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Highroad Why Trumpcare is sickening by Jim Hightower

s Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas noted, “When you buy... a new pair of pants, it usually helps to ask two questions: What does it cost? What size is it?” Yet, as he was pointing out, Republicans in Congress want to ram their new Trumpcare health scheme into law without anyone knowing its size or price. However, we do know this: As usual, GOP congress critters have

rigged their bill so it greatly enriches corporations and the rich, while grossly punishing the elderly, the working class and the poor. Start with the rich. In February, Trump’s treasury secretary flat-out promised there would be “no absolute tax cut for the upper class.” Only one month later, the Trumpcare bill turned his promise into a flat-out lie. The bill provides tax cuts of $158 billion to the wealthiest Wall Street investors, $145 billion to insurance corporations, $25 billion to the drug giants and $20 billion to medical device corporations. Meanwhile, even though Trump himself promised to lift up hard-hit working-class families, calling them America’s “forgotten men and women,” his health care plan turns the candidate’s campaign promise into a presidential lie. Trumpcare

would let insurance corporations cut their benefits and drastically raise the price of coverage — including being allowed to charge older workers and retirees five times more than young people would pay for the same policy. And good luck if you’re a poverty-wage worker — the Republican bill slashes $880 billion a year in Medicaid funds, literally cutting off millions of poor people from getting basic health care. For those who wonder where inequality comes from, there it is. Trumpcare would deliberately increase inequality by transferring billions of dollars in wealth from the working class to the ultra-rich. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. March 30, 2017 5

danish plan Is this the end of Boulder as we know it? Yep. By Paul Danish

ormer Boulder City Councilman Steve Pomerance had an op-ed piece in the Daily Camera last Sunday that appeared under the headline “Is this the end of Boulder as we know it?” The brief answer to the question is yes, and for the reasons Pomerance marshals. Pomerance’s thesis is that the basic charter amendments, ordinances and resolutions that have protected Boulder’s environment, character and quality of life for half a century are being systematically dismantled. Nearly all of these core policies, which constitute Boulder’s unwritten environmental constitution, are under attack or soon will be. The hit list includes: The Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan: A pro-growth/pro-densification faction on the City Council — consisting of Matt Appelbaum, Aaron Brockett, Jan Burton, Andrew Shoemaker and Bob Yates — wants to change it to eliminate the provision that requires urban development outside the city but in Boulder’s planning area to pass “four-body review.” Four-body review means that changes to the plan that would allow such development have to be approved by the City Council, the City Planning Board, the County Planning Commission and the County Commissioners. The pro-growthers want to cut the County Planning Commission and the County Commissioners out of the decision-making process — probably out of fear that the county bodies might stand in the way of some of the progrowthers pet projects — as happened when the County Planning Commission shot down the Twin Lakes high-density housing atrocity. Four-body review was written into the plan in the 1970s, precisely because local governments, including Boulder’s, routinely tore up comp plans whenever the flip-chart and wing-tips crowd showed up with a “very special, oncein-a-lifetime” mega-project — often with the pig wearing affordable housing or new urbanist lipstick. The 55-foot height limit: The 55-foot height limit was added to the City Charter in 1971, and has succeeded in keeping high rise buildings out of 6 March 30, 2017

Boulder (with the exception of those built by the University of Colorado Boulder, which isn’t covered by the City’s charter provisions). Pomerance says he expects to see a push to scrap it. “There is a plan, supported by the Boulder Chamber, to massively densify the East Arapahoe area, including buildings of well over the 55-foot height limit,” he says. He expects the current majority on council to put a charter amendment to do this on the ballot for the next election. He also expects to see the city’s current moratorium on buildings higher than 35 feet (but lower than 55 feet) abandoned. Current zoning densities: It’s no secret that the current council majority has been flirting with a back-door upzoning of Boulder’s existing residential neighborhoods, using gimmicks like allowing so-called mother-in-law apartments in the single-family homes. Now they’re evidently going to try the frontdoor approach. Pomerance says there is a survey in progress “allegedly done by an ‘independent organization,’ asking people about their support for cutting minimum lot sizes in half, allowing duplexes in place of single-family residences, and legalizing two homes on one lot. It also asks for favorability ratings for local organizations, including Open Boulder, Better Boulder, the Chamber of Commerce, Boulder Neighborhood Association, and PLAN-Boulder.” Surveys of this sort generally cost $20,000-$30,000, and are often followed by a full-court press at the ballot box. (Chances are a developer front group, like the Chamber, Open Boulder, or Better Boulder, picked up the tab. Pomerance said PLAN Boulder and the Boulder Neighborhood Alliance told him they didn’t.) The usual justification for densifying Boulder is that it will make housing more affordable and, when combined with mixed-use zoning (zoning that allows various residential and commercial uses in the same neighborhoods and sometimes in the same buildings), reduce traffic. It’s a beautiful theory that has been repeatedly mugged by ugly little facts. For years, Boulder’s social liberals and the Boulder City Council have been obsessed with creating more “affordable see DANISH PLAN Page 8

letters Correction: Last week, in Travis Metcalfe’s Lab Notes column [Re: “Surviving Trump’s Budget, March 23], a quote from Jim Hurrell, the director of NCAR appears. It has come to the attention of Boulder Weekly that the quote in question was from an email exchange from several years ago. BW has also learned that the email exchange between Hurrell and Metcalfe was a private exchange and at no time was Hurrell ever made aware that his words could be used for publication. The March 23 Lab Notes column makes no mention that the Hurrell statement was several years old and therefore gives it the appearance of having been from a recent email exchange. Boulder Weekly’s editorial ethics dictate that people being interviewed must know from the onset that what they are saying may be published in the future. We regret that Mr. Herrell’s old email exchange was used in the Lab Notes piece and apologize for any inconvenience or troubles that may have been caused by this error.

Great rebuttal to Danish!

Thank you, BW, for featuring as a guest column, the very well-written, empathetic, and factual piece by Dennis Duckett [Re: “Danish is all about propaganda,” March 16]. I also tire of Paul Danish’s “regurgitation of right-wing propaganda”— his classing the protesters at Standing Rock as “slobs” was one of his most egregiously distorted pack of lies. I only hope that Mr. Duckett will further publicize the facts and truth that he witnessed at his various visits to Standing Rock, as even the conventional media fell far short of presenting the full story on how the protectors were victimized in trying to clean-up their encampment site. Robert Ferenc/Longmont

Answers for Trump and his supporters

“Who knew a health care bill would be so difficult to put together?” I did. And so did patients, nurses, doctors, insurance representatives and CEOs, and those familiar with Sen. Ted Kennedy who, in 1962, began a 40-year career writing laws to improve cancer research, health insurance, disability discrimination, AIDS care, civil rights, mental health benefits and children’s health insurance. Millions throughout this great country and world, we all knew. What do you expect from a party that won the White House with derision and ultimatums? After eight years, Republicans have hate and obstruction down to a science. Of course, addressing selfish, superficial, destructive behavior in Republicans’ should not distract us from addressing the hateful things Democrats say and do. Democrats and Republicans ... violent extremists must be silenced ... moderates must rule. Curtis Griffin/Boulder

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Please don’t have us lose our health care. We are the elderly and the poor. The rich do not need tax breaks. Thank you. Allen Feld/Boulder

Health care revolt

I am writing to remind your readers of the deplorable health care options available to us. The Affordable Care Act at least tried to offer help to millions who would not be able to afford coverage on their own. Why does one of wealthiest countries on Earth have such a hard time see LETTERS Page 8

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providing even the most basic health care at a reasonable price people can afford? The Republican proposal does nothing to improve access or lower costs. It penalizes the elderly and the working class in order to pour more money into the pockets of insurance companies and drug manufacturers. Let’s implement a fair system. Get rid of insurance business and provide care directly to the people. Health care does not need to be free. That would cause abuses. But it needs to be in line with real costs. I for one am seriously condidering dropping my insurance altogether if Obamacare ends. I have better uses for my hard earned money than lining the pockets of insurance companies. Sinikka Pember/Blackhawk, CO

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I am deeply troubled that Sen. Gardner voted to legalize killing baby animals and hibernating bears on refuges (i.e., OUR public lands) throughout Alaska via House Joint Resolution 69, a resolution to nullify a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s rule that protected these carnivores, which passed Tuesday, March 21. Why should we care in Colorado? We should care because it’s messed up. It sets a precedent across the county that inhumane and unsportsmanlike behavior is acceptable — clearly Sen. Gardner thinks so. Our rooted respect for the land, mountains and wildlife in Colorado defines us as a community and Sen. Gardner does not reflect that. Hailey Hawkins/Longmont

letters Note to Sessions

Just want to say I smoked pot at 16 years of age and most of my 20s. I am now 65 years old. Then one day I decided no more (too much lethargy). So much for the “evil pot addiction.” Never thought much about it again. Could have had some anytime, especially after it became legal and some friends were growing it or I could get medical or recreational pot easily. Meanwhile, I did go through a bout of “real” drug addiction around the age of 20 when I ran into a high school girlfriend who was involved with heroin and I allowed myself to get involved (unfortunately). After about one year I landed in jail for a while, which helped me withdraw and upon release, never looked back. Fast forward to a year and a half ago, I elected to receive knee replacement and was given generous prescriptions of hydrocodone and codeine (narcotics). After three days of taking codeine (which still feels fine to me), I decided I needed off the drugs because of very bad digestion problems on top of other recuperation traumas. Then I discovered “The Drops.” An edible that enabled me to take very slight doses and brought back much appreciated sleep! (Throbbing after knee surgery really sucks at night when trying to sleep.) So just want to say BEEN THERE DONE THAT! I know what real addiction is (I still have a needle track scar) and smoked pot over 10 years everyday as well, and I can personally vouch it’s not addictive. (I quit cigarettes, too — much worse!) Smoking or using pot is a CHOICE and not one see LETTERS Page 9

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housing,” whatever that means — to the point of sacrificing more and more of Boulder’s environmental values on the affordable housing altar. Boulder progrowth interests have seized on this opening and used affordability and diversity as pretexts for maximizing build-out, by rebranding densification and high-rise development as environmental goods. And the libs drank the kool-aid. The result? According to a story in the March 17 Camera, a study by the Longmont Association of Realtors and Land Title Guarantee Company found that there is no affordable housing currently available in Boulder County, let alone the City of Boulder. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. At the time of the study, there was

exactly one single-family home for sale in Boulder under $250,000 and two attached units for sale under $150,000. As for traffic being reduced by greater densification and mixed use, Boulder’s traffic congestion has taken quantum leaps upward in the last three years, and it is at its worst in the areas that have seen the most intensive densification — starting with the 28th and 30th street corridors, which are also among the least pedestrian-friendly and most architecturally oppressive areas of the city. The upshot is “Boulder as we know it” is no longer Boulder as we knew it — even a few years ago. And if the madness doesn’t stop, what’s left of Boulder as we knew it is toast. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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that’s hard at all to put down (physically anyway) Evil? Bad people? Not hardly. Controllable? I still even forget to take a drop some days even though it really helps take the edge off a very hard working day. Moderation is the key (as with lots of things) and medically it’s a miracle HERB. I say to these stuffed shirts, GET OVER IT! Here’s to happy healing and responsible adult enjoyment! Andy Koenig/Longmont Co.

tions bills. Party politics, insider backscratching and concern for the common good usually result in appropriations that generally reflect the proposed budget. Trump, elected by a minority of voters and therefore carrying no mandate, submitted a budget proposal that grossly differs from what the majority of Americans believe is important for our country’s health, prosperity, security and freedom. It merits no consideration.

