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orkplace exploitation is at least as old as the industrial revolution. But rather than using whips to make the assembly lines move everfaster, today’s corporate exploiters use technology, devious work schedules and lobbyists to extract more work from employees — for less pay. Walmart, for example, wants to provide next-day delivery for online customers by having its low-wage workforce use their own time and vehicles to drop-off packages as they go home after work. Economists have a technical term for these corporate ploys: “Stealing.” One entire group being victimized by corporate thieves are the 4.3 mil-

lion Americans who make up our “tipped workforce.” Mostly employed as waitstaff in restaurants — from big chains like IHOP to the most-exclusive dining establishments — these workers fall under a grossly unjust category of labor law that allows their employers to pay a miserly minimum wage as low as $2.13 an hour! The rationale is that customers will subsidize this sub-poverty pay by leaving generous tips — a convenient corporate lie refuted by the fact the income of tipped workers is a third less than non-tipped and they are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty. Luckily, Trump has intervened to help. Lucky for restaurant owners, that

is. Bowing to demands by restaurant industry lobbyists, Trump’s labor department has proposed a new rule allowing employers to seize workers tips and use them for any purpose — including fattening their own profits. Paying $2.13 an hour already amounts to a massive wage theft, but this elevates it to legalized highway robbery! Even the most notorious robbers in history would be too ashamed to pull a job this wicked. But today’s combination of corporate greed and Trump’s ethical bankruptcy is turning blatant wickedness into business as usual. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. March 29 , 2018 7

danish plan Why no one cares about privacy anymore — in three words by Paul Danish

he Cambridge Analytica/Facebook mess reminded me of a piece written eight years ago by Declan McCullagh, a journo who at the time was writing an on-line column called “Taking Liberties” for CBS News. In March 2010 McCullagh cranked out 2,300 words in an attempt to explain “Why no one cares about privacy anymore.” He didn’t succeed. He did make a compelling case for the proposition that there were tens of millions of people who could care less about their personal privacy, and that they flocked to websites that are not only cavalier about privacy — sites like Twitter and Facebook — but make a virtue about being cavalier about it. But he didn’t tell us why this is so. He told us why he thought the passing of privacy is not necessarily a bad thing, quoting a federal judge named Richard Posner who said: “As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.” It’s a sentiment Joseph Stalin could have readily shared on his Facebook page, if he had had one. McCullagh then added, “The truth about privacy is counterintuitive: less of it can lead to a more virtuous society.” It’s a line that could have come straight out of 1984. And chances are there that today there are millions of folks out there who’ll give him a big “like” on that. But the fact that they would still doesn’t tell us why this is so. McCullagh also quoted Zuckerberg as saying, “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people — and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.” That’s self-evidently true eight years on — but again that doesn’t tell us why they have really gotten comfortable with (as we used to say during Watergate) “letting it all hang out” online. But it really isn’t all that hard a question to answer. The reason no one cares about privacy any more can be stated in three words: They feel safe. Judge Posner is right, privacy means concealment. But concealment is not automatically a social evil, as he seems to think. And the absence of privacy certainly isn’t automatically a social virtue, as McCullagh seems to think. Like the right to be armed, privacy is a right of self-protection. You conceal your property in order to protect it. You don’t make your credit card and bank account numbers public to protect yourself against theft. 8 March 29 , 2018

You might conceal your opinions, your beliefs, your political choices, your correspondence and your actions in order to protect yourself from retaliation for your beliefs. You conceal your movements and your whereabouts to protect yourself against those who would do you harm. You will value the right to do those things if you feel threatened. But if you’ve never felt threatened, you may not give a rip if a few hundred million people and more than 200 governments know exactly where you are 24 Jordan L’Hote via Wikimedia Commons hours a day. There are a lot of situations in which concealment is necessary to preserve a person’s fundamental rights. Take voting for example. Americans vote in secret. A lot of people think the secret ballot is a right guaranteed by the Constitution. It isn’t. The Constitution says nothing about voting in private. What’s more, in the early days of the republic Americans voted in public — and took considerable pride in the fact that they did. The secret ballot started entering American life around 1850, because people were being intimidated and killed for their views on slavery and secession. And it became ascendant with the growth of the labor movement, because workers were being fired or attacked for voting for pro-labor politicians. Today, there are tens of millions of people who will happily share how they voted with you. They do so because they feel safe. Or have up until now. Maybe now, thanks to Putin and companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, they are getting some sense of how personal information and opinions shared online can be used to compromise both personal safety and the political and social stability of the country. Maybe they’re getting some sense of the extent to which the business models of Facebook, Twitter, Google, et al. are based on acquiring as much information about you as they can and exploiting it for profit. In light of the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook affair, a lot of people seem to be having misgivings about Facebook’s willingness and ability to protect the information they give it, and are ditching it. So maybe this is a teachable moment. It better be, if you value your liberty. And safety. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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and said, “Even though my opinions probably differ compared to most of yours, the way this meeting went is exactly what makes me want to get involved. I think if we can talk to one another, we’ll find we have more in common with each other than our differences.” CU-SDA pledges to continue to provide a place for all opinions to be voiced and heard while remaining steadfast in its pursuit for gun sense in America. CU-SDA leader, Sarah Shortall, remarked, “I am (and we’re) not against the Second Amendment, but obviously something must change.” Joining CU-SDA were several board members from Never Again Colorado, Moms Demand Action and the CO Alumni chapter of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. BVSD was represented by Fairview High School and various middle school students. Our position: We want every student to feel safe because currently we do not. One CU student commented, “There are no locks in most of my classrooms. I’m a sophomore and never once has there been an active shooter drill since I’ve been a student here.” We made it known that beginning with CU-Boulder, making schools safe again is and will remain our top priority. We recognize that we are not alone in the fight to improve safety for students and educators. We stressed this point because real solutions require conversations between sensible people with different points of view. At the end of the day, as Sarah Shortall pointed out, something must change. Our community and our country cannot afford to continue to go on this way. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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t was without question the best job Paula Oransky had ever had. The Colorado School of Mines graduate was making six figures, had a great benefits package and as far as she knew, was the only woman in her multi-billion dollar corporation, Martin Marietta Materials, who held the title of district sales manager. The job allowed Oransky and her family — a husband and two small children — to purchase a nice home in Boulder County, Colorado. Erie, to be exact. It was just the kind of small town community in which the couple, who met at age 16 and have been married for 15 years, always dreamed of living.

“We chose this place because we love the community,” she says. “We can walk our kids to the elementary school. We can ride our bikes to the rec center for T-ball games or downtown to get ice cream. We love living in a small town.” But the Oransky family’s American dream was about to get turned upside down. On October 17, 2017, Paula Oransky was fired. She says it all happened really fast. “They said, ‘We need your computer, we need your phone and you need to get out of here.’ They gave me the option of gathering up my personal things right then or coming back to get them. I was emotional. Tearing up, I just went home.” So what was Oransky’s crime? What terrible thing had she done to deserve such an unceremonious dismissal? Was she bad at her job? No, it wasn’t that. In her three years with the company she had received nothing but good performance reviews and she had even recently received a substantial bonus. It turns out Oransky was fired for just one reason: She had participated in a lawful, nonviolent, public protest against the proposed drilling of new oil and gas wells near her home. And her employer believed that her protesting created a conflict of interest with her job. You read that right. The mother of two was fired because she participated in a protest on September 27, 2017 in her own community on her own time at a public forum held by Anadarko Petroleum at the Erie Community Center to discuss its future drilling plans in the area, including 36 new wells within two miles of the Oransky home and her children’s elementary school. Anadarko’s meeting notice invited members of the community to attend. At no time during the protest did Oransky ever identify herself as an employee of Martin Marietta, either by her words or what she was wearing. 10 March 29, 2018

“It never crossed my mind that I could be fired for something I was doing on my own time,” she says. “I had no idea what the laws were. I just made sure that I wasn’t saying or wearing anything that would connect me to my employer because I thought that was the right thing to do. I was there as a citizen of the community.” The protest was organized by a group known as “Erie Protectors,” a collection of mostly local residents concerned about the impacts of the massive oil and gas extraction operations that have and continue to inundate their community. It was the first oil and gas protest Oransky had ever participated in.

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During the Anadarko public forum where the protest occurred, Oransky says she recognized one of the representatives from the oil company. Martin Marietta sells certain materials and aggregates (think gravel) to Anadarko and other oil and gas companies for use in their construction of drilling pads and roads. As district sales manager at her company, Oransky says she doesn’t conduct direct sales to clients like Anadarko, rather she supervises the members of the sales force who do. Besides recognizing the Anadarko employee, Oransky was also aware that a video of the protest was being made for YouTube by Erie Protectors. For these reasons she felt it was quite likely that her employer would at some point be made aware that she had participated in the protest. So the next day, she voluntarily informed the top manager at the facility where she worked. “When I initially came in and talked to Pat Walker about the protest, he asked me what I was protesting about and I explained about all the wells they were going to be drilling right around my house and how that brings up a lot of issues for me, health and safety, Boulder Weekly

