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Highroad Could you live on ‘psychic income’? by Jim Hightower

oday’s corporate captains like to think of themselves not as mere businesspeople, but as modern society’s innovation geniuses. But, innovation for what purpose? After all, some of society’s most inventive minds are flimflammers, Ponzischemers, gamers, embezzlers… thieves. Sure enough, too much innovation coming out of corporate suites these days amounts to shameless schemes to dupe and rip-off rank-andfile workers. The latest one is a hustle called

“gamification,” an attempt by such giants as T-Mobile and Walt Disney to give gamelike, “psychological” prizes to employees — rather than giving pay raises or cash bonuses. As the honchos of United Airlines learned, however, not everyone bites the corporate bait. United recently announced a new fun game for employees — rather than giving standard bonus payments this year, bosses were creating a dazzling sweepstakes lottery, with such WOW! prizes as luxury cars and $100,000 in cash. But the sizzle quickly fizzled as United’s 90,000 workers realized that more than 99-percent of them would get zero. United had hoped the game would create “excitement” among the

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rank-and-file, but instead it created resentment. Workers, naturally preferring bonus cash to bogus corporate excitement, rebelled with such fury that United is now reconsidering the switch. That case aside, however, the corporate push to replace real pay with cheap “psychic income” (such as bosses handing out good-work badges or doling out tickets for a sporting event) is on the rise. Major corporations are even hiring “chief behavioral officers” to analyze reams of personal data on employees to devise non-cash ways to motivate them. What we have here is the deterioration of executive ethics to the point that openly gaming and cheating America’s workaday majority is considered fair play. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. April 5 , 2018 5

the anderson files Moving left

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he Intercept said it was “a remarkable display of grassroots power.” In These Times said it was “the most radical development yet” in the national efforts to move the Democratic Party leftward. On Saturday, March 24, the Denver County Democratic Assembly voted to endorse an amendment to the official platform of the Democratic Party of Denver. The preamble of the platform now reads: “We believe the economy should be democratically owned and controlled in order to serve the needs of the many, not to make profits for the few.” How did this happen? Fifteen members of the Denver chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) had been elected as delegates in the caucuses. They circulated the proposed amendment as a petition to the Platform Committee. They quickly gathered the needed delegate signatures to bring the amendment to the floor. There was some opposition but an overwhelming majority of the nearly 1,000 delegates raised their voting cards in approval. (Watch video here: tinyurl. com/yd8o27sh) The socialist statement is based upon the original Clause IV of the British Labour Party’s constitution, which advocated for common ownership of the means of production. Kaitlin Peterson, Denver DSA treasurer and delegate, says the passage of the amendment “shows that the success of Bernie Sanders and his message wasn’t a fluke. People sincerely want a more democratically controlled economy and they are aware that many of the social injustices we see today are because of the power that is given to corporations under our current political system. The Democratic Party establishment needs to sit up and pay attention to this if they want to survive.” Another DSA delegate, Jake Douglas, tells me that none of the DSAers really expected the amendment to pass. They considered pushing some platform planks favoring concrete proposals such as municipal Wi-Fi or public banks. But they decided to raise the question of democratic socialism in order to provoke deeper debate and discussion of social problems. They felt that rank-and-file Democrats might be 6 April 5 , 2018

receptive to such dialogue. As it turned out, they were more than receptive. Douglas is 25 years old and is helping to organize a union at his workplace. He describes himself as “a stereotypically downwardly mobile millennial” who is disturbed by what is happening in American society. He says, “We have a booming economy in Denver but working people are dealing with stagnant wages, rising rents and unaffordable health insurance.” He joined DSA after Trump was elected. “The center can’t hold,” he says. “The candidate who was considered the most electable lost. We got a xenophobic racist and rapist as president. The centrists can’t figure out how to be relevant to working people.” All 15 Denver DSAers are delegates to the Colorado Democratic Party’s State Assembly on April 14 in Broomfield. They hope to add the socialist statement to the state’s Democratic Party platform. They will also be there to support Bernard Douthit in the state treasurer race and Julie Gonzales in her bid to be the Democratic candidate for the District 34 state Senate seat. The chapter’s chair, Kristofer Dubbels, says the group will “continue our efforts both to bring radicals into the Democratic Party and to radicalize everyone who is already there. A lot of people agree with us already and just need to be told they aren’t alone.” DSA is the largest and fastest growing socialist group in America. Most of the new members are in their 20s and 30s. Many are running for office and quite a few are getting elected. In addition to Denver, there are chapters in Boulder, Fort Collins, La Plata County (Durango) and Colorado Springs. Most of them want to be active in promoting progressive social change. For example, Boulder DSAers are involved in a number of activist projects such as creating a tenant union, organizing resistance to fracking and planning a public Medicaid signup event for those who are eligible but have not yet gone through the process. DSAers want to establish an openly socialist presence in American communities and politics. But much of the see ANDERSON FILES Page 7

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Today’s Democratic Party has distilled into Republican-lite. And it’s not tasting nice. This party is no longer the party of anti-war, anti-Wall Street, pro-environment, pro-civil liberties leaders. In the past year alone, Democrats have supported giving Trump’s administration broad surveillance authorities, partnered with Republicans to unnecessarily bloat the defense budget by $80 billion, voted down Bernie Sanders’s big pharma bill to lower drug costs, and this past November, and again this March, they worked with Republicans for more bank deregulation. Not only are these positions antithetical to the values of a party once for the people, they’re not working. Thirty-two state legislatures are controlled by Republicans in both house and senate chambers. Thirtythree governorships across the country are in Republican hands. And the federal landscape? Ouch. The White House, both branches of Congress and the Supreme Court — all dominated by the right. These are facts and the Party must change. If it doesn’t, go ahead and change the name to match the mascot: the Jackass Party. Did you know Bill Clinton partnered with the Koch brothers on the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) in the late 1980s to early 1990s? The goal of Bill and the Koch brothers? To make the Democratic Party more conservative for decades to come. Well, they have succeeded to the detriment of the country. Take a look at the Affordable Care Act — Dems controlled both legislative branches and the White House, yet they did not even make an attempt for universal healthcare and instead went with a

conservative conceived plan involving the “individual mandate.” The party insiders would not even entertain the thought of single-payer. These party insiders are also the same ones who argued just a few months ago against the DNC lawsuit brought by Bernie Sanders supporters that the DNC had the right to “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.” Yes, this is your modern-day “Democratic” Party! The DNC is in debt, financially and morally. Now is the time to reject this culture and the establishment politicians supporting it. Now is the time for the Democratic Party to return to the grassroots. Now is the time for a new brand of Democratic leadership in Washington. And it starts here by voting for Mark Williams — the real progressive — for Colorado’s Second Congressional District. Ryan Reeves/Boulder

The worst president

The Democratic Party is wasting far too much energy being distracted by Donald Trump. It is true that he is an unmitigated ass, an egomaniacal, sexist, racist, capitalist pig and serial, selfaggrandizing liar, essentially a revelation and manifestation of every dark aspect of America’s history and ethos. However, the jury is still out on whether he is a worse president than Richard Nixon, who actually was a crook, or George W. Bush, a naif in the thrall of the war-mongering Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, and here we can add the amnesty-granting, debt-raising, taxraising, Third World-invading see LETTERS Page 7

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President-Feel-Good-About-America Ronald Reagan, all of whom were elected twice. We are a year and a quarter in and the economy and markets (we can still make a buck here) so far haven’t crashed, and Roseanne Barr, while not the President’s vision of the Ideal Woman, loves his brash demeanor. What can go wrong here? What can go wrong is that while all eyes are on the Donald (which he loves), the Republican agenda of unregulated, corporate-dominated, small government America is being put into policy and law. Public safety and protection, in both the environment and the world of finance, is being compromised for the sake of greater profit for the already rich and powerful, somehow all in the name of a “forgotten America.” This is not a government of the People, it is one of, by, and for a wealthy elite. This should be the focus for the Democratic Party (and for all Americans), not Donald Trump. Robert Porath/Boulder

Support our young people

What do DREAMers and high school students advocating for changes in gun laws have in common? They are both underrepresented groups, not yet able to vote, who are speaking out about the inaction of our elected officials. Our young people are tired of partisan politics and want to see solutions. The League of Women Voters of Boulder County, a nonpartisan organization working for change in public policy through education and advocacy, applauds the efforts of our young peo-

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time, members work in coalition with progressives who aren’t socialists. As national DSA leader Joe Schwartz put it: “As democratic socialists, we enter coalition efforts with no preconditions that our allies embrace our socialist politics. But we engage in these politics as open socialists — we will be called socialists whether we choose the name or not. Anti-socialism remains the most profound anti-democratic ideology in the United States. Whatever the struggle — be it for a humane, efficient national health care system or for public investment in child care — the right red-baits the proposals as ‘socialist’ and thus forbidden.” This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

ple. We are encouraged that they are choosing to participate in democracy in an attempt to bring about positive changes in our nation. We urge our elected officials to work together and find common ground on both of these issues. The DREAMers have now been living in limbo for more than six months, which is unconscionable. Most Americans favor the DREAM Act, and it has bipartisan support in Congress. Yet party politics are standing in the

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HUDSON, A 1,500-PERSON pit-stop town about 30 miles west of Boulder, has a small community fishing pond. On a recent Saturday morning, about two dozen fishermen picked spots around the lake to drop their lines. The fish were biting. Ted Collins said everyone was catching trout. He said he’s been taking home one more than he should the last few weeks because the stock seemed so ample. 8 April 5, 2018

I asked if he was catching any largemouth bass. Why, he asked. I said because the state just relocated a bunch of them to this fishing pond from Valmont Reservoir, which is owned by Xcel Energy and has been used to settle harmful water contaminants from the company’s coal production for decades, and has a longer history of arsenic and lead contamination from the site’s former neighbor, Allied Chemical. Oh, and it was nearly a Superfund site. You’re kidding, he said. Neither the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) nor Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) tested the fish for contaminants before the latter group relocated 1,600 of them from Valmont Reservoir to Hudson and catch-andrelease waters in Boulder County. Fish raised in similar circumstances — that is, in bodies of water on or near coal-fired plants — have been found to contain levels of selenium, mercury, lead and other contaminants toxic to animals up and down the aquatic food chain, and which would likely be harmful to humans who consume them. One, like Ted Collins, might think fish from these waters would be tested before relocation. Yet, “Valmont Reservoir was not prioritized for sampling,”

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& Sushi ends a statement sent to Boulder Weekly signed by multiple people in the state Water Quality Control Division. So how did we get here? In early 2017, Xcel ceased burning coal at its Valmont facility. As a result, it decided to remove impoundments, or ponds, on-site that had been used to capture coal ash, which is the byproduct of coal burning and contains toxic chemicals and heavy metals. The ponds allow the ash to settle and then be removed, while the water either evaporates or is pumped back into the water system. Michelle Aguayo, Xcel spokesperson, says the removal of ash ponds on site will be complete in September, but that all the water has already been pumped into Leggett Reservoir, part of one large body of water that Xcel uses for a variety of operational reasons. Leggett is connected to Hillcrest and Valmont reservoirs in a circuit that allows for cold water to be pumped into the facility to cool equipment. The warm water is released and circulated through the reservoirs, cooling it for future use. As a result of this circuitry, Valmont Reservoir provided warm enough waters for largemouth bass and other, smaller fish to thrive despite the likely presence of toxic chemicals and heavy metals from various sources. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified 40 commonly found contaminants in coal ash, with the most harmful to humans being mercury, lead, cadmium, chromium, Boulder Weekly

arsenic and selenium. Although the method of removing ash from water is widely used in the industry, Jennifer Peters, national water programs director at Clean Water Action, says it’s not necessarily the most effective. “The impacts of heavy metals commonly found in coal ash are long-term, because these types of contaminants can persist in the environment by attaching themselves to suspended particles or settling in soils and particles at [the] bottom of reservoirs or river and stream beds. “Dilution should not be the primary solution to [keep] our nation’s waters free from harmful pollution,” she adds. We can get a sense for the contaminants present in the Valmont Reservoir system by looking at the contaminants present in water released from the system into South Boulder Creek. Coalfired plants, like Xcel’s, are allowed to discharge contaminants into waterways via the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). An NPDES permit outlines how much pollution facilities are able to release into waterways, and requires reports to be filed at regular intervals with water samples. The most recent report found that levels of arsenic, chloride, magnesium and mercury were released from Xcel’s Valmont station. Despite the presence of these contaminants, Aguayo points out that Xcel “has not reported any recent exceedance of any parameter that

is required Valmont Reservoir is to be monipart of a connected, tored.” three-reservoir system that has been Recently, contaminated by no, Xcel various industrial sources for most of a hasn’t violatcentury. ed the limits of contaminants they’re allowed to dump into public waterways. But the New York Times reported in 2009 that Xcel had committed 11 Clean Water Act violations at its Valmont facility. That’s important because the historical contamination of a site matters for the wildlife that lives in it. Contaminants have a cumulative effect on wildlife. Mercury is wellknown to bioaccumulate in fish (and humans), and is a common byproduct of coal production. Peters explains that “fish living in water that contains heavy metals like mercury and selenium can become contaminated because these types of toxic metals concentrate up aquatic food chains, and fish are typically the species at the top of that food chain.” Selenium, in particular, is common in coal ash and can be devastating for fish populations, according to a recent USDA and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service study. The contaminant can be passed onto offspring. In short, fish living in polluted waters may have more contaminants in their bodies than the water itself. And See FISHY Page 10

