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t’s been pointed out that Donnie Trump has unusually small hands... but who cares? What’s truly alarming are his unusually small policy ideas. Draining the swamp, for example. He bragged that he’d be stronger than Drano, promising he’d rid Washington of its infestation with lobbyists, corporate favor-seekers and other swamp critters. But he betrayed that populist pledge from the very start, staffing his entire presidency with CEOs, lobbyists and
Republican megadonors, who’re gleefully rigging the system for themselves against the rest of us. Also, remember how candidate Trump blistered the behinds of Wall Street’s billionaire hedge-fund hucksters for getting rich by destroying middle-class jobs? He promised that — by gollies — he would take away their loophole that lets them escape paying taxes they owe. But as president, he wimped out, handing a trillion-dollar tax cut to the billionaires and their corporations, including meekly leaving the pampered hedge funders’ loophole entirely untouched. And where’s that “Make America Great” guy who claimed that only he had the vision and chutzpah to rebuild America, pledging to launch a trilliondollar investment in our national infrastructure? His chutzpah petered
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out, and his vision shriveled to a hokey scheme of smoke and mirrors, basically asking states and corporations to come up with the money and calling on them to privatize our public infrastructure. Where’s the greatness in that? This is Jim Hightower saying... Poor Donnie wants to be thought of as modern-day Teddy Roosevelt. So he constantly poses as a populist, biggerthan-life Bull Moose character who’s got the right stuff to bust the profiteering trusts in order to stop their ripoffs and their schemes to knock down the middle class. Sadly, a pose is all it is, for he’s just a run-of-the-mill plutocratic president, who speaks loudly but carries nothing bigger than a limp twig when it comes to dealing with the corporate powers. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. May 31 , 2018 5
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liver North recently became the president of the National Rifle Association (NRA). The organization’s CEO, Wayne LaPierre, said North “is a legendary warrior for American freedom, a gifted communicator and skilled leader.” If you are under 40, you might not have heard of him. North was a major figure in a political scandal in the mid1980s. A Lebanese newspaper revealed that North, as a military aide in the Ronald Reagan administration, arranged the secret sale of weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran and then diverted the proceeds to the anti-revolutionary “contra” rebels in Nicaragua. Reagan had been elected in 1980 after he claimed that Jimmy Carter was a foreign policy weakling. Just the year before, U.S.-backed dictators in Iran and Nicaragua were overthrown by uprisings of ordinary people from varied backgrounds and political orientations. In Iran, harsh theocrats would come out on top after the revolution. The new regime also had a right-wing nationalist populism similar to Juan Peron in Argentina. In Nicaragua, the leftist Sandinistas led the rebellion against the Somoza family dynasty and had widespread support among more moderate forces. They carried out an impressive literacy campaign and created a public health system with clinics and hospitals that brought health care to hundreds of thousands of people who had never been
to a doctor. Reagan provided logistical, financial and military support to the Nicaraguan “contras” (counter-revolutionaries) led by former National Guardsmen of the Somoza dictatorship. They conducted a terrorist war whose primary victims were civilians, according to human rights organizations. In fact, former CIA director Admiral Stansfield Turner admitted in April 1985 before a Congressional committee that the contras had engaged in numerous acts of “terrorism.” Nevertheless, Reagan claimed the contras were “the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers.” Reagan also backed the vicious military regimes of El Salvador and Guatemala, which were fighting leftist rebels. The governments of both countries had paramilitary “death squads,” which conducted “extra-judicial killings” of civilian dissidents. In the U.S., a large movement arose to oppose Reagan’s interventions in Central America. There were massive anti-war rallies. Many people traveled to Central America to be peace witnesses, to deliver humanitarian aid and to conduct study tours. Sister city partnerships were established. Hundreds of thousands of Guatemalan and Salvadoran refugees poured into the U.S., escaping oppression and war. Americans responded by providing “sanctuary” for them. Religious organizations and institusee THE ANDERSON FILES Page 7
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tions played a crucial role in the resistance. A Reagan aide assigned to discredit the movement complained that “church-based supporters of the Sandinistas have been able to frame much of the public debate on Nicaragua ... dominating the flow of information to local churches, parishes and synagogues.” Speaking for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1987, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton told Congress that the U.S.-directed contra war was “immoral, illegal and unwise.” The Democratic-controlled Congress also pushed back. In particular, they passed the Boland Amendments, which limited U.S. government assistance to the contras. That was where Oliver North came in. The deal had to be secret since Iran was an enemy. Carter had been humiliated by the hostage crisis, and crowds in Tehran were always seen chanting, “Death to America!” As part of the deal, the Reagan administration agreed to provide secret battlefield intelligence for Iran’s war against Iraq when the CIA had already provided Iraq with intelligence. In return, the Iranians were to use their leverage over Hezbollah in Lebanon, which had taken seven American hostages. Three of the seven were released, but the group later took three more Americans hostage. In the summer of 1987, North became a folk hero of the right-wing after he gave six days of televised Congressional testimony. He received thousands of messages of support. He became a sought-after speaker around the country. You could buy Ollie T-shirts, buttons, videos and dolls. He played the earnest all-American boy. The Congressional Iran-Contra Report noted: “North admitted that he and other officials lied repeatedly to Congress and to the American people about the contra covert action and Iran arms sales, and that he altered and destroyed official documents. North’s testimony demonstrates that he also lied to members of the executive branch, including the Attorney General, and officials of the State Department, C.I.A. and N.S.C.” North would be convicted on three felony counts of ordering the destruction of documents, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and accepting an illegal gratuity. But a court would later overturn all three convictions. There were several investigations (including one by an independent counsel) and the Reagan-appointed Tower Commission. Fourteen Reagan administration officials were indicted, and 11 convictions resulted. The rest of those Boulder Weekly
indicted or convicted were all pardoned in the final days of the presidency of George H. W. Bush, who had been Vice President at the time of the affair. Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh considered criminal indictments against both Reagan and Bush. That probably wouldn’t have mattered too much to Congressman Dick Cheney of Wyoming, who was the head of the minority side of the Congressional IranContra investigating commission. Cheney offered them the theory that the
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Executive (that is, the President) has the unilateral power to do whatever he wants to do. Or as Richard Nixon said after Watergate, “When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.” “If ever the constitutional democracy of the United States is overthrown,” Theodore Draper, a political analyst who did a comprehensive study of the IranContra affair, said at the time, “we now have a better idea of how this is likely to be done.” Now we are facing a much bigger
scandal. Some things are different. The Cold War is over. New alliances are being formed. For example, quite a few old American Cold Warriors have become apologists for Vladimir Putin. In a bizarre twist, the NRA is being investigated for laundering campaign contributions from Russians to the Donald Trump presidential campaign. These are scary and surreal times. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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e’ve been gathering information on various threats to the Colorado River for more than five years now at Boulder Weekly. We’ve made trips to the desalination operations at the Paradise Valley Unit on Colorado’s Western Slope; visited the headwaters of the Green River in Wyoming; written a fair amount about the lack of Colorado River water that eventually makes it into Mexico’s Gulf of California despite international treaties guaranteeing its arrival; and reported on many of the current and proposed projects to divert still more water from the Colorado River Basin to the Front Range for no better reason than watering the lawns of new housing developments. But this time around I want to speak to the latest “effort to save” the Colorado River via impact investing because I think it just may be the greatest threat yet to the continued health of the Colorado, the West’s most important waterway.
This threat is not one you’re likely to hear about from our state’s news media or in the glossy brochures of the wellheeled environmental groups who claim to be fighting for the health of this precious public resource. It seems when it comes to the Colorado River, impact investments have been made in more places than just water infrastructure projects. But I’ll talk more about that in a bit. Simply put, the Colorado is in trouble because there isn’t enough water in it. And there isn’t enough water in it because too many industries and cities are taking too much water out of it. Not to mention climate change and the ongoing drought aren’t helping matters. It isn’t rocket science. Recent research tells us the flows in the Colorado River dropped 19 percent from 2000 to 2014 as compared to the 95 years that came before. The same researchers predict that by 2050, we will see another 20 percent drop and that number could go up depending on how hard the impacts of global warming hit
Because there’s not enough water to go around, the Colorado River becomes a dry delta while still miles away from its terminus in the Gulf of California.