property values and things like that. He said something like, ‘Well, you know you certainly have a right to care about those things.’ I don’t remember his exact words but I remember leaving there feeling like it was no big deal. It never dawned on me that I’d be fired.” Later that day Oransky also gave a heads up to HR about her participation in the protest. Again, she says, it seemed no big deal. Oransky says there were a number of things that occurred which finally motivated her to protest the newly proposed wells that would be joining the hundreds of wells already in Erie. She recalls her fear when she heard about the home explosion in Firestone, just eight miles from her home, that killed two men and badly injured a woman. An Anadarko well 178 feet from the exploded Firestone home had been leaking odorless gas from one of its old flowlines. The home’s basement eventually filled with the gas and exploded, literally leveling the home. Gov. Hickenlooper ordered all such wells shut down and flowlines inspected. The most important information to come out of the Firestone tragedy was that there are thousands of miles of such flowlines, many underlying neighborhoods, and it isn’t possible for homeowners to know where they are or if they are in danger. Oransky says there is an old abandoned well in her neighbor’s backyard, just two doors down. The state has documented leakage in such wells, and in more than one instance gas leaking from abandoned wells entered nearby homes and in some instances even caused explosions. As if all this wasn’t frightening enough to the mother of two small children, in May of 2017, a battery of oil tanks similar to the ones sitting 500 feet from the Oransky home exploded just 10 miles away, killing an oil worker and injuring three others. And finally, Oransky says she was outraged when she learned in June 2017 that the Anadarko-owned well and production platform a quarter mile from her home and right next to the Erie Recreation Center ball fields, where her children play T-ball and her husband softball, had leaked more than 5,000 gallons of toxic oil waste only a few feet away from the fields. At that point she started doing her own research on the health and safety issues associated with oil and gas operations near homes. She became extremely worried about the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) the wells emit, including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene. She was particularly concerned with how such poisons might harm her 4-year-old daughter, who was born two months premature, suffers from a congenital respiratory disorder and sometimes needs an inhaler to help her breath. Her fears are well founded. A 2013 joint study of Erie’s air quality conducted by the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that more than half of the VOCs linked to dangerous ground-level ozone in her community are tied directly to oil and gas activity. Ground-level ozone is especially dangerous to persons with respiratory conditions, particular the elderly and the young, like her daughter. And then Anadarko announced it would be drilling many more wells in Erie. It was the final straw for a mom who loves her family and her community. “I don’t consider myself an activist,” Oransky says. “I just think I’m a concerned and well-educated citizen. I really believe in the value of community. I know all my neighbors. Thats how I want to live.” Oransky may have been emotional and tearing up when she got fired, but by the time she got home a different emotion had taken hold.

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“It made me angry,” she says. “I felt like I was living in communist Russia. I wouldn’t change my actions. My family, their health, protecting them is more important than anything. They’re more important than anything else. I came home [from getting fired] and I thought this is bullshit. It made me more angry that somebody had told me, ‘No, you can’t protect your family,’ and ‘No, your job is more important than your family.’ I asked them, ‘What did I do wrong and can’t we talk about this?’ They never asked me why I was protesting, for them it was just about business. They never asked me if there were health issues or if I was an environmentalist or anything like that.”

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Oransky has hired the Denver firm of Springer and Steinberg to represent her in a lawsuit against Martin Marietta. Her suit claims that she was terminated “without due process and in retaliation for her lawful off-work exercise of her state and federal constitutional rights of free speech, assembly, and petition and in violation of state law on employee off-job activities.” She isn’t trying to get her job back. “I wouldn’t want to work at a place that doesn’t value their employees’ right to be active in their own community,” she says. Oransky’s lawsuit is asking for a jury to decide on how she should be compensated for what the suit calls the “extreme and outrageous behavior” of Martin Marietta Materials. At least some of the potential injuries to the Oransky family seem pretty self-evident. She explains, “I was the primary breadwinner. The majority of the income we bring in as a family was from me. And I carried all the benefits. We have Medicaid, we qualify for that now. We’re running through our savings and my husband took a second job. They’re both part-time in the healthcare industry and one is in Winter Park. So no benefits, and he has to travel. It’s hard but we try to be positive about it.” As for her future in the only industry she’s ever worked? “This is an industry where everyone knows everyone and everyone talks to everyone and this is the kind of thing that will make it difficult for me in the future,” she says. “So yes, this will definitely effect my future earning power.” For most of us, we like to think that what we do on our own time is of no concern to our employer, and for the most part that’s true. But Colorado employment law has what is called the “exception to the exception” and that, according to documents filed in the case, is what Martin Marietta is banking on in defense of its firing of Oransky. The corporation does not dispute the fact that it fired Oransky because of her actions at the oil and gas protest on her own time in her own community. Rather, it claims that her protesting Anadarko was a conflict of interest to her job because the oil giant and other industry peers sometimes purchase construction materials from Martin and therefore the company had the legal right to fire her under state law. So here’s an abbreviated version of Colorado’s state labor law in layman’s terms. Colorado is an at-will employment state. That means an employer can fire an employee at any time for any reason at all, or even for no reason at all, so long as it is not for an illegal reason. So there you have it. Any company can fire anyone for any reason except an illegal reason, such as firing a person for doing perfectly legal things on their own time off work premises. State statute C.R.S. 24-34-402.5 titled “Unlawful prohibition of legal activities as a condition of employment” states: “It shall be a discriminatory or unfair employment practice for an employer to terminate the employment of any employee due to that employee’s engaging in any lawful activity off the premises of the employer during nonworking hours.” That is the “exception,” the illegal reason for a person being fired in Colorado. But here is the “exception to the exception.” It’s illegal to fire an employee for doing legal things on their own time off of the work site except when it is deemed necessary “to avoid a conflict of interest with any responsibilities to the employer or the appearance of such a conflict of interest.” Boulder Weekly

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Martin Marietta Materials fired Oransky because it claims her participation in the protest that disrupted its sometimes-customer Anadarko Petroleum’s forum was a conflict of interest with her job. In a document titled “Defendant Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.’s Original Answer,” which has been filed in the lawsuit, it states that “Plaintiff ’s [Oransky’s] conduct at the public meeting clearly conflicted with her obligations as Defendant’s [Martin Marietta’s] sales employee. Plantiff ’s conduct at the public forum certainly reflects on Plaintiff ’s job performance.” Oransky’s case is before the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

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Even while she is fighting in court, Oransky continues the fight for her family and her community, though she admits she’s contemplated moving on. “We’ve thought about moving because of the drilling. I think that’s fair to say for everyone in town who has hundreds of wells near them. It makes me angry to think about it. Both me and my husband come from working class families. We’ve worked hard to get what we have. I’m the daughter of an immigrant. We worked our way through college,” she says. “I’m pretty conservative in some areas, but not when it comes to corporations having the power over a community, not when there are health impacts. A corporation shouldn’t be able to negatively impact a community that may or may not even have a voice. When corporations have power over people and it’s affecting their health, that’s not an inconvenience, it’s a health issue. There has to be a better way.” What happens in this case could set an important precedent for everyone on the Front Range and around the state. Simply put, if Oransky can be fired for simply protesting against the oil and gas industry in her own neighborhood on her own time, so can you. Martin Marietta’s claims imply that if your employer makes money in any direct or even indirect way from the oil and gas industry, then your employer, for all intents and purposes, owns you 24 hours a day, seven day a week, every day of the year when it comes to your rights of free speech, protest and assembly regarding the oil and gas industry. Think about the implications. Thousands of businesses could fall into that category. If this newspaper were to sign an advertising contract with an oil and gas company, could I be legally fired for protesting in my own neighborhood on my own time if that company proposed drilling a well across the street from my home and our owner decided my actions could cause the paper to lose business? A few years back, I interviewed a woman who lived in a low-income housing complex in Greeley who was protesting a massive drilling project going in just a few feet from where her children lived and played. She cleaned hotel rooms for a living, and nearly every hotel room in town was occupied by oil and gas roughnecks up from Oklahoma and Texas to work the rigs. Could she have been fired by her employer for protesting? How about the waitress at a restaurant whose business has increased due to the rig workers coming in for lunch or dinner? Has she now lost her constitutional rights to free speech and protest because her boss is afraid she’ll be recognized and the workers will go elsewhere for their meals? There are literally thousands of companies that do business with the oil and gas industry in one way or another and those businesses have tens if not hundreds of thousands of employees. Where does it stop? If the person who supervises someone else who actually sells gravel to Anadarko Petroleum can be fired for protesting wells that could harm her family on her own time in her own community, can the person who sells the shovel or rents the machine to move the gravel be fired for the same infraction, speaking their mind? This case is far bigger than just Paula Oransky, and she understands that. “My situation certainly sent a message. I’m sure it’s had a chilling effect on anyone who may have concerns about oil and gas and its impacts,” she says. “Regardless of who you work for, you should be able to have an opinion, and if that opinion is different than the corporation’s public opinion or your boss’s opinion or the CEO’s opinion, that should be OK. The corporation doesn’t own you 24/7, the company doesn’t own you 24/7.” Boulder Weekly

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ambridge Analytica (CA) is a political consulting firm that has been making a lot of headlines of late. The company is accused of illegally obtaining the Facebook data of 50 million of the social media platform’s users. It is also the firm that Donald Trump’s campaign used during the 2016 election, and if CA’s own hype is to be believed, it’s the main reason Trump now occupies the White House. Skeptics claim that CA’s use of big data from Facebook is no different than that of the many other consulting companies that have turned to Zuckerberg’s platform in their efforts to manipulate voters through microtargeted messaging. But CA claims it is different. The company says it can use the vast amounts of information that each of us exposes daily online to psychographically target each of us. In other words, the company believes it can expose individuals of its choosing to specific information and images (propaganda) that, based on the targeted person’s psychological profile, will make them like or dislike a particular candidate or vote a certain way on, say, a ballot measure, you know, like an oil and gas setback initiative or something like that. While such claims may seem like some fictional dystopian nightmare, they are certainly far more serious than that, and the future is now. Thanks to Facebook, anyone who built an app on the platform in the early days or has enough money to buy the data can now know who your friends are, what you like, what you watch and what websites you visit. They can know your race, sexual orientation, how you vote, if you vote and, in some instances, who you voted for. They can know your fears and your secret desires. Thanks to GPS tracking, these companies even know where you go, where you shop, whose house you visit, what hotel room you stay in and for how long, and where and what you like to eat. And worse, thanks to recent disclosures by Facebook, we now know that for the 80 percent of Facebook users who use an Android phone, they also know every person and phone number you have called or texted in the past several years. But the truly scary part of this privacy fiasco is what these psychologists, turned ad men, turned political manipulators can do with all your information. The experts tell us that a properly trained, computer-assisted psychographic targeter can take just 10 of your Facebook “likes” and with great accuracy determine your race, gender and political persuasion. With 30 “likes” they can know as much about you as a good Boulder Weekly

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friend. A few hundred of such clicks and they rival your significant other. And with a few hundred more and a properly programmed computer, they know more about you than you do. CA claims to have thousands of data points on each of more than 250 million U.S. citizens. That’s disturbing no matter who owns the information. It’s even scarier considering who does. CA is mostly owned by Robert Mercer, the mercurial hedge-fund-managing billionaire who also funds the radical right Brietbart News and a lot of the most polarizing, conservative — and often racist — politicians in the country, including Donald Trump. CA was also presided over by Trump advisor Steve Bannon until his recent falling out with the Mercers.