Congress will best support Americans through an appropriations package that ignores Trump’s proposed budget, incorporating the middle class economic support that this past election demonstrated is needed while continuing a reasonable level of support for the social progress that our country has championed for the past several decades. Congress’ responsibility is to act on our country’s behalf. It is our

responsibility to encourage our elected representatives to work together and to promise our support when they do. We must urge them to use the budget to produce targeted political gains and flash-point-avoiding compromises to keep our country great, begin the social healing process and re-establish confidence in our system of government. Paul Atcheson/Longmont

Bennet voted correctly

It was heartbreaking watching the House of Representatives pass House Joint Resolution 69, which allows egregious and cruel killing methods on 76 million acres of federal public lands in Alaska — but it was positively gutwrenching watching the Senate follow suit. With this vote, Congress has now voted in favor of wolf pups being killed in their dens, and grizzly bears being caught in barbaric steel-jawed leghold traps and wire snares. I want to sincerely thank my senator, Michael Bennet, for voting against this horrible resolution. I’m grateful that the Senate has members willing to listen to their constituents and stand up against this cruelty. Those that voted yes on the resolution should be ashamed of themselves. Social media has made it easier than it’s ever been for constituents to contact their lawmakers, and I appreciate the responses I’ve received from Sen. Michael Bennet. Now H.J. Res. 69 is headed to President Trump’s desk, and I implore him to listen to the vast majority of Americans who do not want this to pass. Britton Slagle/Aurora

Congress’s chance to lead

Trump’s shallow, paranoid leadership that has increased our country’s social schism promises to do the same with the country’s economic class division, and has damaged our international reputation. The new administration clearly has no clue how to implement important economic and social reforms without destroying the past 50 years of societal gains. As a result, Congress is in the unusual position of being able to drive this effort. Achieving this will require a level of cooperation between chambers and between parties that has been missing these last 20 years or so. Doing so will greatly contribute to restoring confidence in at least one branch of our government. The path goes through the budget process. Ordinarily, the president submits a budget proposal to Congress, which then funds it through appropriaBoulder Weekly

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Editor’s note: For several years now, Boulder Weekly has been covering the hardships Front Range families face when a loved one is held in immigration detention and/or deported. For the most part, our reporting has ended at the time of deportation, but the truth is, that is only the beginning of the story for many such families. We first met and reported on the Guerrero family in January 2015. Luis was being held in detention while his wife Sofia and four children struggled to get by in his absence. Shortly thereafter we reported that Luis had been suddenly deported to Mexico without any prior notice to his family. That is where our previous reporting stopped. Eventually, Sofia had little choice but to take her three youngest children, all U.S. citizens, to Mexico in an effort to keep the family together. Needless to say, it’s a very difficult transition for them. This time around, we have stayed on the story. Last year we sent Angela K. Evans to a small town

north of Mexico City to reconnect with the Guerrero family. She has also stayed in touch with the oldest son Andy, who still lives in Colorado. This week we give you the first installment in a series about this remarkable family. We hope it will resonate with you, especially in these times of extreme difficulty for our immigrant communities. And with that, Boulder Weekly is pleased to present the rest of the story, that is to say, the rest so far.

eated at his mother’s grave for the first time, Jose Luis Guerrero grieved not only for her, but also for his wife and children. Though still alive, they were thousands of miles away at home in Aurora. For almost 20 years, Guerrero, who goes by Luis, lived and worked in the U.S., mostly in Colorado, starting a family with his wife Sofia and raising their four American-born children, Andy, Jenny, Melody and Lucy — ages 18, 15, 9

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and 4 respectively. But after his deportation the previous week, Luis now found himself in a place that no longer felt like home. All of Luis’ siblings died as children. His mother died the year before his deportation, without seeing her only living son in years. His father is his only family left in Mexico, and his home state of Nuevo León has grown increasingly dangerous since he left, plagued by violent drug cartels and corrupt cops. So Luis considered crossing the border back into the U.S. “I know that I’m not from there, but I don’t belong here,” he told his dad as they sat in the graveyard together. Living in Mexico just didn’t make sense; he didn’t feel like he belonged there; he belonged with his wife and kids. “I was thinking, if I go no one will miss me, but if I stay there’s my family,” Luis says. He remembered going out to breakfast as a family and playing baseball in the backyard with everyone on weekends. He pictured his kids laughing and screaming on the roller coasters at Elitch’s, and the pride he felt when they talked about school and going to college someday. He sat and thought about all the seemingly trivial things that brought him daily comfort in his life in Aurora. “We had a small patio in the back and at the end there were these windows that the sun always came through,” he says. Luis is an intricate and sometimes long-winded storyteller. But his animated recounting of events is captivating. “I could write a book,” he repeats throughout our conversations. And I believe him. After visiting the cemetery that day, Luis started making plans, figuring out the safest way to traverse the southern U.S. border undetected. Things had changed since he first made the crossing in the early ’90s. Back then, he simply walked across the border and continued traveling north. Now there’s the cartel to consider, and the militarized border patrol. And of course there’s the risk of being detained if he made it to the U.S. “I was thinking, but what if I try to go back and they put me back in prison? I had just left prison and I didn’t want to go back,” Luis says. “No matter what, after you leave prison you feel good because you are free.” Before his deportation, Luis spent almost six months in immigration detention at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Denver Contract Facility in Aurora, operated by the private prison corporation the GEO Group, Inc. While fighting to stay in the country with his family, he was held in prisonlike conditions under constant surveillance, allowed to see his family once a week during visiting hours. Faced with the reality of being thrown back into detention at the hands of ICE, Luis once again reconsidered his plan to head north across the border. But how could he live so far away from his wife and kids? He still couldn’t reconcile a life in Mexico without them. It felt like an impossible decision.

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• • • • Luis and Sofia lived in Aurora for more than a decade, raising their children and building their careers. Like most families, they balanced the workweek with school schedules and the kids’ activities. She worked at Burger King for five years before moving into the cleaning industry, eventually starting her own business. He worked in construction, also starting his own company in the summer of 2014. They paid taxes, owned their cars and wanted to plan a vacation to Disneyland. “Everything was going so well,” Luis says. “But in a moment, everything changed.” Early one August morning that same year, Sofia was awakened by a knock at the front door to their Aurora house. Luis was in the shower and their youngest daughter Lucy was still asleep. The three older children, Andy, Jenny and Melody were finishing their summer break in Mexico with their maternal grandparents, easily traveling across the border with their U.S. passports. Sofia opened the inner door to find ICE agents standing on the front stoop behind the glass outer door. A few days earlier, one of Luis’ workers was driving the company truck when he was pulled over. The police didn’t ticket the worker, himself undocumented, but did take down Luis’ information from the car registration. Although the employee informed Sofia and Luis about what had happened, the couple thought little of it — until Sofia saw ICE agents around 6 a.m. that morning. One of the female officers asked for the employee in Spanish, Sofia remembers, noticing a slew of officers on her front lawn and several ICE vehicles in the street. “I told them he doesn’t live here,” she says. Sophia says the officer never introduced herself or showed her any ID, and Sofia talked through the glass, refusing to let the agents inside unless they could show her a warrant. The woman relentlessly questioned Sofia, finally

asking who owned ICE detention centers the company truck. currently hold roughly “If you have the 40,000 undocumented immigrants on any given information of the day. That number could company, for sure go as high as 400,000 in the future. you have the name of the owner,” Sofia told her. “I asked them again, ‘Who are you looking for exactly?’ and she didn’t tell me. But in that moment, the agents around the house were pulling out their guns.” At this point, Sofia went to get Luis, afraid the officers would wake up Lucy. “I was strong but I was scared when I saw the guns,” she says. When Luis came to the door, the agents grew increasingly aggressive, asking for his cell phone and identification. In the middle of all of this, Lucy woke up and Sofia held her at the front door while the agents attempted to draw Luis out of the house. Finally, he handed them his cell phone and valid New Mexico driver’s license, but still refused to cross the threshold. Eventually, the agents left, leaving his things on the front lawn. Relieved for the moment, Luis and Sofia immediately called a lawyer, who told Luis not to leave the house. For two days, he stayed inside, only occasionally going into the backyard, afraid that if he even stepped out the front, ICE would arrest him. But one day, he had to leave for work. He was trying to get a contract to build a big apartment complex near Coors Field and couldn’t afford to miss the meeting. By the time Luis reached the end of his street, ICE officers had him surrounded. They asked him to step out of his truck, then proceeded to cuff both his wrists and ankles. “He put them on really tight,” Luis says. “I asked him to make it bigger because it’s hurtSee HERE AND THERE Page 12

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Left: Luis Guerrero was deported to Mexico after spending six months in detention. Right: Andy Guerrero is now separated from his parents and three sisters who now live in Mexico. Below: Rosaries and a bracelet that Luis made out of plastic bags while held in detention at the GEO facility in Aurora. HERE AND THERE from Page 11

ing me but he did the same with the other hand.” Sofia, returning from dropping Lucy off at a babysitter’s, saw Luis inside one of the unmarked vehicles and recognized the same female ICE officer she’d seen on her front lawn a few days before. Sofia stopped and asked her why Luis was being arrested. “She answered, ‘I left a paper in the truck and that’s all I can tell you,’” Sofia says. “It was not in a good tone.” Sofia stood in her driveway, helpless, as Luis was driven away. She was in complete shock, unaware that she wouldn’t be able to touch her husband again until they reunited more than nine months later. They took Luis to what he calls an “immigration station,” not a police station and not the detention center. They removed the cuffs and fingerprinted him, speaking to him in Spanish but showing him paperwork in English. Someone offered him voluntary departure papers to sign, which would require him to leave the country quickly and of his own accord, avoiding detention and giving up the legal right to fight his case in immigration court. He refused. Not only could he not read the English document, he was unwilling to give up so quickly, to leave his family behind so definitively. His refusal to leave voluntarily triggered expedited removal proceedings due to previous deportations. More than a decade before, when Andy and Jenny were small children, Luis had been forcibly removed 12 March 30, 2017

from the country while living in McAllen, Texas. He was deported again attempting to cross the border. Each time, he was held in jail for one night and then released on the other side of the border. And each time Luis came back — back to his family, back to work. Although he hadn’t had any run-ins with ICE for more than a decade, these deportations remained on his record. That day in 2015 he was taken to the GEO detention facility in Aurora, one of some 200 such detention centers around the U.S. currently detaining 40,000 people. The conditions at many private detention facilities are often substandard, including inadequate health care, safety and security, as well as the use of solitary confinement, raising alarms with both advocacy groups and the Department of Justice. A March 2017 class-action lawsuit against the private prison corporation GEO Group, Inc. also alleges the use of forced labor and violating antislavery laws, specifically citing the Aurora facility where Luis would spend the next several months. Sofia waited to tell her three older children what had happened until she picked them up from the airport the following day. Although Andy and Jenny had spent several summers at Sofia’s parents’ house in Ixmiquilpan, located three hours northwest of Mexico City, it was Melody’s first time away from her parents for so long. “It was so sudden,” Andy says of his dad’s deten-

tion. “I knew that it was a possibility and it was one of the fears that my family faced, but I’d try not to think about it. I knew it was out there but you could say it was kind of vague until it started orbiting on top of us.” Even a couple years later, he is emotional talking about his first visit to see his father at GEO. “Seeing him behind a piece of glass and only being able to talk to him through a phone kind of crushed me,” he says. The family all sat together to talk to Luis, separated by a thick window. Lucy, only a toddler, looked under the counter to see if she could get through to hug her dad, then she ran over to the door at the far end of the room to try and get to him. All the kids cried that day. “I really wanted to tear the walls down when they came to visit me the first time,” Luis says. “You’re frustrated because your family cannot hug you. They can see you, but they cannot touch you. When the time for visits is over you have to go in that moment and that’s it,” he says, snapping his fingers. A few days later, Sofia went back to cleaning houses, while trying to also figure out Luis’ immigration defense, and the kids returned to school. As Andy began his junior year of high school, everything had changed. As the oldest, he now had the extra pressure to help his mom pay the bills. “There was a sudden weight on my shoulders,” he says. “It was a weight that both my mom and I carried.” He picked up a job at the Pepsi Center, “sweeping the floors, cleaning up beer.” He’d start at 5 p.m., often getting off at midnight or 1 a.m., only to ride the bus for another hour to get back home. Eventually, Sofia took a second job cleaning local churches at night, and Andy quit the Pepsi Center to help her, starting at 8 p.m. and finishing up around 3 See HERE AND THERE Page 14