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given the history of contamination at the site from sources other than Xcel, it’s reasonable to think wildlife has been subjected to toxins and metals for years. Boulder Weekly published a 10-part series in 2012 on the contamination at Valmont Butte. Valmont Butte was the site of several milling operations, with Allied Chemical eventually taking over in 1941. Allied ran a fluorspar flotation mill on the site, producing and shipping away calcium fluoride, but creating 50 to 70 tons every day of radioactive tailings tainted with heavy metals like arsenic, lead and copper. The company was required to become a licensed holding facility for radioactive waste. The site, due to political origami, narrowly missed being named a Superfund site in the Reagan era (when, by the way, the EPA was run by Neil Gorsuch’s mother, Anne Gorsuch Burford, who resigned over bungling the Superfund program). The contaminated Valmont Butte site — the EPA called it the eighth-most contaminated site in Colorado — was for decades connected by a pipe that poured its contamination into Xcel’s Valmont lakes. As part of the flotation process, “Allied Chemical [pumped] ... as much as 200,000 gallons per day of radioactive, lead- and arsenic-tainted water directly into the Public Service Co. lakes [the reservoirs at Xcel’s current site] for some 30 years, from the early 1940s until the 1970s. They didn’t even stop the dumping once it was discovered,” BW reported. There was also another contaminated milling operation site on the shores of Joel Dyer those lakes on Xcel property that created its own contaminated runoff into the lakes. There is no indication that any government agency or current or former private operator of the Valmont Station property has ever attempted to remediate the toxic pollution within the reservoirs. As a final note, Xcel is required to issue a Toxic Release Inventory every year that details how much of certain toxic chemicals were released and treated from its facility. Xcel reported producing lead and mercury, treating it in several ways including on-site landfills, well injections and shipping it offsite. But Clean Water Action says this is inadequate because none of Colorado’s ash landfills are lined, and so are susceptible to leaching into groundwater. Xcel has actually piled ash along the shores of the reservoirs for years, creating the potential for contamiLead and selenium nation. In 2016, environmental testing company contamination along TestAmerica found toxin levels at or above reportable with other heavy metals and limits for arsenic, lead, calcium, selenium and more in radioactive groundwater at the Valmont facility. materials have long impacted Valmont Now, all of that is not to say that the fish relocated Butte and Reservoir. from Valmont Reservoir are definitely contaminated with toxins. But it only takes a little contamination to have major ramifications in humans. The FDA indicates sensitive populations like pregnant women and young children should avoid eating swordfish and shark because the mercury content in their meat can cause nervous system issues. PETA claims consuming fish with traces of lead can lead to mental and physical disabilities. In Colorado, the CDPHE recommends people only consume a small amount of fish culled from state waters per month, and largemouth bass — the primary species removed from Valmont Reservoir — are given the recommendation of one fillet the size of your hand per month. But the CDPHE also notes that, “The amount of mercury in a fish depends on its age and what it eats. Bigger, older fish may have more mercury, especially if they eat other fish with mercury. Some fish may be safe to eat when they are small, but unhealthy when they are large.” Would that matter for fish from Valmont Reservoir, where they were allowed to grow relatively unimpeded with no fishing allowed and few natural predators? Boulder Weekly

APRIL CLOG SALE As the Daily Camera reported earlier this year, “the fish averaged 16 inches in length, forcing the crew to make repeated trips because their transfer tanks were so full.” When Boulder Weekly first asked CPW if they had thought to test the oversized Reservoir fish, Ben Swigle, the aquatic biologist in charge of the transfer, was out of the country, and spokesperson Lauren Truitt said no one else on the CPW staff had the necessary background to answer the question. Then, after notifying Truitt of our deadline, she said, “Any fish we move undergoes a panel disease testing out of our Fish Health Lab.” We stalled our story, luckily, because two weeks later Truitt reached out with a clarification that no, in fact, warm water fish are not tested for disease prior to movement. When we asked to speak with Swigle, or any field biologist, about this, we were notified they were all on assignment for three weeks. That seemed fishy, so we reached out to the Aquatic Animal Health Lab (AAHL), where CPW sends fish for testing, to see if they could clarify why the Valmont fish weren’t tested. Vicki Milano, a senior fish pathologist, explained why they weren’t tested for disease (the most common fish disease has not been found in state populations after two years of testing) but couldn’t say a word about testing for contaminants. Joel Dyer That’s likely because even though CPW oversaw the fish transfer, CDPHE runs the water quality division and “monitor[s] fish from more than 100 lakes and rivers in Colorado for the presence of contaminants,” according to its website. When asked if CDPHE tested the Valmont fish, department spokesperson Mark Salley wrote in an email, “What time period are you talking about? And why would CDPHE have tested the fish?” Look, this is not to hijack this story of potentially contaminated fish being relocated into public fishing areas and make it about how difficult it was to get the story. However, in this case, the bureaucratic volleyball is a large part of the story itself. When the sign going Eventually, a CDPHE staff person sent BW a into Valmont Butte says this, you’d think statement from multiple authors in the Water Quality somebody would Control Division as to why they didn’t think to test have checked the fish for contamination the fish, reading: before moving them “CDPHE works closely with Colorado Parks & into a public fishing pond to be caught Wildlife on where fish are collected each year. and eaten. Sampling locations are determined based on available resources, likelihood of fish consumption (which is influenced by factors such as fishing pressure, public access, boat ramps, etc.), bioaccumulation potential for contaminants of concern (e.g., mercury) based on environmental factors, and alignment with other agency (CPW or WQCD) research efforts. Valmont Reservoir was not prioritized for sampling.” There are no more transfers scheduled for fish from Valmont Reservoir for now, Truitt says. But how the already-transferred fish populations in St. Vrain State Park, KOA Lake in Boulder and the Hudson’s town fishing pond will affect those ecosystems remains to be seen... or tested. Or not. If the answer from CDPHE and CPW (and the City of Boulder and EPA, who deferred to those agencies) is that Valmont fish, which lived in a pool of water subject to a century of contamination, were not prioritized for testing, then what does a fish have to do to get prioritized in this state? Ted Collins is not the real name of the fisherman in this story.

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before lunch. Roger Ebert’s Cinema Interruptus, now lovingly called Ebert Interruptus in memoriam, is a perennial favorite. The famed film critic took time over days to sit and talk with audiences about a single film, stopping scene by scene and providing running commentary. This tradition has continued since Ebert’s passing in 2013. This year film critic Josh Larsen returns as the host of Ebert Interruptus — with Boulder Weekly’s own Michael J. Casey moderating — to dissect Mad Max III: Fury Road, a film that imagines a world where men are mere pawns of maniacal leaders and women cling to hope. As always, CWA effortlessly demonstrates how pop culture mimics reality. It’s impossible — and foolish — to try to tell you what not to miss at CWA. If we all had our druthers we’d be able to travel to and froe in time and catch every panel, but alas... That being said, keep an eye out for panels on women in politics, the refugee crisis, corruption in sports, art as an agent for change, understanding transgender identity, the alt-right, food security, net neutrality, Trump foreign policy and jazz. What we’re trying to say is there’s no stone unturned. Everything is interesting and any panel you choose to attend is the right choice. So, let us be the first to say thanks to all the people who have made the Conference on World Affairs possible over the last seven decades. You’ve helped enrich the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Here’s to 70 more years. For full schedule, see page 31.

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ast November, Colorado voters passed Amendment 71, a controversial constitutional amendment aimed at making it more difficult for citizens to amend the state constitution. But on March 27, a federal judge ruled that part of the new law violates the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and barred the state from enforcing it. Citizens’ initiatives have shaped the state of Colorado throughout its history. The process has given Colorado some of its most iconic laws from both sides of the political spectrum — including the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) and Amendment 64, which legalized recreational marijuana. Before Amendment 71, efforts to place a constitutional amendment on the state ballot needed support from 5 percent of the population who voted in the last secretary of state election, or roughly 100,000 valid petition signatures. If successful, voters would decide at the ballot box with a simple majority whether or not to change the state constitution. Amendment 71, however, changed all that. It requires a 55 percent supermajority voter approval on any constitutional amendment and it has a geographic requirement clause, requiring a citizen’s initiated ballot measure to collect signatures from at least 2 percent of the population from each of the state’s 35 senate districts. Dubbed “Raise the Bar,” the initiative was brought forth by people who claim it’s too easy to change the state constitution, but soon after it passed, groups and individuals behind Amendment 69, the failed 2016 universal health care initiative, challenged the Amendment’s geographic requirement in federal court. “Anyone who says that it’s too easy to get a citizens’ initiative to amend our constitution hasn’t tried to do that,” says Bill Semple of Boulder, an individual plaintiff in the case. “It is a very daunting process.” Efforts to pass universal health care Boulder Weekly

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attempted to get a ballot measure through the state legislature three different times before going the citizens’ initiative route, he says. “There are times when wealthy and powerful interests will really own legislatures, so citizens needed another route to get things on the ballot so that democracy can work,” Semple says. “Unfortunately, what Amendment 71 did is it put [citizen-initiated constitutional amendments] out of reach of grassroots organizations. It does the opposite of what the citizens’ initiative process was intended for.” Judge William J. Martinez ruled that the geographic requirement violates the “one person, one vote” principle inherent in the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment because voter population varies widely between state senate districts. Registered voter population can range as much as 60 percent between districts, the case claims, making signature gathering proportionately more difficult in different parts of the state. For example, in order to comply with Amendment 71, an effort would need 2,644 signatures from district 23 which stretches along the I-25 corridor from Broomfield to Fort Collins, but only 1,609 signatures from district 21 which encompasses the North Metro Area from Eastern Arvada to Commerce City. “Thus it is unconstitutional unless it can reshape its senate districts to roughly equal total and registered voting populations,” Judge Martinez writes in the ruling; an almost impossible task, he admits. He then permanently prohibited the state from enforcing the geographic requirement. “It’s a real victory for the citizens of Colorado,” Semple says. The Secretary of State’s office, however, maintains that Amendment 71 is constitutional and the Attorney General

filed an appeal in the 10th District on March 29 asking that the higher court halt Judge Martinez’ injunction until it can review his decision. “We have a constitutional obligation to defend the laws, whether they are in the constitution or the statutes, whether they’re passed by a vote of the people or passed by the legislature,” Suzanne Staiert, Deputy Secretary of State, says. “Whether or not we may agree philosophically is not something that we consider.” If granted, the appellate court’s stay would leave the geographic requirement in place for constitutional amendments currently being proposed for the 2018 ballot. “We’re in the middle of a petition cycle right now and there’s just a lot of uncertainty with respect to the constitutional amendments and where people would circulate,” Staiert says. Eight different citizens’ initiatives have been submitted already, with a few more expected by the end of the week. The final day to file citizens’ initiatives for the 2018 ballot is Friday, April 6. From there, groups have roughly six months to gather the necessary number of signatures to make the ballot this November. Grassroots groups estimate it would cost at least three times as much if not more to get enough signatures for a ballot initiative under the geographic requirements in Amendment 71, leaving only corporate interests or the wealthiest citizens with the ability to change laws, they argue. Additionally, the geographic requirements could allow one senate district to effectively veto any effort for a citizens’ initiative. Judge Martinez’ ruling is “definitely a good day for democracy and for grassroots direct democracy in particular,” says Micah Parkin, board member at Colorado Rising, the grassroots group behind several recent failed attempts to

get constitutional amendments on the ballot that would limit oil and gas development in neighborhoods and increase oil and gas setbacks. “Trying to stop us from limiting neighborhood fracking was a huge part of the intent of 71 and why oil and gas companies were by far the largest source of funding for that initiative,” Parkin says. According to Clean Slate Now, a Denver-based nonpartisan organization dedicated to campaign funding reform, 92 percent of the $28 million behind Amendment 71 came from the oil and gas industry. In 2018, Colorado Rising is trying to place a statutory amendment on the ballot, as opposed to a constitutional amendment, mainly due to the passage of Amendment 71. “We would have preferred to run a constitutional ballot initiative but with the passage of Amendment 71, gathering signatures from 2 percent from every senate district would have been [prohibitively] expensive,” Parkin says. The proposed statutory amendment would create 2,500-foot buffer zones or setbacks between oil and gas development and occupied areas such as homes, schools, playgrounds and drinking water sources. The provisions of Amendment 71 do not apply to statutory amendments. However, these laws are subject to legislative oversight and the Colorado Statehouse (both the house and the senate), with support from the Governor’s office, could vote to throw out a statutory amendment. Given growing support for the proposed setbacks, Parkin says, Colorado Rising is confident that wouldn’t happen. “We don’t believe that all three of those bodies would defy the public will once the Colorado Rising initiative passes,” she says. “Boulder County didn’t support Amendment 71 because we want citizens to be able to put issues on the ballot which would give local governments more local control over oil and gas,” says David Hughes, Deputy County Attorney. “We support the district court’s decision in the case. And the County will support the decision if it can, through amicus briefs or otherwise in the 10th Circuit.” Sixty-three percent of voters in Boulder County opposed Amendment 71, despite its passing with 55.56 percent of the statewide vote. April 5, 2018 15

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few years ago, the creators of the Creatures of Light exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science saw something unusual in a photo of a coral reef in the Bahamas. They noticed an eel glowing bright green; it was the first bony fish they had seen fluoresce. “We didn’t know that,” says Brian Hostetler, educator for the exhibit. “They fluoresced on the inside Scientific researchers are and the out. The sciusing glowing jelence is so new, we had lyfish cells in a variety of ways no idea.” from tracking polCreatures of Light lution to the way Alzheimer’s highlights organisms Disease affects that often don’t get the brain. enough attention, Hostetler says, displaying a wide range of animals, fungi and minerals on land and in sea, all that glow for different reasons. “Things that light up or things that glow are seen as an oddity of nature rather than the rule. I think it’s easy for people to forget that in a certain parts of the ocean, especially the deep sea, 80 to 90 percent of the animals down there light up, and that’s the only way they communicate,” Hostetler says. “Beyond that, there’s a number of different organisms that light up

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Both types of natural light have been adapted for scientific research. Hostetler explains that researchers have injected certain fish with genes from jellyfish and sea anemone in order to make them glow. Then scientists release these fish back into a waterway as a means to observe pollution. If the fish dies and washes up downstream, it’s easier to detect because of its fluorescence. This process of cellular tagging has become widely used for medical research. Colored protein extracted from jellyfish can be injected into living cells without altering their structure. Acting almost as a dye, researchers can observe the processes of cells and then in turn learn more about certain diseases. Mouse studies used to analyze Alzheimer’s are one example of this application, Hostetler says. “So researchers would put this colored protein into a particular type of cell and then they would see where these cells are clumping in the brain. They’d see clusters with tangles in them and that’s what’s behind Alzheimer’s disease — these tangles of cells,” he says. “They’ve just made some of those discoveries in the last 10 or 15 years. Researchers at Anschutz and CU are using this constantly. This is the norm now for genetics and neuroscience research.” As natural animal light is aiding in certain scientific advancement, some questions still remain as to why certain organisms glow. One part of the exhibit features a look at glowing mushrooms, but Hostetler says there’s no definitive proof as to why the mushrooms give off light. “Some experts think it’s to attract insects to come land on them, and then they’d spread their spores to other areas. So [the function would be] to help the fungus colonize,” he says. “But we’re not specifically sure.” Creatures of Light has also led to some local experimentation on the Denver museum’s own collection. Hostetler says they recently put a black light on an iguana that’s been in their possession for more than 40 years and noticed a completely different pattern on its skin. “Because of this exhibit, we’re going through our collection with UV lights and seeing things glow and light up that we never thought would,” he says. “There’s a lot we’re trying to figure out still,” he continues. “But we’ll get there.”

