carry, BOA Editions, 1994). Poem reprinted by permission of Dorianne Laux and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

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ere we go again, yet another CGI-animated children’s movie about the tyranny of unspoken, stereotypical racial beliefs that also acts as a metaphor for the explosion of crack-cocaine in the black community in the 1980s... What? You’re saying that’s not what the Shrek series was about? Zootopia is, ahem, a “strange beast.” It’s endowed with the cutesy-wootsy trappings of adorable talking animals but fueled by a well-intended-if-slightly-off exploration of institutional racism. Ultimately mildly undone thanks to one simple decision made by one of the eight — yes, you read that right, eight — writers it took to pen this ostensible kids’ movie, Zootopia tries very hard to make a salient point about social injustice that resonates with both young and old. Also: Sloths! Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) dreams of moving to the big city and becoming the first bunny police officer. Blessed with the indomitable pluck of Leslie Knope, she gets her wish and immediately gets a missing person’s case. With the help of a huckster fox named Nick ( Jason Bateman), Judy tries to prove to her doubting boss, Chief Bogo (Idris Elba), that she’s a capable cop. But cracking the case means following the case to crack; the source of the missing citizens has to do with the equivalent of animal crack-cocaine. Time to talk racial metaphor: In the city of Zootopia, predators and prey live peacefully together, allegedly as equals. But when a few predators begin acting violently, it becomes obvious that the dominant majority of prey, who make up 90 percent of the population, harbor fear and resentment. Even Judy A bunny cop (Ginnifer Goodwin) and a huckster fox (Jason Bateman) try to track down missing animals but explicitly gets into some uncover a conspiracy that harkens back to the crack“those people” language, cocaine crisis in the black community in the 1980s. explaining predators are just “biologically programmed” to act certain ways. On the surface, the metaphor works: the evildoers operate within the system using majority privilege to spread fear of the “other.” However... By making the “predators” the stand-in for the minority group, the writers made a miscalculation. See, in real life, predators do actually have biological instincts that cause them to behave violently. So there’s a way of reading the movie wherein, although Judy and the community become enlightened about harmful stereotypes, in real life, those stereotypes could be reinforced. Now, that’s obviously not what the film intended. But it’s a bungle that makes a mess of the metaphor. Also underdeveloped is Nick’s succumbing to low expectations; he explains that because everyone expected him to be a “sly, sneaky” fox, that’s what he became. That’s a complicated and dangerous concept of self-defeatism being introduced to young people. Ugh... Does Zootopia deserve praise for its ambition or derision for missing the mark? It’s pretty to look at, funny enough and reasonably clever with its pop culture skewering. But does it get points for branching beyond the “we are all special, delicate flowers” moralizing of most cartoons or lose them for kinda botching it? A review eviscerating the film would make as much sense as one praising it, so it comes down to a coin-flip judgment call; let’s go with the optimistic view that kids hear “stereotypes and fear of others is bad,” and adults reinforce that message. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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film The act of seeing with one’s own eyes ‘Son of Saul’ to close Boulder Jewish Film Festival by Michael J. Casey