the West. This is a big problem when you consider that the Colorado River supplies drinking water to more than 30 million Americans, according to a white paper on impact investing in the Colorado River Basin prepared by the Walton Family Foundation... yes, as in the Walmart Waltons. For those unfamiliar with the term, “impact investing” is defined as investments made with the intention to generate measurable, beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return. So with that in mind, if we are really interested in saving the Colorado, there’s pretty much only one way to do it. We have to figure out ways to use our money, our technology and our regulations and laws to cause less water to be removed, thereby maintaining a healthy river that flows from the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado all the way to Mexico’s Gulf of California. Again, it’s a pretty simple concept; more water left in river, healthier river. Boulder Weekly
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Don’t get me wrong. When I say it’s is now investing his personal fortune Foundation to other water entities or simple, I’m talking about understanding into water in the Western United States. even environmental organizations. what needs to be done to actually save And he’s not alone. Trying to keep up with the Walton the river, which, after all, is the mantra I’ve written about impact investing Family Foundation when it comes to of every environmental group, industry, in these pages for years, mostly in conwater has given me whiplash. They conbillionaire, philanthropist and governnection to how the billionaire funders of stantly proclaim their commitment to ment entity that’s currently involved in the establishment Democratic Party saving the all-important Colorado River, discussions regarding the future of the used their money to impact invest in yet they also seem to have their tentaColorado. All these seemingly disparate natural gas and natural gas infrastruccles in every environmentally harmful groups keep saying their primary conture. diversion of Colorado River water you cern is saving the river. But unfortunateAll involved viewed it as a win-win. can find. ly, there seems to be some confusion The billionaires would profit from their Their impact investing white paper, regarding the definition of the words investment thanks to the political which encourages other wealthy entities “save the Colorado River.” actions of the Democrats who are push- to join them in pushing forward water I know, it shouldn’t be that compliing the switch from coal to gas in elecinfrastructure projects, is written in truly cated, right? I hear those words and tric power generation and making it schizophrenic fashion. think they are referring to saving the possible to export more liquefied natural It tries to sound like both a road Colorado River as in “a large natural gas — a combination that will cause map for preserving a healthy Colorado stream of water River while priflowing in a channel marily putting to the sea,” (as forward a plan to defined by harness every drop Webster’s). But of the river’s water that’s not what they in order to ensure are saying at all. In that cities can sure that everyone fact, you could grow, economies understands that “saving the Colorado” argue that they are can expand and is not the same thing as “saving the saying pretty much heavy industries, potential economic growth that can the opposite. including fracking be derived from the Colorado.” If you listen and coal-fired closely when govpower generation, ernments, industry can maintain and and the funders of even increase the the current “save the amount of water natural gas prices to rise. Billionaires, Colorado” cause describe their mission, they use. They also support increased you realize they are actually referring to Democrats and the environment will all diversions of Colorado River basin saving the growth potential of the comwin, but... water to the Front Range where it will munities and the economies and the Unfortunately, the science changed be used for more unsustainable developindustrial practices that exist, and profit in 2010 and we now know that natural ment. byway of their diversion and consumpgas extraction is likely worse in terms of Don’t believe me; here it is in the tion of the water they remove from the global warming than coal. It now looks Foundation’s own words: Colorado River. like the first return on that investment “At the Walton Family Foundation, Call me an optimist, but I’m pretty will roll in just after the human race has we are working to find creative solutions darn sure that everyone who just read kicked the bucket. — that benefit the environment and the that last sentence understands that “savI only point this out to illustrate the economy — to ensure the Colorado ing the Colorado” is not the same thing dangers of allowing the 1 percent to River basin has the water supply it as “saving the potential economic impact invest in really important sectors needs to sustain the West’s growing growth that can be derived from the like drinking water and natural gas, population. Colorado.” So why all the confusion? If areas where millions or even billions of “Each of the projects highlighted in you guessed “money,” give yourself a people can get screwed if the geniuses the white paper can create jobs and gold star. with the checkbook make the slightest enhance local communities, prevent Remember the movie The Big Short miscalculation or possibly put their pay- hazardous situations from developing as about the hedge fund guys who made day ahead of the public good. And I a result of aging infrastructure, and hundreds of millions of dollars by buythink that is exactly where we are when underscore the importance of using ing credit default swaps against bonds it comes to impact investing in water, water efficiently for the benefit of mulbased on subprime mortgages? primarily in the Colorado River. tiple purposes.” Translation: The guys who bet that the While this new incarnation is again Does that sound like they are trying housing bubble was going to burst in being framed as a win-win, I think the to figure out how to leave more water in 2008 and were right. If you haven’t seen chances that it will hasten the destructhe river? it, check it out, and pay close attention tion of the Colorado River and cause A perfect example of impact investat the very end when the text goes up average Americans to pay far more for ing from the white paper is the Walton on the screen telling us what these realtheir access to water is very likely. Enter Family Foundation’s support for the life gazillionaires are up to these days. the Waltons. Fontenelle Reservoir Riprap Project we It’s really the most disturbing part of the The Walton Family Foundation has wrote about this week on page 15. film. Christian Bale’s character was been showing up in all things water in Hiding behind the confusing curtain based on the very real Michael Burry, Colorado and beyond for years now. of water semantics, the Waltons, along the eccentric, savant-like hedge-fund It is like a water version of the with industrial water users and the State manager who was the first to figure out Congressional revolving door with the of Wyoming, make it sound like creatthe whole “big short” concept. The same players moving from different fedscrolling text regarding Burry tells us he eral and state agencies to and from the See DYERTIMES Page 13
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ing the ability to pull an additional 150,000 acre-feet of water out of the Colorado River basin will somehow improve the health and natural environment of the river. But what they don’t mention is that those 150,000 acre-feet can and will at some point be contracted for purchase by environmentally destructive industries such as oil and gas, energy generation via coal fired plants or chemical manufacturing. If the water is released downstream it will be consumed by some city that is continuing to grow in a dry place beyond its natural means. And if it makes it further it will eventually be used to water the desert for inefficient agricultural purposes. Remember, the Colorado is threatened because too much water is already being taken from it. Creating a whole host of infrastructure projects — the Walton white paper is pushing 22 of them — designed to allow even more water to be removed from the Colorado, albeit more efficiently, for the purpose of ensuring future population and economic growth is in no way the same thing as saving the Colorado River. Damming and diverting and desalinating the river to ensure that its water can be used for irrigation and fracking and other heavy industry is committing environmental homicide on the Colorado. And never forget that the Waltons and their pals are impact investing, not impact giving to charity. They expect a return on their money at some point, and I suspect that translates to higher-priced water for 30 to 40 million people at some point. One of the proposed projects the Waltons are pushing is The Colorado Salinity Control Project, which is ironic. You could say that most of the problems threatening the Colorado River today exist because of the government’s salinity control projects that were begun in 1974. The Colorado is naturally quite salty. It’s fed by groundwater that cuts along or through shale formations that were once the bottom of inland saltwater seas. As a result, the natural groundwater flowing into the river in many places is saltier than the oceans. This saltiness should have saved the Colorado because using it for irrigation on crops over time would eventually have rendered the land incapable of growing most profitable things. The salt was like God’s natural protection against overuse. No irrigation would have meant far more water being left in the river. But instead, the federal government, now with the support of impact investors, sucks up salty groundwater and prevents it from making its way into the river. Boulder Weekly
This means less water going into the river and billions of gallons of additional water being removed for irrigation purposes. And it’s all because someone made the decision to alter the natural state of the river’s environment. Every infrastructure project we add to the Colorado causes the potential for unforeseen chain reaction, in one form or another. So why aren’t you reading about the Waltons and all their influence over our water in the West? I think the answer is that the Waltons are smarter than those who came before them. They have taken the art of impact investing to new and more dangerous heights. Let’s start with the environmental groups actively working on preserving the health of the Colorado River. Why aren’t they sounding alarms about preserving the actual river rather than silently watching as the Waltons work tirelessly to preserve the economic growth the river can provide if managed for that purpose? Could it be that the Walton Family Foundation is pouring tens of millions of dollars into the nine largest environmental organizations supposedly fighting to save the Colorado? In 2016 alone, the Foundation gave American Rivers, The Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited, Conservation Colorado, American Whitewater, Environmental Defense Fund, Audubon Society, Western Resource Advocates and Colorado
The white high water mark shows just how much the water level in Lake Mead has fallen. It is expected to fall below half its capacity by 2020.
Water Trust a combined $24,765,848. And yes, in my experience with environmental organizations, that last figure would make it very hard to be critical of the Walton Family Foundation’s efforts to dam, divert and otherwise redistribute Colorado River basin water for the purpose of supporting irresponsible population and economic growth well into the future. Environmental organizations are infamous for not biting the hand that feeds them. Thank goodness we can count on the media to play watchdog on this whole mess... I wish. You may have noticed that there has been a bit of an increase of late when it comes to water reporting. Much of this uptick comes compliments of radio outlet KUNC, which syndicates its water reporting to other public radio stations. Aspen Journalism is also reporting on water and making its work available to a variety of newspapers. Other respected outlets like ProPublica, High Country News and the Society for Environmental Journalism are now keeping an eye on the Colorado River. Yet none of them, that I can find anyway, have reported
on the potential threat posed by the Walton’s incredible influence over the future of the Colorado River. In fact, they seem to be cheerleading some of the Walton’s efforts, such as providing funds to buy water rights from farmers in order to leave that water in the river, but they fail to report what then happens to that water. Does it flow to the sea, creating a healthy river, or is it simply moved downstream into a “bank” — the name water impact investors use for dammed reservoirs — in order to support population and economic growth or industrial usage somewhere else downstream? The answer is the latter but I sure haven’t read that in the newspapers I read, or heard it coming out of my radio. And you guessed it, these news outlets, like their environmental organization counterparts, are also on the receiving end of grant money from the Waltons to do water reporting. As the old saying goes, “no one has to tell a good reporter where not to look,” and they sure aren’t looking critically into the Waltons. (Side note: As news media scramble to find new models to fund themselves, let’s all agree now that we shouldn’t allow the Waltons to fund our water reporting or oil and gas companies to fund our energy reporting or big developers to fund our analysis on growth or Democratic or Republican billionaire campaign donors to fund our political reporting. I think such hypocrisy is far more problematic than just going out of business. But I digress.) And just in case you’re holding out hope that the academic world will come to our rescue, I’m thinking most of you already can guess who’s funding the academic research into water issues concerning the Colorado River. Yep, it starts with a W. The Waltons have funded research pertaining to water at Colorado State, CU Boulder’s Law School, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara and more institutions. Like I said, the Waltons and their pals are impact investing in our water and they are a lot smarter than those who came before them. They understood from the beginning that there were only four possible areas of oversight into their water activities: government, journalists, environmental groups and academics. And they have poured millions of dollars into all of these areas. As you have seen, or rather not seen, the Waltons’ efforts to influence or even control how water is distributed and used in the future has largely been kept invisible or even cheered on. Brilliant to be sure... but very, very dangerous. May 31, 2018 13
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Critics claim Fontenelle project will harm Colorado River Basin
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he Bureau of Reclamation announced on May 24 collaborative plans with the State of Wyoming to expand operational capacity at the Fontenelle Reservoir, a 20-mile-long body of water on the Green River, a tributary of the Colorado River. At the same time, the Wyoming Congressional delegation has introduced bills in both the U.S. House and Senate that, if passed, would allow the state to access additional water supplies to then contract out for industrial and commercial uses in the state. Not everyone is pleased with the idea. Some critics of the proposal say it could allow a major new diversion of water out of the Colorado River system, threatening the river’s health and potentially water security throughout the West, as the region faces the worst drought conditions on record. Under the Colorado River Compact, the Fontenelle Reservoir stores about 40 percent of Wyoming’s water allocation. However, currently, the bottom 80,000 acre-feet of water stored in Fontenelle is not accessible without causing damage to the dam wall. For years, the State of Wyoming has been seeking to reinforce the upstream face of the dam by armoring it with boulders and other material known as riprap to prevent against erosion. Doing so would mean the reservoir could potentially be drained lower than it has ever been, making the bottom 80,000 acre-feet usable for the first time. “The riprap would allow them to drain the reservoir and their water rights would allow them to drain it twice per year,” says Gary Wockner, president of Save the Colorado. “We oppose them reengineering this dam so they can
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drain 150,000 acre-feet of water out of the Green River every year. And that’s what it would give them the opportunity to do.” Wyoming state officials see it a little differently. “The reality is that the structure has been there, the footprint has been there for decades, but the riprap has never been completed for the structure to be absolutely functional,” says Nephi Cole, policy advisor to Wyoming Governor Matt Mead. “The bathtub is already full, the only thing that putting [in] riprap does is allow you to lower water out of the bathtub.” With lower-than-average snowpacks throughout the West in recent years, warming conditions and the driest 19-year period on record, the Bureau of Reclamation expects the demand for water to only increase in coming years. The agency is encouraging states dependent on the Colorado River — Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California — to develop conservation and drought contingency plans to avoid crises. The river’s two largest reservoirs at Lake Mead and Lake Powell are approaching critically low levels. The Bureau estimates runoff from the Rocky Mountains into Lake Powell will only hit 42 percent of average this year, and by 2020, states will begin experiencing a water shortage as Lake Mead will be less than half full. The Green River’s source is in the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming, and it flows into western Colorado and the Colorado River system. As drought conditions increase, lower states could call on Wyoming to release more water into reservoirs down-river, which makes
increasing operational capacity at Fontenelle an insurance policy for Wyoming water users, Cole says. “By having all of these different systems at capacity, it does give us flexibility in drought planning to be able to meet our compact obligations to other states, while at the same time our commercial uses in Wyoming, whether agriculture or something else, that those uses remain viable,” he says. Currently, nearby towns and the Seedskadee Wildlife Refuge downstream hold rights to the water in Fontenelle Reservoir, as do a handful of companies for industrial uses such as cooling off a nearby coal-fired power plant, developing chemical fertilizer and fracking. Although none of these companies are currently drawing water from Fontenelle, they currently have contracts totaling almost 50,000 acre-feet and are making readiness-to-serve payments. While the project would give the state capacity to use more of the water in Fontenelle Reservoir, Cole says there isn’t currently a plan for it, and it doesn’t create any new contracts for that water. If companies or other interests wanted access to more water they’d have to go through a permitting process. Wyoming lawmakers at the state and federal levels have made it clear they want to keep options open for agricultural, municipal and industrial uses. Legislation currently being considered in Congress would allow the Bureau of Reclamation to release more water out of the Fontenelle, creating potential for new commercial and industrial uses, but critics argue the project lacks adequate planning and could be too speculative to stand up against Western water law.
