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Tax Dodgers Incorporated by Jim Hightower

ats Domino sings: “I found my thrill, on Blueberry Hill.” Maybe, but America’s richest corporate powers know precisely where to find their thrill: On Capitol Hill! They rushed there in 2017 with a passion hotter than high school love, spewing the pheromones of campaign cash into the Republican congressional caucus. Sure enough, the GOP Congress came through for the corporations, satisfying their lust to have their tax rate lowered from 35 percent to 21 percent — lower than a modest-income working stiff pays. Actually, the corporate elites had not I

been paying anywhere near 35 percent, since they used dozens of loopholes to cut their average rate to about 13 percent. Yet, Republican lawmakers coddled these privileged giants with a rate cut — plus they kept intact most of those gaping loopholes. Thus, many corporate behemoths paid zero in federal taxes this year. Or less. How is it possible to pay less than zero? By riddling the tax code with so many special deductions and gimmicks that the government owes you money! On tax day this year, a watchdog group called ITEP (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy) issued a report documenting that 60 of America’s biggest corAPRIL 25, 2019

porations used the GOP’s tax cut and special breaks to avoid paying a dime in taxes on the $79 billion in profits they’d hauled in. Indeed, they were given millions of dollars in rebates from our public treasury. For example, Amazon, which had $11 billion in profit last year, paid zero in federal income tax, instead plucking $126 million in rebates from us. Likewise, Chevron, John Deere, GM and Prudential grabbed more than $100 million. This plutocratic ripoff is so shameful and unAmerican that a group of embarrassed rich people is calling for its repeal. For information go to PatrioticMillionaires.org This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. I

Scotland’s burning! Greenland’s melting! by Paul Danish

he song goes back 450 years, give or take. You may even have sung it as a round in elementary school (assuming your teacher wasn’t a snow-

flake). Today it’s called “Scotland’s Burning.” The original version was called “Scotland it Burneth,” and the earliest written copy of the lyrics date from 1580. According to a brief entry in Wikipedia, the lyrics refer to the burning of Edinburgh in 1544 by the English army of Henry VIII. The original version went like this: Scotland, it burneth, Look out, look out, Fire, fire, fire, fire, Cast on more water. By 1666, people had been singing it for at least 140 years. But in 1666, on Sept. 2 to be precise, the Great Fire of London broke out and over the next five days incinerated the heart of the city. And the song got an update: London’s burning. London’s burning. Fetch the engines. Fetch the engines. Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Pour on water. Pour on water. By 1837 the contemporary version of the song had emerged, with Scotland the venue of the fire again: Scotland’s Burning! Scotland’s Burning! Look out! Look out! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Pour on Water! Pour on Water! That was the version we sang in 6

elementary school in the early ’50s, which of course made no sense whatsoever to any of us at the time. In retrospect, it’s kind of surprising that the song hadn’t reverted to “London’s Burning!” given that World War II and the Blitz were still recent memories. Maybe too recent. At any rate, what prompted this little jig down memory lane was a headline in Tuesday’s Washington Post:

which host the largest amount of potential sea level rise and are already changing fast.” Rignot led a similar study last year that found the Antarctic region is also losing six times as much ice now than it was 40 years ago. The finding cries out for a folksong, and an updated version of Scotland’s Burning would be an excellent choice. Something like this, maybe:

“Staggering New Data Show Greenland’s Ice Is Melting 6 Times Faster than in the 1980s”

Greenland’s melting! Greenland’s melting! Look out! Look out! Water! Water! Water! Water! ............?

According to the story, a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that ice melt from Geenland’s glaciers increased from an average of 51 billion tons a year between 1980 and 1990, to an average of 286 billion tons a year between 2010 and 2018. Roughly every 360 billion tons of ice melt results in a millimeter of sea level rise. The upshot is that out of the nearly 14 millimeters of sea level rise caused by Greenland ice melt since 1972, half occurred in the last eight years. And the melting is expected to accelerate. Eric Rignot, an Earth-systems scientist at the University of California at Irvine who is one of the study’s authors, said “the entire periphery of Greenland is affected” and that he was “particularly concerned about the northern regions, APRIL 25, 2019

But what’s the appropriate last line? In all earlier versions of the song, a specific solution is proposed for dealing with the threat of catastrophic fire — throw water at it. But a three-word solution to catastrophic ice melt isn’t so obvious. Save the glaciers! Save the glaciers! maybe? But it doesn’t tell you how to save the glaciers. So that’s kind of a copout. Burn no petrol! Burn no petrol! perhaps? Fat chance; at best aspirational. The last line should propose something that could actually occur in real life, like putting out a fire with water. Raise the seawalls! Raise the seawalls! Doable, but it’s a solution with no conclusion. They’ll have to go up a I

silly millimeter or two every year for centuries. And while it might work in New Orleans or Lower Manhattan, building a seawall from Kennebunkport to Miami would be more challenging. Move the cities! Move the cities! Also doable in theory, but most of the available sites large enough to accommodate say The Greater New York Co-Prosperity Sphere are found in places like western Kansas or central North Dakota, where New Yorkers would be about as welcome as Amazon in Queens. Flee the lowlands! Flee the lowlands! But to where? A lot of the higher ground is already taken, and the deplorables may not take kindly to the prospect of tens of millions of coastals moving in. Fortunately the conundrum contains its own solution — and it can be stated in three words. As the Greenland ice-cap melts, thousands of square miles of land will become ice free and available for development. So the way to complete the revised song obvious: Greenland’s melting! Greenland’s melting! Look out! Look out! Water! Water! Water! Water! Move to Greenland! Move to Greenland! Think of it as a green new deal. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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re you feeling a little more than pissed that so much said and written about climate change is about the problem but not the solution? I am. How BIG is the problem? From the International Panel on Climate Change Report, here’s a key section of the policymakers’ summary: “The report finds that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would require ‘rapid and far-reaching’ transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport and cities. Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide would need to fall by about 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching ‘net zero’ around 2050. This means that any remaining emissions would need to be balanced by removing (carbon dioxide) from the air.” You can find the IPCC Report at ipcc.ch. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes we have one year to change course and get started. “If we start today, when global emissions are still growing, the necessary rate is 10 percent. If we delay another decade, it will require us to cut emissions by 30 percent each year,” wrote David Wallace Wells in his New York Times best-seller The Uninhabitable Earth. In order to stop climate disaster, we need policy changes on world, federal, state and local levels. Here are 10 polices that should be put in place to meet the call to action to a clean energy future for our children’s children: 1) Get rid of government handouts to the fossil fuel industry. 2) Give incentives to renewable energy instead. 3) Start a works corps to build America’s renewables programs. 4) Enact a carbon tax to raise funds to invest in renewables and slow the growth of fossil fuels. 5) Stop future fossil-fuel development through banning drilling, fracking, etc. 6) Require utilities to produce all their electricity from zero-carbon sources — such as wind and solar. 7) Set energy efficiency standards BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Paul Danish recently speculated that President Trump might be able to successfully bring slander or libel claims against various media outlets for claiming he colluded with Russia during his election campaign (Re: “After Mueller — How Trump might get even,” The Danish Plan, March 28, 2019). Most media comments on the topic have not so much asserted that Trump personally conspired with Russia, but described how his and his campaign’s actions create an appearance of collusion. Nothing in the Mueller report summary undercuts that conclusion. Of course, as Trump’s lawyers have repeatedly pointed out, “collusion” is not a specific legal term. Thus, whether collusion did or did not occur is vague, and perhaps misdirects the inquiry. Criminal conspiracy, of course, raises a very high bar that would require that Trump explicitly agreed with Russia to take specific illegal actions to influence the election outcome. The fact that Donald Trump Jr. did accept a meeting with a Russian agent offering negative information about the Clinton campaign would by itself sufficiently prevail

over use of slander or libel in the word “collusion.” Trump Sr.’s instruction that Don lie to claim the meeting was arranged to discuss orphans further shows awareness that the truth would imply guilt — that admitting his campaign tried to obtain “dirt” from Russian agents would make the campaign look bad. The Trump campaign did seek assistance from Russian agents to influence the outcome of the election. Is that not “collusion” in the minds of most Americans? The fact that both Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort proved to be covert paid lobbyists of foreign governments certainly seems consistent with a campaign which would “collude.” Trump’s subsequent refusal to significantly criticize Putin after various Russian foreign aggressions and human rights violations, and his meeting with Putin without other Americans present, also implies “collusion.” Trump’s continuing denial that Russia illegally supported his election via hacking and disinformation, a fact which the Mueller investigation conclusively proved long ago, suggests “collusion.” see LETTERS Page 9

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spends about $300 billion on renewables already. If we increase that by 15 percent each year for 12 years that’s $10.5 trillion dollars to fix the problem,” explained Jigar Shah, cofounder and president of Generate Capital, a “resource revolution” venture capital firm. “There are now more jobs in renewable energy in the state of Pennsylvania than coal, natural gas and oil combined,” said Bill Peduto, mayor of Pittsburgh. We have the evidence. If there’s going to be a Green New Deal, cities, counties and states need to adopt ways to become carbon neutral. One hundred and eight cities have adopted a commitment to Net Carbon by 2030-2045. Your com8

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munity can too. Climate justice is good for our economy, people and environment. Start demanding our politicians, journalists, leaders and teachers educate themselves on the strategies and tactics to get the problem solved. My kids will be 46 and 44 in 2050, when we need to be at zero carbon emissions as a planet to postpone long term climate destruction. Next month I turn 60. I don’t have hope, I have kids. Let’s work as a nation like our grandparents and great grandparents did during World War II to protect against the destruction to our Democracy, economy and planet. Arn Menconi is a former Eagle County Commissioner and has run for U.S. Senate and Congress. BOULDER WEEKLY

