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e humans have got to get a whole lot smarter, says Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla automobiles and CEO of SpaceX rockets. Musk is not merely reacting to humanity’s recent tendency to elect lunatics to lead our countries. Rather, he’s trying to warn us about the rapid rise of a radical new technology: artificial intelligence. In common parlance, he’s referring to robots, but these are not clunky, somewhat cute machines performing rote tasks. AI essentially has evolved to become an electronic brain — a web of evermore-complex superI

computers interacting as one cognitive unit that can program itself, make decisions, and act independently of the humans who’re creating them. These thinking machines are rapidly increasing in number and geometrically advancing their IQ, prompting Musk and others to view AI technologies in apocalyptic terms. As algorithms and systems inevitably grow more sophisticated, he says, “digital intelligence will exceed biological intelligence by a substantial margin.” In graphic terms, Musk warns that profiteering humans are “summoning the devil” by creating a new superior species APRIL 18, 2019

of beings that will end up dominating humanity, becoming “an immortal dictator from which we would never escape.” What’s weird is not his dystopian prognosis (other experts confirm that runaway bot intelligence is a real threat), but his solution. The way for us human beings to compete with AI says Musk, is to merge with it — not a corporate transaction, but a literal merger: Surgically implant AI devices in human brains with “a bunch of tiny wires” that would fuse people with super intelligence. Uh-huh... and what could go wrong with that? It’s good to have technological geniuses alert us to looming dangers, but maybe the larger community of humanists ought to lead the search for answers. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. I

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ecently the Houston Chief of Police Art Acevedo shared a newspaper article on Twitter about an 11-year-old migrant girl from El Salvador who was being deported from the U.S. without her family. He remarked: “Yep. The Nazis enforced their laws as well. You don’t separate children from their families! Ever! You’d have to kill me to take my child from me simply because I was trying to get them to a better place for a better tomorrow. I am glad to be on the right side of history.” It’s going to be exhausting. Trump will continue to throw temper tantrums about Latino immigrants and asylum seekers. The blizzard of bullshit will be unending. The 2020 presidential race might be the dirtiest in U.S. history. Trump is stirring up hysteria to hide his plutocratic policies. He claims to protect us from hoodlums while he dismantles protections for consumers, workers and oxygenbreathers. However, it is true that more people are showing up at the border. But they are moms and kids, not MS-13 gang members. Vox reporter Dara Lind says the situation is complex: “The total number of people coming into the U.S. without papers is still lower than it was for most of the 20th century, and substantially lower than its turn-of-the-century peak. “The total number of people coming into the U.S. without papers is now higher than it’s been since early 2007 — before the Great Recession — with February and March 2019 levels exceeding the child migrant crisis of 2014. “The number of people coming into the U.S. without papers who can’t simply be detained and deported — children, families and asylum-seekers — is almost certainly unprecedented.” In a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Commissioner Doris Meissner said the U.S. border enforcement system was designed to stop single individuals (mostly Mexican young men) from I

illegally crossing the border to find work. But unauthorized immigration from Mexico has been way down for almost two decades. For at least five years there’s been an increasing number of family groups from Central America openly turning themselves in at the border. They are following the rules and seeking asylum under international and U.S. law. They are entitled to ask for asylum before an immigration judge. They are escaping social disintegration and gang violence as well as the breakdown of government and law-enforcement to address those problems. In 2014, the Obama administration responded to a surge of migrant families arriving at the border with hard-line tactics similar to Trump. After being blocked by federal courts, Obama shifted tactics and began to treat the situation more as a humanitarian crisis. For example, Obama created the Central American Minors (CAM) program that enabled young people with strong claims for refugee status to apply in their home countries rather than embark on a dangerous journey to the U.S. border. Five days after he became president, Trump ended the CAM program. It is encouraging that most Americans don’t care for Trump’s wall, are favorable to the DACA kids and don’t like the separation of immigrant children from their families. However, a large majority of Americans support more restrictive immigration laws. Trump’s hard-line approach may help him win re-election. The Republicans have decades of practice in sowing fear and anxiety about The Other. They have the echo chamber of Fox News. Trump has nasty but simple answers. Moreover, Democrats don’t offer a coherent alternative. For a broader perspective, we need to look at what happened to people in Central America before they arrived in the United States. We will find that the U.S. government and business played a significant role in the inequality and instability of the see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 7

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foreign aid come with “a policy of zero tolerance for corruption and oppression” and demanding that the U.S. national security apparatus “cleanse itself of its unhealthy relationship with Central American militaries.” Mexico’s newly elected left-wing president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has proposed a big, ambitious Mexican Green New Deal for social and economic development, which will create jobs for young people who are tempted to migrate to the United States. Despite his criticisms of U.S. intervention in Latin America, he wants to help create a joint U.S.-Mexican Marshall Plan for Central America. There is hope if we can defeat Trumpism and elect progressives and democratic socialists in 2020. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. I

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and the production of Jelt Belts is that the work is part of a rehabilitation and education program that changes lives and attitudes in profound ways. The inmates are paid, the activity provides a vessel for empowerment and, ideally, a successful re-entry into society. And, with female incarceration increasing rapidly across the nation over the past few decades, Perry is on the forefront of rehabilitative efforts that could change recidivism outcomes. Statistics relating to female incarceration tell a troubling story. Women’s state prison populations have grown 834 percent over the past four decades across the United States, more than double the pace of growth for male inmates, which grew by 367 percent nationwide from 1978 to 2015. Colorado has been no exception to this trend. The state has seen a rapid growth in the number of female inmates since the early 1980s. The trend peaked in 2005, with slightly less than 100 female inmates per 100,000 women; as of 2015, the rate is approximately 68 female inmates per 100,000 women. For law enforcement agencies

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en Perry makes belts. But not just any belts. The University of Colorado graduate’s Jelt Belts are made from recycled plastic bottles, the buckle contains no metal so it can be worn through metal detectors at airports, and they’re fun, with funky colors that match any mood and style. But perhaps most importantly, Jelt Belts are not manufactured in China, where so many of Perry’s competitors produce their goods. They’re made in a lonely, barbed wire shrouded outpost in Billings, Montana. The wire isn’t there to keep her competitors’ prying eyes away. Rather, it’s there to keep her workforce inside the facility — the Montana Women’s Prison. Prison labor isn’t new, as anyone who has watched movie classics like Cool Hand Luke or The Shawshank Redemption, where prisoners labored under hot sun with bloodhounds and armed guards standing watch, knows. However, what’s different about the work at the Montana Women’s Prison 8

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and the criminal justice system, female inmates in Colorado and across the country provide unique challenges. According to research by the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that focuses on mass incarceration, 62 percent of female inmates are mothers of minor children and are also more likely to be the primary caretakers. The resulting challenges in the event of even shortterm incarceration of these mothers are many and acute, and in the most extreme cases include the complete severing of family ties as children are placed in permanent foster homes. Sadly, incarceration is only the first hurdle for female inmates. “Women with a history of incarceration face particularly daunting obstacles when they return to their communities,” says Wendy Sawyer, a senior policy analyst at the Prison Policy Initiative. “Even before they are incarcerated, women in prison earn less than men in prison, and earn less than non-incarcerated women of the same age and race. Women’s prisons do not I

meet the need or demand for vocational and educational program opportunities. And once released, the collateral consequences of incarceration make finding work, housing and financial support even more difficult,” Sawyer adds. This, of course, is where Perry comes in. “In the beginning [of Jelt Belts] everything was made in China, because there was nowhere I could make belts in the U.S.A.,” Perry says. “But I didn’t feel good about that.” So she re-imagined production and supply chains, while tapping into an unlikely workforce. Today the raw goods for Jelt’s products are shipped to the Montana Women’s Prison, and while the prison is run by the state, “there is a volunteer program where inmates apply, interview and then are trained if they get the job,” Perry says, noting that for any inmate, participation in work programs is by choice, and employment or other forms of labor during incarceration are not mandated by the authorities. Oversight of the program, Perry says, BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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ered, and with job skills they are 30 percent less likely to re-offend.” “I think that it makes a huge difference in the level of confidence that inmates have when they leave here,” adds Esther Weis, who oversees Jelt’s production at the correctional facility in Billings along with several other work programs in the prison. “A lot of women leave with a different mindset [from when they came in].” Part of the mental reset, Weis says, comes from simple things: taking pride in the work, feeling responsible and earning enough to not only pay your debt to society and support your children but also to save something extra for when it’s time to go home. These may seem like small, normal and ordinary things to those on the outside, but to an inmate who has never been through an interview process or held a job, this process, and the skills learned, can be a lifechanging affirmation that they as an individual and as a human have value — that they can be productive. “I think what happens when they start, it’s like my 15-year-old son who is washing dishes and says, ‘This sucks,’” laughs Perry. “But this is what you have to do, you have to have a job and you have to show up and eventually you get a sense of satisfaction from being part of the chain of