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a.m. They would grab just a few hours of sleep before getting up for school and work, and doing it all over again. But through it all, Andy remained resolved to finish high school and get into college. He started spending a lot of time alone, afraid his friends would distract him from his goal. “College was my number one priority and I stopped talking to a lot of people because I was like they aren’t going to help me, they might even pull me down, even if that means that I have to be alone,” he says. The weekend routine changed too. Instead of playing games together or exploring Denver by light-rail as a family, Sofia and Andy spent Saturday night cleaning, Lucy often falling asleep on the couch in the church office while they worked. And they would all go to GEO to visit Luis, allowed only one hour of visiting time for the entire family. Andy says it was too painful to talk to his dad about how his life at school and work had changed. “I didn’t want to talk about anything else besides how he’s doing,” Andy says. “I know it was hard; we were out here and he was inside.” So Luis would talk to his family about life in GEO — how bad the food was, his lack of freedom, what he missed. He’d talk about the Hispanic butcher shop across the street from their house, smiling as he thought about the carnitas, chicharon and other Mexican meats. “But there (in GEO) they just gave me damn bread everyday,” he says. He’d watch families on TV eating together, a constant reminder of what had been taken from him. His life had been reduced to memories. Luis and Sofia are not He constantly thought about the little things; sure what their future going to Catholic mass together as a family, playholds, but at least most of their family is ing soccer in the park on Sundays while his wife together. and kids cheered him on from the sidelines. He’d recall birthday celebrations and holidays, school activities and simply watching TV together in the evenings. “I’m very close with my family,” Luis says. “One day they took them away from me and that’s when they cut my wings.” The only hope Luis was able to offer his family were the stories of someone else’s release. He told his wife and children every time someone won their immigration case and was allowed to go home to their families. For months the entire family held onto the hope that it could be Luis next week, that he would be home in time for the holidays, that the entire ordeal would be over. “That was the hope that we had,” Andy says. As the weeks turned into months, and the winter holidays approached, it became evident Luis might not win his appeal to remain in the U.S. with his family. His hope was slipping away. He says it felt like he was wasting his days, even comparing himself to Marty the Zebra in the animated film Madagascar which he had seen with his kids. “I’ll be here all week,” Marty tells zoo visitors. “In fact, I’ll be here my entire life. 365 days a year.” Often frustrated by seeing others come and go, Luis didn’t understand why they were holding him for so long. He watched as other detainees were released after just a week or two, people he says were accused of domestic violence, caught growing marijuana in their homes or had criminal records. While in GEO, Luis worked in laundry, receiving $5 a day for his labor, which Boulder Weekly

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“He wanted to hug me but they wouldn’t let him,” she remembers. “You never know when it’s your last time seeing them.” In a last ditch effort, Sofia appealed to Sen. Michael Bennet through the help of immigration advocates. She was told ICE would not deport Luis until Bennet was able to talk to them. That meant he’d be in Aurora for a few more days at least, or so she thought. • • • • Early one morning in late January 2015, several guards came into Luis’ cell, demanding he sign yet another piece of paper he couldn’t read. For the most part, Luis says the immigration officers at GEO intimidated him. “You have to do what they say and that’s it,” he says. Regardless, he says he was often accused of disrespecting the officers when he wouldn’t do what they wanted, even if it was asking other detainees to translate for him. When he refused to sign the paper, which he later realized was his deportation order, Luis says the ICE officers were violent, wrestling him to the ground, hitting him and forcing his fingerprint on the paper. “They took my fingerprint and said the fingerprint is more valuable than the signature,” he says. In the process, Luis hurt his knee and in turn lashed out, telling them “really bad things,” scared by their actions. One officer warned him, he says, telling him to be careful because they had started their body cameras. It wasn’t the first time immigration officers were violent, Luis says. One time an officer even threw food at him. But, the security cameras were often turned off at GEO, he says, and he has no way to prove he or anyone else was mistreated. He understands it’s their word against his and doesn’t really think sharing his stories will change anything. “You won’t find any evidence they hit me,” he says. “There’s no way to prove what they did. It’s impossible.” After the fingerprinting incident, officers led him to a van. At first he thought maybe he was being released since there weren’t any other detainees with him. But the van traveled several hours before stopping. Luis still hoped it was a Greyhound station and they were sending him home, but he soon realized this wasn’t the case. Melody plays with the family dog at the front From the GEO facility in Aurora, ICE agents door of her home in took Luis to Otero Detention Center in southern Mexico. It’s a long way from Colorado. New Mexico. He only found out where he was by asking a guard. The next day, they gave him a winter coat, which he still has, and returned his wallet after removing his driver’s license and any other form of identification he had. “They said, ‘This stays here. If you’re Mexican, what could you want with a U.S. ID?’” Luis remembers. His license didn’t expire for another year. After a few more hours of driving, Luis stepped out of the van surrounded by immigration agents. As he looked around, he realized he was at the border. Juarez, Mexico, could be seen in the distance. Just as suddenly and unexpectedly as Luis was taken from his life in Denver and held in detention, he was deported back to Mexico before his family even knew he was gone. “I tried to keep my hope but when I found out he was down there... ” Andy trails off. “I was demolished inside. I was broken. I was shattered in pieces.” While his family grieved in Aurora, Luis found himself alone at the border. He started walking toward Mexico, leaving the ICE officers behind him, refusing to look back. Once he crossed into Juarez, he saw a man selling tacos from a roadside cart. Luis hadn’t eaten any decent food in months but he didn’t have any money either. As he walked by, the man asked him where he was going. “I don’t really know where I’m going because immigration just threw me out,” Boulder Weekly

Luis answered. The man offered him discada tacos, a mixture of grilled meats and spices, and insisted he take them even after Luis said he had no way to pay for them. “I used to make this with my family,’” Luis told the man. “Before they took me, when I was together with my family at home, we used to make discada, frying all the meat and putting it on crackers.” Another vendor offered Luis a Coke, which he happily accepted. It had been a long time since he had such a good meal. As he finished, the taco seller wrapped a few more tacos in tinfoil for Luis to take with him. From there, Luis went to the Mexican immigration office at the border. He was frightened, not knowing what they would do and afraid they’d detain him, this time in Mexico. Instead, they brought him into the office and allowed him to use the phone. They directed him to the “house of immigrants,” he says, a place for recent deportees to stay a few nights, take a shower, get paperwork in order. “That’s where I fell asleep and actually rested because I had a good bed, not like in prison where you had only a thin mattress,” he says. At the immigration house, officials were able to secure a temporary ID for Luis and give him enough money to travel back to Monterrey, the capital of his home state of Nuevo León. With roughly 1,000 pesos (about $53) in his pocket, Luis was met by his dad at the Monterrey bus station. The next day, they went to the cemetery. He recalls the last time he spoke to his mom over the phone. He was speaking to her just 20 minutes before she died, telling her that Sofia was going to be fine despite spending more than a month in the hospital with preeclampsia while pregnant with Lucy. Luis knew she was sick, but she always told him not to come back to visit, not to risk separation from his wife and kids for her sake. “She always told me I need to take care of my family,” he says. • • • • While Luis was deliberating what to do next, Sofia was making hard decisions of her own. She decided to send Jenny to Mexico to be with her dad. Jenny’s aggressive and depressed behavior had increased. Then her school called. Someone had found a note written by Jenny, describing how she had begun cutting herself, that she contemplated hurting herself further. Life without her father was too much for the young teenager to bear. “So, I made the decision that if she Boulder Weekly

wanted to be with her dad then she should go be with him,” Sofia says. Luis was deported at the end of January 2015 and in March Sophia put Jenny on a plane to Mexico City alone. Jenny was ecstatic to see her dad, holding back tears at their reunion. “I wanted to cry, but I was brave enough not to,” she says. However, it was a temporary solution, hastily decided in an effort to save Jenny. The rest of the family remained in limbo. Back in Aurora, Sofia didn’t know what to do next. Should she

move back to Mexico too, leaving her life in Colorado behind, perhaps for good? Should she stay, hoping there was some way Luis and Jenny could return together? Or should the family remain separated? If that were the case, she would effectively be losing both her husband and daughter. The questions wore on her other children as well. “It was just a hard thing to see my mom crying. I noticed her mood changed, she was just really bummed out all day, she just didn’t want to go out and see friends,” Andy says. “And

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fter seven years as a conference attendee, in November 2015 Tim Reeser stood on Denver’s Grand Hyatt ballroom stage as a presenter at the two-day Industry Growth Forum (IGF), hosted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Before him sat more people than he could count. Many were just like him — clean technology business CEOs and founders eager to pitch the promise of their up-and-coming companies. But some out there were bigwig investors — there to listen, score his pitch and maybe even strike up a deal if he was convincing enough. As president and co-founder of Loveland-based Lightning Hybrids, a technology company that equips trucks and busses with energy-saving brake systems, Reeser was trying to make the ultimate sale. As the U.S. Department of Energy’s chief national laboratory for renewable energy and energy-efficiency research, NREL identified long ago that the lack of funding for clean tech startups is one of the largest barriers to the industry’s advancement. Nearly every year since 1995, IGF has brought together the most innovative nascent companies from around the globe to help entrepreneurs

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The Boulder Roubaix: Where the road meets the dirt.