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However, discussion of collusion ignores the actual crime most consistent with Trump’s conduct, “receiving stolen property.” If I stand at the door of a bank and someone runs out firing a gun behind them, and throws me a bag of money which I try to keep, most would agree I appear to be guilty of receiving stolen property. If I argue (without factual basis, and disputing responsible police findings) that there was no robbery, I look even guiltier. The fact I may not have conspired to commit a robbery beforehand would not be a defense. Accepting an election so clearly marred by Russian influence seems a similar acceptance of an ill-gotten gain. Accepting a thrown election is not technically a crime, because an election result is not property, among other reasons. However, the moral transgression seems the same (and the term “treason” does fairly come to mind). By constantly denying that Russian hackers tried or succeeded in throwing the election his way, Trump still seeks to retain the benefit of Russian illegal actions, logically encouraging further similar crimes. Trump’s shamelessness in claiming vindication in the face of this history is nauseating. One suspects that some of this history may be discussed more thoroughly in the full Mueller report. Speaking of shamelessness, did anyone else gag at Trump accusing Democrats of being anti-Semitic? This from someone who described white nationalists in Charlottesville, many of whom were recorded chanting “Jews will not replace us,” as “some very fine people”? If Mr. Danish or Mr. Trump considers these comments to be slanderous or libelous, either may feel free to bring legal action. “The truth shall set ye free.” Chris Jeffers/Boulder With the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report last week, the world learned, unsurprised, that Donald Trump made repeated efforts to deceive the public and obstruct justice during and since

the 2015-16 presidential campaign. But what was surprising, and very important, was our discovery that, on multiple occasions, when the chief executive of the federal government directed obstruction be carried out, a good number of his staffers either directly refused or consciously neglected to carry out his orders. White House counsel Don McGahn even threatened to resign rather than play the role of gobetween to fire Mueller. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported, “In the end, the Mueller investigation found that top aides to the President had saved Mr. Trump from possible legal jeopardy, mainly by ignoring his demands on the Russia investigation.” Imagine if Donald Trump and his administration were aware that throughout this nation government employees at the federal, state, county and municipal levels were fully informed, encouraged and supported in their right and responsibility to refuse any order or directive the fulfillment of which would cause them to violate their oath of office. Imagine if all government supervisors shared that awareness. Imagine if ordinary citizens reached out to government employees they know personally to remind them of that right and responsibility to resist oath-breaking activity. It’s quite likely there would be far less government lawbreaking, rights-violating and other misrule happening in, and perpetrated by, America. Sworn to Refuse, a Boulderbased organization, has been imagining this possible future since 2017, and is working hard to make it reality as soon as possible. The task is enormous and urgent, and success won’t be achieved without contributions from countless people around the country. Our main mission now is getting the word out, and for that, we need your involvement and support. Please contact us via sworntorefuse.info@ gmail.com to discuss what roles you can play in this project to defend our democracy and rule of law. Matt Nicodemus/Boulder

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ith the new year came a fare hike for transportation in the Denver metro area, including Boulder County. At $3 for a single ride (valid for unlimited transfers for three hours), RTD now has the highest fares in the country, more expensive than San Francisco and New York, cities with larger populations and higher costs of living. The closest in price is Dart in the Dallas metro area, which charges $2.50 for a single bus ride or $3 for morning and afternoon unlimited passes. In Colorado’s largest metropolitan area, it now costs $10.50 for a regional day pass and to get to DIA. Pass programs, including the EcoPass and CollegePass, also saw fare changes under the new policy. Now, some of the largest users, be it downtown employees, neighborhoods or the University of Colorado Boulder, could see a doubling of rates over the next three years, which could not only threaten the pass programs but also the City’s ability to reach its climate goals. 10

Even so, there are some benefits to the fare changes. The 2019 fare increase was the result of a year-long pass program study and working group made up of 25 representatives across the metro area, including Boulder County. (RTD’s policy is to revisit fares every three years; the last time it raised fare prices was in 2016.) “It was a consensus, but it wasn’t a happy consensus, and I guess that’s what happens when you get to consensus,” says Boulder City Council member Mary Young, who was part of the working group. “Everybody gets something, nobody gets everything.” Young says that a large incentive for agreeing to the new fare structure was to offer discounted fares to those who really need it: youth and lowincome populations. Before, “those who really needed the discount, those who need the bus to get around, were paying full fare,” she says, comparing those in need to those with various passes who receive discounted fares. Starting in January, RTD instituted a youth pass, offering a 70 percent discount for those between the ages of 6 and 19, regardless of whether or not they are enrolled in school. (Previous student passes were discounted at 50 percent and required proof of enrollment.) Additionally, a new income-based pass (LiVE Pass) is set to launch later this summer. It will provide a 40 percent discount for people making an APRIL 25, 2019

annual income of approxiDUE TO RECENT PRICE increases, mately $23,000 for an indiRTD now has the vidual or $47,000 or less highest single-ride for a family of four (185 bus fares in the country. EcoPass and percent of the federal povCollegePass fares are erty level). In order to offer set to increase for these discounts, RTD many users also. asked for concessions elsewhere and it comes with the reconfiguring of other pass programs, specifically the EcoPass and CollegePass, both widely used by employees, residents and students in Boulder County. “There was a balancing act between how much did the regular fares go up in order to provide more affordable mobility for those who really need it,” says George Gerstle, recently retired director of transportation for Boulder County. According to RTD, the fare changes are a way of “right-sizing” transportation costs, and other transit agencies around the country are expected to raise prices soon as well. Revenues from fares make up about 12 percent of the agency’s annual budget, while the lion’s share (approximately 52 percent) comes from sales and use tax revenue. “We already are heavily subsidizing moving people around,” says Pauletta Tonilas, general manager of communications for RTD. “But there is a cost to it and people are being asked to pay their share for the benefit of riding transit.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Transportation officials at the City of Boulder, however, worry that raising the costs of transportation will inhibit some riders’ ability to afford it. Couple that with decreasing service in some areas, and it could threaten both ridership and vital pass programs. Likewise, the University of Colorado is expected to be hit hard by the increase. Before the 2019 fare increases, CU, businesses and neighborhoods were given a flat rate for the EcoPass and CollegePass, determined by location and number of users. Now they will be priced based on how much they are used (utilization), i.e., the more people from any one group who ride RTD, the more that same group will be charged. This may cause some pass prices to decrease, but most passes are expected to increase significantly. In order to spread out the increase over time, RTD agreed to a 20 percent increase in the first two years (2019 and 2020), with any remaining increase captured in 2021 prices. Since its inception, the EcoPass program has only continued to grow and has paid for itself, according to RTD. Still, the agency maintains, this “right-sizing” of costs is only fair and will still be cost-effective for the user. “Asking people to pay for what they’re using, that is a hard pill to swallow initially, potentially,” Tonilas from RTD says. “But I think that everybody understands that it is equitable and fair to be paying for what you use.” But according to City staff in the transportation department, the price hike changes the very nature of the EcoPass program and has the potential to threaten both its sustainability and viability. Chris Hagelin, senior transportation planner with the City of Boulder, says that the City has been talking to RTD about moving toward the utilization model for about a decade, but with the assumption that there would still be a discount for the EcoPass program. Now, “mostly due to RTD’s financial situation, they basically said we’re going to use pricing utilization with zero discounts,” he says. “We certainly wanted to actually have data and pricing based on data but we just always assumed that these discounts would be built in.” Take the downtown EcoPasses for example. Everyone who works in downtown Boulder is given an EcoPass as a way to reduce congestion by incommuters coming from other parts of the city, county or region. The passes are paid for out of the Central Area General Improvement District (CAGID) — revenue from charging for downtown parking — which also funds the maintenance of the parking structures and the downtown streetscape, including the Pearl Street Mall. Under the past pricing structure, downtown EcoPasses cost CAGID about $1.1 million annually, according to the City. That price tag is projected to reach BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

$2.3 million by 2021 with RTD’s right-sizing. It’s counterintuitive, says Kathleen Bracke, interim co-director of public works for transportation at the City of Boulder. “It takes the bulk discount out of the foundation of it,” she says. Bracke says CAGID, which is administered by the City, can cover the price increase both this year and next, but the City is concerned about the potential “balloon payment” in 2021, and there may

BOULDER CITY STAFF say the price hike threatens the sustainabality and viability of the popular EcoPass program.

need to be reductions or reprioritization discussed in the 2021 budget to cover the cost. “It’s a huge financial hit to that district,” she says. “We’re very concerned about the price increase in the third year because it goes up so

much.” The changes are also affecting the Neighborhood EcoPass program that the City helps negotiate and subsidize. Under the old model there was a per-household charge — the City provided a subsidy (anywhere from 30-36 percent depending on income levels and percentages of affordable housing in a neighborhood), the neighborhoods paid the rest — and residents were allowed unlimited rides on RTD. With the price structure change, the neighborhoods will be paying for every ride they take. “You’ve lost the unlimited use incentive, that’s the main difference,” Hagelin says. And while it “still is a good deal,” he says, “it’s just not what it was.” In 2019, 78 percent of neighborhoods saw an EcoPass increase, while others went down based I

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on 2017 utilization. Some neighborhoods, but not all, will continue to see fares increasing until 2021, even as the City is committed to continue with its subsidies. While every neighborhood was able to renew for 2019, like the downtown EcoPass program it could become increasingly difficult to fund in the future, according to City staff. “This is a fundamental part of our transportation package. We’re trying to increase people’s access to transit as much as we can,” Bracke says. “And so we want to find a more affordable way to manage the price increase of the EcoPass going forward.” Bracke and Hagelin both point to the fact that while the City is going to be hit hard by the changes to the EcoPass program both for businesses and neighborhoods, the University of Colorado Boulder is going to experience an even larger impact. First of all, CU provides an EcoPass to all of its faculty and staff, which currently sits at 9,615 employees. In 2018, the per-employee EcoPass price was $133. By 2021, it could reach $250 per employee, according to Kim Calomino, director of local government and community relations at CU. That’s approximately a 95 percent cost increase over three years. Even more concerning to the University, however, is the fare increase for the CollegePass, which is given to all current students. Paid for by the students as part of their annual fees, the CollegePass program had been heavily discounted. Now, like the EcoPass, it will be calculated based on ridership. “It’s sort of counterintuitive for an organization trying to increase ridership and expand the use of public transit [to change it so] the more people use it, the more expensive it becomes,” Calomino says. The CollegePass is part of an overall transit package offered to students, and for the past several years, Calomino says, the fee has hovered around $170. Taking into consideration the fare increases based on utilization, she says, the fee could increase up to $225 by academic year 202021. Both Calomino and City staff admit that the switch in pricing model was agreed to by the pass program working group, including representatives from their respective organizations. Regardless, there’s widespread concern that the increases, especially in 2021, could threaten the viability of the pass programs altogether. “We have gone to [RTD] with a collective voice from the City of Boulder, Boulder County and the University of Colorado to say, these are our concerns and we need help. We need some relief from these price increases,” Bracke says. “I think that RTD is hearing from a broad base of stakesee BUS PASS Page 12

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holders that this is not financially feasible.” Both CU and the City have asked RTD to consider instituting the price increases over five years instead of three, to avoid that third-year balloon payment. They’ve also asked for intermittent independent audits to ensure the fares accurately reflect ridership. “The only data that we have is data that RTD collects and provides. And since it’s their data and they are billing us based on their data we would like some assurances as to its reliability,” Calomino says. And like the City, CU is looking for other cost savings within its budget to offset transit cost increases. They also may need to consider other solutions aside from RTD to meet transit needs. Overall, there are more than 80,000 people who live and work in Boulder that are currently eligible for an EcoPass or CollegePass, and ridership has remained fairly stable throughout Boulder County. Additionally, ridership on both the Flatiron Flyer carrying commuters from the south and the Flex service coming from Fort Collins is growing. But this could all change if passes become cost-prohibitive for students, businesses and neighborhoods. Not only that, but RTD has continued to cut service on certain routes, which further threatens ridership. “To expect people to pay more to ride and have less frequent service is really not a good customer service model, or a financial model,” Bracke says. From RTD’s perspective, however, asking riders to pay for the transit they use is only fair, and they expect people throughout the metro area I

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Conversing with Georgia ‘Aftereffect’ explores the legacy of a classic artist through the work of modern painters

by Amanda Moutinho

t first glance, the common thread between the artworks in Aftereffect is less than obvious. There are different mediums, subject matter and styles, from geometric patterns and realistic drawings to expressionist painting and still life. But these images and artists are all tied together by one person: Georgia O’Keeffe.