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“All of their statements are really ambiguous in terms of what the water will be used for, which I find problematic, especially when you’re looking at the system as a whole,” says Rica Fulton, who manages the Upper Green River Network program for the Waterkeeper Alliance. She says negotiations over the project didn’t include enough stakeholders, and she raises concerns that oil and gas interests and other commercial uses are the main drivers behind the push for increased capacity at Fontenelle. “This is them (the state) forwardthinking that they can expand fracking. That’s the current economic base that they are relying on and continue to rely on,” Fulton says. “I would hope [the federal government] would mandate an additional purpose and need study for the water and it can’t be speculative.” The next step is for the state of Wyoming to apply for Reclamation funds to start the riprap project, which would trigger a federal environmental study and permitting process. Only after legislation passes in Congress could the Bureau consider releasing additional water into the Fontenelle. “Before we turn a shovel full of dirt there will be a NEPA process,” says Wayne Pullan, area manager for the Provo region of the Bureau of Reclamation, which includes the Fontenelle. “We’re interested to see to what degree this is feasible, technically, financially, environmentally and legally, all those ways.” The collaborative process, however, opens the door for potential new water supplies to be contracted and sold out of the already struggling Colorado River Basin.
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IT’S ALWAYS BEEN PART OF BOULDER CULTURE, NOW IT’S AN OLYMPIC SPORT BY TOM WINTER
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he visual skyscrapers called the Flatirons that dominate our skyline have always attracted attention. From the first ascent of the third Flatiron by Earl and Floyd Millard in 1906, these rock formations, along with craggy granite spires and faces in Eldorado and Boulder Canyons, comprise a year-round rock climbing environment that attracts world-class athletes and amateurs alike. While Boulder’s climbing culture and bohemian practitioners were perhaps the most visible in the 1970s and 1980s when
the cost of living remained cheap and it was still possible to car camp at Boulder Canyon pullouts, there’s no doubt that the area remains a prime spot for practitioners of the vertical arts, despite the tech influx and a dearth of cheap post-climbing watering holes. But these “arts” just got a whole lot more serious, as climbing has now joined the Olympic circus, with the debut of the sport scheduled for the 2020 Olympics. Climbing at the 2020 Games in Tokyo will include sport, bouldering and speed events, with a total of 40 athletes (equally divided between men and women) going for the gold. Results — and medals — will be based upon the combined scores of each athlete. Of course, since this is the Olympics, the format is not without controversy. In particular, the inclusion of a speed event as part of the medalling criteria has rankled some athletes, with Czech powerhouse and World Championship winner Adam Ondra criticizing this element of the competition. “Anything would be better than this kind of combination,” Ondra stated in a 2016 interview with Climbing Magazine. Regardless, the criteria has been set and the race to qualify for the Olympics is now underway, starting with the only North American World Cup event this year at the
Climbers test the wall during last year’s GoPro Mountain Games. This year athletes set their sights on qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games.
GoPro Mountain Games in Vail. The Vail location of this event may bother some Boulder hardcores, who correctly see a richer climbing heritage in their own backyard. But the reality is that despite its climbing pedigree, the Boulder community has never hosted anything quite like the GoPro Mountain Games, and the history of that event — which features sports like kayaking, trail running and mountain biking along with climbing — is one of sustained, year-on-year high-end execution. This is what matters when it comes to events that will shake out who goes to the Olympics and who stays home. In other words, if you want to host a climbing competition that has Olympic implications, you need to have a proven track record. The complex production of the GoPro Mountain Games, and the associated World Cup climbing event, is handled by the Vail Valley Foundation (VVF). For skiers and cyclists, this organization is already well known. Its team is behind the highly successful FIS World Cup ski races at Beaver Creek and they’re assisting with this year’s Aug. 16 and 17 stages of the Colorado Classic cycling event. “The Vail Valley Foundation is entirely unique,” says VVF’s director of public relations Tom Boyd. “We are in a very special
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position to be able to give mountain sports that much-needed boost because our main focus is our mission, not our profits. We have experience with international-level sporting events, so we are able to work closely with federation organizers as they guide their sport from fringe to mainstream, and all the steps along the way.” This is certainly the case when it comes to the role VVF has played in organizing the climbing component of the GoPro Mountain Games, particularly now as the clock starts ticking down to 2020. “We couldn’t be happier that Tokyo and the [International Olympic Committee] made the wise decision to make climbing an Olympic sport in 2020. We are working with youth climbing coaches from around the country to try and upgrade the size and levels of the climbing experience at the GoPro Mountain Games — right now we offer citizens and youth climbing as well, but it sells out early and there is more demand than we can meet,” Boyd says. Because of the Olympic equation, this year’s event, in particular, promises to be intense, Boyd says. “There’s definitely a feeling that the climbing circuit has ‘leveled up,’” he notes. “A lot more is on the line, the leaders in the sport are finding themselves in a bigger spotlight, and the sport is growing extremely quickly in terms of spectators — which makes sense. It takes a minute to understand the sport, but once you get the rules, it’s truly a dramatic and spectator-friendly sport. We have more than 3,000 [people] show up to our finals in Vail.” And Boulder athletes, as you might guess, will be in the mix. One of the athletes to watch at this Boulder Weekly
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year’s GoPro Mountain Games and to keep an eye on when it comes to making it to the big show in 2020 is Brook Raboutou. Raboutou is the youngest person to climb 5.14b (think insanely difficult and technical) and developed her talents climbing with Boulder’s Team ABC. Raboutou is no stranger to Vail, finishing ninth in an International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Bouldering World Cup at the GoPro Mountain Games in 2017. Raboutou, part of a USA youth wave that will be peaking in 2020, is also complemented by Ashima Shiraishi, a New York-based JapaneseAmerican who started by climbing rocks in New York City’s Central Park at age six. “Shiraishi is really making a splash,” notes Boyd. “Watch out for her!” Also in the mix is current Boulder resident Meagan Martin and lifelong Boulderite Margo Hayes. Hayes, for her part, learned to climb with her father in Boulder Canyon and has posted some impressive results that include placing sixth at a World Cup event in Briançon, France, and third at a IFSC youth combined event in Innsbruck, Austria, both in 2017 — not to mention becoming the first woman to climb a route confirmed at the grade 5.15, among the hardest in the world. So, while Boulder is deferring to Vail in this year in regards to hosting North America’s only World Cup event for climbers, there’s little doubt that Boulder climbers are set to make an impact at the GoPro Mountain Games this year and also in 2020 at the Olympics. And that’s the kind of representation that all of our community, not just climbers, can be proud of.