few happy hours ago, I sat down with two cyclists to contemplate the Boulder Roubaix. “I’m comfortable with the dirt,” Scott Forrest says. He’s more of a dirt guy — cyclocross mostly, and mountain biking — than a strict roadie. “The speed of the paved sections is always a bit daunting to me.” Forrest has done the Roubaix before — three times in 15 or 20 years, including the last time around, in 2015. (It’s held every two years.) Over happy hour drinks that evening, he was still undecided on signing up for the 2017 race. “It’s like doing two cross races,” Forrest says. The distance is one of the biggest hurdles for him: 74.8 miles, or four 18.7-mile laps. That’s the distance for his category — Master Men, age 40 and over, categories 1, 2 and 3 — and an extra lap longer than the last time he raced, based on his age and category at the time. He’s come to rather like the shorter distances of cyclocross competitions. A few days prior, Clark Rider had just ridden the Roubaix course, in north Boulder, to get a feel for it. He’s more of a roadie-turned-cross guy, and although he’s also into the shorter cyclocross races, he’s on the fence as to whether to race this Roubaix for different reasons. It’d be his first time. On his training ride, he’d crossed paths with a couple on the same route. He asked if they’d be signing up for the Roubaix. “It was the classic response,” Rider says, rehashing the exchange. “He’s like, ‘Yeah, I don’t trust roadies on dirt. I would never do a race like this because the last thing I want is to be in a pack of roadies coming around this corner.’” Boulder Weekly

That’s just what the Roubaix does: It brings roadies who don’t mind dirt and dirt hounds who don’t mind roads together, likely weeding out some of the more — how shall we say — uptight, traditional folks in the process. And for Rider, that’s the whole appeal of the Roubaix, which is 43 percent paved, 57 percent unpaved. “That’s exactly why I’d do the race, because that’s one spot where I might have a little advantage,” he says. “Not that I’m that great at bike handling, but I just don’t worry about other people. “I won’t be in the front of the pack, but I might be able to mix it up for a while,” he adds. He’s debating whether he wants to spend money on registration, just to “mix it up for a while” and then maybe get shot out the back of the pack to ride solo in the front for the rest of the long haul. In 2015, Forrest actually spent a good part of the first lap leading the pack in his category, he says. He got an earful for it. “I was miraculously at the front,” Forrest says. “When we transitioned off the dirt onto the pavement section, I was so far ahead I didn’t know what to do. I relaxed. It still took them forever to catch me.” He waited because he knew he wouldn’t have enough “gas” to power himself through the entire race at that pace without a little help from the pack — in other words, without “drafting” off of other riders, each one riding in the low-pressure wake of the cyclist in front of them, and all conserving energy (even the leader of the pack) because of it. “When they finally caught me, one of the guys was like, Hey, don’t do that again, man. Relax and just drop in,’” Forrest says. “And at that point I just tried to manage somewhere in the front,” and hang on for dozens more miles yet. He describes the last few sections of the Roubaix course: a long downhill to a hard right turn, and then onto a dirt uphill, transitioning into a stout climb, and finally a leveling off onto a long, dirt straightaway. In 2015, he says, it was hard to find the right pace across all that, and hard to gauge everyone’s level of aggression on turns and descents on the dirt. That hard right turn in particular was a cluster, he adds. “At the end, on the last lap, from what I gather, that’s where the race is won or lost,” Rider says of the section. “A lot of people just wash out.” see ROUBAIX Page 26

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here’s nothing quite as Artist Larry “Bug” Franklin asks inviting as a table with audiences to face the tragedy and reality of white linens, clean genocide in his exhibit Signature. plates and shiny silverware. It makes the stomach growl and mouth water. In The Dairy’s latest exhibit, Signature, there are three neat rows of 27 tables, all daintily set with plates and cutlery. The dishes are full, but the meal isn’t appetizing.

On each plate lie bones — broken, gray, gritty — with writing on them: Australia 1900-1969, Nazi-Germany Controlled Europe 1933-1945, Rwanda 1994, Bosnia & Herzegovina 1992-1995, Darfur 2003-Present, Northern Iraq and Syria 2014-Present... Each plate representing a genocide of the last century. “When people come in, they think, ‘Oh, it’s a dinner party,’” says Signature’s see SIGNATURE Page 30

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artist Larry “Bug” Franklin. “And then all of a sudden it twists around.” Showing through April 9, Signature is the latest installation from Bug. He’s spent more than two decades as an installation artist, exhibiting his work in Denver and around the country. With no agenda in mind, he mostly deals with social issues. “I’m trying to say something more socially about living in the world we are today and trying to make that connection with what we all feel and sense,” he says. The off-putting “food” he serves in his show speaks to the regularity of a crisis as horrifying as genocide. As the only beings who exhibit such behavior, Bug says, it might be the “signature” of humanity. “The bigger idea is that we seem to have this insatiable appetite for this,” he says. “As time is going on, we have this more and more.” This is not the first iteration of this piece. The first showing was in 2007 and since then, Bug’s added five tables to the installation. “It’s creepy,” he says. “But you feel in some respects you have to do it, because it’s something that has to be stated.” The Dairy’s McMahon Gallery, which is displaying Signature, is 1,050 square feet. While not the biggest space, it comfortably holds all 27 of Bug’s current tables. But he acknowledges that won’t always be the case. “The sad thing about this piece is it just continues to grow,” Bug says. “So I imagine in about another dozen years or so, this space will not be big enough to even house this amount of tables. That’s really kind of weird as an artist, because most times when you do a piece and you show it again, it’s done, and you just do the same thing over again. But with this, every time I show it, I have to construct more tables, more bones. And so it’s just a weird piece; it’ll never be finished.” The inspiration for Signature came about naturally, stemming from his Jewish heritage. As he grew up, he learned 30 March 30, 2017

about the Holocaust, and he says many of the older people in his life had identification tattoos. “So to me, that’s part of my history,” he says. “So when you start seeing more of it around the world, you’re more in tune to it. I never went through it myself, but you’re just more aware of it.” Genocide is an intimidating topic, but Signature captures the sorrow and destruction in a straightforward manner. It doesn’t overinflate the heaviness of the issue, but boils it down to the bare bones: death and misery. Bug purposefully Amanda Moutinho designed the show so the audience has to interact with the pieces, walking between the tables, unable to skirt around the suffering. The simplicity garners a visceral reaction from the viewer. The piece also features video projections on the wall. One video shows pictures from Polish concentration camps, which serve as a common link between multiple events. “You can put any image up on this wall, and I would assume that somebody who lived through one of these other genocides would [relate],” he says. The other two videos are loops of various

Top: Standing in the back of the room allows the viewer to consume the exhibit, take it in as a whole — past, present and future. Bottom: In the installation, Bug leaves an openended finish to an ongoing tragedy.

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buzz people. In one, multiple people are shaking their heads back and forth. Bug says this represents the insanity and confusion of the ongoing nature of these tragedies. In the other, people cover their ears, eyes and mouths. This video, he says, symbolizes the people in these regions who hear, see and speak about the genocides, yet are hesitant to rise up to fight against them, in fear of their own safety. While the picture montage and the tables are black and white, the two other videos are in color — a deliberate choice in order to depict the past and present. The individual elements of the exhibit are compelling on their own, and while Bug’s intentions and inspirations are clear, the work remains vague enough for the audience to project their own ideas onto it. For one alternate explanation, the subjects in the videos could symbolize the denial that outsiders go through in wanting to stay ignorant to the suffering in other nations. “[That] response is as authentic as mine,” Bug says. “Because really, as an artist, what I don’t want to do is [necessitate] that you have to [interpret] it exactly this way. I want to leave it open-ended. I want people to approach it the way they see it and how they feel about it. “Art is really powerful when you can fill in those gaps,” he continues. “If I go to the museum and I have to read a big artist statement to figure out what in the world I’m looking at, to me that’s really missing the boat. But if they would give me an insight or a doorway into it, that’s much more powerful.” Bug provides a look into genocide, but stops short of providing a reason or a remedy. He’s just as confused as anyone as to why this keeps happening, especially in today’s modern world. “We’re the only species that has ever lived on this planet that’s ever done this,” he says. “And I don’t know if more intellect means more hostile. I don’t know what it is, but you almost think it would be the reverse. This would be primal man, and we’d be much more evolved in not dealing with this.” The current political atmosphere cast Bug’s piece in a new light for him. He gained insight into the seeds of these occurrences. “To be honest, I think of how much hatred would it take for a society or group of people to do this... But then you look at the news, especially after the election and the inauBoulder Weekly

guration and then you start seeing, ‘Oh, well this is maybe how it starts,’” he says. “Where people are just truly polar opposites and they just yell at each other and they cannot seem to get along, and eventually... and I’m not saying it would happen here, but maybe this is how it starts.” Arguably, the most moving piece in the show resides at the upper corner of the exhibit. There sits a table

dressed with linens, silverware and an empty plate. Initially, Bug says, he wrestled with the idea of including the vacant table in the installation. But he ultimately decided it was necessary — an openended finish to an ongoing tragedy. “If this table was removed, it would read differently,” he says. “It would read more as a historical piece, but now it reads more as current.”

While Signature might seem grim, Bug sees it as a “somewhat upbeat” show. Hopefully, this is humanity’s rock bottom and the future will be brighter. And maybe one day, Bug’s piece will be finished and he’ll be able to pack up the waiting table. “Boy, that would be really nice,” he says with a laugh. But until then, the final plate sits empty, ready for its next meal.

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caught up with Marco Benevento a while the getting’s good.” few days after that freak(ish) March Benevento spent most of last year blizzard — bearing the elegant moni- touring his own band behind The Story of ker of Winter Storm Stella, and by Fred Short, his double album and part the way, when do we get to name our musical song cycle dedicated to and snowstorms anyway? — at his home in inspired by the mercurial musical shaman Woodstock, New York. of Woodstock of the same name, a cheer“North of the City” is old stomping fully ambitious project of frayed grooves grounds for this correspondent, but I didn’t and nouveau-psychedlia stylings that fealive with farmyard fauna skittering around tured — and for Benevento this was a the yard like Benevento does, and for some pretty big deal — his newly empowered almost equally freakish reason, I was briefly gripped Courtesy of Kevin Calabro/ Photography by PUNKLE with fear for the safety of his peacock. What do peacocks do when their sandlot piles 2-feet high with snow? Benevento laughed. “Well, the peacock has a beautiful mansion that it lives in, with servants and caviar and crackers. And now the peacock has a lady peacock friend. So he’s not going anywhere,” he said. ON THE BILL: Marco Benevento. “But yeah, it was pretty 8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 1, rough, actually. I had snow Fox Theatre, $15.00 - $20.00 way up above my eaves. We have a plow guy and a generator... although, something happened to the generator and we had to role as a lead vocalist. He just released a pull the battery out and hook it up to the live studio album, cut in Woodstock, feavan. It was like, ‘Oh my God, this is so turing that song cycle in all its ragged and Woodstock country livin’...’” gleefully unhinged glory, brimming with They did plow the Thruway, his trademark keyboard wizardry and festhough, and when I caught Benevento tooned with paisley pop-star mirth. chilling at home, watching Stella’s Clearly, Benevento is gaining confiaftermath turning Woodstock into a dence as a singer. Mostly. giant cultural slush puddle, he was in “Yeah, I’m still not totally sure if I’m a the midst of a three-day run at the singer, and I still hate the sound of my Brooklyn Bowl with Joe Russo’s Almost own voice, but it’s like the lyric-writing Dead, his old partner’s breakout Dead process, too, which is another intriguing trib enterprise. Brooklyn is a homecom- thing for someone who comes from ing venue for the erstwhile and stuninstrumental music,” he admitted. “After ningly popular band. making four or five records that are basi“Last night was good — we had Oteil cally instrumental, I kind of feel like I’ve [Burbridge] playing bass, so it was nice to opened up this door and I’m curious to see hear some different sounds and different how much better I can get at it. takes on the material,” Benevento said. “I like seeing the connection, I like see“But yeah, it’s been insane; one day is ing the audience sing along with our songs. rehearsal for my own tour, fly somewhere That’s a new thing for us.” the next day, play a gig the next, do some In a subtle sort of way, Benevento is more rehearsing, maybe do some studio something like the counterbalance to the stuff here in Woodstock. They’ve got a lot archetypal, Berklee-drilled instrumental of studios in Woodstock, and I know most powerhouse of a prior generation; a player of the engineers, so they’ll call up and ask at ease with the split-second demands of me to come in and do a session. So it’s improvised music and a musical curiosity been a little crazy, but like they say, get it that breezes easily past genre barriers. Used Boulder Weekly

