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Riding waves in the wake of cancer by Christi Turner
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5 THE HIGHROAD: How much does it cost to buy a public university’s integrity? 6 DANISH PLAN: The Donald better start feeling the Bern 7 GUEST COLUMN: I slept under a mosquito net for one week; Here’s why 9 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 32 OVERTONES: Steve Kimock paints a portrait of his current life in new album BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go POETRY: by Patt Emile SCREEN: ‘The Nice Guys’ is a gleeful Black black comedy FILM: The cruel and hilarious world of ‘The Lobster’ FOOD NEWS: Local chef chosen by U.N. to spread the word about pulses DRINK: Trading a desk job for one in the vineyards ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny S AVAGE LOVE: Should I cheat?; Queer peg in a straight hole WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: A mind-altering substance CANNABIS CORNER: The Commish blows smoke on pot IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: An irreverent view of the world
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irst came withering hoots of laughter when the honchos of George Mason University named their law school the “Antonin Scalia School Of Law.” Yes, the acronym for that spelled ASSOL — an honor Scalia might’ve merited, but very embarrassing for the university. Even though administrators quickly changed the name to the Scalia Law
School, their embarrassment turned into shame, for it turns out they had sold the naming rights to none other than multibillionaire right-wing extremist, Charles Koch! For years, Koch and other moneyed corporatists have quietly pumped millions into a couple of pseudo-academic centers on campus to promote their laissez-faire ideology. But here was Virginia’s largest public university letting the infamous Koch brother and one other unnamed right-winger give $30 million in exchange for branding George Mason’s law school — one of the university’s core academic components — with Scalia’s name. Students and faculty rebelled at the idea that the integrity of their university, supposedly a center of enlightenment and erudition, was to be identified with a judge notorious for veering into racist and homophobic rants, and for being the Supreme Court’s most obsequious servant of plutocratic corpo-
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rate rule. Rebellion turned to fury when it was learned that the right-wingers’ “donation” also required school officials to commit taxpayer money to finance 12 new professorships and two new centers to promote the Koch brothers’ fantasies of free-market plutocracy. The university’s president calls this perfidious transaction a simple “naming gift.” But who is he to put the name of the people’s law school up for sale? And why was it sold in a secret, no-bid process? Koch was not making a gift, he was buying a public asset, including the university’s integrity. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. May 26, 2016 5
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ere’s a curious little detail about this year’s presidential race that’s been hiding in plain sight in the polls since January and ignored by almost everyone in politics who should know better: The Democrats’ strongest candidate is Bernie Sanders. By a long shot. Polling doesn’t leave much room for doubt on this point. Since the start of the year there have been 26 national polls that included a Sanders versus Trump trial heat question. Sanders came out on top of 25 out of the 26. (The only one he lost was a USA Today/Suffolk poll taken February 11 to 15. Trump won that one by one point, 43-44.) Sanders not only won the other 25, he won 21 of them with double-digit margins. In 11 of the 12 polls taken since the end of March, he got 50 percent of the vote or higher. (The exception was last week’s Fox News poll, which showed Sanders beating Trump by 4 percentage points, 46-42.) His margins in the other four most recent polls are +15, +13, +11 and +16. During the same period, there were 37 trial heats between Clinton and Trump. Clinton won 29 of the 37 with one tie. But her margins were generally closer than those in the Sander vs. Trump match-ups. She led Trump by double digits in only 12 of the 37 and 6 May 26, 2016
got 50 percent or more support in only 11 of them. But the five most recent polls all ended in statistical ties and with Trump actually ahead by margins of 2 to 5 percentage points in three of them. In other words, while Trump has closed the polling gap with Clinton since he effectively clinched the Republican nomination on May 3, he’s still getting blown out by Sanders. Which raises some fascinating questions: What happens if these trends continue? Suppose Trump opens up a larger lead against Clinton, and Sanders continues to lead Trump? If that happens, at what point does the national media start to notice that Sanders has a better chance of beating Trump in November than Clinton does? At what point does it dawn on the political chattering classes that they may have been as clueless about Sanders as they’ve been about Trump? And how does the narrative change then? And what happens if Trump is leading Clinton and Sanders is leading Trump when the Democratic Convention convenes next July? Nothing concentrates the mind like the knowledge that you’re going to be hanged in the morning. Will it dawn on the Democratic establishment, see DANISH PLAN Page 8
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sistently shown Sanders beating Trump. If I were running the Republican campaign, I would stop assuming that Hillary Clinton will be the inevitable nominee, and start giving some serious thought to how to run against Sanders. This has been a year of political surprises, and a Democratic pivot from Clinton to Sanders at the last minute based on electability shouldn’t be ruled out. And if I had to run against Sanders I would make an ideological attack on socialism the centerpiece of my campaign. I would not assume that everyone knows that socialism sucks, and it is enough just to ridicule Sanders for being a socialist — as a lot of Republicans seem to think. If Sanders is the nominee, Republicans are going to have to re-defeat socialism in order to beat him. In order to beat Sanders, Trump will have to run the sort of campaign Margaret Thatcher would run. Whether he has it in him remains to be seen. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, along with other interventions, tremendous progress has been made. An estimated 6.2 million lives have been saved since 2000, and childhood deaths in Africa have been reduced by 71 percent. Many like me in the U.S., who have experienced malaria or know dear ones at risk of malaria, are committed to protecting kids and families around the world from this disease. We have joined Nothing But Nets, which is working with the U.N. and other partners to help beat back the spread of malaria and protect vulnerable populations, like refugee families. As a Nothing But Nets champion, I raise awareness and funds in my community, and advocate to elected leaders in Congress who have the power to fund life-saving programs such as the President’s Malaria
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Hydraulic fracking companies in Colorado inject into the ground solutions containing known carcinogens endangering the health of the people and the environment. Fracking wastes massive amounts of water, which is a problem in arid Colorado, as well as producing large amounts of polluted water and mud. Fracking endangers local aquifers, our drinking water and our health. In March of 2012, Physicians for Social Responsibility called for a moratorium on fracking in order to protect human health and the environment. In June 2015, New York state banned fracking because of threats to the environment and significant public health risks. On May 2, 2016, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that profits from fracking trumped the heath, safety and welfare of the people of Colorado. Colorado has become a leading oil and gas producer with over 50,000 active wells. The oil and gas industry has declared war on Coloradans and the Colorado Supreme Court will not protect the people from this significant risk to our health and environment. Coloradans must confront this threat to our health and environment and fight back in self-defense. Weibo Ludwig of Calgary, Canada fought back by pouring cement down wellhead shafts and blew up other wells. Malcolm X said: “I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.” Andrew J. O’Connor/Lafayette Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly does not advocate violence against people or property.
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Many may not know that extremely fragile habitat and the creatures who live there are in serious danger due to the planning of a particular trail in North Boulder on the west side of U.S. 36. City Council is about to review a proposed plan to take a major trail through a critically sensitive area, which is home to many at-risk inhabitants. From Golden Eagles and other vulnerable birds and mammals, to rare butterflies, important plant communities and eleven riparian drainages, the damage would be immense. Wet conditions which could keep Boulder Weekly
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here’s been an escalation in violence against Muslims in the United States that coincides with the 2016 presidential election season, according to a new report published by Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Earlier in the year, President Obama visited a mosque for the first time and talked about the potential dangers posed by bigoted anti-Muslim statements and proposals being made by many GOP presidential candidates. Referring to the “inexcusable political rhetoric” that has dominated the campaign, Obama said that it was no surprise that “threats and harassment of Muslim Americans have surged.”