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Enhancing the excitability of the whole machine
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riedrich Nietzsche considered art the “healing balm” for the human condition, the highest form of relief for existential dread, world-weariness and, if you will, “spasms and agitations of the will.” Art saves us, Nietzsche says, because it induces rausch, a state of intoxication, an emotional rush that creates a sense of strength and fullness. “Art reminds us of states of animal vigor,” Nietzsche wrote in The Will to Power. “It is on the one hand an excess and overflow of blooming physicality into the world of images and desires; on the other, an excitation of the animal function through the images and desires of intensified life; — an enhancement of the feeling of life, a stimulant to it.” And yet the very thing that art gives us is the very thing we need to make art. “For there to be art,” Neitzsche wrote, “for there to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological precondition is indispensable: Rausch. Rausch must first have enhanced the excitability of the whole machine: else there is no art.” Which brings us to The Catamounts, Boulder’s adventurous theater company practically dedicated to enhancing the excitability of the whole machine. In collaboration with the Denver-based Control Group Productions dance troupe, The Cats presents Rausch, an immersive theater piece that explores the intoxicating nature of... well... nature. “[Rausch] really means loss of self, the high concept of ecstasy, and we immediately realized that is one of the main reasons we go out in nature, to dissolve a little bit, to realize how much bigger the world is,” says Control Group’s Patrick Mueller, who codirects Rausch with The Cat’s co-founder, Amanda Boulder Weekly
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Berg Wilson. with you on the bus to enjoy with felRausch takes an audilow initiates. In fact, you should, ence of just under 50 peobecause that’s what it’s all about: ple on a journey, from a intoxication. It’s about that feeling of “nondescript shopping cenhedonism, The Cat’s Wilson says, ter parking lot” (Wild because that’s rausch. Woods Brewery) to an Wilson has been exploring what undisclosed piece of outshe calls “the outer edge of inventivedoor space on the outskirts ness of American theater” for pretty much all of her professional life, from of Boulder. Based on Greek Austin to Chicago to Denver. In the mythology about the return past two years, Wilson has taken a of spring, Rausch tasks deep dive into immersive theater with audience members with two productions with the Denver guiding the goddess Center for Performing Arts: as a cast Persephone on her annual member in Sweet & Lucky in 2016 journey back to the land of and as director of the jazz musical The the living from the Wild Party in late 2017. Mueller — Underworld, where she who acted in Sweet & Lucky and chospends half of each year. reographed The Wild Party — has “Honored initiates,” as similarly explored the immersive theater space audience members are called, with Control Group productions such as the meet the key players in site-specific CAVE / dances made to be viewed in Persephone’s life: her disTop: Betty Hart, as the dark, and this year’s site-specific [Colony traught mother Demeter, Persephone, dances with an audience 933]. her nefarious husband member. Wilson says she saw a “hunger” for immerHades, the vain (and hilariAbove: Joan Bruemmer-Holden as sive theater after the two DCPA shows, and ous) Narcissus, and her morDemeter thought it was time an independent company tal love, Adonis. like The Catamounts took on the challenge of As with all The not only bringing more immersive theater to the Catamounts’ productions, Rausch carries its signature Front Range, but also of taking it out of a brick-andintegration of music, dance, food and, perhaps most mortar theater entirely. Aware of the enormity of the importantly, drink. Wild Woods is serving up a speundertaking, she approached Mueller to collaborate. cially crafted brew for audience members: an imperial ale, inspired by Demeter, the goddess of harvest and see RAUSCH Page 20 grain. You can even take some 32-ounce “camp cans” May 31 , 2018 19
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Together they applied the lessons they learned from Sweet & Lucky and The Wild Party Top: Patrick Mueller and to Rausch: smaller audiences, broken down into Tara Kelso dance as Hades and Persephone. even smaller groups, working through a nonAbove: Laura Lounge, linear story. as Hermes, on the bus en route to the site of “There were certain seats in The Wild Party Rausch. that if you sat in them you had the most amazing experience,” Wilson says. “But as you sort of got into the periphery of the show, even though we directed the hell out of it to try to bring those people in, there was only so much we could do.” “I’m really proud of what we did with The Wild Party in terms of audience engagement, but there’s just no way fundamentally to have 200 people in a space to feel like your experience is unique and chosen,” Mueller adds. “It’s like any house party or any round table discussion: once you get past a certain number, people start to become invisible,” he says. “At a certain point the whole group starts to function very differently; it’s not individuals sitting there anymore. I think that’s definitely part of the immersive experience that audiences are so hungry for is that desire for the unique experience.” And unique Rausch is. The experience is engaging through and through, from the camaraderie that begins to build between bar patrons at Wild Woods who realize they are about to board a bus going God-knows-where, to a folksie sing-a-long of Steppenwolf ’s “Born to be Wild,” to smearing clay on your face with Persephone and snapping selfies with Narcissus. It’s wild and weird and fun and surely Nietzche would approve. And don’t worry; everyone is a little nervous the first time they rausch. The trick is to just let go. “There’s this funny thing that happens when we fall in love or when we experience ecstasy — suddenly we feel ripped open and free and immediately we want to capture that feeling and hold on to it and control it,” Wilson says. “And that’s sort of our relationship to the natural world, too. It is this totally untamable thing, and yet we’re constantly trying to get on top of it. If I want people to take anything away from the piece it’s that feeling of not being able to control something — we should embrace it. And maybe in doing so we’ll have greater respect for our love of nature and our love of other humans, if we could just lean into that ability of just letting go.” 20 May 31 , 2018
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I
n School of Rock The Musical, wannabe-rock legend Dewey Finn poses as a substitute teacher in order to make some extra cash. When describing his faux teaching philosophy, Dewey turns to what he knows best: music. “I believe the children are our future,” he says. “Teach them well and let them lead the way.”
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beloved history, with successful titles including The Producers and Hairspray. The stage shows usually go on to become their own entity, a retelling that adds depth to the original story. With source material that is ripe for adaptation, School of Rock is a welcome, but flawed, addition to the list of successful musical-to-movie translations. Outright, there are a few weak
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Whether you like the George Benson version or Whitney Houston’s take, the sentiment is what lies at the core of the School of Rock story. Now playing at Buell Theater through June 10, the musical shows us that the future of music lies in the hands of the children, and damn, the future looks good. Based on the movie of the same title, the stage production follows Dewey on his mission to win the battle of the bands contest. After being kicked out of his own band, Dewey finds a new gig, subbing at a snobby private school with an uptight principle. Still hellbent on winning the contest, Dewey discovers his new band in the kids of his class. Still in residency, the show premiered on Broadway in 2015 and secured four Tony nominations. Andrew Lloyd Webber returned to his Jesus Christ Superstar rock roots to write the music for School of Rock. Musicals based on film have a long,
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points with the adaptation. For one, it relies too heavily on its source material, with much of the dialogue pulled directly from the movie. This doesn’t let the musical carve out its own path, instead making it feel gimmicky, like a reboot more concerned with spitting out classic catch phrases then adding substance to the canon. The movie itself is full of music, with a couple original songs that grew to be successful in their own right, including the title song. Thus, the show needed to be precise about which scenes to add songs to. While the show is mostly successful in this endeavor, there are a handful of songs that fall flat. Many seemingly pointless moments are dressed up with original music, such as a meeting in the teachers’ lounge or a Guitar Hero music session, which ended up taking focus away from the poignant scenes. In these moments, the show felt
bloated. Many of these throwaway songs occur at the start of the show, forcing the audience to chew a mouthful of gristle before offering the tender meat that makes School of Rock such a treat. The children elevate the show from mediocre to memorable, intensifying the show’s joie de vivre and reinforcing the power of live theater. They infuse the show with youthful energy and talent that overflows off the stage; there’s something so lovable about kids jumping around on stage shouting, “I’m in the band!” It’s in the second act that School of Rock hits its sweet spot. “Where Did the Rock Go?” is a wonderful ballad about losing youthful passion. When the substitute is found out in “Dewey’s Confession,” chaos erupts in a fun, snappy song that embodies the playful spirit of musicals. The show culminates with “School of Rock,” tying everything together with a kick-ass bow. The entire cast delivers entertaining and energetic performances, notably Lexie Dorsett Sharp as the stuffy principal Ms. Mullins, and Rob Colletti as Dewey, whose antics carry the show. But inarguably the rocket fuel of the production are the dozen kids who rock the stage, particularly Theodora Silverman on bass, Gilberto MorettiHamilton on drums, Vincent Molden on guitar, Theo Mitchell-Penner on keyboards and Grier Burke on vocals. Not even old enough to drive, these kids are seasoned pros — many of them as quadruple threats: singing, dancing, acting and playing an instrument. While funding for the arts dwindles at schools across the country, School of Rock is a case study in favor of turning the tables. If children are the future, fund the arts and let them lead the way.
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overtones Tales of the road
James McMurtry on the touring life and the inspiration it provides by L. Kent Wolgamott Mary Keating Bruton
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ames McMurtry spends hundreds of hours in the van each year, traveling America’s highways to the 100-plus shows he and his band annually perform. The van hours, however, aren’t just down time. The travel, McMurtry says, provides inspiration for his geographic, detail-filled songs. Take, for example, “South Dakota,” the story of a young military veteran returning to the small town and family farm from Complicated Game, his critically acclaimed 2015 album: “There ain’t much between the pole and South Dakota/ Barbed wire won’t stop the wind/ You won’t get nothin’ here but broke and older/ If I was you I might re-up again.” “I get a couple lines and a melody and then I think, ‘Who said that?’” McMurtry says. “I try to create the character who said that, then I go backward to the story, sometimes.” While he frequently writes songs, McMurtry didn’t make Complicated Game until he had to. His trigger for a new album: things slowing down on the road. “I didn’t make a record for four or five years because we didn’t need to,” McMurtry says. “Then the club cycle, the attendance started falling off, so we made another one. That’s what [albums] are for now. We make ’em so guys like you write about them and write about us and people know we’re coming to town.” Coming to town is now McMurtry’s stock-in-trade. Album sales have dwin-
dled, the payment for artists from digital downloads is far smaller than that for physical products, and money from streaming is almost non-existent, he says. “That’s the way the music business is now,” McMurtry says. “We’re on the road half the year. When we’re home, we do work around here and I have regular gigs in Austin. It’s the only way to make money anymore. The mailbox money isn’t there anymore. ... It was a completely different world when I started out.” That was 29 years ago, when his debut album, Too Long in the Wasteland, was released by Columbia Records. But he’d been playing guitar since his dad, novelist Larry McMurtry, gave him a guitar at 7 and his mom taught him a couple chords. “I wanted to be Johnny Cash when I was growing up,” McMurtry says. “By
“We learned how to do it on the cheap. We figured out we could tour in a van and make money. We were well prepared when Napster cut the head off the music business.” But the music business isn’t the only thing McMurtry has ON THE BILL: Leo watched change over the years. Kottke & James McMurtry. “The political system is 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 14, Chautauqua upside down, like the music Auditorium, 900 Baseline business,” he says. Many of Road, Boulder. Tickets are McMurtry’s songs, like the $28-$43 ($35-$40 for concert members). working-class anthem “We Can’t Make It Here,” are pointedly political. In the last dozen years, McMurtry has released just three studio albums, 2005’s Childish Things, which won the the time I was supposed to be grown up, Americana Music Association’s Album I learned there were people who wrote of the Year award, 2008’s Just Us Kids, songs for other singers. I was going to and then Complicated Game. move to Nashville to be a songwriter.” Songs from Complicated Game About that time, John Mellencamp make up a good portion of was directing and acting in a movie, McMurtry’s current set. But there are Falling From Grace, from a script written some songs he and the band have to by McMurtry’s father. play every night. “I pitched him (Mellencamp) a tape, “‘Choctaw Bingo’ and ‘Levelland’ are hoping he’d want to record one of my fairly mandatory in some places,” he songs. That way when I got to says. “There are some places where they Nashville, somebody would rent me an don’t get ‘Levelland,’ like Maine, for apartment because I’d have money com- example. We basically play the same set ing in,” McMurtry says. “He didn’t want for a while, then we change it and play to record any of the songs, but he prothat set for awhile.” duced an album for me. He got me the Then McMurtry and his three comdeal with Columbia Records.” patriots get back in the van and head McMurtry did two more albums for down the road, driving as many as eight Columbia and three studio discs for to 10 hours between towns to play Sugar Hill, the last one coming in 2002. shows. If he’s lucky McMurtry will “Every record after that, the budgets maybe find inspiration for a song on kept getting smaller,” McMurtry says. the way.