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Cambridge Analytica has also been in the news in Colorado of late. It turns out that the company was hired by GOP political operatives here in 2014-15 to target a select few races in an effort to flip control of the state Senate from Democrats to Republicans. The Washington Post recently published a detailed internal report from CA, which describes its Colorado activity during the period in question. In the report, CA basically takes credit for the Republicans retaking

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control of the Colorado Senate in 2014 for the first time since 2004. The report describes how the company worked with then Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman to choose four Senate races that the company felt it could impact using its data and microtargeted messaging. In the end, CA used its voodoo manipulation techniques for Republican Tim Neville in District 16, Republican Larry Queen in District 20, Republican Beth Martinez Humenik in District 24 and Republican Laura J. Woods in District 19. According to CA and the final vote counts, it worked. Three Republicans won and Bill Cadman was transformed into the Senate Majority Leader. It’s been previously reported by Denver7 and the Denver Post that the political entities that engaged and paid for the services of CA were the Senate Majority Fund, Concerned Citizens for Colorado and the Centennial Coalition. In all, CA received $444,000 in 2014-15 from Concerned Citizens and an additional $16,500 from Centennial Coalition. Centennial’s money appears to have originally come from Concerned Citizens, which also gave an additional $10,000 to SCL Group, CA’s parent company. See ANTI-DEMOCRACY Page 16

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To date, the reporting on Cambridge Analytica’s political activity in Colorado has pretty much stopped at the Senate Majority Fund and the other two “dark money” entities that paid for the data. But the story of how big data from Facebook and elsewhere is being used to manipulate the voters of Colorado really only begins there. The media acts like the three entities that hired and paid CA are so mysterious that we can never understand the real powers behind them or what those powers might want. But that’s not necessarily the case. A good deal of the money that made its way into the groups in Colorado working with CA came from the oil and gas industry, an industry that has a long relationship with CA’s parent company, SCL Group. It has been often reported that the oil and gas industry provides more money to the Senate Majority Fund than any other sector. The International Business Times reports that during the 2014-16 period, the oil and gas industry poured more than $1.1 million into the Senate Majority Fund. During this same period, BW found that Noble Oil and Anadarko Petroleum alone pitched in $204,000. We know that a good portion if not all of Centennial Coalition’s money came in the form of a $100,000 grant from Concerned Citizens for Colorado; but where did Concerned Citizens get its money, a portion of which was used to pay CA $444,000? While the whole purpose of using a dark money operator like Concerned Citizens is to hide the sources of its funding, BW has identified at least one source. Noble Oil gave Concerned Citizens $500,000 between 2014 and 2016. It’s clear from the money trail that the oil and gas industry was an enthusiastic funder of the organizations behind CA’s efforts that helped Republicans take over the Colorado Senate in 2014. In many ways, considering the growing anti-fracking backlash at the time, that’s hardly a surprise. But if you let the story end there, you will fail to see the even larger and more disturbing picture of how big data from Facebook and elsewhere is being used to manipulate and thereby threaten our democratic systems.

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The 2014-15 time frame was a crucial turning point for the oil and gas industry in Colorado. Cities up and down the Front Range had voted in moratoriums and bans on fracking and other extraction activities. More than enough citizens, over a quarter million, had signed petitions to place two initiatives on the November ballot. The industry was on its heels and knew it. But what could it do?

It now appears that oil and gas interests decided to double down on big data and microtargeting. The chump change of the CA days were over. The industry had successfully manipulated the election outcomes to gain a pro-oil majority in the state Senate, so why not use the same techniques statewide to turn the tables on the anti-fracking, procommunity rights movement that was threatening the industry by potentially putting its future to a vote of the people? Anadarko and Noble created CRED (Citizens for Responsible Energy Development ) in 2012. The two companies pumped millions into the organization, which they claimed was for purely educational purposes. But that operation on its own hadn’t even slowed the growing opposition. The industry needed another tool, a political tool that could do for the industry on fracking what CA did for the Senate. And so Protect Colorado’s Environment, Economy and Energy Independence was born. Despite the long, green-washed name, Protect Colorado’s filing documents at the Secretary of State’s office establish its real purpose quite bluntly: “To support state and local ballot initiatives promoting responsible oil and gas development, and oppose state and local ballot initiatives attempting to limit or ban oil and gas development, including any ban or restriction on hydraulic fracturing.” Between 2014 and 2016, Anadarko funded Protect Colorado to the tune of $10,827,736. Noble kicked in an additional $9,742,500 in the same time period. CRED was likewise funded to eight figures, according to its operation director in 2015. So where did all that money go?

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A great deal of the money that flows into Protect Colorado flows back out to an Oregon-based company called Pac/West Communications, which watchdog group Polluterwatch claims actually created Protect Colorado in the first place. What Pac/West Communications then does sounds an awful lot like what Cambridge Analytica does. As previously reported by BW in a July 2016 article titled “Behind closed doors,” a recording of a panel presentation by Mark Truax, a consultant to Pac/West Communications serving at the time as director of operations and coalitions for CRED, was made at the annual Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission meeting in Oklahoma City in September 2015. Truax was speaking to industry leaders and regulators at the time.

Thanks to the CA scandal, we now have a better understanding of how big data from Facebook and other sources can be literally weaponized to manipulate certain groups of targeted voters and non-voters. With that in mind, consider what is actually being said by Truax in the following excerpts from the recording of his slideshow presentation: “Everything we do is built off of this statewide model. So we took and did a number of, did some research, both polling, we did mail testing and phone testing, we also did digital testing. All of that has now been verified by an (inaudible). To build a statewide model... We have scored 3.9 million Colorado voters in our databases, on their opinion of fracking. Everything we do then gets fed back in to this database so that we can use it at a later time... So that really is our true backbone. So some of the tools that we’ve used... On the left, you’ll see former Interior Secretary Gail Norton. She is also a good Coloradan. I would send this to probably 80 percent of you in this room. Because it has Gail Norton and she is a Republican. I would probably not send this ad to many people in this room, or this mailing with President Obama. However, when we saw and did our testing, his statement on natural gas — that it’s able to help the environment — when sent and delivered to the right Democrats, we moved Democrats 9 points in our favor... So we had to go, alright, how do we talk to independents, how do we talk to Democrats, and how do we talk to Republicans? How do we talk to moms, how do we talk to hunters and anglers? There is a lot of movement that we have — so we are really making sure we have the right message for the right folks. Same with our digital ads. Here are a couple of examples of our digital ads talking about jobs. See that on the left, the one in the back there — nevermind Vladimir Putin we will talk about him in just a moment — really focuses on hunters and anglers... I love this particular graphic with Vladimir Putin, a little over a year ago when Russia and Ukraine crisis was going on, for lack of a better term. We transitioned our entire digital asset for about 3 weeks to an energy security message. The U.S. had Boulder Weekly

recently surpassed Russia as the No.-1 natural gas producer (inaudible), and Vladdy looks pretty tiffed. But we were able to move very quickly, number one, and adjust with the times and the media. And No. 2, it was a hit and became our best producing message. So we could do real-time testing and see how this actually responds and how folks are able to respond... We really truly have been able to test a lot of things that have only been done in concept, only been done paper wide, by political strategists around the country, but put it in play, put it in motion and demonstrate that it can be done. So 2014 victories. I encourage you to also take a look at this. This is Protect Colorado, which is kinda the political arm we work with, the political entity CRED stays strictly educational. This document that I have on the back counter really outlines, kinda the timeline of everything that happened. In Loveland, in June of ’14, the industry saw our first victory. And we moved the needle 10 points in two months, from having the measure pass 60-40, to defeating it 52-48. This was the industry’s first victory to date. We were 0 and 5, going into this and we really needed to change the tide... Thanks to a lot of effort, 13 pieces of direct mail, seven campus passes, and over 12.2 [million] digital impressions generated ... we moved it 10 points in two months. This is what set off the wave with the opposition. Whoops, the oil and gas industry got organized and they figured out how to defeat us. In Windsor, pro-active canvassing. There was rumor they were going to put a ballot measure on, a community bill of rights, so we did have the data in Windsor, knowing that fight’s going to come back. Even more of a preemptive strike in Fort Collins, looking at electing a pro [oil and gas] city council, and making sure that the right city council members got elected to the city council to stop a potential fracking ban. And finally in Denver… We then also elected a pro city council, a pro-energy city council 7-6 on the conservative count. My count is like 9-4 in our favor for Denver City Council. To try and push something through there, which the opposition was trying to do, is now very difficult. So we have been very, very (inaudible). And We’ve been able to keep municipal ballots and municipal ballot measures off in every city and county across Colorado...” It’s mind-boggling and disturbing to consider that the oil and gas industry has “scored” 3.9 million Colorado voters based on their data-gathering operation. Imagine using more than 12 million targeted digital impressions and 13 different direct mail pieces all designed to influence certain people in particular ways based on their data profile, just to change the outcome of a single vote on a local moratorium in tiny Loveland, Colorado. The audacity of the industry to boast Boulder Weekly

about using big data, and to some degree psychographic targeting to determine the outcomes of our local city council elections is shocking. These manipulative practices by Pac/ West and the oil and gas industry have nothing to do with democracy. They are not simply politicking in the modern age. This type of abuse of Big Data could well spell the end of democracy as both sides are using it to manipulate the population in ways that are increasing our polarization and keeping us stuck in our own media reinforced feedback