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commerce, instead of being a drain. Everyone needs that. Some of these people have never experienced working. They’ve had a rough start to their lives in terrible circumstances.” This hunger for success that Perry sees in the female inmates in Montana isn’t unique to Billings. In Colorado, “female offenders tend to be more likely to take advantage of programs and to be more highly engaged in them,” says Adrienne L. Jacobson, associate director for legal services and acting public information officer for the Colorado Department of Corrections. “Female offenders are more likely to self-advocate and are motivated and excited to learn,” Jacobson adds when queried about how the female prison population differs from their male peers. “Female offenders feel a sense of accomplishment in completion of a class and are excited to excel. They are interested in earning college credit, receiving achievement earned time upon completion, and being prepared for life after release.” While there are currently no other brands in the Centennial State that are involved in the corrections enviAPRIL 18, 2019

ronment in the way that Jelt Belts is in Montana, Jacobson says that demand for educational, technical and career classes is strong, and waitlists are common. And, Jacobson says, there is education available to accommodate a wide variety of skills and interests: graphic design, cosmetology, culinary arts, welding, carpentry, HVAC, and electronic engineering to name a few. Women can also earn their GED. Plus, the skills learned by women during their time in prison can be put to use immediately upon release, Jacobson adds. “Female offenders are able to video interview with employers open to hiring former offenders,” Jacobson says. “In some cases, offenders are prehired and can then count on having a job waiting for them upon release.” For Jacobson, the combination of education and training while incarcerated, along with a focus on having the skills and training to succeed upon release, are part of an overall system where inmates are empowered to put their crimes behind them and enter a future that’s brighter than their pasts. “Partnering with community resources allows offenders to build I

relationships that extend beyond the prison walls and provide them with necessary support on the outside,” Jacobson says. “The Department of Corrections is committed to providing as many educational, vocational and other programmatic opportunities as possible to our female and male populations in order to better prepare them for re-entry.” The ultimate goal, Jacobson adds, is “creating a more normal transition environment for our offenders.” “It’s not easy,” Perry adds. “Some of these people have never worked.” But the process of learning to work and ultimately learning to appreciate work can be incredibly powerful, she adds. “At one point someone said, ‘I’d rather work at McDonald’s than this,’” Perry says with a laugh. “What happened as she started doing it more, it turns out that she loves it and she now directs our whole project. We’ve all learned that work by definition sucks, but we have to work, and when you work, you get a sense of pride and satisfaction when you create something awesome. “She is so proud of what she’s doing now.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

n theory, it’s logical to assume that controlling predators by reducing their numbers in the wild would allow the numbers of prey species like deer and elk to increase — all the while, removing competition for shared resources such as big game hunting. But that’s not what a new study by Dr. Mark Elbroch, puma program director for the global wild cat conservation organization Panthera, has found. Instead, the study, “Age-specific foraging strategies among pumas, and its implications for aiding ungulate populations through carnivore control,” recently published in Conservation Science and Practice by Elbroch and coauthor Howard Quigley, suggests the current controversial strategy of increasing mountain lion killing to aid mule deer, as currently underway in Colorado, may in fact exacerbate problems for mule deer by changing the age-structure of the lion population to predominantly younger animals that are more likely to hunt deer over elk. In turn, this may lessen the ecosystem benefits provided by mountain lions. The study specifically mentions the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife’s Predator Control Plans, which were approved by the Parks and Wildlife Commission in Dec. 2016, and call for the killing of hundreds of mountain lions and black bears by USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services and increased hunter take in an effort to increase mule deer populations on Colorado’s Western Slope. There are numerous lawsuits challenging various aspects of the plans at both the state and federal levels (see Boulder Weekly’s “Off Target” series.) Elbroch told BW this research was different for him because he didn’t initially ask any specific questions, adding that because of the type of analysis he did, he was able to allow the data to speak for itself. The process allowed him to determine what cougars were eating at what ages. The result was startling in its simplicity. “A remarkable 78 percent, which in ecology is unheard of, was explained by only one factor: age,” he says. “The older the cat, generally, the larger the prey it specialized on.” “I love when things are simple like

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that,” Elbroch says. Referring to a visual graph produced for the study, Elbroch points out that mountain lions progressively ate larger prey as they grew older, specializing in deer when they were two to two-and-a-half years old. After that, he says, the cougars he studied split their attention between deer and elk. “And by the time they’re five and fiveand-a-half,” he says, “they’ve really transitioned to a predominantly elk diet.” “Once I got to that point, I started to think about its implications,” Elbroch says. Part of the reason that Colorado, along with other Western states, allows the hunting of mountain lions is to try to maintain big game populations at a certain level, Elbroch says, which is always undefined because no one really knows the numbers of the actual populations. He says this killing of predators is done in an attempt to help mule deer, which are struggling in the Rocky Mountain West. Elbroch adds that by knowing that heavy harvest (hunting) of mountain lions radically influences the age of those animals on the landscape, he realized a potential analog with CPW’s predator control plans. “I was like, geesh, isn’t it ironic that maintaining a three-year-old [mountain lion] population means you’re actually reducing the variation in kinds of prey they eat, and you’re holding at a population that may be predominantly eating deer?” “The irony wasn’t lost on me,” Elbroch says, referring to the implications of his findings for CPW’s predator plans. “But I’m also quick to point out that this is one study, it was not a huge number of cats,” adding he’d love to see more researchers replicate his findings, including CPW. In response to e-mailed questions, CPW was quick to criticize the sample size and location of Elbroch’s study (13 cougars were studied and the study was conducted in the Yellowstone ecosystem.) CPW says there are a number of variables to consider in these different contexts, calling the comparison of Elbroch’s findings to Colorado, “a stretch.” But despite the obvious differences in context, CPW concedes Elbroch’s study may provide evidence BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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that cougars shift to larger prey as they get older. However, CPW claims this finding isn’t consistent with data from two of its studies in Colorado, which found mountain lions killed both fawn and adult deer and elk calves in nearly equal proportions, and that lions killed a large number of small prey within the urban-wildland interface and deer fawns and elk calves during summer. “Mountain lion predation on elk was limited and predominantly by male cougars,” according to CPW. For those reasons, CPW asserts that instead of a cougar’s age, “The location of a lion’s home range relative to prey availability was a much better predictor of prey selection than lion age,” adding its research demonstrates harvesting fewer lions and leaving more older lions on the landscape does not equate to growth in mule deer populations. I

Elbroch says that although CPW is right that any comparison between his findings and mountain lion research in Colorado must take into account how the two locations differ. But he adds that the agency’s responses are just reporting what it saw at a glance, and were not the result of CPW having conducted any similar analysis to what he did. Once the differences in context are accounted for, Elbroch adds, then researchers can see whether the pattern holds true across systems. “They of course didn’t do this themselves, so can’t compare what they found in Colorado in their stateled studies to mine — they would need to account for differences in prey availability first,” he says, “Thus their arguments do not carry scientific weight.” Elbroch emphasizes that his study, encourages additional research, adding that to do this requires a lot of fieldwork. He says he and his colleagues want people to follow up with more research, not discount their study because it’s from a different context and includes a smaller sample size. “The scientific approach is to repeat APRIL 18, 2019

the study well, with open mind, and to account for differences in prey availability so that the studies are comparable, and then to see what comes out at the end of the analysis,” Elbroch says, “That’s what we need to push our understanding of predator-prey dynamics further — open minds, and scientific rigor.” He adds he and his colleagues raised CPW’s predator control plans as an example of management where the goal is to aid mule deer, “but that if this pattern holds true, they may in fact be shooting themselves in the foot,” he says. Elbroch says the more researchers study mountain lions, the more they realize they contribute far more beneficial ecosystem-wide services than researchers ever expected. Researchers like Elbroch have just begun to uncover what mountain lions do for our ecosystems. And given their large range from here all the way to southern South America, he says,“they have a huge impact on biodiversity across that range, which is stunning and startling and exciting.” I

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by Will Brendza and coal mining projects. This is the third year in a row that JP Morgan Chase has held that top spot, over which time it’s provided $195.7 billion in funding to the industry. It’s a fact that’s not only compelling activists to take a stand against these big banks, but one that’s also pressuring the City of Boulder to explore financial options beyond JP Morgan Chase. Unless a change is made, Boulder’s tax dollars will continue to indirectly prop up oil, gas and (to a lesser extent) coal companies, which runs counter to the City’s climate change commitment. It won’t be an easy transition to make, though, according to staff in the City’s finance office. State laws, federal requirements and City financial needs currently have Boulder shackled

to JP Morgan Chase. However, it wouldn’t be impossible to break away, some contend. “It’s just really tantamount to our efforts to address the climate crisis that we stop putting our money into projects that are funding climate change,” says Micah Parkin, founder and executive director of 350 Colorado, which organized the April 10 protests. For the last two years, 350 Colorado has been advocating for the City of Boulder to cut its ties with JP Morgan Chase. For a City prohibited by its own regulations from directly investing in fossil fuel projects and fossil fuel companies, banking with JP Morgan Chase seems counterintuitive. So, in the summer of 2017, Parkin and others from 350 Colorado approached the Boulder City Council

with an appeal to divest from JP Morgan Chase, where the city has banked since 2004. “So far, the City finance staff has been fairly negative about it. I think a lot of it is comfort with the current situation,” Parkin says. “But fortunately, it seems like our City Council really seems to get it.” In December 2017, City Council announced they would shorten the City’s next contract with JP Morgan Chase from five years to two (with the option to renew for an additional three years), while exploring the possibility of alternatives. Right away, though, it became clear that the task of disentangling Boulder from JP Morgan Chase would not be such an easy task. “One of the reasons that our financial folks like to use a large bank is because they can provide a full suite of financial services,” explains Sam Weaver, one of the Council members who tasked the City financial staff with reviewing alternative banking options. These financial services include things like lockbox services, facilitating City credit card processing, administering the City’s purchasingcard system, imaging services and holding the City operating accounts. “Our partner needs to be able to support a pretty diverse range of transaction types,” Weaver says. That limits the available options significantly, but not entirely. There are still two routes that City staff identified as possible alternatives: to see CHASE Page 16

