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Who are the serial killers of America’s newspapers? by Jim Hightower

n a recent two-panel cartoon, a character holds a sign saying: “First they came for the reporters.” In the next panel, his sign says: “We don’t know what happened after that.” It was, of course, a retort to Donald Trump’s ignorant campaign to demonize the news media as “the enemy of the people.” But the worst enemy of America’s local and regional newspapers is not our ranting president, but a new breed of fastbuck hucksters who’ve scooped up hundreds of America’s newspapers from the bargain bins of media sell-offs. The buyers are hedge-fund scavengers with nondescript names like I

Digital First and GateHouse. They know nothing about journalism and care less, for they’re Wall Street profiteers out to grab big bucks fast by slashing the journalistic staffs of each paper, voiding all employee benefits, shriveling the paper’s size and news content, selling the presses and other assets, tripling the price of their inferior product — then declaring bankruptcy, shutting down the paper and auctioning off the bones before moving on to plunder another town’s paper. America’s two largest newspaper chains today are not venerable publishers with a basic commitment to civic APRIL 11, 2019

responsibility, but GateHouse and Digital First, whose managers believe that good journalism is measured by the personal profit they can squeeze from it. As revealed last year in an American Prospect article, GateHouse executives had demanded that its papers cut $27 million from their operating expenses, eliminating jobs and slashing paychecks. Meanwhile, one employee — the hedge fund’s CEO — extracted $54 million in personal pay from the conglomerate, including an $11 million bonus. To these absentee owners, newspapers are no more than pipelines — a means of hauling enormous financial wealth and social well-being out of our communities. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. I

Nixon and Beelzebub explain how to form a more perfect union By Paul Danish

he Idea Fairy and I had just polished off an excellent plate of edibles when there was a knock at the door. It was Beelzebub. And Richard

Nixon. “How might we be of service?” ’Bub said suavely, flicking his sparking tail from side-to-side. “I have no earthly, or unearthly idea,” I said, flinging open the windows to let the hydrogen sulfide fumes out. “There must be some mistake.” “You seem to be having shortterm memory problems, Buster,” he snapped. “We’re here because you summoned us.” “The only thing I summoned recently was take-out from the Chinese place,” I shot back. “Allow me to refresh your miserable excuse for a memory, dim sum for brains,” he said, whipping out a well-used, soot-covered smart phone. “Last week you paid your taxes, right?” “Yeah...” “And you sent the IRS this check,” he went on, holding the phone about six inches from my nose. Through the glass I made out the image of my check. “That’s it,” I said. “Pay to the order of Uncle Sam, $666.66...” “Exactly!” He said triumphantly. “The IRS recognized your cry for help and immediately forwarded it to us. We left for Earth as soon as it cleared the bank.” “OK,” I said slowly, stalling for time. “I didn’t realize that writing a check for $666.66 could conjure you up. All that 666, sign-of-the-beast stuff, now I get it. But what about Nixon?” “He’s what you get for the 66 cents,” ’Bub said. “So now that we’re here, what do you want us to do?” “And it better be good,” Nixon added. “There’s a substantial penalty 6

for false demon-conjuring.” I realized I had to think fast. “Well, come to think of it, all the deplorable shit the Democrats have been doing lately — like the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, and the Green New Deal, and Reparations and so on — have been driving all my deplorable pals crazy. So they’ve been buying extra ammo and talking up secession. Have you guys got any ideas on how to make it happen?” “Putin keeps asking us the same question,” ’Bub said. “Secession is a terrible idea,” Nixon said emphatically. “It didn’t work in 1861, and it won’t work now. Anyway, why would patriotic Americans want to stamp out of the U.S.A. and turn it over to the slimeAmerica-first crowd? Tell your pals to forget it. “Anyway, I have a fiendishly clever alternative.” He paused for effect. “What do you have in mind?” I asked cautiously. “Expulsion!” he exclaimed. “Instead of red states fighting to leave the USA, they should kick the blue states out of the Union and make them fight to get back in.” “Wow, that’s really creative,” I said. “And it would be really cool to arrest someone besides a lot of poor Central Americans for trying to sneak into the country.” “But wouldn’t we have to amend the Constitution in order to toss a state out of the Union,” I added. “At first I thought so too,” the Tricky One said. “But then I realized there was a fiendishly clever way around that.” He paused for effect again. I looked at him quizzically. “An interstate compact — just like the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact!” he thundered. “But using an interstate compact see DANISH PLAN Page 8

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On student debt

Growing up, I was privileged to know that higher education would always be an option for me and I had a support system to help me navigate financial aid and student loans should I need them. Others are not nearly as fortunate as I am, and there are nearly $19 billion of student debt in Colorado alone. Our state is in crisis under this burden. Currently, Senate Bill 002 is moving through the Colorado legislature. This bill would protect students in the process of paying back their student loans by holding student loan servicers accountable. Under current legislation, a student loan is the only type of consumer loan that doesn’t require the people servicing them to be licensed or to follow the same regulations that mortgages, credit cards and car loans do. The burden of student debt is felt just as heavy as that of credit card debt or car loans so why shouldn’t it face the same regulations? This bill would ensure regulation of loan servicers that are mishandling payments and misleading borrowers on their best option for repayment. Not only does student debt weigh heavily on borrowers’ financial security, but it prevents us from contributing to our local economies by starting businesses, buying property and otherwise investing in Colorado’s economy. Not only would this bill ease interactions with servicers but would help ensure the Colorado economy doesn’t suffer from a generation who simply can’t afford to contribute to it. After a major youth vote surge in the 2018 election, it is I

well-deserved to see issues like these prioritized in our legislature. I hope all Coloradans will contact their legislator and urge a yes vote on this bill. It is a common-sense piece of legislation that will help college-age Coloradans to be “Higher Ed with Lower Debt.” Stephanie Morita/Boulder

Accountability needed for City, police

We have seen this headline before: “Disproportionate police presence responds to innocent AfricanAmerican male minding own business on own property.” On March 1, Zayd Atkinson of Naropa University — after he defended himself for nearly 20 minutes to a group of officers, hands perched diligently on their guns — was left traumatized by this incident. Thankfully, he was able to withdraw from the situation before it ended with gunfire, as countless similar ones do. This incident sent shockwaves through Boulder, a city allegedly committed to diligently cultivating a welcoming, inclusive atmosphere for all. In the spirit of these ideals, City Council communed for a special hearing on racism in the community. Boulder City Council’s willingness to address the incident in a collaborative, public forum speaks promisingly to its stated dedication to inclusivity. But how can we guarantee this is not just another tactic to diffuse the situation and avoid action? The City’s follow-through will speak volumes higher than even the most inspired press release could. In an effort to streamline see LETTERS Page 9

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Rachel Carson and Rocky Flats

by LeRoy Moore, Ph.D., Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center

n 2018, The Library of America published Rachel Carson: Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment. Carson is famous for bringing to the attention of people in the U.S. and beyond the devastation to the environment by the modern industrial world. It is often said that her work inspired the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). I read Silent Spring long ago, but re-reading it, I was struck by how often her words are pertinent for Rocky Flats, the now-closed nuclear weapons factory near Denver that produced the fissile plutonium core of every nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal. The FBI raided the plant in 1989 to collect evidence of violation of federal environmental law. Work at the plant was “temporarily” suspended, but it never resumed. In 1992 the plant’s mission was changed from production to cleanup. The Superfund cleanup of the site was finished in 2005 and about three-fourths of the 10-square-mile plant site — an area not cleaned up — was transferred from the Department of Energy (DOE) to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which created in a still contaminated area the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Carson says in the second chapter of Silent Spring: “The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. ... Only within the moment of time represented by the present [20th] century has one species — man — acquired sufficient power to alter the nature of the world.” In the pre-feminist days, she calls humans “man.” A major part of this alteration is radiation — “the unnatural creation of man’s tampering with the atom.” Rocky Flats was created to further this “tampering with the atom.” Plant operations began in 1952, but people in the area knew nothing of the contamination until a large fire in 1969. They learned of the contamiBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

nation not from the federal or state government but from independent scientist Edward Martell who, with a colleague, collected samples of plutonium in soil east and downwind of the site. Scientists from the federal Atomic Energy Commission later sampled soil east of the plant and confirmed Martell’s findings. Martell’s knowledge of plutonium came from his work studying the health of people exposed to plutonium in nuclear bomb tests in the South Pacific after World War II. In a news conference after his sampling in the Denver area, Martell said that anyone who inhales particles of plutonium like those released from

change. Instead of the natural environment there was rapidly substituted an artificial one composed of new chemical and physical agents, many of them possessing powerful capacities for inducing biologic change. Against these carcinogens which his own activities had created man had no protection. ... Today, more American school children die of cancer than from any other disease. ... Humbleness is in order; there is no excuse for scientific conceit here.” People in the Denver area who have followed Rocky Flats issues are accustomed to the “scientific conceit” Carson mentioned. Spokespersons for the EPA, DOE, FWS and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) call the contaminatthe contrary, is ed Wildlife Refuge “safe” and saw it opened to the public on part of nature. Can he escape a Sept. 15, 2018. They say this pollution that is now thoroughly despite their awareness that pludistributed throughout the world?” tonium remains in the soil. In a major study published — Rachel Carson in 2006 the National Academy of Sciences says that any exposure to ionizing radiation is potentialRocky Flats would be “subject to ly harmful. Also a 1997 study by sciradiation millions of times more entists Tim K. Hei and colleagues intense than from an average naturalfrom Columbia University found that ly occurring radioactive dust particle a single plutonium alpha particle of the same size. ... Only minute taken into the body can be damaging. amounts in the lung are sufficient to Once inside the body, the plutonium cause cancer.” lodges in a specific location — a lung, Physicist Fritjof Capra of the a bone, the liver, the brain, the University of California in Berkeley in The Turning Point (1982) calls plu- gonads or elsewhere. Thereafter, typically for the rest of one’s life, the plutonium “the most dangerous of the tonium bombards nearby cells with radioactive byproducts. ... Less than one-millionth of a gram — an invisi- radioactive alpha particles. In the face of the “scientific conble dose — is carcinogenic. One pound, if uniformly distributed, could ceit” of government agencies, people in the Denver area must, like Rachel potentially induce lung cancer in Carson, “dream greatly ... to accomevery person on earth.” plish anything.” So we dreamed that In words pertinent to Rocky we could stop the Wildlife Refuge Flats, Carson said: “Man, however much he may like to pretend the con- from opening to the public. Already we have convinced seven trary, is part of nature. Can he escape school boards to decide that their a pollution that is now so thoroughly students will not take field trips to distributed throughout our world?” the Refuge. We are also publicizing Referring to a dilemma often menthe fact that the route for the protioned, she said: “With the dawn of the industrial era the world became a posed Jefferson Parkway (connecting place of continuous, ever-accelerating highways 93 and 128) passes along

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the easternmost contaminated edge of the Rocky Flats site. The Denver Regional Council of Governments decided that no federal or state tax money may be used to construct the Jefferson Parkway, so the project depends on private investors. Why would any investor want to spend money to construct a highway through a contaminated area? Those who construct the road could be harmed. So could people who live nearby or drive on the road. Rachel Carson says those managing activities in the modern industrial era believe in the “control of nature” and that it “exists for the convenience of man.” Her words characterize those responsible for the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge and the planned Jefferson Parkway. What can local people who oppose both opening the Wildlife Refuge and constructing the Jefferson Parkway do? Of course the real culprit with both the Refuge and the Parkway is radiation. Carson refers to Herman Muller, who received the 1946 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of genetic mutations in fruit fries exposed to radiation. Referring to an article he published in 1964, Carson says the harm from radiation exposure today “is far less than the damage which this same radiation ... will inflict upon posterity.” She says, “His further conclusion was that hereditary damage should be the chief touchstone in the setting of permissible or acceptable dose limits.” Due to the 24,000-year half-life of plutonium-239, people of the future will be dealing with the radiation it emits long after the disappearance of the Wildlife Refuge and the United States. For as Capra says, “the plutonium will remain in the environment and will continue its lethal action, on and on, from organism to organism, for half a million years.” When the Rocky Flats cleanup was nearing completion in 2005, the point person for CDPHE said in a public meeting, “In the cleanup, we see GUEST COLUMN Page 8