rom March 12-21, the Boulder ON THE BILL: Boulder Jewish Jewish Film Festival takes over Film Festival. March 12-21. The the Boedecker and Gordon Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tickets at Gamm Theater at The Dairy for thedairy.org. a 10-night residency of 19 films. Picked by founding director, Kathryn Bernheimer, these 19 movies cast a wide net, from food — Deli Man; Dough; The Search for Israeli Cuisine — to civil rights activism — Rosenwald — and the long, dark shadow of the Holocaust — Son of Saul; Tunnel of Hope; To Life! — BJFF offers something for everyone. But if one movie at BJFF should be required viewing, then Son of Saul is it. Not simply because it won this year’s Oscar for best foreign language film and the Golden Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, but because it is a stunning piece of cinema that asks the audience to bear witness to the atrocities that shape our world. The Hungarian film opens on Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig) a Sonderkommando member at the Auschwitz concentration camp. German for “special unit,” the Sonderkommandos were Jewish prisoners tasked with disposing the bodies after mass executions and then cleaning and preparing the showers for the next group of victims. Saul silently helps prisoners strip while German soldiers bark orders. After the prisoners are locked away, Saul and his fellow Sonderkommandos collect the clothes, look for personal property of value and prep the staging room for the next slaughter. They do this task efficiently — all emotion drained from their souls long ago — until the screams from the showers rise to a deafening level, and the people inside try to claw their way back to safety. That is when Saul and the Sonderkommandos go to the doors Boulder Jewish Film Festival offers many great and hold them shut while their films, and Son of Saul is one of the best. brothers and sisters are gassed to death inside. This is merely the first scene in a movie that catalogues the unbearable horror of history, yet it is one that must be witnessed. Not just by Saul, but by as many audience members as possible. As Saul holds that door closed, the look on his face is not just detachment and death, but confusion: How did I get here? Director László Nemes drops the audience in the middle of Saul’s plight, foregoing scenes where we see Saul’s capture, dehumanization and eventual acceptance of his role in the camps. Nemes is not reconstructing a series of steps that led to this moment, but suggesting that it is possible to wake up one day and find the world burning. Nemes and cinematographer Mátyás Erdély shoot the entirety of Son of Saul in shallow focus, limiting our vision to Saul’s face with the events and actions behind him murky, fuzzy and just beyond vision. We know what is happening, but does Saul? Could he see what was happening before it was too late? It’s as if Nemes is asking: How did we get here? Some movies come out when it best suits them, while others come out when it best suits us. As certain presidential candidates run platforms on jingoism and xenophobia, Son of Saul is a powerful reminder that things can get bad awfully quick if we’re not paying attention. Son of Saul demands that we sit up and do just that. The Boulder Jewish Film Festival screens at the Dairy Center March 12–21, for tickets and show times visit thedairy.org Boulder Weekly

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cuisine review Susan France

ften in this column I’ll praise a restaurant for preparing food simply. It’s always a feat when a chef lets ingredients sing their own songs, while also elevating whatever dish he or she has created, putting their own stamp on simple. The truth is that Farmer Girl elevating simple is Community Bistro 432 Main St., Lyons, hard to do, and we’re 303-823-5856 spoiled in Boulder County by the number of farms and restaurants that do it consistently and seemingly without effort. Indeed, making simple food is like being a football placekicker: Everyone says they can do it and that it looks easy, but then shotgun two Miller Lites at Broncos’ training camp and step up to the kicking exhibit and shank an extra point into the Dipping Dots display. Like placekicking, preparing simple food requires consistent and precise knowledge and execution of ingredients. In short, for simple food, the devil is in the details. During a recent trip to Farmer Girl Community Bistro, and a stop at their food truck, I had several dishes that were fine enough, but just missed on a few details that, for me, kept the growing restaurant enterprise from the next level. Let’s start with the best dish I had over a couple nights: the carrot latke. It was a coaster-sized crispy patty of shredded carrot topped by a kale pesto and pickled carrots. A simple arugula salad was placed beside it. The kale pesto and pickled carrot zinged, and brightened the carrot latke, which was understated in its seasoning and flavor to say the least. When all the elements of the dish were on the fork, it was a nice and easy appetizer.

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ni-like greens. The pasta was perfectly made, the greens were nicely wilted and the lamb was cut into well-proportioned chunks. But a gaminess in the lamb didn’t quit, and it became a little exasperating toward the end of the dish. And look, lamb can be gamey, but there are preparation methods and accompaniment options to limit that gaminess. And yes, it would be counter-intuitive for a farm-to-table restaurant to do-up one of its components to hide a very earthy flavor in a simple dish, but I think that’s the kind of unseen move that elevates simple foods. That ability to integrate and elevate was again lacking from a Colorado cassoulet. The dish was made of white beans, pork shoulder, chicken and sausage, served with a toasted, long baguette slice. Each element in the mixture tasted fresh, but there was nothing integrating the ingredients together. There was no foundation with which the tongue could anchor the flavors, and the lack of salt or seasoning only contributed to a general blandness. And in the apple crumble with mascarpone topping dessert, I couldn’t help but feel like a simple homemade ice cream or whipped cream would’ve been a much better accompaniment than chilled mascarpone, whose texture and flavor resembled butter or cream cheese, and overrode everything. Farmer Girl Community Bistro and its truck are well-deserving of business. Nothing in what I ate indicated that there isn’t a willingness to be creative and to improve. I’ll be back because Boulder County needs more casual, lower cost farm-to-table restaurants, and because freshness was paramount. Maybe, for me, some refinement of that freshness was necessary, but those adjustments are easily made.