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which is not a trivial challenge to overcome, according to Cheryl Pattelli, the City of Boulder’s chief financial officer. “Colorado has rules that will not allow us to bank with credit unions,” Pattelli says, explaining that currently the state requires a city’s bank have FDIC insurance, whereas credit unions use NCUA insurance. In order for Boulder to pursue banking through a credit union, it would require the state legislature to change the law to allow cities to bank through institutions insured with NCUA coverage. It’s a legislative change for which the City of Boulder is pushing. “We have put in our legislative agenda an impetus to support any legislation that will allow the City to bank with a credit union,” Weaver says. “Where it is right now, is we’re looking for allies at the State House to give us more flexibility on where we can bank our money.” So, until legislation changes, not much can be done by the City except to wait and see how the situation evolves. And, according to Eichem, that’s not such a bad thing. He says that with every new feasibility report done by every city considering divesting from big banks, Boulder learns more about what it’s going to take to actually make this happen. “There’s a lot of groundwork that these other places have done that I really do believe, if Boulder ever does go forward on this, it will save us a lot of time because every report has some commonalities throughout it,” Eichem says. “So that’s very helpful.” If the City Council does decide to move forward with this divestment initiative, the next step would be for Boulder to do its own feasibility study, like Seattle or Santa Fe — which, Eichem, Pattelli and Parkin all admit could take several years and a significant budget to complete. But, with Boulder’s Climate Change Commitment, it may yet happen. “If we’re trying to be a leader around the issue of climate change, which I really think Boulder is and tries to be, then this is a huge oversight if we don’t do something about our connection to JP Morgan Chase,” Parkin says. “All the climate change mitigation in the world won’t do us any good if we keep propping up the fossil fuel industry.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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endi remembers how his extremities froze in the icy water of the monsoon-flooded river, and the following three days that he survived without food, at the mercy of the weather and wild animals, before finally returning home. He was only 7 years old at the time. It would not be the last time Tendi would overcome adversity. It was only the beginning of his life at the extremes. At the age of five, his parents sent him to the village of Khanigau Tamku, Nepal, to go to school. It was a three-day walk away. The plan was for him to stay with some family friends in exchange for doing light housework. Little did he or his parents know that he would ultimately be subjected to heavy work unsuitable for a child. “I had to get up at dawn and go to the woods, carry things to the house,” Tendi says. “It was a lot of work. It took me three hours to walk to school. I was always late.” He recalls school starting at 10 a.m. but says he often wouldn’t get there until 1 p.m. due to his workload. When he’d arrive late, he was punished by the teacher, who would force him to sit down while she pulled his ears as punishment in front of the other students. It was exhausting, and Tendi knew that continuing in school under such conditions was not an option, so he escaped and headed back to his home village of Khembalung. “I remember seeing the river, very strong,” he says, remembering the water’s chill. “I knew that if I fell in the river, my parents would never know what happened to me. I tried to go through a part where there were stones, and I fell.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

It was an experience that would mark him for life. Tendi grew up listening to his father’s stories about working as a porter for tourists on trekking expeditions. Once in a while, his father would bring home chocolates that clients had given him. It made Tendi dream of working with tourists one day. “I begged my father to take me to work with him. He told me I was still very young. That it was a tough job. When I turned 13, he accepted.” Tendi was off to Kathmandu. When he arrived in the country’s capital, he was impressed that people there had “different feet.” Tendi had never worn shoes and had never actually seen them before. In his village, everyone walked barefoot. “I remember asking my dad, impressed, why they did not have toes,” Tendi says. That same day his father took him to a market in Kathmandu and bought him his first pair of sandals, and later that day he had his first “job interview.” Tendi went with his father to the office of the trekking company where he worked. The owner of the company, noting how small the young boy was, said that he couldn’t work as a porter. The decision made some sense. Tendi only weighed 88 pounds. On a trek, he’d be expected to carry a load twice his weight and in high-altitude for 15 days in a row. But the prospect of seeing foreigners for the first time was so exciting to Tendi, he begged them to let him work. A different manager told him that if he managed to sneak onto the bus the next day without getting caught, he would give him the job. “The next day, I arrived early, I was so small, I managed to get under a seat, the owner got on the bus, said goodbye to the clients, and I was very excited, my adventure had begun,” Tendi recalls. I

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he legacy of Orson Welles looms large in the history of cinema. So large, even Welles himself fell into its blackness. “The word genius was whispered into my ear — the first thing I heard — while I was still mewling in my crib,” Welles told biographer Barbara Leaming. “It never occurred to me that I wasn’t until middle age!” Genius? Possibly. Artist of impeccable persistence? Positively. And lucky for you, the University of Colorado Boulder’s International Film Series will screen four films from cinema’s wunderkind to prove it: Citizen Kane (April 22), The Lady from Shanghai (April 23), Touch of Evil (April 24) and The Other Side of the Wind (April 25); all unspooling on 35mm and all introduced by Boulder Weekly film critic, me, Michael Casey. Born May 6, 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Welles was a man of multitudes and quick to fame. His picture first appeared in The Capital BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

It was an unheard-of contract for the time, and Welles wisely snapped it up and set about adapting Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness for the screen, envisioning the movie as an entirely subjective film. Similar to how the firstperson novel worked, the camera’s eye would stand in for Marlow’s “I” of the narration, with Welles providing the voice while also playing Marlow’s obsession: Kurtz. But Darkness was not to be. However, it did give Welles an idea for how to frame his next story. Working with writer Herman J. Mankiewicz, the two used a similarly shadowy character, this time a reporter, to tell the rise and fall of a newspaper tycoon, business tyrant and failed politician. They were going to call the movie American, but they settled on Citizen Kane. Based on stories Mankiewicz collected from his time at parties hosted by newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, Kane explores the objects, romances and aspirations a hollow man collects in his quest for more. Hearst, smelling slander, tried to have the movie destroyed. He could not, but he did the next best thing: He used his newspaper empire to bury the movie and destroy Welles’ career. Never again would Welles find the financing see WELLES Page 24

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and control that he had been afforded for Kane. But Kane was more than enough for Welles to catch the movie bug. And despite myriad frustrations he encountered over the next three decades, Welles turned out phenomenal work after phenomenal work, each one a hallmark of experimentation despite being hamstrung by tight budgets or lack of overall control. Take The Lady from Shanghai, with Welles playing opposite his wife, Rita Hayworth. It’s far from perfect, but perfection be damned. Shanghai is an enthralling piece of work culminating in a funhouse hall of mirrors scene full of shadowy violence and self-hatred. It would inspire Bruce Lee to make visual his philosophy in Enter the Dragon, and no doubt had some level of inspiration for Jordan Peele’s latest film, Us. Shanghai is Welles through and through, but considering the movie was produced at the height of the film noir movement, Welles allows the genre’s hallmarks of corruption, deception and bleakness to bleed all over this sailor’s tale. But even Shanghai can’t hold a candle to 1958’s Touch of Evil, a story of absolute power and absolute corruption along the U.S. southern border. Here, Welles plays police captain Quinlan, a man whose looming authority is beyond question. But Quinlan’s reign may be coming to an end. When the captain demands tarot card reader Tanya (Marlene Dietrich) predict his future, she doesn’t even pick up the cards. “Your future’s all used up,” she says flatly. You can almost hear Jacob Marley rattling those ghostly chains. Touch of Evil should have been Welles’ return to form, but Universal Pictures found the movie confounding I

and, despite Welles’ pleas, re-edited and re-structured the film, butchering it in the process. Thanks to editor Walter Murch, Touch of Evil was restored to Welles’ vision in 1998, but back in ’58, the damage was done. Financing and distribution were hard to come by, projects were started and abandoned, and critics began to assert that Welles had a fear of completion. It all came to a head in 1970 when Welles began work on The Other Side of the Wind, a movie about making a movie, about the accompanying backroom dealings, about the hangers-on one attracts and about the backstabbing that inevitably follows. Wind was to be Welles’ comeback; a statement that no matter how tastes changed, would always resonate. Alas, it was not to be, and Welles would never finish Wind. On Oct. 10, 1985, the filmmaker suffered a heart attack and died in a Los Angeles hotel room while working at his typewriter. He was 70. But thanks to the movies, Welles will never be gone. Because of the tireless efforts of producer Frank Marshall, cameraman Gary Graver and friends Peter Bogdanovich and Joseph McBride, The Other Side of the Wind was completed and released in 2018. More works are still to be found and restored, and they will be. There are few figures in the history of cinema as big as Welles, and there is still much to be discovered in each of his films, not to mention the number of ripples still radiating out from them. “The one key element we learned from Welles was the power of ambition,” Martin Scorsese has said of the filmmaker. “In a sense, he is responsible for inspiring more people to be film directors than anyone else in the history of cinema.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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The Phil Collins effect

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oger Sellers is at his parents’ house in Houston when he answers my call. He’s back stateside after a whirlwind run of dates in the U.K., France, Netherlands and Israel — all over the course of 12 days. That’s the way the last few years have been for Sellers, who operates as the one-man electro-pop project Bayonne. Touring isn’t new for the multi-instrumentalist; he’s a working musician based in Austin — you have to keep moving to make it. But the last two years have seen a significant uptick in the number of days Seller spends on the road. His knack for building layers of shimmering, hypnotic loops has put Bayonne on the lineups of SXSW, Grandoozy, Bonnaroo, Shaky Knees, Generiq in France and Mad Cool in Madrid. It’s a dream slowly but surely coming true. It’s also a total head trip. “There’s a lot of times where I feel super confident in what I’m doing,” Sellers says, “and then there’s other times where I don’t feel that at all, you know? It’s a tough world to try and share your stuff. Everybody has their opinions and everybody has such good taste in music” — sardonic emphasis on such — “I can battle depression at times ... there’s financial insecurities. In this industry there are ups and downs. No matter how well you’re doing it can just be difficult to maintain confidence in yourself.” Sellers channels the highs and lows of life as a working musician into his new album, Drastic Measures. Driven by his penchant for romantic piano melodies and crisp, dramatic cadences, the album takes a buoyant look at maintaining relationships and sanity when, suddenly, your dreams turn 180 degrees and start coming full throttle at you. “Common sense should tell me that the ones I sin against/ Say goodbye,” Sellers sings in the title track. “Taking drastic measures/ For the ride/ Promising my family and the friends I never see/ That I’m alive.” True to his word, it would seem, Sellers is taking drastic measures. He’s home, in the house he grew up in on BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Bayonne Street in Houston. It’s where he learned to skateboard, where he learned to play piano after watching his older sister learn. His stage name is like a piece of home he carries with him. Growing up in the ’80s, Sellers was a lot like everyone else in America at the time: obsessed with Phil Collins. It all started with a live concert VHS cassette of Eric Clapton and Friends from 1986, the apex of Collins’ career, the year “Land of Confusion,” “Sussudio,” “Invisible Touch,” “Don’t Forget My Number” and “Take Me Home” dominated the radio simultaneously. Collins drummed for the concert, with storied session musicians Greg Phillinganes and Nathan East on keys and bass. About three-quarters of the way into the show, Clapton takes a less commanding space at stage left and addresses the audience: “Now’s your chance to hear that song again,” he says, unfurling his arm in Collins’ direction. “The one you’ve been waiting for... the beautiful, the wonderful Phil Collins.” And there he is in a powder blue bowling shirt, his mullet blowing softly from a fan somewhere on stage. That unmistakable opening — the muted, pattering drums, the ominous, organ-like synth — elicits whoops from the audience. The crowd belongs to this unlikely hero as he launches into “In The Air Tonight.” Sellers, maybe six years old at the time, was sold. “Just the way that he played the drums; he had the [headset] microphone... I