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are taking care of things for about 200 years.” Carson says we need “a greater sense of responsibility for the welfare of generations to come.” Speaking of harmful airborne particles, Carson says, “Little thought seems to have been given to the possibility of transport in dust.” This is literally the case at Rocky Flats. After the 1969 fire, a Jefferson County Commissioner asked Carl Johnson, Director of the Jefferson County Health Department, whether the Commissioners should approve a residential development on land east or downwind of the Rocky Flats plant. Johnson and colleagues from the U.S. Geological Survey collected samples in surface dust, because it could be blown about and readily inhaled. They found on average about 40 times as much plutonium in the dust as the state had found with its whole soil method of sampling. Soon after this Johnson proposed that the state adopt the dust sampling method for all its sampling work. They declined. Over the years, there was airborne sampling, but biologist Harvey Nichols, who has a long experience of sampling airborne particles, when he was invited to collect samples at Rocky Flats, said the equipment used there to

collect airborne samples was “laughable.” He and meteorologist W. Gale Biggs concluded that the air sampling done around the Rocky Flats site was to reassure the public that all was well. After completion of the cleanup in 2005, air sampling at Rocky Flats ceased. Dr. Biggs has repeatedly called for its resumption in a quality way. Carson says, “So nature does indeed need protection from man; but man, too, needs protection from his own acts, for he is part of the living world. His war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” She refers to the right of the ordinary person to be secure at home “against the intrusion of poisons applied by other persons.” Not long before she died in 1964, Carson wrote, “And so we live in a time when change comes rapidly — a time when much of that change, at least for long periods is irrevocable. This is what makes our own task so urgent.” The Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge must be closed and kept closed. And the Jefferson Parkway, if it is built, should be on the less contaminated west side of the Rocky Flats site. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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to do an end run around the Constitution has got to be unconstitutional,” I stammered. “Well you might think so and I might think so, but the Democrats don’t think so. They’re the ones who came up with the idea of using an interstate compact to do an end run around the Constitution and deepsix the Electoral College. That’s where the fiendish part comes in. “And another thing,” he continued. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says a state can’t be 86ed from the U.S.A. So you wouldn’t even be doing an end run around the Constitution.” “But in 1861 we fought like hell to keep states in the Union,” I said. “So now you can fight like hell to kick states out of the Union,” he said. “It’s 2019. Times change.” “So how many states would have to sign on to the compact in order to expel a state,” I asked. “This is America; majority rules, I

baby,” he said. “When 26 states join an expulsion compact, the expellees are out.” “Who should be the first state to get the boot?” I asked. “New York, of course,” he said. “Why New York?” “Because the two most despised politicians in the country come from New York,” he said. “Half the country hates Trump and the other half hates Ocasio-Cortez. So kicking New York out would be wildly popular, unite the American people and allow the country to start to heal. If you can make it happen in New York, you can make it happen anywhere.” “So start spreading the word,” ’Bub said. And in an ionized cloud of purple haze they were gone. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. BOULDER WEEKLY

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the process, the Boulder County NAACP proposed four imperatives. The proposal calls for the institution of several resources geared toward preventative action, including a community oversight board made up of at least 50 percent people of color, a know-yourrights training for community members, regular community-police dialogues, and lasting policy and practice changes at the Boulder Police Department. Change cannot happen overnight. Continued accountability and commitment to the cause moving forward is the difference between promises made and promises kept. Contextually, this could represent the difference between an incident and a homicide. Zayd Atkinson’s headline could have read very differently. How the City of Boulder responds to its calls to action will set the precedent for navigating future incidents and, if the NAACP’s plans are implemented, prevent them before they can occur. Danielle Grimm/Boulder

the lack thereof. Imagine if the land, selling (I haven’t checked on the current ask) for $250,000 a building lot, accounts fully for the assured domestic water supply. “Domestic” is the water use accorded the highest priority in the Colorado hierarchy of appropriations, other factors being equal. But there is a “rule of thumb,” wherein the lot price works out to 5-20 percent of the total “value” of the property once built. How many $1,250,000 homes do you think

Firestone can swallow? What does that do to “affordability?” I use quotes here because that’s a pipe dream, in Firestone and nearly everywhere. Unless wages rise to $60 or even $90 per hour. Go ahead and wait for that. We in the northern Front Range have heard of a “fix” for the water compact conundrum faced by the Colorado River Basin. Really! Good luck, gamers. Too bad our negotiators got rolled back in the 1870s. Or perhaps Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming,

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Kansas, New Mexico (Territory) and Arizona (Territory) simply saw us coming. It’s a little bit late to allocate scarcity. No one wants any of it. That leaves growth management as our way to a sustainable [dream on!] future. If you have confidence in that, I have this bridge in New York I need to show. It’s for sale. Cheap. Hey; they moved the London Bridge to Arizona; why not? Gregory Iwan/Longmont

Shocked to agree with Danish

I cannot believe this. For perhaps the second time in the current century I agree with Paul Danish, who wrote of water supply (Re: “How to increase Colorado’s (and Arizona’s) water supply,” The Danish Plan, Jan. 3, 2019.) He is so spot-on here. I have often mused over state and local governments imposing building moratoria until water can be assured over the life of the mortgages at the least. Fat chance. Out here in Marlboro country, property rights are way more important than property wrongs. So, working on the growth (demand) side could make a good deal of sense. I was trained at the graduate level in urban and regional planning. I can entirely relate to intelligent control. Think “1,000 friends of Portland.” I have occasionally observed and thought about a parcel at the northwestern corner of the town of Firestone, where a realtor’s “for sale” sign was up with the onset of the great subprime crash. That sign’s paint wore off (to windward); now there is another. This parcel, roughly 40 acres, is flat as a billiards table. But, the water taps are reportedly $70,000 a pop. That’s right. Good and bad news here. Demand and supply push prices up. But tap prices may have little to do with water, per se. They have everything to do with policy, or BOULDER WEEKLY

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arlier this year, regional director of the Associated Press Jim Clarke, speaking in favor of a bill to mandate media literacy education in Colorado, told a group of state legislators that his news organization’s “hair is on fire.” Lisa Cutter (D-Littleton), who sponsored the bill, was surprised Clarke agreed to testify — the AP doesn’t typically do that — but what she heard him say made it clear why he had chosen to do so. “They don’t know what’s real and what’s not when they’re accessing news and information. Around the world, fake information and manufactured videos and doctored videos are proliferating,” Cutter says, recouting Clarke’s testimony. And so if the AP, that bastion of objective news-gathering, is struggling to tell fact from fiction in today’s media landscape, how are Colorado students, with far less training, expected to separate truth from disinformation? That’s the impetus behind Cutter’s bill, which, if passed, would engage a consultant and form a committee of educators and media members to provide the blueprint to implement mandatory media literacy education in Colorado classrooms from kindergarten to 12th grade. It would make Colorado one of only a handful of states to require such education, even though the need, Cutter says, is widespread and urgent. “If we want people to make educated decisions we have to first educate them on how to make educated decisions,” she says. “Kids are exposed to news every minute of the day. They constantly have things blowing up on their phones and coming across on text. We give kids cell phones, which I have mixed feelings about, at 8, 9, 10, whatever. You can’t block it out. … It’s been harmful for our democracy and harmful for our diaBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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by Matt Cortina logue, because [students] double down on information that’s not even true.” Ninety-five percent of kids in the U.S. have access to a smartphone, and almost half of them say they use it “almost constantly,” according to a 2018 Pew Research poll. A large majority of kids access Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook on a daily basis. “And as a result, that’s where they’re getting their information from,” says Zoe Midler, the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) digital literacy specialist. Though media litI

eracy education is not yet written into state standards, BVSD is one of several school districts throughout the country that have taken it upon themselves to introduce such curricula. Midler says BVSD’s teacherlibrarians are leading this education “in the context of lessons.” Students access library resources for research projects, and librarians are there to guide students toward credible sources. “A lot of [students] will come with a website that they found,” Midler says, before explaining the APRIL 11, 2019

typical source-vetting process: “Let’s really take a look at this website. Let’s go through an evaluation of the site. Who owns it? Where is their information coming from? Can they cite their sources? Can I contact somebody there? When was the last time something was updated? ... Hey, is that photo you’ve been looking for, has it been doctored? Is that YouTube video that claims to show, I don’t know, a yeti walking across the Himalayas, doctored or factual?” The scope of what our schools should teach students about media literacy has broadened vastly in the last decade, Midler says, coinciding, predictably, with the expansion of technology. Ten years ago, before social media and smartphones had inundated our society, the focus was on debunking hoax websites, and Midler says every district likely had their own checklists to help students identify such imposters. “There was a tipping point maybe five years ago, where it’s no longer enough just to have a checklist anymore for a website,” Midler says, “because information is coming from so many different sources now. We need to impart these skills to our students, to not only say this website is biased, but how do you translate that same kind of teaching and tools to what they’re getting into their phone and through text?” And that’s the broader point that some national media literacy groups are trying to address: Everything that is sent to and from a kid’s phone, tablet or computer is contributing to the current media landscape, and their understanding of it. From the blatant (dubious memes, conspiracy theory podcasts, social media comments sections with horrifically sourced statements) to the latent (ads in Gmail accounts, sponsored Instagram posts, a flag on the wall of see MEDIA LIT Page 12

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someone playing guitar or doing makeup on YouTube), all this input results in a dizzying, constant feed, where consumers are producers and producers are consumers. “We need to teach students to think like journalists,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning, former Los Angeles Times journalist Alan Miller. “Everybody is their own editor and everybody can be their own publisher.” Miller first noticed this “tsunami of sources” forming back in 2006, and combined with another major flood — layoffs in newsrooms across the country — he was inspired to launch the News Literacy Project (NLP), one of the country’s first nonprofits built to educate teachers about media literacy, connecting them, and students, with working journalists and First Amendment experts. Miller says without widespread media literacy education, everyone from foreign actors to bloggers in their basements to multinational corporations can chime into the cacophony and pass off their messages as truth. “We live in the most challenging, complex information landscape in history,” Miller says. “People have more good, valuable information literally at their fingertips than ever before, but it’s competing for their attention with sources trying to persuade and sell and mislead and exploit.” More than 5,000 educators — and by extension 125,000 students — have accessed NLP’s Checkology program, a virtual classroom that provides teachers the resources they need to implement media literacy education. (43 teachers and 400 students have accessed the program in the Denver metro area.) Journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and more lead virtual courses, and the program is supplemented by inperson NewsLitCamps, whereat local journalists lead workshops with teachers. But what’s clear is that whether it’s Cutter’s bill, BVSD’s media literacy program, or Miller’s work with NLP, the key to educating kids about how to navigate the media landscape is teachers. Midler, at BVSD, says although media literacy work started with librarians, the proliferation of 12

smartphones means that every teacher needs to have a core competency in media literacy education. Conventional wisdom might dictate that it’s today’s students who are at a disadvantage in consuming modern media, but one need only to have accessed the internet at some point during the 2016 election to know media illiteracy has no age restrictions. “There’s no question that we’re also educating the educators,” Miller says. “We see this at the NewsLitCamps. They’re not familiar with very basic concepts like the wall between the news side and business side, and the wall between opinion and news, which are imperfect in practice but in a quality news operation, those are standards that should be there. … The educators need to be informed to inform their students.” Miller adds that students today are digital natives, who are comfortable on their devices and on social media, even if they’re not fully equipped to “discern quality information from disinformation.” “Many of the teachers may not be as comfortable online, so we’re giving them a resource that is very intuitive and giving them guidance,” Miller says. Though NLP’s work is largely with those teachers and districts that seek out help with media literacy education, Miller strongly supports legislation and state standards that would require it. But helping individual, motivated educators and districts is a different task than implementing statewide media literacy curricula and APRIL 11, 2019

standards. Media Literacy Now has helped craft legislation to implement such curricula. The group helped pass legislation in Washington state, which is now being used as a model in Cutter’s Colorado bill. The model creates a state panel to develop standards, but after the panel is established, the hard work of defining and implementing curricula begins. And that difficulty grows as technology changes, says Erin McNeill, who founded Media Literacy Now in 2013. “It’s very complicated what needs to be taught and at what grade levels,” McNeill says. “[You can teach about] advertising of junk food on television for, say, fourth graders, but what about the meaning of what you’ve posted on Facebook and how you’re using other social media and the digital citizenship questions in middle school? It’s really complex today because there are algorithms coming into play; why are we seeing this information come up at the top of my social media feed? How does virtual reality and augmented reality affect the message, and how will it affect us in the future? So it’s getting more and more complicated all the time, and teachers need a lot of help because they want to teach it.” McNeill says, optimally, media literacy education enters a student’s education as early as possible — kindergarten, even. She says a lesson for such young kids might be to look at a picture and try to figure out what’s real and what might be doctored. I