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end, he’s donated a copy of The Wizard who Saved the World to every school in Colorado, and the Primer is offered for free on his website. Most of the time, whether in a progressive town like Boulder or a coalmining town in Kentucky, people who attend Bennett’s talks already believe in global warming. “While my goal would be to talk to as many skeptical people as possible, they don’t show up to talks in general,” he says. But what he can do is equip the people who do come with the knowledge of the “1-2-3 science” so that they can share it with skeptics they interact with on a daily basis. In addition, the Primer covers myriad solutions from, among others, promoting natural gas as a bridge fuel (not a solution since it still puts CO2 in the atmosphere); to nuclear fusion (which produces nontoxic helium, as opposed to current nuclear fission practices); to geoengineering, which could work if it focuses on the right thing. Courtesy of Jeffrey Bennett

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“The only possible geoengineering solution that can help is one that actually removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,” Bennett says. Although there are some scientists working on this, first things first, Bennett says. We need to stop increasing the level of CO2 in the atmosphere before we find a way to bring the levels back down. “No matter what we do on the removal of carbon dioxide, if [we] keep adding it in, [we] can never get ahead of the game.” All of which leaves Bennett to conclude the most effective solution is switching our economy away from fossil fuels altogether by instituting a carbon tax truly reflective of the cost of burning greenhouse gases. Championed by such groups as the Citizen’s Climate Lobby and others, the concept has gained traction with some leading Republicans. Former secretaries James Baker and George Schultz have recently come out in support of the idea as a market-based solution (as opposed to Obama’s regulation-based Clean Power Plan, which is currently held up in the

courts.) And Schultz endorsed Bennett’s Primer, taking 25 copies, Bennett says, to hand out at the conservative think tank Hoover Institution, where he’s the chairman of the energy policy task force. Leading Democrats and even oil companies like Exxon Mobil also support the idea of a carbon tax, although, Bennett admits, not everyone is on board. “They’ve become convinced that this is a political issue, and it’s not,” he says. While the current administration makes it seem like the voice of climate change skeptics are on the rise, it’s actually quite the opposite, Bennett argues. “You’re dealing with an increasingly small number of people who are for some reason hardened against this,” Bennett

says. “They are much more prominent in the administration and Congress then they are among the public and voters. I hope they’re reachable and if they’re not, the voters can deal with that by making it a priority who they choose for the future.” In another 2017 poll, more than six in 10 Americans want the government to do something about climate change. Hopefully, with a basic scientific understanding such as the one laid out in the Primer, the consensus will just keep growing. Regardless, Bennett believes we all can agree: “Everybody wants a better world for their kids and grandkids,” he says. “I like to believe that even the Scott Pruitts of the world are reachable.” Courtesy of Jeffrey Bennett

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coming Callie Morrocco on lead vocals, Karl Summers on bass and Kevin Supina on saxophone and vocals. “I’ll always be a fan of the concise, punchy, trio sound that was the origin of this band,” says drummer Nate Etter. “At the same time, I’m super excited about the direction we’re heading. Callie, Karl and Supina each add so much to the sound and let us go in directions that we never would have touched just a year ago.” Drawing influences from the likes of Phish, Jimmy Herring, Herbie Hancock and John Scofield, Envy Alo could easily get pegged as a jam band. But instead of free-flowing instrumentals common in the jam scene, the band likes predetermined sets that Pettine says makes their sound tighter. “We’re not going to usually take a 20-minute jam session,” Pettine says. “I think it sets us apart from what is our scene. On that note, we’re OK with experimentation.” To keep in line with that experimentation, the band occasionally likes to take their originals further. Adding in some jam time isn’t a bad thing as long as the music remains “joyous, danceable and lends itself to laughter and good vibes,” Summers says. Envy Alo is reaching their next phase of their journey with a performance at this year’s Summer Camp music festival in Chillicothe, Illinois. The band scored their spot at the

festival in January via a battle of the bands competition in Denver. The win launches them into a new orbit, where bands like Umphrey’s McGee and Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family are set to play. “We were really pleasantly surprised,” Morrocco says. “The band wanted the win, but we were up against three other bands, and they were all really good.” Envy Alo is also anticipating their return to Fox Theatre as an opener for super-group jam band Ghost Light. As far as future projects go, Envy Alo is planning on getting back into the studio. Since their debut album was instrumental (save for one line in one track, “Take another look, she said”), the band is excited to work in vocals. “It’s added a whole other layer,” Supina says. “Anytime there’s vocals in the band it’s just another thing for people to latch onto. Not everyone can get into instrumental music. So having that human element is needed.” The band scored some studio time at Evergreen Studios, but Pettine says scheduling time when all six members can head into the studio is tough. “I’m finding that making a schedule work for six people is extremely difficult,” he says, laughing, “But it’s worth having all these new influences in the band.” March 29 , 2018 25

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playwright Samuel Beckett, he adds, “I failed once. Now I’m going to fail better.” One way Saless believes it will be better is having fewer performers. “I wanted to make it a little more chamber-like,” he explains. “With a smaller choir and smaller forces in the orchestra, you have the opportunity to make it more transparent and more interesting with all the counterpoint.” Saless and the BCO decided to take up the Requiem again because it was a project they could do with the Boulder Chorale, with whom they performed Beethoven’s Ninth last year in Macky Auditorium. “We really enjoyed our work with the Boulder Chorale,” he says. “We thought that (the Requiem) would be another good collaboration with them.” Now that he is more involved with the singers, Saless finds that he particularly enjoys working with Burrichter. “She’s really great to work with,” he says. “She is very open and a great taskmaster with the choir.” Of all the principals in the performance, Burrichter is the one person that you will not see onstage. For works for chorus and orchestra, chorus masters generally do their work behind the scenes and the orchestra conductor takes over for the performances. “The reason there are separate chorus and orchestra preparers is that for most orchestra people, that’s their specialty,” she explains. “And the same for choral people. The chorus master’s job is to work with the chorus over a period of eight to 10 rehearsals, to train them.” The chorus master checks with the orchestra conductor for important details, including dynamics, phrasing and tempos. For some technical matters of singing, however, the chorus master may make her own decision. One of these would be the pronunciation of the text. Sacred texts in Latin were

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pronounced differently in different parts of Europe, particularly in German-speaking countries, including Austria. But Burrichter thought it would be better to use the classical Italianate pronunciation that is standard for most choral works. “I researched it, and Mozart would have been surrounded by Italian church musicians in Vienna,” she explains. “Although there are some wonderful recordings of that pronunciation, I chose to go with the more Italianate Latin.” As carefully as Burrichter and Saless have collaborated, there are always complications in any large performance. “The challenge for the chorus is always to go with whatever the orchestra conductor is going to give them,” Burrichter says. “One of the biggest jobs of the chorus master is to prepare the chorus for anything. I tell them where they have to memorize so that they can look at the conductor. I change up the tempos on them all the time in spots where I know they’re not looking at me. At the end of a movement, where there’s very often a ritard, I will take that ritard at five different tempos, and they have to get used to paying attention and following no matter what happens.” Finally, there is one more way that Saless says he has changed that will affect the performance: He’s seven years older. “As I’m getting older, death doesn’t seem such an awful thing,” he says. “I’m playing (the Requiem) slightly more jubilantly. The tempos are little bit more lively and the orchestra a little lighter. “Last time it was really sad. This time it’s a little bit happier.”

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Join Woman For One founder Kelly McNelis and other women for an evening of conversation in a safe space. Panelists include Erin Weed, who throughout her career has educated and empowered women to end violence; triathlete champion and founder of Skirt Sports, Nicole DeBoom; The Way of the Happy Woman author and feminine spirituality and empowerment teacher Sara Avant Stover; and feminine leadership and empowerment coach Anahita Joon Tehrani. All proceeds go toward the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which provides legal and public relations assistance to victims of workplace sexual misconduct. Tickets are $20.

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PEAK2PEAK BAND. 7 P.M. FRIDAY, MARCH 30, THE PIONEER INN, 15 E. FIRST ST., NEDERLAND. Louisville’s own Peak2Peak has been playing the best of the Grateful Dead since the 1980s, effortlessly delivering live improvisational jam sessions that will keep you boogying for hours. Over the years they’ve shared the stage with The Band, Jorma Kaukonen, Kingfish, Tom Constanten, NRPS, Jimmy Herring, Otiel Burbridge, Buddy Cage and Baba Oluntungi, among others. This show is free, so you’ve got no excuses. Space your face.

Kick off Easter weekend with the whole family at Longmont’s 19th annual Underwater Easter Egg Hunt. Thankfully, the Easter Bunny is in town and has graciously offered to scatter hundreds of weighted and nonPixella/Wikimedia Commons weighted eggs throughout the pool for a fun twist on the classic holiday tradition. Kids of all ages and abilities are welcome to collect as many eggs as they can. Outside of the pool, kids can enjoy arts and crafts activities, and parents are welcome to join in on the festive fun. $10 per family.

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Alexa Rose. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Allie Chipkin. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Dean Himes. 6 p.m. Lunada Eatery and Cantina, 2770 Arapahoe Road, Suite 124, Lafayette, 303-877-5251. March Gladness: J Wail Live Band. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Matt & Kim. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Nils Frahm. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-4093. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Silent Bear Trio. 9 p.m. Velvet Elk Lounge at The Post Brewing Company, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 720-372-3341. Events 5-Day Spring Break Camp (Ages 5-12). 9 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 693B S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Play BoulderReads Orientation. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Geopolitics Discussion Group. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Lego Storytime. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Spring Break School Day Off Camp. 9 a.m. Fabricate, 2017 17th St., Boulder, 303-997-8245. Toddler Dance Party. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Vazante. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Friday, March 30 Music

MONDAY, APRIL 2 Sutherland Seminar Series: Sleep! 6 p.m. Atonement Lutheran Church, 685 Inca Parkway, Boulder. Good sleep can help to stabilize mood, while poor sleep can be both a trigger and a symptom of mood episodes. This seminar will discuss research-supported strategies for improving sleep.