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In April, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a survey of approximately 2,000 teachers around the country, which indicates that the Republican campaign is producing a disquieting level of fear and anxiety among children of color and arousing racial and ethnic tensions in the classroom. Teachers also disclosed an increase in the bullying, harassment and intimidation of students whose races, religions or nationalities have been the verbal targets of candidates. SPLC President Richard Cohen concluded, “We’ve seen Donald Trump behave like a 12-yearold, and now we’re seeing 12-year-olds behave like Donald Trump.” See MUSLIMS Page 12
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By contrast, Muslims in Boulder County have been made to feel welcome by many residents. On Dec. 20, 2015, the Daily Camera reported that following the November terrorist attacks in Paris, the December San Bernandino shootings and Trump’s call to ban Muslims coming into the U.S., members of the Islamic Center of Boulder noticed a change in the way people treated them. According to the article, “they’ve experienced an outpouring of support ranging from gifts to kind gestures at stores to thoughtful emails and messages.” Similarly, the Center’s Facebook page has also been overwhelmed with friendly posts. The mosque was founded in the 1970s by students at the University of Colorado Boulder who came from various countries in the Middle East. Anti-Muslin sentiment has exploded in For decades, it was housed the U.S. as a result of the 2016 in a small one-story buildpresidential election season with its incendiary Republican primaries. ing near the Safeway at 28th Street and Canyon. As the congregation grew, worship services became very crowded. In 2011, Democratic. the center moved into the former home of the He also said that when marijuana was legalized Bethany Baptist Church at 5495 Baseline Road. in Colorado a few years ago, someone at the The mosque is open to all Muslims (Sunni, Shia, mosque asked how they could vote for Democrats Sufi). since Muslims aren’t supposed to use any intoxiRecently, Lara Lee Hullinghorst, the chair of cants that interfere with reason (like alcohol or the Boulder County Democratic Party, visited the drugs). Someone else responded, “We are voting center and asked if someone could speak to for a government figure, not the imam of a Democrats about their community. In April, Hadi mosque.” Abdulmatin — a volunteer at the center who Abdulmatin told the Democrats that, generally works in the telecom industry — gave a short speaking, Muslims favor raising the minimum wage address before the party’s executive committee. to $15, favor universal health care and didn’t support Abdulmatin said there are estimated to be from the Keystone XL pipeline. In his research, he said he 3 to 7 million Muslims in the United States. Since couldn’t find any Muslim leader anywhere in the the census doesn’t ask people about religion, these world who doubts the reality of climate change. are guesses. There are 40,000 to 50,000 Muslims He said many Muslims around the country in Colorado and about 1,000 in Boulder. About 25 seem to be enthusiastic supporters of Bernie percent are African American and 30 percent are Sanders. The best example is Michigan where white (that includes people from Turkey and the Sanders won a big majority of Democratic primary Arab world who identify as white on census voters in Dearborn. forms). About 20 to 30 percent are of South Asian The city has the largest proportion of Arab origin and 6 percent are Latino. Americans in the United States. Many of them are Muslims are diverse in their political opinions, Muslim but a substantial number are Christian. he said. Most of them used to be Republicans, but The world headquarters of the Ford Motor in the last 15 years they have been voting Company is located there with its gigantic River 12 May 26, 2016
Rouge factory complex. Sanders had campaign swag and literature in Arabic. He released a radio ad in Arabic denouncing Republican attacks on Muslims, concluding in English: “We have got to stand together to end all forms of racism.” Abdulmatin drew laughs from the Boulder County Democratic gathering when he mentioned a 2010 article in the influential elite journal Foreign Policy which claimed that George W. Bush was America’s first Muslim president. The piece was written by Suhail A. Khan, a Muslim Republican who served in the Bush administration. He said that Muslims were, by and large, conservative: “... Sixty-one percent of them would ban abortion except to save the life of the mother; 84 percent support school choice. Muslims overwhelmingly support traditional marriage. More than a quarter — over twice the national average — are self employed smallbusiness owners...” Khan said Bush was, at least at the beginning, the first Muslim president. Bush was the first and only major presidential candidate to visit a mosque when he campaigned for president. The 2000 Republican convention in Philadelphia was the first in either national party’s history to include a Muslim prayer. Muslim community leaders told Bush about their civil liberties concerns over a piece of 1996 immigration enforcement legislation signed into law by Bill Clinton. Shortly afterward, Bush criticized this legislation in one of his presidential debates with Vice President Al Gore. Bush would be endorsed by eight major MuslimAmerican organizations. He won more than 70 percent of the Muslim vote, including 46,200 ballots in Florida alone. Prominent conservative activist Grover Norquist would conclude that Bush was elected because of the Muslim vote. Then the 9/11 attacks happened. Bush said America wasn’t at war with Islam. He met with Muslim American leaders on many occasions. He became the first sitting president to visit an American mosque and he appointed Muslim Americans to several prominent government positions. But soon Bush would invade Iraq. Grotesque Boulder Weekly
news prisoner abuses at Abu Gharib would be exposed. Life became uncomfortable for Muslim Americans under the Patriot Act. In the 2004 election, more than half of Muslim Americans would vote for Democrat John Kerry and third-party candidates. Republicans and conservative commentators became increasingly Islamophobic. Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo said the U.S. should respond to terrorism by bombing Mecca. In the 2008 campaign, it was common for Republicans to make nasty and paranoid statements about “Muslims” and “Arabs.” Barack Obama was accused of being a secret Muslim. When prominent Muslim and Arab Americans offered to campaign for Obama, they were told to stay away. At a rally in Detroit in June 2008, Obama campaign volunteers removed two Muslim American women in hijabs who were seated behind the podium where the candidate would be speaking (the campaign later apologized for the incident). Muslim Americans voted in record numbers for Obama, especially in electorally crucial swing states such as Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Virginia. Abdulmatin quoted a recent poll where 91 percent of Muslims said they are going to vote for Democrats this year. Last December, the Wall Street Journal featured an article entitled “Muslim Americans Search for Political Voice in U.S.” Such a diverse multi-ethnic community has struggled to build strong organizations to advance its interests. Farhana Khera, president of Muslim Advocates (a group that focuses on legal advocacy and education), told the Journal: “You have a mix of people who are immigrants and people who have been here for centuries and very much see themselves as Americans, and then you have other parts of our community who may question whether they’re being seen as an American. It’s like trying to herd a hundred cats, so to speak.” Meanwhile, the Islamic Center of Boulder is quite welcoming to strangers. On May 3, the mosque hosted a dinner and event open to anyone. The United Nations Association of Boulder County sponsored a panel discussion called “One God: Three Perspectives — Judaism, Christianity and Islam.” The speakers were a rabbi, a Congregationalist minister, two CU scholars of religion and Abdulmatin. The topic was “extremism/zealotry/terrorism” in all three faiths. Abdulmatin argued that Islamic terrorism comes out of socio-economic conditions more than religion. Boulder Weekly
Many Islamic terrorists don’t practice their faith regularly and lack religious literacy. “Very few have been brought up in strongly religious households, and there is a higher than average proportion of converts,” he said. He noted that MI5 (the U.K.’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency) “says there is evidence that a well-established religious identity actually protects against
violent radicalization.” He said the “who’s who” of Muslim leaders and scholars in this country and around the world have condemned terrorism. Abdulmatin said Americans should not fear Muslims: “Muslims are like anyone else in our society. We worry about the daily struggles of life like raising a family, paying bills, earning a decent living, marriage, divorce, etc. Like any other faith com-
munity, we engage in discussions about how to apply our faith, we have classes in theology and do outreach to the community.” It is clear that the fear goes both ways and isn’t likely to subside so long as it can be exploited for political gain. In the meantime, we can all work to ensure that Boulder County remains a safe haven for our Muslim neighbors.
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Peruvian farmer Máxima Acuña wins Goldman Environmental Prize while fighting for her land
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hen the Spanish came to the Cajamarca region of Peru looking for gold, they found the vast Incan empire instead. By 1532, Francisco Pizzaro and his men had captured the last indigenous emperor, taken his gold, and the Spanish conquest of the Incas was all but complete. According to myth, however, the Incas hid some of their wealth in nearby lakes, counting on spirits living in the water to protect the gold. Centuries later, these lakes are still the cultural and spiritual epicenter for the indigenous campisenos who survive as subsistence farmers nearby. And in recent years, four lakes above Cajamarca
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Above: Máxima Acuña overlooks Laguna Azul, a lake threatened by Denver-based Newmont Mining’s gold operations in Peru. Below: Acuña working the land, her house stands in the background.