Then, media literacy education should continue until kids leave high school. “That’s not necessarily what we’re seeing, but that’s definitely the goal,” McNeill says. “We have a lot of anecdotal information that says media literacy skills are not being taught in a wholesale way. They’re not being taught K-12; mostly it’s happening in high schools, mostly in districts with greater resources, in private schools, but it’s not something yet getting out to students across the country,” she says. Media literacy education may be a stand-alone class in some schools, but more than likely it’ll be integrated into almost every subject. Miller says NLP’s education ends up in social studies, history and English classes, while others say media literacy education extends to math, science and technology. “If I’m teaching along a particular topic and I know research is involved, that’s a chance for me to embed those [media literacy] concepts in a really conceptual way,” Midler says. Cutter agrees that exposure to media literacy education should happen early and often: “I think [students] should be exposed in every piece of curriculum that makes sense: reading, writing, civics. ... I think [media literacy] needs to be peppered throughout the curriculum as a matter of fact.” For what it’s worth, Cutter says there hasn’t been much opposition to the bill, only the fiscal impact — it started around $56,000, but some tweaks have gotten the price down to about $20,000 to hire a consultant, then form a committee to develop such a curriculum. But the benefits to widespread media literacy education would be immediate and exponential, McNeill says. “Imagine that we have all of our young people, K-12, really learning comprehensive media literacy skills, I think that number of people in our country would definitely be ready to face the challenges that we’re seeing,” McNeill says. “You start to see a cultural change after a certain point.” When once all “literacy” meant was that a student could read or write, now we’ve “reached the tipping point where people understand ...” she says, “that literacy is media literacy in the 21st century.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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at the eagle roost this past winter after consulting with state regulators, the upcoming construction schedule will now push activity at the Dream Weaver site into next winter’s roosting season, threatening migratory bald eagles, which are federally protected. To date, construction of Dream Weaver has yet to begin, but Crestone spokesperson Bridget Ford says the company plans to start construction in late June, begin drilling in the fall, start completions by May 2020, with production beginning by July 2020, although this schedule is subject to change. In an email response to questions, COGCC spokesperson Arend writes that if construction, drilling or completions aren’t finished by Oct. 15, 2019, Crestone will meet with CPW “to discuss timing stipulations and mitigation measures for the eagles’ roost.” Arend continues, “It would be the desire of the COGCC that Crestone would cease any operations during the nesting eagle timing stipulations next November.” But that doesn’t make sense to attorney Mike Chiropolos, who represents Front Range Nesting Bald Eagle Studies (FRBNES), a conservation and scientific research nonprofit that tracks bald eagle migratory patterns and presence in the area. “That’s like saying we’ll allow them to start work on the 10-story building in the spring, and meet about the five-story height limit next fall when they’re still working on the third or fourth story,” he counters. Additionally, it makes little economic sense for Crestone. According to industry experts, just having a drill on location costs $21,000 per day even when sitting idle, and even a short-term shutdown could cost a company up to $65,000 per day. While it is possible for a company to stop operations in the middle of drilling wells,

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s previously reported by Boulder Weekly (See: “Ruling the roost,” News, Feb. 21, 2019), in September 2018, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) approved a drilling permit for Crestone’s 22-well pad known as the Dream Weaver site in western Weld County near the Boulder County line, despite the fact that the site is located closer to the middle Boulder Creek communal bald eagle roost than Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) advises in its 2008 recommendations. Officials with CPW have admitted the wildlife maps used at the time of permitting did not accurately portray the location of the bald eagle roost, and that the wellsite is within the half-mile sensitive wildlife habitat buffer recommended by the agency. If the information had been accurate at the time of permitting, it would have triggered a formal wildlife consultation with CPW, which likely would have included alternative site reviews. When alerted to the mistake, the COGCC worked with Crestone, CPW and the Town of Frederick on voluntary mitigation efforts in order to push back drilling operations to a date that did not interfere with the 2018-19 winter roosting season that ran from November to March. In short, “this situation was amicably resolved by the operator being open to altering construction during the CPW bald eagle nesting window,” according to COGCC spokesperson Chris Arend. But now the question is, did this mitigation efforts fix the problem or simply postpone the negative impacts on roosting eagles? Although Crestone did minimize disturbance

according to the COGCC, the industry perspective is that such a halt would be a huge financial burden. “Drilling and completing a well is a multi-million-dollar endeavor. Production decline curves are steep, so you have to drill to produce,” says Dan Haley with the Colorado Oil and Gas Association. “If a company suddenly and unexpectedly must stop its work for several months, that can disrupt investment plans, employment needs, contracts with service providers, and a company’s general ability to operate.” Crestone’s Ford didn’t address questions about the economic feasibility of taking a break from the company’s year-long drilling schedule during the winter roosting months, but she did say, “CPW, Crestone and the Town of Frederick met and discussed the schedule and proposed mitigations and there was never an indication from CPW that we would have to cease operations after November 15.” Mitigation measures, such as limiting activity to the middle of the day and erecting visual and sound barriers, were discussed, she says, and Crestone “will likely put into place any recommendations they have for us.” But recommendations are just that: They aren’t enforceable by law. And not drilling at night would double the time needed to get Dream Weaver producing. At an all in cost of $216,000 a day while a well is drilling, it seems hard to believe that an oil company in the current industry environment would voluntarily double the time it takes to drill. FRBNES, through Chiropolos, has formally asked the COGCC to “immediately suspend and reconsider” Crestone’s Dream Weaver project before construction begins in the hopes of an alternative site review, and protecting the bald eagles through next roosting season and beyond. “Let’s get it right before we start drilling,” Chiropolis says. Because, “once you start building ... it’s pretty much game over.”

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wildlife, saw none. The next cloudy hiking day in the Kantishna hills, we could see sun-dappled, multi-hued green and rust tundra, stretching far away to the horizon from the top of a windy foothill. It was a stunning view of endless tundra with no roads, reinforcing the insignificant place of humankind in this sprawling landscape. That night the lodge keepers told us it had been very rainy and cloudy all summer in the Denali area, so we were shocked when we awoke to a sunny day. Kantishna Air suggested flying immediately, rather than taking a chance. We took an afternoon flight and it was downright intimidating, even vertigo-inducing because we flew so close to the shoulders of the mountain. Denali is massive and it is like flying over a glaciated mountain range rather than a single mountain. It dwarfs Pike’s Peak or Longs Peak because of its countless soaring ridgelines, and it’s 6,000 feet higher than Colorado’s tallest peak, Mount Elbert. We flew over the approaches where climbers make their final camps. Over 1,000 people a year attempt it, and less than half make it. In 2018 even fewer summited because large avalanches swept through base camps; thankfully the climbers were spared. It takes up to a month to climb it and usually costs $4,000-5,000. Our $250 flight was a bargain for reaching the twin summits. I could almost touch the snow pillowed flying buttresses. We flew over several of the cascading glaciers that originate from the mountain that are each 30 miles long: Ruth, Peters, Haugen and Muldrow, and the even longer Kahiltna at 45 miles in length. It would be a long, dangerous trek to approach on any of these crumbling, melting monsters with countless crevices. You see geological and geographical features on an over-flight that you could not see any other way other than by summiting. It made me realize that Denali is one of a few North American mountains that is on the same scale as a Himalayan or Andean peak. Later we attempted to see Denali at Wonder Lake, one of the best viewpoints. We arrived early one morning to see the stunning relief of this monster as clouds were devouring it. Seeing the height of the top from ground level is astounding; even Foraker was impressive before being enveloped. We headed off for the snow-capped ocean-front mountains of the Kenai Peninsula and the sparkling fjords of Kenai Fjords National Park, about a sixhour drive southeast, hoping to see more wildlife and an elusive grizzly. The Kenai Peninsula is a magnificent land of glacier-topped mountains, the sparkling Gulf of Alaska and hike-able glaciers like Exit Glacier. Hiking next to a glacier is a unique and humbling experience that dwarfs your sense of time and place as you to try to absorb the significance of a towering ice creature that has spent the last millennia crawling across the tundra. The Exit Glacier has retreated significantly but its eerily blue hued and dangerous crevices still tower over hill and vale as it feeds the rivers below. On our last day, on the way back to Anchorage, we stopped along the Kenai River, renowned for spawning salmon and bears. We hiked along the river all morning and were about to give up when I suggested one more half-mile of hiking. We came upon a large, golden female grizzly enjoying some of the thousands of spawning salmon in the river. She was only 50 feet from the shore and a ranger told us we were safe to take photos. We spent an incalculable moment in time watching her fishing in the sparkling water — a thrilling sight that fully slowed our sense of time, syncing smoothly with nature’s rhythms. She finished biting off the last salmon head and then bounded up the opposing bank of the river, leaving us to, again, recalibrate our sense of time and place in this world. Alan Apt is the author of Afoot and Afield Denver, Boulder, Rocky Mountain National Park. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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on Coen’s family had a farm just outside of Lamar, Colorado, southeast of Colorado Springs, about half an hour’s drive from the border of Kansas, out there where the sky stretches on forever in every direction. Every morning once they were old enough, Coen and his brother got up and ground grain to feed the family’s 500 head of cattle, then they milked seven heifers before heading off to school. The boys’ parents bought their one-bedroom house during the Depression, before Don was born. There was no running water or electricity, and the boys slept on the screened-in front porch, nestled snugly in a feather tick, the family cat curled around their feet for extra warmth. “I think I had about as wonderful a childhood as anybody could have,” Coen says today from his home off Jay Road, a sun-filled gallery of art Coen has made or collected from friends over his 83 years on Earth. “I didn’t know we were poor and nobody ever said we were poor,” he says of his childhood. “I never thought anything about it. I just thought that’s the way life is.” Hard work wasn’t just a part of life for Coen, it was the meaning of life. Everyone around him worked hard for everything they had, not least of all the migrant workers who came seasonally to pick crops on