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Justin Michael ripping through the bounty of a recent spring storm on Eldora’s West Ridge. This year Boulder County skiers can get an Ikon Pass that will give them access to not only Eldora but a variety of other ski areas across the state and Rocky Mountain region.

Take a pass ith the 2017-18 season winding down, it’s time to reboot for 2019. Sure, this winter wasn’t the greatest, as multiple storms drifted north of the Centennial State, but with ski and snowboard season passes at their lowest prices, it’s worth putting on some shades (the future always looks brighter when

nations and terrain that you can access. There are also a variety of other pass options, including singlearea passes, ticket packs and other deals that should, given the emergence of the Ikon Pass, make next year the most affordable season ever for locals who head to the slopes on a regular basis. All of this makes getting to the slopes the real crux. With increased traffic on Interstate 70 that is guaran-

Next year’s Epic and Ikon passes are now on sale. Here’s a primer for Boulder skiers and snowboarders on how they line up against each other

by Tom Winter you’re wearing sunglasses) and saving some money on your season pass purchase for next winter. The big news for the 2018-2019 season is the emergence of a new mega-pass, the Ikon Pass ($899 for adults). This pass is the result of a massive merger and collaboration between Alterra Mountain Company, Aspen Skiing Company, Alta Ski Area, Boyne Resorts, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, POWDR and Snowbird, and will provide Colorado skiers and riders a legitimate option that goes head-to-head with Vail Resort’s venerable Epic Pass ($899 for adults) as far as the number of destiBoulder Weekly

teed to get snarled during snowstorms, along with the sometimeschallenging drive up 119 to Boulder Canyon, we’ve broken down your pass options by travel time. It’s great that the Icon Pass has seven days at Canada’s Mont Tremblant and the Epic Pass gives you five days at Japan’s Hakuba Valley, but if you’re only planning on skiing close to home, then perhaps a different option (Ikon Base Pass or Epic Local Pass) where you save a couple hundred bucks could serve you better. But for those who want more than just laps on their local hill, the Ikon and Epic passes’ extensive regional,

national and international partnerships give skiers and snowboarders the opportunity to escape the Rockies for some impressive international destinations in addition to a few road trips to the far-flung corners of our state. If you’re thinking of trying something different and exploring new mountain ranges far from home, choosing a destination where your pass is already valid gets you more bang for your buck and saves you cash toward that economy-class ticket to Tokyo or Frankfurt. Because there are variations on both the Ikon Pass (a “base” option includes unlimited skiing at Eldora and Copper with some holiday blackout dates) and the Epic Pass (the “local” option is great for fans of Arapahoe Basin) our breakdown includes both the full and “light” options. It’s worth remembering that the “light” or discounted options (the Ikon Base and Epic Local passes) are anything but. They offer a plethora of choices, especially for those who don’t mind skipping the skiing when the holiday crowds roll into town. Finally, remember that some great Colorado ski resorts, such as Loveland, aren’t part of the Epic or Ikon ecosystems at all and only offer their stand-alone pass (which in Loveland’s case is a bargain at under $500 bucks for a season that normally runs from October through May and includes free snowcat skiing on The Ridge). And even ski areas that are part of the Ikon or Epic ecosystems

can also offer a great stand-alone deal. Copper Mountain’s stand-alone Copper Pass, for example, includes three free days at Taos, Purgatory and Monarch along with Utah’s Powder Mountain. The season pass that’s the best for you will depend upon both your budget and where you and yours plan on skiing and riding next winter. The good news is that no matter which pass you choose, you can’t make a bad choice because the deals are better than ever when it comes to skiing and snowboarding in the Rocky Mountains.

Travel Time: 1 Hour Ski Areas: Eldora Pass options: Ikon — Unrestricted; Ikon Base — Unrestricted Eldora will always be Boulder County’s hometown hill and the mountain packs a pretty sweet punch into a small package. This year’s new Alpenglow six-pack lift has vastly improved the skiing experience and there’s something for everyone here, from kids learning on Little Hawk to experts chasing the steeps off of West Ridge. Pick up an Ikon pass if you’re going to ski here, but also plan on hitting some of the larger mountains across the state. Otherwise, Eldora’s stand-alone pass, at $449 for an adult, is a great deal. see PASSES Page 20

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expensive destination that delivers on powder days thanks to the wide-open spaces of the Back Bowls. Copper, while not as large as Vail, is a sprawling mountain that features an excellent diversity of terrain from steep bump runs to bowls to gentle groomers. Finally, while Winter Park has seen some development in the base area, the mountain retains a homegrown feel that’s down-to-earth and unpretentious. For something different, catch the Winter Park ski train out of Denver’s Union Station and skip the drive altogether.

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Travel Time: 2 hours Ski Areas: Copper Mountain, Winter Park, Vail Pass options: Epic — Unrestricted at Vail; Epic Local — Restricted at Vail on Nov. 23-24, 2018; Dec. 26-31, 2018; Jan. 19, 2019; Feb. 16-17, 2019; Ikon — Unlimited, Copper Mountain and Winter Park; Ikon Base — Unlimited, Copper Mountain and Winter Park Within two hours you can end up at three very different mountains, all of which offer something unique. Vail is, of course, Vail. Drawing an international clientele and with a village scene that outshines both Copper and Winter Park, it’s a sophisticated and sometimes

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Ski Areas: Beaver Creek Pass options: Epic — Unrestricted; Epic Local — Restricted at Beaver Creek on Nov. 23-24, 2018; Dec. 26-31, 2018; Jan. 19, 2019;

If you want empty runs, powder all day and warm cookies in the morning, Beaver Creek is your spot. Its location is just far enough away from Boulder and Denver that weekend warriors tend to end up some place closer to home, which means that if you’re willing to put in a few extra miles, that effort will pay off in the form of no lines, no crowds and the chance to savor the Beav’s upscale vibe without distractions. Throw in impeccable grooming and plenty of steeps and trees and you have one of Colorado’s best-kept secrets. Boulder Weekly

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Ski Areas: Aspen, Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk, Snowmass, Steamboat Pass options: Ikon — Seven unrestricted days at Aspen Skiing Co. mountains, unrestricted at Steamboat; Ikon Base — Five restricted days at Aspen Skiing Co. mountains, five restricted days at Steamboat Four hours behind the wheel will get you deep into Colorado’s mountains, with options that range from simple local hills (Buttermilk) to authentic Western towns (Steamboat) to the world-class skiing and lifestyle experience that is Aspen. When you commit to making a four-hour road trip, the best bet is to watch the weather and do a little storm chasing. Steamboat is rightly famous for its powder and tree skiing, while Aspen is Aspen, quite simply the state’s best collection of four ski areas in close proximity (all connected by a free bus service).

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Ski Areas: Crested Butte, Telluride Pass options: Epic — Seven unrestricted days at Crested Butte, seven unrestricted days at Telluride; Epic Local — Seven unrestricted days at Crested Butte

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Epic: Unrestricted at Perisher, Australia; five unrestricted days at Hakuba, Japan; seven unrestricted days at Resorts of the Canadian Rockies (Fernie, Kimberly, Stoneham, Kicking Horse, Nakisa, Monte-Sainte Anne); Epic Local: Five unrestricted days at Hakuba, Japan Ikon: Unlimited at Blue Mountain and Mont Tremblant, Canada; seven

non-restricted days at Revelstoke and Ski Big 3 resorts (Ski Banff, Lake Louise, Sunshine), Canada Ikon Base: Unlimited at Blue Mountain and Mont Tremblant, Canada; five restricted days at Revelstoke and Ski Big 3 resorts (Ski Banff, Lake Louise, Sunshine), Canada More details, pricing — including deals such as the Epic Pass’ offering to buy before April 15 and get six buddy tickets — and how to purchase your pass can be found here: Ikon Passes – ikonpass.com Epic Passes – epicpass.com

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Crested Butte, the funky mining town with the legendary steep and jagged mountain looming above it, is one of the most storied destinations in Colorado skiing and snowboarding. The Butte hosted some of the first extreme competitions in the history of skiing and snowboarding, vaulting Colorado athletes such as Seth Morrison into the national consciousness. It’s here that Matchstick Productions launched a new style of ski film, with rowdy lines and an authenticity that inspired a generation of filmmakers such as Teton Gravity Research and Sweetgrass Productions. If you live in Colorado and you’ve not been to Crested Butte, make 2019 the year you go. Telluride, like Crested Butte, is also a must-visit destination. One of the featured segments in Blizzard of AAHHH’s, Greg Stump’s seminal ski film that remains a must-watch masterpiece of the genre today, this Southern Colorado destination isn’t close enough to Boulder County for day trips, but rewards road trippers with a truly spectacular setting, well preserved authentic mining town base and a huge variety of terrain that caters to all levels, but will make experts salivate as there’s plenty of test-pieces including the hike to 13,320-foot Palmyra Peak.

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Though Luna originally split over a decade ago, they’ve regrouped, put out two new albums (one of covers, the other all instrumental) and hit the road.

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rifting through our back pages prior to a chat with Luna’s Dean Wareham last week, we were mildly astonished to see that our last chat with the Kiwi-born, New York-bred guitarist/songwriter was almost precisely 18 years ago, a few days after Britta

Phillips’ first gig with the band as a (presumably) short-term stand-in for bassist Justin Harwood, who had returned to New Zealand to attend the birth of his first child. “Britta’s first night was great,” Wareham told us at the time, and subsequent nights must have been fairly great as well, as Phillips became a full-time member of the band, as well as a regular post-Luna collaborator with Wareham. And in 2006, the two were married. A reminder like that of the years past and the now receding milestones in Luna’s history seem a shade uncomfortable for Wareham, who now concedes, in his typically understated way,

“Yeah, I guess it did work out...” It did, but a handful of years after that, frustrated by seemingly endless road work and rawchafed interpersonal relations, Wareham and the band called it quits, as memorably documented in Matthew Buzzell’s 2005 documentary Tell Me Do You Miss Me. Wareham and Phillips went on to a low-key duo project and moved to LA. But, after some gentle prodding from an overseas promoter, they got the band together again for a few dates in 2015. Now they’re following up on a November 2017 tour (15 shows in 18 days — welcome back to the machine) with a second series of dates through the Western U.S., including a Fox gig on Tuesday, April 10. But don’t call this a “reunion tour,” because that might suggest a big-deal, new release, triumphant re-emergence from creative stasis or wherever our favorite artists go when they get tired of entertaining us. Like their creative oeuvre, Luna’s return to the stage is pretty subdued, buoyed by the release of a short full-length album of covers (A Sentimental Education) and a six-piece EP of instrumentals (A Place of Greater Safety). “I guess it’s gone on a little longer than we originally... planned,” Wareham muses, almost reminding himself that much of the last couple of years weren’t really planned so much as collectively improvised, responding to the whims of the entreaties of promoters. “I’m not sure how we really thought of it, maybe more of a commemorative thing. We haven’t really had a band meeting to discuss all this, but yeah, I guess we’ll continue to do some see LUNA Page 24

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more shows... The world is changing, the music business has changed. I don’t think we’ll ever go back to being like it was in the ’90s, where we made a record every year.” Things are coming back, Wareham notes. Shoegaze is coming back, “bigger than ever” he suggests, but he’s clearly reluctant to tag Luna’s

really about the grunge/alternative years; we were not in step with that, really.” While for their fans, any new material from the band is welcome, the fact that one album offering is all covers and the other is instrumentals, it has been noted that, really, Wareham isn’t offering any proper new Luna material. But he is writing. Tammy Lo via Wikimedia Commons “I’m actually supposed to write an article for Pitchfork right now,” he says after a good chuckle. “Your kind of writing. It’s hard... I find writing like that very difficult. It’s hard to write about music, or do it week after week. I have respect for any ON THE BILL: Luna writer, whether it’s a sports writer — with Flural. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, Fox or music critic or historian; it Theatre, 1135 13th St., involves a certain amount of bravBoulder. Tickets are $35ery to it. Putting your opinion on $30. a page. Someone’s going to get mad at you.” Roger that. And maybe the environs aren’t helping. Wareham and Phillips moved to L.A. a few years ago, abandoning New York to its own pitiless devices. “I haven’t written many songs since I moved to LA. I’m a little worried about that. It’s too sunny.” Riffing on the impossibility of love and mortality and related matters must be easier on a drizzly gray morning in Brooklyn than on a brilliant L.A. morning, with birds chirping in the trees. “Yeah it is. But people manage to do it.” But in all honesty, A Sentimental Education is likely to be as satisfying to the Luna faithful as anything from Wareham’s own pen. Luna has a long history of re-interpreting songs, stripping away the needless filler and lifting its lyrical content atop their humble pedestal of harmony and hushed guitar lines. They have always had a way of making a cover sound like it was written for them. “Yes. We’ve always tried to pull it toward us, instead of trying to ape the original,” Wareham re-emergence as part of some sort of says. retro-nostalgia thing. With their That’s a sign of... we can’t decide, strength or Dean Wareham says gentle jangle-guitar balladry, wry and limitation. he’s found sparely succinct songwriting and “Heh. Must be a sign of strength.” writing new material evocative Velvet Underground texturAnd as the band is re-connecting with the difficult since al reveries, Luna seemed to thrive in toil of cramped traveling quarters and tallying moving to Los Angeles. its own intimate ecosphere, insulated nightly T-shirt sales, mindful of their fans’ Maybe it’s all by grace from the grunge and angsty advancing years (“We’re bringing more XL that sunshine... pulse of the 1990’s Seattle wave. T-shirts out on tour — even XXL,” Warham “I guess some of the reunions I says. “XXL is the new XL... ”), we wondered if find odd sometimes are those that are Wareham had re-watched the break-up docuso identified with a cultural moment. Like punk mentary recently. reunions. Punk was such a break with every“I watched it about six years ago. Britta and thing that had come before, at least it presented I were playing a festival in Calgary, and they had itself in that way. And after that, everything has a screening of that movie. It was painful for kind of gone back, you get kids in bands that me... It’s like at the end of a relationship, you sound like the Doobie Brothers. So what does it have to convince yourself that it’s really intoleramean to... I don’t know, it’s all for John Lydon ble.” to confront, I guess. It was your “Let It Be.” “The ’90s, at least a good part of them, were “Yes. Without the hits.” Boulder Weekly