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Striving to create community by making dance relatable, the Schiff Dance Collective has been “Schiffting” Colorado audiences since it was founded in 2006 by Artistic Director Jenny Schiff. The company and its youth students will perform works by teachers and students alike in Our Truths. Through dance, spoken word and music, performers will express how they came to their current truths. Tickets are $15. —Anna Scott
Let loose with a weekend of outdoor adventure, camping, craft beer and awesome music in the laid-back mountain town of Lyons. Go on a trail run, check out the “dock dogs,” race kayaks or participate in one of the other wild activities at this outdoor festival in Bohn Park. Listen to the live music lineup of Son Volt, The Sheepdogs and Mo Lowda & the Humble while you’re sipping on one of more than 200 available craft beers from more than 70 breweries. Funds raised from The Burning Can festival support recreation programs in Lyons as well as post-flood tree restoration in the area. Tickets are $5 for kids 5-12, $10 for general admission to games and concerts, and $65 for full events access and camping. Camping spots are limited. —Anna Scott
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Born in Cologne, Germany, Ottmar Liebert has become one of the most successful instrumental artists of the past few decades, entertaining global audiences and playing more than 2,000 concerts worldwide. With the blend of Spanish, Mexican and world influences found in his unique flamenco style, he has snagged five Grammy nominations and two record-breaking performances at the New Mexico Philharmonic. His first album was self-produced, recorded for less than $3,000 on an old analog machine, but still became the best-selling instrumental acoustic guitar album of all time. Since then, he has released 30 more albums and continues to play for large audiences. Tickets are $45. —Anna Scott
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CU BOULDER EVENTS For more information on any event, visit calendar.colorado.edu. FRIDAY, JUNE 1
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Liquid Sky: Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club.
Recycled Runway at the CU Museum of Natural History.
9:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.
Museum of Natural History (Henderson), BioLounge, 1035 Broadway, Boulder.
Fiske’s mind-melting Liquid Sky is a musical, all-you-can-eat, eye-candy buffet. The beats and rhythms of your favorite artists are coupled with the trippiest visuals digitally rendered live, all on our new 8K dome and in full-surround audio. Let our liquid engineers take you on a live-mixed journey in Fiske Planetarium’s unique immersive theater! Tickets at colorado.edu/fiske
Young designers. Creative Genius. Inspiring Fashions. The CU Museum will be decked out with a special collection of original garments, designed and constructed by local artists, grades 6-12. Stop by the BioLounge to see this season’s haute couture creations made from upcycled materials. Learn how making better decisions about the clothing we buy and how we dispose of it can support the planet, a trend that is always in style! More dates through Aug. 31.
SATURDAY, JUNE 2 CU Wizards: Rocks from outer space!
Stop by the CU Musuem of Natural History’s booth at the Dolores River Festival on June 2.
9:30 a.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. CU Boulder Geology Professor Brian Hynek travels the globe in search of rocks from outer space that tell fascinating stories... the geologic, hydrologic and climatic histories of our neighboring planets. Kids K-12 and families love this free STEM CU Wizards show presented by a real rock star seeking to answer a great question: Are we alone?!
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 Out and About at the Dolores River Festival.
CU Boulder Archives Centennial Celebration.
10 a.m. Joe Rowell Park, Dolores, Colorado.
Norlin Library, CBIS, Fifth floor, 1157 18th St., Boulder.
This summer, the education team from the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History will be in Southwest Colorado presenting hands-on education activities that will highlight the power of plants! Stop by our booth at the 15th annual Dolores River Festival to make up-close observations of plants and museum objects, play with interactive learning tools and games, and more. To purchase tickets, visit doloresriverfestival.org/ tickets.html.
Join us for a look at the past 100 years of the archives, chat with archivists working with the collections, and learn more about the future of archives. Tours of the Archives: Starts at 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. just outside the archives in Norlin Basement (capped at 12 people so get there early). Archives 100 Reception: 4-6 p.m., fifth floor of Norlin. Center for British and Irish Studies at Norlin Library: See “100 Years of Archives” Exhibit in Norlin Library First floor and basement . The event is free and open to all.
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Thursday, May 31 Music The Final Chamber Works of Brahms and Rachmaninov. 7:30 p.m. St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, 7520 South Boulder Road, Boulder, 303499-3041. Cigar Box Guitars. 12 p.m. Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, Bricolage Gallery, 2870 Bluff St., Boulder, 720-379-5328. Through July 6. Dark Waters & Grant Wiscaver. 6:30 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732.
Views & Brews Film: The Sandlot. 7:15 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.
Matt Flaherty. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.
Friday, June 1
Nicki Bluhm. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-4093. Ottmar Liebert. 7:30 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 970-243-8497.
Devin Baize. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Signal Test. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Eric Adrian Gonzales. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Spring Sing Gala. 6:30 p.m. Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 303-499-3165.
Extra Gold, U.S. Tygers. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Quinlan Cafe, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.
Stone Temple Pilots. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Gala! 6 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900. Howie Day. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Inn Between of Longmont Micah Project Groundbreaking. 5 p.m. United Church of Christ, 1500 Ninth Ave., Longmont. Jeremy Dion. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Jerm Boor. 7 p.m. Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 719-419-4591.
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Jessica Gabrielle. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2013731.
Events Comedy Open Mic. 9 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017. Gym Show. 5 p.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717. Love After Love. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Ramen Heads. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Toddler Dance Party. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Music Artist’s Opening Reception: Jessica Rigney — with music by Cactus Cat. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Citizen Dan. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Colorado Official Freestyle Afterparty. 12 a.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Cuban Dance Party. 9 p.m. Dagabi Cucina, 3970 Broadway, Unit 101, Boulder, 303-786-9004. The Dark Waters Project. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Flex. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Howlin’ Goatz. 8 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-931-5856. Johnny Long. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Lightly Toasted. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Lionel Young Duo. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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events Lucha Libre & Laughs: Wrestle Party. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 303-420-6449.
Girls on Top. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Ramen Heads. 4 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
La Sportiva Trail Run Relay. 10 a.m. Bohn Park, 199 Second Ave., Lyons.
People’s Fair Art & Music Festival. 5 p.m. Civic Center Park, 101 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 303-777-6887.
Spanish Modern Literature Club. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Disney’s The Little Mermaid Opening Night (Preview). 6:15 p.m. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.
Perpetual Motion. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.
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Longmont Youth Symphony Auditions. 9 a.m. First Lutheran Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-776-2704.
Many Mountains. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Night of the Nomads: Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.
Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Howie Day, Brian Mackey. 7 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303830-9214.
Music Alan Parsons Live Project. 6:30 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.
Ballet in the Park. 7 p.m. Boulder Bandshell, Boulder, 303-413-7200.
ROYGBIV. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Summer Concert Series. 6 p.m. Intersection of Fourth Ave. and Kimbark St., Longmont, 303651-8750.
Colorado Official Freestyle Afterparty. 12 a.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
World Dance & Music Festival. 6 p.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 619-228-3237.
Denver Record Club. 12 p.m. VFW Post 1, 841 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-515-8391.
Love After Love. 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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Summer Music Series Kickoff featuring The Good Kind. 5 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898.
Flynn & the Electric Co. 8 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732. Forest Beutel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Foxfeather. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.
Swerve. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875. Tenbucksixer. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 530-723-3026.
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B-Normous. 7:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Colin Robison and The Heavy Hearts. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Beyondananda and Beyond: Stand Up With Swami, Sit Down With Steve. 7 p.m. The Caritas Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066.
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Angélique Kidjo’s Remain In Light and Femi Kuti & The Positive Force 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche — presented by Theater Company of Lafayette. The Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Through June 2.
District Merchants. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through June 24.
Man of La Mancha. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse,4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through June 17.
Agnes of God. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through July 8.
Human Error. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Theatre Company. Garner Galleria Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through June 24.
Oh Gnome You Don’t — presented by Public Works Theatre Company. Whitetail Park, 2550 Autumn Ridge Blvd., Lafayette. Opens June 2. Through June 10.
The Life and Times of Ol’ Alfred — presented by The SOURCE Theatre Company. Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through June 9.
School of Rock. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through June 10.
A Hymn to the Goddess: An Egyptian Tale. The BiTSY Stage, 1137 S. Huron St. Denver. Through June 17. Annie. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through July 8. Dear Brutus — presented by Upstart Crow Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through June 3. Death of a Salesman. The Edge Theater Company, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Through June 3. Disney’s The Little Mermaid. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Opens June 1. Through Sept. 8.
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Little Shop of Horrors —presented by Equinox Theatre Company. Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through June 16. Magnets on the Fridge. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through June 6.
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Act On It: Exhibit on CU Student Activism. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 15. David Mack. Firehouse Art Center, Main Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through June 17. Drawn To Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard. Denver Art Museum. 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 22.
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Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. Facing Rocky Flats. Boulder Public Library, Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through June 10. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October.
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Highlights from the Collection. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19. A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19. Kristen Hatgi Sink: Honey. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. Like a Hammer — by Jeffrey Gibson. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through August 12. Lisa Oppenheim: Spine. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
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In her travels, Marietta Patricia Leis has ventured to Finland’s Arctic Circle, Iceland and Antarctica. MELTING, her multimedia project now showing at the Dairy Arts Center through June 17, focuses on the impressions the artist experienced in these places. In MELTING, Leis asks viewers to become more acutely aware of the fragile future of our planet and seek ways to preserve it for generations.
Melting — by Marietta Patricia Leis. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby & Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through June 17. Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21. Mixed Media Drawing and Watercolor — by Ileana Barbu. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through June 29. Mixed Media Painting — by Frederick Pichon. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through June 29. Monumental Pastel — featuring Lonny Granston. 5 p.m. Friday, June 1, Osmosis Gallery, 290 Second Ave., Niwot. All artist proceeds from this show will be donated to Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance to help efforts to preserve Utah’s red rock wilderness.