Farmer Girl Community Bistro and food truck seek to elevate simple by Matt Cortina Next was a salmon tartine. Chunks of dressed fish were placed atop lightly toasted baguette slices with assorted julienned vegetables. The texture and temperature of each bite could have been more intriguing — instead, each bite consisted of a light resistant chew with a refrigerator-cool temperature throughout. In other similar dishes I’ve had, the bread is warm and toasted to crispy, if not charred; fruit or citrus is added for tart; cilantro or parsley is added for zip; and so on. And, there was the small detail of particularly fishy-tasting salmon on some bites and not on others. In another dish, lamb ragout was set atop homemade long tagliatelle with parmesan cheese and some brocolli-

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You can still visit the first Chipotle location, an establishment that helped usher in a new wave of fast casual dining.

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n search of a document lost in the recesses of the basement, I frittered away an hour looking through my “archival” bins of Colorado cookbooks and food books. There in the dust was More Adventures in Eating: Denver’s Ethnic Restaurants, self-published by Susan Permut in 1994. This was before Google, selfies, cell phones, Yelp and GPS, and the information in this volume was otherwise unavailable to foodies, known at the time as “gourmets.” Flipping through the book was a remembrance of meals past in Boulder at Laudisio, Viet Hoa, Sawaddee Thai, Little Russian Café, Mataam Fez, Caffe Antica Roma, Royal Peacock, Calypso Grill and Narayan’s Nepal.

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The handful of local eateries in the book still open after all these years later include The Med, Ras Kassa’s (now at the Broker Inn), and Lucile’s in Boulder; the Blue Parrot in Louisville; and Efrain’s Mexican Restaurant in Lafayette. Also still in business is a Mexican restaurant that Susan Permut described as a taqueria of a new kind: “It has a high tech feel with metal sculptures and industrial-looking fixtures. The fajita burrito consists of a huge tortilla filled with a choice of marinated and grilled meat. Everything here is fresh and homemade (including) barbacoa, shredded beef braised with chipotle peppers, cumin, see NIBBLES Page 52

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cloves and garlic.” If you had asked me which of Denver’s multitude of restaurants was bound for fame in 1994, I would not have included this eatery near the University of Denver. You can still visit the cramped, former Dolly Madison Ice Cream, shop where the inaugural burrito was wrapped in foil at Chipotle Mexican Grill, 1644 E. Evans Ave., Denver.

here for granted, but culinary professionals travel to the Denver metro area specifically to research the cutting edge of fast casual dining — the fastestgrowing part of the restaurant industry, according to the market research firm Technomic. They visit chains born or headquartered here including Tokyo Joe’s, Larkburger, MAD Greens and Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill. There are many other examples and variations.

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Kentucky has a Bourbon Trail. Indiana has a Hoosier Pie Trail. Louisiana has the Cajun Boudin Trail and New Mexico markets its Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail. Whither Colorado? Besides the Brewery Tasting Room Trail and the Natural Foods Epicenter Trail, Colorado boasts the Fast Casual Mothership Trail, which takes visitors on a munching pilgrimage to the original sites. Fast casual cuisine — halfway between fast food and casual dining a la Applebees — is generally better-foryou, fresher fare, ordered (and personalized) at the counter and delivered to the table. Some pundits credit Colorado’s large millennial population for the rise of fast casual, but the credit really goes to Boomer parents like me. Twenty years ago I immediately understood the appeal of macaroni and cheese (with obligatory add-ins: broccoli and chicken) while dining with a toddler at one of the nation’s first Noodles & Company, 1245 Alpine Ave., Boulder. We take the abundance of eateries

The original Pizzeria Locale that inspired the chain opened next to its Italian parent, Frasca Food and Wine, at 1730 Pearl St., Boulder. I recommend the salsiccia bianca pizza with fresh mozzarella, fennel sausage, broccoli rabe, smoked scamorza and garlic. You can order a superfood salad with spinach, quinoa pilaf, grapes, feta cheese, carrot, almonds and champagne vinaigrette at the first Modern Market, originally opened in Boulder as Modmarket, at 1600 28th St. Although not strictly fast casual because there is no indoor seating, the Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard chain was born in Boulder at 2050 26th St. The chain is a descendant of the late, local Round the Corner Restaurants. Quiznos was launched in 1981 at 1275 Grant St. in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood by chef Jimmy Lambatos The toasted sandwich chain now has hundreds of locations in the U.S. and internationally including Guyana. The original, very cramped location brags about its first-in-the-nation status. The pickle and pepperoncini bar is still free Boulder Weekly