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‘Weird Al’ Yankovic talks about digging into the deep cuts for his scaled-down tour by Dave Gil de Rubio

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etween the song parodies, his corny-yet-lovable sense of humor and a quasi-nerdy affection for the accordion, it could have been easy to dismiss “Weird Al” Yankovic as a mere novelty act. In an appearance early in the California native’s career on Tomorrow with Tom Snyder in 1977, the late talk show icon quiped, “Great performance Al; don’t quit your day job.” Yet more than four decades later, Yankovic’s day job has gotten him established as a pop culture icon, thanks to a tireless work ethic that has earned him 15 Grammy nominations and four wins and a canon of songs and videos that have found him brilliantly poking fun at hit songs by a broad swath of artists including Nirvana, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke. On top of that, Yankovic has directed music videos for other artists (Hanson, The Black Crowes, Ben Folds), written children’s books (When I Grow Up; My New Teacher and Me!) and done voice-over work on a number of animated shows including Milo Murphy’s Law, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, BoJack Horseman and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Yankovic’s prolific creative drive and love of performing now has him hitting the road helming what’s been dubbed The Ridiculously SelfIndulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour. It’s a far simpler affair than the propsloaded, parody-song driven shows fans are accustomed to seeing him trot out, such as on his last concert jaunt, The Mandatory World Tour. “This is a much different tour,” Yankovic explains. “I did the Mandatory World Tour and that was the full-on production tour with the costumes and props and the video Boulder Weekly

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screens — it was the whole multimedia extravaganza. On this tour, it’s something that we’ve never really ever done before. It’s very scaled-down, and not only that, but the setlist is very different. We’re not playing the hits — we’re playing all the deep cuts and all the original songs and that’s one of the things that excites me about this particular tour. In all my other shows, because it’s such a highly produced show, one song by de facto has to go into the next song because the costumes are waiting backstage. It’s like a Broadway musical and we have to do it the exact same way every night, whereas now that there’s no extraneous production, we can literally do a different show every night, and that’s exactly what we intend to do. We’ve learned over four hours of material and every single show will be different.” Joining Yankovic on the road will be longtime bandmates John “Bermuda” Schwartz on drums, guitarist Jim West and bassist Steve Jay, all who were recruited between 1980 and 1982. Rounding out the group is keyboardist Rubén Valtierra, a band member since 1992 who’s still considered the new guy in the band. The preparation for this unique presentation of the Yankovic catalog comes on the heels of the release of last year’s Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of “Weird Al” Yankovic, a careerspanning box set of all 14 of his albums that also includes a rarities album and a 120-page book of archival

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photos. As Yankovic had final approval of the remastering and was a member of the art direction team, he got to delve pretty deep into his old material for the box set, something he normally doesn’t do once he’s done recording a song. “It was nice to be able to revisit those old songs. I listen to the music a lot while I’m recording it and up until the point that it comes out, then I put it away and don’t listen to it anymore. So this was an opportunity to go back and listen to a lot of these songs for the first time in a long time,” Yankovic explaines. “As an artist, sometimes you just hear the mistakes — ‘Maybe I would have done this one better or that one was a little flat.’ But with the passage of a lot of time, you forget about a lot of the mistakes you may have made and think it sounds kind of cool.” Having started out taking music lessons as a kid after a traveling salesman came by the family home offering a choice of either the guitar or accordion (“My parents thought, ‘It would be nice for young Alfie to have some musical training. We want him to be popular in high school, so of course, accordion.’”), Yankovic grew up idolizing his Mount Rushmore of parody influences — Allan Sherman, Spike Jones, Tom Lehrer and Stan Freberg — along with other favorites, including Frank Zappa, Monty Python and Shel Silverstein. But it was eclectic radio host Dr. Demento who gave him his first break and continues to be a good friend. “Dr. Demento gave me my start. When I first started recording music, I certainly wasn’t thinking in terms of a 40-year recording career,” Yankovic says with a laugh. “I was 15 and 16 years old in high school and was recording with my accordion in my bedroom into a 39-cent cassette as a goof. This was a few decades before YouTube and there was no other way to get my material out there. I thought Dr. Demento might play it, and to my amazement, he did. There is no other person in the world at the time who would have given airtime to someone like me. If he had never existed, my life, I’m sure, would have taken a much, much different trajectory.” And the world wouldn’t be quite the same. Three cheers for Dr. Demento. April 5 , 2018 25

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nsemble pieces and oneman (or woman) shows are a dime a dozen. Twoperson plays — also known as “two-handers” — are a much rarer bird. Two-woman twohanders qualify for the endangered species list. A really boffo two-woman two-hander comes along about as often as a unicorn or an honest politician. How lucky, then, would a person have to be to catch a terrific performance of a tremendous, two-woman two-hander... let alone one in which both roles were played by the understudies rather than the leads? I’m not sure what arcane branch of mathematics might suitably quantify that level of preternatural good fortune, but all integers, fractions and related alchemy aside, I know good luck when it’s abroad, and I damn sure bought a lottery ticket on the way home from seeing Always... Patsy Cline at Boulder’s own BDT Stage this past weekend. And I’m not even the luckiest buck in this story. That honor goes to BDT Stage’s Producing Artistic Director, Michael J. Duran. Before taking over as the leader of BDT Stage (then known as Boulder’s Dinner Theatre), Duran enjoyed success on Broadway and in national and international touring companies where he worked alongside all-time greats like Jerry Lewis, Tommy Tune and Carol Channing. Duran has won multiple Best Director and Best Choreographer awards, including a Henry, an Ovation and a Denver Drama Critics Circle (DDCC). And now — thanks to his aforementioned good luck as

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A terrific two-hander You’d have to be crazy not to see this show by Gary Zeidner ON THE BILL: Always… Patsy Cline. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, www.bdtstage.com, $43 and up. Through May 20.

well as loads of hard work — Duran’s pool of BDT Stage actors is so Marianas deep that his backups are every bit as accomplished as his firststringers! BDT Stage’s stable is unusually stable. I’ve had the pleasure of watching many of the actors there for more than 15 years. A boon to Boulder audiences, the surprisingly stable stable is also stupendously strong. These performers do it all, and they do it all well. They sing, they dance, they act and they wait tables to boot. Which is why I didn’t bat an eye when I learned that I was getting understudies rather than leads for my night with dear friends Patsy Cline and Louise Seger. On the off chance that you’re unaware, Patsy Cline is one of the most widely and rightfully celebrated crossover singers in American history. She succeeded in bridging the gap between country and pop music back in the 1950s and ’60s when such a thing was unheard of. Her versions of “Crazy,” “Walkin’ After Midnight” and “I Fall to Pieces” are indelibly

imprinted on the collective musical consciousness. Always... Patsy Cline tells Patsy’s big story through the comparatively small lens of her unexpected friendship with one of her biggest fans, Louise Seger. In 1961, Louise attended a Patsy Cline concert in Houston, Texas. Louise was so excited to finally see one of her favorite artists in person that she showed up nearly two hours early to the nearly empty venue. Patsy, traveling alone, arrived shortly thereafter, and the two struck up a conversation. With similar backgrounds and life experiences, they bonded quickly. After the show, Patsy ended up staying the night at Louise’s house rather than make the long drive back to her hotel. In the time before cell phones and emails, the two began exchanging letters, letters Patsy invariably signed, “Love Always... Patsy Cline.” Patsy and Louise remained best friends until Patsy’s untimely death in a plane crash in 1963. Always... Patsy Cline tells that simple story in a very folksy, guileless way that’s cornstalk-high with good

humor. That it also evokes such strong emotions attests to the depth of the real-life relationship at its core as much as to Ted Swindley’s writing or even BDT Stage’s presentation. Speaking of which, you’ll likely be treated to Norrell Moore as Patsy and Alicia K. Meyers as Louise. Meyers is one of my all-time favorite BDT Stagers; she’s been making magic as part of both cast and crew for many years. I’ve never seen Moore’s work, but if BDT Stage cast her as Patsy, I’m certain a great Patsy she is. My Patsy, however, was Joanie BrosseauRubald, and my Louise was Cindy Lawrence. Both are BDT Stage veterans, and both have delighted me over the years. Brosseau-Rubald sang the absolute dickens out of the more than 20 Patsy classics that fill the show, and she dialed back her naturally buoyant energy just enough to match Patsy’s less demonstrative demeanor. Lawrence, in turn, amped up her delivery to make Louise a sassy, selfassured joy to watch. If you don’t go see Always... Patsy Cline, you’ll always regret it.

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NOBO FIRST FRIDAY. 6 p.m. Friday, April 6, NoBo Art District, along Broadway from Pine Street to Highway 36, Boulder. Pedro Szekely via Wikimedia Commons Enjoy a springevening stroll and take in some local art during NoBo First Friday. This free, self-guided tour takes you through the artists’ studios and businesses in the North Boulder Art District, located along Broadway from Pine Street to Highway 36. You’ll have the chance to meet painters, sculptors, photographers, designers and other artists along the way. There’ll be live music, demos and special activities in many locations. Just follow the polka dots and pink flags to find surprises around every corner. First Friday runs from 6-9 p.m.

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THIRD ANNUAL ACT HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL. April 5-14, various venues, Fort Collins. It’s worth the trip Courtesy of ACT Human Rights Festival north to Fort Collins to check out some of the moving films at the ACT Human Rights Film Festival. ACT showcases the most critically acclaimed and recently released international documentary films that explore a range of human rights themes, including democracy in crisis, immigration, war, gender rights, race and class in America, occupational health and climate change. Films will screen Friday through Sunday at CSU, The Lyric and the Lincoln Center Magnolia Theatre, and resume the following Friday, April 13 at The Lyric before closing Saturday, April 14 at the Lory Student Center Theatre. Encore screenings will occur Monday, April 9 through Thursday, April 12 at The Lyric. Find tickets at actfilmfest.colostate.edu.

LONGMONT SYMPHONY: TALES FROM THE SEA. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 7, Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain SkareMedia via Wikimedia Commons View Ave., Longmont. The Longmont Symphony’s Tales from the Sea includes multiple works that each tell a story relating to one of our most precious resources — water. The first half recounts the individual’s experiences and feelings toward water including its beauty, temptations, symbolism and dangers. The second half details one person’s adventures on the high seas. Elliot Moore will conduct and mezzo-soprano Sarah Barber will provide vocals. Moore will give a free, pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m. in the commons area. Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors and active military, $5 for students 12-18, and free for children under 11.

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Thursday, April 5 Music Austin Basham, Hollow Coves. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Avourneen. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Baths. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

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Dean Himes. 6 p.m. Lunada Eatery and Cantina, 2770 Arapahoe Road, Suite 124, Lafayette, 303-877-5251.

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Frankie Cosmos. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

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Inside the Orchestra for Adults. 6 p.m. McNichols Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-355-7855.

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

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FRANK MOORE 8PM THE WELD COUNTY RAMBLERS 9PM

Liza Anne. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Mac Lethal, Wax. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030. Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-4093.

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Dairy Presents: Colorado Classics with the Boulder Phil. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Dan Auerbach & the Easy Eye Sound Revue. 7 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

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Big Brooklyn. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Ty Segall. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Varsity Bowl. 5 p.m. Village Center, 500 30th St., Boulder, 303-442-5538.

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Zoso — The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Tribute. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Events Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 970-302-7130.

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Conversations in English. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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GED Preparation Classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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The Insult. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Lego Storytime. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Miss Kiet’s Children. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Qi + Art. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. SBDC — Getting Real About Partnerships. 9 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 5 Stories that Breathe Life into Data: People at the heart of Boulder County’s social, economic and environmental Health. 5 p.m. Environmental Design, 213, 1060 18th St., Boulder.

Chris Barge, vice president of strategic initiatives at the Community Foundation Boulder County, will speak about the foundation’s TRENDS Report, as part of CU Boulder’s Community Engagement, Design and Research (CEDaR) Center’s Community Conversations series.

Assessing the Trump Presidency: Revolution, Realignment or Chaos? 5:30 p.m. Hale Science, 230, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder.

Robert G. Kaufman will interview Elizabeth and Matthew Spalding — two renowned experts with impeccable academic credentials to address these subjects — in a robust and freewheeling panel discussion.

Global Warming Demystified. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. Jeffrey Bennett answers questions about climate change, while showing that the solutions to this important problem are ones that people of all political persuasions can agree on. Another talk will be given at 7 p.m. at the same location on Friday, April 6.

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A reunion of the first five Visiting Scholars in Conservative Thought & Policy as they reflect on their time in Boulder, the position of Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and the state of American conservatism.

TUESDAY, APRIL 10 Medical Aid in Dying in Colorado: Is it morally acceptable to do what the law allows? 4 p.m. Norlin Library, Center for British and Irish Studies Room, 1157 18th St., Boulder. This panel explores the circumstances under which Colorado law permits medical aid in dying and discusses whether it’s morally wrong for people to take of advantage of the law and end their lives.

Nordic Club Movie Night: The Square (Swedish/Danish). 6 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 145, 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder.

A satire of the fine art world, nominated this year for “Best Foreign Language Film” at the Academy Awards.

Early Music Ensemble.

¿Cómo Fue? A Cuban Journey at Denver Press Club.

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

6:30 p.m. Denver Press Club 1330 Glenarm Place, Denver.

Comprised of a Baroque string orchestra and additional musicians, the Early Music Ensemble is devoted to the performance and study of music primarily from the 16th through 18th centuries, with attention to period style, performance practices and historical context. .

SATURDAY, APRIL 7 Boulder Phil — A Song for Swans. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Renowned choreographer Cleo Parker Robinson unveils her vision of serenity in a gorgeous setting of Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, featuring concertmaster Charles Wetherbee.

MONDAY, APRIL 9 A ‘Bold Experiment’: Five Years of Conservative Thought in Boulder.

This is the story of Guillermo “Bill” Vidal, former Denver mayor, and the first immigrant to become a mayor of a major American city. Vidal was airlifted from his home in Cuba after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, and mistakenly placed in an orphanage in Pueblo, Colorado. He waited for years before being reunited with his parents.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 AIA Lecture Series: Egypt’s Desert Frontier: The Ptolemaic Fortress at Bir Samut. 7 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Paleontology Hall, 1035 Braodway, Boulder.