to be that the star of the program was the vocalist, or the guitar player, and when virtuosity was the point, it was highlighted and foisted on the audience as the real cost of admission. For Benevento, paradoxically schooled by the music of keyboard monsters of the ’60s and ’70s — Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Larry Young — but ultimately liberated by the vast depth and deepening maturity of ’80s and ’90s electronica, the virtuosity is subsumed by the context, the texture of the piece, the madness of the moment. For anyone who encountered piano lessons as a kid, the reality is stark, certainly starker than for the wannabe guitarist. The pianist has to know the theory. Keys don’t let you slide, at least not in the way that lots of sludgy distortion can forgive a bum note on a guitar fretboard. “It’s like this mystical, weird thing when you start learning theory. Like, what makes a third, what makes a major different from a minor?” Benevento mused. “I’ve taught theory to some people, like my uncle who just kind of wanted to know how it all works. In the end though, it’s sound and what you like. Some of the best musicians don’t know a damn thing about theory. But I’ve seen other people get totally sidetracked by it, as if they don’t care about it but they think other people think they should care about it. Some people are really drawn to it, and that’s cool. But in the end, you should just play your music for other people to enjoy.” And Benevento, a self-admitted tennis junkie when he’s not playing the keyboard, has also taken up another hobby: skateboarding. “Yeah, I used to skate a lot when I was a kid, always wanted to do half-pipes and stuff like that, so I’ve started to do a little bit of it again. Kind of re-capturing some of my youth.” Suggests the elder, isn’t that a little... y’know, risky? “I wear boxing gloves, so I don’t hurt my hands.” Yeah... OK, so now try playing keys with boxing gloves. March 30, 2017 33

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ntil a decade ago, Rich Forer was a fervent supporter of Israel. Raised in a reformed synagogue in New Jersey with orthodox family living in the West Bank, how could he not be? But everything changed in the summer of 2006. As the second Lebanon War unfolded into a 33-day conflict between Israel and the paramilitary/political party Hezbollah, Forer grew increasingly distressed. He saw the latest conflict between Israel and its neighbors as further proof that his long-held beliefs were justified. “I believed Israeli soldiers only killed if they absolutely had to, and that Israel treated everybody fairly. But the Arab world was pathologically hateful towards Jews and they just wanted to drive the Jews into the sea,” he says. “But these are all myths that people are brought up with in Israel and in Jewish communities around the world.” After researching the conflict with more fervor than ever before, Forer was surprised by what he found. In addition to the atrocities committed against Jews living in Israel, he read documented accounts of human rights abuses committed by the Israeli military against the Palestinians by well-respected organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. “I was horrified by the things I was reading about what Israel was doing,” he says. At this point, he had what he calls a spiritual awakening, an epiphany if you will. “I transcended my limited identity as a Jew and rediscovered my common humanity or my common identity with all people,” he says. “Fear was replaced by compassion. And confusion, which always accompanies fear, was replaced by clarity. Ever since then, I’ve advocated equal rights for all people, not just some people, because it’s the only path to peace. It’s the only path that will save the Jews and the Palestinians. “ Forer’s story of transformation is one of 24 similar stories of Jewish Americans of all ages from all over the country captured in filmmaker Marjorie Wright’s 2016 award-winning documentary Jews Step Forward. Wright experienced a similar transformation herself during the first Intifada in the late 1980s. As a

ing Israel; it is not in the direction of long-term survival and productivity,” she says. “Sometimes, [even] in this country, we have leaders that are not taking us in a good direction and not everyone has to remain silent.” Several of the people featured in the film run their own organizations promoting peace between Israel and Palestine, while many have written books about the subject. Some are doctors, others lawyers, professors, journalists and activists. Two women, both of whom passed away in 2016, were Holocaust survivors. “They all have a strong Jewish identity and that identity is anchored in universal human rights,” Wright says. It’s what she calls tikkun olam, a Jewish religious principle meaning “to mend, heal and transform the world” that demands social action. “This is how these individuals view their Judaism and their responsibility,” Wright says. But speaking out against some of Israel’s actions isn’t about prioritizing Palestinians over Jews as some have criticized, Forer argues. “The way people talk about this subject is very confusing,” he says. “If someone criticizes Israel’s violation of human rights and simply wants Israel to comply with international law or simply expresses concern for the lives of Palestinians, they are considered pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli. And what I’m saying is, I’m no more pro-Palestinian than I am antiIsraeli. I am pro-human rights and anti-oppression, that’s all.” Although their position remains controversial among Jews and Israel supporters, with screenings of Jews Step Forward around the country, Wright and Forer seek to start a conversation that they hope will lead to lasting peace.

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ith a portfolio that description suggests, if Disenchanted were done seriously, it might be a bit much to includes Pixar, Lucasfilm (i.e., the Star bear, but because its tone remains as light and airy as a fairy godmother and it Wars empire), Marvel, piles laugh upon bawdy laugh, ABC, ESPN, Disenchanted is positively enchanting. Touchstone Pictures and the Muppets, Illuminated by wonderful old-schoolthese days Disney is the very definition done-new clamshell footlights courtesy of of market-capturing, multinational Scenic Designer Amy modernity. It shouldn’t Campion, Snow White be forgotten, however, ( Jessica Hindsley), that Walt built Disney ON THE BILL: Cinderella (Tracy Warren) on a firm foundation of Disenchanted. BDT Stage, and Sleeping Beauty bygone fairy tale movies 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. (Annie Dwyer) put on a like Snow White, Through May 6. Cinderella and Sleeping variety show of sorts durBeauty. What do all ing which a long list of those films have in comprincesses get to speak mon? They all contributed substantially their mind and say their piece. The opento — or as some believe, created — the ing number, “One More Happily Ever Princess Complex. After,” makes the ladies’ intentions clear with at least half a dozen suicide threats, In case you let your subscription to nearly as many sexual innuendos and a Psychology Today expire or simply don’t visual shoutout to Charlie’s Angels. have any young daughters, the Princess Needless to say, Disenchanted is not for the Complex (or Syndrome, in some circles) kiddies. This is strictly adults-only fare. posits that traditional princess stories BDT Stage mainstay (and warp girls’ minds and damage their selfDisenchanted’s director), Alicia K. Meyers, esteem by placing undue emphasis on women’s appearances, by defining women kicks the cavalcade of cartoon-inspired lunacy off as a straight-jacketed Belle from solely as motivations for or goals of men’s Beauty and the Beast. A life surrounded by quests, and by tying a woman’s worth talking housewares and filled with cleaning exclusively to the roles of object of desire, up after a beast (think curbing your dog) wife or mother. has driven her understandably insane. The Musical theater might not spring “beautiful and dutiful” Hua Mulan first to mind as a milieu for mounting a (Marijune Scott), or as she dubs herself, defense against the Princess Complex, “the painted whore of Chinese lore,” sings but that is precisely the raison d’etre of of her sorrows, and in a surprising move the rambunctious, grrrl-power comedy — at least for those of us who have never Disenchanted. Tired of being objectified seen her movie — makes a strong case that and marginalized — even in their own she is, in fact, a lesbian. stories — a passel of Disney princesses A drunk, angry Ariel of The Little storm the stage to take the piss out of Mermaid fame (Meyers again), decked the phallocentric hegemony. As that Boulder Weekly

out in ripped fishnet stockings and strategically-placed seashells (complete with Batman Forever-style articulated nipples), can’t believe she traded the freedom of the sea for a pair of legs she has to shave twice a week and a worthless man. The Princess Who Kissed the Frog (Anna High) sarcastically celebrates the overdue appearance of an African-American princess, aka “the fairy tale Jackie Brown.” And that’s just to namecheck a few of the plethora of princesses who take the stage. Every actress shines in different ways — Hindsley gives Snow White a Shannon Doherty circa 90210 bitchiness and has a nice set of pipes; Warren nails the exaggerated, breathy princess voice. But the jewel-encrusted tiara goes to Annie Dwyer’s Princess Ambien, I mean Sleeping Beauty. Very much like a female Wayne Kennedy — and I mean that as the highest compliment — Dwyer sticks out her tongue, rolls her eyes and mugs it up with joyous abandon. She’s the highlight of virtually every one of her scenes. As one expects from BDT Stage, all the technical elements, from Campion’s costumes to the props and the playing of the live band, are spot on. Combined with maximum effort from the director and cast, it’s no wonder there wasn’t an empty seat in the house on the night I attended, and I wouldn’t be surprised if tickets are hard to come by as word of Disenchanted’s dominance gets around. With laments about the burden of being drawn by sexually-frustrated men (the hilarious number “Big Tits”) and an overall feeling of raunchy empowerment, Disenchanted delivers.

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Boulder Arts Week Various locations. March 31-April 8. boulderartsweek.org. For the fourth year, the Boulder Arts Week is back with a packed schedule of the best art Boulder has to offer. The large-scale celebration features arts walks, exhibits, dance, music, theater, demonstrations, performances, readings, workshops and more. Boulder Arts Week blends the various voices of the city to provide a multi-dimensional experience that any art aficionado or newbie will appreciate. Check the full schedule at boulderartsweek.org.

Fools for a Day Award: Ian and Cora Frazier 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, Old Main, University of Colorado, 1600 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-6329. Instead of doing Wikimedia Commons/ Larry D. Moore something silly on April Fools’ Day, stop by Old Main and hear from a couple of goofs. Father and daughter duo Ian and Cora Frazier are humorists who plan to cast some light and laughter on the current goings-on in our world. Both Fraziers write for The New Yorker, as well as several other publications. Joined by Patty Limerick, the night is sure to hold more than a few giggles.

High West Oyster Fest. 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Courtesy of Boulder Theater

Paul Hoffman/Anders Beck Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. see EVENTS Page 40 Boulder Weekly

Since 1994, Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar has been providing fresh, delicious seafood to Boulder County, and all of Colorado. Ranked as one of the top 25 best American seafood resturants by Travel + Leisure, Jax’s reputation is prestigious. Quell your oyster craving by heading to the Boulder Theater for Jax’s High West Oyster Fest. Indulge in some good food and watch pros pound down during the Oyster Eating and Shucking competition. But be warned: Oysters are a known aphrodisiac.