it was so cool. You know, like, for a little boy,” Sellers says with a laugh. “So I started obsessing over him for like five or six years.” Nourished on a steady diet of Clapton Unplugged and the aforementioned live show, Sellers developed a fascination with music. He learned to play piano, drums and guitar. His taste in music shifted in that natural way it tends to as we grow and make new friends. He listened to modern folk from Iron and Wine and Sufjan Stevens. In college he discovered Steve Reich’s rich and varied catalog and was drawn to his pioneering work in minimalism. But Sellers’ love of surgically crafted pop hooks and melodramatic drum breaks is still evident in his work. His 2016 release Primitives was built completely around loops, offering the outline of a pop song more than a fully formed one. Sellers creates a fully realized pop album with Drastic Measures. It’s fuller than his previous release, more kinetic, while still hewing to Sellers’ minimalist inclinations. Watching that live show from ’86, it’s easy to see Phil Collins’ appeal. He’s a regular guy doing something that scares the hell out of most people: sharing his emotions in all his regular-looking-guy glory. That’s what Sellers is, with his thick mustache and scuffed up sneakers. He’s a regular guy, no question about it. Call it the Phil Collins effect. But watch Sellers bounce from piano to guitar to drums to marimbas to synth in the live loop version of his song “Spectrolite” and he suddenly doesn’t seem so regular anymore. APRIL 18, 2019

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CU’s Eklund Opera presents a Victorian-era ghost story

You’ll have to decide what really happens in ‘The Turn of the Screw’

by Peter Alexander

he next production of the In this case, the inspiration came from tiful and perfect. But when we get the letUniversity of Colorado Eklund The Twilight Zone. ter that Miles was bad at school, we see Opera Program, Benjamin “I grew up watching television,” she the projections start to tilt a little bit. We Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, says. “This is right out of The Twilight start to see strangeness sneak in, and is a Victorian-era ghost story. Zone. When you finished watching, you the audience will start to feel everything Whether the ghosts are real or not, how- said, ‘Did I really understand that? Did it getting a little creepy.” ever, Eklund Opera director Leigh really go that far?’” Britten’s music adds to the creepiHolman won’t say. The Turn of the Screw fits that ness, partly through the atmospheric “I want that to be part of the mystery mold because there are unresolved sounds he gets from the ensemble of 13 of the piece,” Holman says. “As a stage issues in both the story and the opera. players, and partly through the use of director I usually stay away from ambigu- One that is creepily disturbing is the sinuous vocal lines. “The process of ity, but in this case, I’m not doing that. I learning the music is a challenge,” consexual ambiguity of the characters. want people to leave and have ductor Reger says. “I keep tellCOURTESY CU PRESENTS ing the singers there’s a point those discussions — was it real?” in learning a Britten score Performances will be April where you’re tearing your hair out because it’s so hard, and 25-28 in the Imig Music Building’s intimate Music then you wake up one morning Theatre. A cast of graduate and it suddenly makes sense.” and undergraduate students The singers also help create the ghostly quality of the will be accompanied by a 13-piece chamber orchestra of story through their perforfreelance professional musimance. “The singers are cians, conducted by Jeremy exploring vocal color,” Reger says. “They’re getting an eerie Reger. Britten’s opera is based on tone, which is what we’ve asked them to do.” a short story by Henry James, about a governess hired to The orchestral parts require care for two children living in a virtuoso players, but the music remote English country home. is very rewarding. “Every part ON THE BILL: The Strange things start to happen, in the orchestra is very exposed, and There is the Turn of the Screw — Eklund Opera beginning when the boy, Miles, is that makes it really fascinating to listen attempted seducProgram, Leigh Holman, to,” Reger says. “The orchestra is as permanently dismissed from his tion of the childirector; Jeremy Reger, school without clear explanation. much a part of the story as the singers. dren, but we also music director. “We had people asking to participate Then the governess starts learn that Peter 7:30 p.m. April 25–27 seeing ghosts, who apparently Quint had seduced because they’re so interested in this 2 p.m. April 28. are Peter Quint, a former servant Miss Jessel. Quint piece. It’s more than an opera, it’s a in the household, and Miss piece of amazing chamber music.” is described as Music Theater, CU Imig Jessel, the previous governess. Fittingly, the performers include a profeshaving been “too Music Building, 303492-8008, She believes the ghosts are trysional chamber ensemble, Boulder’s free” with everyhttps://cupresents.org/ Altius String Quartet, on the string parts. ing to lure the children — Miles one, and other and his younger sister, Flora — Britten ingeniously creates an othersexual attractions worldly atmosphere and portrays the into demonic activities. Whether they are are suggested. real, or creations of her overheated This is a difficult issue for performers gradual turning of the screw through his imagination, is the issue Holman wants music, but the compositional details are and audiences alike. “There have been the audience to decide for themselves. not as important as the experience of the uncomfortable moments that we’ve talkProjected images will help create a music, for both singers and audience. ed through” in rehearsals, Holman says. spooky atmosphere. “This is the first time “[The actors] already are finding different Reger suggests two aspects are parin my tenure here that we’ve [used] proamount. For the singers, it is the opporways of approaching these very spooky jections,” Holman says. “We’re excited to and disorienting ideas.” tunity to sing chamber opera, which delve into using projections. This piece is The production is designed to under- requires a more detailed and intimate performance than the grand operas they perfect for it.” line the growing spookiness. “The entire In recent years, Holman has mountmore often perform. And for the audishow is in black and white, including ed several productions that were based ence? costumes — however, the ghosts are in on popular television series — first “The singers are all great,” he says. color,” Holman explains. “In the beginHouse of Cards, then Game of Thrones. ning everything is symmetrical and beau- “It’s perfectly cast.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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It’s every fan’s dream: the chance to sit in a small room with some of their favorite musicians, hear a few tunes and ask a few questions. The Strings & Stories concert series at Firehouse Art Center is a dream come true. National and local musicians play stripped down sets, tell stories of how the songs came to light and answer a few audience questions. In this iteration, Adam Aijala and Ben Kaufmann of Yonder Mountain String Band will pick and chat, with an opening show by local mandolin player Johnny Miller. Strings & Stories is hosted by the Future Arts Foundation, a nonprofit that supports youth arts. Tickets are $30 at https://bit.ly/2VNn5I3. JSTUBY AT EN.WIKIPEDIA

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Hear about Colorado’s music history from Louisville resident G. Brown at this free event sponsored by the Louisville Cultural Council. G. Brown serves as podcast moderator, curator and executive director of the Colorado Music Experience, a nonprofit organization established to preserve the legacy of Colorado music. Brown has navigated the Rocky Mountain musical landscape for decades, both as a journalist and as a radio personality, interviewing more than 3,000 musicians, by his account, from Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen to Bono and Kurt Cobain. I

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Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

Open Improv: Long Form. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

MONDAY, APRIL 22

Austin Kleon — Keep Going. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, APRIL 19 Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver. Bear Creek Elementary School 1st Grade Poetry Reading. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

SATURDAY, APRIL 20 Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver. Writer’s Workshop. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

SUNDAY, APRIL 21 Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury

Mesa de Português. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. World Literature Series Spring 2019. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, APRIL 23 Program for Writing and Rhetoric. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

BILL MCKIBBEN’S groundbreaking book ‘The End of Nature’ was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: Even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. McKibben will speak about and sign his new book, ‘Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?,’ on Wednesday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. at First Congregational Church. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24

Mary Hicks. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Bill McKibben — Falter. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder. MFA Showcase Mike Ranellone. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 18 Music Boulder Phil: Progressive Pairings Event of Note. 7 p.m. Lee Hill Drive Wineries, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Boulder. Clyde and the Milltailers, The Trouble Notes. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. David Booker. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Jeff Austin Band — with Old Salt Union. 7:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. The Joe Budden Podcast — with Rory Mal and Parks. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Low Hanging Fruit, Zayminor, Jay and Company, DJ Ambitious Boy. 9:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. MZG. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Nathan Yip Foundation Presents: Adam Aijala and Ben Kaufman of the Yonder Mountain String Band. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023. Patty Jackson. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Peek 2019 — Revealing the Dairy Experience. 6 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Source. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Events ‘The Fall’ — with Wild Heart Dance. 7:30 p.m. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510. Through April 20. Spiritual Forum: How Anxiety Sabotages Faith. 7 p.m. Center for Spiritual Living, 107 E. Geneseo St., Lafayette, 720-917-9303.

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All films shown at the Dairy Art Center’s Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, thedairy.org.

‘Bauhaus Spirit.’ 2 and 6:45 p.m. ‘Starfish.’ 8:45 p.m.

THURSDAY, APRIL 18 ‘3 Faces.’ 4 p.m. ‘Bauhaus Spirit.’ 2 p.m.

SATURDAY, APRIL 20 ‘3 Faces.’ 3:30 and 8 p.m. ‘Bauhaus Spirit.’ 1:30 and 6 p.m.

FRIDAY, APRIL 19 ‘3 Faces.’ 4:30 p.m.

SUNDAY, APRIL 21 ‘Rembrandt: Exhibition on

FRIDAY, APRIL 19 Music 420 Takes Flight — with Golden Gate Wingmen, DPO, Thunder and Rain. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Through April 21. Ben Rector — Magic: The Tour. 6:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Boulder Piano Quartet. 2:30 p.m. Stewart Auditorium, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 720-443-0565. The Copper Children — with Banshee Tree, Sarah Mount & The Rushmores. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Finn O’Sullivan — Album Release Party. 7 p.m. The Tune-Up at Full Cycle Bikes, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder. GhostBridge. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Screen.’ 1 p.m. TUESDAY, APRIL 23 ‘The Unruly Mystic: John Muir.’ 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 ‘Birds of Passage.’ 4:30 p.m. ‘Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student’s Journey.’ 7 p.m. ‘Rembrandt.’ 1 p.m.