Join Dr. Jennifer Gates-Foster at the CU Museum of Natural History for an interesting, free installment of the Archaeological Institute of America Lecture Series.

5:30 p.m. Hale Science, 270, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder.

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MONDAY 9:10-10:40 Boulder High School 1001 BHS: Stranger Than Fiction-Impact of Fake News John Nichols Susan Low Bloch Robert George Michael Johnson 09:30-10:45 UMC East Ballroom 1003 Perspectives on Islam Malou Innocent Ismail Elfath Christina Tobias-Nahi 9:30-10:45 UMC Center Ballroom 1002 Debate: What Should Be Our Reaction to a Changing Climate? David Orr Steven Hayward 9:30-10:45 UMC 235 1004 Water Policy: Not As Dry As You Think Martha Clark Goss Susan Shaw Alexander Verbeek Heather Lazrus 10:00-11:20 Old Main Chapel 1101 Drowning in Prescription Drugs Joe Sexton Chris Borland Lloyd Sederer 10:00-11:20 UMC West Ballroom 1102 Locked up, Locked Out: Life After Incarceration James Bell Lisa Graves Tulio Cardozo Darrick Hamilton 11:30-12:20 Macky Auditorium 1103 Keynote: Rethinking the Future: Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation Tony Seba 1:00-2:20 ATLAS Black Box 1203 Big Data: Big Deal or Big Problem? James Tanabe Mara Steiu Roger Walton 1:00-2:20 UMC West Ballroom 1207 Is Healthcare a Right and Do We Have It Wrong? Deliana Garcia Lloyd Sederer Hadley Heath Manning Jamison Green 1:00-2:20 UMC East Ballroom 1209 Down With The Patriarchy Bonnie Burton Lorraine Bayard de Volo Eva Hagberg Fisher Teresa C. Younger 1:00-2:50 Hellems 252 1201 Aging: If You Rest, You Rust Ernie Watts Ellen Sweets Martha Clark Goss Katherine Alford 1:00-2:20 1204

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UMC 235 athways to Juvenile P Justice William A. Thorne Jr. James Bell Elisabeth MacNamara Tulio Cardozo

UMC Center Ballroom I nternational Terrorism--The Next Chapter Joe Cirincione Malou Innocent Ross Wilson Heather Roff

3:00-4:20 UMC Center Ballroom 1309 U.S. Interventionism: Speak Loudly and Carry a Small Stick Joe Cirincione Heather Hurlburt Larry Greenwood Jr. Henry R. Nau

3:00-4:20 UMC East Ballroom 1305 Notes from Sub-Saharan Africa Maggie Duncan Simbeye A. Edward Elmendorf Gabriel Demombynes Valentino Achak Deng

9:30-10:40 ATLAS Black Box 2007 Reflections on Religion (in America’s Least Religious City) Fred Haberman April Rinne Christina Tobias-Nahi David Campbell 9:30-10:40 W olf Law Wittemyer Courtroom 2008 The Constitution: Still Our National Treasure Heather Hurlburt Susan Low Bloch Ian Millhiser Helen Norton

11:00-12:10 UMC 235 2105 Republicans: A House Divided Michael Franc Robert G. Kaufman Henry R. Nau 12:00-1:10 Museum of Boulder 2201 Presenting Culture through Art Gregory K. Tanaka Lisa Marie Simmons Kayhan Irani

12:30-1:40 W olf Law Wittemyer Courtroom 3:30-5:00 Visual Arts Complex 1B20 2205 The Global Refugee 1310 Ebert UnInterruptus: 9:30-10:40 Old Main Chapel Crisis Mad Max Fury Road 2002 Democracy, Theocracy, Rosanne Haggerty Josh Larsen Monarchy & Autocracy in Christina Tobias-Nahi the Islamic Crescent Kemal Kirisci Malou Innocent U Kyaw Win Old Main Chapel 4:30-5:50 Old Main Chapel Ross Wilson Doing Good For Human- 1404 Trump vs. Trees Kemal Kirisci 12:30-1:40 ATLAS Black box ity: It’s Not All Bad News Perry Samson 2203 Forecasting: Where We Peter Rupert Lighte Lisa Graves Are From Shapes Who Kevin Kling Jennifer Thomsen 9:30-10:40 UMC Center Ballroom We Are Kate Williams 2005 Nukes Forever? The James Tanabe Gabriel Demombynes Administration’s New Kevin Kling 4:30-5:45 Boulder Public Library Nuclear War Plan Tulio Cardozo Boulder High School Canyon Theater Joe Cirincione BHS: Strangers in a 1403 Homelessness: Attitudes, Strange Land: The RefuBeliefs, Solutions 12:30-1:40 UMC Center Ballroom gee Crisis Charles van der Horst 9:30-10:40 UMC East Ballroom 2208 The Rising Tide of Christina Tobias-Nahi Rosanne Haggerty 2004 Global Health Inequality Women in Politics Valentino Achak Deng Darrick Hamilton 2018-04-10 09:30 Heather Hurlburt Kayhan Irani Brandon D. Anderson Charles van der Horst Erin Vilardi Deliana Garcia Teresa C. Younger Fiske Planetarium 4:30-5:40 UMC 235 A. Edward Elmendorf Echoes of the Missing 1401 CWA Book Club Discus Darrick Hamilton and Murdered: Imsion: In the Country We 12:30-1:40 Old Main Chapel mersive Art Film and Love by Diane Guer10:00-11:30 CU Art Museum 2202 10,000 Foot View of Talkback rero & Born a Crime by 2101 Gallery talk on ‘Millie Latin America Millie Chen Trevor Noah Chen: Four Recollections’ Jose De La Fuente Peter Rupert Lighte Millie Chen Gabriel Demombynes Old Main Chapel Lisa Swenerton Saving the Planet Starts Christina Tobias-Nahi 11:00-12:10 Old Main Chapel At Home Kayhan Irani 2104 Becoming a Journalist: 12:30-1:40 UMC West Ballroom David Grinspoon Navigating the Fractured 2207 Weed: Dank or Dangerous David Orr 4:30-5:40 UMC West Ballroom Media Landscape Kate Williams 1402 odcasts: What Are You P John Nichols Joe Sexton Adam Frank Listening To? Lisa Graves Fred Haberman Bonnie Burton Dana Coffield Chris Borland Eaton Humanities 150 Michael Johnson Cinnamon Bidwell Modern Marketing: Lisa Marie Simmons Who’s Listening? Katherine Alford 11:00-12:10 UMC Center Ballroom 12:30-1:40 UMC 235 2018-04-09 15:00 2103 Earth in Human Hands 2206 Political Correctness: Am Jerry Michalski 7:00-8:15 Dairy Arts Center Gordon David Grinspoon I a Snowflake or Are You Jose De La Fuente Gamm Theater Tracey Holloway Just a Jerk? Charlie Oliver 1501 Dairy Panel: Making a Jennifer Thomsen Malou Innocent Difference Today Alexander Verbeek Ty Tashiro Education 220 James Tanabe Brandon D. Anderson Start-Up Your Entrepre- Susi Snyder 11:00-12:10 ATLAS Black Box neurial Success Teresa C. Younger 2102 Collaboration: Moving 12:30-1:40 UMC East Ballroom April Rinne from ‘I’ to ‘We’ 2204 Iran and the US: Taking a Mark A. Gyetvay Maggie Duncan Simbeye Step Backwards? Deborah Bryant Francisco Zamora Arroyo Joe Cirincione Mara Steiu Philip Fernbach Reza Ramazani Henry R. Nau 8:30-9:00 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM UMC 235 11:00-12:10 Wolf Law Wittemyer 2001 KGNU: Interview with Debate: Free Speech on Courtroom 2:00-3:10 Old Main Chapel Adam Frank Campus 2107 What We Need from the 2308 Who Belongs: Identity in Adam Frank Malou Innocent Next Generation of Leadthe USA ers Ian Millhiser 9:30-10:40 UMC West Ballroom William A. Thorne Jr. Martha Clark Goss Robert George 2003 Ethics and Forgotten UMC West Ballroom Elisabeth MacNamara Deliana Garcia Virtues Police and the Pursuit of Lisa Swenerton Kayhan Irani Chris Borland Justice Mara Steiu Ismail Elfath Ben Wagner James Bell Heather Roff Brandon D. Anderson 11:00-12:10 UMC East Ballroom 2:00-3:10 UMC West Ballroom 2108 Who’d Have Thought 2305 The Unintended Con9:30-10:40 UMC 235 Macky Auditorium that Business is Saving sequence of Quinoa: 2006 If Sustainability Isn’t From Apprentice to the Planet? Sacrifices that End up on Possible, Does Collapse President: Political April Rinne our Kitchen Table Become Inevitable? Outsiders? Jerry Michalski Fred Haberman David Orr Robert George Mark A. Gyetvay A. Edward Elmendorf Max Boykoff Ellen Sweets Kate Williams Katherine Alford Gregory K. Tanaka Michael Spencer Guy Middleton Gregory K. Tanaka 11:00-12:10 UMC West Ballroom 2106 The Racial Income Gap Robert George Reza Ramazani Ellen Sweets Darrick Hamilton Chemistry 140 Alexa, Who Is Tracking Me? Privacy Today Ben Wagner Deborah Bryant Charlie Oliver

TUESDAY

2:00-3:10 UMC Center Ballroom 2302 China and the USA: Race to the Economic Top Peter Rupert Lighte Larry Greenwood Jr. Jose De La Fuente Jeffrey Zax

3:30-4:40 Old Main Chapel 2315 What the Hell Happened to Science Funding? Diana S. Aga Perry Samson Michael Johnson Deborah Bryant 2:00-3:10 ATLAS Black Box 3:30-4:40 Eaton Humanities 1B50 2304 FOMO* & Growing Up 2310 Dark Thoughts, DepresWith Your Life on Dission and Suicide play Charles van der Horst Ty Tashiro Lloyd Sederer Bonnie Burton Lisa Marie Simmons 3:30-4:40 Wolf Law Wittemyer Courtroom 2:00-3:10 Engineering 245 2316 Worldwide Barriers to 2301 A Minority in a Vast Basic Education Majority: Experiences in Gabriel Demombynes Science and Tech Mara Steiu Michael Johnson Valentino Achak Deng Deborah Bryant Lisa Swenerton 3:30-4:40 UMC West Ballroom Jenny Fielding 2311 Foul Ball: Corruption in Sports 2:00-3:10 Wolf Law Wittemyer Joe Sexton Courtroom Ismail Elfath 2306 MOOCs*, Flipped Class Chris Borland rooms, and No Tenure? The Future of Academia 3:30-4:40 UMC 235 David Brown 2313 Sustainable Solutions to Michael Spencer Affordable Housing Ben Wagner Rosanne Haggerty David Campbell Eva Hagberg Fisher Lisa Swenerton 2:00-3:10 UMC East Ballroom 2307 The Aftermath of Na4:30-5:45 Boulder Public Library ture’s Wrath Canyon Theater Perry Samson 2401 Engaging those with Tracey Holloway Ideological Differences Susan Shaw Michael Franc Lori Peek Gregory K. Tanaka Jamison Green 2:00-3:10 UMC 235 David Campbell 2303 Devolution or Revolu tion: Separatist Move7:30-9:30 Macky Auditorium ments 2501 CWA Jazz Concert Joe Jupille Brad Goode Ross Wilson Rony Barrak Margo Squire Bijoux Barbosa Kemal Kirisci Mike Marlier Cyrille Aimee 3:30-4:40 UMC Center Ballroom Claire Daly 2312 Get Out of My Uterus: Women’s Reproductive Rights Deliana Garcia Susan Low Bloch 9:00-10:20 UMC 235 Teresa C. Younger 3007 Monetizing Creativity: Make your Ideas Happen 3:30-5:00 Visual Arts Complex 1B20 James Tanabe 2317 Ebert Interruptus 1: Mad Kate Lesta Max Fury Road Jerry Michalski Josh Larsen Eliot Peper Mara Steiu 3:30-5:00 UMC East Ballroom 2318 Impossible to See, the 9:00-10:20 UMC West Ballroom Future is 3006 Mentorship: It Goes Both Danielle Feinberg Ways Adam Frank William A. Thorne Jr. Eliot Peper Ismail Elfath Charlie Oliver Christina Tobias-Nahi Beverly Parenti 3:30-4:40 ATLAS Black Box 2309 Art as a Creative Disrup- 9:00-10:20 UMC Center Ballroom tion 3008 Racism in Politics: The Clare Muireann Murphy Dog Whistle is Deafening Lena Gutschank Malou Innocent Millie Chen Ian Millhiser Darrick Hamilton 3:30-4:40 Macky Auditorium Elisabeth MacNamara 2314 USA: At the Global Lead- ership Table? 9:00-9:50 Ramaley C250 Larry Greenwood Jr. 3001 Films to Rock Your World Timothy E. Wirth Josh Larsen Susi Snyder Lloyd Sederer Henry R. Nau Millie Chen

WEDNESDAY

9:00-9:50 UMC East Ballroom 3009 Win-Win Climate Solutions David Orr Kate Williams Tracey Holloway Alexander Verbeek

11:00-12:20 Macky Auditorium 3108 The Korea Dilemma Christopher Robert Hill 11:00-12:20 UMC 235 3103 Guns Elisabeth MacNamara Samantha Haviland

3:00-4:20 UMC Center Ballroom 3309 Pussy Grabs Back: Women on the March Heather Hurlburt Erin Vilardi Jessica Rogers 3:00-4:20 Eaton Humanities 150 3302 Are You Truly Woke? Bonnie Burton Ellen Sweets Chris Borland 3:00-3:50 Engineering 200 3301 STEM On-Ramps Jennifer Thomsen Sandra Laursen Beverly Parenti 3:00-4:20 Old Main Chapel 3307 Vietnam Revisited and Reconsidered Joe Cirincione A. Edward Elmendorf Gabriel Demombynes Henry R. Nau 3:00-4:20 UMC West Ballroom 3306 The Many Forms of Capitalism Peter Rupert Lighte Larry Greenwood Jr. Martha Clark Goss Jose De La Fuente 3:00-4:20 Macky Auditorium 3304 My Journey As A Lost Boy Valentino Achak Deng