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have been threatened once again by foreigners looking for gold. Máxima Acuña lives in the hills above Cajamarca, roughly 500 miles north of Lima, in the heart of the Andes. Along with her husband, four children and granddaughter, Acuña spends her days cultivating the land and tending to her sheep, making daily walks to Laguna Azul and the other three lakes nearby. “I walk around nature, I love being here with my plants, my animals, being outside. I go walk down to the lakes,” she says in a translated email to Boulder Weekly. “The lakes are life. The water, nature, environment is life. We go down to the lakes, drink the water, we use the water for everything, the lakes give life to everyone here.” Acuña and her family live and work a 60-acre plot of land in Tragadero Grande, claiming they purchased the property in 1994 with the land deed to prove it. But Denver-based Newmont Mining Company, along with its Peruvian partner Minas Buenaventura, says it purchased the Tragadero Grande land in 1996/97 from the Sorochuco community, with plans to access the gold buried beneath the lakes by developing the $4.8 billion Conga mine. An ongoing land dispute has ensued, gaining both national and international attention, most notably when Acuña received the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 18. Newmont’s Yanacocha Mine is South America’s largest open-pit gold mine. It sits only 10 miles from the “I am a woman from the highlands who lives in the proposed site of the Conga mine. mountain ranges/Tending to my sheep in mist and heavy rain/ When my dog barked, the police arrived,” Acuña sang at the Goldman awards ceremony. A woman short in stature, her traditional of eviction. Through a variety of appeals, a judge in Cajamarca later ruled there wide-brimmed hat barely rising above the podium, her eyes brimmed with was no evidence that Acuña and her family committed a crime and overturned tears as she sang. “My hut, they burned down/My things, they took away/Food, the order of eviction in 2014. But Newmont has appealed to the Peruvian I did not eat only water I drank/A bed, I did not have with hay I covered Supreme Court, says Omar Jabara from Newmont’s corporate communications myself/Because I defend my lakes, they want to take my life.” office in Denver, and land ownership has yet to be determined. Acuña has told her story countless times — police arriving at her door, The company first proposed the nearby Conga mine project in 2010 with destroying her crops, beating her and her family, threatening them unless they plans to significantly alter four mountain lakes in order to access the gold burvacate the land. She says they continue to threaten her, at one point almost ied beneath the waters. Newmont and Buenaventura already operate the nearby killing her dog, and continue to Yanacocha mine, South America’s Courtesy of EarthRights International/Jorge Chavez destroy her property while also largest open pit gold mine producing maintaining a fence around her plot, roughly 471,000 ounces of gold a year. causing her to feel trapped on her The Conga mine was expected to own land. She says the police (someyield 680,000 ounces of gold and 235 times calling them “thugs”) are million pounds of copper each year. working at the behest of the mining “Two lakes would’ve had to been companies. relocated. Essentially the water would “Here in Peru there is a law that have been moved into a new reservoir permits the companies to hire the and there were two lakes that police as their private security forcwould’ve been expanded,” Jabara says. es,” says Ximena Waarnars, Amazon The company has already spent $20 program coordinator for EarthRights million in order to expand International, a nonprofit seeking to Chailhuagon Lake into a reservoir. protect both human rights and the The Chailhuagon Reservoir now proenvironment through legal actions vides water to the community yearand advocacy campaigns. “That is round, where as the lake didn’t proalso one of the issues ... When are duce enough water to sustain the six the police working as a civil servants month dry season, Jabara says. and when are they working as pri“The plan was to quadruple the vate security?” volume of water to make up for the The Guardians of the Lake protest Newmont’s plan to drain the mountain lakes that provide water, as well as spiritual and cultural meaning, to the community. While Acuña and her family relocating of the lakes,” he says. “Part maintain the mining company of the plan was to expand the available burned their house and took their belongings, Newmont argues the family is water capacity from what it was as an improved benefit so that local communiillegally squatting on the land. In 2011, local courts ruled on the side of ties would gain some benefits from the mine.” Newmont, charging Acuña and her husband with aggravated usurpation, or However, opponents of the project say Acuña’s beloved Laguna Azul would taking land through the use of force. 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have been drained and turned into a waste storage pit, threatening significant headwaters and the surrounding wetland ecosystem. The community has also resisted the mine’s development. As Newmont began the process of environmental studies and permitting through Peru’s Ministry of the Environment, a small community of local farmers calling themselves the Guardians of the Lakes began holding vigils in 2012, funded in small part by Boulder’s Global Greengrants Fund (GGF). Acuña and her family often joined the protests. “She doesn’t really aspire to be a leader or be a political figure,” Waarnars says about Acuña. “She’s just a farmer who is protecting her land. She’s just become a symbol for all of Peru of these struggles.” The Guardians of the Lakes also organized a national march in opposition to the project, with support of the regional government, Waarnars says. Along with her work at EarthRights, Waarnars is also an advisor for Andes Board at GGF. “People walked from Cajamarca all the way to Lima demanding that water be protected,” she says. “This water march was national and it was really strategic that people mobilized not around being anti-mining but being in favor of protecting their water. So with this kind of discourse they were able to gain loads of support from different organizations and communities, even people in the outskirts of Lima who have issues with water. It brought a lot of Goldman Environmental Prize attention to the issues related to Conga.” In addition to water issues, the proposed Conga mine has also raised questions of indigenous peoples’ rights under international law. Although the people of the Amazon region of Peru are recognized as indigenous, with certain rights and privileges such as consultation over land use, Waarnars says the people of the Andes don’t have the same recognition, as they identify more with their cultural lifestyle than with their indigenous ethnicity. “They’d rather recognize themselves through activity as farmers,” she says. “But their identity as farmers doesn’t obviously have the same weight as being indigenous people under the law. “The farming communities in Cajamarca have a difficult time saying Máxima Acuña receives the Goldman Environmental Prize in Washington D.C. on they are indigenous and these are our April 18, 2016. rights,” she continues. “The government also has a difficulty recognizing them as indigenous people even though there are certain laws that could be interpreted in that way. In this kind of situation, the only thing that people have living there is the titles to their land and this is what Maxima has.” While Newmont continues to contest land ownership through the courts, the company announced in February 2016 that the Conga mine project would be suspended, with no foreseeable plans to develop the site further amidst the social backlash and in light of expiring permits. “Conditions for moving forward with the project would need to be securing social acceptance, project economics and bringing in a third partner to help pay for the cost and defray risks,” Jabara says. “Without those conditions, we’re not moving forward with the project.” While this is seen as a victory for the indigenous and environmental communities, Acuña’s fight is far from over. Regardless, she’s said she will continue her struggle against corporate power, although she’d rather go back to living peacefully on her land. “I feel proud and the [Goldman] Prize gave me more courage and encouragement so that we don’t have to feel fear anymore,” she says. “I am hopeful to have peace and tranquility, and to continue defending life, nature, water.” Boulder Weekly
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ood retailers in Boulder, like most eateries of donating food. Many business owners expressed Ordinance. The rule requires all food vendors in in most cities around America, are in desconcern about liability — what happens if someone Boulder to participate in a citywide composting properate need of education on the subject of gets sick from food donated from their establishment. gram by June 2016 — a quickly approaching deadline. food donation. “There wasn’t a consistency of understanding of Through City funding, Partners for a Clean A recent survey found that Boulder’s how to donate food and what happens to it afterEnvironment (PACE) facilitates trainings for businessrestaurants — all 265 full-service establishments wards,” Mertz says. es to transition to composting. In light of the Food within city limits — could donate 1.2 million pounds But food retailers have nothing to lose when it Waste Audit, these trainings are the perfect platform of safe food to local nonprofits for redistrifor BFR to partner with PACE and kill two Caleb Phillips bution each year if businesses only knew birds with one stone; business owners learnhow to go about the process. ing to compost could simultaneously learn to The City of Boulder teamed up with separate edible food for donation. nonprofit Boulder Food Rescue (BFR) to “It’s really a perfect time to get the busiconduct this research — the Food Waste nesses on board with donating if they’re Audit — and published the results earlier first starting a compost program because this year. we’re retraining them anyway to not put According to the audit, somewhere everything in the trash,” Mertz says. between 30 and 50 percent of all food proWaste reduction efforts like those hapduced in the U.S. is thrown away and never pening in Boulder are a small part of a eaten, which is a huge problem when one larger movement toward sustainability in in six people have limited or uncertain Colorado and throughout the U.S. and the access to food. world. The U.S. Department of Agriculture “It makes more sense if you can feed and Environmental Protection Agency people with food than [to] transform it have set national goals of a 50 percent into compost,” says Kara Mertz, environreduction in food waste in the U.S. by mental program manager for the City of 2030. The United Nations’ Food and Boulder. Agriculture Organization (FAO) is also Hana Dansky, executive director of Boulder Food Rescue, stands surrounded by apples donated from a local business. Beyond missing opportunities to feed working to reduce food waste and has people, food waste demonstrates inefficieninspired such efforts as the U.K.-based cies on multiple levels. Waste and Resources Action Program “We’re spending a lot of energy and land and comes to food donation. The 1996 Bill Emerson (WRAP), which produced a 21 percent reduction in water to even grow that food in the first place. So to Good Samaritan Act protects businesses from legal post-consumer food waste between 2007 and 2012. be able to redistribute that before it hits the landfill is responsibility (barring gross negligence, of course) According to the FAO, food waste is the third huge from an environmental perspective,” says Hana when they donate food to a nonprofit organization. In highest producer of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Dansky, executive director of BFR. “We’re not wastthe world. In 2014, the City of Boulder sent more than addition, businesses can cut down on composting ing all those resources that we’re putting into our 34,000 tons of organic waste to the landfill. However, a costs and receive a tax credit for donating food. food.” Now that the Food Waste Audit exists, the City of transition to composting since then has begun to curb The report revealed a lot of untapped potential for Boulder and BFR are collaborating to provide training that number. According to the Food Waste Audit, if food collection in Boulder, mainly because business the city’s waste reduction efforts see the same success as to businesses to maximize food rescue. owners don’t always understand how to prepare food WRAP, such a decline in food waste would curb CO2 The City had already made strides toward reducfor donation, and don’t understand potential benefits emissions by 525 metric tons. ing waste through 2015’s Universal Zero Waste
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a surfing camp with First Descents, a Denver-based nonprofit that brings young adults impacted by cancer on outdoor adventure programs, helping them build the lasting support many of them don’t even know they need. It starts with getting a unique nickname — no First Descents nickname is ever repeated. That first night, the group asked Mossberg what she likes to do. “I said, ‘Well, I like to smoke marijuana, being from Colorado,’” she says with a laugh. She also used to manage a dispensary, plus she’s a medical cannabis patient, she told them. “So they’re like, ‘Oh yeah. Your name is definitely Doobie.’” Thus Mossberg joined the more than 3,000 young adults already in the First Descents community, and the more than 500 new participants who’ll experience First Descents in 2016 — and she’s the only Doobie.