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with every tuna melt. The first Smashburger opened in 2007 in an inconspicuous strip mall at 1120 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, but the concept originated at Icon Burger, 2755 Dagny Way in Lafayette. That location is now one of hundreds of Smashburger locations in the U.S. and several countries. With its bright retro-Jetsons design, Snooze was born brunching in 2006 in Denver’s Ballpark neighborhood at 2262 Larimer St., dishing pineapple upside down pancakes and chilaquiles Benedict. Now there are 13 Snoozes in California, Arizona and Colorado.

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Learn to make mozzarella, ricotta and burrata cheeses 1 p.m. Saturday at Haystack Mountain Creamery, 505 Weaver Park Road, Longmont. Reservations: theartofcheese.com. Boulder’s Taste of Pearl is 2-6 p.m. April 17 featuring 15 Boulder restaurants and 15 Colorado wineries at 15 of downtown Boulder shops and galleries. Details: boulderdowntown.com/taste-of-pearl.

don, breaded pork cutlet with eggs, sautéed onions and a slightly sweet soy sauce. I was warmed by tan tan spicy chicken ramen in a rich broth full of noodles, bright baby bok choy, a hardboiled egg and chopped green onions with a serious red chile oil slick on top that was a palate perker-upper. Katsu Ramen shares a strip mall with the English Teacup, a Central Asian bakery, a Korean restaurant and a 7-11.

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I took a workday Saturday respite at Katsu Ramen, 1930 S. Havana St. in Aurora, where the non-sushi side of Japanese cuisine shines. I’m serious about condiments so I appreciated the fact that chile oil, gyoza sauce, soy sauce and rice vinegar were already on the table. As an amuse bouche/banchan they sent out some little tastes including green onions with red chile. Lunch included three components. First were gyoza, dumplings properly pan-seared on one side with my composed salty, spicy dip. Next, a small bowl of katsu Boulder Weekly

“I am thinking of the onion again. ... Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. — Erica Jong, “Fruits and Vegetables” John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, 1390 FM, streaming at kgnu.org). Comments or quibbles? E-mail nibbles@ boulderweekly.com.

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or the fourth consecutive year, Left Hand Brewing will bring its joint beer festival and snowboard competition, Hops + Handrails, to Longmont this Saturday, March 12. The event pairs over 60 craft breweries with a massive four-story snowboard ramp built and prepared in Roosevelt Park. There’s also going to be music from Sam Bush, Jeff Austin and Rapidgrass. Bringing together so many breweries while also constructing a 40-foot-high ramp in the middle of a park is an exercise in patience and logistical planning, says Josh Goldberg, Left Hand’s community and events manager. “Getting permission to use the park is no big deal,” Goldberg says. “But when you talk about creating a four-story structure, a ramp in the middle of the park, people start going ‘Woah woah woah, what’s going to happen to the grass, what happens if someone falls off Left Hand Brewing the ramps?’” But Goldberg says everyone involved has worked to ensure the safety of its participants, the attendees and the grass. In order to build the ramp, Left Hand hired a scaffolding company to build the skeleton. Then boards were placed along the ramp, and rails shipped in from Winter Park were assembled. And from Friday to Saturday morning, dump trucks are dropping off loads of snow freshly culled Hops + Handrails marries snow, beer and music. and delivered from Winter Park also. The resulting ramp will be the stage for 200 male and female snowboarders from across the country to participate in a competition at 1 p.m. There will also be smaller courses set up for teens and beginners nearby. But this is a beer column after all, and Hops + Handrails is, at its core, a beer festival. Attendees will be able to sample 150 beers from over 60 breweries by purchasing a $30 sampling pass. Participating breweries include locals like 300 Suns, Avery, City Star, Fate, Grossen Bart, Odd13, The Post and Upslope, as well as outof-towners like Dogfish Head, Boston Beer, Firestone Walker, Ninkasi, Sierra Nevada and Telluride. Goldberg says when the event started four years ago, Left Hand had trouble finding enough local breweries to participate. Now that the Colorado scene has officially boomed, Left Hand has received dozens of calls from breweries trying to get in on the action. As the event grows in future years, Goldberg says the brewery is planning to accommodate and include as many breweries, particularly local ones, who want to participate. The event also raises money for charity. Proceeds will benefit SOS Outreach and Chill, nonprofits that help at-risk youth stay on the right path by getting them onto the slopes. Proceeds also benefit the Left Hand Brewing Foundation, which supports charitable causes locally and world-wide. Goldberg says the real clincher of the festival, and what has contributed to a massive exponential rise in attendees year after year, is that it brings music, snowboarding and beer to Longmont, and puts the city on a grander cultural stage. “It’s a beer festival unlike any other beer festival in Colorado,” Goldberg says. “Our goal is to bring the mountains to the people, and what’s most unique this year is bringing in a music lineup like our town has never seen before.” For tickets or more information, visit www.lefthandbrewing.com.