9:30-10:40 ATLAS Black Box 4008 The White Box in the Black Box: Redefining Exhibition Spaces James Tanabe Kate Lesta Michael Spencer Millie Chen 9:00-9:50 Old Main Chapel Steven Frost 3003 Awkwardness! Why 1:00-2:20 Chemistry 140 Blend in When You Were 3204 Journalism’s Duty to 9:30-10:40 Old Main Chapel Born to Stand Out? Democracy 4006 Drought, Disease, and Kevin Kling Joe Sexton Pollution: They Don’t Ty Tashiro Lisa Graves Stop at the Border Bonnie Burton Francisco Zamora Arroyo 1:00-2:20 ATLAS Black Box Alexander Verbeek 9:00-10:20 Macky Auditorium 3203 Grief: Coping with Life’s David Orr 3005 International Nuclear Losses Michael Johnson Disarmament April Rinne Joe Cirincione Brandon D. Anderson 9:30-10:40 Macky Auditorium Susi Snyder Jed Brubaker 4003 Brazen Political Lying: The New Normal 9:00-10:20 Wolf Law Wittemyer 1:00-2:20 UMC East Ballroom Robert George Courtroom 3206 Post-Brexit Europe May Margo Squire 3004 Dude, Where’s My Tax Be Moving on Without Cut? US 9:30-10:40 UMC West Ballroom John Nichols Larry Greenwood Jr. 4009 The Girl Effect: The Michael Franc Mark A. Gyetvay Impact of Educating Roger Walton Women and Girls Worldwide 9:00-9:50 Eaton Humanities 150 3002 Life in the Foreign Ser1:00-2:20 UMC West Ballroom Maggie Duncan Simbeye vice 3207 The Politics and Control Erin Vilardi Ross Wilson of Relief Efforts Mara Steiu Margo Squire Malou Innocent Ginnie Logan A. Edward Elmendorf Micklina Kenyi 11:00-12:20 ATLAS Black Box Heather Roff 3106 Storytelling Perfor 9:30-10:40 UMC Center Ballroom mance: UniVerse 1:00-2:20 UMC 235 4005 Can We Feed 10 Billion Clare Muireann Murphy 3205 Rhythm and Words People in 2050? Rony Barrak Pamela Ronald 11:00-12:20 UMC East Ballroom Clare Muireann Murphy 3:30-4:50 UMC East Ballroom Kim Severson 3102 Feeding the Future Lena Gutschank 3310 How Climate Change David R. Montgomery Keynote Ernie Watts Will Change the Farm Katherine Alford Kim Severson Cyrille Aimee Kim Severson Meriwether Hardie Katherine Alford Lisa Marie Simmons Raoul Adamchak Denise Mickleson David R. Montgomery 9:30-10:40 UMC East Ballroom Katherine DiMatteo 1:00-2:20 UMC Center Ballroom Alexander Verbeek 4007 The Orgasm Gap 3202 Organic Agriculture: Fad lare Muireann Murphy 11:00-12:20 Wolf Law Wittemyer or Future? 4:00-5:20 UMC Aspen Room Fred Haberman Courtroom Diana S. Aga 3402 Speed Chatting: 6 Speak- Zhana Vrangalova 3104 Immigration: Close the Raoul Adamchak ers, 6 Minutes, 6 Times Door Behind You Anne Cure Charles van der Horst Reza Ramazani Katherine DiMatteo Fred Haberman 9:30-10:40 UMC 235 Ismail Elfath Kate Williams 4004 Democrats: A House Deliana Garcia 1:00-2:20 Wolf Law Wittemyer Jennifer Thomsen Divided Courtroom Tulio Cardozo Heather Hurlburt 11:00-12:20 UMC Center Ballroom 3201 Education: Democracy’s Brandon D. Anderson Ian Millhiser 3107 The Trump Presidency: Highest Calling Lisa Graves Are We Tired of Winning William A. Thorne Jr. 4:00-4:50 Eaton Humanities 1B50 Yet? Maggie Duncan Simbeye 3401 The Alt Right: From 9:45-11:05 Boulder High School John Nichols Gregory K. Tanaka Memes to Murder 4010 BHS: Movies, Monsters, Michael Franc David Campbell John Nichols & Morality Robert George Robert George Danielle Feinberg 1:00-2:20 Old Main Chapel Ian Millhiser Bonnie Burton 11:00-12:20 Old Main Chapel 3209 Understanding Trans Josh Larsen 3109 What to Expect When gender Identity 4:30-5:45 Boulder Public Library You’re Expecting Climate Susan Low Bloch Canyon Theater 11:00-12:15 Fiske Planetarium Change Jamison Green 3404 Who’s Filling My Pot4002 Resonance Borealis 1 David Grinspoon Zhana Vrangalova holes: Public/Private Roman Zavada Naomi Oreskes Katherine Alford Partnerships Robert Ergun Timothy E. Wirth Martha Clark Goss Perry Samson 1:00-2:20 Macky Auditorium Lisa Swenerton 11:00-12:10 Old Main Chapel 3208 UCAR Walter Orr David Spector 4102 Music of Aliens, Germs, 11:00-12:20 Fiske Planetarium Lecture: Science and and Social Change 3105 Light of the Stars: Alien Stakeholders 4:30-5:40 UMC 235 Adrean Farrugia Worlds, Climate Change Tracey Holloway 3403 Technology Gone Wild Lena Gutschank and the Fate of the Earth Roger Walton Gregory K. Tanaka Adam Frank 3:00-4:20 UMC 235 Ben Wagner Ronald Wilkins 3303 Immigration: Moving Deborah Bryant 11:00-12:20 UMC West Ballroom Stories Heather Roff 11:00-12:10 UMC East Ballroom 3101 Activism or Apathy: Rony Barrak 4108 Your News is Fake to Me When Clicking ‘Like’ Is Adrean Farrugia 5:00-7:00 Visual Arts Complex 1B20 John Nichols Not Enough Cyrille Aimee 3405 Ebert Interruptus 2: Michael Franc Charles van der Horst Lisa Marie Simmons Mad Max Fury Road Naomi Oreskes Eva Hagberg Fisher Josh Larsen Michael de Yoanna David Campbell 3:00-4:20 ATLAS Black Box 3305 STEM into STEAM: 11:00-12:10 UMC Center Ballroom Humanity Needs the 4106 The Power Behind Humanities #Metoo Danielle Feinberg Maggie Duncan Simbeye 8:30-9:00 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM James Tanabe Ellen Sweets 4001 KGNU: Interview with Michael Johnson Cyrille Aimee Josh Larsen Michael Spencer Eva Hagberg Fisher Josh Larsen Charlie Oliver Lisa Swenerton

THURSDAY

11:00-12:10 UMC 235 4105 The Economic Impact of Climate Change Reza Ramazani Perry Samson Alexander Verbeek Bart W. Edes 11:00-12:10 Macky Auditorium 4103 Existential Risks - Today’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Charles van der Horst Pamela Ronald Susi Snyder Heather Roff 11:00-12:10 ATLAS Black Box 4104 Restoring our Natural Environment Susan Shaw Francisco Zamora Arroyo Jennifer Thomsen 11:00-12:10 Eaton Humanities 1B50 4101 The American Wall: From the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico Maurice Sherif

11:00-12:10 UMC West Ballroom 4107 Who Gets Served? Opening the Door to Discrimination William A. Thorne Jr. Susan Low Bloch Ian Millhiser Jamison Green 12:30-1:40 UMC West Ballroom 4203 Finding Courage When Life Slams the Door Kevin Kling Chris Borland Tulio Cardozo Jamison Green Valentino Achak Deng 12:30-1:40 ATLAS Black Box 4202 Evolution of Infectious Diseases Charles van der Horst Diana S. Aga Michael Johnson 12:30-1:40 UMC East Ballroom 4206 Our Undemocratic Republic: Gerrymandering, Campaign Finance, Electoral College Michael Franc Elisabeth MacNamara Lisa Graves 12:30-1:40 UMC 235 4204 Real Food Security and the Future of Small Farms Raoul Adamchak Christina Tobias-Nahi David R. Montgomery Woody Tasch 12:30-1:40 Macky Auditorium 4207 Technology’s Effect on People and Our Planet Jerry Michalski Eliot Peper Ben Wagner Heather Roff 12:30-1:40 UMC Center Ballroom 4205 I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss* Bonnie Burton Erin Vilardi Charlie Oliver 12:30-1:40 Old Main Chapel 4208 Race and Ethnicity: Facing Our Past William A. Thorne Jr. Peter Rupert Lighte Deliana Garcia

Macky Auditorium Debate: Trump’s Foreign Policy Heather Hurlburt Robert G. Kaufman

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UMC 235 athways to Juvenile P Justice William A. Thorne Jr. James Bell Elisabeth MacNamara Tulio Cardozo

UMC Center Ballroom I nternational Terrorism--The Next Chapter Joe Cirincione Malou Innocent Ross Wilson Heather Roff

3:00-4:20 UMC Center Ballroom 1309 U.S. Interventionism: Speak Loudly and Carry a Small Stick Joe Cirincione Heather Hurlburt Larry Greenwood Jr. Henry R. Nau

3:00-4:20 UMC East Ballroom 1305 Notes from Sub-Saharan Africa Maggie Duncan Simbeye A. Edward Elmendorf Gabriel Demombynes Valentino Achak Deng

TUESDAY

2:00-3:10 UMC Center Ballroom 2302 China and the USA: Race to the Economic Top Peter Rupert Lighte Larry Greenwood Jr. Jose De La Fuente Jeffrey Zax

WEDNESDAY

9:00-9:50 UMC East Ballroom 3009 Win-Win Climate Solutions David Orr Kate Williams Tracey Holloway Alexander Verbeek

11:00-12:20 Macky Auditorium 3108 The Korea Dilemma Christopher Robert Hill 11:00-12:20 UMC 235 3103 Guns Elisabeth MacNamara Samantha Haviland

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UMC West Ballroom Net Neutrality: The Internet as a Public Utility April Rinne Ben Wagner Deborah Bryant Charlie Oliver

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Thursday, April 5

1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Cornelius. 5:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

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

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

Tuesday, April 10

Kimberly Reid — #Prettyboy Must Die. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Elisabeth Hyde — Go Ask Fannie. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Sunday, April 8

Wednesday, April 11

Will Barnes, Madelyn (Braverman) Garner and Radha Marcum. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Ave., Boulder.

Monday, April 9 The Nobel Lecture Series. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store,

CU MFA Showcase— Hillary Susz. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania

Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004. She is an Austrian playwright and novelist. Her novels and plays reveal the absurdity of society clichés and their subjugating power. Beverly Weber, a professor of German at CU Boulder, will give a presentation about Jelinek’s work at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 9 at Boulder Book Store. Please note that prize winners are not present at any of the Nobel Lecture Series events.

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Friday, April 6

Big Band Swing Dance Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Blues and Ragtime Guitar by The Jelly Roll Bakers. 5:30 p.m. Sweet Spot Cafe, 585 Dillon Road, Louisville, 303-335-4857.

Eminence Ensemble. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Flamenco Underground Present: Feria de Abril. 8 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 720-771-7223. The Foggy Tops Bluegrass Band. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Herein The Cellar. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. House of Joy. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. John Fullbright. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Lafayette Jazz. 7 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

THE LONG RUN “A TRIBUTE TO THE EAGLES” “Tribute”

Ben Hanna Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Boulder Opera presents: Cosi fan tutte — All Women Are Like That! 7 p.m. St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 2425 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-731-2036.

Friday April 6th & Saturday April 7th

An inspirational show told through the letters of starstruck fan Louise Seger, Always… Patsy Cline is based on the true story of singer Patsy Cline’s friendship with Seger. Now playing at BDT Stage through May 20. See page 27 for a review of the show.

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Thursday April 12th

LADIES NIGHT WITH THE ARISTOCATS “Variety Dance” FREE ADMISSION

Friday April 13th

Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through April 29. Always ... Patsy Cline. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through May 20. Anastasia. 3 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through May 5. The Diary of Anne Frank. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through April 28. The Electric Baby. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 4. The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through April 15. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St. Longmont. Through April 8. Kiss Me, Kate. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through April 15.

Little Red Riding Hood. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through April 28. A Picasso — presented by Cherry Creek Theatre Company. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through April 29. The Playboy of the Western World — presented by Upstart Crow Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 8. The Producers. Lakewood Cultural Center and Performance Now Theatre Company, 480 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Through April 8. Third Annual New Play Festival. University Theatre, Acting Studio, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. April 5-8. Sense and Sensibility. Arvada Center for Performing Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 6. Sleeping Beauty — presented by Denver Children’s Theatre. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, Elaine Wolf Theatre, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through May 4.

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Saturday April 21st

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Lionel Young Duo. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Lisa Marie Simmons. 5:30 p.m. Highland City Club, 885 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4430.

Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Music of India Singing Class. 12 p.m. Hamsa Arts, 1919 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-449-5030.

Silent Bear Trio — with Paa Kow. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-0486.

Pete Zimmer Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Tiffany Christopher Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder,

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303-776-1914. Tyler Thompson. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Zoe Keating. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Drawn to Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard presents the award-winning editorial work of artist Jim Howard, a well-respected member of Denver’s fashion community. More than 100 works on paper showcase Howard’s four-decade fashion illustration career, starting with his early advertising campaigns for Neiman Marcus in the late 1950s. Now showing at the Denver Art Museum through July 22.

Act On It: Exhibit on CU Student Activism. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 15. Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May. 13. Cleon Peterson: Shadow Of Men. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 27.

Jim Howard, Drawing, about 1960. Ink and watercolor on paper. From the collection of Jim Howard. © Jim Howard.

Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 20. Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Honestly Lying. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 13. Drawn To Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 22. Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018. Embracing Mistakes. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby and Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 15. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October. Kimberlee Sullivan: Weather Pattern. Macky

Auditorium (foyer), 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through May 6. Large Format Fine Art Prints From Paper Collage — by Kimberly McClintock. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Gallery I, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through April 28. Member’s Show. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through April 22. Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21. Nathan Abels: History of the Future. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28. Objects in Perspective. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 15.

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

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

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Events Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. First Friday Film Night. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fouth Ave., Longmont, 303-561-2787. For the Love of Spock. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Trivia Bowl. 9 a.m. Village Conference Center, 500 30th St., Boulder, 303-442-5538.

Frank Moore. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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Longmont Symphony: Tales from the Sea. 7:30 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796.

Honorable Disorder. 8 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Studio, 119 Park Ave. West, Denver, 303-295-1759.

Longs Peak Chorus Spring Show 2018. 2 p.m. City of Longmont Museum, Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303651-8374.