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From kayaking to climbing to surfing, every First Descents trip shares the same purpose: to use challenging outdoor experiences as a vehicle to show young adults impacted by cancer just what epic, extraordinary things they’re capable of. “We’re not a therapy group, we’re not a support group,” says Sarah Hubbard, First Descents director of marketing and “Camp Mom” on the Outer Banks trip (all First Descents staffers go out on at least one trip per year). “We don’t do any forced conversation whatsoever. That’s kind of what sets us apart.” Instead, the outdoor adventure component guides each trip, and the bonding over shared cancer experience happens organically. First Descents sends around 15 participants on each of its 40 week-long trips each year, each one totally for free — the average $1,700 cost per person is covered through First Descents’ funders. Through its group adventures, the organization helps tackle not just the sense Boyte Creative of physical limitation, but perhaps more importantly, the psycho-social challenges most of the participants face: anxiety/depression, isolation/alienation, body image issues or low self-compassion. Think of it as a mental health organization wrapped inside an outdoor adventure organization, specializing in those dealing, in some way, with cancer. “When you put the participants all together, they’re so eager to just have someone who speaks the same language,” Hubbard says. “They’re making chemo jokes, or they’re talking about their bald heads and their wigs. It’s like they’ve found their tribe, shockingly fast sometimes.” And a research partnership with the University of Michigan shows that while 17 percent of First Descent parAmy Mossberg practices popping up on her surf board during a trip with First Descents. The trip came ticipants come into their trip nearly five years after Mossberg’s cancer diagnosis. clinically depressed, only 7 percent leave as such. Mossberg and her roommate, “Bling,” were friends from the first night. “We didn’t even find out what we had until the next afternoon,” Mossberg says. “It was like, ‘So, what do you have for your cancer? I told her I had a brain tumor... and she had a freaking brain tumor too.” Doobie and Bling were the only two on the trip with tumors in their brains. Even so, the entire group — 12 women and two men, all between 18 and 39, First Descents’ target age range — stuck together as a unit. On the last day, the First Descent trip leaders said it was the first time they’d seen such a solid group bond. There was one way Mossberg felt a bit like an outsider. “I’ve still got the dick in my head,” she says using the colorful name she and her friends have given her tumor, a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), about four inches wide and two inches across. DIPG is a highly aggressive, difficult to treat cancer that grows on the pons — the part of the brainstem that controls vital functions like breathing, blood pressure and heart rate. The vast majority of DIPG diagnoses are children, and the bulk of the rest are people over 65. Now 31, Mossberg falls into a tiny fraction of people diagnosed in their 20s. She was the only one on the surfing trip who hasn’t undergone surgery or otherwise had the cancer removed from her body. “They were all talking about how their lives are going being in remission,” she says. “I’m kind of in remission, but I’m not.” But the deep bonds of common experience were stronger than Mossberg’s niggling sense of other-ness. One major thing they all had in common, she says, was Boulder Weekly
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being “that cancer person” at home — something the First Descents staff hear time and again from participants. “It’s been hard to come back from such a positive experience to a reality where I’m known as Amy the cancer girl,” she says. “Um, it’s actually just Amy.” First Descents has an answer to the stress that Mossberg and other participants can experience on the post-trip return to reality: Tributaries, or FDtribs. Mossberg has already signed up to be a member of the local Trib, and stay connected with the First Descents culture and community in Colorado. “We’re finding that’s been a tremendous source of ongoing peer-to-peer support,” says Ryan O’Donoghue, executive director of First Descents. “We’re finding that people are now just doing things on their own, adopting the ‘Out Living It’ lifestyle, versus relying on the organization to live the life they want to live.” “Out Living It” is the First Descents motto and mantra. Participants don’t usually have backgrounds in the outdoor activities featured on their trips. They start from scratch — how to get onto a surfboard, in Mossberg’s case — and move all the way to riding waves. Common side-effects of cancer or its treatment — like fatigue, or in Mossberg’s case, a shoulder replacement due to the effects of steroids — are all accounted for, but otherwise participants are treated as physically capable and encouraged to embrace feeling vulnerable in their First Descents adventures. Mossberg’s seminal moment on the trip: paddling herself out — shoulder and all — joining the group after a long hard swim, waiting for a wave, feeling completely at peace. It’s not as if Doobie lives a closed-off life. She and her main source of support and boyfriend of seven years, Chris Gilbane, spend countless hours hiking, floating on Clear Creek and traveling, and they’re always game for outrageous costumes and adventurous antics. Even her treatment regimen is “adventurous” by some measures, and befitting her nickname: every night she takes Phoenix Tears, a type of edible oil high in cannabidiol — or CBD — one of the components in cannabis found to have antitumor effects in some studies. In Doobie’s case, it’s working. Five years ago, she was given a short timeline. Her tumor was inoperable. Chemotherapy wasn’t an option. She completed the maximum safe radiation treatment, and Western medicine had nothing more to offer. Since then, she’s relied on nothing but a regimen of CBD oil and vitamins. At her last MRI, her tumor was stable — in some places perhaps even shrinking. She’s outliving it. But like other FD-ers, Mossberg’s world has been altered by cancer. It’s skewed her sense of what’s possible. In dark moments, she fears starting things in case she can’t finish them. But on her surfboard, “Out Living It,” she saw just what she’s capable of. Hubbard sees this in all First Descents trips. “I think it really adds up to, ‘Oh, I’m still here, I’m totally capable of doing all the things I thought I was capable of doing. I’m not just the sick person,’” she says. Mossberg says her favorite word was “eventually.” That was especially the case after her mother passed, also from cancer, when Mossberg was a teenager. “My dad would ask me to take out the trash, and I’d say, ‘I’ll get to it eventually’,” she says. “‘Eventually’ is not a word you want to use with cancer,” she adds. “You can’t ‘eventually’ take care of it. You’ve got to take care of it in this moment.” Boulder Weekly
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hen H. Jennings Sheffield was starting out as a photographer, she noticed her colleagues were mostly single and mostly without kids. As an artist, she felt discouraged from pursuing both her craft and her
family. “It once used to be that you couldn’t be a parent and do art,” she says. “It was an ‘I’m sorry you’re having kids’ sort of thing.” But now with two kiddos under her belt, Sheffield has forged her own path, using her family as inspiration for her work. In her new exhibit Tethered, now on display at The Dairy Arts Center through June 26, Sheffield deconstructs the notion of balancing multiple roles in her life. “At the time [I started the project], I had one son that was 2, and I just had a baby, and I was in grad school. And I was trying to figure out how to finish that up, how to teach at night, how to have children and how to be a wife,” she says. “That life of ‘the artist in the studio’ and ‘when you’re home you’re home’ — that had to go out the window.” With technology nowadays, it’s more challenging to focus all your attention on the present moment, especially when all the other facets of your life are a click away. Boulder Weekly
“So it was this idea of being tethered to everything. You could be in the studio thinking that was your day to be the artist, but all of a sudden the daycare calls and your kid is sick,” she says. “Then the mother role has to enter the studio, and it was that idea that nothing is pure anymore in our roles. We’re all so busy and so overwhelmed.” see TETHERED Page 30
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She wanted to compress all those moments and personas into one image. And she found inspiration in one of her children’s toys: a Gallop! book that animated the image of a horse running by using slices of the image and black bars to create the illusion. Sheffield took apart the book and tried her hand at the technique with her own pictures. To make Tethered, Sheffield decided to take a photo of what she was doing every 30 minutes from the time she got up to the time she went to sleep for four months. The parameters were loose, but the only requirement was authenticy — capturing the “non-Facebook moments.” “It was really important to me that if at that moment in time at, 30 minutes, if my kid was screaming, or I had just had it, or I was giving a bath, or if I was walking the dog or if I was in the studio or teaching a class or in an art history lecture... Whatever it was, I photographed it,” she says. She ended up with thousands of photos, and she then chose four to six photos that best represented a two-hour time frame. And with the use of Photoshop and math equations to achieve the animation illusion, she spliced all the images to create one photo. The purpose of the work is to examine the multiplicity of identity. Standing in front of the photos you see how they all come together to form one image, much like how our different parts come together to form one being. “I can’t just be a pure artist. I can’t just be a pure mother. I can’t just be a pure wife. All the roles are tethered to each other,” she says. “I’m tethered to every bit of my personality, and I think that’s an interesting dance we play with ourselves. How do we all have an equal say and voice in ourselves and roles that we feel balanced?” For Sheffield, there was never a thought given to choosing motherhood over being an artist. She says she needs to engage every part of herself to stay satisfied; to ignore one integral piece of herself would cause the other pieces to suffer. It’s a common struggle people can relate to. “One of the coolest things that happened with this body of work happened the first time I ever showed. It 30 May 26, 2016
was in San Antonio, and I always tend to sit in the background,” she says. “I watched this woman come in, and she looked at my piece, and she just let out this huge exhale and turned to her husband and said, ‘I get that.’ She knew that was her life. It was resonating with her in that moment.” Sitting down and looking at the various pictures she took, and seeing what her days looked like, Sheffield
Top: “8:00pm-10:00pm (Sept. 10, Sept. 25, Oct. 10, Oct. 25, Nov. 10, Nov. 23).” Bottom: By compressing multiple images into one, the viewer better understands Sheffield and the multiple roles she plays on a daily basis.
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Left: “2:00pm-4:00pm (Sept. 10, Oct. 20, Oct. 25, Nov. 23, Feb. 1).” Right: Hanging next to each other, the photos show the changes in light from various times of day.