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suspect that your anger in the coming week will be more like de la Rocha’s: productive, clarifying, healthy.

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yet exist,” says novelist Nicole Krauss. In the coming weeks, I suspect you will provide vivid evidence of her declaration, Scorpio. You may generate an unprecedented number of novel emotions — complex flutters and flows and gyrations that have never before been experienced by anyone in the history of civilization. I think it’s important that you acknowledge and celebrate them as being unique — that you refrain from comparing them to feelings you’ve had in the past or feelings that other people have had. To harvest their full blessing, treat them as marvelous mysteries.

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “He in his madness prays for storms,

and dreams that storms will bring him peace,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in his novella The Death of Ivan Ilych. The weird thing is, Aries, that this seemingly crazy strategy might actually work for you in the coming days. The storms you pray for, the tempests you activate through the power of your longing, could work marvels. They might clear away the emotional congestion, zap the angst, and usher you into a period of dynamic peace. So I say: Dare to be gusty and blustery and turbulent.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

Quoting poet W. H. Auden, author Maura Kelly says there are two kinds of poets: argument-makers and beauty-makers. I think that’s an interesting way to categorize all humans, not just poets. Which are you? Even if you usually tend to be more of an argument-maker, I urge you to be an intense beauty-maker in the next few weeks. And if you’re already a pretty good beauty-maker, I challenge you to become, at least temporarily, a great beauty-maker. One more thing: As much as possible, until April 1, choose beauty-makers as your companions.

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MAY 21-JUNE 20: To have any hope of becoming an expert

in your chosen field, you’ve got to labor for at least 10,000 hours to develop the necessary skills — the equivalent of 30 hours a week for six and a half years. But according to author William Deresiewicz, many young graphic designers no longer abide by that rule. They regard it as more essential to cultivate a network of connections than to perfect their artistic mastery. Getting 10,000 contacts is their priority, not working 10,000 hours. But I advise you not to use that approach in the coming months, Gemini. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be better served by improving what you do rather than by increasing how many people you know.

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JUNE 21-JULY 22:

“I sit before flowers, hoping they will train me in the art of opening up,” says poet Shane Koyczan. “I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go.” I recommend his strategy to you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Put yourself in the presence of natural forces that will inspire you to do what you need to do. Seek the companionship of people and animals whose wisdom and style you want to absorb. Be sufficiently humble to learn from the whole wide world through the art of imitation.

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “Look at yourself then,” advised author Ray Bradbury. “Consider everything you have fed yourself over the years. Was it a banquet or a starvation diet?” He wasn’t talking about literal food. He was referring to the experiences you provide yourself with, to the people you bring into your

life, to the sights and sounds and ideas you allow to pour into your precious imagination. Now would be an excellent time to take inventory of this essential question, Sagittarius. And if you find there is anything lacking in what you feed yourself, make changes!

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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: According to a report in the journal Science, most of us devote half of our waking time to thinking about something besides the activity we’re actually engaged in. We seem to love to ruminate about what used to be and what might have been and what could possibly be. Would you consider reducing that amount in the next 15 days, Capricorn? If you can manage to cut it down even a little, I bet you will accomplish small feats of magic that stabilize and invigorate your future. Not only that: You will feel stronger and smarter. You’ll have more energy. You’ll have an excellent chance to form an enduring habit of staying more focused on the here and now.