Homevibe & eTown present Covenhoven — with special guest Kid Reverie. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Isabelle Stillman, Palmer Anthony. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Jeff Austin Band — with Larry Keel. 7:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Let the Sunshine In — A Tribute to Galt MacDermot. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on April 20. Lizzy Plotkin and Natalie Spears Americana Duo Project. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Sensi Night Official After Party: TIERRO Band with Bridget Law (of Elephant Revival). 10 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-295-1868.

Godspell Sing Along. 7 p.m. Unity Columbine Spiritual Center, 8900 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-546-0114.

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

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theater UPCOMING AT eTOWN HALL

Between Us. Denver Center for Performing Arts Off Center, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through May 26. The Boys in the Band. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Opens April 19. Through May 26.

eTown Comedy Live! 18 Featuring comedians Sam Tallent,

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Sarah Benson and Brad Galli.

Caroline or Change. Aurora Fox Theater Company, Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora. Through May 5. The Diary of Anne Frank. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humantiies, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 17. Heathers: The Musical — presented by Equinox Theatre. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through April 27.

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Laveau. Pandemic Collective, Theater 29, 5128 W. 29th Ave., Denver. Thursday-Saturday through May 4.

Covenhoven

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

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Hippie Bluegrass Church Community sing-a-long with live bluegrass band led by Hot Rize's Nick Forster 10 AM – 12 PM

Justin 25 Townes Earle & Emily Gimble

4/26 Concert: Card Catalog 4/27 Boulder Ballet Gala & Dance Party 4/28 Radio Taping: Rising Appalachia 5/1 Boulder In The Round

WHERE: eTOWN Hall 1535 Spruce Street Boulder, CO 80302 TICKETS: eTOWN.org

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

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

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

Motones vs. Jerseys. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Through April 26.

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Tier Two Live presents The Swifts along with Overt Defiance and Eighty Percent Human. 7 p.m. Confluence/Tier Two Live, 75 Waneka Parkway, Lafayette, 303-710-5201. Events Bill Engvall. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106,. Cindy Brandle Dance Company Presents: A World on Fire. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 914-282-4162. Through April 20.

‘The Greatest Story Ever Told.’ 7 p.m. Longmont Performing Arts Center, Trojan Movie House, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200.

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Senior Fish-off. 6:30 a.m. Wally Toevs Pond at Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat, Boulder.

THURSDAY, APRIL 18 Russian Culture Week: Ukrainian Egg Dyeing. 3 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 223, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Visit https://bit.ly/2Uem1v6 for more Russian Culture Week events. The Cosmo-logics of K-pop: Media Intimacies and Populist Soft Power. 5 p.m. Eaton Humanities, Room 135, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. The Trump Administration and International Law featuring Harold Hongju Koh, Yale Law School. 5:30 p.m. Wolf Law, Wittemyer Courtroom, 2450 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder. Italian Film Festival. 6 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 150, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through April 20. Six African American Women You Have Never Heard of Who Changed the West (and the World). 6:30 p.m. Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180, 2200 Colorado Ave., Boulder. Wind Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

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SATURDAY APRIL 20

4:20 — with Cosmic Mesa. 7 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732.

Boulder Laptop Orchestra plays Songs of Space. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Anna p.s. 10 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons.

Cosmic Kirtan Connection. 7:30 p.m. Fiske

Ariana Grande: Sweetener World Tour. 7:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Brownies and Lemonade. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Bumkin. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Escort. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Gravity Check. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-600-4875.

The Wizard of Oz. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Opens April 19. Through July 7. WordFest and Artists of Color Summit — presented by the SOURCE Theatre Company. Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through April 28. You Can’t Take It With You — presented by Moon Theatre Company. Rialto Theatre Center, 228 E. Fourth St., Loveland. Through April 20.

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

Other Desert Cities — presented by Cherry Creek Theatre Company. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through April 28.

Colorado Anime Fest 2019. 2 p.m. Denver Marriott Tech Center, 4900 S. Syracuse St., Denver, 303-779-1100. Through April 21.

Radio Show Taping

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

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

Thriftworks + Marvel Years. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

SO L D O U T

Outside Mullingar. Firehouse Theater Company, John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through April 27.

JOIN THE MOTONES and Jerseys for an evening of ’60s song, dance and crowd interaction. Featuring the music of Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, Bruno Mars, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Beach Boys, Rick James... just to name a few. Now playing at BDT Stage through April 26.

SUNDAY APRIL 21

The Herman Clan’s Super Bowl CDXX. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

MONDAY, APRIL 22 Constructing Parallels: Agricultural Expertise in Mozambique from the Portuguese to ProSavana. Noon. Institute of Behavioral Science, Meeting Room 155B, 1440 15th St., Boulder. Musicology Colloquium: Identifying the Meaning(s) of Altered Subdominants in Hollywood Scores. 2 p.m. Imig Music, C113 Conference Room, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, APRIL 23 Saint George’s Day with the CU Catalan Club. 6 p.m. Ramaley Biology, RAMY C250, 1800 Colorado Ave., Boulder

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 Opera Brown Bag: First look at The Turn of The Screw. Noon. Imig Music, Music Theatre, Boulder, 303-492-6352. Concert Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble ll. 7:30 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder. Biochemistry Seminar: Eric Westhof. 3:30 p.m. Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building, Butcher Auditorium, 3415 Colorado Ave., Boulder.

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

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band and Beth Hart Band. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Method Man & Redman — with Cunninlynguists, Devin The Dude, Proximity. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Khabu, Ty, Greg, Art Lande, Greg LaLiberte. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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arts Aftereffect: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26.

Live Music! Finn O’Sullivan CD Release Party 7:30-10pm The Tune Up at Full Cycle

Join us at The Tune Up for the release of “pitypartythoughts,” Finn’s second EP! Original tunes, a great draft beer selection, coffee, food & good times in a great environment.

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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. Ansel Adams: Early works exhibit. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26. 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. Eyes On: Erika Harrsch. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17.

THURSDAY APRIL 18 7:00 PM

LIVE FACULTY TALK: HOW IT ALL BEGAN . . . A STORY OF LIFE’S ORIGINS 9:00 PM

LASER QUEEN

Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontol-

Peak2Peak. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

9:00 PM

Rocky Mountain Harp Blowdown featuring Johnny Sansone. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

LIVE FACULTY TALK: HOW IT ALL BEGAN . . . A STORY OF LIFE’S ORIGINS BELLA GAIA: BEAUTIFUL EARTH 10:30 PM

LIQUID SKY PRETTY LIGHTS 11:59 PM

LASER BEASTIE BOYS SATURDAY APRIL 20

Shatterday Night Special. 7 p.m. Dean Ween’s Honey Pot Lounge, 1753 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-842-3724. Events

1:00 PM

Birds and Blooms Festival. 11 a.m. Wild Plum Center, 851 Meeker St., Longmont.

2:30 PM

Earth Day Birthday Party. 11 a.m. McGuckin Hardware, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-1822.

DOUBLE FEATURE: LIFE OF TREES & LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY BELLA GAIA: BEAUTIFUL EARTH 7:00 PM

BLOrk PLAYS SONGS OF SPACE 10:30 PM

LASER BOB MARLEY 11:59 PM

LIQUID SKY THE WALL SUNDAY APRIL 21 12:00 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: LIFE OF TREES & LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY 1:30 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: LIFE OF TREES & HABITAT EARTH 3:00 PM

BELLA GAIA: BEAUTIFUL EARTH 4:30 PM

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ogy Hall, 15th and Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing exhibit. 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. New Genres Collective and Hey Hue Art. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 21. Nicole Banowtz: Concerning Plants. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through June 16. 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. The Unknown Polly Addison. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through June 16. Water Flow: Under the Colorado River. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26.

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7:00 PM

FRIDAY APRIL 19

Eyes On: Julie Buffalohead. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through April 21.

COURTESY OF DAIRY ARTS POLLY ADDISON CENTER/POLLY ADDISON has a long history with the Boulder art scene and was extremely dedicated to supporting the Dairy Arts Center in its early years and beyond. Her exhibition in her namesake Polly Addison Gallery is a small selection of paintings, drawings and etchings that she produced in the 1980s. ‘The Unknown Polly Addison,’ is showing in the Polly Addison Gallery at the Dairy through June 16.

Earth Day Celebration. 10 a.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Earth Day Celebration. 10 a.m. Children’s Museum of Denver, 2121 Childrens Museum Drive, Denver, 303-433-7444. Earth Day Highway Cleanup. 9 a.m. Ocean First, 3015 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-444-7234. Earth Day in Boulder: Volunteer with One Tree Planted. 9 a.m. Sunshine Canyon, Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder. Easter Egg Hunt | The Well Church. 10 a.m. Boulder County Commissioners Lawn, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-583-5189. Free Kids Earth Day Art Activity. 11 a.m. Bricolage Gallery, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder. Go the Extra Aisle: A Volunteer Fair. 11 a.m. Lucky’s Market North Boulder Store, 3960 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-0215.

APRIL 18, 2019

Learning Dog Dance: A Dance Workshop. 1 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. ‘The Prince of Egypt.’ 2 p.m. Longmont Performing Arts Center, Trojan Movie House, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. StandUp Comedy Showcase At Endo Brewing. 8 p.m. Endo Brewing Company, 2755 Dagny Way, Suite 101, Lafayette, 720-442-8052. Storybooks on Stage. 10:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tie Dyed Eggs,Glitter Eggs, and Cascarones — with Susan White Workshops. 2 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.