says she picked up patterns that she had overlooked in the past. “There’s this entirely different beautiful palate change that happens [in the artworks]. Six to 8 a.m. there’s this very beautiful early day, morning, blue light. Then it goes into the daylight and the bright colors. And then all of a sudden the night moves into these very warm tones,“ she says. “I never even noticed there was a light change when I was documenting it.” In the end, Tethered taught Sheffield to be more present and to compartmentalize H. Jennings Sheffield better. She says she gained control over the technology and its frenetic nature, as opposed to letting it control her. “I can’t tell you how many hours of therapy this probably saves me,” she says with a laugh. “There’re a lot of wonderful things that happened from this work. One, I realized just how chaotic my life was and that I wasn’t being present, so I started making these decisions. When I am home I am home, and all technology goes away. When I’m in the studio, other than an emergency call for something wrong, I’m in the studio. I had to start doing that, and [Tethered] really helped me figure that out.” But in the end, no matter how much we compartmentalize, we are the union of pieces that make up who we are. And Tethered encourages us to remember how much better the whole is because of the pieces. Boulder Weekly
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Those familiar with Kimock’s music may be surprised at the quiet, introspective tone of the album, which is overwhelmingly acoustic and entirely instrumental, while much of his lengthy career was spent playing electric guitar alongside vocalists, bassists and drummers in traditional rock-‘n’-roll bands. As a product of the San Francisco rock scene of the 1970s, Kimock evolved his style of heavy improvisational rock alongside the Grateful Dead while gaining prominence in the 1980s with his jazz/rock group Zero. Incorporated into the wider Grateful Dead family of musicians, Kimock is also well known for several collabora-
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do at a gig.” The album evolved out of his Last Danger of Frost is, more than everyday hour-long sessions in the anything else, a portrait of where his barn, which housed an impressive life is now. Living in the woods of range of instruments: acoustic guitars, Pennsylvania with his family and garsynthesizers and a stringed creation den, Kimock was inspired daily by the intended to mimic the sound of the quiet life, surrounded rebab, an instrument by nature and his often used in tradiON THE BILL: An Evening loved ones. tional Afghani music. with Kimock. Saturday, June “Every environDividing his time 4, Fox Theater, 1135 13th St., ment is gonna have a between his barn sesBoulder, 720-645-2467. Doors at 8 p.m., show at 8:30 certain harmony to sions and gardening, p.m. All ages. Advance tickit,” Kimock says. Kimock drew inspiraets at $25, $30 at the door. “Sometimes it’s a tion from the coming venue full of people, of spring for his sometimes it’s a album title. shack out in the “If you’re growing woods or something, sometimes it’s food, the phrase ‘last danger of frost’ is being with the kids or in the garden or telling you when you’re going to plant, a barn.” and what you’re going to plant, and Kimock feels especially connected what you’re gonna grow,” he says. “It’s to his barn on the outskirts of his all mixed up in the planting and growing, and the kids getting out of school Pennsylvanian property, which he — it’s a time for growth. And I just employed as a studio of sorts. think it’s an interesting thing to say, “That’s kind of my deal right right there in the Farmer’s Almanac.” there,” he says. “My barn and my guiLast Danger of Frost was recorded tar. I was looking for sounds on the entirely by Kimock, who played every acoustic guitar and on things electroninstrument on the album — simply ic, there in the barn.” Boulder Weekly
because there were no other musicians out there in the barn with him. In taking his show on the road, however, Kimock has teamed up with bassist Bobby Vega and multi-instrumentalist Leslie Mendelson. As for a drummer, Kimock looked no further than his son John for his series of mini-tours across the U.S. Playing with his son, he says, is fulfilling on both personal and professional levels. “Family will always be one of those most wonderful and natural things you can have,” says Kimock. “And musically, which is an entirely different thing, when I’m up there playing with Johnny, I’m playing with a man who I know is just a super creative, super ontop-of-it musician.” Kimock says he can’t wait to bring his show to Colorado, where he will stop in Denver and Fort Collins before playing the Fox Theater on June 4. “If you see us coming to town, come on down,” he says. “This is really fresh and interesting and engaging for all of us right now and we’d love to share it with you.”
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arts & culture Joan Marcus
In Once, boy meets girl, and the intricacies of life turn a simple love story into a complex exploration of human emotion.
A song of hope and sorrow ‘Once’ stuns at Ellie Caulkins by Amanda Moutinho
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songwriter pens words aching to be sung to someone who will understand them. A listener puts on a record hoping to hear words they resonate with. Somewhere in the ether, songwriter and listener are connected. It’s that songwriter who starts Once, now playing at the Denver Center for Performing Arts through May 29. As he busks on a random street corner, the songwriter, known only as
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“Guy” to the audience, catches the attention of “Girl,” who is deeply moved by what she hears. The couple strike up a friendship, complicated because of their own romantic situations, but seemingly simple like a beautiful song. The two, with their friends, embark on a journey to be heard by the world. Once may appear as straightforward as the classic “boy meets girl — will they or won’t they” trope, but it’s much more than that. It’s about the agony of bad timing, about choosing shoulds instead of wants, about circumstances out of your control, the desperation for things to be different, and the pain of knowing they can’t be.
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While Once tells the story of Guy and Girl, they are joined on stage by a bevy of talented actors and musicians who are just as important to the show.
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Music Alchemia. 4:15 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Antonio Lopez. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Bonnie and Taylor Sims. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Chris Sheldon and Friends. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Contraband. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Grupo Chegando L and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Johnny O Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Mark Kaczorowski. 7 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303258-7733. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. see EVENTS Page 40
Langhorne Slim and Robyn Hitchcock
You Knew Me When
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7 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 28, Longs Peak Pub & Tap House, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, Kendra Bomar 303-651-7886.
Friday-Sunday, May 27-29, Sunrise Ranch, 100 Sunrise Ranch Road, Loveland, 970-679-4200.
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There’s nothing better than blending craft beer and music on a summer night. Well, prick your ears up, friends; Nashvillebased band You Knew Me When is all about carefully crafted music and beer. The husband and wife duo has been touring the U.S. since 2012, hitting one brewery after another with their love of folk-rock music and local beer. Playing songs off of their 2016 project The Only You EP, and their 2015 album, We Found Roads, You Knew Me When will bring sound to yet another brewery, this time in your own backyard, Mountain Sun’s Longs Peak Pub. — Mariah Taylor
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This week on the eTown stage, the hall Courtesy of eTown hosts guests Langhorne Slim and Robyn Hitchcock, two singer-songwriters with no shortage of stage presence or stories to tell. While Slim provides the more youthful ballads about heartache and sobriety, Hitchcock, a British veteran of the punk and folk music scenes, delivers the seasoned knowledge of music transcending genre and content. So if watching a couple of guys known for their mesmeric storytelling and folksy guitar strumming sounds like your bag, this event is not to be missed. — Mariah Taylor
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Eben Grace. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Feral Heart. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Flynn and Co. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Fred Dawson. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Funkiphino. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. Gasoline Lollipops. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Gora Gora Orkestar. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Heatherlyn, Dene with Taylor Tuke. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Home Groove Band. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. III. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Johnny O Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Just Sayin. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. License to Dance with Oracle Society. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424344. Many Mountains. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Natural Motives with Intergalactic Peace Jelly. 9 p.m. Boulder Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. New Speedway Boogie. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog,
Critical Focus: Lanny DeVuono — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5.
Glass Mosaics by Delcia Litt. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 28. Glassworks. The Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through June 25. Janelle Iglesias: Even a Simple Call Can Turn Into a Complex Racket. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through July 9. Life and Afterlife: Selections from the King Collection of Ancient Chinese Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder\, 303-492-8300. Through June 25.
1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Ravin’wolf the Acoustic Mountain Sagebrush Guitar Duo. 6 p.m. ChuBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.
Make Your Own Friends — by Brian Bress. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3. Martha Russo: coalescere. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through June 12. Mountain Standard Clay. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through June 12. The Neighbors — by Arne Svenson. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5. Phantom Touch — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3. Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 7. Samurai. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 5. Sangeeta Reddy: Fractured Landscapes of the West. BMoCA at Macy, 285, University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through May 29. Shikioriori: Living Through the Seasons in Edo Japan. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 25. Stone Mosaics by Susan A. Judy. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 28. Ten by Sixty. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 4. Tethered. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 26.
Alchemia. 9 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Arena Rock Allstars. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Roosevelt Collier’s CO Get Down. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.
Astronomix with At.Play. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Sambadende. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Blue Grama. 7 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.
Strangebyrds. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.
Bonnie & The Clydes. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Thumpin’. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Carry Me Ohio. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.
You Knew Me When. 5:30 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.
Chain Station. 4 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696.
Events
Chase the Music. 2 p.m. BVSD Manhattan School of the Arts, 290 Manhattan Drive, Boulder, 720-561-5968.
Crossing Borders: A Conversation with the Artists. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Jug Band Hokum. 8:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Pastries On The Path. 8 a.m. Boulder Creek Path behind the Municipal Building, Broadway/ Canyon, Boulder. Set Your Words On Fire Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Viva. 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday, May 28 Music The Alcapones. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Dave Fulker Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
The Dirt Kings. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. DJ Gangsterish. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. DJ Tommy B. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. The Farmer Sisters play Boulder Creekfest. 12:30 p.m. Boulder Bandshell, Broadway and Canyon, Boulder, 303-413-7200. Foxfeather Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. see EVENTS Page 42
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Los Cheesies. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Kevin Boyle. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Monday, May 30
The Mighty Twisters. 9 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Native Station. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Palmico Sound. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.
Jill, Jessica and Jennifer Emic — Eat Drink Shine. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, May 31 Jill, Jessica and Jennifer Emich, the Shine sisters, stop by the Boulder Book Store on May 26 with their debut cookbook Eat Drink Shine.
Ravin Wolf. 4 p.m. Ax and Oar, 160 E. Main St., Lyons, 303-747-3795. Saturday Morning Groove! 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Signel-Z. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Soloman Cook Trio. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. SPiNRaD. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Stolen Moonshine. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6650625. Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. You Knew Me When. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphopuse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Events
Bryan Roth. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 8:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Wednesday, June 1 Paul Thomas Murphy — Pretty Jane & the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Wildflower Hike. 10 a.m. Bald Mountain Scenic Area, 4241 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder.
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Sunday, May 29
Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
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Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Disc Brake Maintenance — Shimano Hydraulic. 6:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 720-565-6019.
Big Hibiscus. 1 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066. Intuit Band. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.
Monday, May 30
Lee Johnson. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Music Augustus. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
The March Divide, J. Gilton, Willow Tree Collective. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. The Drunken Hearts, Mollie O’Brien & The Hamkickers. 12 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.