Patrice Renee Washington: Charts, Parts, and Holders. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. Pink Progression. Metropolitan State University, Center for Visual Art, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through August 18. Processing — by Roberto Juarez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 16. Resounding Roar — Charles E. Burchfield. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through July 29. TreeHouses: Look Who’s Living in the Trees! Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Open June 2. Through Jan. 6. Wood & Stone, Substance & Spirit — by Rebecca Davis and Roger Asay. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through June 17.
Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28.
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World Dance & Music Festival. 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 619-228-3237. Events
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2018 Burning Can Festival at the Lyons Outdoor Games. 9 a.m. Bohn Park, 199 Second Ave., Lyons. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Colorado Horse Rescue Summer Open House and Adoption Showcase. 10 a.m. Colorado Horse Rescue, 10386 N. 65th St., Longmont, 720-494-1414. The Commedia of Robin Hood. 11 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. First Saturday Yoga: Triangles. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Mother Daughter Bookclub. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Rocky Mountain Pet Expo. 10 a.m. National Western Stock Show, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver, 303-617-3976. Summer Celebration. 12 p.m. Peloton West, 3601 Arapahoe Ave., Unit 177, Boulder, 303-4575230. Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Sunday, June 3 Music Boulder Friends of Jazz. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-4491888. City Park Jazz. 6 p.m. City Park, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver.
Johnny Long. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Purl Jam. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Joseph Anderson, Brian Johannesen, & Nadalands. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
TEDxBoulder. 5 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4407666.
Laurie D. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.
Used Book Sale. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Longmont Youth Symphony Auditions. 1 p.m. First Lutheran Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-776-2704.
Monday, June 4
Reckless Kelly. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Tea Leaf Green (Free Concert Series). 4 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. World Dance & Music Festival. 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 619-228-3237. Events Boulder Market. 11 a.m. Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-272-7467. Cinema Program Screening of The Swiss Family Robinson. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Commedia of Robin Hood. 11 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Giselle: Akram Kahn and the ENB. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison. 4 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. KGNU’s Annual Plant Sale + Arts and Crafts Fair 2018! 9 a.m. KGNU AM/FM Boulder Studio, 4700 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-4885.
Music Bateria Alegria — Summer Reading Kickoff Concert. 6 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200. Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. A Cappella Summer Camp St. Vrain School District. 10 a.m. Sunset Middle School, 1300 S. Sunset St., Longmont, 720-365-3080. Kids Summer Ukulele Camp 2018 (Ages 5 to 9). 10:30 a.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. Matty G. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Music Open Stage Night. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. The Weird. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Arabic Literature. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Fiber Art Summer Camp. 9 a.m. Fabricate, 2017 17th St., Boulder, 303-997-8245. Genealogy Indexing Workshop. 1 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. see EVENTS Page 32
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Boulder Poetry Slam. 6:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
Lama Tsultrim Allione — Wisdom Rising. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
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Friday, June 1 Michael Pollan — How to Change Your Mind. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder. Saturday, June 2 Bree Trager — The Adventures of Grumpy Tortuga. 11 a.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
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Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Wednesday, June 6 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Fox and Bones. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2013731.
Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.
Johnny Dango. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2013731.
Docs That Rock Showcase. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Leigh Guest. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Egemen Kesikli. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2013731.
Live Roots Reggae. 9 p.m. Vision Quest Brewery, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 303-578-0041.
Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Plaza beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-499-6363. Kyle Ward. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Late for the Train & The Good Bad. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Adult Dance Classes. 5 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Unit 111, Lafayette, 303-524-5405. An Evening of Works by Stacey Steers. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Family SRP: Dance Performance from Danse Etoile. 10:30 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821. Festival Plaza Story Time. 10 a.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200. Fiber Art Summer Camp. 9 a.m. Fabricate, 2017 17th St., Boulder, 303-997-8245. Summer of Discovery: Interstellar Adventure. 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Rise Like Lions: An hour with Sean Scanlan on taking back our Democracy. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
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Mmmwhah’s Vocal Improvisation Playshop Series — with Tom Weiser. 6 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Wednesday Night Square Dance. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303485-5020. Events The Death of Stalin. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Giselle: Akram Kahn and the ENB. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Princess Camp-Elsa & Anna. 9:45 a.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717. Screenplay Workshop: 6-Week Character Lab. 6:15 p.m. Boulder Writing Studio, 777 Pearl St., Suite 211, Boulder. Summer of Discovery: Meet and Bleat: Mountain Flower Dairy Goats. 1 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Summer of Discovery: Sticky Fingers Cooking for Teens. 6 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.
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everend Toller (Ethan Hawke, in one of his best performances) is having a crisis of faith. The parish pastor of New York’s 250-year-old First Reformed church — once a stopover on the Underground Railroad, now jokingly called a gift shop — watches with detachment as his flock dwindles and his connection to the younger generation evaporates. He has nothing but contempt for those in power. He drinks too much and eats too little. Prayer is all but impossible, and salvation is a dirty word; to use Kierkegaard’s words, Toller suffers from the sickness unto death. Looking for answers to questions not yet asked, Toller sets to keeping a journal. For one year, he will track his thoughts, refusing to censor himself and lay his soul bare. For a few months — mostly the winter of his discontent — we follow him. From his half-hearted sermons to a congress small enough to count on one hand to his interactions with the youth groups at Abundant Life, the nearby megachurch that subsidizes First Reformed. Though Abundant Life is as warm as First Reformed is cold, Toller finds no solace there, just easy answers to difficult questions. Then one day, a pregnant parishioner, Mary (Amanda Seyfried), asks Toller to speak with her husband, Michael (Philip Ettinger). Michael is despondent, and Mary fears he will lash out violently. What has driven Michael to this state? Global warmIn an applauseing. With temperature graphs, ocean-level charts and worthy performance, Ethan pictures of environmental atrocities splayed across his Hawke plays a office, Michael has a full-blown fixation. Toller tries, but reverend who attends to an cannot reach him; he’s too far-gone. But Michael can unstable environreach Toller, and without warning, Toller finds himself mental activist. with a new cause and a new charge. As he writes in his diary, “I have found a new form of prayer.” Writer/director Paul Schrader frequently returns to Toller and his diary. It is a reference to Diary of a Country Priest and Pickpocket, two films by French director Robert Bresson, one of Schrader’s heroes. Before he was a filmmaker, Schrader penned Transcendental Style in Film, a study of Bresson, Carl Theodor Dreyer and Yasujirô Ozu’s filmmaking. The book itself is a masterpiece, and 46 years later, Schrader has put this study into practice and crafted First Reformed, his best film in years; maybe the best of his career. Readers of Transcendental Style and students of European cinema will quickly identify the sources from which Schrader draws. Toller and the Priest of Ambricourt in Diary are cut from the same cloth; Michael’s despair mirrors Max von Sydow in Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light. A scene halfway through the movie screams Andrei Tarkovsky while the final seconds are infused with Dreyer’s Ordet. But First Reformed is much more than a bunch of cobbled together films; this is Schrader through and through, making the reference points come together and work harmoniously. The result is a profoundly thoughtful and urgent piece of work. You don’t have to be a believer nor a cinephile to access the world of First Reformed, but when the credits roll and the lights come up, you might be both.
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t’s a matter of definition, not to mention a question of taste. “Barbecue” can variously mean a cuisine, a method of cooking and a kind of backyard gathering. When a lot of folks talk about “barbecuing” this summer, they really mean grilling with gas or over charcoal. Grilling is great for cooking burgers, knockwurst and chicken breast rapidly over direct high heat with the lid off... but that’s not barbecuing. Barbecue is cooking food slowly over indirect heat with the lid on. It imbues food with some smoky flavor. However, once you’ve tasted chicken, seafood, vegetables or virtually anything edible cooked long, low and slow in a smoker, you get hooked. Whether its hickory, cherry or mesquite, wood smoke infuses into food and gradually tenderizes tougher, cheaper cuts of meat. That primeval flavor compels me to Boulder Weekly
visit the expanding roster of top-notch local purveyors of barbecue. Colorado has yet to develop its own distinctive barbecue style, but the best of Texas, Missouri and other bastions of ‘cue are easy to find. Barbecue is a big tent. Take a day and some friends and go on the following educational, progressive barbecue taste tour. Wayne’s Smoke Shack, Superior: Item for Texas-style menu item, this is my favorite local barbecue establishment. Nothing compares to the richtasting wonder that is Wayne’s smoked pork belly. My advice: get there before the place opens. When they run out of brisket, pork shoulder and sausages — all sold by the pound — the day is over. The good news: Wayne’s recently expanded both its seating and its smoker capacity. waynessmokeshack.com LuLu’s BBQ, Louisville: Texas white oak smoke flavors LuLu’s great burnt ends, the very best part of the rib. Another bestseller is the smoked tofu,
up pulled pork, smoked beans and a sixer of canned craft ale. uturnbbq.com The Rib House, Longmont: When most folks rave about barbecue ribs, they are talking about pork spare ribs. The secret attraction at this spot tucked away in the Prospect neighborhood is boneless beef short ribs. They are leaner but low, slow smoking over hickory wood makes them fall-apart tender. Top sides include cheese-y corn, red skin mashers and carrot cake. theribhouse.com Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que, Denver: I stop by this stellar, chef-run establishment for its inspirational barbecue rarities: Colorado bison back ribs, Colorado lamb shank and bison green chile sausage impeccably smoked over pecan and oak. roamingbuffalobbq.com GQue Championship Barbecue, Westminster: The ribs are the thing here. They have a smoke ring, a sign that the Missouri hickory smoke has infused just the right amount of smokiness into the juiciness. The meat doesn’t fall off the bone nor does it need GQue’s good sauces — just Texas toast, a pickle spear and house-pickled onions. gquebbq.com
Where there’s smoke there’s flavor you can’t refuse especially tasty with the house garnish: minced onions, sport peppers and pickles. lulus-bbq.com Cafe UR Way, Aurora: Ronald and Louella Brooks built a cult-like following for their Creole-style barbecue fare dished in their Aurora backyard. They just opened a brick-and-mortar location to serve their stellar slow-smoked brisket, ribs and chicken along with wings and even a smoked meat pizza. Don’t miss the sweet potato pie. 10941 East Colfax Ave. Georgia Boys BBQ, Longmont: These folks serve the best pulled pork I’ve sampled — moist, tender and smoky and great with a shot of mop sauce. I’d also stop in just for the skillet of cornbread. georgiaboys.com U Turn BBQ, Lafayette: Hickory provides the smooth smoke that makes the chicken — both on-the-bone and pulled — hard to resist. This is Boulder County’s only barbecue joint with a drive-up window, where you can pick
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The ultimate barbecue experience in Colorado this summer is Heritage Fire by Cochon555, taking place June 16 in Snowmass. Fifty chefs apply global grilling, smoking and roasting to great heirloom ingredients. Locals include Nate Singer (Blackbelly Butcher), Bill Miner (Il Porcellino Salumi), Steven Redzikowski (Oak), Daniel Asher (River and Woods) and Kelly Whitaker (Basta). cochon555.com/us-tour/2018-heritagefiresnowmass ... The 25th anniversary Colorado BBQ Challenge is June 14-16 in Frisco. This is the state’s top barbecue competition, nationally sanctioned, as more than 70 teams go for individual titles for ribs and such and the top prize: Grand Champion titles. friscobbq.com ... The inaugural Denver BBQ Festival June 15-17 at Mile High Stadium features barbecue pitmasters from across the nation serving their smoked specialties. Colorado’s GQue Championship BBQ will serve smokedthen-fried chicken wings and Smoked Salmon. denverbbqfest.com ... Boulder’s Escoffier School of Culinary Arts offers a grilling class for home cooks, June 9. escoffier.edu ... McGuckin Hardware hosts the free Grillapalooza 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on June 9, including tastings and demos by grill masters and local chefs. mcguckin.com
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a smoky flavor to dishes — without actually exposing them to real smoke — taste terrible. Liquid Smoke — burnt twigs in a bottle — is the prime offender. The exceptions are a couple of new items from the Savory Spice Shop. The company burns wooden staves from whiskey barrels to add a nice amount of natural smoke to finishing sugar and cracked peppercorns. The crunchy sugar can be used in barbecue sauces and marinades and as a captivating sprinkle on baked goods. Adding a sprinkle of the smoked sugar to my morning mug of French roast gave it that nostalgic campfire coffee taste. The smoked pepper is a versatile addition to grilled meats and vegetables. I recommend grinding it a bit or plan on a major hit of pepperiness when you crunch them. Combine the sugar and black pepper with Savory Spice Shop’s alderwood-smoked sea salt for a barbecue seasoning trifecta.