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places and things we take for granted, whether that’s an abstract representation of a rainbow or a larger-than-life portrait of the people who pick the food we buy at the grocery store. His art is large and all-consuming, like the Western skies he knows so well, with an expert treatment of light that draws the viewer ever closer, as though they could reach into the painting and touch the sleeve of its subject. His work, particularly The Migrant Series, reminds us of that befuddling truth: The more important something is — the more fundamental it is to everyday life — the more easily it’s ignored. • • • • Coen started drawing when he was 4 or 5, doodling on the family’s white enamel kitchen table. “The table was real smooth, so I could draw with a pencil and then I could bend the lines with my fingers,” Coen says, sitting at his kitchen table today. He’s already given a tour of his house, a work of art in its own right that, by design, evokes the simultaneous sense of being inside a museum, a church and a farmhouse. All three environments shaped Coen’s personality. He gave an architect a 15-point list of parameters for the house. It was to be, first and foremost, sun- and star-filled, an “intimate surprise” where the walls acted as sculpture and “nature as canvases.” A devout disciple of the gospel of hard work, Coen says he cut every stick of wood for this house, working side-by-side with a carpenter to build it. Just inside the front door, fat koi fish swim slowly in a man-made pond, a symbol of strength of purpose and perseverance in Japanese culture. “I [drew on the kitchen table at my I

parent’s house] all the time and when I think back about it — I think it’s so amazing — not once did my mother say, ‘Donald, don’t draw on the table.’ Not once.” If his mother’s permissive style encouraged the young Donald’s artistic talent, his father was the whetstone that sharpened it to a fine point. “He could draw really well,” Coen says of his father, the man he calls his “first critic.” “One time, I think I was around 10 or 11, I had drawn this picture of Roy Rogers and when dad came in at noon [from working on the farm], I said, ‘Dad, I drew this picture of Roy Rogers.’ And he says, ‘Yeah, that’s not too bad.’” Coen pauses to mull on what he’s just said. “My dad was tough with the compliments,” he offers. “He had me do that five times before he OK’ed it.” His father’s kind but demanding assessments taught Coen to understand and employ constructive criticism. It served him well through art school; first at Lamar Junior College (now Lamar Community College), then at the University of Denver, where he earned his bachelor’s in advertising design, and finally at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), where he received a master’s of fine art. He remembers a summer taking ceramics with Herb Schumacher, the man who started the ceramics program at UNC and became an authority on glaze formulation and kiln construction and firing. “I had made a whole bunch of pots and I came in [to class] one day to foot them and I couldn’t find any of them,” Coen says. “Finally, I looked over in the BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

[waste] bucket and there they were. And I said, ‘Mr. Schumacher, somebody threw away my pots.’ He said, ‘Oh yeah, I did. The next ones will be better.’ And that’s all he said.” Criticism has always helped Coen jettison himself forward artistically. When a teacher in college suggested that his affinity for Charlie Russell’s paintings of Western life was dating Coen’s own work (or, as Coen puts it, “Hey, it’s not 1890.”), Coen realized he could find innovative ways to depict Western life as he knew it, in his own style. In the late ’60s, when Coen was the head of the art department at Boulder High School, his artistic style took an even harder turn after a colleague suggested he find the nearest theater immediately to see 2001: A Space Odyssey. Heavy on symbolism and light on dialog, the movie showed Coen a new way to view the world. “Well, I went to see it not having any idea that it would affect me,” Coen says. “I came out, I went home and I did my first abstract religious symbolism, and I painted that way for the next 12 years.” He shows me a huge, darkly painted canvas, a band of faintly prismatic color the only relief from the depths of the intense darkness. It symbolizes the rainbow, Coen tells me, God’s promise of peace to Noah after the flood. “I’ve always been religious from the standpoint of believing in God and feeling so grateful for God giving me the gift to do art,” Coen says. “And not only just a gift to do art, but the drive to do it, which is maybe even more important than the gift.” • • • • Coen’s rural roots were never far from his mind. His abstract paintings often symbolized the farm lands of Lamar and the realities of rural life. But he made a full return to nonobjective landscape painting in the ’80s during a goose-hunting trip with his friend Larry in Neenoshe Reservoir. The sky was a stunning azure, a painting so good only God could have made it. It left the two men speechless, staring out across the plains to the point where the land met the sky. “Finally Larry turned to me and he said, ‘You know, Don, you love this area down here — you should paint Lamar.’” The result was The Lamar Series, a collection of 15 large-scale, airbrush paintings that combined Coen’s love of abstract expression with his love of Western life, and paved the way for the work he would create for The Migrant Series nearly 20 years later.

Using layer upon layer of airbrushed paint — up to 60 layers, he says — Coen slowly builds up colors on canvases as large as 7 by 10 feet. He cut a trough in the floor of the studio in his home that allows him to lower the paintings so he doesn’t have to stand on a ladder, ingenuity built up after years of building his own toys as a child in his family’s onebedroom house. From a distance, Coen’s paintings are hyper-realistic, but they shift into softer and softer focus as you approach, creating a sense of abstraction. They offer a glimpse into the sun-scorched reality of farm life; the hot sun, the backbreaking labor. It still takes hard work to get food on the table. A few days after we met at his home, Coen guides me through The Migrant Series at BMoCA. There’s Francisco, a migrant worker in Manzanola, Colorado, with his young son in his lap. In Manzanola, farm laborers like Francisco have had to fight the ever-rising cost of living at apartment complexes that provide housing solely for migrant workers. A 2016 article from the La Junta TribuneDemocrat details issues like a lack of adequate staffing at one such apartment complex, leaving residents without an emergency contact when appliances broke or the heat went out, as well as without a Spanish-speaking liaison. Some migrants reported having to spend several nights in their cars because inadequate staffing meant paperwork couldn’t be filed. Coen shows me the painting of Rosa and Cristobel, a husband and wife who have been going to Watsonville, California, for the last 17 years to pick strawberries. And Angel, who picks onions in Ventura, California in the scorching heat. Coen often sheds tears as he speaks about the migrant workers who allowed him to share their experience with the world. “I’m not sure why I get so emotional about this,” he tells me as we stare at his portrait of a man named Pablo in an apple orchard in Washington state. Coen and I both know why he gets emotional. We live in a fast-paced world, obsessed with the melodrama of political theater, where human beings are used as pawns in a never-ending game. Coen cries because these people help feed us everyday, year after year. He cries because they are integral parts of American society. He cries because he is human — and because they are human.

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by Angela K. Evans

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ou can make changes. Thus, you can change the world. Right?” It’s a bit of wisdom Mark Oliver Everett, who largely goes by the moniker E and has been the man behind the EELS for more than two decades, offers in the notes to his latest album, The Deconstruction. It’s a wholly optimistic message, backed by Everett’s uncanny ability to mix hope with despair, giving voice to the tensions of life through various alternative rock and pop styles. Much has been written over the years about Everett’s devastating familial history, some of it by Everett himself in his 2008 memoir Things the Grandchildren Should Know. But it’s worth mentioning again as the tragedies never stop informing his present realities. “That stuff with my family was a long time ago now, but it’s not the kind of stuff you ever get over,” he says. He is the son of physicist Hugh Everett III, whose many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics wasn’t accepted in large part until after his premature death at the age of 51 of a heart attack. As a teenager, Everett found his father’s body in bed. But when his father was alive, Everett has said, he was emotionally absent, and the family operated at a certain level of dysfunction through humor, which often comes out in his music. “Humor is just natural to me because I grew up in a funny family,” Everett says. “To a fault. It was sort of the only way the family knew how to communicate, through humor and sarcasm.” In some ways, Everett says, music saved him. Inspired by the likes of John Lennon (“I noticed his stuff about his mother and himself was a lot stronger than his political stuff.”) and Neil Young, among many others, Everett began forming the foundations which would later be signatures of his career. For example, at age 16, his sister took him to Young’s Rust Never Sleeps concert with Crazy Horse, a surprising theatrical production unlike the expected jam sessions Young was known for at the time. “It’s just this crazy production and show, that no one was expecting

from Neil Young. There was no advanced warning, no internet back then,” says Everett, who often incorporates that element of surprise into his own live shows. “It was just that kind of thing that had a big impact on me.” After a few solo releases, Everett officially formed the EELS with the 1996 release of Beautiful Freak, which included several alternative hits including the iconic “Novocaine for the Soul.” He soon followed with 1998’s acclaimed ElectroShock Blues, a deep dive into the mental illness and suicide of his sister, and only sibling, and his mother’s cancer diagnosis. She died shortly after the album’s release, his cousin a few years later in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. “I feel really lucky that I’ve had music in my life,” Everett says. “It’s definitely the thing that got me through more than anything else. Just having something to do and to focus on. You know, it’s not an easy life. ... I can’t believe that I’ve made it this far.” Over the next 20 years, the EELS released a dozen or so albums and toured relentlessly, until four years ago when Everett decided to take a hiatus in which he got married, had a son and got divorced, all the while slowly working on The Deconstruction.

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by Lenah Reda

aria Montessori believed in the innate intelligence of children. “The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it,” she said. “No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.” And yet the voices of the youth often get lost. Local author and playwright Mathew Klickstein hopes to change that. Klickstein has teamed up with Louisville’s CenterStage Theatre Company to develop a specialized writing and performance workshop for kids ages 8 to 14. Starting on April 18, the Animal Farm Writing/Acting Workshop invites children to explore traditional elements of improv, creative play and group discussion to create their own play, based on themes from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, to be presented in September. “Ultimately it’s going to be the kids writing it themselves, preferably based on their own experiences and personalities,” Klickstein says. The final production should not be seen as an adaptation of the classic allegory. Instead, the workshop pinpoints main themes from the book that young participants can use to explore and share their own thoughts. “The book was very much meant to be read by kids and younger people because [Orwell] wanted to explain certain things in a way that they can understand,”

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Klickstein says. “It’s a book that was written almost 100 years ago that still holds a lot of weight today.” The writing portion of the workshop — which will run on Thursdays through June 20 — is designed to resemble a typical TV writers’ room, with a white board in front and an open discussion for spitballing ideas. Klickstein is there to provide guidance and consistency in the narrative, but aside from that it will be up to the young folks to decide what the story COURTESY OF MATTHEW KLICKSTEIN will be and what the performance will look like. Participants will collaborate to develop characters, themes and settings. The final creation — everything from the dialog to the score — will be entirely of their own making. The production will be performed at CenterStage’s Black Box Theater and other to-bedetermined venues around Boulder County. “I think it’s going to be really exciting for the community to behold when it is actually performed, and really great for the kids to help them open up and express themselves and discuss their unique perspectives on what’s going on in the world right now and how that may or may not relate to Animal Farm,” Klickstein says. Klickstein has traveled around the country doing projects of a similar nature. In Lawrence, Kansas, he constructed a workshop focused on girls ages 8 to 16 incorporating themes from William Goulding’s Lord of the Flies. Together, the girls discussed their lives, hopes and dreams, anxieties and frustrations to develop a script. Klickstein says the workshop resulted in a sold-out pro-

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duction — and lots of questions from the audience about how it was done. “There is a certain freshness and vivacity to seeing a bunch of kids perform a production that they created themselves,” Klickstein says. “There might be rough edges and moments that are a little sloppier than they would be if they were written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, but at the end of the day it will be their project.” The motivation is to enable children to express themselves in healthy and creative ways while also facilitating a sense of agency over what they are developing. Though it may seem risky to some, Klickstein believes in the power of young thoughts and voices. “We’re so pummeled by this media machine that is telling us what to look at and believe and it’s refreshing to get a bit of this underground voice about these different topical issues,” Klickstein says. As a writer and filmmaker, Klickstein is passionate about authenticity. He believes there is an abundance to learn from children because their thoughts are still pure and blossoming. “What I would love to see is a more diversified group of kids getting involved with this project — as in kids who normally wouldn’t do something like this or even know about it,” Klickstein says. “So we are trying to reach out to partnership organizations that could potentially offer scholarship opportunities for children who might not typically do this whether because of financial discrepancies, disabilities or whatever.” When Klickstein worked on the Lord of the Flies project, he witnessed a young girl go from barely being able to speak because of her shyness to “basically running the whole thing” by the end of the project. Klickstein wants to see that transformation again during the Animal Farm project. “That’s what it is about for me,” Klickstein says. “It’s learning about this other group of people that we don’t typically get to hear from or see.”