2016 Spring Dual Slalom Series. 1 p.m. Valmont Bike Park, 3160 Airport Road, Boulder.
Open Bluegrass Pick with Pat Fiddle and New Grass. 1 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.
Advanced Adobe After Effects Hands-On Class. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
The Prairie Scholars. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099.
Belle and Sebastian. 2 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Rusty 44. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Boulder Creek Festival. 10 a.m. Boulder Creek Festival, Broadway and 13th Street, Boulder, 303- 449-3137.
Scott Von. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Dont Yell At Me Episode 12. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Gardening with Native Flowers. 10 a.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Junior Ranger Adventures Summer Challenge Opening Ceremonies. 11 a.m. Betasso Preserve, 377 Betasso Road, Boulder, 303-678-6200. Kids Upcycled Art Workshop, Kicks-N-Bucks, Blazing Saddles 4-H and Open Horse Show. 10:30 a.m., Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235. Paths of the Soul. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Soma Cafe. 5:30 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Tinker Time. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Thunk Duo. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont,
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Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.
Lady and the Gentleman. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Open Stage. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Pete Pidgeon & Arcoda, Bella & Britney, Hazel Miller. 1:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity see EVENTS Page 44
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Biloxi Blues. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through June 26. Footloose. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 3. Once. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through May 29. Time of My Life. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through June 4.
Indie-movie-turned-musical, Once comes to Denver through May 29. Check out BW’s review on page 35.
Viva. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Boulder Weekly
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Tuesday Jam Hosted by The Workshy. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4403355. Wednesday, June 1 Music Austin Tuley. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Bands on the Bricks. 6 p.m. 1300 Block of Pearl Street, 1301 Pearl St., Boulder. Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Euforquestra, Ian Mahan-Neef. 6 p.m. Pearl Street Mall, Pearl St., Boulder. Langhorne Slim and Robyn Hitchcock. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4438696. Leesa Ann. 8 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Live Music. 8:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Bluegrass Pick Hosted by Kyle Ussery. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Open Mic Hosted By Brian Rezac. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-6844728.
Wednesday Night Blues Featuring the Jeff James Project. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Open Mic Hosted by Danny Shafer. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.
Events
Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.
Hockney. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
The Family Fang. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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They Dance Through Granelli’s by Patt Emile
American Life in Poetry: Column 580: Pat Emile is assistant editor and Jill-OfAll-Trades for this column. Were it not for her help I couldn’t keep these weekly selections coming. Here she is in another role, as a poet, stopping in a little food market and noticing things the way a poet should notice them. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate He finds her near the stack of green plastic baskets waiting to be filled and circles her waist with his left arm, entwines her fingers in his, pulls her toward him, Muzak from the ceiling shedding a flashy Salsa, and as they begin to move, she lets her head fall back, fine hair swinging a beat behind as they follow their own music—a waltz—past the peaches bursting with ripeness in their wicker baskets, the prawns curled into each other behind cold glass, a woman in a turquoise sari, her dark eyes averted. They twirl twice before the imported cheeses, fresh mozzarella in its milky liquid, goat cheese sent down from some green mountain, then glide past ranks of breads, seeds spread across brown crusts, bottles of red wine nested together on their sides. He reaches behind her, slides a bouquet of cut flowers from a galvanized bucket, tosses a twenty to the teenaged boy leaning on the wooden counter, and they whirl out the door, the blue sky a sudden surprise. We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2016 by Pat Hemphill Emile, “They Dance Through Granelli’s.” Poem reprinted by permission of Pat Hemphill Emile. Introduction copyright © 2016 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. Boulder Weekly
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A mismatched pair, a private dick named March (Ryan Gosling) and a kneebreaker named Healy (Russel Crowe), get pulled into a conspiracy in the 1970s that involves murder, pornography and catalytic converters.
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porting dialogue hotter than a recently spent shell casing and comedy slightly less dark than a necrophiliac stand-up comedian’s set, The Nice Guys targets a niche audience. Luckily, I am pretty much the captain of the populace living in said niche. Crudely clever and savagely stylish, writer/director Shane Black’s latest doesn’t quite equal the magic of his Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, but everyone knows Ryan Gosling is a poor man’s Robert Downey Jr. and Russell Crowe matches Val Kilmer in girth more than in charisma. The Nice Guys is classic film noir. Well, classic dark comedy film noir. Well, classic Shane Black dark comedy film noir. This is to say it involves a private dick, a missing person, corrupt politicians and at least two great “I am a terrible person for laughing at this” moments. Set in the late 1970s, back when people paid for porn, Jackson Healy (Crowe) gets paid to hurt people. Not kill them or anything, just encourage different behavior through physical violence, which I only slightly kiddingly think should be a legitimate profession. Healy gets paid by Amelia (Margaret Qualley) to put the owie on Holland March (Gosling) for following her. What Healy doesn’t know is that March is a private eye tracking Amelia as part of a case involving a dead porn star. When two kneebreakers subsequently come after Healy because of his contact with Amelia, March and Healy join forces to get to the bottom of things or “all the way to the top” of things, because that’s where this stuff always lead. With the help of March’s savvily precocious daughter, Holly (Angourie Rice), the only human in the film with anything resembling a moral compass, the slightly-douchey-detective-duo stumble, bumble and thwart a conspiracy that involves, no joke, catalytic converters. First and foremost, the movie would be a trainwreck without the improbable spectacle of Gosling and Crowe’s chemistry. Crowe leans into his (allegedly) dickish nature whereas Gosling is so cemented in his status as cross-demographic sex symbol that he’s willing to generally embarrass himself to ridiculous excess. What’s more, Holly isn’t just a character central to the plot, she’s a running referendum on the moral bankruptcy of everyone around her. Black seems to have discovered a new trope, using Holly’s naivety here as he used a preteen boy’s to play off of Downey Jr.’s PTSD-having hero in Iron Man 3. The flaws here are (mostly) forgivable. Black still doesn’t quite know how to write women, even if he apparently knows how to write young teens. And while Black’s movies do follow patterns at almost all times, switch out a few details and this could be a straight-up remake of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. That’s not a huge complaint, but asking to be measured against your best work isn’t always the smartest move. That said, The Nice Guys opens the door for a whole series of films featuring this duo. And I want that. I want that real, real bad. I want to watch 100 more pulpy misadventures of these assholes. So, in short, yes: Black is back. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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film We found love in a hopeless place
The cruel and hilarious world of ‘The Lobster’ by Michael J. Casey
Colin Farrell is faced with the impossible decision of either finding a mate or being turned into an animal in The Lobster.
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ollywood must have a rooting interest in marriage. Why else would so many rom-coms revolve around weddings and meeting that perfect match? They must be getting kickbacks from the clergy. Or maybe they have a hand in the flower racket. Either way, Hollywood loves to look at marriage as a one-size-fits-all problem solver. Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos takes that conceit to its inevitable conclusion in his first English-language film, The Lobster. Set in the near future, the inhabitants of The City must be paired off, and singles are strictly forbidden. When David’s wife takes another man, David is sent to The Hotel where he has 45 days to find another perfect match. If he does, he will undergo a series of rigorous tests before he and his new bride can return to The City. If David does not find a match, he will be transformed into an animal and released into The Woods with the hope that he will have better luck finding companionship on all fours. According to the Hotel Manager (Olivia Colman), most people at The Hotel want to be turned into a dog, but that is an unimaginative pick. David (Colin Farrell) wants to be a lobster, because lobsters live a long life and stay fertile until they die. The Manager commends David on his creative pick, a small consolation considering the fate that awaits him. There are ways to stay the transformation and buy more time at The Hotel, but they are not pleasant. Nor are the dating rituals enforced on the residents by management or the punishments inflicted on those who break the rules. The Lobster is a world bleached of color and individuality. The men wear business casual, the women all wear the same flower print sun dress, everyone delivers their lines without inflection and cinematographer Thimios Bakatakis captures it all with precise austerity. And though The Hotel residents seem resigned, each resident is quietly plotting their escape, some more tragic than others. David fails to find a mate and tries his chances, un-lobsterized, in The Woods where he meets his perfect match (Rachel Weisz). She is another escapee now living in The Woods with a group of singles led by the cruel and compassionless leader (Léa Seydoux) who enforces one simple rule, no one must pair off. If David lacks anything, it is timing. The Lobster is the perfect story for Lanthimos to trade in — his previous efforts, Dogtooth and Alps, contained a similar distance and humor — and he cleverly finds the absurdities of each scene. The Lobster may be cruel, but it is poignant and laughout-loud funny, partly due to Farrell’s deadpan delivery and drab appearance. The parallels of The Lobster with our world are fairly obvious and somewhat cynical, but they are profound. People do all sorts of stupid things to find love and keep their mates. Sometimes the motives behind those acts are false and contrived. Other times, they come from deep within the heart. But in the end, the point is quite clear: love hurts. A lot. Boulder Weekly
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But Pickarski’s lifelong devotion to veganism isn’t about animal rights or environmentalism, though he values those aspects. His culinary journey has been more about connecting with his own body, and helping other people make that same connection through food. “It’s like an educational experience for me to teach people that one of the most basic relationships we have in our lives is with out body,” he says. “Learning how to eat and learning how we need to eat. It goes back to the pulses, back to a high complex carbohydrate, low protein, low fat, high fiber diet. That whole piece to me... I guess it’s really my journey in life. I guess that’s the way I’d put it: Creating culinary items to get people to embrace vegetarianism not as an alternative diet or animal rights or as environmental thing but as something we should be doing, not out of sense of necessity. How you impart that is to just create great cuisine to connect with it, because if people have to sacrifice the pleasure of the plate to eat this way then they’re not going to do it.” Some of Pickarski’s recipes will be featured in a special Food and Agriculture Organization publication about pulses. While he’s not quite sure what else the U.N has in store, he has some irons in the fire, like working with the American Culinary Association to put together a pulse competition for professional chefs. “When [the U.N.] brought me on board they got the whole package because I’m into pulses,” he says with a laugh. “I wanna take this opportunity to build a platform into the future, something to build on and every year we keep building on it. It’s like the culinary Olympics: when you get professional chefs involved, you get some really creative outcomes.”