Spanish Modern Literature Club. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Dances and Songs. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Music Bill McCrossen Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Bootstrap Brewery Tour. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Boulder Philharmonic: A Song for Swans. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-449-1343. Colorado CCL Concert and Fundraiser. 7 p.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. The Delta Sonics. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-7761914. Eoto. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. 36 April 5 , 2018

eTown presents Bob Schneider (Solo). 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

First Saturday Yoga: Trees. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Lyons Old-Time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-827-6322. Miss Kiet’s Children. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. NCAR Art Reception for Kimberly McClintock. 3 p.m. 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Pella Crossing: History and Habitat. 1 p.m. Pella Crossing Open Space, Longmont. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Sunday, April 8 Alt-J. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 N. Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. AJ Fullerton, Ryan Koronich. 11:30 a.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. Coyote Peterson. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Farmer Sisters. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Live Music. 3 p.m. BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-638-5193. Moonchild: Spring Tour 2018. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Music in the Galleries: La Pompe Jazz. 2 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver, 720-354-4880. Outlaw Yoga. 10:30 a.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. The Rogers Brothers. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Zoe Berman. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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Monday, April 9

Carmen: Royal Opera House. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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Concert Series presents: Sands Around Infinity. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Dances and Songs. 4 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Islamic Center of Boulder Open House. 2 p.m. Islamic Center of Boulder, 5495 Baseline, Boulder, 720-340-1530. Tulip Fairy & Elf Festival. 1 p.m. Pearl Street Mall, Pearl St., Boulder.

Dashboard Confessional — with Beach Slang. 5:30 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. The Moonlit Wild. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Stolie. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Events Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Your Life, Your Legacy. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Tuesday, April 10 Music 10 Years — with Black Map. 6 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Lo Moon. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Luna — with Flaural. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Open Stage Hosted by Danny Shafer. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Events Birding Boulder County through the Seasons. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Dash & Dine 5k Run Series. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N. 51st St., Boulder, 303-441-3461. Euchre in Longmont — Win Free Beer. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Recycled Runway 9. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Financial Know-How: The Importance of Identifying and Understanding Your Numbers. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wednesday, April 11 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Mitis. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Shoes and Brews, 63 S. Pratt Parkway, Suite B, Longmont, 720-3404290. Events Back to Burgundy. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Carmen: Royal Opera House. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Heather Hansen: Wildfire in the West. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. QuestBotics Coding. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. 6 Pillars of Launching an E-Commerce Store. 9:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder, 303-444-7888. Wobblers and Walkers. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Yoga for Kids. 4 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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he Bamboo Skewer food truck specializes in “Japanese-inspired grilled skewers,” which sound, objectively, delicious. We, however, overheard about a half-dozen people order the crispy chicken potstickers and couldn’t pass up the opportunity. We’re glad we didn’t. Wonton dumplings are lightly crisped and contain a robust, citrusy, herbaceous medley of flavors inside. Served with a spiced soy sauce, it’s hard not to mow through them. No doubt, they’re worth the hype. $5.

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lacier serves up soul-pleasing, old-fashioned ice cream, which has a little more structure than other varieties. The rock-solid takes on ice cream staples occasionally open the door for understated innovation, as in the pink cadillac. A strawberry ice cream base is tart, sweet and so faithful to capturing the fruit’s flavor, it almost comes off as sorbet. It’s mixed in with chocolate cookie and cream bits, and the crunch from the cookie, the fat of the cream, the fruit of the ice cream, are all calling summer out of hibernation. $5 pint.

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n its new South Boulder digs, McDevitt Taco Supply is slinging bold taco creations almost as fast as people can order them. Recent specials included the chocopotle beef and slow-roasted serrano pork tacos. We tried both, but found the latter to be the brightest star. Ridiculously tender pork and bright, spicy salsa complement each other naturally, and a simple topping of crema ignites the palate. $4 each.

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f you’re a sandwich buff, you know the muffaletta can be the holy grail. If done well, and the combination of giardiniera, dressing, meat, cheese and bread hits the correct proportion, it’s a sandwich that literally tastes like a trumpet-heavy parade down Bourbon Street. If not, well, good luck muddling through that. The folks at Goin South respect this fine line and deliver on a bold muffaletta. The rounded roll is remarkable — sturdy enough to strong-arm all the components and yet pillow-soft upon biting. The giardineria is olive-heavy (that’s good), and the cheese is piled thick to round out some of the cured meat spiciness. $11.

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hey use apocalyptic language. They talk of riots, freak-outs, insurrection... or worse. Yet, they smile when they say it. What makes the chefs of the Boulder metro area speak of doom and gloom? I asked them if there was a dish that has been on their menu forever that they don’t dare remove. Every single chef, owner or manager had a tale to tell. Some cook dishes daily that they have made since the Reagan administration. Menu mainstays are a dilemma and a blessing, chefs said. There is only so much room on a menu and in the kitchen. You can’t add a new dish unless you retire an old one, and it gets old making the same dish over and over again. On the other hand, chefs say, you love customers who are so fiercely loyal to a dish that they threaten to boycott the restaurant. When you dine, there are two ordering approaches: Choose the daily special because that’s where the kitchen’s creativity shows through, or order the item the waiter says is the establishment’s best-seller. Reading through the following items makes me

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The teriyaki sirloin and mud pie are a few of Boulder Cork dishes that have been on the menu for more than three decades.

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want to sample the tried-and-true classics. Boulder Cork: According to longtime executive chef Jim Smailer, the Boulder Cork has several dishes that have been on the menu for more than three decades, including prime rib, the eatery’s single best-selling dish. “I have one regular customer who has come in every week for years and all he ever orders is teriyaki sirloin,” Smailer says. Other elders include the mud pie and steamed baby artichoke with lemon, drawn butter and curry mayo. Jax Fish House: “We definitely have a dish that is not going anywhere, our fried calamari with mango-chile mojo and lime aioli. This dish has become a signature, and we sell a ton. It would be a terrible business decision to take calamari off the menu,” says Sheila Lucero, executive chef for the five Jax Fish House locations including the original in Boulder. Riffs Urban Fare: “Two dishes have been on the menu since we opened: Brussels sprouts with brown butter and hazelnuts, and cedar plank salmon with bay laurel butter and mushrooms. Taking them off the menu would almost certainly result in negative repercussions. Both are simple dishes, not groundbreaking in any way, but they are good. Some dishes just seem to strike a chord with folks,” says John Platt, chef/owner of Riffs. Blackbelly: “We put steak tartare on the menu when we opened Blackbelly, just to see if it would work in Boulder. It always sells. People would freak out if we took it off the menu,” says chef/owner Hosea Rosenberg. Seeds Library Cafe: Even chef Matt Collier, whose menu relies on what is available from local farmers, has a dish that has been on the menu at the eatery in the Boulder Public Library since day one. “It’s the farmers vegetable soup, and customers love it. It’s always a mélange of the season’s vegetables so it is always different, but the name stays the same,” he says. Boulder Valley School District Cafeterias: Chef Ann Cooper feeds 30,000 school kids scratch-made food every day. You might expect the mostloved dish to be pizza, burgers or burritos. “Our kids just love the baked stuffed potato with broccoli and cheddar cheese. The recipe won a kids’ Top Chef competition years ago,” Cooper says. Bramble & Hare: Chef Eric Skokan of Black Cat Farm and Bistro and Bramble & Hare didn’t hesitate when asked for an untouchable item: “It would definitely be the mac-ncheese at Bramble & Hare. We’ve tried to take it off the menu but there was a groundswell. There would be riots, Boulder Weekly

picket lines if we did it again. I love the mac-n-cheese. My kids love it,” he says. “The other dish has only three ingredients: roasted carrots, pistachios and lemon.” Flagstaff House Restaurant: The fine dining establishment, located on the side of the mountain west of Boulder since 1971, has a menu jammed with rare gourmet treats but, according to general manager Scott Monette, one comforting dish stands out. “It would have to be our Colorado lamb loin and shank. It’s been on the menu for at least 15 years, maybe longer. We serve the lamb with white truffle-infused polenta, ratatouille vegetables, goat cheese and lamb jus,” Monette says. Walnut Café: “The dish we can’t cut is the eggs marcos. It’s two scrambled eggs, bacon, cream cheese and melted cheddar and two sides. It is so rich and delicious it gives people a good reason to be bad,” says Dana Derischweiler, owner of the Walnut Café and two other locations in Boulder and Lafayette. Café Aion: Up on The Hill, fried crispy cauliflower rules the kitchen. “This dish has been on our menu since day one eight years ago. We hear folks say they never liked cauliflower before they tried this dish. They can’t believe it isn’t battered (natural starches and sugars equals great crunch). Also, they love the beautiful vibrant color of the saffron yogurt with it,” says Aion Café owner and chef Dakota Soifer.

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s average consumers in Boulder County, we have a tendency to think of our Boulder County Farmers Markets (BCFM) as an end. They’re places to meet farmers and try new food and learn about agriculture, sure, but we’re there, primarily, to get produce and local goods. This obfuscates what BCFM has become: a national leader in supporting small-scale farmers and an example to other markets on how to do the same. Take the Lafayette Thursday night market, for instance. While Boulder has the biggest market in the county, and Longmont has the fastest-growing, most family-friendly event, BCFM is “still working hard to find a strategy” as the Lafayette market enters its second year, says Elyse Wood, operations and community manager at BCFM. The market is billed as a night out, complete with a beer garden for those who attend. Farmers and artisans who can’t get into one of the other markets due to space limitations are encouraged to set up a booth at Lafayette’s market and help it grow. But here’s where BCFM is blazing a trail: Wood says that because the market may only receive 300 visitors on a good night, farmers need to be assured that they’ll make enough money at the market to cover the costs of showing up. To help cover that risk, BCFM started a Founding Membership

Program, which asks Lafayette residents to Various vendors produce an array become “founding memof tasty food to bers” for $55. The funds choose from at Boulder County are put into a pool to Farmers Markets. help cover the costs for farmers who show up and don’t break even. So BCFM purchases enough food from low-selling farmers to cover their costs, and then the food is donated to local charities. Last year, the program bought and donated 1,500 pounds of produce and meat, which was donated to Community Food Share. In exchange for the $55 fee, founding members will get special deals and an invite to an exclusive end-of-year celebration. Of course what folks are signing up for is an opportunity to get hands-on with the growth of their hometown farmers market. “We’ve never seen it before,” Wood says of the model, but it’s born out of BCFM’s commitment to support farmers first, and let the local food system thrive around them. “We want to be able to keep our value system in place in terms of supporting farmers,” Wood says. BCFM has always been about farmers — 30 years ago, the first farmers market took place on see BCFM Page 48

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Pearl Street in front of the courthouse. Wood says since then, despite the rapid growth and transformation into a business, “ultimately we are a board of farmers who always put agriculture first.” BCFM has expanded to welcome foods that come packaged and prepared, as opposed to only fresh produce, but what constitutes the thread between all producers is being local. Wood says that has allowed for diversity in products, with BCFM serving as an incubator for new ideas. It’s led to the launch of national companies like Noosa Yoghurt and Justin’s Nut Butter, and local enterprises like Organic Sandwich Company. Wood says only about two to three new people get to enter the Boulder market every year, which has an average of about 30 square feet available when new seasons start. Some of that goes to new producers, and some is split between farmers, like when a fruit grower doesn’t have anything to sell until later in the summer. But for all the talk about sustainability and supporting local producers, there needs to be equal attention paid to affordability. For Boulder County residents who might not have the means to shop for all their produce at farm stands and at the BCFM (full disclosure: me), Wood says education can go a long way in at least getting people to consider what it means to shop at BCFM. “We really want to educate the public about the cost of food and what goes into environmentally friendly food, where the labor is paid for fairly,” she says. “A lot of food that is cheap is food that is also harmful for the environment or harmful to the labor force.” Wood adds the cost of farming in Boulder County is higher than in other

places, so Aspen Moon is one that factors of several prointo the price ducers setting up stands at multiple of produce. BCFM locations. However, BCFM is trying to mitigate affordability concerns on a couple fronts: First it will continue to feature certain foods which may be available at discount prices, like a market-wide special. But it’s also attacking the notion that BCFM is vastly overpriced. Wood says, “there’s a misperception around farmers market prices,” and that BCFM will start to include comparisons to grocery store prices in its newsletters so consumers can decide for themselves. BCFM also expanded its reach in the community a few years back by launching Seeds Library Cafe in the main branch of the Boulder Public Library. It’s a surprise among the stacks to find such fresh food, and chef Matt Collier deftly works with the local fare to produce unique meals. Wood says if BCFM continues to grow, it can be viewed as an exemplar to other communities across the country, with the caveat that what makes the business side work is the benefit BCFM provides to people. “I think first and foremost we are a community resource and a place where ... people can come together,” Wood says. “We’re really focused on finding ways to better improver how we create and share local agriculture in this community.” The Boulder and Longmont Saturday markets open April 7. Boulder Wednesday markets start May 2, the Denver Union Station market on May 12 and the Lafayette Thursday night market on June 7. For more info, visit bcfm.org. Boulder Weekly