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events 2019 COFFEE FEST.

1 p.m. Saturday, April 13, Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-229-1127; 10 a.m. Sunday, April 14, Erie Coffee Roasters, 3000 Airport Drive, Hangar 307, Erie. TAKEAWAY/WIKIMEDIA Join fellow java heads for a two-day COMMONS

festival about all things coffee. On April 13, Arts HUB in Lafayette will host the festival, starting with a showing of ‘CAFFEINATED,’ a film about coffee from seed to mug; there will be expert-led presentations on a wide variety of coffeerelated topics; coffee paintings for kids and adults; and of course unlimited coffee. On Sunday, Erie Coffee Roasters will host the festival, featuring interactive coffee roasting demos and baristas pulling espresso shots and making beautiful latte art. Tickets are $15 each day, $26 for weekend pass; free for kids aged 12 and under (tickets required). Bring your own mug and receive a $1 rebate or ticket discount, bit.ly/2KvUC8a.

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9 a.m. April 13-14, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Through April 14. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES

Celebrate Scotland’s cultural and historic contributions to the world at Colorado Tartan Day. This is a celebration of family, community, nation, heritage and the human need for connection. Enjoy performances by the Colorado Youth Pipe Band and Dancers, and the inimitable Angus Mohr, whose sets will prove to you that yes, Pink Floyd should have enlisted the talents of a bagpipe player. The Empire of Medieval Pursuits will also be around to lead re-creations of realities, myths and legends associated with the Ancient to Medieval world. So iron your kilt and stuff your money in your sporran.

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BAR HOPPING WITH BOULDER OPERA: AN OPERA BAR CRAWL.

7 p.m. Sunday, April 14, The Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-731-2036.

This pub crawl is scheduled to visit specific bars at specific times, with a Boulder Opera singer ready to perform a 10-minute set at every bar the crawl group visits. The festivities begin at the Attic Bar & Bistro at 7 p.m. The program will feature Rossini, Puccini, Mozart and previews for Boulder Opera’s spring double-bill production. Featured performers include Dianela Acosta, Elizabeth Hayes and Mary Kettlewell. This event is free and open to the public, but there’s a suggested donation of $10-$30 that can be made at the event or at boulderoperacompany.com/bar-hopping-with-boulder-opera. Please see website for a complete schedule. BENREIS AT WIKIVOYAGE

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Juliet Wittman — Stocker’s Kitchen. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

French Poetry Reading. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Jeremy Jaeger. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

SUNDAY, APRIL 14 Mike Reiss. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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BAFS ‘Second Sundays’ Poetry Workshop. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub — An American Marriage. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

FA Showcase Krista Davis. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Mark Obmascik — The Storm on Our Shores. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Music Chamber Music Showcase. 7:30 p.m. St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 2425 Colorado Ave., Boulder. Through Saturday, April 13.

Joseph Kasprzyk, Silver Steven, Andrew Sturtz & Courtlyn Carpenter. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with DeVotchKa & Special Guests. 7 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. The Moonlit Wild. 5 p.m. East Simpson Coffee Co., 414 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-502-7010. Slow Magic. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Songwriter Hour featuring Meredith Wilder and Daniel Boling. 7:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Adultology: Vegetable Gardens. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Marcella Friel — Tap, Taste, Heal. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Honky Tonk Happy Hour — with The Adam Lopez Duo. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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

So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Earl Sweatshirt & Friends. 8:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Wednesday April 17

Xarly. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

STOCKER IS A PASSIONATE sensualist and a bully — yet despite his manifest flaws, delectable flavors emerge from his greasy restaurant kitchen. His self-confidence falters when he falls in love with Angela, a young half-Vietnamese woman as strong-willed and hardhearted as himself. The stories of others wind through Stocker’s Kitchen. Juliet Wittman will speak about and sign her new book, Stocker’s Kitchen, on Thursday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m.

Genealogy: Think Inside the Boxes — Organize & Analyze Your Data with Spreadsheets. 1 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Partner Pattern Line Dancing. 6:30 p.m. Manhattan School of the Arts, 290 Manhattan Drive, Boulder, 720-561-5968. Thursday Cinema ‘Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.’ 7 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Thursday Cinema Local Filmmakers’

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All films shown at the Dairy Art Center’s Boedecker Theater, 2590 walnut st., Boulder. THURSDAY, APRIL 11 ‘To Dust.’ 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. ‘Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church.’ 4:30 p.m. FRIDAY, APRIL 12

‘Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church.’ 2:30 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. ‘To Dust.’ 4:30 p.m. ‘The Wind.’ 8:45 p.m. SATURDAY, APRIL 13 ‘Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church.’ 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. ‘To Dust.’ 3:30 and 8 p.m.

SUNDAY, APRIL 14 ‘The Tragedy of King Richard the Second: National Theatre Live Encore.’ 1 p.m. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 ‘The Tragedy of King Richard the Second: National Theatre Live Encore.’ 1 p.m. ‘Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus.’ 4:30 p.m. ‘3 Faces.’ 7 p.m.

Showcase: ‘Mondo Hollywood’ (120 min.). 6 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Jenn Cleary Solo Acoustic Show. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-600-4958.

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

Jessica Malone. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Music Andy Eppler Live Music. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. April Showcase at Front Range Brewing. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. The Blind Cafe: Music in the Dark Experience. 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Brahms Symphony No. 4. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-8654220, artscomplex.com/events Conan Gray. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Dave Watts & Friends featuring Todd Stoops, Garrett Sayers, Kim Dawson, Austin Zaletel, Gabriel Mervine. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Electric Wizard. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Joseph. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Joshua James Jackson & Jeremy James Meyer. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Lindsey Saunders. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Rodeo All-Star Semi Finals + Chase Bryant. 7 p.m. National Western Events Center, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver. Roots & Rhythm Duo. 8 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-1562. Shoreline Mafia. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. The Soundpost Sessions: Duo Azure. 7:30 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 303-349-0593.

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The Basque Things in Life. The BiTSY Stage, 1137 South Huron St., Denver. Through April 14.

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Between Us. Denver Center for Performing Arts Off Center, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through May 26. The Diary of Anne Frank. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humantiies, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 17. Every Brilliant Thing. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through April 14. Heathers: The Musical — presented by Equinox Theatre. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through April 27. Jekyll & Hyde, The Musical. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through April 14.

Little Women, the Broadway Musical. CenterStage Theatre Company, Black Box Theater, 901 Front St., Louisville. Through April 20.

Taylor Shae Duo. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 720-204-8767. Tom Weiser Quartet’s Swing Nights at Sole. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Trampa. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. WISE UP: Knowledge Ends Extremism. 5:30 p.m. Islamic Center of Boulder, 5495 Baseline Road, Boulder. Woodshed Red — Rock, Bluegrass & Funk. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Events 8-Bit Stand Up Comedy. 8 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-997-9548.

Other Desert Cities — presented by Cherry Creek Theatre Company.

Trav’lin – The 1930s Harlem Musical. Arvada Center, Main Stage Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Opens April 9. Through April 28.

SUNDAY APRIL 14

Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy, presents: Identity and Citizenship. 5:30 p.m. Kittredge Central, Multipurpose Rooms, 2480 Kittredge Loop Road, Boulder.

Japanese Ensemble. 2 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, APRIL 12 Combating Religious Extremism in Central Asia: Short Documentary Film and Q&A with Director. Noon. Guggenheim Geography, 201e, 1475 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. Environmental NGOs in China and Their Role in Society, Business, Government, and Science. 3:30 p.m. Guggenheim Geography, 205, 1475 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. SKY Happiness Retreat at CU Boulder. 6 p.m. Hellems Arts and Sciences, Room 191, 1550 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. More dates through April 14.

Colorado Mineral & Fossil Spring Show. 10 a.m. Crowne Plaza DIA Hotel & Convention Center, 15500 E. 40th Ave., Denver. Through April 14.

Vocal Jazz and Madrigal Singers — with Overland High School’s Nine-Mile Jazz. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

Zing for Zonta. 5:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13 Music

Silent Movies: ‘Wrong Again’ plus ‘Safety Last.’ 7:30 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-335-4581.

6 Million Dollar Band — The Ultimate ’80s Experience. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Wild Heart Dance presents ‘The Fall.’ 7:30 p.m. April 12 and 13, 4 p.m. April 14, The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Arena Rock All-Stars. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720600-4875.

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Strange Interludes — presented by Stories on Stage. 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 13, Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.

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Boulder Magic Show. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

Reception: FRCC Annual Student Showcase. 6 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Skeleton Crew. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through April 13.

Oliver. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through May 26.

The Current: Dance works by faculty and guest artists. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre, Charlotte York Irey Theatre, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. More performances through April 20.

Free Legal Clinic. 3 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303665-5200.

Sin Street Social Club. Arvada Center, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 19.

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The Strange Parade. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. The Sweet Lillies. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Our Town. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through April 28.

The Moors. Arvada Center, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 18.

Magnets on the Fridge. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Shows the first Wednesday of the month from February-June.

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Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through April 28.

DIANA DRESSER, Matthew Schneck and Allison Watrous entertain with stories of odd, surprising and questionable romance in ‘Strange Interludes,’ playing at Su Teatro in Denver on April 13. There’s a first person account of a nice Jewish girl’s marriage to a rough-and-tumble tattoo artist; in ‘Gender Studies’ we ask why a staid college professor would hook-up with her airport shuttle driver. And it takes a lot of nerve to impregnate both your wife and the nextdoor neighbor in the same week in ‘Are We Not Men?’

TUESDAY, APRIL 16 Ed Yong: Why Storytelling Matters in Science. 9:30 a.m. Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community (SEEC), C120 Auditorium, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder. Visiting Artist Lecture: Nettrice Gaskins. 6:30 p.m. Visual Arts Complex, Art & Art History Building Auditorium 1B20, 1085 18th St., Boulder. NEEDTOBREATHE: Acoustic Live Tour. 7 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 ‘What is a Feminist Lab’ Symposium. 9 a.m. Norlin Library, N410, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Film Screening: ‘Talking Black in America.’ Noon. Student Recreation Center, Ice Rink Overlook, 1855 Pleasant St., Boulder. Last Days of the Mighty Mekong. 4:30 p.m. Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), Room E422, Boulder. Forza Motorsport (XBOX ONE) Video Game Tournament. 7 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), The Connection, first floor UMC, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.