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ichael Pollan says he writes about where “nature and culture intersect,” places that often end up being on our dinner plates and in our bodies. His book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, won a James Beard Award and was one of The New York Times 10 best books of 2006. His follow-ups, Food Rules and In Defense of Food, among others, investigated food and agricultural systems so thoroughly that many people use Pollan’s work as a manifesto for the way they eat, shop and live. His line, “Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much,” has now become the rallying cry for sustainable food advocates and those people just looking to eat a little better. But Pollan’s latest book, How to Change Your Mind, departs from food issues and delves into psychedelic drugs and how they can be used to cure psychological disorders and connect us better to the world. Pollan, as in his other books, takes a hands-on approach and recounts his own experiences with psychedelics, using research to provide 42 May 31 , 2018
context for what he learned. We talked with Pollan ahead of his appearance on June 1 hosted by the Boulder Book Store at First Congregational Church. Boulder Weekly: I’m wondering if you’ve been surprised by this reaction that people seem to take your work as almost a prescription. Michael Pollan: Yeah, I have been surprised. It didn’t occur to me when I was writing this new book that I was trying to transfer the authority I’ve earned with readers on issues having to do with food and agriculture and nutrition to this new area. When people tell me, “Oh, you’re going to do for psychedelics what you’ve done for food,” I bristle, because they’re not comparable. And, you know, I’m not being prescriptive. I am writing about very hopeful research, and I can see why people are getting excited about it. BW: Food is integrated into so many facets of our lives. How deep is the field of psychedelics? MP: We have a mental health care system that is really in crisis, that is only reaching about half the people [that need] to be helped. We’ve got soaring rates of depression and addiction and suicide, and the mental health community is looking for new tools and this may be an important new tool, we don’t know yet for sure. It’s very important to be clear that all the studies haven’t been done. We haven’t proven
these are medicines that can be added to Acclaimed food writer Michael the tool kit of psyPollan explores chiatrists and psythe world of psychedelics in chologists and therahis new book, pists, but I think How to Change Your Mind. within five or 10 years they will be, so that’s how they’ll enter into society first. Beyond that, there’s this question of if, you know, if these medicines have value for the rest of us who aren’t suffering from diagnosable mental illnesses, and they do appear to have value for other people, how then do you incorporate that into society, and that gets really tricky. ... It’s not like you can get a prescription for psilocybin and go to CVS or Walgreens, obviously. You need a guide. They can only be administered by somebody who knows the territory and knows how to handle somebody on a psychedelic journey. BW: Is there a stigma we have to overcome with psychedelics, and how do we do that besides just letting time take its course? MP: There was a stigma attached to these drugs in the 1960s. There was a moral panic about psychedelics and many scary stories — some of which are true, some of which are not true — but if you ask the average person, they’ve heard these drugs can make you crazy. That you can end up in the emergency room or psych ward. They’ve Boulder Weekly
heard stories that maybe it scrambles with experiences of awe. We see simiyour chromosomes or that kids stare at lar evidence for the shrinking of the the sun until they go blind. All of these ego when [people are] experiencing stories were out there, but if you look awe, when they’re skiing down a closely, a lot of them are simply not mountain or fording a river or sometrue. They’re urban legends. thing like that. We just need to take a very matterBW: This all seems like it could be of-fact look at [psychedelics] and not complicated to explain. Did you have mythologize them as these great evils any trouble coming up with a language because they weren’t. Long before the that people could understand your ’60s, they were being used in research experiences in? and they were getting good results. MP: One of the researchers I So, yes the stigma needs to be overworked with, I talked to them about come and what will help is the passage this, and I quote him in the book. He of time but I also think the stories of said it’s like if you brought a caveman people who have been helped ... like the to Manhattan and he observed the skyManhattan figure skating instructor, in scrapers and planes overhead and cell her 60s, [in the book], who’s terrified of phones people were using and the billthe recurrence of her ovarian cancer and boards. What would he say when he goes into her body and screams at it, went back to his fellows in the cave? “Get the fuck out of my body,” and it He would say, “big” and, “loud,” and, you know, he wouldn’t actually vanishes. have the words or the BW: You’ve mencomplexity and the tioned on several ON THE BILL: Michael Pollan, How to Change experience because shows recently your Your Mind. Friday, June 1, those words hadn’t been experience with ego 7:30 p.m. First needed before, and I dissolution. [Pollan Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder. kind of get that. But told NPR about a trip Tickets at boulderbookin which his ego was there are analogies and store.net. spread out before him metaphors, and that’s like paint on a vast what writers are good canvas]. Is there anyat — taking things that thing in these medicines, psychedelics, are hard to explain and putting words that would help us, if we dissolve our and metaphors to them. ego, to keep enough of it to retain our BW: Is it just coincidental that this goals and function in society. book that explores reality and pseudoMP: The ego dissolution that reality comes out now when our culture occurs on a high-dose psychedelic expe- seems to be struggling with what acturience or during a successful meditation ally constitutes reality? experience is temporary. I had an expeMP: I don’t know. Some people come rience of ego dissolution on a guided out of these experiences with a very firm psilocybin trip, and it was a remarkable grip on reality. I mean, think about the thing, but as soon as the trip was over, smoker who had a single psychedelic my ego was back on the job. The value experience and realized something that of the experience was realizing that I’m they should’ve known all along, which is not identical to my ego, that there’s that smoking is stupid and bad for you, another perspective with which to view and suddenly that fact, which is a fact, is life and what happens to me that’s a lit- clearer than it ever was before. tle less reactive and less defensive. I think the timeliness of these drugs That’s a psychoanalytic insight; I has to do with that these address some could’ve gotten that from 10 years on of the problems we’re dealing with as a the couch, I suppose, you know, getting society. I think it’s very interesting that some perspective on your ego and when they help us reconceptualize nature and it’s acting in a destructive way. reconceptualize other people. The big [But] it’s not like you’re eliminatproblems we deal with now are disconing egos. Egos are very valuable. Egos nection from nature, which has resulted got my book written and they put out in the environmental crisis, and a disyour paper, but they also can get out connection from people unlike ourselves of hand, and they can become destruc- that has resulted in the tribalism and tive, and they can become hyperactive racism we see all around us. One of the in a way that leads to unhappiness. most interesting things about these Ego also disconnects us from people. I drugs is to the extent they dissolve or mean, egos are defensive formations soften the barriers of ego, they bring and, by the way, they’re illusory, down those walls, and you feel much they’re not real things. They’re a func- more connection to people and nature tion. They’re a projection in your brain afterwards. that does certain things for you. But The implications of that are very getting perspective on it is incredibly hard to sort out, though. We don’t have valuable. ... You can do that through a model for prescribing a drug for a meditation, you don’t need a drug to culture, even if that culture needs it. do that, and you can probably do it This interview was edited for length. Boulder Weekly
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that 74 percent of Colorado brewers have adopted the “Certified Independent Craft” seal that the BA released last year. The purpose of the seal is to help inform customer purchases as to who owns the beer they were drinking. While this report doesn’t speak to the consumer end of the matter, it does show that a vast majority of brewers consider independence as the essential hallmark of their business — the seal has even been adopted in Ireland and Australia. There is strength in numbers and as small brewers band together to battle Big Beer for shelf space and market; it seems ownership and independence will be the talking points of choice.
Summer festival season
But nuts to all that behind-thescenes stuff, just give me something to drink. Well, now that Memorial Day has ushered in the summer season, you won’t have to look far for a weekend festival or two. Oskar Blues Brewery’s Burning Can Festival takes over Bohn Park in Lyons Saturday, June 2 (oskarblues. com/event/burning-can-festival/). Avery Brewing Co. celebrates its inaugural Avery Brewing Invitational with 200 handpicked beers, not to mention vintage rarities, on June 9 (averybrewing.com/events/avery-brewing-invitational). Louisville hosts the Rocky Mountain Beer Festival on June 23 at Community Park (bceproductions.com/ rocky-mountain-beer-festival). And last, but certainly not least, Sanitas Brewing Co. hosts Sanitas Taco Fest on July 21, complete with 20-plus beers, 30-plus gourmet tacos, lucha libre wrestling and live music (sanitastacofest.com). Boulder Weekly
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in novel directions. Want to get started? Compose the first two sentences of your memoir.