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convey the best strategy for you to employ in the coming weeks, I have drawn inspiration from a set of instructions composed by aphorist Alex Stein: Scribble, scribble, erase. Scribble, erase, scribble. Scribble, scribble, scribble, scribble. Erase, erase, erase. Scribble, erase. Keep what’s left. In other words, Aries, you have a mandate to be innocently empirical, robustly experimental, and cheerfully improvisational — with the understanding that you must also balance your fun with ruthless editing.
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APRIL 20-MAY 20:
“One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being,” wrote Taurus memoirist May Sarton. That’s a dauntingly high standard to live up to, but for the foreseeable future it’s important that you try. In the coming weeks, you will need to maintain a heroic level of potency and excellence if you hope to keep your dreams on track and your integrity intact. Luckily, you will have an extraordinary potential to do just that. But you’ll have to work hard to fulfill the potential — as hard as a hero on a quest to find the real Holy Grail in the midst of all the fake Holy Grails.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20:
“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now,” said novelist Doris Lessing. “The conditions are always impossible.” I hope you take her advice to heart, Gemini. In my astrological opinion, there is no good excuse for you to postpone your gratification or to procrastinate about moving to the next stage of a big dream. It’s senseless to tell yourself that you will finally get serious as soon as all the circumstances are perfect. Perfection does not and will never exist. The future is now. You’re as ready as you will ever be.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22:
French painter Henri Matisse didn’t mind being unmoored, befuddled or in-between. In fact, he regarded these states as being potentially valuable to his creative process. Here’s his testimony: “In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows.” I’m recommending that you try out his attitude, Cancerian. In my astrological opinion, the time has come for you to drum up the inspirations and revelations that become available when you don’t know where the hell you are and what the hell you’re doing.
Here’s how I suspect this meditation applies to you, Libra: There have been other times and there will be other times when you will have good reasons for not embarking on an available adventure. But now is not one of those moments.
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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Russian poet Vera Pavlova tells about how once when she was using a pen and paper to jot down some fresh ideas, she got a paper cut on her palm. Annoying, right? On the contrary. She loved the fact that the new mark substantially extended her life line. The palmistry-lover in her celebrated. I’m seeing a comparable twist in your near future, Scorpio. A minor inconvenience or mild setback will be a sign that a symbolic revitalization or enhancement is nigh.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Norway is mountainous, but its neighbor Finland is quite flat. A group of Norwegians has launched a campaign to partially remedy the imbalance. They propose that to mark the hundredth anniversary of Finland’s independence, their country will offer a unique birthday gift: the top of Halti mountain. Right now the 4,479-foot peak is in Norway. But under the proposed plan, the border between countries will be shifted so that the peak will be transferred to Finland. I would love you to contemplate generous gestures like this in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It’s a highly favorable time for you to bestow extra imaginative blessings. (P.S. The consequences will be invigorating to your own dreams.)
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19:
I believe that every one of us should set aside a few days every year when we celebrate our gaffes, our flaws and our bloopers. During this crooked holiday, we are not embarrassed about the false moves we have made. We don’t decry our bad judgment or criticize our delusional behavior. Instead, we forgive ourselves of our sins. We work to understand and feel compassion for the ignorance that led us astray. Maybe we even find redemptive value in our apparent lapses; we come to see that they saved us from some painful experience or helped us avoid getting a supposed treasure that would have turned out to be a booby prize. Now would be a perfect time for you to observe this crooked holiday.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
Proposed experiment: Imagine that all the lovers and would-be lovers you have ever adored are in your presence. Review in detail your memories of the times you felt thrillingly close to them. Fill yourself up with feelings of praise and gratitude for their mysteries. Sing the love songs you love best. Look into a mirror and rehearse your “I only have eyes for you” gaze until it is both luminous and smoldering. Cultivate facial expressions that are full of tender, focused affection. Got all that, Leo? My purpose in urging you to engage in these practices is that it’s the High Sexy Time of year for you. You have a license to be as erotically attractive and wisely intimate as you dare.
Sometimes the love you experience for those you care about makes you feel vulnerable. You may worry about being out of control or swooping so deeply into your tenderness that you lose yourself. Giving yourself permission to cherish and nurture can make you feel exposed, even unsafe. But none of that applies in the coming weeks. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, love will be a source of potency and magnificence for you. It will make you smarter, braver and cooler. Your words of power will be this declaration by Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani: “When I love / I feel that I am the king of time / I possess the earth and everything on it / and ride into the sun upon my horse.” (Translated by Lena Jayyusi and Christopher Middleton.)
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JULY 23-AUG. 22:
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“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others,” wrote editor Jacob M. Braude. Normally I would endorse his poignant counsel, but for the foreseeable future I am predicting that the first half of it won’t fully apply to you. Why? Because you are entering a phase that I regard as unusually favorable for the project of transforming yourself. It may not be easy to do so, but it’ll be easier than it has been in a long time. And I bet you will find the challenge to reimagine, reinvent and reshape yourself at least as much fun as it is hard work.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:
“Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason,” says author Rebecca Solnit in her book The Far Away Nearby. That’s a thought she had as she contemplated the possibility of riding a raft down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.
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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: In November 1916, at the height of World War I, the Swedish schooner Jönköping set sail for Finland, carrying 4,400 bottles of champagne intended for officers of the occupying Russian army. But the delivery was interrupted. A hostile German submarine sunk the boat, and the precious cargo drifted to the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The story didn’t end there, however. More than eight decades later, a Swedish salvage team retrieved a portion of the lost treasure, which had been well-preserved in the frosty abyss. Taste tests revealed that the bubbly alcholic beverage was “remarkably light-bodied, extraordinarily elegant and fantastically fresh, with discreet, slow-building toasty aromas of great finesse.” (Source: tinyurl.com/toastyaromas.) I foresee the potential of a similar resurrection in your future, Pisces. How deep are you willing to dive?
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SAVAGE by Dan Savage
Dear Dan: I am a fortysomething bi woman happily married to a newly transitioned 50ish trans woman. I have a history of putting myself about a bit (safely) before our relationship, but we have been monogamous since we met (except for a disastrous threesome). My wife hasn’t put herself about and has slept with only myself and one other to whom she was also married © LaRae Lobdell — and that threesome. She understands that I have a high libido and mostly she doesn’t. Our sex life is loving and good mostly, but I do want more. There have been discussions on opening up our relationship — but essentially I want to and she is resistant. I want to do this with transparency and with men (mostly), but I don’t feel this is realistic emotionally for her given some conflict we’ve had over this issue. Is cheating the only answer here? — Never Overly Terrified Dear NOT: I can see how it might be
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emotionally tricky for a recently transitioned trans woman — that would be your wife — to cheerfully sign off on her second wife sleeping with men (mostly) and with transparency (ethically). But if you absolutely, positively can’t commit to sleeping with only her for the rest of your life, NOT, and you can’t get her permission to sleep with others… then, yes, there’s cheating. There’s also fantasy, masturbation, repression, sublimation, self-sacrifice — and divorce. Dear Dan: I’m a queer woman. When I entered my 30s, I realized that I was more queer/bi than I had previously allowed myself to be, and I started exploring my attraction to cis heterosexual men. Five years later, and I’m in an incredible GGG relationship with a cis het male. He’s everything I have ever wanted in a partner: sexy, funny, feminist and smart. We have full disclosure about sexuality and kinks, no complaints there. What I do have
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trouble with is navigating his family and friends, twin social circles composed of heterosexuals who fall into stereotypical gender roles. I spent my teens and 20s fully submersed in queer/trans circles with likeminded feminist hippies who are not hung up on the gender binary. My partner’s friends are fundamentally good people, but they see nothing wrong with “old fashioned” misogyny. I am often interrupted, talked over and “mansplained” by my partner’s male friends. And while I am a pretty friendly person, I can’t get a foot in the door with the women in his friend circle. My notions on feminism and equality are way too out there, so I tend to keep to myself in a corner during parties in order to avoid starting an argument. How do I navigate this weird heterosexual world that I don’t understand? I’ve tried to explain my feelings to my partner, but I think he has a hard time relating, as he is a heterosexual cis male and was raised as one. How do I keep from losing my cool when someone starts to mansplain to me? I may be in a heterosexual romantic partnership, but I am still a queer lady at heart.
— Bi Lefty Encounters Cis Hets Dear BLECH: Some people “fall into stereotypical gender roles” because that’s who they are, BLECH, and what you perceive as the thoughtless embrace of the gender binary can in some cases be an authentic expression of gender identity. That doesn’t excuse misogyny and mansplaining, of course, but not everyone who embraces seemingly stereotypical gender roles is a dupe who needs a good talking to from the new queer girlfriend of an old straight friend. That said, if going to parties with your cis het boyfriend’s gender-normative friends makes you miserable… don’t go to those parties. Or if you must go, drag along a leftist-hippie-queer friend who can sit in the corner with you and marvel at the mansplaining manmuggles and their clueless lady friends who aren’t interested in your thoughts on feminism and equality. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.