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Thursday, March 30 Music Art Lande’s Taj Trio. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. Matt Skinner Trio. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Natalie Padilla CD Release Show. 7 p.m. Altona Grange Hall, 9386 N. 39th St., Longmont, Boulder, 406-539-1568. Nice Work Jazz Combo with Heidi Schmidt. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Oliver Jacobson CD Release Celebration. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Outback Saloon Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder, 573-569-0370. Reggae Night featuring the Dendrites. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Takács Quartet: Encore Series. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Events

The history of New York has been told many times, but Julie Scelfo focuses on the women who built the city into what it is today in her new book, The Women Who Made New York. See Scelfo at the Boulder Bookstore on March 30.

Thursday, March 30 Julie Scelfo — The Women Who Made New York. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Sunday, April 2 Heather Preusser — A Symphony of Cowbells. 11 a.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Monday, April 3 The Nobel Lecture Series Spring 2017. 7 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Aesthetics of Editing. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647. Cultural Cul-de-sac: This is Gonna Take Awhile: A BBQ Sampling Public Program. 5 p.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. NanoDays. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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Tuesday, April 4 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. John Glerach — A Fly Rod of Your Own. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Wednesday, April 5 CU MFA Showcase: Hector Ramirez. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Benjamin Hale — The Wild and the Wicked. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Smokes & Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Friday, March 31 Music Allie Chipkin. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Bethel Steele. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Boom! 6 p.m. Vali Soul Sanctuary, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-393-0434. Boulder Bach Festival Performance. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. G. Love & Special Sauce — Fox 25th Anniversary Show at Fox Theatre. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Genetics with Smooth Money Gesture. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Disney princesses take the spotlight in the BDT Stage’s production of Disenchanted, playing through May 6. Read BW’s review on page 37. A Skull in Connemara. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through April 30.

Glovebox Money at Bohemian Biergarten. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Disenchanted. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 6.

Judo Chop. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

James and the Giant Peach — presented by Phamaly Theater Company. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. April 1-2.

Mitchel Evan. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Travelers of the Lost Dimension. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through May 21.

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Disgraced. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through May 7.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown. 7:30 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through April 2.

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Paradise Theater with Project Foreigner. 7:45 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Blues. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 720-606-1734. Remember with North Boulder Underground. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Artist Larry “Bug” Franklin explores humanity’s insatiable appetite for genocide in his exhibit Signature. For more on Bug and the show, go to page 29

Sean Farley. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Second Acts. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Songs, Ukuleles and Fun with Mr. John Camp. 9 a.m. City of Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979-1980. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 7.

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

Mi Tierra. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 22.

Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8300. Through June 24.

Once Removed: Photography by Evan Anderman. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through April 23.

Colorado Lowriders. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Through May 31.

Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 20.

Colorado Mosaic Artists. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through June 2.

Signature — Bug. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 9.

Double Exposure: An Exhibition of Photography and Video. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 26.

Star Wars and the Power of Costume. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 9.

Home: American photography at the CU Art Museum. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through July 15.

Then, Now, Next. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 31.

Password:Comedy. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-412-8604.

Impossible Humans: The International Collection. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 9.

Transmission — Michelle Robinson. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 9.

BRIAH Danse: Three Worlds. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

Mathias Kessler: Artifacts & Other Errors of Perception. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through May 29.

Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 7.

Saturday, April 1

Meetings in Isolation — Anna Olsson. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 30.

Events Back to the Future at Boulder Theater. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Boulder Arts Week Kick-Off. 5:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-771-4940. Dance Nia on Friday Nights at LRC. 6 p.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800. DIY Rubber Band Bracelets and Key Chains. 3 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.

Music The CBDs. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Elder Grown. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

20th Annual Spring Mineral & Jewelry Showing. 11 a.m. Hands of Spirit’s Crystalline Temple, 65 Betasso Road, Boulder, 303-541-9727.

Goyescas: Spanish Opera and Zarzuela. 4 p.m. City of Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Boulder Symphony-Mozart’s Grand Slam Gala. 5:30 p.m. Black Lab Sports, 3550 Frontier Avenue, Unit D, Boulder, 720-383-1610.

House Concert with Felonius Smith. 4:30 p.m. Local Home, Address Provided Upon Purchase, Longmont.

The Hunters. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

LARCFEST Spring Craft/Vendor Show. 8 a.m. Barn A, Boulder County Fair Grounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-834-8192.

Lenore Raphael ($10 cover). 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Jyemo Club & Intuit. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Mortified Live: April Fools. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. The Hashtones, Hobo Swagger, Sugar Mill Sunset. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Kerry Pastine, The Crime Scene and The Movers, The Shakers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Lyons Old-time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303827-6322.

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Marco Benevento. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

BRIAH Danse: Three Worlds. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

Marcus Lucas Show. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Sunday, April 2

Playback Theatre West. 8 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Events 42 March 30, 2017

Saturday Dance Series. 9:30 a.m. Community Dance Collective, 2020b 21st St., Boulder, 401-450-2006.

Music Boulder Friends of Jazz Jam Session. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Events 20th Annual Spring Mineral & Jewelry Showing. 11 a.m. Hands of Spirit’s Crystalline Temple, 65 Betasso Road, Boulder, 303-541-9727. Anime Club. 3 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Dance Nia on Sunday mornings at LRC. 11 a.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-4408007. BRIAH Danse: Three Worlds. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. see EVENTS Page 44

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Monday, April 3 Music Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St, Boulder, Boulder, 303-447-BREW. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Events Beginning Tap Dance. 6 p.m. Viriditas Dance Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder, 720-561-5967. Country Line Dancing. 6:30 p.m. Platt Middle

School, 6096 Baseline Road, Boulder, 720-561-5967. Hip Hop. 3:30 p.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303665-0469. Mini Hip Hop and Creative Movement. 2:30 p.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Tuesday, April 4 Music

Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

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Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-771-4940.

Wednesday, April 5

Events Fools for a Day Award: Ian and Cora Frazier. 6:30 p.m. Old Main Chapel, 1600 Pleasant St., Boulder. High West Oyster Fest at Boulder Theater. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Smokes & Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar,

Snark Attack Tuesday. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. Music Drop-In Acoustic Jam — Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave, Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Library Lab. 9 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Open Mic Night at Sanitas Brewing Company. 7 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Unit 1, Boulder, 303-4424130. Paul Hoffman/Anders Beck Quartet at Fox Theatre. 7:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Prairie Scholars: Sushi & Sake. 5 p.m. East Moon Asian Bistro, 2144 Main St., Suite 1, Longmont. Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Reggae Night at the Boulder House. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108. Tango with the Trifilio Trio. 2 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Events Ballet. 3:50 p.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303665-0469. CU Engineering Internship Fair. 10 a.m. The Idea Forge, Fleming Building, University of Colorado Boulder, 2445 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder, 303-842-8233. Free Dance Class (3-6 Year Olds) — Princess and Pirate Time! 4:30 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Dr., Suite 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719. Kindergarten Ballet. 3:05 p.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469. Lunch & Learn with PowerPoint. 12 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647. Swing Dance Lessons. 6:30 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Swing Dancing. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

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Unlike objects, two stories can occupy the same space by Charles Peek

Out along the last curve in the brick walk the grass has begun to green, with the freezing cold and coming snow its certain fate. The cranes make the same mistake, fields of red capped heads attest their arrival just before the worst blizzard of winter makes it impossible to tell the field from the river. And we, too, have known these mortal mishaps, miscalculated our time, found ourselves out of step, arriving too early, staying on too late, misjudging the nearness, the vengeance of the storm. The cranes, the grass, they tell us: this can go on for millions of years. American Life in Poetry: Column 624: Charles Peek is a Nebraska poet who lives near that section of the Platte River where early each year hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes pause in their migration to nourish themselves for the long flight north. There have been many poems written about the cranes, but this one reaches a little further into our lives. Peek’s recent collection of poems is Breezes on their Way to Being Winds, from Finishing Line Press. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright© 2016 by Charles Peek, “Unlike objects, two stories can occupy the same space,” (2016). Poem reprinted by permission of Charles Peek. Introduction copyright © 2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

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This reboot of the 1990s TV show features five teenagers who must stop Elizabeth Banks from getting to a Krispy Kreme. That’s the real plot. And you know what? It’s pretty great.

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ew films can announce themselves as succinctly with an opening image as Frantz does. In the foreground: green leaves and pink flowers waving in the breeze. In the distance: a provincial German town draped in monochromatic black and white. In this single image, director François Ozon ON THE BILL: announces his intentions; what is to follow is a Frantz. April 12–15, The Dairy Arts collision of past and present, memory and reality, Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, deception and truth. 303-440-7825, thedairy.org. Landmark Mayan opening That collision takes place in the gravest of all Friday, March 31,110 Broadway, locations, a cemetery. Here, Anna (Paula Beer) Denver, 303-744-6799, has come to pay her respects to her recently landmarktheatres.com/Denver. deceased fiancée, Frantz, who was killed in the trenches of World War I. Much to her surprise, flowers have already been placed on his grave. Who visited her beloved, she asks the gravedigger. He replies by holding up a Franc coin and spitting in disgust. The year is 1919 and German repulsion for the victorious French is at an all-time high. That mysterious French visitor is Adrien (Pierre Niney), a man who claims to be Frantz’s closest friend and is merely paying his respects. Anna invites Adrien to meet Frantz’s parents, and he charms them with stories from his time as a student in Paris with Frantz. Even though Frantz’s father belongs to a vocal and radical anti-French political group, he welcomes Adrien into his home and life. Despite their differing nationalities, he sees that the children pay dearly for the sins of their fathers, and this war was their most egregious sin. Little by little, Anna falls for the handsome Frenchman, as do Frantz’s parents, but Adrien harbors a secret, one that will wrap up Anna entirely. Everybody lies. Some to others; others to themselves, but every lie is different. Some lies are told in favor of protection, others for deception. Either Frantz isn’t a scary movie, but it is a ghost story in which lies are way, the truth will abundant. come out and all will be devastated. Loosely based on the 1932 American movie Broken Lullaby, Frantz is expertly directed by Ozon in a twisty manner, one that keeps viewers guessing until the final seconds. That’s not to say Frantz is a mystery to be resolved, but it is a ghost story, haunted by not only Frantz, but by all the sons of France and Germany who were lost during the Great War. Unfortunately, this mourning will not bring about any resolution. Looking at these events with the privilege of history, we can see the seeds of another war being sown. At one point a Parisian café bursts into a vociferous rendition of “La Marseilles” at the sight of decorated officers. Though Anna finds herself on enemy soil, she must bear witness to this showing of victorious patriotism. One cannot help but think back to an earlier scene where Frantz’s father cowered in a pub corner with a group of defeated German patriots, plotting their return. It was not enough that Germany was defeated in the war; they had to be humiliated as well. That is the sad truth that Anna faces as she travels from Germany to France searching for an explanation. Fortunately for Anna, she can transcend that humiliation and find a truth worth living for. Boulder Weekly

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beef and veggie tacos can be purchased on the extracheap — three for $5 during happy hour, which, by the way is all day on Taco Tuesdays — the main menu tacos are more... artistic. The menu takes a note from the seasonalfood movement; of the nine tacos that are always on the menu, eight change each quarter to include in-season ingredients. Just a sampling of the tacos on deck during my last visit to Taco Junky include: the Pot-Toc with potato plantain fritters, cumin lime aioli and fresno pepper; the Double-G with slow-roasted lamb, Mediterranean salsa verde, feta cheese and hummus; the B+Omega 3 with grilled salmon, edamame pesto and caramel soy bok choy; the Caymen with island jerk chicken, coconut avocado mousse and mescal pineapple.