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shattered the world economy in 2008 was a product called a Collateralized Debt Obligation Squared. It was sold widely, even though noted economist Ha-Joon Chang says that potential buyers had to read a billion pages of documents if they hoped to understand it. In the coming weeks, I think it’s crucial that you Aquarians avoid getting involved with stuff like that — with anything or anyone requiring such vast amounts of homework. If it’s too complex to evaluate accurately, stay uncommitted, at least for now.

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Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, born under the sign of Pisces. “I wish I knew! I wish I knew!” If he were still alive today, I would have very good news for him, as I do for all of you Pisceans reading this horoscope. The coming weeks will be one of the best times ever — EVER! — for figuring out what exactly it is you desire. Not just what your ego yearns for. Not just what your body longs for. I’m talking about the whole shebang. You now have the power to home in on and identify what your ego, your body, your heart, and your soul want more than anything else in this life.

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VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

In old Vietnamese folklore, croaking frogs were a negative symbol. They were thought to resemble dull teachers who go on and on with their boring and pointless lectures. But in many other cultures, frogs have been symbols of regeneration and resurrection due to the dramatic transformations they make from egg to tadpole to full-grown adult. In ancient India, choruses of croaks were a sign of winter’s end, when spring rains arrived to fertilize the earth and bestow a promise of the growth to come. I suspect that the frog will be one of your emblems in the coming weeks, Virgo — for all of the above reasons. Your task is to overcome the boring stories and messages so as to accomplish your lively transformations.

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Dear Dan: I’m your average straight 42-year-old white guy. Married for a little less than a year (second marriage for both). We have an active sex life and are both GGG. My wife wants to be forcibly fucked — held down and raped. Normally I’d be all over this because I do love me some rough sex. My issue: She told me she was traumatically raped by a man she was dating prior to me. All I know is that it involved a hotel room and him not stopping when she said “no.” So for now, I play along, but I know I’m not taking things as far as she’d like. I’m over here wondering if her previous trauma was a result of her encouraging forceful sex and regretting it later, and I worry the same thing could happen to me. Or is she trying to relive the experience? Should I fear her motivation and the potential consequences? Am I overthinking things? — Tremulous Husband Is Needing Knowledge Dear THINK: When it comes to rough sex — particularly when it involves role-playing forced-sex scenarios — overthinking is preferable to underthinking. But before we think through your specific issues, THINK, a few points of clarification. A woman who’s into rough sex, even forced-sex/rape-role-play scenari-

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os, can still have been raped by a partner — and a rape can occur during what was supposed to be a consensual forced-sex/rape-role-play scene. If your wife withdrew her consent and her former partner continued, it was rape. Also, THINK, lots of women fantasize about “rape,” which I’m putting in quotes here because these fantasies typically involve a woman being “taken” by someone she’s attracted to, and lots and lots and lots of women are victims of rape. Obviously there’s going to be overlap between these two groups. Your wife’s forced-sex fantasies could have nothing to do with her rape — it could be a coincidence — or your wife may be one of those people (not all of them women) who have eroticized a past sexual trauma (not always rape), and playing with a partner she trusts provides her with feelings of control and catharsis, empowerment and pleasure. But what about you, THINK? You worry “the same thing could happen to me.” By that you don’t mean,

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“I could be raped!” You mean, “I could be falsely accused of rape.” That’s a pretty big and disrespectful leap. What you’re saying is, “I think my wife is lying when she says this other man raped her — and I don’t want her to do the same to me.” I’m not sure what to do with that. I mean, I don’t think your wife is lying, THINK, and I don’t know or love your wife. You presumably know and love your wife, and yet you’re worried she may be setting you up for a false rape accusation. That’s some dark shit — that’s some Gone Girl shit, that’s the plot of some horrible Kathleen Turner/Michael Douglas shit movie from the 1980s. If you’re really concerned about protecting your own butt, THINK, then have a nice long conversation with your wife about her fantasies over e-mail. I’ve given that advice to people negotiating edgy and/or forced-sex scenes with strangers or near-strangers. It feels odd to give that advice to someone negotiating a fantasy role-play scenario