The Blind Cafe: Music in the Dark Experience. 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Chris Daniels & The Kings featuring Freddi Gowdy & Friends, Hazel Miller, Kenny Passarelli, Stanley Sheldon. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Custom Shop Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. see EVENTS Page 35

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Danny Barnes and Eric Thorin. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Eminence Ensemble. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Finn O’Sullivan. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Jenn Cleary Acoustic Duo. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060. Live For Live Music Presents: The Big Melt. 5 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Concert Series Presents Geraldine Walther, David Korevaar and Harumi Rhodes ‘Mostly Mozart.’ 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Danny Barnes/Eric Thorin — Sunday Matinee. 2 p.m. Lyons Valley Village Common House, 195 Second Ave., Lyons. Kung Fu. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Maitre Gims. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Marc Emerson Townes of Kind Hearted

Strangers. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. CU Discovery Presents: Celebrate Citizen Science! 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Disability Etiquette OR How to be a Good to a Person with a Disability. 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St.,

Boulder, 303-440-7826. Duet Series. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 925-209-3895. International Festival at CU Boulder. 3 p.m. University Memorial Center, Umc, Boulder. Sculptures Formed from Colorado Ballet Dancers. 2 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Universal Health Meeting. 3 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470. see EVENTS Page 36

Longmont Symphony Museum Concert — Beethoven Cycle. 7 p.m. Longmont Museum, Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-772-5796. Oliver Jacobson and Roma Ransom. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. An Opera Cabaret: Le French Affaire. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-731-2036. Resonance Women’s Chorus: The Light on the Land. 5 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4738337. Selasse and the Fafa Family. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303776-1914. Taylor Carson — House Concert (Adults Only). 7 p.m. Sounds of Simon House Concerts, 1086 E. Roggen Way, Superior. TEN YEARS: Celebrating a Decade Together. 7:30 p.m. Cairn Christian Church, 1700 Stonehenge Drive, Lafayette. Through Sunday. The Von Hodads. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Events Annual Easter Egg Hunt. 10 a.m. Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303661-1460. Boulder Magic Show. 3 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Boulder Scandanavian Dancers. 3:30 p.m. Golden West Senior Living, 1055 Adams Circle, Boulder, 303-939-0833. Children’s Easter Tea. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Dane Cook. 7 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-228-8000. Easter Egg Hunt. 10 a.m. Tracy Reining Horses, 14745 County Road 3, Longmont.

SUNDAY, APRIL 14 Music Austen Carroll Grafa & Wolf Van Elfmand. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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California Guitar Trio. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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arts An Act of Selection. Dairy Arts Center, MacMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 14. Aftereffect: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26. Amanda Wachob: Tattoo This. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26. Andrew Jensdotter: Flak. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26. Angela Faris Belt: Entropy. Naropa University, Nalanda Gallery, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through April 19. Ansel Adams: Early Works Exhibit. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26. Charles Livingston: Catalyst 1,522. Naropa University, Cub Gallery, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through April 19. Clyfford Still & Photography. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through April 28. Don Coen: The Migrant Series. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St.,Boulder. Through May 27. Dinosaurs: Land Of Fire and Ice. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through May 12. Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019. Entropy — Angela Faris Belt. Nalanda Gallery,

ENTROPY IS A COURTESY OF NAROPA UNIVERNATURAL condition SITY/ANGELA FARIS BELT of the physical universe wherein all things continuously move toward greater disorder. After a catastrophic computer crash corrupted all of artist Angela Faris Belt’s landscape photos, she ran a recovery program which misinterpreted the images, deconstructing them into visible components of content and process. The result is ‘Entropy,’ a showcase of these photos showing at Naropa University’s Nalanda Gallery through April 19. 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through April 19. Eyes On: Erika Harrsch. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17. Eyes On: Julie Buffalohead. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver. Through April 21. First Reruns — Photographs from ’90s TV Shows, by George Lange. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison and MacMillan Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 14. Frédérique Daubal: Vibrant Femmes. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 14. The Incubation Effect. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 9. Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Through Aug. 18. Karen Kitchel: Grasslands. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through April 21. Living with Wolves. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through May 20. Matthew Pevear: Mastering the Art of French Cooking. BMoCA at Macky, Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado Boulder, 1595 Pleasant St., Unit 104, Boulder. Through May 5. National Parks — by Ruth Soller. Osmosis Gallery, 290 Second Ave., Niwot. Through April 30.

Our Planet — Art Exhibition on the Environment in a Changing Climate. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery I & Gallery ll, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through May. Pard Morrison: Heartmouth. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 1.

Poveka: Master Potter Maria Martinez. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Anthropology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 8. Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through January 2020. Vance Brand: Ambassador of Exploration. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit. Water Flow: Under the Colorado River. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26.

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MONDAY, APRIL 15 Music Bill Palmer & Stephanie Hatfield. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Drake Bell — with Bluprint, Sadboiz, Wes Luna. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Shelley Segal. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Modern Physics Book Discussions. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. VIVA Theater at the Library. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Young Artists at Work: School Day-Off Camp. 9 a.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

TUESDAY, APRIL 16 Music 3rd Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series Presents: Altius Quartet featuring Hsingay Hsu, Piano. Noon. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Aaron Kamm & The 1 Drops — with Green Buddha and Special Guests. 7:15 p.m. Cer-

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vantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Buke & Gase. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Chad Elliott, David Booker. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720201-3731. Christopher Cross: Take Me As I Am 2019 Tour. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. West Coast Swing Dance Lessons. 5:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 310-614-6853. Events 3rd Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series Presents: Altius Quartet featuring Hsingay Hsu, Piano. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120; NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 Music Jazzetry Night! featuring Von Disco. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Joan Osborne Sings the Songs of Bob Dylan. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637. Matt Maeson. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. The Yoga of Surrender. 6:45 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246. Events Boulder Arts Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Flatirons Mineral Club. 6 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Geologic History of Boulder County. 7 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Chris Fleming. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

A groundbreaking documentary: ‘SENSITIVE.’ 7 p.m. The Caritas Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066.

Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library,

Jonathan P. Thompson: River of Lost Souls. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

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ON THE BILL: BIRDS OF irds of Passage (Pájaros de verano) — from PASSAGE, April 16 & 17, Colombian directors Cristina Gallego and Ciro 7:30 p.m. International Film Guerra — is a masterpiece. Go see it. Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Need more? Very well, here’s the story: Set in Ave., Boulder. Colombia and spanning the years 1969 to 1980, Birds is divided into five sections, songs really, that recount the tale of ancient rituals, tight-knit tribes and the sudden and violent encroachment of capitalism thanks to the profitability of the drug trade. Like most stories depicting the rise and fall of an empire, Birds begins with an attraction. Specifically between the young Zaida (Natalia Reyes) and the bachelor Rapayet (José Acosta) at Zaida’s coming out ceremony. With a flurry of images that both disorient and enchant, Gallego and Guerra invoke Dante’s first encounter with Beatrice in Vita Nuova: “Here is a God stronger than I who come to rule over me.” Zaida and Rapayet are Wayuus — the indigenous tribe of northern Colombia — and Rapayet lacks the dowry necessary to wed. He teams with close friend Moises (Jhon Narváez) to hustle booze, then coffee and, finally, marijuana to visiting Americans so he can purchase the goats, cattle and necklaces required for Zaida’s hand. Once turned on, Rapayet and Moises find that the marijuana trade is like a fire hose out of control. Suddenly the hills and deserts of Colombia are flooded with money not easily turned off or controlled. Riches may accumulate fast, but violence is always faster, and an empire built upon sand threatens to destroy millenniums worth of ritual and culture. The past always stands to be lost in the face of progress, and the surrounding Wayuu tribes are not going to stand idly by. Historically speaking, the Wayuus held off Spanish conquistadors in the 18th century, and a couple of machine gun maniacs aren’t going to scare them off now. At the center of this storm: Rapayet, a kingpin who is no Michael Corleone. Haunted by past actions, dreams and an ever-present specter of death that takes the form of a bird, Rapayet is a man in over his head. As the action unfolds, Rapayet has a shotthrough look as if he wandered off the pages of a Gabriel García Márquez novel and found himself on the set of The Godfather as directed by Luis Buñuel. To reiterate, Birds of Passage is a masterpiece. Coming off 2015’s equally dreamy Embrace of the Serpent, directors Gallego and Guerra worked closely with Wayuu advisors to faithfully capture the details of the culture. They took those details, decorated them with surrealistic imagery and infused them with flavors so familiar no audience should feel estranged. Sure, you’ve seen a hundred movies about crime families; you’ve probably even seen hundreds more about the perils of drug trafficking. But not like this. It’s like a song so familiar you swear you’ve heard it before. But you haven’t, and now you can’t forget it. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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“After the film you can watch a brewing techniques demo. We’ll use the same beans to make coffee using four different techniques: French press, AeroPress, pour-over and drip. Then you can really taste what a difference it makes and ask questions,” Zautke says. The Coffee Fest also includes a tasting of cascara, a tea made with the dried skins of the coffee fruit, and exhibits and discussions on coffee history, seed-to-cup agriculture, sustainability and food waste. (If you bring your own coffee mug you get $1 off on tickets: tinyurl.com/ CoffeeFest19.) For the kids, there will be a neat demonstration in coffee painting by artist Craig Peterson. Bite-sized tastes will be provided by Lafayette’s Community and Tip Top Savory Pies. On Sunday the Coffee Fest delves into coffee roasting and barista skills at Erie Coffee Roasters’ facility in a hangar near Erie Airport. “We are going to offer behind-the-scenes tours and demos of our roasting facilities and processes. You’ll be able to see and taste different levels of roasting,” Zautke says. You may want to forgo your usual multiple cups in the morning before the barista skills demos and sampling. Professionals from Fox Dog Coffee, East Simpson Coffee Company and Precision Pours will be on hand to show how to pull an espresso shot and be a latte artist. If nothing else, you can finally see and taste the difference between an espresso, cappuccino, cortado and flat white. Sunday will also include coffee-making demos. If you want to make a good cup of coffee, Zautke suggests using quality beans. If you care where and how your broccoli is grown, you should care about your coffee bean source. Don’t use disposable K-cups. If you must use a Keurig, fill reusable K-cups. Use filtered water in a clean drip coffee maker. Always use a burr grinder, which slices the beans versus pulverizing them. Store the beans in an air-tight container in a cool, dry place. Zautke said there is no scientific proof that freezing coffee beans keeps them any fresher. P.S.: Warm your coffee cup with hot water before pouring hot coffee, and mix grounds with the soil in your garden.

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shelves. It was a sad little sign of the times. The bars were not advertised as “Fudge-y!” or “Made by Dwarves.” They were “Safe,” as in peanut-free, tree nutfree and dairy-free with no artificial colors. However, they were not organic and did contain eggs, soy and wheat, so they were neither vegan nor glutenfree. “Safe” is relative, I guess. I do not envy the current crop of parents as they navigate the no-win challenges of “snack.” LOCAL FOOD NEWS Longmont’s Dry Land Distillers earned a silver medal for its Pure Cane Rum and a bronze medal for its 100% Colorado Antero Wheat Whiskey at the eighth annual Denver International Spirits Competition in March. ... Erie Coffee Roasters offers free delivery of coffee — freshly roasted and ground to order — in Erie, Lafayette and Anthem. ... I spotted the artisan Root Beer Float Ice Cream Milk in glass bottles at Sprouts. Meadow Fresh Farm in Bellvue flavors it with root beer syrup crafted by CooperSmith’s Pub & Brewing. ... Plan ahead: The debut Avery International is June 8 at Avery Brewing. averybrewing.com. ... Renowned chef Alice Waters is the headliner at the third annual Slow Food Nations sustainable food festival and gathering July 19-21 in Denver. Tickets on sale May 1. slowfoodnations.org slowfoodnations.org, TASTE OF THE WEEK It’s worth braving the I-25 gauntlet to have a tall wedge of cold-brewed coffee cream pie at Ginger and Baker. The restaurant, market, bakery and cooking school are set in an old feed store in Old Town Fort Collins. You’ve got a housebaked chocolate cookie crust filled with coffee-infused white chocolate pastry cream crowned with real coffee whipped cream. If you like the taste of Dannon coffee yogurt and Häagen-Dazs coffee ice cream, you’ll love this pie, especially with a cup of coffee.