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few weeks ago I went to the U.N.’s Special Session on drugs where I saw, for the first time, just how important Colorado’s legalization of cannabis is. It’s in sparking change to international drug policy as dozens of nation states are shifting their positions on cannabis in the years following the passage of Amendment 64. Behind this new global narrative are countless stories of individuals whose personal thoughts on this matter have evolved significantly. Including my own. Born here, in Boulder, in 1986, I was brought up under the loving watch of my free-spirit, single mom. Until she had me, she was more or less a hippie from the good old days who raised me listening to Janis Joplin, throwing pottery on a wheel in the basement and eating a consistent diet of hippie slop. She taught me to respected the earth, animals and people, even if they didn’t always deserve it. Fast forward to 2013, when she called me to talk excitedly about the first week of legal marijuana sales. I was surprised because she doesn’t smoke, at least not that I know about, not anymore. She was ecstatic, not just because people could get high legally, but because of what it represented. For her and her friends who lived in Boulder back in its hippie heyday, smoking weed was about altering your mind, it was about inviting in new perspectives and challenging settled beliefs. It was about
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peace and love and open-mindedness. She didn’t say it when she called, but I think she finally felt proud to be a Coloradan, to be a part of breaking through the way things were to the way things should be. Since writing Weed Between the Lines, I have talked to hundreds of people about cannabis, many of them notable insiders to the politics and developing markets of marijuana. A lot of those stories turn into columns as my way of describing cannabis, in all of its multi-dimensions. From politics to agriculture to social justice to medical rights, there is almost no subject untouched and unchanged by the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and so there is plenty of fuel for that fire. Examinations of those areas are timely, curious and impactful — crucial descriptions of the world in a changing time. While I love and am attracted to these stories, they aren’t why I love this column. I love it because of the personal reckoning that I experience everyday as I research and write about weed. Every day I am forced into new territory and without precedent to cling to, my own prejudices are thrust up against a blank slate with uncertain outcomes. It isn’t easy to be open-minded, it’s uncomfortable actually, which explains the human tendency to cling to precedent when faced with an opportunity to be original and act anew. I see this, not just in my own thought processes, but also in those of many people I talk to, as we all reckon with inconsistencies in thought and opinion amid new circumstances.
For example, last week the Boulder County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted to endorse changing the limits of personal cultivation in unincorporated county from 300 square feet to six plants per household, a significant decrease. They offered many justifications, but chief among them was the desire to match The City of Boulder’s code. Meanwhile, and ironically, the City’s Marijuana Advisory Panel is involved in an extensive process in consideration of ways to better align Boulder’s code with the State’s. This is just one example of the collective tendency to rest on our laurels, or if not our own, then someone else’s. There are many more instances and some of them make me angrier than others. It is totally unacceptable that, despite decreasing arrest rates for marijuana in Colorado, blacks and other minority groups are still targeted at alarmingly high rates as compared to whites. And I get really ticked when I hear stories about mothers being criticized for using marijuana, especially when I think about the sheer number of children that accompany their parents to Boulder brew pubs. I’m not mad at anybody in particular and I certainly do not have an agenda when it comes to legalized cannabis. It’s just that I am so proud of us for legalizing marijuana, for being open-minded enough to usher in a mind-altering substance. For realizing that just because we didn’t understand cannabis, didn’t mean we needed to criminalize it. I sometimes forget that all of this change is happening because of a plant that alters the mind of the consumer in a way that challenges ingrained ways of experiencing the world. It is a rather poetic similarity, that the world is also challenging it’s long held prejudices and embracing an altered state of mind. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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ew York City Police Bratton continues to link marijuana and violence Commissioner Bill despite increasing eviBratton went on a dence to the contrary. NYC talk radio show last weekend and unburdened himself of some truly daft “thoughts” regarding marijuana: “Interestingly enough, here in New York City most of the violence we see — violence around drug trafficking — is involving marijuana,” he said. “And I have to scratch my head as we are seeing many states wanting to legalize marijuana, and more liberalizations of policies. Here in New York the violence we see associated with drugs, the vast majority of it, is around marijuana, which is ironic considering the explosion in the use of heroin now in the city.” put it: “There may be costs to legalizing marijuana. Huh? Some people think that they outweigh the benefits. If most of the violence around drug trafficking in But there is no question that legalizing marijuana New York City is around marijuana, then the obviwould shift sale of the drug from criminals who ous way to end the violence is to legalize it and regu- sometimes engage in violence to business that almost late its sale. never would. Legalization is the only effective way to Interestingly enough, the Police Commissioner eradicate such violence. How can one of America’s of New York City seems to be blissfully unaware of most successful police chiefs fail to understand that?” a chapter of American history commonly referred How indeed. to as “Prohibition.” It had a lot of violence associatInterestingly enough, Bratton didn’t cite any staed with it; violence that stopped after booze was tistics to back up his claim. And even more interestre-legalized. ing, a spokesman for the New York Police Ironically, the existence of violent crime around Department subsequently refused to say whether pot sales is usually cited by marijuana legalization there are even any statistics on drug trafficking-relatactivists as a reason for ending pot prohibition, not ed violence. That raises suspicions as to whether by police chiefs as a reason for keeping it in place. Bratton knows what he’s talking about or if he’s That’s the real head-scratcher. making it up as he goes along. As Conor Friedersdorf, writing in The Atlantic According to the website ThinkProgress, this
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isn’t the first time Bratton has shot off his mouth about marijuana and violence. In March 2015, he blamed an increase in New York City homicides during the first two months of that year on pot. (They had increased to 54 from 45.) “This seemingly innocent drug that’s being legalized around the country,” he said. “In this city, people are killing each other over marijuana more so than anything that we had to deal with in the ’80s and ’90s with heroin and cocaine. In some instances, it’s a causal factor. But it’s an influence in almost everything that we do here.” That prompted Gabriel Sayegh of the Drug Policy Alliance to issue a statement saying that “it appears that finding marijuana on the scene of a violent crime is enough for Bratton to assert a causal link. Using that rational, we can make other causal links to violence — for instance, if police find a cell phone at the scene of a violent crime, then certainly the cell phone must cause that crime.” The only thing that makes Bratton’s views on marijuana and crime interesting is that he’s still trying to blame violence caused by marijuana prohibition on marijuana — and use that as a pretext for keeping marijuana illegal. He’s not the first prohibitionist to do so; it’s been a central part of the war on drugs’ narrative since the ’60s. But the fact that he is still trying to inject such a transparently deceitful and dishonest rational into today’s legalization debate bespeaks volumes about the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the war on marijuana.
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For an old man with small hands and orange hair, Donald Trump sure has a big imagination. He is the unquestioned king of conspiracy in this year’s or any year’s presidential election. Let’s recap all the bat-guano-crazy stuff this looney tune claims to believe. Most recently he told the press that Hillary Clinton helped knock off her Wikimedia Commons friend, former White House aide Vince Foster. You may recall that Foster committed suicide back in 1993 shortly after his pal Bill became president. And lest we forget, it wasn’t that long ago Trump was insisting that President Obama wasn’t legally the president because he wasn’t actually born in the United States. And just in case you JFK conspiracy freaks feel left out, don’t. Trump came up with a brand new one by insinuating that the father of his political rival Ted Cruz was involved in assassinating Kennedy. He also claims to have witnessed thousands of Muslims celebrating in the streets of New Jersey as the World Trade Center buildings came tumbling down. Wow, he’s not only repeating racist conspiracy theories, he’s making them up as he goes. Good on you, Donald, you pea-brained racist prick. What’s next for Mr. Imagination? Maybe Black Lives Matter was behind the Oklahoma City bombing or perhaps Martin Luther King Jr. staged his own death with the help of a cell of Latino gang members who stopped rapein’ and drug smugglin’ just long enough to pull the trigger? Stay tuned, America, and remember: the whole world is watching and listening to your Republican nominee for president. Bet that makes you feel real proud about now.
REALITY HITS THE DIGITAL NEWS WORLD
We don’t like to see any journalist get axed, but it’s hard not to smile as all those digital profits start choking on their own predictions. You know, all those academics and CEOs who told us that massive numbers of unique visitors and page-views were the answer to paying for expensive news content. Oops, maybe a business model would have been a better idea. Rafat Ali, founder of paidContent, knows what we’re talking about. In April he blogged that this year would be the year that digital media would be “exposed as a false proxy to actually building a real business.” Looks like he was spot on. Wikimedia Commons Vice News, who does fabulous work by the way, just announced layoffs, and it is only the latest to do so. The digital International Business Times also made staffing cuts recently. And let’s not forget BuzzFeed had to pull out the ax and whack jobs just like Mashable also did along with a whole host of other digital newsrooms. So where’s that Jeff Jarvis guy now? Probably pulling consulting dollars from some failing, venture-funded, digital news organization. I always picture that guy as the lead lemming standing at the edge of the cliff waving on all his trusting followers. Side note: The cover of Editor and Publisher this month touts a story claiming that print publications are becoming a hot commodity as digital fatigue sets in around the world. Thanks to the digital gurus, and you know who you are, many excellent news organizations wasted 15 years doing lousy, shallow news reporting with clickbait headlines aimed at driving meaningless online metrics, only to find themselves bankrupt. And that is the real story behind how a Donald Trump-like candidate can actually make their way into the White House. Boulder Weekly
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