Aftereffect: O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting features the work of O’Keeffe and modern-day artists inspired by her life and art. The exhibit blends together various artists’ works and juxtaposes them next to pieces from the artist’s repertoire to explore the paralsee O’KEEFFE Page 24

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lels. The show displays some of the hallmarks of O’Keeffe’s work — soft shapes that suggest sensuality, her love of nature — and also highlights her lesser-known abstract and experimental stylings. The show was curated by Elissa Auther, from the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and Los Angeles-based painter Emily Joyce, whose work is featured in Aftereffect. In planning the exhibit, the curators wanted to advance the narrative left behind by O’Keeffe’s work. To accomplish this, they veered away from creating a onefor-one matching game of classics with modern interpretations. “It’s not an exhibit where you’re going to see an O’Keeffe skull next to another painting of a skull. That’s not an interesting story to tell about her influence,” Joyce says. Instead, Auther and Joyce make the pieces interact with one another. Each example in the show takes details from O’Keefe’s life and works and puts them in new contexts. In written statements throughout Aftereffect, artists explain O’Keeffe’s influence on their art, which allows viewers the chance to dig deeper into O’Keeffe’s legacy. Instead of featuring a large selection of O’Keeffe’s work, only a handful of her paintings are scattered throughout the exhibit to highlight specific features. In utilizing this approach, Aftereffect provides new insights that might otherwise go unnoticed. “[The exhibit] brings out aspects of O’Keeffe’s work, very formal qualities of her paintings that might not matter as much to normal exhibition narratives,” Auther says. “But here it is front and center, and then here’s the voice of the contemporary artist responding to those formal innovations and hopefully that takes you somewhere new with what painters are doing today.” Auther and Joyce met several years ago at an art event and discovered a mutual love and respect for O’Keeffe. Auther, who was studying at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum at the time, was hesitant to reveal her affinity for O’Keeffe because of the artist’s questionable reputation in the art world. “O’Keeffe isn’t considered an important touchstone for contemporary art at all. ... [There’s a] perception of her as a cliché painter or ‘the lady artist,’ or someone who is more associated with dorm room posters than contemporary art,” Auther says. “In her lifetime and beyond she was incredibly popular and that level of popularity doesn’t always serve an artist well,” she continues. “She was dismissed by painters of her generation for her popularity. They perceived her as overexposed.” But when Auther and Joyce discovered their shared admiration, they had a feeling they weren’t alone. For the next few years they looked for other artists who found inspiration in O’Keeffe’s work; the result is Aftereffect. In Aftereffect, the complexity and weight of O’Keeffe’s significance emerges. There’s a clear boundary-pushing aspect to her work, like her early adoption of abstraction and her willingness to break art rules, like using symmetry or elevating the seemingly mundane genre of still life. O’Keeffe bucked convention by removing herself from the art capitals of the world and carving out her own space in the desert of New Mexico. O’Keeffe’s range as an artist becomes clear when looking at the diverse artwork offered in Aftereffect. With the varying styles and interpretation, the audience might be hard pressed to find the link between O’Keeffe and a painting of a geometric pattern, for example. New York-based artist Melissa Thorne’s paintings feature soothing zigzags and crisscrosses, using mostly straight lines and similar repeating shapes. While a far cry from an I

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O’Keeffe landscape, Thorne draws inspiration from O’Keeffe’s use of color, distillation of detail and seasonal themes. To capture the seasons of her neighboring Catskill Mountains, Thorne created a palate of over 500 colors. Her paintings capture the striations of rocks, the density of earth, and the lightness of a blue sky. And when blending these ideas together, Thorne creates a site-specific, abstract interpretation of her surroundings. “So even though the imagery is quite different, the method and way of working to get to the picture is where she’s finding her influence,” Joyce says. Some artists drew inspiration from the feelings prompted by O’Keeffe’s work. LA-based Mary Weatherford’s “La Niña” is a large-scale expressionist painting of black, purple, brown, green, gray, pink and blue brush strokes. Amid the chaotic markings is a red neon light. The piece mixes the natural aesthetic of a sky after a rainstorm with a sign from the human world — a combination similar to motifs O’Keeffe used in her own work. Weatherford was also drawn to the loneliness she saw in O’Keeffe’s paintings and experimented channeling that feeling into her own work. Outside of her art, O’Keeffe also left a lasting example with her lifestyle as an artist. “She created her own way of making art in the world that made sense to her. She created that universe that was going to provide what she needed, rather than sticking around where it didn’t make sense for her,” Joyce says. “I think you see a lot of artists echoing that, finding a way of finding your own place geographically and artistically.” In Aftereffect, San Francisco artist Mary Heilmann displays paintings of the wide open road. She was drawn to O’Keeffe’s spirit and independence. As her statement reads in the exhibit, “O’Keeffe’s main identity was as a single person on her own, working in her studio. Out of that sensibility comes some really beautiful, contemplative painting, and she was a role model for me.” By combing through the artworks and artist statements, Aftereffect provides a glimpse into the artistic process. Every piece of art is an amalgamation of influences and personal style. By analyzing the elements that influence an artist, the viewer gets a better idea of both the artist and their inspiration. “As an artist, I know that people often say they like to come to an artist’s studio because they like to see how you think when you make you work. I feel like my experience with [the show], is not too dissimilar,” Joyce says. “The audience can see what the artist sees when we see O’Keeffe, which may not be as apparent when you’re seeing just a show exclusively of O’Keeffe. Hopefully, you’ll see through our eyes more nuances in her work.” When looking to explore the lasting significance of an artist as well known as O’Keeffe, Joyce and Auther strayed away from common narratives like master and apprentice or the evolution of a certain art movement. “There’s a very classic way that art history is presented, and you see that in exhibitions all the time. This is very different,” Auther says. “It’s still about legacy. It’s still about influence. But it’s an open-ended conversation between O’Keeffe and these artists. It’s not a straight line. It’s a lateral conversation.” By presenting a new perspective, Aftereffect leaves the audience with a fresh perspective on art history, a sampling of the current art moment and a glimpse of what’s to come. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Deva Premal and Miten talk about the power of chant... and Lady Gaga

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welve years ago, when we last caught up to Deva Premal and Miten, they had just finished a chant workshop in upstate New York and were preparing to head west on tour, including a stop at Chautauqua. They were leading something of a nomadic life, bringing their mantra and song performances to studios and theaters across the globe, and they became, quite unintentionally, leaders in the global chant movement. “At some point,” Premal told us at the time, “we may say, ‘OK, take a break.’ But not yet.” Well, as Miten explained in an interview last week, an extended break for the musical and life partners still hasn’t quite presented itself, with a notable exception. “Actually, we’ve only missed two days’ work in 28 years... and one of those was for an open heart operation,” he laughs. “Is it a struggle?” responds Premal. “Actually, it never feels like a struggle. We always feel like we’re supported. We know how to pace ourselves. We make our own schedule, we know what feels good, we know our own rhythm. We’re in a good place.” “Y’know,” reflects Miten, “to some people it does sound crazy, the way we work and the way we live. We’ve never bothered to have a home or a base, in 28 years. We’ve just been on the road. We like it like that. “It’s just been great watching the whole movement expand and crystallize. It’s just been beautiful.” The pair met almost 30 years ago at the meditation center of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (known to his followers as Osho), where Miten, having thrown off the life of a successful British rock musician in search of spiritual substance, and Premal, who had been exposed to ancient chant and related spiritual disciplines as a child, found common passion in ancient mantra. Premal’s experience extended well before her time at the ashram — she was actually birthed to the sound of the Gayatri Mantra (from the ancient Hindu text Rig Veda, circa 1700 B.C.) and grew up hearing it as a lullaby. Along with the esteemed Nepalese flautist Manose and a small band of Western musicians, Deva and Miten’s performances — and they’re a little cautious about characterizing their events thusly — 26

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feature both more Western tradition songsmithing of Miten’s, as well as ensemble renditions of Sanskrit and Hindu mantra. Some of these vocal pieces are 4,000 years old and we wondered about how one approaches rendering them in a modern context. Their website, for example, includes tabs and chordal arrangements behind them, as performed by them. It’s a stretch to imagine how the composers of these pieces would have imagined a D minor chord strummed on an acoustic guitar as accompaniment. Miten points to Osho’s attitudes toward originalism. “The mantras themselves are powerful beings, they’re energetic entities. My understanding of them is that there must have been people around — scientists — with the same understanding or the same feeling as any modern day person, of exploration. What is sound? (Can you imagine what sound was like 5,000 years ago?) And they were interested in exploring how sound affects us. And that’s how they came into being... like scientifically discovered sound formulas. “It’s a matter of taste, really,” he continues. “Our taste is what we put out and what we play; it’s not everybody’s taste. [With respect to Osho], he wasn’t a traditionalist, he wasn’t interested in encouraging us to play kirtan or harmonium or any of that stuff. He was more open to, ‘Play your music.’ We played a huge variety of music that, in some ways, paralleled Osho’s discourses. In some ways, we had our perspectives blown open, we were playing even samba in the meditation rooms, with Osho coming out and dancing with us. That’s very unique, having a guru coming out to dance with his disciples.” “The basic thing is to find a way to make sing-able without simplifying the melI

odies too much,” Premal adds. “We also take great care that the style that we put the mantras in enhances the feeling of the mantras. That it doesn’t detract or distract. It’s such a fine line. We like a jazz influence, because jazz has such an open flavor, with the chords being so multi-faceted. You can hear the influence on some of the recordings we have done.” To someone grounded in Western musical tradition, and more narrowly in the popular music performance space — audiences come to hear an artist perform their art, and each individual responds according to their own perspective and aesthetic inclinations — Premal and Miten are keen to remind that their events are more grounded in the communal exercise of mantra, and that they themselves are not so much performers as conduits. This is either an esoteric distinction, or a simple one. To the extent that their fans come to experience one of their events, they are participants, as are the principals. “I feel like we are there for people who are already looking deeper,” Premal says. “We’re not there to preach, we’re not really on a mission. If this is what you love and what you enjoy, here we are, and we will contribute with the utmost care. Everything we do — the way we design the evening, the musicians — is to answer the calling for the people who know what they want.” We couldn’t resist asking if either had any musical guilty pleasures. Premal demurred on that, but Miten drew a mildly mischievous breath and starting singing... “Tell me somethin’ girl/Are ya’ happy in this modern world?” “That’s my guilty pleasure. I’ve fallen in love with Ally, from A Star is Born. Otherwise known as Lady Gaga. What a great movie, and what a great girl. I think she’s fantastic.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