Up on The High Wire: Promoting Resilience During Tough Times. 6 p.m. Engineering Center, ECCR 265, 1111 Engineering Drive, Boulder.

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Nationalism vs. Globalism — A Discussion between Nigel Farage and Vicente Fox. 6:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

A discussion between Nigel Farage (architect of Brexit) and Vicente Fox (former President of Mexico), moderated by Dr. Robert Kaufman (visiting professor in conservative thought and policy).

TUESDAY, APRIL 3 Russian Film Series: Intimate Parts. 7 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 1B90, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. The debut feature from Natasha Merkulova, Intimate Parts is an acerbic and comedic exploration of attitudes towards sexuality among the intelligentsia of contemporary Russian society.

Faculty Tuesdays: Double Standards. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

Brother Coyote. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 Russian Tea. Noon. Macky Auditorium, 223, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Flash Mountain Flood, Cycles. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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The Jackson Cloud Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Biomimicry: Nature Based Solutions Evening Talk. 6 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 135, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.

For 3.8 billion years life has been adapting to change and building resilience. Learn how to look to the rest of nature for survival strategies to re-frame how we develop sustainable practices, life-friendly products and thriving social systems.

Nordic Faculty Talk: “Swedish in an Hour” — with Merete LeonhardtLupa. 6 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 160, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Dr. Sally Spencer- CU’s LASP will help NASA study Jupiter’s moon, Learn some Thomas became Europa. Hear about it on Wednesday, April 4. essential phrases an activist in suiin Swedish while cide prevention taking a virtual after she lost a brother to suicide. This talk will tour of the largest of the Nordic countries. help audience members develop a road map for their specific journey through resilience. Remembering Lucile — with Polly

Douglas Walter, Brian Casey and Robert Johnson perform jazz standards with a twist.

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

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AJ Fullerton. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Copper Leaf — with Andrew Sturtz. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

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Engaging with Underrepresented Voices Through the Arts. 5:30 p.m. The Collective — Community Arts Center, 201 N. Public Road, Lafayette. Join us as panelists explore how to use the arts to engage with underrepresented communities through brief performances and discussion.

E. Bugros McLean. 6:30 p.m. Old Main, 1600 Pleasant St., Boulder. A Virginia family’s rise from slavery and a legacy forged a mile high.

LASP Public Lecture: Engineering an Instrument to Investigate the Habitability of Jupiter’s Moon Europa. 7:30 p.m. LASP Space Technology Building, 299, 1234 Innovation Drive, Boulder.

NASA has selected LASP to provide the Surface Dust Analyzer (SUDA) instrument for NASA’s mission to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa. The Europa Clipper will orbit Jupiter and conduct detailed reconnaissance of the moon through low-altitude flybys. SUDA’s objective is to identify the material ejected from the surface to determine if Europa could have conditions suitable for life.

Pendulum New Music Ensemble: Boulder Altitude Collective, composer Kristin Kuster and student projects. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

The Pendulum New Music Ensemble presents some of CU’s best performers from all departments, premiering original music of student composers and featuring a faculty or guest performance at every monthly concert. More info at colorado.edu/pendulum-new-music.

Third Annual New Play Festival. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre, Acting Studio, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. More dates through April 8. See calendar.colorado.edu for more details. Come see how the next generation of theater artists views and imagines the world we live in. Each of these exciting, peer-reviewed new plays will receive a staged reading with an audience talkback and discussion with the playwright.

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Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Sunday, April 1 Spilled Ink: Open Mic for Youth. 3:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Monday, April 2 So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Ingo Schulze was born in 1962 in East Germany. His first book was published in 1995 and appeared in English in 1997 as 33 Moments of Happiness. He has received numerous awards in Germany and his books have been translated into 30 languages. He has been a visiting scholar at CU Boulder. On Tuesday, April 3, Schulze and his students will provide a look at his newest novel, Peter Holtz, which they’ve been translating into English.

An Evening with Ingo Schulze. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Wednesday, April 4 Terrenda White — TwentyFirst-Century Jim Crow Schools. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Book Club. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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Mandy Rowden. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Medeski Martin and Wood. 8:30 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Paradise Theatre & The Tom Petty Project. 8 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Peak2Peak. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Project Foreigner & Dreamboat Annie: A Tribute to Heart. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Robert Johnson Quartet CD Release Party. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Rockabilly Night — with The Vonhodads. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Seers. 7 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy. 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Life of Brian. 8:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Makeshift Shakespeare. 8 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver, 303-578-0079. The Market Beautiful. 5 p.m. National Western Stock Show, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver, 303-296-6977. Open Wall. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Password:Comedy. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 970-787-1251. Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Vazante. 3:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday, March 31 Music Aretha Franklin Tribute — with the Mary Louise Lee Band. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075. see EVENTS Page 34

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In The 39 Steps, a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called The 39 Steps is hot on the man’s trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale. Now playing at Miner’s Alley Playhouse through April 29.

Tim O’Brien — with Jan Fabricius. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Tommy Bolin’s Dreamers. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Wood Belly. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Events 5-Day Spring Break Camp (Ages 5-12). 9 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 693B S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-503-1902. 7th Annual Achieve With Us Film Festival. 3 p.m. Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax, Denver, 303-864-9334.

Kiss Me, Kate. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through April 15.

Always Patsy Cline. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through April 1.

Little Red Riding Hood. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Opens March 31. Through April 28.

Ballet Director’s Choice. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-837-8888.

Anastasia. 3 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Opens March 31. Through May 5.

Broadway, Billboard and Beyond. 6:15 p.m. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

The Diary of Anne Frank. 7:30 p.m. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver.

“ComedySportz” Denver. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver, 303-321-5925. Conversaciones En Español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Only Son Film Screening. 2:30 p.m. Golden West, 1055 Adams Circle, Boulder, 303-939-0883.

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Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through April 29.

The Electric Baby. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 4. The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through April 15. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through April 8. Jotunheim: A Legend of Thor and His Hammer. The BiTSY Stage, 1137 South Huron St., Denver. Through April 8.

The Playboy of the Western World — presented by Upstart Crow Theatre Company. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 8. The Producers. Lakewood Cultural Center and Performance Now Theatre Company, 480 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Through April 8. Sense and Sensibility. Arvada Center for Performing Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 6. Siren Song: A Pirate’s Odyssey. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through May 14. Sleeping Beauty — presented by Denver Children’s Theatre. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, Elaine Wolf Theatre, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through May 4.

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See how animals have captivated artists throughout history in Stampede: Animals in Art, now showing at the Denver Art Museum through May 19. This cross-departmental exhibition brings together more than 300 objects from the Denver Art Museum’s collection to explore the presence of animals in art throughout centuries and across cultures.

Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May. 13.

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Cleon Peterson: Shadow Of Men. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 27. Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 20. Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Honestly Lying. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 13. Drawn To Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard. Denver Art Museum. 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 22.

Healing Spirits Level 1 Student Clinic Saturday, March 31st 10am & Noon

Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018. Embracing Mistakes. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby and Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 15. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October.

Three Treasures Qigong with Dave Goetz

Kimberlee Sullivan: Weather Pattern. Macky Auditorium (foyer), 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through May 6.

Large Format Fine Art Prints From Paper Collage — by Kimberly Mcclintock. NCAR/UCAR Community Art Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Gallery I, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through April 28. Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through April 1. Member’s Show. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through April 22. Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21. Nathan Abels: History of the Future. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28. Objects in Perspective. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 15.

Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (homage to Gene R.) — photography by Vandy Vandervort. NCAR/UCAR Community Art Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Gallery II, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through April 28. Power Of Process, Jefferson County Schools Exhibition. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through April 1. Stampede: Animals in Art. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 19. Through Their Eyes. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 15. Wopo Holup: Endless Places, Present. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28.

Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28.

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Atomga. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Breema and the Principle of Full Participation Wednesday, April 11th 7 to 9pm

The Beloved Invaders. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Ben Hammond. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-622-5021. Blonde. 7 p.m. The Boulder Creative Collective, 2500 47th St., Suite 10, Boulder, 720-663-8583. Bootstrap Brewery Tour. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Boulder Chamber Orchestra Presents Mozart Requiem. 8 p.m. Boulder Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-583-1278.

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Brunch — with El Javi. 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023. CoCo Blues. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Dan Martin. 8 p.m.The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. David Starr and Erik Stucky. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. An Evening with Kyle Donovan and Ordinary Elephant. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Lionel Young Band. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. Littleton School of Music March Showcase. 1 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-295-1868. Longmont High School Winter Percussion Show. 10 a.m. Longmont High School, 1040 Sunset St., Longmont, 303-378-5678. Lucy Dacus. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Mark Cormican & Starwood — CD Release Concert. 7 p.m. East Simpson Coffee Company, 414 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-502-7010. Project Foreigner & Dreamboat Annie: A Tribute to Heart. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Selasee & The Fafa Family, Jyemo Club. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Shakedown Street — with the Workshy. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Skean Dubh Celtic Music. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Good Manners. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Songs for Swans Musical Hike. 7:30 a.m. Sawhill Ponds Trailhead, 7101 Valmont Road, Boulder.

Green Buddha. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-881-762.

Sunshine James. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer on Walnut, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-1345.

Jack Hadley Band. 6:30 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732.

Third Annual Goth Prom featuring Covenant. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Jeff & Paige. 11 a.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732.