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t’s high time for conferences in the Centennial State ON TAP: Great because down in Denver, the Craft Brewers Divide Brewing Conference and BrewExpo America (CBC) returns to Company, 2201 the Mile High City and takes over the Colorado Arapahoe Street, Convention Center April 8–11. Denver, Put on the by the Brewers Association — the Bouldergreatdivide.com based trade group that represents independent breweries — CBC is a chance for brewers, distributors, vendors and journalists to come together to discuss the state of the industry and prophesize about what might be coming down the pike. Headed down south for the festivities? Make sure to carve out some time between seminars and strolls down the convention floor to soak up the Denver flavor. And what better place to start than a Colorado staple, a brewery that will be celebrating its silver anniversary this May: Great Divide Brewing Company. There wasn’t even a ballpark when Brian Dunn opened Great Divide in Denver’s ballpark district in 1994. But no matter, Coors Field was soon to come. Taking over a shuttered dairy processing plant on Arapahoe and 22nd Street, Dunn planted his flag in the burgeoning craft beer revolution and quickly found his niche: Hibernation Ale, an outstanding winter warmer clocking in at 8.7 percent alcohol by volume, arguably one of Colorado’s first “big beers.” More followed: Yeti Imperial Stout, a Stout Month staple that now sports seasonal variants. Currently, you can find Chocolate Cherry Yeti on draft and in 22-ounce bombers around town, and you should. The brew is dark and heavy with rich chocolate and roasted malts, but a subtle dollop of cherry brings a pleasant brightness to the drinking experience. Like a spring day slowly blossoming, Chocolate Cherry Yeti makes you wonder if you should spend more time strolling outside. Keeping with the seasonal theme, Great Divide’s Strawberry Rhubarb Sour Ale is ideal for warming days, especially if you prefer your sours to showcase malt alongside tart and tangy fruits. And with tongue-prickling carbonation, Strawberry Rhubarb Sour is the ideal accompaniment to smothered chile rellenos or a fluffy cheesecake. But if you only have time for one beer at Great Divide, make it Orabelle, their Belgian-style tripel. Pouring a cloudy gold, Orabelle sports a thick, rocky head, which pops with bready yeast and a bit of fresh orange. The mouth is creamy and full with the orange peel showing up in act one. Act two is coriander, and there’s a touch of rye in the grain bill: act three. Orabelle is a thoughtful beer, one that is lively on the palate long after the swallow. You can still visit Great Divide’s ballpark taproom, even take a tour of the facility, where they ferment their ales and lagers outside in glycol-insulated tanks. Roughly 1.5 miles down the road, in the River North (RiNo) district, you can check out their swanky new digs, where they not only package and distribute all of their beers but have a sizeable barrel-aging program as well. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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aunching Fresh Thymes Eatery in Boulder was the obvious culmination of Christine Ruch’s professional life. She had been a private chef, a restaurant chef, a culinary instructor in the field of holistic nutrition, and she had long harbored a dream to one day open some kind of restaurant. But it was her personal experiences that formed the foundation of what would become Fresh Thymes, a comfortable spot that blends meals friendly to any number of dietary restrictions with sustainable sourcing, a casual environment and tasty food. Ruch had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and Celiac disease, and after moving to Boulder in 2007 with her husband, noticed there, surprisingly, weren’t a lot of places for her to dine out. So, her professional and personal trajectories collided, and out blossomed Fresh Thymes. “I thought it was important for people to eat according to their health values outside of their own kitchen, and I didn’t think it needed to be that complicated,” Ruch says. Ruch drew on her background in culinary nutrition to create a menu that was gluten- and peanut-free and had plenty of options for vegan, vegetarian, paleo and keto diners as well. But, above all, she wanted the food to taste good, for those whose diets no longer allowed them to enjoy certain foods and for the casual diner with few or no restrictions that just happened to stop in. “I wanted to break the myth that eating for health meant the food didn’t taste good or that you didn’t actually really like food. I think a lot of people think you’re not a real foodie and that’s just not true,” Ruch says. “So my dream was to have the everyday diner — APRIL 11, 2019

wings, pizza and a pitcher of FRESH THYMES’ chef beer — to be eating next to a and owner vegan or next to somebody Christine Ruch has with dietary restrictions, and developed myriad they’d be eating the same tips and tricks to make delicious thing. And the guy with the foods for both the beer and pizza wouldn’t common and the know.” diet-restricted diner alike. In order to make a limited number of ingredients mimic the flavors and textures of food items that aren’t served at Fresh Thymes, Ruch says she uses a few tricks. One might seem obvious now, but certainly wasn’t six years ago, when the restaurant launched: using nuts to mimic cheese. “This is a great culinary trick, but it is a bit of a mind-bender to think about nuts as a dairy substitute,” Ruch says. “Today that seems a little more mainstream because you can get cashew milk or almond milk at the grocery store ... but then to take that idea of nuts as dairy and go even further to make a cream cheese to make cheesecake, to make a frosting, to make a whipped cream. Any application you want to use diary for, you can use nuts for.” Just because Fresh Thymes is gluten- and grainfree doesn’t mean Ruch shies away from making baked goods and breads. She admits maybe it might require some cognitive dissonance if you’re expecting a paleo or vegan baked good to taste and feel precisely like one made with grain and dairy, but the goal is “always to evoke the childhood memory of eating the thing you used to eat but you can’t eat any longer. Or, just be straight-up dang good.” I

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“It’s kind of a mind-set,” Ruch says of indulging in diet-specific sweets. “I can never have nuts [create the same texture as] gluten, they’re never gonna be that way, but it still just makes the sweetness that hits those memory profiles that satisfies your desire for something ooey-gooey decadent and makes you feel like you’re doing something bad, but at the same time I’m deceptively feeding you for health.” Ruch says unfiltered honey and dates often end up in sweet baked goods, dates providing a rich caramel and molasses flavor. Because Fresh Thymes doesn’t use eggs generally, and because eggs are important in baking, Ruch says she uses up to seven things to mimic eggs, including psyllium, flax and chia seeds, and never any artificial gums, acids or other substitutes you might find in a mass-produced vegan or egg-free product. Cassava flour and bean flour are also used, often in gluten-free breads, the latter being fermented like a sourdough to make a flatbread. At some vegan or diet-specific restaurants, there’s a tendency to just substitute in meatless, eggless, glutenless, whatever-less ingredients into everyday dishes. Think tofu sloppy Joes or vegan, gluten-free mac and cheese or, gulp, fishless tuna. But Ruch says although you’ll find diet-specific alternatives on their burger, salad and pizza menus, there are also menu items that don’t exist anywhere else, and which were born out of accommodating those with dietary restrictions, like the Gold Bowl: coconut turmeric sauce, bean thread noodles, spicy Thai cabbage slaw, black sesame and ginger garlic chicken. Fresh Thymes is also one of the only restaurants locally to offer a wine list of exclusively natural wines. (There will be a natural wine tasting event at Fresh Thymes on April 16 at 6 p.m. during Colorado Natural Wine Week, if you’re interested.) Natural wines are a good fit for Fresh Thymes because they’re produced with organic grapes and made with little chemical or physical interference but possess bold, unique flavors. Ruch says she changes menu items seasonally to accommodate what’s available from local farms. And if you’re curious about how to create dishes like those on Fresh Thymes’ menu, Ruch continues to teach cooking classes with a bent toward nutrition at the satellite Fresh Thymes Marketplace. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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That’s a quote attributed to the ancient Roman poet Ovid. What did he mean? Was he foreshadowing the wisdom of pop singer Pat Benatar, who in 1983 told us, “Love is a battlefield”? Was Ovid implying that to succeed in the amorous arts we must be heroic warriors prepared to overcome fears and risk psychological dangers? Probably. But I will also point out that it takes as much courage to create fun, interesting togetherness as it does to wrestle with the problems that togetherness brings. You need just as much bravura and panache to explore the sweet mysteries of intimacy as you do to explore the achy mysteries of intimacy. Keep these thoughts in mind as you marshal your audacity to deepen and expand your best relationships in the coming weeks.

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MAY 21-JUNE 20: Poet David Hinton analyzed the Chinese

word for “poetry.” Its etymological meaning is “words spoken at the fertility altar.” Let’s make that your theme, even if you don’t write or read poetry. I suspect the coming weeks will be a favorable time to take a vow or utter a solemn intention in front of a homemade fertility altar. The oath you speak might express a desire to boost your use of your physical vitality: your lust for life, your adoration of the natural world, or your power to produce new human life. Or your vow to foster your fertility could be more metaphorical and symbolic in nature: the imaginative intimacy you will explore or the creativity you’ll express in future works of art or the generous effects you want to have on the world.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Christopher Robin Milne was the son

of author A. A. Milne, who wrote the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. He said there are two ways to navigate through life. Either you “take a bearing on something in the future and steer towards it, or take a bearing on something in the past and steer away from it.” So in his view, “There are those who look ahead and pull and those who look behind and push.” I’m hoping that in the coming weeks and months, you will make a delighted commitment to the first option: taking a bearing on something in the future and steering towards it. I think that approach will inspire you toward the most interesting success.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: The national animal of Finland is the

brown bear. The national insect is the ladybug and the national instrument is a stringed instrument known as the kantele. As for the national author, it’s Aleksis Kivi, who produced just one novel that took him ten years to write. He also published a short collection of odes and a few plays, adding up to a grand total of less than 800 pages of work. I think that the efforts you make in the coming weeks could have a disproportionately large impact, as well, Leo. What you lack in quantity will be irrelevant compared to the sheer quality you generate.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: I follow the blogger Evanescent Voyager

because she makes me cry with sad joy and exultant poignance on a regular basis. One of her other fans wrote her a love note I could have written myself. It said, “Your emotional brilliance and thoughtful passion break me into pieces and then weave me back together with more coherence than I had before reading you. I revere your alchemical talent for undoing me so you can heal me; for lowering my defenses so I can be open to your riches; for demolishing my habitual trance so you can awaken my sleeping genius.” I believe that in the coming weeks, life itself will offer to perform these same services for you, Virgo. I urge you to accept!

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “Love is no assignment for cowards.”

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: The literal meaning of the French term jolie-laide is “pretty and ugly.” Bloggers at wordsnquotes.com define it as follows: “It’s a fascinating quirkiness that’s irresistible, like a face you want to keep looking at even if you can’t decide whether it is beautiful or not.” Jolie-laide overlaps with the Japanese term wabi-sabi, which describes a person or thing that is lovely because of its imperfection and incompleteness. I bring these facts to your attention because I think you have extraordinary potential to be a master embodier of both jolie-laide and wabi-sabi in the coming weeks.

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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: As Czech playwright Vaclav Havel (1936–2011) matured, he became a political dissident who opposed the Soviet Union’s authoritarian grip on his country. Eventually he was a key player in the Velvet Revolution that banished Communism. When Czechoslovakia emerged as a new democracy, its people elected him president. Havel later thanked Lou Reed and the band the Velvet Underground for fully awakening his liberationist leadership. He said their unruly music stoked his longing to establish a culture where total creative freedom was possible. I mention this, Sagittarius, because now is a favorable time to identify the music or art or films or literature that might fuel your emancipation in the coming months.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Capricorn author J. R. R. Tolkien toiled on

his masterpiece The Lord of the Rings for twelve years. Once he finished, it wasn’t published for more than five years. So seventeen years passed between the time he launched his precious project and the time when it reached an audience. I don’t think you will need that much patience in shepherding your own venture to full expression, Capricorn. But I hope you’ll summon as much faith in yourself as Tolkien had to rouse in himself. To do so will bring out the best in you!

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Released in 1998, The Prince of Egypt

is an animated film that tells the story of the Hebrew prophet Moses. In the climactic event, the hero uses magic to part the waters of the Red Sea, allowing his people to run across the sea floor and escape the army that’s chasing them. To make that seven-minute scene, 28 professional animators labored for 318,000 hours. In the coming months, you could create your own version of that marvel, Aquarius. But you’ll need a team to help you, and that team is not yet ready to go. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get it ready, though.