aylor Parks, who goes by the stage name Tayla Parx, has one message: “Come as you are because, whatever that is, is acceptable.” It’s a message that comes through all Parks’ work, whether that’s as a songwriter of chart-topping hits for a variety of musicians or through her own work on her debut LP We Need to Talk. “I think that’s where everything truly, truly starts — you being your authentic self. It’s just you accepting being what you want for what you are and being confident in that,” the 25-year-old artist says from San Francisco, where’s she’s kicking off her U.S. tour opening for Lizzo, herself a powerhouse of female empowerment anthems. From the beginning, Parks has worked with strong women, writing songs for everyone from the K-Pop all-female group Red Velvet in 2015, to earning a Grammy nomination as part of the writing team behind Janelle Monáe’s 2018 Dirty Computer, to Ariana Grande’s chart-topping “Thank U, Next” and “7 Rings” in 2019. (The list goes on, with writing credits for Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, Fergie, Christina Aguilara, Demi Lovato...) “They want to feel some sense of security in themselves. It doesn’t matter how popular they are to the rest of the world. ... These women are strong and these are things that they want to talk about,” Parks says. “And I’m finding the perfect way to talk about it in their language, in their unique way.” That’s not to say that Parks is defined by either genre or gender. Other writing credits include hits like “High Hopes” from American rock outfit Panic! At the Disco and songs for K-Pop sensation BTS. “Everyone wants to feel empowered [and] that goes beyond gender. That goes for boys, that goes for girls,” she says. “People like to sing music about feeling empowered even if they’re not quite there yet. They sing it so they believe it one day.” This self-confidence, this sense of empowerment that Parks both personally exhibits and helps others express, finds it roots in the strong women who helped shape her. As a child, Parks grew up singing with her grandmother in church. And it continued as she became the protégé of actress, director and choreographer Debbie Allen of Fame recognition. “Debbie is definitely one of the first just incredibly powerful women that I met,” Parks says.“She was really a pioneer, but it didn’t scare her from making that step towards the future that she saw for herself, you know, and that confidence that you have to have to believe that you could do BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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something that maybe hasn’t been done before. Or it’s been done by a few.” Parks met Allen while studying dance at her academy in Texas, drawing Allen’s attention with her ability to sing as well as dance. Soon after, Allen introduced Parks to the world of acting; Parks’ first role was as Little Inez in the 2007 remake of the musical Hairspray. “She (Allen) introduced me to the thought that maybe I wasn’t just a singer. From then on, I just started becoming curious on my own,” Parks says. Parks soon realized that songwriting was an actual job, and that producing records was also something she could do, despite the fact that not many women do it. According to a recent study published by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, only 12 percent of songwriters with credits on popular songs determined by both the Billboard 100 list and Grammy nominations from 2012-18, are female. Additionally, only 2 percent of producers are. Since 2013, Parks has spent her time helping other artists explore their emotions to write songs that express their vulnerabilities. With We Need to Talk, Parks explores her own. “I’ve been very patient with my artistry,” she says of her own music. “Growing up I I

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he Boulder Philharmonic will devote its next concert, Saturday, April 27, to two works that reflect on the history of the United States and its peoples. The first is very well known, the Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” by Dvořák. Written while Dvořák was living in the United States, the symphony was shaped by the composer’s experiences here, including with American music and literature. The second work, “Ellis Island: The Dream of America” by Peter Boyer, is less known. As the title suggests, however, it is about the experience of immigrants arriving in this country and the lives they create here. It will be accompanied by projected images, and includes a script taken from immigrants’ recollections. Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony is one of the most popular works of the orchestral repertoire. “It’s a great piece,” Michael Butterman, director of the Boulder Phil, says. “It’s gripping, it’s dramatic, there are moments of excitement, and also real lyrical beauty. It’s well known and well loved for good reasons.” Not as well known are some of the symphony’s connections to American history and literature. Not only was the symphony written in the U.S. in 1892–93, the premiere was given by the New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall on Dec. 16, 1893. Some parts of the symphony have specific American sources. The slow movement, which includes a theme later known as “Goin’ Home,” is said to have been inspired by Harry Burleigh, an AfricanAmerican singer and composer of many spiritual arrangements, who sang for Dvořák. Another source of inspiration was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Song of Hiawatha,” which was extremely popular in the U.S. and Europe in the late 19th century. Dvořák knew the poem in Czech translation and wanted to write an opera based on it. The opera never materialized, but Dvořák said that both the slow movement and the scherzo of the symphony portrayed scenes from the poem. “I hear [the symphony] as written to BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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convey a sense of the great new land that Dvořák was experiencing,” Butterman says. “That’s the perspective from which I’m approaching it.” Boyer’s “Ellis Island” had its origin in the Oral History Program of the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, which began in 1973. The musical work was composed in 2001-02 after being commissioned by the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Connecticut. Boyer went through the interviews in order to select a few that, in Butterman’s words, “would together constitute a satisfying story arc, and have enough variety to represent the breadth of persons who passed through Ellis Island.” In the end Boyer selected seven interviews with immigrants — three male and four female — who entered the U.S. through Ellis Island between 1910 and 1940. Using the recorded interviews, Boyer created a written script that is read by actors I

with Boyer’s original score. The immigrants ranged in age from four to 30 when they entered the U.S and were in their 80s and 90s when interviewed. The actors, selected and directed by Bud Coleman of the CU Department of Theater and Dance, will be closer to the age of the immigrants when they arrived at Ellis Island. In addition to the spoken sections, there is an orchestral prelude and a closing section using Emma Lazarus’ poem ”The New Colossus,” which is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, that have accompanying photographs of Ellis Island. Butterman saw Ellis Island on PBS’ Great Performances series last June, performed by the Pacific Symphony with Hollywood actors taking the roles of the immigrants. “It seemed to be timely in terms of a theme that our country is once again grappling with,” Butterman says. Speaking of the projected images and the script, he says, “I am in favor of bringing other elements into the concert experience. I hope they will be entry points for people who have not experienced dozens of orchestral concerts during their lives. I think this is an interesting way to open that door to them. The Boulder Phil and the CU College of Music will sponsor events associated with the concert. Michael Beckerman, a distinguished scholar of Eastern European music, will present a lecture, “Was Dvořák’s American Dream... a Nightmare?” at 4 p.m. Friday, April 26, in the CASE Building Auditorium on the CU campus. He will also be featured at a pre-concert lecture at 6:30 p.m. April 27 in Macky Auditorium, hosted by Marilyn Cooley from Colorado Public Radio. Following the performance, there will be a musical response and talk-back in Macky Auditorium Room 102, presented by Boulder’s Motus Theater and featuring Cristian Solano-Córdova from the Colorado Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and members of the Boulder Phil. Editor’s note: Due to illness, Michael Butterman will not conduct ‘The Dream of America.’ Composer Peter Boyer will conduct in his place. Gary Lewis, Boulder Philharmonic principal guest conductor, will conduct Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony. APRIL 25, 2019

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JACK DEJOHNETTE, JOE LOVANO, ESPERANZA SPALDING AND LEO GENOVESE: THE SPRING QUARTET. 8 p.m. Sunday, April 28, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, bouldertheater.com. Tickets are $45-$55.

The Spring Quartet is a multigenerational jazz project featuring bassist Esperanza Spalding, Argentine pianist Leo Genovese, saxophonist Joe Lovano and storied drummer Jack DeJohnette. Expect an earthy performance free of showboating as these maestros weave through a catalog of original work. “That’s spring as in the season’s muddy, generative part,” The New York Times writes of the quartet, “not the pale and pretty part.”

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events MEDIALIVE OPENING PERFORMANCES AND RECEPTION.

6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art presents the seventh annual MediaLive, a new media festival bringing together art, technology and digital culture. MediaLive consists of a month-long exhibition of media installations as well as digital performances, workshops and events by contemporary artists and thinkers working internationally in media art. This year’s theme is subterranean, focusing on what technology buries and what it unearths. The festival kicks off on April 25 with a performance by avatar (yes, an avatar) LaTurbo Avedon, as well as a one-night screening of a work by Anna Ridler. There will also be installations including video, sound and interactive works from Michelle Ellsworth, Brian House, Tabita Rezaire, Rick Silva and Francis Marion Moseley Wilson. All MediaLive events are free and open to the public.

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LONGMONT LAUGH FEST 2019.

April 25-27, various locations around Longmont.

This multi-day festival features freeto-attend comedy events at locations around Longmont. Check out local comedian Kyle Pogue at the Firehouse Art Center on Thursday, April 25, or Virginia-based Lionel Harris at Longtucky Spirits on April 26, or New York-based Kandyce August later that same night at The Speakeasy. Don’t forget to buy tickets to one or both of the two sessions of The Big Mega at 300 Suns Brewing on Saturday, April 27, featuring comedy from Andrew Orvedahl and Adam Cayton-Holland and delicious beer from tons of your favorite local breweries. The Brewhop Trolley will be providing free rides to and from Roosevelt Park for both sessions of The Big Mega. For a full schedule, visit longmontlaughfest.com.

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7 p.m. Sunday, April 28 and Monday, April 29, Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Joanna Rotkin has been teaching an improvisational dance class called Dog Dance since 2003. ‘The Sky Inside’ documents this dance journey, following 21 local residents, ages 30-86, as they find their way into their dancing bodies. The film breaks down stereotypes and expectations of who gets to take up space and be seen in our world. Tickets are $15 for general admission, free for children 12 and under, at thedairy.org. While the April 28 show is sold out, tickets are still available for April 29. There will be a third showing on Monday, May 6 at 7 p.m.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 25

GROWING UP IN A CATHOLIC cult, Kathleen knew from an early age that if she were to survive, she’d have to do it on her own. But when the time came to escape, she found herself in a damaging spiral of self-destruction. At rock bottom, and with nowhere to go, Kathleen stepped off a bus in a remote community in rural Canada. ‘Wholly Unraveled’ is Boulder author Keele Burgin’s gripping and inspiring journey of self-discovery against nearly insurmountable odds. Burgin will speak about and sign her new book, ‘Wholly Unraveled: A Memoir,’ on Tuesday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Boulder Book Store.

Open Improv: Long Form. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Jill Tietjen and Barbara Bridges — Hollywood: Her Story. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, APRIL 26

Radio Show Taping

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& Emily Gimble

Peter Heller — The River. 7 p.m. Innkberry Books, 7960 Niwot Road, Suite B-3, Niwot. Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

SATURDAY, APRIL 27 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver. Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

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Boulder Ballet Gala and Dance Party

Join us for Boulder Ballets 1st annual Fundraiser, gala & Dance Party

SUNDAY, APRIL 28 Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

MONDAY, APRIL 29 Mesa de Português. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Neurodiversity in Action Apr With Temple Grandin

Bryn Fosburgh, Tiffany Fixter & Danny Combs - Moderated by Jason Lynch

May

Boulder In The Round Local original music in a curated community experience

5/19 eTown Presents Nick Forster’s Hippy Bluegrass Church at The Boulder Theater 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 5/19 All-Star Tribute to Bob Dylan at eTown Hall 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm WHERE: eTOWN Hall 1535 Spruce Street Boulder, CO 80302 TICKETS: eTOWN.org

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TUESDAY, APRIL 30 Mary Oliver Memorial Reading. 5 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. Keele Burgin — Wholly Unraveled. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 Centennial Middle School Poetry. 4:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. MFA Showcase Chris Becker. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. An Evening with R.L. Stine. 6 p.m. Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Roger Lipsey — Gurdjieff Reconsidered. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 25 Music ATLiens. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Bob Barrick, Eliza Thorp, Lonely Whale. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Community Event

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

Chris and Ollie. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. The Dazzle Sessions: Music of Sarah Vaughan featuring Kathr yn Radakovich. 10:30 p.m. Dazzle at Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5100. The Failure Cabaret. 8 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-2046064. More performances at stillcellars.com. Happy Hour — with #nophilter. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Marriott, 2660 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with Justin Townes Earle and Emily Gimble. 7 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. The Remus Tucker Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Events BPW Boulder Celebration of Women. 5:30 p.m. Element Bistro, 6315 Lookout Road, Boulder, 303-530-5400.