Wild Road. 8:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Events Breakfast with the Easter Bunny. 9:45 a.m. Downtown Aquarium, 700 Water St., Denver, 303-561-4450. Bunny Bolt 5k/10k. 7:30 a.m. City Park, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-547-8896. Children’s Easter Tea. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Denver’s Next Improv Star — Season 9. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver, 303-758-4722. The Duel. 10 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver, 303-578-0079. Easter Egg Hunt. 10 a.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-775-3485. Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy. 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Market Beautiful. 10 a.m. National Western Stock Show, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver, 303-296-6977. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Seed: The Untold Story — Movie and Seed Giveaway. 6:30 p.m. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 720-722-4141. Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Spring Awakening: Bears in our Backyard. 1 p.m. Betasso Preserve, Boulder. see EVENTS Page 36

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Underwater Easter Egg Hunt. Centennial Pool, 1201 Alpine St., Longmont.

Line Dancing. 6:30 p.m. Platt Middle School, 6096 Baseline Road, Boulder, 720-561-5968.

Vagina China “Casting Ceremony.” Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Make-A-Movie Workshop: Claymation Vacation Day Camp. 8 a.m. Digistars MakeA-Movie Workshop (Mile Hi Youth Corp Office), 6740 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 888-611-5090.

Vazante. 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Sunday, April 1 Music Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Young Karl Marx. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tuesday, April 3

Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Band. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

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Boulder Friends of Jazz. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-1888.

A Deer A Horse. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Dan Martin. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Live Music. 3 p.m. BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-638-5193. Reverend Freakchild and The Angel-headed Hipsters — Record Release Party. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events 14 Years of Go Club for Kids & Teens! 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Agricultural Heritage Museum Opening Day. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-776-8688. Doris’ Sunday Matinee: Ice Station Zebra. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. VFW Easter Egg Hunt. 12 p.m. Miner’s Field, Highway 42 & South St., Louisville, 303-665-9993. The Winter’s Tale: Royal Ballet. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Young Karl Marx. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Monday, April 2 Music Emily Drew. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Open Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Patterson Barrett. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Shelly Rollison. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Circa Survive. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Euchre. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Grieves — with Mouse Powell. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Introducing the Band with Mark Diamond. 7 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 720-372-3341. Von Dechen. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Pick Up a Guitar. 6:30 p.m. New Vista High School, 700 20th St., Boulder, 720-561-5968. Snark Attack Tuesday. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4845. The Winter’s Tale: Royal Ballet. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wednesday, April 4 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Eric Dorr. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Kyle Ward. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Zak Sloan. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events

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The Insult. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

“Mis Pininos”/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Arabic Literature. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Miss Kiet’s Children. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Geologic History of Boulder County. 6 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. 36 March 29 , 2018

The Winter’s Tale: Royal Ballet. 4 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder, 303-444-7888. The Winter’s Tale: Royal Ballet. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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scar-winning fish pornographer Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim was a just-fine endeavor hailed as near-sexually-satisfying by a vocal community blessed/cursed with low expectations. Pacific Rim: Uprising is directed by a guy who produced a show called Travel Boobs and directed all of seven episodes of genre television before being handed a $150 million check to bang CGI robots together in the same way future ambassadors for toxic masculinity whack action figures together in grade school. You know what? Honestly, Travel Boobs did a better job. Everything that worked in the first film is heightened. Charisma-spewer John Boyega replaces glowering generic male Charlie Hunnam as lead. The games of robot/monster Twister take place in the daylight on land, as opposed to the darkest-dark-of-night, mid-ocean brawls in the first installment. More than anything, the silliness dial is cranked up so high, the Godzilla remake looks like a very special Planet Earth episode by comparison. It’s not, you know, “good.” But it is unabashed escapist stupidity that delivers what was advertised and absolutely not one thing more. If you don’t know, the dense Shakespearean narrative that probes existential questions about humanity is about robots that punch kaiju, which are monsters that slobber neon phlegm after being farted out of the ocean’s buttcrack. Set 10 years after the first film, Uprising begins with Jake Pentecost ( John Boyega), the son of Idris Elba’s martyred character, being forced to train young jaeger pilots. Oh, right: They call the robots jaegers for absolutely no good reason, and they give the jaegers names that seem to consist of the most nonsensical pairing of words they can Mad Libs together. Pretty sure the ones this time out are something like Taco Disruptor, Lumberjack Pancake and Aphrodite Sphincter. Jake feuds with his former partner, Nate Lambert, played by Scott Eastwood, a pile of nepotism with a five-o’clock shadow. Had he any less charm or watchability, even Charlie Hunnam’s agency “Legally Alive Male Actors” would have to drop Scott Eastwood, no matter how many chairs his daddy yells at during a televised convention. Anyway, the monsters that they defeated last time who will “never come back” come back, Charlie Day talks squeaky, loud and fast, and there’s no way the overmatched heroes can win until they do. At no point, even accidentally, does Uprising almost become original. It also never becomes boring, somehow making the most banal exposition sequences approximate entertainment. Other than a massively uninspired misuse of the best character from the first film, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi), nothing is even outright unpleasant, provided you willingly attended a live-action anime about kaijufighting robots and know what all those words mean in that order. The film’s silly, undeserved-but-endearing, confident swagger culminates in a wholly unearned declaration about a third film that logic and restraint says is the opposite of inevitable. You know what? Provided they bring Boyega back, continue to ratchet up the absurdity, and let me name at least two jaegers (Frankenstein Cher and Odysseus Hemorrhoid), I’m all about it. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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amma Roma has paid her dues and done her time. For nearly 30 years, she walked the sweaty streets of Rome, turning tricks and handing out favors. And with her pimp (Franco Citti) married and moved to the country, Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) can welcome her teenage son (Ettore Garofolo) back to the city, open a fruit stand and spend her working hours on her feet instead of on her back. Welcome to Mamma Roma, welcome to life on the margins and welcome to the cinema of Italy’s most radical filmmaker: Pier Paolo Pasolini. He was a novelist, a poet and a theorist before he picked up a camera, and a provocateur who courted controversy even before that. His most famous film, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, depicts a Jesus so plain, so ordinary, nothing impedes his divinity. His most infamous film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, shows a world so depraved, so sadistic, it may have cost Pasolini his life. Mamma Roma stands somewhere in between. Living in a shabby flat overlooking a cemetery, Mamma exists on the margins of society in a country still struggling to recover from Mussolini and the carnage of World War II. Her son, Ettore, is worse off. He moves through life half-asleep and completely detached; nothing, it seems, can shake him from his slumber. Not first love, not a fling with a prostitute and not even a beating from the local miscreants. Despite Mamma’s toil and Ettore’s despair, Mamma Roma is a glorious and intoxicating film. This is largely thanks Due to controversy surrounding filmto Magnani, an actress so powerful and maker Pier Paolo Pasolini, the 1962 film Momma Roma didn’t screen in the U.S. captivating, she turns the simple act of until 1995. boiling an egg into an operatic aria. Legend has it Pasolini wrote Mamma Roma specifically for Magnani after he saw and fell in love with Rome, Open City — the movie that put both Magnani and Italian neorealism on the map. His admiration for the actress is evident in her every glance, every laugh, every vulgar outburst. Mamma Roma premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1962 and quickly courted controversy with the public and critics for being immoral. A cop charged the film with obscenity and took it to court — the hearing was dropped due to unfounded evidence. Weeks later, Pasolini was attacked by fascists protesting the film, and U.S. distributors stayed away. Even as Pasolini grew in acclaim and fame with subsequent films, Mamma Roma remained unseen in America, due also in part to the filmmaker’s murder in 1975 (at the hands of a hustler, or an extortionist, or the mafia, or fascists — the crime remains unsolved and the details murky). Then, in 1995, Martin Scorsese and Milestone Films partnered to give Mamma Roma the stateside distribution it sorely deserved. If there is a lesson to be learned from Mamma Roma, let it be this: You’ll always have the past with you. That may not bode well for Mamma and Ettore, but it does for moviegoers, cineastes and Italian neorealist devotees. Mamma Roma is back, and she never looked better. Boulder Weekly

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fireplace at the end of the room, a black-and-white movie on mute, cozy booths, mahogany everywhere and, frankly, alarmingly friendly service — the Greenbriar Inn might have the best bar in the country; or, at least, the most underrated in the county. If oysters, fois gras, beef Wellington, “a ‘study’ of carrots” and other fine dining fare is what you want, the Greenbriar has that for you in its dining room. But if you want a bar that embraces you like a parent’s love or summer campfire smoke, turn left at the entry. The bar menu includes unique cocktails and affordable food classics, including the bacon bleu burger — applewood-smoked bakon, buttermilk bleu cheese, caramelized onion aioli and a mighty, char-grilled beef patty. $16.

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f you’re one of those people who “literally can’t stop” with chocolate, then the flourless chocolate torte at the North End at 4580 is for you. If your thoughts on chocolate come in shy of that, then the torte is for you and one to three friends. Decadent chocolate as rich and deep as a forest in a German fable consumes the palate. It’s got a thick, chewy texture close to fudge, which is offset by a tart blackberry custard and creamy vanilla bean ice cream. You want this. $8.

Shine Restaurant and Potion Bar 2480 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, shineboulder.com

tuffed with fresh chèvre, arugula and a delightfully robust combination of herbs, these grain-free ravioli pies are the special kind of decadent that won’t leave you feeling heavy or overly full. Served over a bed of massaged and seasoned arugula, the tomato basil and cashew cream sauce covers the ravioli in a coat that’s thick on the palate and light on the stomach. We went with grass-fed lamb over the option of chicken, and enjoyed the combo of savory shredded meat and creamy Italian flavors. The kitchen is 100 percent gluten-free, and everything on the menu is made from scratch. $29.

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Prime Rib Hash

Spruce Farm & Fish 2115 13th St., Boulder, spruceboulderado.com

eeing prime rib hash on Spruce’s menu made us immediately think it should be on every menu. Fortunately, the actual offering lived up to the idea of it. Two eggs over-medium canopy shredded, housesmoked prime rib, onions, red pepper, potatoes and horseradish cream. The prime rib is tender and peppery, and the horseradish cream is the electricity on the plate the fork is attracted to. $11.95.