with his spouse. But here we are. Don’t tell your wife you wanna chat over e-mail because you’re worried about needing an alibi. I would suggest that you believe your wife, first off, and that you have this conversation over e-mail — two anonymous accounts created just for this purpose — because it will allow you both to be more thoughtful and less inhibited (sometimes these things are hard to discuss face to face). Tell her you don’t want to accidentally traumatize or trigger her, first and foremost, but you also don’t want to wind up traumatizing yourself. You would feel like a monster if you hurt her while attempting to fulfill her fantasies. Finally, THINK, this isn’t something your wife will wanna do just once. So take baby steps: Increase the intensity gradually, from scene to scene, check in afterward, google “sexual aftercare” and read the piece on Curve that pops up (it’s a lesbian website, but the lessons/advice/insight are generally applicable), and keep having long conversations — via e-mail or face to face — about what’s working for her and what isn’t. Good luck. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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try as a cohort of new businesses try to stake their territory in an uncertain competitive landscape. Even though energy inputs make up a substantial portion of business costs for cultivators, it is not as important to cultivators as capturing market share. A facility of 5,000 square feet is consuming an average of 29,000 KW hours a month, according to Boulder County data, which is usually around 20 percent of the wholesale price of cannabis. For comparison, the average energy consumption for the average commercial operation in that size space is 5,750 KW hours. Flax says that energy consumption will become more important as the market approaches saturation, which may already be happening. As competition increases, product prices will drop and energy will make up increasingly greater percentages of company costs. With growth slowing, prices dropping, cutting the cost of inputs will begin to make meaningful improvements to the bottom line an important element to any sustainability claim. As energy consumption statistics of the cannabis industry put pressure on the industry to increase its efficiency, solutions abound. Flax says that there isn’t just low-hanging fruit, but fruit on the ground — solutions that, if adopted, will significantly decrease the energy use of the industry. In the short-term the County is working with growers to help them improve their load factors, while business owners themselves look to update their lighting systems by incorporating LED lights and taking advantage of increasingly sophisticated and energy-efficient grow technologies. With more and more states considering legalization of both medical and recreational marijuana, long-term solutions might look more like a return to the roots of the industry — agriculture. “The real big picture is probably not growing quite so much of it in this highly controlled, artificial light environment,” Flax says. “[Marijuana] has been growing and evolving with people long before agriculture, and it has done that for most of the time without anything like a lightbulb. The plant wasgrowing outside in the sun.”

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ere’s the latest situation report from the war to end the war on marijuana. First the good news. Since the first of the year, the polling has been going our way. In New Mexico, a poll taken by Research & Polling Inc. for the Drug Policy Alliance found 61 percent support for legalizing and taxing recreational marijuana sales to those age 21 and older. Support rose to 69 percent when pollsters indicated that tax revenues would be used to fund health-related programs. In Virginia, a Virginia Commonwealth University poll found 62 percent of those polled strongly or somewhat agreed that recreational use of marijuana should be legalized. Almost 8 of 10 respondents favored reducing the penalty for possession of small amounts of pot to a $100 fine from a misdemeanor. In Maryland, a poll done by Gonzalez Research & Marketing Strategies for the Marijuana Policy Project found 53 percent support for allowing “marijuana to be regulated and taxed similarly to alcohol” for use by adults aged 21 and older. In Florida, a poll done by Public Policy Polling found 65 percent of those surveyed favored amending the state constitution to legalize medical marijuana. The amendment needs a 60 percent supermajority to pass. In Vermont, a Vermont Public Radio poll found 55 percent support for legalization of recreational pot. In Utah, a poll conducted by Survey USA for the Salt Lake Tribune found 61 percent support for medical marijuana, a 10 percentage point increase from a year earlier. In California, a poll by Probolsky Research found

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nearly 60 percent of likely voters would definitely or probably support marijuana legalization. Backers of the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) legalization initiative have petitions in the field and appear to have already collected 25 percent of the signatures they need to get on the ballot. The State Senates in Vermont and Utah have

been responsive to public opinion on pot in their states; the New Mexico State Senate not so much. The Vermont State Senate has passed a legalization bill and sent it to the State House, where its fate is said to be uncertain. The measure has the strong support of the governor, however. The Utah State Senate has passed two bills to legalize medical marijuana, albeit relatively weak ones. One legalizes CBD products with only minor amounts of THC in them. The other allows products