APRIL 25, 2019

Foothills Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Ron Stewart Preserve at Rabbit Mountain, 15140 N. 55th St., Longmont. Longmont Laughfest: Stand Up, Sketch, and Improv. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Longmont Laughfest: Comedy Open Mic. 9 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017. Longmont Laughfest: Stand Up. 7 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017. MediaLive Opening Performances + Reception. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. On Cinema At the Cinema Live! Featuring Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington, and Special Guests. 7 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

FRIDAY, APRIL 26 Music 27th Annual Microbreweries for the Environment — Dave Bruzza Unsafe at Any Speed featuring Lyle Brewer, Mike Shimmin, Matt Rowland, Dominic Davis. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Card Catalog (Album Release Party) — with Many Mountains. 5 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Anjunabeats. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Burritos, Brews, and Blues — with the Left Hand Blues Co-op. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-775-8764. The Cactus Blossoms. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. The Delta Sonics Duo. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Dylan Streight, Mercy Club. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Evanoff, Cycles. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Felonius Smith Trio. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. FreeBear (Patrick McDevitt and Alejandro Castaño). 9:30 p.m. Dazzle at Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5100. The Giraffes. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Second performance on April 27. Griffin House. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Lotus. 8 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. see EVENTS Page 33

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FILMS

The Mighty Twisters. 9:15 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-0486. Murs — with Locksmith, Cojo and Special Guests. 8:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Music and Movement. 10 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. Pete Zimmer Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Rocky Mountain Chorale Spring 2019 Concert. 7:30 p.m. Heart of Longmont Church, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-442-5081. Songwriters In The Round — with Andy Ard, Christopher The Conquered and Jenny LaJoye. 7:30 p.m. Burns Family Artisan Ales, 2505 W. Second Ave., Denver, 720-693-9099. The Soundpost Sessions: Foxfeather — with Kate Farmer. 7:30 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 303-349-0593. Spring into Music with Unity Longmont Spiritual Center. 7 p.m. The Meditation Place, 324 Main St. (alley Entrance), Longmont, 720-438-8777. Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture & Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720865-4220. Through April 28. Through the Lens of Music: Focus On Soul Stratus Chamber Orchestra, Hazel Miller and The Hazel Miller Band — with the Colorado Women’s Chorale and Colorado Men’s Chorale. 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-388-4962.

Boedecker Theater is located in the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826 Trojan Movie House is located in the Longmont Performing Arts Center, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303772-5200.

6:30 p.m. Boedecker. ‘Earth Song II’ — with Filmmaker Brian Luke Seaward. 7 p.m. The Caritas Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4493066. ‘Body at Brighton Rock.’ 8:45 p.m. Boedecker.

Thursday, April 25 ‘Birds of Passage.’ 2 and 7 p.m. Boedecker. ‘Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student’s Journey.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker.

Saturday, April 27 ‘Birds of Passage.’ 3 and 8 p.m. Boedecker ‘Iyengar.’ 12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Boedecker ‘Lives Well Lived.’ 10:30 a.m. Trojan Movie House ‘The Venerable W.’ 5 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder.

Friday, April 26 ‘Birds of Passage.’ 4 p.m. Boedecker. ‘Iyengar.’ 1:30 p.m. and

A CLOSER LOOK: VOYAGE TO THE RED PLANET

Funk it Up — with Funkiphino. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-600-4875.

LASER STRANGER THINGS

G Jones. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

YOU ARE (NOT SO) SPECIAL: UNDERSTANDING OUR BIG, MESSY EXISTENCE

Look & See. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Singleling Live in Boulder. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

SATURDAY, APRIL 27 Music

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

The Boulder Children’s Chorale: 10th Anniversar y Concert, Our Stor y. 2 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Comedian Damon Williams. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777. More dates at denver.improv.com

Boulder Philharmonic: The Dream of America. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-449-1343. Brassaholics Sextet. 6 p.m. The Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. A Celebration of Colorado Artistr y: Ars Nova Singers present Shared Visions. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-499-3165. Dafna, Lucas Wolf. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. David Starr & Erik Stucky. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

George Nelson Quartet. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Jazz at the Wesley — with Robert Johnson and Linda Styles and comedian Kevin Fitzgerald. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel and Foundation United Methodist, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934. Lightly Toasted. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Lucki — with Swoosh God, Maze Windu, Sysco Yola, Bawbs, P.I.V.O.T.. 8:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ 2 p.m. Niwot High School Auditorium, 8989 Niwot Road, Longmont.

THURSDAY APRIL 25 7:00 PM

9:00 PM

FRIDAY APRIL 26 7:00 PM

9:00 PM

BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY 10:30 PM

LASER BRUNO MARS 11:59 PM

LASER FLOYD: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON SATURDAY APRIL 27 1:00 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: LIFE OF TREES & HABITAT EARTH 10:00 PM

LEGATO LIVE CONCERT SUNDAY APRIL 28 12:00 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: WE ARE STARS & LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY 1:30 PM

STARS & PLANETS 3:00 PM

Nekromantix. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

WE ARE STARS

Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

INCOMING!

4:30 PM

Fiske Planetarium - Regent Drive

(Next to Coors Event Center, main campus CU Boulder) see EVENTS Page 34

BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

1795 Pearl St., Boulder, Co 80302 www.tunupboulder.com

Drumming with Horses. Noon. Medicine Horse Program, 8778 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 707-599-1908.

The Body Now Workshop. 1:30 p.m. The Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 207-399-4804.

Boulder International Folk Dance Workshop — with Yves Leblanc. 7:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 720-381-0013. Through April 28, boulderfolkdancers.org

Meat-n-Potatoes performing LIVE at The Tune Up at Full Cycle! The musical nutrients that your soul needs.

Longmont Laughfest: Crowd Work. 9 p.m. Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont.

Upstate. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

9Health Fair. 7 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Through April 27.

Wednesday, May 1 ‘Apollo 11.’ 7 p.m. Boedecker. ‘La Forza del Destino: Royal Opera House.’ 1 p.m. Boedecker. ‘Wild Nights with Emily.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker.

Friday, April 26 & Friday, May 3 7:30-11pm The Tune Up at Full Cycle

DMX — 20th Anniversar y of ‘It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot.’ 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Amy Gerhartz House Concert (adults only). 7 p.m. Sounds of Simon House Concerts, 1086 E. Roggen Way, Superior.

Events

Monday, April 29 ‘The Sky Inside.’ 7 p.m. Boedecker.

Live Music! Meat and Potatoes

Devil’s Lettuce Comedy Night. 8 p.m. Dean Ween’s Honey Pot Lounge, 1753 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-842-3724.

Unauthorized Absence. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

When Darkness Falls, Fist Fight & Vipërwitch. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Sunday, April 28 ‘La Forza del Destino: Royal Opera House.’ 1 p.m. Boedecker. ‘The Sky Inside.’ 7 p.m. Boedecker.

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arts All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Aftereffect: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26. Amanda Wachob: Tattoo This. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26. Andrew Jensdotter: Flak. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26. Ansel Adams: Early works exhibit. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26. The Art of Resilience: Nicaraguan Perspectives. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through June 3. Clyfford Still & Photography. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through April 28. Colorado’s Most Significant Artifacts. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit. 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 Avenue Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17. Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.

MEGAN MORIARTY BOULDER’S ORIGINAL SISTER city, Friendship City Projects, a nonprofit that works to improve lives in the Jalapa region of Nicaragua, presents the inspirational, healing and transcendent art of two Nicaraguan artists, Marlon Moreno and José Ortiz Bracamonte, at Museum of Boulder. Bracamonte’s family has been creating pottery in the traditional style for generations, and from that legacy he pushes artistic boundaries. All art displayed will be for sale and proceeds will directly support Nicaraguan artists, art education and positive community development. Pictured: ‘Peces,’ by Jose Ortiz Bracamonte.

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.

Front Range Rising. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit.

Reconstructing the Past. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through April 28.

Google Garage. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing, but activities change.

Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through January 2020.

The Incubation Effect. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 9.

The Unknown Polly Addison. Dairy Arts Center, Polly AddisonGallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through June 16.

Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 18. 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.

Vance Brand: Ambassador of Exploration. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit. Water Flow: Under the Colorado River. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26. World War II Diary Transcribed at the Museum. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit.

National Parks — by Ruth Soller. Osmosis Gallery, 290 Second Ave., Niwot. Through April 30.

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Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Blues Duo. 10 a.m. Longmont Farmers Market, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-606-1734. René Heredia and his Flamenco Fantasy Dance Theatre. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Rocky Mountain Chorale Spring 2019 Concert. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-5081. Sethe — Tribute to Sade. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Thank You Scientist. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Tiny Tots Inside the Orchestra. 9:30 a.m. McNichols Civic Center, 144 W. Colfax, Denver. Weekend Coffee Shop Jazz Jam. 11 a.m. Vic’s Espresso, 1055 Courtesy Road, Louisville. Wylie. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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Events

SUNDAY, APRIL 28

Dance with a Doc — Free Saturday Morning Dances. 10 a.m. The Green @ The Civic Area, 1056 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-971-1972.

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Día del Niño. 11 a.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. The Front deRanged Improv Comedy Troupe. 8 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

African Singing Community Fiesta. 3 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-219-3005. Afton Showcase — with Nick Hazard, Whooshboi, OTB x YFA, BMW Records BB, The Weathermen, JRO. 6:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Gala and Dance. 6 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Alex Castle, Charlie White, Maya Butensky. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Listen To Your Mother Boulder 2019. 7 p.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-358-4546.

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

Nature on Your Cell Phone! 10 a.m. Ron Stewart Preserve at Rabbit Mountain, 15140 N. 55th St., Longmont.

Bright Sunday. 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.

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

Coffee With Muslims. 3:30 p.m. East Simpson Coffee Company, 414 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-502-7010.