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ard-boiled eggs have gotten a bum rap, but it’s really not their fault. There are no bad eggs, just eggs that have been treated badly. “Hard-boiled” doesn’t mean “hard to eat.” Hardboiled doesn’t mean cooking eggs for so long that you get dry yolks with a blue ring around them and rubberized whites. Part of the problem is that hardboiled eggs have been made overly easy to buy. Sales are increasing of peeled, pre-boiled eggs sold by the bag at supermarkets. People gobble them cold with cottage cheese for a high-protein breakfast. These are the same eggs you’ll see in “free” continental breakfasts at budget motels. Naturally, these eggs taste and smell awful and won’t make anybody fall in love with hard-boiled eggs. Cooked right, they can be light, moist and satisfying. Maybe the problem is the name. Cooks take “hard-boiled” literally. The secret to great hardboiled eggs is to not boil them. Consider upgrading your egg cooking know-how. Choosing eggs: Better eggs taste better. If you don’t believe it, taste an egg from a Boulder County farm next to a standard supermarket ovoid. With Easter-egg decorating time upon us, consider the Boulder Weekly

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fact that genuine farm-fresh eggs often come predyed in a palette of pastel shades. Older is better: Fresh eggs are not ideal for hardboiling. Let them hang out in your fridge for a couple of weeks. The air bubble in the egg gets bigger over time, making them easier to peel. How to hard-boil at 5,000-plus feet: Place room temperature eggs in a single layer on the bottom of a pan with cold water two or three inches deeper than the eggs. Heat them over high heat until the water just starts to boil. Then turn the heat down and simmer eggs for five minutes. Turn off heat, cover the pan and let it sit for 15 minutes. Transfer the eggs to a bowl of water with ice cubes in it. This helps to minimize cracking and makes peeling shells easier. A peeling technique: Gently roll eggs on a countertop to crack the shell. I peel eggs under running cold water, which helps loosen the shell. Eating decorated eggs: Hard-boiled eggs — at least the ones that haven’t disappeared under the couch for a week after the egg hunt and are kept chilled most of the time — are edible for up to a week, according to the Colorado State University Extension. Use hard-boiled eggs in deviled eggs, egg croquettes and the Ethiopian chicken entree doro wat.

You haven’t lived until you’ve tasted egg salad made with warm, just-cooked eggs. Easter egg bread: Easter breads involve rich, eggy yeasted challah-like dough braided around raw, decorated eggs and baked. Greek Easter bread, or tsoureki, is traditionally braided around red-dyed eggs. The Italian version is available at the Rolling Pin Bakeshop in Denver and Dolce Sicilia Bakery in Wheat Ridge. Try the Greek variation at Denver’s Omonoia Greek Bakery until Eastern Orthodox Easter on April 8. No nukes: Guys, I know it’s tempting to try and microwave eggs in their shells, but it makes them explode and creates an awful mess. Trust me on this. P.S.: Forbes reports that Singapore’s M Social hotel uses a robot to make omelets and fried eggs, but it still isn’t smart enough yet to recognize when yolks are broken.

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Bryan Dayton and Amos Watts (of, notably, OAK at fourteenth and Acorn) have opened Corrida, a Spanish-inspired steakhouse, at 1023 Walnut St. in the building on the former Daily Camera site. ... One of the region’s premier barbecue joints, Wayne’s Smoke Shack in Superior, has doubled the size of its dining room and expanded its capacity to smoke meats, Texas-style. ... Until March 31, you can stop complaining and start voting for your favorite restaurants, bakeries, tasting rooms and grocery stores on Boulder Weekly’s Best of Boulder ballot at boulderweekly.com ... Taste food from 15 restaurants paired with drinks from 15 Colorado wineries and distilleries at 15 downtown shops and galleries at April 29’s Taste of Pearl. tasteofpearl.com. ... A famous name in Boulder’s illustrious brewing history, Oasis Brewing Company, has been reborn at 3257 N. Lowell Blvd. in Denver serving classics like Tut Brown Ale, Capstone ESB and Zoser Oatmeal Stout. ... Lakewood-based Einstein Bros. Bagels has released Cheesy Shampoo and Wakin’ Bacon Conditioner. Sounds gross but you can order it at einsteinbros.com. ... This month’s Slow Food Boulder County happy hour is 5-8 p.m. April 4 at the Bitter Bar. slowfoodboulder.com see NIBBLES Page 44

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At the opening of Alec Shuler’s Lafayette location of Tangerine, I went for a short rib eggs Benedict. It was a great comfort combination: soft shredded beef, collard greens, caramelized onions, salsa and chilies with poached eggs, Hollandaise sauce and home fries. The waitress asked a question I seldom hear: “How do you want your eggs poached?” She said customers order poached eggs in various degrees of “done” including “medium plus” and “hard.” A hard-boiled poached egg seems to defeat the purpose of poaching.

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hat kinds of food do you think about when you think of Jewish cuisine? Whatever they are — creamy kugel dishes, hulking deli sandwiches, Mediterranean hummus plates or maybe, right now, Passover seders — the folks behind the Colorado Jewish Food Festival hope you think about one thing above all: sustainability. Now, we’re reaching terminal velocity on the term “sustainability,” but its concepts are taking root in food systems around the world. And the application of these earth- and community-friendly farming principles to the Jewish community is a veritable revolution. Becca Gan Levy runs the Milk and Honey Farm at the Boulder Jewish Community Center ( JCC) as the organization’s farm and sustainability director. The farm is small in size (about two acres) but possesses an outsized community impact simply by getting people in the Jewish community involved in the sustainability movement, Gan Levy says. “It’s a great way to get people together, because people, for the most part, like to be outside and they like to eat good food,” she says. Gan Levy says Jewish community farming is an “international movement,” with people from Toronto to Tel Aviv looking backwards and finding a long history of sustainable farming in Jewish communities. Sarah Kornhauser, director of Hazon Denver, a chapBoulder Weekly

ter of a nationwide group that supports Jewish community farming, says when the group started their Colorado branch nine years ago, there were four or five Jewish farmers in the state; now there’s more than two dozen. Hazon gives out $25,000 in grants every year to those promoting the virtues of Jewish community farming. Kornhauser says it makes sense the community has taken to sustainability: there are key parts of historical Jewish teaching that lay out how the community can achieve sustainable farming practices, many of which we, today, would consider contemporary. “The Talmud (an important Jewish text regarding laws of living) is sort of the original farmers’ almanac, with rules about how much to harvest and what you want to grow,” Kornhauser says. “It feels really modern and relevant today.” The Talmud, for instance, calls for farmers to leave the corners of their fields unpicked for the poor. That may not always have a direct contemporary application, both Kornhauser and Gan Levy say, but there are ways to achieve its intention. The Milk and Honey Farm doesn’t sell the crops they harvest; instead they’re donated to Community Food Share and Boulder Food Rescue, Gan Levy says. And though not everyone can farm, everyone participates in the food system and either supports the values of sustainable farming or not with how they spend their dollar, Kornhauser adds.

“Maybe you don’t have a field to glean from,” she says, “but maybe you leave a bigger tip [at a restaurant].” Gan Levy says the Talmud also outlines rules about how to treat animals with respect and not waste resources. For instance, though kosher meat can only be procured from certain animals slaughtered in a certain way, and must meet further standards, “sometimes kosher meat doesn’t have the highest animal welfare standards we know [are possible] today,” Gan Levy says. Smart shopping and dining choices can effect that change. In a community and a food culture that’s so steeped in tradition, Gan Levy says making choices that live up to the standards of Jewish community farming comes down to how those choices affect the world: “What guides us is what are we going to do to give someone or a community a good experience?” And that’s a self-feeding loop, Kornhauser says, as people access their Jewish identity through farming and embracing the environment. Although there is that historical precedent for Jewish sustainable farming, Kornhauser says there still exists modern-day traditions that might conflict with a healthier, more eco-conscious approach to food. Many traditional American-Jewish meals originated in Central and Eastern Europe, where Ashkenazi Jews blended their own culinary history with those of Germany, Russia, Romania and see FOOD FEST Page 48

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Actor Gary Busey is very sure there are no mirrors in heaven. He has other specific ideas about the place, as well. This became a problem when he was filming the movie Quigley, in which his character Archie visits heaven. Busey was so enraged at the director’s mistaken rendering of paradise that he got into a fist fight with another actor. I hope you will show an equally feisty fussiness in the coming weeks, Gemini. APRIL FOOL! I lied, sort of. On the one hand, I do hope you’ll be forceful as you insist on expressing your high standards. Don’t back down! But on the other hand, refrain from pummeling anyone who asks you to compromise.

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Now is a favorable time to slap a lawsuit on your mom in an effort to make her pay for the mistakes she made while raising you. You could also post an exposé on social media in which you reveal her shortcomings, or organize a protest rally outside her house with your friends holding signs demanding she apologize for how she messed you up. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just said was ridiculous and false. The truth is, now is a perfect moment to meditate on the gifts and blessings your mother gave you. If she is still alive, express your gratitude to her. If she has passed on, do a ritual to honor and celebrate her.

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Aquarian author Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple. She has also published 33 other books and built a large audience. But some of her ideas are not exactly mainstream. For example, she says that one of her favorite authors is David Icke, who asserts that intelligent extraterrestrial reptiles have disguised themselves as humans and taken control of our planet’s governments. I bring this to your attention, because I think it’s time that you, too, reveal the full extent of how crazy you really are. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. While it’s true that now is a favorable time to show more of your unconventional and eccentric sides, I don’t advise you to go full-on whacko.