with both THC and CBD in them, but limits the illnesses for which the ones with THC can be used. Still, passage of the measures in a state as socially conservative as Utah is little short of mind-boggling. Now for the bad news. In New Mexico, the State Senate killed a measure that would have put a proposal to legalize recreational pot on the State’s November ballot as a state constitutional amendment. The vote was 24-17. New Mexico doesn’t allow citizen initiatives; only the legislature can put measures on the ballot. A nastier setback occurred in Maine, where a recreational legalization initiative sponsored by The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Maine was denied a place on the ballot after the Maine Secretary of State disqualified petitions containing 17,000 signatures — not because there was anything wrong with the signatures on the petitions but because the signature of the single Notary Public that had notarized the petitions did not precisely match his/her signature on a document that had been filed with the state five years ago. The petition sponsors say they will ask a court to reverse the decision. This is exactly the sort of thing that is causing millions of Americans to conclude (not unreasonably) that politicians are corrupt and the system is rigged. Maine’s Secretary of State is Matthew Dunlap, a Democrat. If his decision isn’t reversed in court, the Maine Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol should devote the energy and resources it otherwise would have devoted to passing the initiative to extracting him from office.

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This week, Kim Kardashian posted a naked photo of herself on Instagram. Idiots around the world formed an opinion one or the other on the picture, and not to be left out, Boulder Weekly has been working nights to formulate an opinion of our own. The Kardashian picture stirred much controversy, largely because it’s a very popular celebrity, whom terrible parents apparently accept as a role model for their children, posting a nude photo on a public site. Some have said posting a naked photo of yourself on Instagram is a vain attempt to garner attention; othWikimedia Commons/Eva Rinaldy ers have said it’s an exercise in feminism and self-pride. Critics included Piers Morgan, Chloë Grace Moretz and Bette Middler, aka no one’s answer to “Name three people dead or alive to have dinner with,” and Kardashian fired back with accusations of slut- and body-shaming. Look, if you want to post nude photos of yourself on the Internet, have a great time. But, for the love of all that is holy, don’t tag the picture with “When you’re like I have nothing to wear LOL” because there are Hi, I’m Kim, and I’m naked again. Can I have some money now? actually people, millions of them, who really don’t have anything to wear in this world. Though perhaps it’s more of an indictment on Kanye West, Kardashian’s husband. You’d think if you were married to a fashion designer, let alone an iconic genius who is the voice of a generation, you’d have something decent to wear at all times. Sure, Kardashian’s line was a less-than-tasteful comment made in jest, but a couple days ago I too found myself having nothing to wear and so, naturally, posted a naked photo of myself on Facebook, and now Bette Midler will not stop publicly body-shaming me.

YOU SHOULD TOTALLY IGNORE POLLSTERS

On the evening of March 8, Pollsters across the U.S. — including the infallible Nate Silver — shit themselves as Bernie Sanders won the Michigan primary over Hillary Clinton. Let’s start with the Fox 2 Detroit/Mitchell poll, which predicted the largest win margins for Hillary with a 28-point spread. The only demographic they predicted would go to Sanders was the 18-29 voting bloc, however, their polling methods may have left that group out entirely: “Federal law only permits us to call land lines. Because likely Primary voters are older, 54 percent are 60 or older and 86 percent are older than 50, we believe there are sufficient land line voters to get an accurate sample.” Logical fallacy much? What 18-29-year-old has a land line? Monmouth University’s poll similarly left out young or even first-time voters by taking “a statewide random sample of Michigan voters drawn from a list of registered voters who participated in a primary election in 2012 or 2014 or voted in both of the last two general election, and indicate they will vote in the presidential primary on March 8, 2016…” The total sample included 704 likely voters, 444 of which were contacted by a live interviewer on, once again, a landline, and 260 contacted via their cell phones. And all interviews were conducted in English. So there’s that. Couldn’t have possibly missed any eligible voters that way. Silver, of FiveThirtyEight.com, is legendary for accurately predicting the 2012 election results in all 50 states with a 99 percent success rate. He also predicted Clinton would win Michigan, but he gave himself a little wiggle room — sort of. “So if Clinton wins there by 20 [points] or something, it doesn’t bode well for Sanders,” Silver wrote during a FiveThirtyEight chat on the afternoon of March 8. “Then again, I have a gut feeling — WHICH YOU SHOULD TOTALLY IGNORE — that Sanders could beat his polling there.” Silver has since said he was never sure that Michigan was ever a 20-point race, but the point is larger than that — pollsters are underestimating young voters in a race where they matter more than ever. Boulder Weekly

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