System Wide Programs (PEO). 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Día del Niño. 10 a.m. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave Parkway, Denver. DYAO Final Bow. 6 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, Esperanza Spalding & Leo Genovese — The Spring Quartet. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. La Dispute. 6:30 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with Rising Appalachia & Ramy Essam. 7 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Marco Padula, Stoyer. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Mom & Baby Classes. 11:15 a.m. Birth Center of Boulder, 2800 Folsom St., Boulder, 720-608-0176. Petite Musique: The Three Bears. 10 a.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Events Mis Pininos/Spanish Conversation for

Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. All Ages Stor ytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Drop In Aerial Foundations. 5:45 p.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E.Sterling Cr. Ste 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272. Monday Stor ytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. see EVENTS Page 36

Mad Hatter Tea Party. 5 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-827-9153. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ 1 p.m. Niwot High School Auditorium, 8989 Niwot Road, Longmont. Ramayana Ballet — with Javanese Gamelan Dance. 10:45 a.m. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 970-988-4865. The Score: Pressure Tour. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Tony Rosario. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Events BA Monthly Meeting: Heathen Comedy Show. 12:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Ballet Melange First Annual Gala and Silent Auction. 2:30 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson, 119 Park Ave., Denver, 303-500-3226. Boulder Comedy Show. 7 and 9:15 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Dia del Niño Celebration. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Double Feature: ‘We Are Stars’/Laser Galactic Odyssey. Noon. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007. A Night of a Dozen Laughs. 7 p.m. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver, 303-477-9984. Roast Battle — with Brian Moses. 7 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Rubber Stamps and Potato Print Patterns. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

MONDAY, APRIL 29 Music Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.

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theater Between Us. Denver Center for Performing Arts Off Center, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through May 26.

Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through April 28. Our Town. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through April 28.

The Boys in the Band. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through May 26.

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

Cats. Denver Center for Performing Arts Broadway, Buell Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through April 28.

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

Caroline or Change. Aurora Fox Theater Company, Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora. Through May 5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theater Company. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through May 19. 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. Laveau. Pandemic Collective, Theater 29, 5128 W. 29th Ave., Denver. Through May 4. Magnets on the Fridge. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver.

FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER Boone has an extraordinary mind, but is less well equipped to deal with the challenges of everyday life. When falsely accused of killing his neighbor’s dog, he sets out to find the true culprit. His journey across London leads to an earth-shattering discovery that will change his life forever. Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company presents ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ through May 19 at the Dairy Arts Center.

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

Shows the first Wednesday of the month from February-June. The Marvelous Method: An Improvised Tribute to Stan Lee. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Thursday evenings through May 23.

Motones vs. Jerseys. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Through April 26. Oliver. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through May 26.

Miss Nelson is Missing. April 26 and 27, CenterStage Theatre Company, Blackbox Theatre, 901 Front St., Lower Level, Louisville.

Other Desert Cities — presented by Cherry Creek Theatre Company.

Three Billy Goats Gruff — presented by Miners Alley Children’s Theatre. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through April 27. Trav’lin – The 1930s Harlem Musical. Arvada Center, Main Stage Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Opens April 9. Through April 28. The Turn of the Screw. CU Boulder, Imig Music, Music Theatre, 1020 18th St., Boulder. Through April 28. The Wizard of Oz. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through July 7. WordFest and Artists of Color Summit. The SOURCE Theatre Company, Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, storiesonstage. org. Through April 28.

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Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

International Jazz Day — with The Justin Kauflin Trio. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle at Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5100.

STEAM Stor ytime. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Lucki: Freewave Tour. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Women of the West and Beyond. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

TUESDAY, APRIL 30 Music Bayonne. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Beni Brosh, Ethan Mindlin Jones, Gillian Grogan. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. The Dip. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Hot Mulligan. 6 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

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Run River North. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Sage Francis & B. Dolan: Epic Beard Men — with Vockah Redu and Special Guests. 7:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

West Coast Swing Dance Lessons. 5:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 310-614-6853. Events Around the World Stor ytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder Plein Air Fest Blue Cloud Farms Paint Out. 3 p.m. Blue Cloud Farms, 6075 Prospect Road, Longmont, 303-444-1862. Boulder Plein Air Fest Boulder Valley Ranch Paint Out. 8:30 a.m. Boulder Valley Ranch Open Space Park, North 39th Street and Neva Road, Longmont, 303-444-1862. Comedy Open Mic. 7 p.m. Vapor Distillery, 5311 Western Ave., Unit 180, Boulder, 303-997-6134.

Santigold: 10 Years Golder Tour. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Taking Back Sunday. 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1

Tetzlaff-Tetzlaff-Vogt Trio. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-388-9839.

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CU EVENTS THURSDAY, APRIL 25 ATLAS Expo Spring 2019. 4:30 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, ATLAS Lobby, 1125 18th St., Boulder. U.S. Army War College Panel: Foreign Policy and Military Strategy. 5 p.m. Eaton Humanities, Room 135, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. Stand Up For Climate Change. 7 p.m. Old Main, Auditorium, 1600 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Legato Live Concert. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.

SUNDAY APRIL 28 Takács Quartet: Haydn, Bartók and Beethoven. 4 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. Through April 29.

MONDAY, APRIL 29

Take Back the Night. 7 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), South Terrace, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.

Professor Pierre Savy — Jews as Political Actors? Minorities and Political Processes in Pre-Modern Italy. 4 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), 415-417, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 30

CU Engineering Projects Expo 2019. 10:30 a.m. Indoor Practice Facility, 2250 Stadium Drive, Boulder.

European Parliament Elections and Beyond. 12:30 p.m. Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), W313, Boulder.

AMRC Musicology Lecture: NYU Professor and Dvořák specialist Michael Beckerman. 4 p.m. Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), CASE Auditorium.

Lakes, Nutrients, and Water Sin: William M. Lewis Jr. (114th Distinguished Research Lecture). 4 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), Glenn Miller Ballroom, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.

Liberalism Cannot Save Us: Multispecies Justice, Ongoing Colonialism, and Decolonization in Malaysia and South Africa. 4 p.m. Hale Science, Room 230, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder.

CU Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

You are (not so) Special: Understanding our Big, Messy Existence. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. FRESH: Spring 2019: A CU Dance Concert. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre, Charlotte York Irey Theatre, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. Through April 27.

SATURDAY APRIL 27 CU Boulder Surplus Property Auction. 9 a.m. Distribution Center 3300 Walnut St., Boulder. Friday, April 26, is set aside for a public preview of items from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Boulder Philharmonic: The Dream of America. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 Help Shape Downtown Longmont. 11 a.m. Longmont Chamber of Commerce, Conference Room 528 Main St., Longmont. Boulder Forever Buffs: An Evening with Larry Zimmer. 6 p.m. Folsom Field & Stadium, 2095 University Ave., Boulder. For prices and registration, visit https://bit.ly/2VVqfti A Study in Southwestern Archaeology with Steve Lekson. 7 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Paleontology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite (XBOX ONE) Video Game Tournament. 7 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), The Connection, first floor UMC, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.

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Ben Kweller. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Cayucas. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Denver Bacon and Beer Classic 2019. Noon. Broncos Stadium at Mile High, 1701 Bryant St., Denver, 720-258-3000. Let the Beat Speak. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Lil Pump and Lil Skies. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Re:Search featuring TruFeelz and FunkStatik — with Ryan Viser (Late Set), Mikey Thunder, Jordan Polovina. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Rise Against: The Ghost Note Symphonies. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621

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Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Tayla Parx. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. This Wild Life. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Events Boulder Plein Air Fest Pearl Street Nocturne Paint Out. 7 p.m. Boulder Courthouse, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-1862. Boulder Plein Air Fest Pearl Street Quick Draw Paint Out. 9 a.m. Boulder Courthouse, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-1862. Breakthrough to Excellence: A Women’s Conference. 8:30 a.m. Denver Athletic Club, 1325 Glenarm Place, Denver, 720-437-9984. Jon Waterman: Chasing Denali. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

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Where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves ... And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world. — Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

008’s Iron Man may have been a small step for Robert Downey Jr.’s genius inventor/playboy billionaire Tony Stark, but it was a giant leap for Marvel and producer Kevin Feige — one that’s paid dividends beyond anyone’s wildest imagination. Now, 11 years and 22 movies later, Avengers: Endgame barrels into theaters with sturm und drang, picking up where last year’s Avengers: Infinity War left off. In that installment, warlord Thanos (Josh Brolin) acquired six power stones, making him the single most powerful being in the galaxy. With the snap of his fingers, half of all living creatures were vaporized into dust. But unlike villains out for blood and guts, Thanos’ drive was rooted in the political: If half of everyone ceased to be, there would be plenty of resources left for everyone else. But, as the remaining Avengers: Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), War Machine (Don Cheadle), Rocket (Bradley Cooper) and Stark quickly discover, a world built for eight billion can hardly be maintained by four. Their spoiler-free plan: Turn back the clock to set the present right. We seem to be looking back a lot these days, and not just in the “make America great again” mentality. From politics to entertainment, the present is doubling back on the past with alluring frequency. Partly to celebrate the glory days, and partly to calculate how far we’ve I

come. And have ON THE BILL: ‘Avengers: yet to go. Endgame’ Much has Opens April 26 changed since everywhere. Stark blasted his way out of that Afghanistan cave 11 years ago. His reckless ways perfectly captured the prevailing sentiment that a bad boy with all the cool toys might turn out to be the man we need to save us all. Plus, it didn’t hurt that the two villains, terrorist and war profiteers, gave both conservatives and liberals their enemy of choice. How does Marvel gross billions? Because they have their cake and eat it too. So it would go for subsequent installments, from government overreach to artificial intelligence, Marvel spoke to and spurred on the prevailing sentiments of moviegoers. As theorist Siegfried Kracauer wrote in From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological Study of the German Film, “Films address themselves, and appeal, to the anonymous multitude. Popular film ... can therefore be supposed to satisfy existing mass desires.” The more popular the movie, the more desires to be satisfied; hence Marvel’s shift across 22 movies from an impervious lone white male hero to a galaxy teeming with different races, classes, genders, aspirations and vulnerability. Endgame frequently pauses to celebrate these moments but never once does it slow the momentum. Not an easy feat for a movie running over three hours with a cast of at least 30 speaking parts. Avengers: Endgame is satisfying and significant, and, at first glance, captures as much of America in the past 11 years as a blockbuster movie can. See it. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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riter/director Blitz Bazawule’s first featurelength film feels exactly like someone telling you about a dream they had. Only you’re actually interested in it, and the nonsensical parts are beautiful and not just annoying. The Burial of Kojo is filmmaking as visual poetry, set to a wickedly magical score also composed by Bazawule. Before the Netflixing of America, this is the precise sort of movie that would have been resigned to a micro-release in a handful of major cities. Just a decade ago, legions of film lovers would have been deprived of the opportunity to see this humbly majestic masterpiece. Feel free to kvetch away about certain nefarious practices of streaming services; I got to see The Burial of Kojo, so it’s all worth it. Set in Ghana, Bazawule’s film wields magical realism as a narrative weapon, piercing an ordinary family’s origin story until it bleeds fantasy. The Burial of Kojo is the story of a child named Esi (Cynthia Dankwa) as remembered and narrated by her adult self (Ama K. Abebrese). That story begins with the moment her parents, Kojo (Joseph Otsiman) and Ama (Mamley Djagmah), first meet. As lily-pads sparkle and illuminate, her folks quickly fall in love and bring Esi into the world. Because even the rosiest-colored glasses and the distance of years can’t warp somber reality, Esi admits her parents struggled financially and romantically. Esi reveals that Kojo and his brother, Kwabena (Kobina Amissah-Sam) were suitors for the same bride. Kwabena won, although a tragedy on his wedding day turned everyone involved into losers. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Coloradans embrace empanadas and their crust-wrapped cousins