SUNDAY, APRIL 21 Music Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. The Dear Landlords. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Defunkt Railroad. 4 p.m. Left Hand Brewing, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. The Divine Awakening. 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

Ella Vos. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Kuf Knotz & Christine Elise. The Speakeazy Lounge, 301 Main St., Longmont. Reverend Freakchild Easter Celebration. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Boulder Comedy Show. 7 and 9:15 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863. Easter at Boulder Theater | The Well Church. 10 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 720-583-5189. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007. Meadows Teen Advisory Group (M-TAB). 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Unity Easter Egg Hunt for the Kids. 10:30 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

MONDAY, APRIL 22 Music Anna p.s., Wayne Willingham. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720201-3731. Byrne & Kelly. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. see EVENTS Page 39

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CU Denver R&B & Pop Rock Ensembles Showcase. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Polyphia. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Roy Blair’s Cat Heaven USA Tour. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Events Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Dermot Kennedy. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Elephant Collective. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Hazel Miller Shines a Light on New Talent, featuring Simone Fohrman and Corda Vera. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Kid Trunks, Craig Xen. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Lady Lamb. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Blues Duo. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzaria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 720-606-1734.

Longmont Laughfest: Comedy Saved the Video Star. 7 p.m. Finkel and Garf Brewing, 5455 Spine Road, Boulder.

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Spaceship Earth: What Can I Do?. 1 p.m. Soft Voices Drop-In Center, 501 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 303-449-3529.

The Human Element. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470. Local filmmaker Max Freedman to screen short film on Armenian Genocide for 104th Commemoration Day. 5:30 p.m. Golden West Senior Living, 1055 Adams Circle, Boulder, 303-939-0833.

STEAM Storytime: Bird Feeders. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. William Briggs: How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence Crisis. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Earth Day Yoga. 4 p.m. Elevated Yoga Studio, 324 Main St. Suite A, Longmont, 720-600-2696. Earth Day: Biodiversity in Your Own Backyard and Beyond. 6 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Midday Music Meditations @ Meadows. Noon. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720379-8299. Pints for the Planet. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-491-9065. Pioneering New Frontiers. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

TUESDAY, APRIL 23 Music Alice Merton. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Harp and Spoken Word Yoga — with Kuf Knotz, Christine Elise and Melissa Coppola. 4:30 p.m. Awake Boulder Yoga Studio, 3200 Carbon Place, Suite 105, Boulder, 720-445-5888. Jenner Fox, Kuf Knotz & Christine Elise. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Petite Musique: The Three Bears. 10 a.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Somo: The Phases Tour. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Events Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Earth Day Experiments. 2:30 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Spaceship Earth: What Can I Do?. 4:30 p.m. Windhorse Community Services, 1200 Yarmouth Ave., Boulder. Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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pen Secret — a nearly forgotten and difficult-to-find B-programmer from 1948 — ought to be seen by everybody. In it, newlyweds John Ireland and Jane Randolph go calling on Ireland’s old army buddy, only to become entangled in subterranean hell, where anti-Semitism is alive and well, despite the war Ireland and his buddy just fought and won. It’s a chilling piece of work, particularly the transference of hatred from one generation to the next. In one scene, Randolph opens a stack of photos the developer accidentally mixed in with hers and finds one with a group of kids posing next to a smashed-in storefront with the word “Jew” scrawled across the broken windows. It’s an image you associate with Berlin, 1939, but this is not Germany; it’s New York City, 1948. The Nazis may have lost, but Nazism is alive and well. As the saying goes: History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. But in the case of Open Secret and many other films that played at this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival April 11-14 in Hollywood, history isn’t so much a rhyme as it is a continuation. Many more carried similar themes. It Happened Here, an independent 1964 British drama, envisions an alternative present, one where the Nazis successfully invaded and occupied England. The Robe, the 1953 biblical epic starring Richard Burton and Jean Simmons, recounts the crucifixion of Christ from the occupying Roman army’s point of view. Cold Turkey, a practically forgotten satire from comic genius Norman Lear, humorously explores how crass consumerism, cynical marketing and greed all give way to totalitarianism. For devoted watchers of the cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM), which celebrated its silver anniversary on April 14, these movies are more than a simple interest in nostalgia, though that does play a role. The people who filled the theater twice for Open Secret weren’t there out of familiarity but discovery. Same for It Happened Here, Cold Turkey, Merrily We Go to Hell, Winchester ’73 and the 70-plus other movies that unspooled once more in Hollywood’s movie palaces of yore. This interest in the past, and how it relates to the present, is nothing new for moviegoers in Boulder County. With three year-round repertory theaters and an annual silent film series every summer, the barriers between what is new and what is old are crumbling. Cable channels like TCM, streaming services like Kanopy and DVD manufacturers like Criterion and Kino Lorber continue to stoke this curiosity while making the act of discovery easier. In a world of mechanical reproduction, there’s no such thing as an old movie or a new one; there’s just movies you have seen and those you haven’t. And though many have been forgotten, they will always be waiting in the shadows for their time to come. In 2009, a movie like Open Secret might have been viewed as a curiosity, a forgotten gem from the post-war period. But in 2019, it’s a chilling reminder: To ignore the past because it’s passed only builds the present on a foundation of sand. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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ell, the wizards at VisionQuest did it again. Their Barbera rosé-style golden sour ale is wild, weird, delicious and unlike anything you’ll find elsewhere. The ale is brewed with grape must and aged in oak barrels for seven months. There’s a ton of pleasant funk in this, and the unique, robust flavor of grape candy. The sourness will please those who like sours. The brewers point out that although it’ll taste a little sweet, it’s actually dry as a bone — fermented until all the residual sugars are out. You won’t believe this juice is almost 9 percent ABV, either. $14, available in bottles.

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Steakhouse No. 316 1922 13th St., Boulder, steakhouse316.com

hen Steakhouse No. 316 came in to the old Conor O’Neill’s spot off Pearl Street in Boulder, we were excited to see what the owners would bring from their landmark Aspen restaurant into our city. Good news: they brought a classic steak house with exceptional service and a deep menu. The interior is elegant, with bold redfabric booths, jet-black walls, hunting-lodge pictures and big flower arrangements. No matter whether you’re getting a big steak in a private booth, or cozying up to the bar for a martini, your coat will be checked, your waiter will be well-attired and you’ll feel, somewhat oddly upon your first visit, at home. As for the food and drink, it’s exceptional. We opted for the rotisserie chicken off the bar menu. A succulent chicken quarter is placed atop whipped potatoes and topped with an irresistible mushroom ragout, and served on a small cast-iron plate. $19.

hen the craving for good, oldfashioned take-out Chinese food hits, Tsing Tao’s got all the staples you might want — kung pao chicken, orange chicken, Mongolian beef, lo mein, egg foo young, it’s all there. We went for the General Tao’s chicken. It was a clean take on the Chinese classic, the chicken was crispy and moist, the vegetables were fresh and punchy, and the sauce was well-apportioned and had a little kick to it. $12.95.

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The Taj 2630 Baseline Road, Boulder, tajindianboulder.com

imply put, the jafrani malai kofta is one of the best Indian dishes we’ve had in a while. This vegetarian dish starts with potato and paneer (cheese) koftas, which are abundantly spiced and lightly fried to create something like falafel dumplings, but not quite — these are moister and a little more gooey. The koftas are set in a korma sauce (cream, stock and spices) and served atop saffron jafrani rice, which is billowy and immensely flavorful. Altogether, each forkful hits about a hundred notes on your tongue, but still creates one singular, satisfying bite. $12.95.

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CBD WITH THOSE FRIES?

Colorado eateries adding cannabinoids to the menu

By John Lehndorff

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n Boulder, it’s in your cocktail. Your sourdough brioche bun is glazed with it in Louisville. It’s on your Lucky Charms in Arvada and in your beer in Aurora. Even coffee and doughnuts in Denver get a dose of it. Yet it’s hard to find on menus elsewhere in the U.S., and it’s still not entirely legal. “It” is CBD, the geeky, non-partying little brother of THC which is suddenly very popular. CBD — cannabidiol — is a non-psychoactive part of the

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THE ROOT KAVA cannabis plant. It won’t get BAR offers several you stoned but seems to drinks with CBD in be good for fighting inflamthem. mation and relieving anxiety and pain. Now, even mainstream pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens are going to carry CBD-infused products. see NIBBLES Page 46

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Some CBD-infused topical treatments and tinctures are available at natural foods markets but not at many restaurants. All the CBD in food, and any you can buy outside a dispensary, is extracted from nearly THC-free hemp, mostly grown in Colorado. Consumable CBD extracted from cannabis is sold at dispensaries. Getting CBD on the happy-hour menu hasn’t been all giggles. In other states food inspectors have banned cafes from offering CBD-infused fare. Some financial service providers have refused to process transactions involving CBD. The Food and Drug Administration will hold a public hearing in May to finally review rules regulating the use of CBD in restaurant food and drinks. All that eateries know right now is that they can’t claim that CBD doughnuts have specific health benefits, according to the Food and Drug Administration. COLORADO’S CANNABINOID CUISINE Hemp may be legal but the details are still being worked out, as was the case with marijuana. Naturally, Colorado is the epicenter of this culinary earthquake. “This is Boulder. It’s no problem,” says John Callahan, owner of Boulder’s The Root Kava Bar. He has not encountered any difficulties introducing his Mango CBD Tonic and the new Blueberry Chronic Tonic. Callahan tells customers that CBD is subtle compared to THC. “It’s not a very cognizant effect but it is calming. It is a

misconception that you never feel CBD. You can feel it in high doses,” he says. Figuring out an appropriate dose of CBD to put in a smoothie has been a challenge for restaurants and bars. Most have chosen to err on the highly conservative side and only add 5 to 20 mg of CBD per serving. According to Callahan, that’s a mistake. “Experts say you need at least 40 mg for CBD to be effective, and 80 mg to feel it. Some people use 100 mg or more. Using 12 or 15 mg of CBD is not enough to do anything,” Callahan says. What is essential when buying or using hemp CBD oil is to verify the quality of the source. Look for a full spectrum oil, one containing all the other helpful cannabinoids except THC so you get the enhanced “entourage effect.” Some of the local businesses have an unofficial age limit of 18 or 21 for purchasing CBD food and drink, but admit that they never have to enforce it. Your typical 16-year-old isn’t going to pay the $3 to $5 CBD surcharge for a dietary supplement. WHERE TO TASTE CBD BUNS, SMOOTHIES, BEER Besides The Root Kava Bar, there are just a couple of Boulder eateries where you can order CBD. At River and Woods, CBD is available in cocktails, mocktails and other beverages. One recent house cocktail, the River in the Woods, featured gin, amaretto and pine needle syrup with a flaming green chartreuse float, CBD oil and blood orange peel. At Shine Restaurant and Potion Bar, you can add 25 mg of hemp oil to any