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Dear Dan: I’m a heteroflexible married cis woman in my 40s. I’m also a POS cheater and a catfish. I really fucked up. One year ago, I met an older man in an online fetish forum. He sent me an unsolicited PM, and we have talked for hours every day since then. My husband, whom I’ve been married to for more than 20 years, does not know that I am having an emotional affair. I have no intention of telling my husband what I’ve done. I have been honest with my online boyfriend about everything except my name, my age and the fact that I have a husband. (I know those are all really big things to lie about.) My boyfriend lied to me early on about his name, age and relationship status, but came clean out of guilt. So I had the opportunity to say that I lied too, but I didn’t take it. I know what I’m doing is wrong. My husband would be very hurt if he knew. And my boyfriend, who wants to make a life together, would be very hurt as well. I’m in love with both men, but I’m not leaving my husband. I know the only right thing to do is break things off with my boyfriend. I’ve tried multiple times: I’ve told him that he is better off without me, that I’m a bad person and that he shouldn’t trust me. Each time, he convinces me to stay. We have not been physical. We have never even been in the same room, much to his dismay. I have thought about telling him the truth, but I am worried about my safety, and I do not

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BY DAN SAVAGE want to hurt him any worse than I already have. Plus, I’m a fucking coward. I am in treatment for PTSD. My therapist believes that my actions are a coping mechanism, i.e., it is easier to pretend to be someone else than it is to be me. I don’t think she’s wrong, but I also don’t think it excuses what I’ve done. How do I end this relationship without doing any more damage to my two partners? —Conning And Tricking For Intensely Selfish Haven Dear CATFISH: Far be it from me to question your therapist’s assessment — she’s spoken with you on multiple occasions, and her insights are doubtless more informed — but I think her framing falls short. She describes your actions as a coping mechanism: You told a stranger lies and abused your husband’s trust to escape your miserable life. If you weren’t so fucking miserable — if other people and/or circumstances hadn’t conspired to make you so fucking miserable — you wouldn’t have done this. You wouldn’t be doing this still. But despite your therapist’s efforts to help you down off that hook, CATFISH, you

seem determined to hang there. She’s offering you absolution, in whole or in part, while you stand around flagellating yourself (“POS cheater,” “fucking coward,” “bad person,” etc.). Personally, I think you’re entitled to your feelings. Go ahead and feel terrible. You did a bad thing. It’s not the worst thing someone’s ever done online, and most people know not to take what a stranger tells them on the internet at face value. But if feeling terrible doesn’t motivate you to make changes... well, it’s not for me to question your sincerity. But some people think it’s OK to do terrible things so long as they have the decency to feel terrible about having done them. If you’re not one of those people — if you actually feel bad — doing something about it and learning something from it will alleviate your misery. Here’s what you need to do: End things with your boyfriend. Write him an e-mail, tell him the truth about your age, marital status and unavailability. Don’t share your real name with him; you’re under no obligation to do so, and if he turns out to be the vindictive type, CATFISH, you don’t want him to have your real identity. Apologize for not coming clean when he did — he lied to you too at the start — and thank him for the pleasure of his virtual company and the joy he brought to

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your life. Then block him. Here’s what you need to learn: You didn’t do this because you’re miserable — or you didn’t do it just because you’re miserable. You did this because it was fun. We call it “play” when children pretend to be someone or something they’re not; child’s play is also, yes, a coping mechanism. Vulnerable children pretend to be big and powerful superheroes and/or monsters to cope with and momentarily escape their relative powerlessness. And nothing makes a child’s playful fantasy feel more real than a good friend who plays along. Most adults don’t make time for play — most of us aren’t LARPers or kinksters — but even adults need play, and some adults need play more than others. You found a space where you could play (that online fetish forum), and you found a playmate who helped make your fantasies feel real. It got out of hand when arousal, orgasms, oxytocin and promises you couldn’t keep got stirred into the mix. The play made you feel better at first, but the dishonesty and stress of deceiving two people eventually wiped out the benefits you were getting. You need to find a way to build some play into your life, sexual and/or nonsexual, that doesn’t require you to lie or hide. It would be great if you could do that with your husband, CATFISH, but if he’s not willing or able to play with you, get his okay to play on your own.

Cannabis used for federally funded research is ditchweed by Sidni West

n case you were looking for more cent) for decades. And in that time, the ways to be embarrassed by the fedweed available to consumers has eral government, you can add “grow- become significantly more potent. ing brick weed” to the list. Scientists have long complained it’s diffiResearchers at the University of cult to obtain product from the school Northern Colorado found that the canna- and that its quality is less than ideal. bis supplied by the only federally authoRemember when you smoked seeds and rized cultivation site in the country shared a closer WIKIMEDIA COMMONS “genetic affinity with hemp samples in most analyses” than what commercial dispensaries are selling in legal states. Just like the line cook at Denny’s who sold you dimebags in high school, the feds are peddling schwag. Under the 1961 international Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, the federal government is the single “agent” allowed to provide cannabis for research. The DEA has only ever authorized one grower: THIS GOVERNMENTthe University of Mississippi, stems out of a soda GROWN POT is more like hemp than the marijuana that can and it gave you which holds a contract with people are smoking these the National Institute on more of a headache days. Drug Abuse (NIDA) to grow, than a high? harvest, store and distribute Apparently it tastes cannabis to researchers. So closer to that than the for the past half-century, all cannabis late-stage capitalism cannabis that used in federally authorized research has everyone smokes in 2019. been supplied by a single facility. The Previous studies have demonstrated study called the current system “costly, that NIDA’s pot has lower levels of THC cumbersome and limited by a sole source and CBD compared to commercial cansupply.” nabis products, so the researchers at the Ole Miss has been growing awful University of Northern Colorado wanted ditchweed (with THC as low as 8 perto learn specifically about genetic vari-

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ance. The study looked at 49 different cannabis samples, including hemp and NIDA-supplied cannabis, as well as various indica, sativa and hybrid strains sold on the commercial market. When the samples were genetically analyzed, the researchers were surprised to find just how different NIDA’s marijuana is from the cannabis most people are consuming: “Previous research found that cannabinoid levels in research grade marijuana supplied by NIDA did not align with commercially available Cannabis from Colorado, Washington and California. Given NIDA chemotypes were misaligned with commercial Cannabis, we sought to investigate where NIDA’s research grade marijuana falls on the genetic spectrum of Cannabis groups. NIDA research grade marijuana was found to genetically group with Hemp samples along with a small subset of commercial drug-type Cannabis. A majority of commercially available drug-type Cannabis was genetically very distinct from NIDA samples. These results suggest that subjects consuming NIDA research grade marijuana may experience different effects than average consumers.” This has serious implications because hemp is genetically distinct from the cannabis that gets you stoned. Since most federally funded research where participants consume cannabis for

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medicinal purposes relies on NIDAsupplied product, how applicable are the results of the research using the government weed to understanding the effects of products that consumers are actually using? The government cannot keep up with the range of products available to consumers in recreational and medical dispensaries across the U.S. Advocates, scientists and lawmakers have been urging the Justice Department to expand the number of federally authorized cultivation facilities since limited supply and diversity of strains available from the government’s current sole source are hindering research, but like everything bureaucratic, the process has been slow to change. In a 2016 NIDA request for information that asked the scientific community about topics of interest for further cannabis research, the most consistent recommendation was to have marijuana strains and products available that reflect the diversity available at state dispensaries. That would include cannabis strains and hybrids with higher THC content, more reflective of what is found in state programs (up to ~30 percent THC), as well as increasing the number and variety of cannabis chemotypes to include not only a range of THC concentrations, but also other cannabinoids with varying ratios to better isolate and characterize their constituent pharmacological effects. There is also an increasing demand for a more effective placebo that would better mimic the taste, smell and look of active cannabis.

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Gardner re-introduces the STATES Act By Paul Danish

f at first you don’t succeed, hitch up your pants, spit out your broken teeth and try again. Last week Colorado Republican Senator Cory Gardner, Massachusetts Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/GAGE SKIDMORE

and eight other Senators re-introduced the legislation the two co-sponsored last year to allow states to legalize marijuana without federal interference. The co-sponsors included Colorado’s other senator, Democrat Michael Bennet, who is also contemplating a presidential run, and Minnesota Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar. The bill is called the STATES Act, for “Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States.” (The one-sentence-long Tenth Amendment states that “The powers not

delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”) “In 2012, Coloradans legalized marijuana at the ballot box and the state created an apparatus to regulate the legal marijuana industry. But because of the one-size-fits-all federal prohibition, state decisions like this put Colorado and other states at odds with the federal government,” Gardner said in a prepared statement. “The federal government is closing its eyes and plugging its ears while 47 states have acted. The bipartisan STATES Act fixes this problem once and for all by taking a states’ rights approach to the legal marijuana question. The bipartisan commonsense bill ensures the federal government will respect the will of the voters — whether that is legalization or prohibition — and not interfere in any states’ legal marijuana industry,” he said. At the same time, an identical bill, also called the STATES Act, was introduced in the House of Representatives with 26 cosponsors — half Democrats and half Republicans. The lead sponsors in the House are Oregon Democratic Representative Earl Blumenauer and Ohio Republican Representative David Joyce. “I’ve been working on this for four decades,” Blumenauer told the Marijuana Moment website. “I could not

be more excited.” He called the STATES Act “a landmark.” Colorado Democratic Representatives Ed Perlmutter and Joe Neguse are also among the co-sponsors. Neguse, whose district includes Boulder, tweeted that he joined in sponsoring the bill because it “will ensure the cannabis industry in Colorado is not held back by the federal government’s delay in legalization,” and to ensure that marijuana businesses “can access banks & loans & that the threat of federal prosecution is removed.” On April 1, Denver Democratic Representative Diana DeGette introduced a separate bill that does essentially the same thing as the STATES Act. DeGette’s bill, titled the Respect States; and Citizens’ Rights Act, is similar to legislation she introduced in the previous four Congresses. It’s not clear why she chose to introduce separate legislation instead of joining the co-sponsors of Blumenauer’s bill. Past attempts to get marijuana legislation through Congress haven’t had much support from interest groups beyond those directly advocating for pot, like NORML and the Marijuana Policy Project. That isn’t the case this year. According to a press release from Warren’s office, the STATES Act is supported by the ACLU, the American Bankers Association, Americans for Prosperity (the Koch brothers funded political interest group), Americans for Tax Reform, the Competitive Enterprise

Institute, the Cooperative Credit Union Association, the Credit Union National Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and a number of Indian tribes. The support from a diverse portfolio of interest groups, especially conservative ones, significantly increases the bill’s chances of passage. • • • • Put not your trust in polls department. For weeks, polls taken in Israel showed a political party whose founder advocated marijuana legalization as winning as many as seven seats in Israel’s parliament and conceivably being able to determine whether a conservative bloc lead by incumbent prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu or a liberal bloc led by former army chief of staff Benny Gantz would form the next government. The polls were wrong. Israel voted on Tuesday and with more than 97 percent of the vote counted the Zehut party failed to get the minimum percentage of votes (3.25 percent) necessary to claim any seats in parliament. Party founder Moshe Feiglin, a former member of Netanyahu’s Likud Party who went rogue, said he was still hopeful of getting the minimum required, since most of the outstanding votes were cast by soldiers, most of whom are in the age groups most likely to favor marijuana legalization, but the prospect seemed unlikely. The party’s poor showing seemed due to the fact that its rise in the polls drew furious attacks from parties across the political spectrum.

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