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omething makes us love almost anything wrapped in dough across the globe, whether they are called samosas, pierogi, fried pies, turnovers, calzones, tiropita, bao, piroshki, pasties, runzas or patties. While bakeries and restaurants crafting traditional round pies are becoming rare, places dishing savory and sweet hand pies are multiplying by the day along the Front Range. If your only hand-pie experiences involve Pop-Tarts and Hostess Fruit Pies, be prepared for a revelation. IT’S ARGENTINA IN COLORADO Leading the way are empanadas, the ubiquitous pastry from Latin and South America and especially Argentina. Baked or fried, flaky, bready or crunchy, in diverse shapes and fillings, it’s no secret why empanadas are popular. You just get more crust per bite. They are portable, self-contained, retain heat and were born to accompany beer, wine, cider and cocktails. “At some restaurants you get the one plate of food you order, like it or not. With empanadas you get two or three kinds, and you share with friends and get lots of flavors,” says Christian Saber, the Buenos Aires-born co-owner of Boulder’s Rincon Argentina. The shop serves a dozen or more varieties, all handmade in different, distinctive shapes. The best-selling No. 3 Gaucho is filled with ground beef, caramelized onions, red bell pepper and raisins. My favorites are the No. 1 Tradicional (with steak, onions, red bell pepper and green olives) and the No. 12 Patagonia, invented by Saber’s Italian mom, with just garlic, tomato and Parmesan. “Nothing is ever spicy in Argentina but customers started I

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Turkey with side trips to Spain and England. “If you talk to people in South America, everybody — Venezuelans, Colombians and Cubans — they all say they invented empanadas,” Saber says with a broad grin. You can taste the wide world of empanadas within a short drive of Boulder. Better yet, take a bike ride. The empanada trail is fraught with carbs and calories. Mexican empanadas use a pie crustlike dough and tend to be sweet. I’m a fan of the pineapple and pumpkin empanadas at Boulder’s Panaderia Sabor a Mexico and Panaderia Guanajuato in Longmont. Also open in Longmont is Abuelita’s Empanadas, serving sweet and savory versions. The Peruvian variation is sold at Denver’s Azucar Bakery. In Denver, you can also sample smaller empanadas encased in a crispy, fried whitecorn envelope. La Chiva offers Colombian empanadas filled with things like barbecue pork. Empanada Express Grill’s Venezuelan half-moons are filled with meat or seafood. Try the Sweet Domino with black beans and sweet plantain.

The hand-pie tent is big enough to include Turkish boreks at Boulder’s Breakfast Champion bakery, Jamaican beef patties at Denver’s Jamaican Grill, and runzas — German-Russian baked bread pockets filled with ground beef, cabbage and onions in variations including BLT — at Loveland’s Runza Restaurant. Top-notch round mini-pies are also proliferating at My Mom’s Pies in Niwot and Lafayette’s Eats & Sweets. Tip Top Savory Pies in Lafayette makes New Zealand-style savory round pies and now, swell peach hand pies. LOCAL FOOD NEWS There are little things you can do to pay it forward. Food to fill food banks will be collected by Community Food Share April 26-28 at King Soopers in Louisville, Lafayette and Longmont. Cash donations encouraged. … Don’t plant anything until Mother’s Day, but do grow a row for Fresh Food Connect and donate produce to feed others. boulderfoodrescue.org/freshfood-connect. … Just go out to dinner May 2 and 25 percent of sales will be donated to Project Angel Heart, which delivers healthy meals to those dealing with life-threatening diseases. More than 200 restaurants will participate including Avery Brewing and Blackbelly, and Denver’s Vesta, Ash’Kara, Root Down and Osaka Ramen. diningoutforlife.com

IT’S PRONOUNCED PASS-TEE The British-born pasty is like a bigger empanada and meant to be a meal inside a thicker-crust envelope. Shamane’s Bake Shoppe in Boulder produces flaky savory breakfast pasties as well as one filled with Colorado bison. Denver’s Pasty Republic offers pasties ranging from the traditional Drover (lamb, leek, mint and potato) to The Swirl (Nutella, peanut butter and cream cheese). Guinness steak and onion hand pies are on the menu at St. Vrain Market in Lyons. The flaky hand pies at Denver’s Hinman’s Bakery run the gamut from sweet cherry to spicy pork green chile.

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WHAT MAKES A dolma a dolma? It depends on the culture. Some make lemon rice and grape leaves, others stuff apples with nuts. But if something is filled with something, it’s a dolma.

n the small kitchen of a pale-green trailer adorned with American flags and Easter eggs, a pot of dolmas rested on a stovetop, swaddled in towels. My dolma instructor, Nabeeha Alkhosho, who made them, came to the U.S. with her family six years ago from Mosul, Iraq. I had eaten dolmas before, or so I thought. When I first tried hers, it felt like an awakening. “Dolma” is a busy word. It comes from the Turkish dolmak, which means “to fill.” It’s an appropriately general name, given a wide dolma diaspora that includes sweet, sour and salty incarnations. Best known are the Mediterraneanstyle grape leaves filled with plain, lemony rice, but the word “dolma” can also refer to a nut-filled apple in northern India, or a bulgur-stuffed eggplant in Turkey. In spite of this diversity, somehow the name itself has remained unchanged, from Crete to Tbilisi. As long as something is filled with something, it’s a dolma. Nabeeha had generously invited me into her home to show me the Mosulian way to prepare the rice, fill the dolmas and cook them. Now it was time for the grand finale. She placed a metal platter atop the dolma pot, upside-down so the dolmas would sit on the platter right-side-up when it was inverted. With one hand below the pot and the other pressing down on the platter, she lifted everything above her head, deftly flipped the whole assembly, and placed it gently on the table, like a pool shark racking up cue balls in 3-D. She gave APRIL 25, 2019

the pot a quick spin left and right, slapping it with a few beats in between, and lifted it, revealing a perfectly round tower of dolma. Stuffed grape leaves formed the bulk of the structure, but it also contained sweet peppers, rolled cabbage and onions, hollowed out zucchini, and feisty jalapenos, all filled with spicy tomato rice and capped with caramelized garlic, cauliflower and carrots. Translating into English, her daughter, Anne, discussed this upper layer of browned goodness, which she referred to simply as “bottom.” Composed of any number of vegetables or meats, it cooks in the lemony juices of the dolma pot, and then migrates to the top at serving time. Anne called the whole presentation a “shape.” “There are many shapes,” she said, while scrolling through images of freshly-flipped pots of Iraqi dolmas on her phone. She paused on a photo with a bottom of lamb chops and fava beans atop the dolma tower. “That one is cute,” she said. Nabeeha shook the tower of dolma, and it collapsed into a steaming heap of color and flavor. The rice was cooked, yet on the dry side. The plump dolma glistened, bursting with a tangy, sour flavor that was spicy but smooth, with no single element jumping out as dominant. Making dolmas that an Iraqi will respect is hard. If you don’t use the right amount of water, or pack them correctly I

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in the pot, or cook them properly, the shape will crumble and scatter. Worse, the dolma can be soggy, with tough, fibrous grape leaves. Maybe they fall apart and scatter rice everywhere, and the bottom can blacken beyond recognition. But I’d take my worst attempt at an Iraqi dolma over any other dolma I’d eaten before my apprenticeship. Those green-finger clones in the deli case, little more than starchy mush wrapped in frail grape leaves, are empty calories to me now. Iraqi dolmas usually have tomato sauce mixed in with the rice. This Mosulstyle recipe is distinct in its use of mint instead of the parsley that’s more common in Iraq. But the real secret, Anne said, “is how we balance the salt, sour and water.” I watched them make the dolmas in front of me, and took copious notes, and still it took me many attempts to get it right in my dolma pot, on my stove, with my brand of rice. But it’s worth the effort. The rich and satisfying rewards of this Old World treat never get old.

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The actual rolling and stuffing of the grape leaves and veggies is difficult to convey in words alone. There are videos and tutorials to be found online for each type of veggie you could make into a Musulian dolma. Once you get the hang of filling vegetables with Iraqi dolma rice, you will be ready to make them with almost anything your garden can grow. Grape leaves will always be the anchor of my dolma pot, the mortar that holds the shape together. But mixing in an assortment of stuffed veggies, and playing around with the bottom/top, add diversity and balance to the dolma pot. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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hough it’s difficult to pinpoint the alpha and omega of any revolution, consensus points to San Francisco in 1965 as the genesis of the craft beer revolution, with Fritz Maytag’s purchase of the Anchor Brewing Company effectively kickstarting a nationwide desire for local, artisanal, full-flavor beer. But when did all that come to a head? Well, for the sake of argument, let’s say 2014. According to the Brewers Association — the trade group that represents independent breweries — over 3,400 U.S. breweries were operating in 2014 with an industry-wide 18-percent growth. And though the numbers of breweries continue to climb (7,346 as of 2018), growth in the craft beer segment was down to 5 percent in 2017. “This isn’t a blip; this is the new normal,” BA chief economist Bart Watson said during the Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) keynote speech. Even more surprising was the revelation that all U.S. beer-drinking, craft and otherwise, was down 1 percent. Wine, spirits, cannabis and flavored malt beverages (hard sparkling water and the like) are all assumed culprits, as are healthier lifestyles among younger drinkers — choosing to drink better, but ultimately less, beer. Currently, craft beer owns 13 percent of the total beer market. Not too shabby considering 50 years ago that number was zero. But that number is unlikely to rise significantly in the near future. Craft beer is no longer revolution; it’s convention. That doesn’t mean the industry is resting on its laurels. If anything, this year’s CBC showed that the future has less to do with what’s in the brew and more with how the brew gets to you. Granted, ingredients from corn syrup to the hop du jour will drive marketing and journalism — a quick stroll down CBC’s BrewExpo America trade floor showcased everything from artisanal malts and boutique hops to conical fermenters and robotic packaging. Brewers, business owners, vendors and journalists collided as conversations swirled around production, packaging and products that might elevate the drinker’s experience; from specialty glassware to koozies that can handle both 12- and 16-ounce beers while sporting a collegiate logo or sophomoric humor (craftycancooler. com). But it was the E6PR (e6pr.com, a fully biodegradable and compostable six-pack ring holder designed in Mexico City) that seems to signal the next phase in the beer market. It’s not enough that the beer industry remains sustainable — how the beer gets to you need be as well. Six-pack holders and koozies and time-saving robotics might not be as sexy as a new beer, a hip style or even a new hop breed that’s showing up all over the place, but it is the future of beer, craft or not. Drinkers have already chosen light-to-transport and easy-to-recycle aluminum cans over glass bottles as their packaging of choice. Could holders be next? You’re already paying more for a better beer, how much for peace of mind? BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: In the U.S., the day after Thanksgiving

typically features a spectacular shopping orgy. On “Black Friday,” stores sell their products at steep discounts and consumers spend their money extravagantly. But the creators of the game Cards Against Humanity have consistently satirized the tradition. In 2013, for example, they staged a Black Friday “antisale,” for which they raised their prices. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to try something similar. Is it possible you’re undercharging for your products and services and skills? If so, consider asking for more. Reassess your true worth and seek appropriate rewards.