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pizza delivery person, but not takeout. Generally, I do tip when I get takeout, even if it’s just a few coins. Long ago I worked in restaurants in Boulder and appreciate the work involved. The amount depends on a lot of things, like whether I’m a regular. That seems to be true for many diners who always get takeout from the Susan France same places and “especially if people are informative, enthusiastic or helpful,” one of my friend’s said. I asked Laura Bloom, a friend who has dined far and wide, how she dealt with it. “In principal, I don’t believe in tipping for takeout food because I’m not getting service throughout my meal. That said, if someone is just really nice to me or the restaurant is good at guilting me into it without going overboard and making me feel pushed into it, I’ll usually tip a bit,” she said. Q: Do you tip more for carryout from a full service restaurant and less for the same purchase at a fast casual eatery? Do you tip a higher percentage for your latte or a sandwich at Panera?

Do you tip more for sushi than for tacos? A: I tip depending on how I’m treated when I walk in and while I’m waiting for my food. I do tip more when I order my barbecue to-go through a bartender at the bar - somehow it seems natural. One common response: “I tip whatever coins I receive in change unless it’s just a few cents, in which case I feel compelled to add a dollar to it.” Q: Who tips for takeout pizza? They aren’t doing the dishes or refilling your water. Why would anyone tip when they aren’t getting service? A: My unscientific opinion is that most people tip a little most of the time, even if they aren’t sure why. According to a CNBC online poll of almost 40,000 Americans, only 14 percent said that they tip for takeout. That percentage seems way too low to me. Maybe it’s a question of definition: What constitutes “takeout?” I don’t tip for food I get at drive-through windows unless a barista is involved. You have to draw the line somewhere. One (male)

friend told me, “I tip more if I am physically attracted to the person handing me my food. “I wish prices would just reflect what it costs to pay a living wage for all employees rather than me continually have to make an arbitrary decision about how much to tip.” I agree, but the U.S. is a long way from being tip-free. According to the etiquette experts, emilypost.com, you are under “no obligation” to tip for takeout, unless it is curb-side delivery or it is a large, complicated order. I believe that if you want your takeout tofu jungle curry then you have to pay your fair share for the human infrastructure required to produce the dish. As one friend put it: “Cashiers need to make a living, too.” Q: Who actually gets your tip when a customer picks up takeout food? A: You can always ask if the eatery pools its tips and splits them. One person told me that they do tip for espresso but don’t when they were picking up Chinese food (at their favorite eatery) because “I know the owner is pocketing the money.” I asked chef James Van Dyk of Mojo Taqueria in Lyons why customers should tip for takeout food. “There is always labor involved in serving food. All of those paper goods cost restausee NIBBLES Page 54

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The Boulder County Farmers Market opens for the season at 8 a.m. Saturday in Boulder and Longmont. New veggie vendors in Boulder include asparagus experts, Kiowa Valley Organic. Food court additions range from Wholly Bao (sandwich-like filled steamed buns) and Yayi’s Empanadas to Chaos & Cream (Thai-style rolled ice cream) and On Tap Kitchen (soft and crunchy pretzels). Other new vendors include Louisville’s artisan Moxie Bread Company, Vapor Distillery (spirits) Fabulous Fruits (honey-sweetened fruit butter), and Sunshine Foods with organic, pourable Swedish pancake batter in refillable glass bottles. ... Bravo’s Top Chef series will be filming its 15th season in Boulder, Denver and Telluride in the coming months. No word yet on which local chefs will be trying to impress the judges including Padma Lakshmi.

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Singular units of tastiness are available (but hidden) in the parking lot behind Union Jack Liquor at the southwest corner of 95th Street and South Boulder Road in Louisville. Pupusas is the small, red trailer semi-permanently parked there. Pupusas are all that the family-run shop sells. The griddled soft cornmeal pancakes are filled in the middle with cheese and a choice of fillings such as beans, loroco (a mild green flower bud), mushrooms, pepperoni and rajas (summer squash). A sign on the side of the trailer notes with some urgency and exclamation points that these pupusas are an authentic, madeto-order food that takes a solid 15 minutes to cook. They are not microwaved and well worth the wait. There are a couple of tables in the back and some logs to sit on, or you can go buy some beer although you can’t drink it. Regulars know to call ahead. I went with one pork and one chicken pupusa. Combining bites of molten pupusa with crispy curtido cabbage and jalapeño slaw and tomato salsa is a little piece of street food heaven.

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bobble-head dolls in your LIBRA likeness, each wearing a SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: royal crown, and give them Research shows that a away to everyone you know. typical working couple Or enlist a pilot to fly a devotes an average of small plane over a sportfour minutes per day in ing event while trailing a Go to RealAstrology.com to check out meaningful conversations. banner that reads, “[Your Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO I suggest you boost that name] is a gorgeous genius HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE output by at least 10 perworthy of worshipful revHOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes cent. Try to engage your erence.” APRIL FOOL! best companion in four are also available by phone at What I just advised was a minutes and 24 seconds 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. distorted interpretation of of intimate talk per day. the cosmic omens. Here’s APRIL FOOL! I lied. A the truth: The best way to 10-percent increase isn’t nearly enough. Given the current celebrate your surging power is not by reveling in frivolous astrological indicators, you must seek out longer and deeper displays of pride, but rather by making a bold move that exchanges with the people you love. Can you manage 20 will render a fantastic dream ten percent more possible for minutes per day? you to accomplish.

ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: The dragon that stole your trea-

sure will return it. Tulips and snapdragons will blossom in a field you thought was a wasteland. Gargoyles from the abyss will crawl into view, but then meekly lick your hand and reveal secrets you can really use. The dour troll that guards the bridge to the Next Big Thing will let you pass even though you don’t have the password. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just described is only metaphorically true, not literally.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: According to legend, Buddha had

to face daunting tests to achieve enlightenment. A diabolical adversary tempted him with sensual excesses and assailed him with vortexes of blistering mud, flaming ice and howling rocks. Happily, Buddha glided into a state of wise calm and triumphed over the mayhem. He converted his nemesis’s vortexes into bouquets of flowers and celestial ointments. What does this have to do with you? In accordance with current astrological omens, I hope you will emulate Buddha as you deal with your own initiatory tests. APRIL FOOL! I wasn’t completely honest. It’s true you’ll face initiatory tests that could prod you to a higher level of wisdom. But they’ll most likely come from allies and inner prompts rather than a diabolical adversary.

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Endangered species: black rhino, Bornean orangutan, hawksbill turtle, South China tiger, Sumatran elephant and the Leo messiah complex. You may not be able to do much to preserve the first five on that list, but PLEASE get to work on saving the last. It’s time for a massive eruption of your megalomania. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating for effect. There’s no need to go overboard in reclaiming your messiah complex. But please do take strong action to stoke your self-respect, self-esteem and confidence.

MAY 21-JUNE 20: Since I expect you’ll soon be tempted

to indulge in too much debauched fun and riotous release, I’ll offer you a good hangover remedy. Throw these ingredients into a blender, then drink up: a thousand-year-old quail egg from China, seaweed from Antarctica, milk from an Iraqi donkey, lemon juice imported from Kazakhstan and a dab of Argentinian toothpaste on which the moon has shone for an hour. APRIL FOOL! I deceived you. You won’t have to get crazy drunk or stoned to enjoy extreme pleasure and cathartic abandon. It will come to you quite naturally — especially if you expand your mind through travel, big ideas or healthy experiments.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Race through your yoga routine so you have more time to surf the Internet. Inhale doughnuts and vodka in the car as you race to the health food store. Get into a screaming fight with a loved one about how you desperately need more peace and tenderness. APRIL FOOL! A little bit of self-contradiction would be cute, but not THAT much. And yet I do worry that you are close to expressing THAT much. The problem may be that you haven’t been giving your inner rebel any high-quality mischief to attend to. As a result, it’s bogged down in trivial insurrections. So please give your inner rebel more important work to do.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Hire a promoter to create gold

plaques listing your accomplishments and hang them up in public places. Or pay someone to make a thousand

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: You should begin work on a book with

one of the following titles, and you should finish writing it no later than April 28: The Totally Intense Four Weeks of My Life When I Came All the Way Home ... The Wildly Productive Four Weeks of My Life when I Discovered the Ultimate Secrets of Domestic Bliss ... The Crazily Meaningful Four Weeks When I Permanently Anchored Myself in the Nourishing Depths. APRIL FOOL! I lied. There’s no need to actually write a book like that. But I do hope you seek out and generate experiences that would enable you to write books with those titles.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: If you were a passenger on a plane full of your favorite celebrities, and the pilot had to make an emergency landing on a remote snowbound mountain, and you had to eat one of the celebrities in order to stay alive until rescuers found you, which celebrity would you want to eat first? APRIL FOOL! That was a really stupid and pointless question. I can’t believe I asked it. I hope you didn’t waste a nanosecond thinking about what your reply might be. Here’s the truth, Aquarius: You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when the single most important thing you can do is ask and answer really good questions.

SCORPIO

LEO

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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: In a way, it’s too bad you’re about to lose your mind. The chaos that ensues will be a big chore to clean up. But in another sense, losing your mind may be a lucky development. The process of reassembling it will be entertaining and informative. And as a result, your problems will become more fascinating than usual, and your sins will be especially original. APRIL FOOL! I lied, sort of. You won’t really lose your mind. But this much is true: Your problems will be more fascinating than usual, and your sins will be especially original. That’s a good thing! It may even help you recover a rogue part of your mind that you lost a while back.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: You now have an elevated chance

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SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: You say that some of the healthiest foods don’t taste good? And that some of your pleasurable diversions seem to bother people you care about? You say it’s too much hassle to arrange for a certain adventure that you know would be exciting and meaningful? Here’s what I have to say about all that: Stop whining. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, there will soon be far fewer reasons for you to whine. The discrepancies between what you have to do and what you want to do will at least partially dissolve. So will the gaps between what’s good for you and what feels good, and between what pleases others and what pleases you.