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duced by Boulder FishSki Provisions and Bjorn’s CBD-infused Colorado Honey.)

beverage including the uplifting Fairy Bubbles potion, made with pomegranate juice, lemon juice, honey and hibiscus. Precision Pours offers CBD-infused coffee, and CBD can be added to coffee and milk drinks. The Louisville shop also serves CBD-glazed sourdough brioche buns. In Longmont, the Rib House combines barbecue and cheesy corn with CBD-infused drinks like piña coladas and hurricanes. CBD can be added to smoothies at Twisted Smoothie in Wheat Ridge and breakfast cereal and milkshakes at The Cereal Box in Arvada. Dad and Dude’s Breweria in Aurora brews George Washington’s Secret Stash IPA, one of the nation’s only CBD beers. In Denver, the classic pairing — coffee and doughnuts — is a trio with CBD. Several local cafes brew Denver-roasted Strava Craft Coffee, which infuses coffee beans with full spectrum hemp CBD oil. Blue Sparrow Coffee has CBDinfused nitro cold brew on tap. Two artisan doughnut shops openly glaze. Glazed & Confuzed Doughnuts in Aurora and Denver serves a CBDglazed doughnut topped with a candied fresh hemp leaf. Habit Doughnut Dispensary and Carbon Cafe in Denver serves CBD cold brew and kombucha on tap along with CBD-glazed doughnuts. Even The Nickel in Denver’s posh Hotel Teatro has debuted tasty cocktails and mocktails mixed using full spectrum hemp oil infused with turmeric for extra anti-inflammatory effect. (And that doesn’t include the CBDinfused green chile mac and cheese pro-

WORDS TO CHEW ON “The food I’m going to cook for my children is going to be diverse. Why? Because diversity in their palate is going to create diversity in their mind.” — Chef Dominique Crenn John Lehndorff is an editor at the Cannabis Genomics Research Initiative. He hosts Radio Nibbles on KGNU. Podcasts: news.kgnu.org/category/radionibbles

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LOCAL FOOD NEWS Among the items available at the early Boulder County Farmers Markets were purple daikon radishes and pea shoots (Ollin Farms), cinnamon cap and maitake mushrooms (Hazel Dell), baby mache and chard (Black Cat Farm), leeks and parsnips (Monroe Farm), tat soi (Rocky Mountain Farm) and black radishes and organic cornmeal (Aspen Moon Farm). ... Caroline Glover of Aurora’s Annette restaurant is one of the 2019 Best New Chefs for Food and Wine magazine. ... Not all CSAs are full of rutabagas. The Experiential CSA at Boulder’s Pastures of Plenty Farm does include weekly veggies but also flowers, recipes, treats and on-farm cooking classes and dinners. ... Coming soon: Vermont-based Gakku Ramen will open at 1119 13th. St., Boulder; A second location of Boulder’s Rincon del Sol in Nederland in the former Dot’s Diner location; Boulder Taco Fest is July 27 (not a Tuesday) at Foothills Community Park.

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From Morocco, with bread... and lots of sweets The greatest food holiday you’ve never heard of comes to Boulder

by Matt Cortina

THE BOULDER JCC and River and Woods are helping Mimouna, a multicultural food holiday, catch on in the U.S.

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eople pious and lay enjoy several food-centric holidays in the United States. On Thanksgiving, folks chow down on their families’ unique spins on traditional dishes. At Christmas, there are myriad combinations of dishes culled from around the globe. Seder plates at Passover, ham on Easter, corned beef on St. Patrick’s Day, the list goes on. The point is we like to celebrate with food, and we like the structures of traditional holiday menus — every time a holiday comes around and we eat a traditional family dish, another layer of memories is added to that day. We (food lovers) like hopping for these holidays, we like cooking all day, we like watching holiday-themed baking shows, we buy holiday cooking magazines, and we scan Instagram and Pinterest for new ideas. And most importantly, preparing traditional meals on holidays elevates them by providing structure. From the feast of the seven fishes on Christmas Eve to Champagne on New Year’s Eve to hot dogs on the Fourth of July, holidays give us a reason to prepare unique dishes, celebrate the cultures of others (because I

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we want to eat those delicious unique dishes) and, after the day is done, anticipate those holidays in the future. Here’s the point: If all that’s true, why haven’t we latched onto Mimouna yet? That question crossed the mind of Becca Gan Levy, farm and sustainability coordinator at the Boulder Jewish Community Center (JCC), on a recent trip to Israel. As Passover ended, Mimouna began, an unabashed food festival with tables full of cookies, pastries and other sweets, hummus, olives, grilled vegetables, baba ghanoush, fish and chicken. “I was able to celebrate it when I spent time in Israel,” Gan Levy says, “and there’s another [JCC] board member here who spent a lot of time in Israel, and we were really bummed this really fun holiday doesn’t exist here.” Mimouna is one of the only religious celebrations that integrates multiple faiths. The tradition started in Morocco, when on the afternoon of the last day of Passover, Muslims brought leavened foods to Jewish neighbors, which they forwent during Passover. The cookies, breads, pastries and more were sprinkled with see MIMOUNA Page 50

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mint or dipped in milk to symbolize fertility, joy, success and prosperity. Since, the holiday has spread from Morocco to Algeria and eventually to Israel, where it’s celebrated by two million people of varying faiths. “In Israel, it’s much more widespread, it’s not just Moroccan Jews who celebrate it,” Gan Levy says. “It’s a big celebration of not just Jews but of the whole community together. ... The origins are cross-cultural, which makes it a great holiday to celebrate today.” And now, Mimouna is starting to gain footing in the U.S. Gan Levy says she heard of one community in San Francisco hosting a feast last year, but Boulder County’s on the leading edge of making Mimouna more popular in the U.S. The JCC and Boulder restaurant River and Woods are teaming up for their first Mimouna feast on Saturday, April 27. Gan Levy says she’s excited to partner with Chef Daniel Asher of River and Woods because of how he “honors peoples’ cultural food” — how he takes family recipes, tweaks them lightly for restaurant suitability and puts them on the menu, thus creating a community-driven rotation of dishes. On Mimouna, food builds and bolsters community, a low-stakes, enjoyable way to blend Islamic and Jewish traditions. The menu is yet to be finalized, but Gan Levy says patrons can expect, of course, a large platter of North African and Middle Eastern sweets, dates and 50

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ON THE MENU: Mimouna Celebration at River and Woods. Saturday, April 27, 7:30 p.m. 2328 Pearl St., Boulder. Tickets: $80 for adults, $36 for children under 8 (tickets include multi-course meal and one drink). Reserve your spot at boulderjcc.org.

halva (a dense, sweet confection), in addition to savory courses ranging from Moroccan olives and dolmas to baba ghanoush with pomegranate molasses to grilled chicken or fish with couscous and smoked carrots. Gan Levy, who runs the JCC’s Milk and Honey Farm, says it’s still early for the farm to provide produce for the event, but they’ll likely be able to send over some greens and the house-grown and -dried Middle Eastern herb blend za’atar, which can be sprinkled on hummus or toast, or rubbed into meat. Gan Levy says one additional perk of celebrating Mimouna in Boulder is that it’s another opportunity to put meaning into food sustainability; to integrate eating good, responsibly sourced food into one’s worldview. “For me, connecting people with food traditions is a good lead-in to where food comes from,” Gan Levy says. “We’re doing programming that adds meaning to people’s lives and building a community that is more aware of their food choices, and [those choices] affect our environment and our social structure. It’s a nice way in, because food is delicious and fun, and we can also tell the big story.” BOULDER WEEKLY

Know your brew: Belgian-style witbier

Refreshing versatility for this capricious season

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pring in the Rockies means high-70s one day, snow the next and then clear blue skies while you tidy up from yesterday’s storm. This kind of climate whiplash can make one’s allergies go haywire and clothing decisions downright infuriating. Luckily, finding a beer to make it a little more tolerable is as easy as reaching for a Belgian-style wheat beer, or “witbier” with brunch, lunch, dinner or even an arduous afternoon spent shoveling slush. Wit (Flemish for “white”) derives its name from the beer’s appearance: pale pear yellow with a soft, cloudy haze capped by a thick collar of foam. Belgian in origin, wit dates back to the 18th century, when the town of Hoegaarden was saturated with wit breweries. But, in 1954, the last of these breweries closed, and witbiers almost went the way of the dodo. That is, until Pierre Celis, a milkman who worked at one of the last witbier breweries, revived the style eight years later with Hoegaarden White Beer, a beer brewed with 45 percent unmalted (raw) wheat, pale barley, a touch of oats, fermented with ale yeast and spiced with Curaçao orange peel and coriander. The results produced a beer light in alcohol (4.8–5.6 percent alcohol by volume), light in bitterness (10–18 international bittering COURTESY OF AVERY BREWING units), and a tinge of lactic acid. A spectacularly easy drinker for any time of the day or season of the year. Following the revival, Hoegaarden was the icon of the style. Interbrew — now AB InBev — acquired the brewery in the mid-’80s and made it one of their top American imports. Back here in Colorado, Coors brewer Keith Villa popularized the style with Bellyside Belgian White, later renamed Blue Moon. At roughly the same time, Rob Tod launched his Belgian-inspired Maine brewery, Allagash Brewing Company with White, which uses Saaz hops to give the beer complexity. Alas, as of this writing, Allagash does not distribute in the Centennial State, and Hoegaarden is a pale imitation of its former self. Lucky for us, Avery Brewing Company’s take on the wit, White Rascal, has become a cornerstone. Marigold yellow with slightly stickier lacing, White Rascal leans on the coriander and yeast components, which produce a decidedly spicier nose and mouth compared to Blue Moon’s fresh orange juice characteristics. The spice makes White Rascal a little more food friendly, especially when it comes to salads dressed with creamy Caesar or blue cheese dressing. Avery also produces Liliko’i Kepolo, which adds passion fruit to amp up the already present tropical esters. It’s one of the best beers you’ll find in Boulder County: light and tart without being too snappy; fresh and fruity, without being cloying. A few more: Oskar Blues Brewery’s Priscilla White Wit Wheat, light with a bite; New Belgium Fat Tire Belgian White, with Seville oranges dancing alongside lemony hops; and Funkwerks White, dank and rustic. They’ll quench your thirst after knocking snow off those freshly budded trees. Avery’s Liliko’i Kepolo is part of a four course and beer pairing menu available at Courier Market, 1750 Welton St., Denver. $55. Available through April 30. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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poets arose in the late 1940s as a rebellion against materialistic mainstream culture and academic poetry. It embraced sexual liberation, Eastern spirituality, ecological awareness, political activism, and psychedelic drugs. One of its members, Jack Kerouac, tweaked and ennobled the word “beat” to serve as the code name for their movement. In its old colloquial usage, “beat” meant tired or exhausted. But Kerouac re-consecrated it to mean “upbeat” and “beatific,” borrowing from the Italian word beato, translated as “beatific.” I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because you’re on the verge of a similar transition: from the old meaning of “beat” to the new.