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ing liberal use of sincerity and earnestness. So please try not to fall into the easy trap of relying on satire, sarcasm, cynicism and irony to express yourself. As much as is practical, be kindly frank and compassionately truthful and empathetically genuine. (P.S. It’s a strategy that will serve your selfish aims quite well.)

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “Most people don’t find their creativity,”

mourned Libran author Truman Capote. “There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.” If that describes you even a little bit, I’m happy to let you know that you’re close to stumbling upon events and insights that could change that. If you respond to the prompts of these unexpected openings, you will rouse a partially dormant aspect of your genius, as well as a half-inert stash of creativity and a semilatent cache of imaginativity.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Do you know the word “sfumato”? Its literal meaning in Italian is “smoked.” When used to describe a painting, it refers to blurred borders between objects or fuzzy transitions between areas of different colors. All the forms are soft and hazy. I bring this to your attention because I suspect the coming weeks will be a sfumato-like time for you. You may find it a challenge to make precise distinctions. Future and past may overlap, as well as beginnings and endings. That doesn’t have to be a problem as long as you’re willing to go with the amorphous flow. In fact, it could even be pleasurable and useful. You might be able to connect with influences from which you’ve previously been shut off. You could blend your energies together better with people who’ve been unavailable.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “You have a right to experiment with your life,” declared author Anaïs Nin. I agree. You don’t necessarily have to be what you started out to be. You can change your mind about goals that you may at one time have thought were permanent. I suspect you could be at one of these pivot points right now, Sagittarius. Are there any experiments you’d like to try? If so, keep in mind this further counsel from Nin. It’s possible “you will make mistakes. And they are right, too.”

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: You have one main task to accomplish

in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It’ll be simple and natural if you devote yourself to it wholeheartedly. The only way it could possibly become complicated and challenging is if you allow your focus to be diffused by less important matters. Ready for your assignment? It’s articulated in this poem by Rupi Kaur: “bloom beautifully / dangerously / loudly / bloom softly / however you need / just bloom.”

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: When the forces of the Roman empire occupied the British Isles from the years 43 to 410, they built 2,000 miles of roads. Their methods were sophisticated. That’s why few new roads were built in England until the eighteenth century, and many of the same paths are still visible and available today. In this spirit, and in accordance with astrological omens, I recommend that you make good use of an old system or network in the coming weeks. This is one time when the past has blessings to offer the future.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: I’m in a pickle. All I want is to experience touch, intimacy and sexual pleasure — but without freaking out. I grew up with a lot of negative messages from men due to developing early, as well as having some other physical/sexual trauma (no rape or abuse), but the combination has me seriously fucked up. Whenever I get close to physical intimacy with someone, I run away. I actually faked an emergency once and physically ran away because I knew sex was a possibility that night. I’m not a virgin — but in those instances, I’ve been really drunk (and experienced no emotional/physical pleasure). This is not what I want for my life. I want a relationship and love, and to be open and comfortable with someone expressing their care for me in a physical way without panicked thoughts flooding my brain. I’ve done lots of therapy, which has helped, but not enough. I recently heard of something called a sexual surrogate. From what I understand, it’s somebody who is trained to therapeutically provide physical touch and intimacy in a controlled and safe environment. Are they legit? —She Can’t Adequately Release Extreme Dread

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Dear SCARED: Sexual surrogates are legit, SCARED, but please don’t call them sexual surrogates. “We’d like to see the language shift back to ‘surrogate partner,’ which was the original term,” said Vena Blanchard, president of the International Professional Surrogates Association (IPSA). “Masters and Johnson originated the concept, and their treatment program was based on the theory that many people had problems that required the help of a cooperative partner, and some people didn’t have partners. So they trained people to work as ‘partner surrogates.’ The media took the term ‘partner surrogate’ and changed it to ‘sexual surrogate’ because it sounded sexier. But ‘sexual surrogate’ implies that the work is all about sex.” So if surrogate partner therapy is not about sex — or not all about sex — then what is it primarily about? “Surrogate partner therapy is a therapeutic treatment that combines psychotherapy with experiential learning,” said Blanchard. “It’s a program designed for people like SCARED, for people who struggle with anxiety, panic, and past trauma — things that can distort a person’s experience in the moment.” Surrogate partner therapy happens in stages, with each progressive stage representing another “teeny, tiny baby step,” as Blanchard put it.

“The client first works with a legitimate therapist until the therapist thinks the client is ready to work with a surrogate partner,” said Blanchard. “You may start by sitting in opposite chairs and just talking. At some point, they might sit and hold hands, practice relaxation techniques, and focus on simple sensations. In the next session, they might touch each other’s faces with their hands.” Sex can and does sometimes occur in the later stages of surrogate partner therapy, SCARED, but it doesn’t always and it’s not the goal — healing is. “By having these repeated safe experiences, in a context where there’s no pressure, and consent is emphasized, and the patient is in control,” said Blanchard, “someone liked SCARED can learn to manage her anxiety, and her prior negative experiences are replaced with positive new experiences.” While I had her on the phone, I asked Blanchard the first question many people have about surrogate partners: Are surrogate partners sex workers? “A sex worker offers a sexual experience — that is the primary intention of what is a business transaction,” said Blanchard. “What a surrogate partner offers are healing and education. And while healing and education might also take place in a sex-work environment, and while some form of sexual contact might take place in surrogate partner therapy, the primary intention is different. A patient working with a surrogate partner is there to heal old

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injuries or break out of bad patterns so they can have a relationship in the future. People go to sex workers for an immediate experience — the agenda is sexual and about right now, not therapeutic and about the future.” Then I asked Blanchard the second question many people have about surrogate partner therapy: Is it legal? “There’s no place that it’s illegal,” said Blanchard. “There’s never been a court case challenging it. In California, where surrogate partner therapy is most common, no one has ever in 50 years challenged it.” If you’re interested in working with a surrogate partner, SCARED, you can contact the referrals coordinator at IPSA’s website: surrogatetherapy.org. Finally, SCARED, the number of trained and qualified surrogate partners is relatively small — IPSA has just 70 members — so you might need to go where most of those trained and qualified surrogates partners are in order to work with one. (The part of California that isn’t on fire is lovely this time of year.) “Since there aren’t many qualified surrogate partners available,” said Blanchard, “people sometimes need to travel to another location and work intensively. People will come for two weeks and work every single day with a therapist and a surrogate partner.” On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Eric Leue from the Free Speech Coalition: savagelovecast.com

Why the indica vs. sativa binary is wrong by sidni west

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nless you study it, most of everything you’ve heard about cannabis strains is probably a lie. The name of a strain itself tells you nothing about its effect, and the classification is just as worthless. Today, most people buy cannabis according to two categories: indica and sativa. Originally, these terms were used to describe the physical characteristics of the plant because of its remarkable ability to adapt to a wide range of different environments. Short, bushy plants with wide leaves that thrived in cooler climates were referred to as indicas, while tall plants with thinner, more spread out leaves and flowers in warmer climates were called sativas. But scientifically (and legally), there is no difference between them and all cannabis plants are considered to be Cannabis sativa L., so how did the binary start? Growing up on the East Coast, no one cared about indica or sativa. We were still smoking brick weed and calling it whatever made up name our dealer gave it. The weed we bought came in dime bags and was usually referred to as “mids,” but sometimes something extra special would come through town and we called it “kind bud.” But no one cared about genetics because the best stuff to smoke happened to be whatever you could actually get your hands on at the time.

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The terms aren’t completely irrelevant. Indica and sativa have been the foundation of the cannabis lexicon since the mid-1700s. The term sativa was coined by Carl Linneaus to describe hemp plants found in Europe and western Eurasia, where it was cultivated for its fiber and seeds. Cannabis indica, named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, describes the psychoactive varieties discovered in India, where it was harvested for its seeds, fiber and hashish production. The belief that they deliver such different and distinct effects is so deeply rooted in mainstream cannabis culture that dispensary menus still use these categories today. Indica strains are believed to be physically sedating, perfect for a relaxing, full-body high before bed. Sativas are supposed to provide the more invigorating, uplifting cerebral effects that pair well with physical activity and creative projects. But with the mass commercialization of cannabis, we’re limiting our view of its abilities by forcing each strain into an ambiguous category. The clinical effects of the cannabis have nothing to do with what the plant looks like. In other words, that indica isn’t sleepy because it has more CBD, and that sativa isn’t more energizing because it produced more THC. What this means is not all sativas will energize you, and not all indicas will sedate you. You may notice a tendency for these so-called sativas to be uplifting or for these indicas to be relaxing, especially when we expect to feel one way or the other. Just note that there’s no hardand-fast rule and no determinant chemical data that supports a perfect predictive pattern. In fact, a “pure” sativa or indica strain is quite rare because these landrace strains were often cultivated to improve certain characteristics, like yield, strength and resistance.

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A new study by University of Colorado researchers has debunked the stereotype of the lazy stoner. The researchers surveyed more than 600 marijuana users in states where pot is legal. They found that nearly five out of six participants reported using marijuana one hour before or up to four hours after exercising. Those who did use pot during that timeframe worked out longer than users who didn’t pair marijuana use and exercise. Those who got stoned before or after exercise worked out an average of 43 minutes longer for aerobic exercise and 30 minutes longer for non-aerobic exercise. The researchers said that getting high seems to help people overcome some of the common barriers to exercise — including lack of motivation, difficult recovery after working out and low enjoyment of the activity. Seventy percent of those surveyed said they agreed or strongly agreed that “cannabis increases enjoyment of exercise,” 78 percent said that it “enhances recovery from exercise,” and just over 50 percent said that it “increases motivation.” The researchers said that their study, which appeared in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, was the first of its kind. “Given both the spreading legalization of cannabis and the low rates of physical activity in the U.S., it behooves public health officials to understand the potential effects — both beneficial and harmful — of cannabis use on exercise behaviors,” they wrote. • • • • Heh, squared and cubed. The stereotype of the overweight stoner with 24/7 munchies who’s too blissed out to exercise also took a hit in a recent study. A Michigan State University study that appeared in the International Journal of Epidemiology concluded that marijuana users are actual-

ly less likely to be obese than non-users. The study analyzed data that had been gathered by the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. The national survey involves tens of thousands of interviews, so the Michigan State researchers were able to analyze the responses from more than 33,000 people. Interviewees who took the survey in 2001-2002 were asked if they had ever used marijuana and if so how recently and frequently. Those who returned for a followup interview in 2004-2005 were asked if they had used pot since the first interview. Between the two interviews, researchers tracked the body mass index of the respondents. They found “an attenuated BMI gain for cannabis-use subgroups when compared with never-users.” Or more plainly, those who used pot gained weight, but at a reduced rate compared with those who didn’t. The researchers suggested that the effect might be because of how chronic marijuana use affects the presence of a specific cannabis receptor (CB1R) in the body. They also suggested the relationship between marijuana use and BMI had to do with the anti-inflammatory

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