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Dear Dan: Gay guy here. Met a guy online. He came over. We had incredible sex and then a great conversation lasting several hours. But — and you knew there was one coming — he told me that he lied about his HIV status. (I asked him before meeting him, like I do with anyone.) He is undetectable, but he told me initially he was “HIV/ STD negative.” I got very upset — more from the lie than his status. (I know that undetectable is practically the same as negative.) I really like him, but that was a big lie. He told me all about his life and any other secrets after that. Should I swear off him for lying about such a big topic? Or is the fact he did tell me and our connection enough to give him a second chance? I had not been that happy up till the reveal in, well, maybe ever. But I want to be wise. — Did Ask, Didn’t Tell Dear DADT: Why would he lie? To avoid rejection. Obviously. Guys often refuse to hook up with guys who are honest about being HIV-positive even though a positive guy with an undetectable viral load is less of a risk — at least where HIV transmission is concerned — than a guy

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who believes himself to be negative because he was the last time he got tested or because he doesn’t think he could ever get infected and so has never been tested. Someone who was recently infected is highly infectious; someone who doesn’t think he could ever get infected — because he doesn’t sleep with older guys, because he only tops, because his ass is magic and he uses unicorn spit for lube — is a fucking idiot, and fucking idiots are higher risk for fucking everything. Sometimes positive guys get sick of being punished for being honest, and so they lie — and it’s particularly tempting to lie to someone you don’t expect to see again, i.e., a quick hookup. HIV-positive people shouldn’t lie to their sex partners. Obviously. People should be honest, informed consent is consent, and lying about your HIV status can be risky for people with HIV. Thanks to stupid laws passed by ill-informed idiots, failing to inform a sex partner you’re HIV-positive is a crime in many areas. There are people in prison today — mostly men, mostly black — for failing to disclose. These disclosure laws incentivize not knowing your status

— you can’t be punished for not disclosing what you don’t know — putting everyone at higher risk. Why would he tell the truth? It’s possible he lied to you about his status — a lie he regarded as harmless thanks to his undetectable viral load — because he assumed this would be a hookup and nothing more. He wasn’t going to infect you and he wasn’t going to see you again. But after you two hit it off, DADT, he decided to tell you the truth right away instead of waiting weeks or months. The connection you describe is hard to find — this could be the start of something great — but the lie he told was big, yes, but understandable. I think he deserves credit for coming clean right away — and a second chance. Dear Dan: I’m a teenage girl and I’m really horny. I always think about sex, and I’d like to masturbate sometimes. I can’t live in this way, sometimes I feel physically and psychologically bad because of this terrible need to have sex or stuff. I’m single, and I don’t want to lose my virginity with a random guy. I really need some advice from

you! How can I masturbate or quit this exaggerated libido? — Don’t Reveal My Name Dear DRMN: Your libido is your libido, DRMN. It isn’t exaggerated, it simply is. Some people have high libidos, some people have low libidos, some people have no libidos, and an individual’s libido can wax and wane and wax again over the years. You’re at the stage of life when people tend to be at their horniest and consequently think about sex a lot. Women and girls, too. (Don’t let anyone tell you that women aren’t as horny as men — reread the last letter.) If you find yourself distracted by sexual thoughts, DRMN, masturbating can help — most people find they can concentrate on other things for at least an hour once they’ve rubbed one or two or three out. As for how you masturbate… Masturbate on your own or with a partner, in private, and whenever you feel the desire or need to. Enjoy! Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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n November, InSys Therapeutics, an Arizonabased pharmaceutical company, donated $500,000 to the successful campaign to defeat a marijuana legalization initiative in their home state. In December, the company’s ex-CEO and six other former top executives were arrested and accused of bribing doctors, defrauding insurance companies and fueling America’s opioid crisis by way of the illegal marketing of Fetanyl. InSys’ stocks plummeted, but a certain small group of analysts were optimistic. These positive expectations were largely based on the company’s new Public Domain (NASA) drug Syndros, a synthetic marijuana compound that had been granted approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of anorexia in AIDS patients and nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing chemotherapy. Last week the drug received preliminary approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the company gained a minor bump in stock valuation to boot. So after a year of duplicitous behavior by InSys, their fake version of marijuana has earned a Schedule II classification and rights to a potentially profitable and patent-protected new market. But the real marijuana is still a Schedule I drug currently being threatened by a federal crackdown. Welcome to Bizarro World. Bizarro World (originally htraE — Earth spelled backwards) is a fictional planet from DC’s Superman comics from the 1960s but which many of us know about because of a particularly memorable episode of Seinfeld in which Elaine substitutes her old crew for a new one with an uncanny resemblance to Jerry, Kramer and George, but who act like their exact

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opposites. As Jerry says, “in Bizarro World up is down, down is up. [You] say hello when [you] leave and goodbye when [you] arrive.” Similarly, for those of us living in real-world legalized marijuana markets, the whole Syndros situation seems too odd to be trustworthy. How is it possible that a synthetic oral solution of the cannabinoid dronabinol (a pharmaceutical version of tetrahydrocannabinol, otherwise known as THC) breaks through rigid scheduling of the Controlled Substances Act while botanical or “whole plant” marijuana is totally blockaded? With the DEA, FDA and InSys all predictably tightlipped, we’re left grappling with what has become an all-toofamiliar line of questioning in this day and age: What is the difference between real and fake and why does it matter? Or, as Guy Debord asks in his 1967 book Society of the Spectacle, how do we end up in a place where the authentic is replaced with artificial? How do we come to live “in a world which really is topsy-turvy, [where] the true is a moment of the false?” It’s not so simple, because synthetic does not necessarily equivocate with falsity. Its Greek origin — syntithenai — merely means “put together.” What is “real,” then, seems to have less to do with substance itself than it does with our own cultural persuasion and positioning. As painted by Debord, the threat of the spectacle is that the proliferation of capitalist markets and media will completely replace direct experience with its interpretation, leaving society at large prone to manipulation. This is what creates a world where we can look at a meager inauguration crowd and actually engage in

(weeks worth of ) conversation about whether or not there is validity to the claim that it is the “biggest in history.” Or how InSys can simultaneously sell addictive Fentanyl and its antidote, Buprenorphine Naloxone. Or how marijuana remains federally illegal while synthetic THC is granted medical and political legitimacy by the FDA and DEA. Collectively, we are struggling to distinguish between experience and its interpretation. But the thing about real marijuana is that it doesn’t just palliate pain or rouse the appetite, it induces an experience of which those effects are a part. THC is a psychoactive substance — it’s what makes marijuana marijuana — but on InSys’ website that property is portrayed differently — as a side effect: “Syndros may cause psychiatric and cognitive effects and impair mental and/or physical abilities.” Do you feel better now that getting high comes with a warning and a prescription? InSys sure hopes you do as they “expect to convert a large portion of the market to Syndros as well as expand the market through direct detailing to physicians, highlighting the improved product profile of Syndros.” Through this sort of marketing and with their newfound DEA clearance, a few analysts think they will be able to double their stock price based on the release of this one drug alone. But there is something deep down in me that doubts we can be so thoroughly duped as to mistake Syndros for cannabis, thraE for Earth, Bizarro Jerry for real Jerry. As Susan Sontag asserts in her final book, Regarding the Pain of Others, there is a limit to the trance of the spectacle: ‘’To speak of reality becoming a spectacle is a breathtaking provincialism. It universalizes the viewing habits of a small, educated population living in the rich part of the world, where news has been converted into entertainment. ... It assumes that everyone is a spectator. It suggests, perversely, unseriously, that there is no real suffering in the world ... There are hundreds of millions of television watchers who are far from inured to what they see on television. They do not have the luxury of patronizing reality.”

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Would John Calhoun approve of states legalizing pot?

ohn C. Calhoun is a slave-owning dead white guy whose big idea is suddenly all the rage again — and in no small part due to marijuana. These days Calhoun isn’t as well-known as slave-owning dead white guys like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Still, chances are you would have heard of him if you were paying attention in white-privilege class (or, as we used to call it, American history). Between 1817 and his death in 1850, Calhoun served as secretary of war, vice president for two different presidents, secretary of state and U.S. senator from South Carolina. But what he’s remembered for is his political thought, which laid the ideological foundation for secession and the Confederacy. Calhoun’s biggest idea, and the one that is catching on again today, is nullification. Nullification is the concept that state governments have the right to invalidate federal laws that they consider unconstitutional. Calhoun maintained that the federal government’s powers were restricted to those specifically granted to it by the Constitution, also called “the enumerated powers,” and that in the exercise of all other political power, the states were superior to the federal government. A state could nullify within its borders any federal law that went beyond the enumerated powers, he said, and secede if the feds objected. Today’s flirtation with nullification has taken two forms — the sanctuary city movement and state-level legalization of marijuana.

There are currently about 300 so-called sanctuary cities, counties and states in the U.S. The governments in each has voted either to refrain from or ban local enforcement of federal immigration law within their boundaries — or more plainly to nullify it. As for marijuana, eight states and the District of Columbia have voted to legalize and regulate it, and 28 states have voted to legalize it for medical purposes, notwithstanding the fact that possession, use, production and sale of pot are all federal felonies. Which raises an obvious question: Is there any difference between nullification and rebellion? In 1832, President Andrew Jackson didn’t think so. On Nov. 24, 1832, the legislature of Calhoun’s home state of South Carolina voted to formally nullify a high protective tariff that Congress had passed in 1828. Southerners considered the tariff, which they dubbed the “Tariff of Abominations,” particularly damaging to their economic and social interests. Calhoun spent four years arguing that South Carolina had the right to nullify the tariff — and to secede from the union if the feds didn’t accept the

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tariff ’s nullification. President Jackson wasn’t amused. He promptly sent a naval squadron into Charleston Harbor and threatened to hang Calhoun or any man who worked to support nullification or secession. (The South Carolina legislature blinked, decided to quit being the resistance and embraced The Art of the Deal. The Deal, in this case, being the Compromise Tariff of 1833, which was put together by one of America’s all-time great deal-makers, Henry Clay.) OK, there are major differences between 1832style nullification and the 2017 versions. For one thing, neither the sanctuary cities or the states with legalized pot are threatening to use force to prevent the enforcement of federal law within their jurisdictions, as South Carolina was. Sanctuary cities for the most part are practicing non-cooperation with federal law, which is a less brazen form of nullification than affirmatively preventing its enforcement. In the case of marijuana, the states that have legalized did so by repealing state laws and saying nothing about the enforcement of federal ones. They said to the feds, in so many words, “you do your own thing and we’ll do ours.” And the federal government has enforced federal anti-pot laws in states that have legalized, often with the help of local authorities when the feds asked for it. But the federal government has also been circumspect about enforcing federal pot law in states that have legalized; the guidelines in the Cole Memorandum have averted a head-on clash with the states. Marijuana legalization may be an example of latter-day nullification, but it’s nullification lite. It’s still nullification, though, and that can be a ticking time bomb. That’s why there’s real urgency for Congress passing legislation that defers to the states on pot. South Carolina may have backed down in 1833, but things didn’t end as happily in 1861. You can only kick a can of dynamite down the road for so long before it blows. And Trump has a portrait of Jackson hanging in the Oval Office. Just sayin’.

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The waiting is over Boulder. No, Bernie hasn’t taken over the White House... yet. But finally, the Boulder City Council has announced... wait for it... the official pet designation for the City of Boulder. You can let out that sigh of relief now. We’re not sure what was on the table — hamster? black bear? goldfish? — but we know the Council probably had some sleepless nights mulling over the decision. So what, you ask, did they settle on? Drumroll please. Boulder’s official pet is the kitty cat. (We’re not sure what the “kitty” adds, but we’re just here to report the facts.) Now, here at the newspaper office, there’s some debate on cats. Some are staunch cat lovers, while others think cats are “sleazy.” (Yeah, we’re not sure how cats can be sleazy, but everyone’s allowed their opinion.) But, in general, we at BW approve the choice. Good on you, City Council. The vote happened during what had to have been a heated, contentious breakfast. This isn’t your typical brunch ladies and gentleman; this is serious. It came down to three votes for dogs and six votes for cats. And as one brave member said, “We just think kitties really have the heart of Boulder.” And another, “They are soft, cuddly, and they purr.” And probably the biggest defense: “They are clean and unlike dogs.” Now who can argue with that? Probably owners of clean dogs. But we digress. What a great place to live. Next big choice: What is Boulder’s official color? Submit your votes now. Boulder Weekly

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