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there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth.” Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges said that, and now I’m passing it on to you — just in time for your entrance into a phase when such doorways will be far more available than usual. I hope you will use Borges’ counsel as a reminder to be alert for everyday situations and normal people that could lead you to intriguing experiences and extraordinary revelations and life-changing blessings.

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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in,” wrote Sagittarian novelist Jane Austen. I’m guessing you’ve had that experience — maybe more than usual, of late. But I suspect you’ll soon be finding ways to express those embryonic feelings. Congrats in advance! You’ll discover secrets you’ve been concealing from yourself. You’ll receive missing information whose absence has made it hard to understand the whole story. Your unconscious mind will reveal the rest of what it has thus far merely been hinting at.

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and science of running fast believe that it’s best if a runner’s legs are symmetrical and identical in their mechanics. But that theory is not supported by the success of champion sprinter Usain Bolt. Because he has suffered from scoliosis, his left leg is a half-inch longer than his right. With each stride, his left leg stays on the track longer than his right, and his right hits the track with more force. Some scientists speculate that this unevenness not only doesn’t slow him down, but may in fact enhance his speed. In accordance with current astrological variables, I suspect you will be able to thrive on your asymmetry in the coming weeks, just as your fellow Leo Usain Bolt does.

her definition of elegance: “being proud of both your feminine and masculine qualities; seeing life as a non-ending university and learning everything you can; caring for yourself with tender precision; respecting and taking advantage of silences; tuning in to your emotions without being oversensitive; owning your personal space and being generous enough to allow other people to own their personal space.” This definition of elegance will be especially apropos and useful for you Aquarians in the coming weeks.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: When I first started dating my girlfriend, I asked her about past boyfriends and she said she hadn’t met the right guy yet. After dating for nine years, I found out about a past boyfriend and looked through her emails. I found out she dated her married boss for three years. She broke up with me for looking and for judging her. I feel like she lied, and she thinks it was none of my business. We’ve been broken up for five months. She’s reached out, but I can’t get over my anger or disgust that she was someone’s mistress. Am I a bad person? —Still Angry And Disgusted Dear SAAD: Yup. “Haven’t met the right guy yet” ≠ “Haven’t met any guys ever.” Almost everyone has done something and/or someone they regret doing—although it’s possible your ex-girlfriend doesn’t regret fucking her married boss for three years, SAAD, and it’s possible there’s no need for regret. Sometimes people have affairs for all the right reasons. Sometimes abandoning a spouse and/or breaking up a home with kids in it, aka “doing the right thing” and divorcing, is the worse choice. Life is long and complicated, and it’s possible for a person to demonstrate loyalty and commitment with something other than their genitals. Sometimes people do what they must to stay married and stay sane, and their affair partners are doing good by being “bad.” It’s also possible — and perhaps likelier — that your ex-girlfriend made an impulsive, shitty, selfish choice to fuck someone else’s husband. It’s possible he’s a serial philanderer, a cheating piece of shit, and then, after fucking him that one time, your girlfriend felt pressured to keep fucking him and wound up having a yearslong affair with her married boss. And then, when it was all over, she stuffed it down the memory hole because she wasn’t proud of it and wanted to forget it. It’s also possible she didn’t tell you about this relationship when you asked because she intuited — correctly, as it turned out — that you are, in your own words, a bad person, i.e., the kind of guy who would punish his girlfriend for having a sexual history, for making her fair share of mistakes, and for deciding to keep some things private. (Not secret, SAAD. Private.) In other words, she correctly intuited that you would punish her for being human. Finding out about a past boyfriend doesn’t give you the right to invade your partner’s privacy and dig through their ancient emails. Your girlfriend was right to BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

break up with you for snooping through her emails and judging her so harshly. And she didn’t even lie to you, dude! Her boss clearly wasn’t “the right guy,” seeing as he was married and her boss, and the relationship ended before you two even first laid thighs on each other 9 years ago. And from where I’m sitting, SAAD, it looks like she still hasn’t met the right guy. To be perfectly frank, I don’t want to help you get over your anger and disgust — not that you asked me to help you get past those feelings. It kind of sounds like you want your anger and disgust affirmed… and I’m going to go with that and affirm the shit out of those feelings: Stay angry! Stay disgusted! Not because those feeling are valid — they’re not — but because those feelings prevented you from taking your ex back when she reached out. She may not know it yet, but she’s better off without you, SAAD, and here’s hoping you stay angry and disgusted long enough for her to realize it. Dear Dan: I’m a few months into OkCupid dating, and it’s going well! I’ve stuck to two “automatic pass” rules: anyone who mentions my looks and nothing else in the first message and anyone with no face pic. It’s worked out great so far. But I’ve noticed that most kinksters on OKC don’t post face pics. I can understand this. I once came across a coworker on the site — didn’t look, passed immediately — and I can imagine nobody wants their boss or coworkers to know they’re looking for puppy play and CBT. Not everyone has the luxury of taking a risk like that. So I’m tempted to drop my “no face pic = pass” rule for kinksters. But then I imagine how that would go: “Chat, chat, chat. ‘Hey, can I see a face pic?’ Oh no, I’m not physically attracted to this person!” Then I have to awkwardly unmatch and feel terribly shallow and guilty for a while. So do I keep my rule and pass on some very promising profiles without face pics to avoid hurting someone’s feelings? Or do I bend the rules? I’m just not looking to hurt anyone in a bad way. —Not That Kind Of Sadist Dear NTKOS: Lead with your truth, NTKOS: “Hey, we share a lot of common interests — BDSM, CBT, TT — but I usually require face pics before I chat. I understand why you may not be able to post your pics and why you would want to chat for a bit and establish trust before sharing pics with me privately. So I’m happy to chat so long as you’re OK with the risk that I might pass after seeing your face pic. Still, even if we’re not ultimately a sexual or romantic match, every kinkster needs some kinky friends!” On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow: savagelovecast.com. I

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Joe Biden’s role in the war on drugs By Paul Danish

f the war on drugs was a real war, Joe Biden would be a war criminal. That may seem harsh, but Biden, who is increasingly portrayed as the Democratic Party’s great white hope, has one of the most execrable records of any American politician, living or dead, in the war on drugs. When it comes to

office to coordinate the war on drugs. According to Bienenstock, Biden even coined the term “Drug Czar” in an October 1982 New York Times interview. He then spent the next seven years working with the Reagan administration to turn the idea into reality; Congress voted overwhelmingly to open the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) in 1989. Within a couple of years, the Office’s budget ballooned from $717 million to more than $8 billion as it embarked on a massive enforcement and incarceration campaign. (The first “Czar” was William Bennett, who had served as Secretary of Education in the Reagan administration. He still hasn’t achieved room temperature and is still trying to recriminalize marijuana.) In 1996, Biden voted for a bill that banned the Drug Czar’s office from funding “any study or contract relating to the legalization” of marijuana and directing it to “take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use of a (Schedule I) substance...” (Marijuana is classified as a Schedule I controlled substance.) What this boils down to, Bienenstock wrote, is that “no matter how much evidence piles up showing that the benefits of legalization far outweigh any potential harms, the Drug Czar is required by law to lie about it. Which they have all done.” In other words, Biden voted to turn the ONDCP into a lavishly funded national office of propaganda for the war on drugs. And 23 years later, it’s still at it. Biden’s 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act led to the massive racial imbalance in incarceration for drug offenses. In the last few years the fact that blacks are four times more

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likely to go to jail for marijuana offenses than whites has received a lot of attention. But a similar disparity exists in sentencing for cocaine offenses. That’s because Biden’s bill, which set mandatory minimum sentences for cocaine violations, established a crack cocaine/powder cocaine equivalent ratio for sentencing purposes of 100-to-1. Distribution of five grams of crack triggered the same five-year mandatory minimum as 500 grams of powder coke. Crack was the favored form of cocaine in black neighborhoods. The result was a massive imbalance in the amount of time served for cocaine offenses between black and white dealers. And that in turn, led to a massive expansion in the for-profit prison industry. The views of a lot of politicians have “evolved” on marijuana legalization and the war on drugs generally. In Joe’s case, not so much. He is the only Democrat presidential hopeful who is still on record as opposed to marijuana legalization, and he still believes marijuana is a gateway drug. According to the Marijuana Moment website, he recently participated in a forum on the opioid crisis during which he applauded an anti-marijuana rant from another participant. Since 1965, more than 50 million Americans have been arrested for drug offenses, more than half of them for pot. Last January, Biden participated in a Martin Luther King Day event sponsored by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network. Asked to comment on his drug war record, he said, “I haven’t always been right, but I’ve always tried.” It’s a sentiment that another politician who had the sobriquet “Uncle Joe” hung on him would probably endorse. His name was Stalin.

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