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t started like every other beer fest: throngs of thirsty patrons marching toward the threshold, their arms raised high to show the gatekeepers their wristbands while a loud, booming voice resonated through the hall, “Please proceed through the doors for your tasting glasses and welcome beers!” And that welcome beer — a Baltic porter named 10K Alumni, made in collaboration with eight breweries — was where the similarities to every other beer fest ended. This was the fifth annual Collaboration Beer Fest — CollabFest, as the kids call it — and this wasn’t hoards of drinkers in silly costumes, slapping plastic tumblers out of their friend’s hands; this was a celebration of the craft beer community coming together to create one-of-a-kind brews. Most brewers used the event to play outside their wheelhouse, and almost all of the beers came with imaginative, if not suggestive, names: On All Fours Cherry Tart, Eurotrashed, Gin-U-Wine and Michael J. Casey Hibiscus Curious, to name but a few. But a good beer a clever name does not make, and there were many dogs at CollabFest. Some were simply a swing and a miss; others were akin to having a bar of Dial soap pushed down your throat with a peach puree chaser. Regardless of how the final product turned out, experimentation was the name of the game and experiment the brewers did; from pastry stouts and hoppy kölsches, from kettle sours to Belgians galore. Scott Tucker from Mother Tucker The highlight: Schokolade Banana, a chocolate weiBrewery and Chris Labbe from Periodic zenbock from Periodic Brewing and Mother Tucker Brewing teamed up Brewery. Originally from Leadville, Periodic recently to make dessert in a opened a tasting room in Northglenn, minutes from glass with Schokolade Banana. Mother Tucker’s Thornton location, and their proximity provided the impetus for the collaboration. Using a solid weizenbock base, which brings a medium amount of banana flavor to the brew, and adding milk chocolate extract, Schokolade Banana achieved the goal many try to hit with just as many falling short: dessert in a glass. And both Periodic and Mother Tucker know it, as they plan to start selling it on the regular. For many at CollabFest, sweet was the way to go. From New Image Brewing and Molly’s Wine and Spirits: I Can’t Believe It’s Butter, which tasted like a liquid Samoa Girl Scout cookie; to a Nitro Raspberry Porter made by Strange Craft Beer and the Metro State University Brewing Program, which was surprisingly like eating a peanut butter and raspberry jam sandwich on whole wheat bread. Not every beer was dessert in a glass — though the breadth of dessert beers poured may point to a developing trend. And certainly not every beer was destined for the production line, but no one seemed to care if this was the beginning of something new or merely a one-off. What mattered were the friendships foraged and the experimentation allotted these brewers. As more beer fests turn into drunken soirees, CollabFest remains a low-key, simple and somewhat quiet reminder that all this work is supposed to be fun. Boulder Weekly

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Eight y-three-year-old According to my analysis author Harlan Ellison of the cosmic omens, your has had a long and impact is rising. You’re successful career. In gaining influence. More Go to RealAstrology.com to check out the course of publishpeople are tuning in to Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO what you have to offer. ing hundreds of literary And yet your stress levels works in seven differHOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE also seem to be increasent genres, he has won HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes ing. Why is that? Do numerous awards. But are also available by phone at you assume that having when he was in his thir1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. more power requires you ties, there was an interto endure higher tension? ruption in the upward Do you unconsciously believe that being more worried arc of his career. The film production company Walt is the price of being more responsible? If so, banish that Disney Studios hired him as a writer. During his first nonsense. The truth is this: The best way to manage your day on the job, Roy Disney overheard Ellison joking growing clout is to relax into it. The best way to express with a co-worker about using Disney characters in an your growing clout is to relax into it. animated pornographic movie. Ellison was fired on the spot. I am by no means predicting a comparable event in your life, Aries. On the contrary. By giving SCORPIO you this heads-up, I’m hoping you’ll be scrupulous OCT. 23-NOV. 21: and adroit in how you act in the early stages of a new The immediate future will challenge you to revisit project — so scrupulous and adroit that you will sail several fundamental Scorpio struggles. For best results, on to the next stages. welcome these seeming intrusions as blessings and opportunities, and follow these guidelines: 1. Your conTAURUS trol over external circumstances will increase in direct proportion to your control over your inner demons. APRIL 20-MAY 20: 2. Your ability to do what you want will thrive to the Are you an evolving Taurus or an unevolving Taurus? degree that you stop focusing on what you don’t want. Are you an aspiring master of gradual, incremental 3. Your skill at regulating and triumphing over chaos progress or a complacent excuse-maker who secretly will be invincible if you’re not engrossed in blaming welcomes inertia? Will the theme of your next social others. media post be “The Smart Art of Compromise” or “The Stingy Glory of Stubbornness”? I’m hoping you will opt for the former rather than the latter in each SAGITTARIUS of the three choices I just offered. Your behavior in the NOV. 22-DEC. 21: coming weeks will be pivotal in your long-term ability I’m about to say things that sound extraordinary. And to animate your highest self and avoid lapsing into your it’s possible that they are in fact a bit overblown. But mediocre self. even if that’s the case, I trust that there is a core of truth in them. So rejoice in their oracular radiance. GEMINI First, if you have been hoping for a miracle cure, the next four weeks will be a time when you’re more likely MAY 21-JUNE 20: than usual to find it or generate it. Second, if you have If you fly in a passenger jet from New York to London, fantasized about getting help to address a seemingly the trip usually takes more than six hours. But on irremediable problem, asking aggressively for that January 8, 2015, a powerful jet stream surging across help now will lead to at least a partial fix. Third, if you the North Atlantic reduced that time significantly. have wondered whether you could ever retrieve a lost With the wind’s extra push, several flights completed or missing part of your soul, the odds are more in your the trip in five hours and 20 minutes. I suspect you’ll favor than they’ve been in a long time. have comparable assistance in the course of your upcoming journeys and projects, Gemini. You’ll feel like the wind is at your back. CAPRICORN

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Actor Keanu Reeves’ career ascended to a higher level when he appeared as a lead character in the film Speed. It was the first time he had been a headliner in a bigbudget production. But he turned down an offer to reprise his starring role in the sequel, Speed 2. Instead he toured with his grunge band Dogstar and played the role of Hamlet in a production staged by a local theater company in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I admire him for being motivated more by love and passion than by fame and fortune. In my estimation, Cancerian, you face a choice that in some ways resembles Keanu’s, but in other ways doesn’t. You shouldn’t automatically assume that what your ego craves is opposed to what your heart yearns for and your soul needs.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

A Leo sculptor I know is working on a forty-foot-long statue of a lion. Another Leo friend borrowed $30,000 to build a recording studio in her garage so she can pursue her quixotic dream of a music career. Of my other Leo acquaintances, one is writing a memoir of her time as a black-market orchid smuggler, another just did four sky dives in three days, and another embarked on a longpostponed pilgrimage to Slovenia, land of her ancestors. What about you? Are there any breathtaking challenges or smart gambles you’re considering? I trust you can surf the same astrological wave.

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How sexy is it possible for you to be? I’m referring to authentic soul-stirring sexiness, not the contrived, glitzy, counterfeit version. I’m alluding to the irresistible magnetism that wells up in you when you tap in to your core self and summon a reverent devotion to your life’s mission. However sexy it is possible for you to be, Virgo, I suggest you unleash that magic in the coming weeks. It’s the most reliable strategy for attracting the spiritual experiences and material resources and psychological support you need.

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The French government defines books as an “essential good,” along with water, bread and electricity. Would you add anything to that list of life’s basics? Companionship? Stories? Deep sleep? Pleasurable exercise and movement? Once you identify your “essential goods,” I invite you to raise the level of reverence and care you give them. Take an oath to treat them as holy treasures. Boost your determination and ability to get all you need of their blessings. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to enhance your appreciation of the fundamentals you sometimes take for granted.

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Buckingham Palace is the home and office of the Queen of England. It has been the main royal residence since Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837. But in earlier times, the site served other purposes. The 17th-century English lawyer Clement Walker described the building occupying that land as a brothel, a hotbed of “debauchery.” Before that the space was a mulberry garden where silkworms tuned mulberry leaves into raw material for silk fabrics. I see the potential for an almost equally dramatic transformation of a certain place in your life, Aquarius. Start dreaming and scheming about the possibilities.

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o you ever come home after a long day at work and feel torn between which substance you want to use to escape reality? It’s OK, you’re not alone. It’s a tough choice, especially in Colorado where thriving microbreweries and marijuana dispensaries both

play essential roles in defining our culture (and economy). Starting this fall, you’ll no longer be faced with such a heavy decision because our state will be the first to sell a craft beer infused with THC. Remember back in college when the luxury of having a million different microbrews to choose from didn’t exist, so instead you drank Blue Moon with a slice of orange because you still needed to assert that you’re above drinking whatever cheap, light beer was flowing out of

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the keg? Well, back in January, Keith Villa, the guy who created Blue Moon Brewing Company and worked as the head brewmaster for 35 years, announced his retirement from Molson Coors. Fortunately for us, retirement must have been hella boring for Keith ’cause he spent the entire time experimenting with craft beer and marijuana in preparation for his next venture. Now, he’s teaming up with his wife, Jodie, to officially launch their new brand: Ceria Beverages. Actually, now that I think about it, three months of concocting drinks and researching how to get the masses lit sounds like the best retirement ever. Sign me up. Based in Arvada, Ceria’s company goals this year include rolling out the first ever line of cannabis-infused craft beers. “I’m ready to introduce another high-impact brand to the industry again,” Villa said in a press release. To me, that just sounds like a humble brag about how he has the resources, skills and experience required to disrupt the industry, expand his legacy and become even wealthier. That’s fine. I’m excited about these drinks and still plan on giving him all my money. Anyone with firsthand experience can tell you that simultaneously consuming alcohol and marijuana can be an iffy situation to put yourself in, but don’t worry about getting too faded — thanks to state laws that restrict alcohol and cannabis from being distributed in the same place or used in the same products, all of Ceria’s beers will be nonalcoholic and infused with THC, the psychoactive chemical compound present in cannabis. According to the website, the drinks will come in different strengths, like light, regular and full-bodied, as well as feature a “variety of sensations.” The light beer will offer about one to

six milligrams of THC per 12 oz. bottle. Regular beers will be in the 10 milligram range, while the full-bodied offerings will be in the 15 milligram range. And in the most Colorado move ever, the drinks will have a labeling system similar to ski slopes: a green leaf for beginners, a blue leaf for intermediate users, a black leaf for experienced users and two black leaves for “the ultimate experience.” To be clear, marijuana-infused drinks already exist, so this isn’t a new concept. Coalition Brewing previously introduced Two Flowers IPA, but it only gives you a mellow feeling, not a high, because it’s infused with the non-psychoactive cannabidiol (CBD). So there are a few things that make Ceria standout. First, the drinks will be brewed just like an alcoholic craft beer to maintain its beer taste and aroma, but with the alcohol removed and replaced with THC, instead of CBD. But the thing that really gives Ceria a leading edge over competitors? The beers are designed to deliver a consistent user experience with the same onset time as alcohol. How cool is that? Ceria’s drinks will have less calories than traditional beer due to the elimination of alcohol, so feel free to tell your friends who are smug about their health and alcohol choices. To deliver upon the fast-acting, consistent, trusted psychoactive experience, Ceria is working closely with Ebbu, a leading cannabinoid research firm also based in Colorado. Ebbu has developed a set of cannabis formulations that inspire specific sensations, all of which can be consistently dosed and delivered in a true watersoluble format. If successful, Ceria plans to sell the drinks in other legalized cannabis states by the end of the year.

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The gentlemen from Kentucky rise to speak for hemp

hen U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) announced last week that he was going to introduce a bill to legalize industrial hemp, there was a sudden collective intake of breath among the nation’s journos, the likes of which hadn’t been heard since the last 4/20 celebration at CU Boulder. Rand Paul, Kentucky’s other GOP Senator, will be joining McConnell as an original co-sponsor of the bill. McConnell said his bill would “finally legalize hemp as an agricultural commodity and remove it from the list of controlled substances.” He added that he was “optimistic that industrial hemp can become sometime in the future what tobacco was in Kentucky’s past.” The journos’ surprise stemmed from the fact that the only two demographics in the country that still oppose the legalization of marijuana are Republicans and geezers. But hemp and U.S. Senators from Kentucky go back a long way. All the way back to Henry Clay. Clay grew hemp on his estate, Ashland, and was a leader in introducing the crop to the state, importing seeds from Asia. In 1810, he favored legislation requiring the U.S. Navy to use domestically grown hemp for its rigging. And in 1828, he favored a tariff bill, known as the Tariff of Abominations in the Southern states, that imposed a $60-a-ton duty on imported hemp ($1,100 or $2,400 in today’s dollars, depending on how inflation is calculated). During the 19th and first part of the 20th century, Kentucky was the country’s major hemp-producing state. In the 19th century, hemp was mostly grown for fiber. It was used for ship’s sails — the word canvas derives from cannabis –— and lines (or ropes, as land lubbers would say). It was also used for clothing; a lot

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of the home-made clothmarijuana – and hemp – ing called homespun was DINNER MENU: kicked in. Today 80 permade from hemp (as • BREAD cent of U.S. hemp proopposed to flax or cotton). Sour cream and hemp flour cornbread with duction, while tiny, occurs But as a fabric, hemp honey butter in Kentucky and took a major hit from the • SALAD Colorado. invention of the cotton Hemp oil caesar dressing, hemp hearts, Hemp producers usugin, which made the procroutons, tomato-basil tapenade ally make a point of sayduction of cotton fiber • ENTREE ing that you absolutely, more economical. Hemp seed crusted chicken, golden raisins, positively can’t get high The extraction of fiber bourbon and sorghum glaze from the hemp they from hemp stalks required • SIDE grow. If so, it’s because them to be dried in the Creamy smoked gouda and hemp heart they’re using strains that sun and then beaten to risotto have been deliberately break the cellulose inner • DESSERT bred to have absolutely, cores, or hurds, and loosBlueberry peach cobbler with hemp cake positively no THC in en the fibers from them. crumble them. Other than that, Henry Clay had more there is absolutely, posithan 50 slaves to do the tively no biological difjob. ference between marijua(Hemp did benefit from “King Cotton” in one sur- na and hemp. prising way; hemp cordage was used to bind cotton The difference lies in how they are grown. Hemp bales.) plants are grown close together like grass. That way The hemp equivalent of the cotton gin, dubbed the they’ll grow up tall and stringy. Marijuana is planted decorticator, wasn’t developed until the 20th century. with the plants further apart, so they can bush out and Just about the time hemp seemed poised to take produce more flowers (or buds as we call ’em). But the off as a major 20th century crop — a 1937 issue of individual hemp plants will still produce flowers at the Popular Mechanics described a number of major uses top. and called it a “New Billion Dollar Crop” — the Henry Clay’s hemp would probably get you high, Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 was passed, and hemp but not very high, just like any pre-1970 hemp crop became collateral damage from reefer madness. The before the THC was bred out. war on drugs ensued and Cretans finally succeeded in Speaking of Henry Clay, hemp is again being declaring it a controlled substance and outlawing its grown at Ashland, his estate. Last October, the Kentucky Hempsters, an advocaproduction outright in 1970. cy group, held their second annual “hemp-infused” But it’s hard to keep a good plant down. In 2014, fundraising dinner there, which featured a five-course McConnell, with an eye toward resurrecting Kentucky’s hemp industry evidently, attached a rider to meal with each dish incorporating hemp foods (sans THC, alas) and show-casing the hemp plant’s edible the Farm Bill that shielded state industrial hemp side. research programs from federal meddling. Chef Jeremy Ashby’s menu appears in the box. It was the same year Colorado’s re-legalization of

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