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Dear Dan: I’m in a D/s relationship. I’m not submissive around the clock, but my partner owns my cock. We’ve purchased several male chastity devices, but I can pretty easily get my cock out of them. My partner did some investigating and learned that the only effective devices work with a Prince Albert piercing — a ring through the head of the penis that locks into the device, preventing the sub from pulling his cock out. My partner now wants me to get a PA. I don’t want to get my cock pierced and I’ve said so, but I haven’t safe-worded on it. I would very reluctantly do it to please her. My partner made an appointment for a piercing three months from now, on our second anniversary. She told me that we can cancel it if I can find an effective chastity device that doesn’t require a piercing. Do you or any of your contacts in the fetish world know of any devices that are inescapable? —Piercing Appendage Unnecessarily Scares Eager Sub Dear PAUSES: “I’ve never come across a standard male chastity device I couldn’t pull out of,” says Ruffled Sheets, “so PAUSES’s partner has obviously researched regular chastity devices well.” Sheets is an IT consultant who lives in the United Kingdom with his partner of 15 years. Male chastity devices have fascinated him for more than two decades and, as of this writing, he owns 37 different kinds of cock cages. His partner frequently keeps his cock locked up for weeks or months at a time —

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and if there were such a thing as a commercially available male chastity device that was inescapable, Sheets would know about it. “However, all is not lost,” says Sheets. “Piercing is one of two ways to ensure the penis cannot escape. The other is a full chastity belt. Now, full belts aren’t without their drawbacks — they are generally more expensive, are harder to conceal under clothes, and take longer to get used to, especially at night. But they are secure. I have three custom-fitted chastity belts and, once properly fitted, they’re inescapable.” Sheets’ chastity belts were made for him by Behind Barz (behindbarz.co.uk) and Fancy Steel (fancysteel.com.au). But if most commercially available male chastity devices aren’t inescapable, what’s the point? Why would a person bother to wear one? “You can only partially escape,” says Sheets. “It’s possible to pull out the penis but not remove the device,” which is anchored around the balls and base of the shaft. “And a partially removed device is awkward and uncomfortable.” For many male subs and their Doms, the symbolism of a male chastity device is

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things like ‘I’m normally dominant in real life,’ kind of like PAUSES opened his letter by saying he isn’t submissive ‘around the clock.’ I just wanted to make sure he understood that chastity is a long-term game. For most of us in chastity devices, it’s a 24/7 affair — literally around the clock.” If you said you weren’t submissive around the clock because you didn’t want to admit that you are, in fact, submissive around the clock, PAUSES, chastity play won’t be a problem. But if you meant it — if you’re not capable of remaining in a submissive headspace for more than a few hours — you’ll need to ask your partner, before the padlock clicks shut, just how long she intends to keep your cock locked up. “Being locked also has another side effect that you wouldn’t perhaps anticipate,” Sheets adds. “Whenever you become turned on, you feel your cage or belt against your penis. It can be anything from a gentle reminder to a vice-like grip, depending on your arousal level. And whenever this happens, your mind automatically turns to your key holder, even if they’re not around.” Ruffled Sheets blogs at ruffledsheets. com, where he reviews male chastity devices and other sex toys. Follow him on Twitter @ruffledsheets. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.

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Do you drive high?

hat has been the impact of legal cannabis on traffic safety? Is it common knowledge that driving while stoned is illegal? And do marijuana users even care? Amid the rise of auto fatalities involving marijuana across the state, the Colorado Department of Transportation, law enforcement and the marijuana industry are launching a new campaign called “The Cannabis Conversation.” Between 2013-2016, drivers involved in fatal accidents increased about 40 percent. During that time, the number of drivers who tested positive for alcohol in those accidents increased 17 percent. However, the number of drivers who tested positive for cannabis jumped from 47 in 2013 to 115 in 2016, a 145-percent uptick. In an effort to develop practical solutions, officials are conducting a survey that seeks input from cannabis users and non-users alike to better understand public attitudes and behaviors around driving under the influence. The survey is anonymous and takes between 5 and 10 minutes to complete. It seeks to gather data about consumption habits and the perceptions of those habits. The questions ask participants things like how often they drive, where and how often they use cannabis, and whether or not they believe cannabis is still stigmatized by society. Further along in the survey, participants must identify how capable they think law enforcement is at recognizing drugged driving. At the end, questions focus on whether users are aware of the legalities of driving while stoned: Do you think cannabis makes you a better driver? What would convince you not to drive high? If you knew cops were just as good at catching high drivers than

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drunk drivers, would you drive high less often? Since this is a relatively new concern that has developed alongside progressive marijuana laws, the data is conflicting, and it’s unclear how much marijuana use contributes to crash risk. While stoners can perform simple tasks well while high, brain imaging has shown they have to use more of their brain to do so. Cannabis has been shown to impair critical driving related skills including psychomotor abilities like reaction time, tracking ability, cognitive skills like judgment, anticipation and executive functions like route-planning and risk-taking. On the other hand, marijuana users tend to be aware they are impaired and try to compensate for it. Research has shown that people who are slightly stoned may be more risk-averse and overestimate their impairment. But the legal issues have been further complicated by the fact that testing for cannabis consumption is problematic. Smoking one joint typically raises a person’s THC levels to about 20

micrograms per liter. The legal limit in Colorado is 5 micrograms per liter, less than half the amount found to be impairing in various studies. There’s no way to measure marijuana with a breathalyzer, so researchers use blood tests, but blood concentrations of THC can stay persistently high in chronic users. In traffic-fatality research, any amount of THC in the blood, no matter how tiny, counts as a positive drug test, meaning some of the people whose deaths are counted in such studies may not have been high at the time of the accident. While very high levels of THC do indicate recent consumption, it is very unlikely law enforcement would encounter a suspect and obtain a blood sample within a short enough time frame for high THC levels to be detected. Impairment is observed for 2 to 3 hours after smoking, but peak THC levels have declined 80-90 percent within an hour. There are currently campaigns to raise the blood THC limit of 5 nanograms and/or request exemptions for medical marijuana patients. This is due in part to the fact that some medical patients claim to need marijuana in order to drive more responsibly. As enlightened Boulderites, we know that happiness in life lies in the journey, and not just the destination. Understanding this is what makes road-tripping around our great state so much fun, as it’s not just getting there that matters, but having fun in the process. Who doesn’t feel young and wild and free when they’re heading to the mountains for the weekend, packed in a Subaru filled with climbing gear and passing around a joint among friends? No matter how invincible you may feel, to be perfectly clear: It’s always safer to drive when you’re not stoned.

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CBD may help addicts, alcoholics stay on the wagon

ood news. If you’re trying to kick an opioid, cocaine and/or alcohol addiction, a new study has found that the cannabidiol (aka CBD) in marijuana can help keep you from falling off the wagon. If you happen to be a rat, that is. Still, it’s a really exciting finding. A paper reporting the results of the study, done by a research team at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, appeared in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. Friedbert Weiss, the study’s lead author, called the study “pre-clinical.” “The results provide proof of principle supporting the potential of CBD in relapse prevention along two dimensions,” he said, “beneficial actions across several vulnerability states, and long-lasting effects with only brief treatment.” Weiss said that drug and alcohol relapse occurs in people for multiple reasons, and “therefore, effects such as these observed with CBD that concurrently ameliorate several of these are likely to be more effective in preventing relapse than treatments targeting only a single state.” Staying drug-free is a constant battle for recovering addicts, especially when they find themselves in drug-related settings or experience stress or anxiety. According to a story on the work in Science News, Weiss and his research associate Gustavo Gonzalez-Cuevas applied a gel containing CBD once a day for a week to the skin of rats in the study. The rats had a history of voluntary daily alcohol or cocaine self-administration and “addiction-like” behavior. The researchers then put them through various tests to see how they reacted to anxiety-provoking situations and situations that trigger impulsivity, a behavior associated with drug addiction. CBD “effectively reduced relapse provoked by

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stress and drug cues; CBD also reduced anxiety and impulsivity in drug-experienced rats,” the report in Science News said. The researchers also found that although CBD was completely cleared from the brains and plasma of the rats three days after CBD treatment was completed, the rats that had been treated with CBD still showed a reduced rate of relapse induced by stress or drug cues five months later. The researchers said this was “quite unexpected.” “The efficacy of the cannabinoid CBD to reduce reinstatement in rats with both alcohol and cocaine — and, as previously reported, heroin — histories predicts therapeutic potential for addiction treatment across several classes of drug,” Weiss said. Unfortunately, promising findings in rat studies don’t always carry over to humans. Still, the results are a big deal. Opioids and cocaine account for the overwhelming majority of the more than 64,000 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2016. And there are several million alcoholics in the country. The fact that CBD seems to work on all three conditions means that if the findings carry over to humans, CBD might turn out to be a silver bullet therapy in addiction treatment. Marijuana is probably the least addictive legal or illegal recreational drug used in the U.S. It’s less addictive than alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, opioids or methamphetamines. It’s even less addictive than coffee. Which got me wondering: Is it possible that the source of its non-addictiveness is the presence of CBD, or some of the dozens of other cannabinoids in pot? The THC and CBD content of recreational marijuana sold in Colorado is printed on the label. Frequently there isn’t any CBD in recreational pot, because it’s been bred out since it doesn’t produce a THC-like high, but it still obviously has pharmaco-

logical effects in the brain (ask Weiss’s rats). Just guessing, but it may be some of the other cannabinoids produce similar effects to CBD and work synergistically with it. The presence or absence of these in recreational pot is usually unknown, since they’re almost never tested for. If the feds are serious about fighting addiction, the folks at the FDA and the National Institute of Drug Abuse should get off their butts and fund the sort of comprehensive research on marijuana that should have been done decades ago. Fortunately, recreational marijuana strains with a substantial CBD content are becoming easier to find. And anti-addiction issues aside, I think the presence of CBD adds something to the high; they remind me of the pot we used to get in the ’60s, but without the piquancy that was added by being shipped to Boulder in the tires of an 18-wheeler. Try Mob Boss X, Harley Cookies or Electric Suzi Q.

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