Vinci’s painting the Mona Lisa as “the most visited, most written about, most sung about, most parodied work of art in the world.” It hasn’t been sold recently, but is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Today it’s kept in the world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris, where it’s viewed by millions of art-lovers. But for years after its creator’s death, it enjoyed little fanfare while hanging in the bathroom of the French King Francois. I’d love to see a similar evolution in your own efforts, Aries: a rise from humble placement and modest appreciation to a more interesting fate and greater approval. The astrological omens suggest that you have more power than usual to make this happen in the coming weeks and months.
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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: You have waited long enough to retaliate against your adversaries. It’s high time to stop simmering with frustration and resentment. Take direct action! I suggest you arrange to have a box of elephant poop shipped to their addresses. You can order it here: tinyurl.com/ ElephantManure. Just kidding! I misled you with the preceding statements. It would in fact be a mistake for you to express such vulgar revenge. Here’s the truth: Now is an excellent time to seek retribution against those who have opposed you, but the best ways to do that would be by proving them wrong, surpassing their accomplishments and totally forgiving them.
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APRIL 20-MAY 20: These days, many films use CGI, computer generated imagery. The technology is sophisticated and efficient. But in the early days of its use, producing such realistic fantasies was painstaking and time-intensive. For example, Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Jurassic Park featured four minutes of CGI that required a year to create. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will summon equivalent levels of old-school tenacity and persistence and attention to detail as you devote yourself to a valuable task that you love. Your passion needs an infusion of discipline. Don’t be shy about grunting.
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MAY 21-JUNE 20: On February 17, 1869, Russian chem-
ist Dmitri Mendeleyev had an appointment with a local cheese-making company to provide his expert consultation. But he never made it. A blast of inspiration overtook him soon after he awoke, and he stayed home to tend to the blessed intrusion. He spent that day as well as the next two perfecting his vision of the periodic table of the elements, which he had researched and thought about for a long time. Science was forever transformed by Mendeleyev’s breakthrough. I doubt your epiphanies in the coming weeks will have a similar power to remake the whole world, Gemini. But they could very well remake your world. When they arrive, honor them. Feed them. Give them enough room to show you everything they’ve got.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22: Ninety-five percent of your fears have
little or no objective validity. Some are delusions generated by the neurotic parts of your imagination. Others are delusions you’ve absorbed from the neurotic spew of other people’s imaginations. What I’ve just told you is both bad news and good news. On the one hand, it’s a damn shame you feel so much irrational and unfounded anxiety. On the other hand, hearing my assertion that so much of it is irrational and unfounded might mobilize you to free yourself from its grip. I’m pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to wage a campaign to do just that. June can and should be Fighting for Your Freedom from Fear Month.
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JULY 23-AUG. 22: During the next four weeks, I’ll cel-
ebrate if you search for and locate experiences that will heal the part of your heart that’s still a bit broken. My sleep at night will be extra deep and my dreams extra sweet if I know you’re drumming up practical support for your feisty ideals. I’ll literally jump for joy if you hunt down new teachings that will ultimately ensure you start making a daring dream come true in 2019. And my soul will soar if you gravitate toward the mind-expanding kind of hedonism rather than the mindshrinking variety.
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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Everyone has a unique fate that’s
interesting enough to write a book about. Each of us has at least one epic story to tell that would make people cry and laugh and adjust their thoughts about the meaning of life. What would your saga be like? Think about what’s unfolding right now, because I bet that would be a ripe place to start your meditations. The core themes of your destiny are currently on vivid display, with new plot twists taking your drama
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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “Dear Oracle: I find myself in the weird
position of trying to decide between doing the good thing and doing the right thing. If I opt to emphasize sympathy and kindness, I may look like an eager-to-please wimp with shaky principles. But if I push hard for justice and truth, I may seem rude and insensitive. Why is it so challenging to have integrity? — Vexed Libra.” Dear Libra: My advice is to avoid the all-ornothing approach. Be willing to be half-good and half-right. Sometimes the highest forms of integrity require you to accept imperfect solutions.
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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Marketing experts say that motivating a person to say yes to a big question is more likely if you first build momentum by asking them smaller questions to which it’s easy to say yes. I encourage you to adopt this slant for your own purposes in the coming weeks. It’s prime time to extend invitations and make requests that you’ve been waiting for the right moment to risk. People whom you need on your side will, I suspect, be more receptive than usual — and with good reasons — but you may still have to be smoothly strategic in your approach.
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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: I bet you’ll be offered at least one
valuable gift, and possibly more. But I’m concerned that you may not recognize them for their true nature. So I’ve created an exercise to enhance your ability to identify and claim these gifts-in-disguise. Please ruminate on the following concepts: 1. a pain that can heal; 2. a shadow that illuminates; 3. an unknown or anonymous ally; 4. a secret that nurtures intimacy; 5. a power akin to underground lightning; 6. an invigorating boost disguised as tough love.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: When I was a kid attending elementary schools in the American Midwest, recess was a core part of my educational experience. For 45 minutes each day, we were excused from our studies so we could indulge in free-form play — outdoors, if the weather was nice, or else in the gymnasium. But in recent years, schools in the U.S. have shrunk the time allotted for recess. Many schools have eliminated it altogether. Don’t they understand this is harmful to the social, emotional and physical health of their students? In any case, Aquarius, I hope you move in the opposite direction during the coming weeks. You need more than your usual quota of time away from the grind. More fun and games, please! More messing around and merriment! More recess!
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: For many years, actor Mel Blanc provided the voice for Bugs Bunny, a cartoon character who regularly chowed down on raw carrots. But Blanc himself did not like raw carrots. In a related matter, actor John Wayne, who pretended to be a cowboy and horseman in many movies, did not like horses. And according to his leading ladies, charismatic macho film hunk Harrison Ford is not even close to being an expert kisser. What about you, Pisces? Is your public image in alignment with your true self? If there are discrepancies, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to make corrections.
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Dear Dan: I am a 38-year-old gay man with a serious problem. My boy-friend of five years has developed a strange fascination. We’ve always watched porn together, but now he has been looking at straight porn and even lesbian porn (!!!) more and more often. More than once he has expressed an interest in having a MMF threesome — and he’s a self-proclaimed gold-star gay! This week, I discovered he had hidden a Fleshlight from me. I could tell he had used it. What is going on with him? On the other hand, we still have sex pretty frequently. He really gets off when I call his ass a “pussy,” which I’ll do to turn him on, but I find it pretty weird. He also tells me he gets off on the thought of the two of us fucking a woman together. This really seems bizarre! Could my beautiful bottom boy be turning bi? If he is, I don’t know how we can handle it. —Guy Alarmed, Yeah, By Younger Boyfriend’s Interest Dear GAYBYBI: Turning bi? Unlikely. Always was bi and only just realized it? Likelier. Always was bi but identified as gay because (1) he prefers men as romantic partners and (2) the biphobia he encountered in gay male spaces/bedrooms/buttholes convinced him to stay closeted but he doesn’t want to live a lie anymore and he’s done hiding from the man he loves but instead of using his words and coming out to you like a grown-up, GAYBYBI, your boyfriend is letting you know he’s bi with his porn choices and a big push to make a MMF threesome sound like a sexy adventure you would both enjoy? Likeliest. As for how to handle it, GAYBYBI, you’ll have to use your words: Ask your boyfriend if he’s bi. (Spoiler: He’s bi, bicurious, or so homoflexible he could tour with Cirque du Soleil.) If you’re not interested in having sex with women, tell him so. If being with you means he can never have sex with a woman, tell him so. And if you would never knowingly date a bi guy, tell him he deserves better. Dear Dan: A relationship question that doesn’t involve sex: Occasionally when two people live together, they bump into each other or one may get in the way of the other. Is it reasonable to be put off if rather than simply hearing “Excuse me” when you are inadvertently in someone’s way, the person trying to gain access says, “Do you have to stand there?” —Just Seems Rude Dear JSR: People who are courteous to strangers (“Excuse me, can I squeeze past you?”) while contemptuous with intimate partners (“Do you have to stand there, you fucking dumbass?”) don’t value their partners and don’t deserve intimacy. People who are assholes to everyone don’t deserve intimacy either, of course, Boulder Weekly
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olorado summers are the best. Even just saying you live here during this time of year is a low-key humblebrag. There’s a million things to do, people are generally happier and every sunset looks like cotton candy fire. Now that the season is unofficially upon us, people are psyched to get outside and start working on their Chacos tan.
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Escaping to nature is therapeutic, especially when using marijuana to enhance your experience. As a West Coast stoner through and through, it’s my admonition to just like, be chill when exploring the wild spaces. It’s pretty common to see tourists who come here and end up smoking weed for the first time in decades, getting way too high and forgetting how to function. Or remember that asshole who ate too much acid, stripped naked and then needed to be rescued off the First Flatiron? Side note: if that was you and you still live in Boulder,
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please contact me ASAP for a follow-up story, ‘cause I would love to know how your life turned out. But really, hiking while high is the best and it’s not that hard to be cool and responsible about it. Just in case you don’t know what that looks like, here are some basic pointers: 1) Know what you’re doing. OK, this is obvious, but assess what you’re getting into before you show up blazed. Does your objective match your experience and athletic ability? Can you do it sober? Are you prone to altitude sickness? Listen to your body and know your limitations. Plan your distance and trail snacks around how stoned you plan on getting. Bring extra water for cotton mouth. And my personal rule no matter where I’m going or what time it is: always have a headlamp. 2) Smoke sativa. Smoking a super strong indica while carrying a heavy pack and walking uphill for hours in the sun is on absolutely no one’s bucket list. Sativa strains tend to be more consistent with a motivated, high-energy buzz, so stick with the likes of Durban Poison, Lemon Skunk and practically every strain with the word “Diesel” in it. Make sure you are literally ready to run before you spark up — shoes tied, water bottle filled, playlist set and keys-in-hand — or it will take forever to leave your house. If I’m heading to a local trail that’s walking distance from my place, I usually take a few bong rips and that keeps me good for at least two hours of running through the woods. If I know it’s going to be an all day or multi-day adventure, I usually preroll a bunch of spliffs, bring a vape pen or pack some edi-
bles. Back in the day, I always brought my trusty one-hitter, but those things feel dated now that the industry has revolutionized fancier ways of getting high. 3) Follow the rules. It’s so frustrating to see people getting these wrong all the time. First off, leave no trace. I don’t care if it’s tiny and made of hemp paper, do not litter your joint and spliff roaches! Besides the fact that littering makes you a garbage human, we live in an area that is prone to wildfires, so don’t be an idiot and ruin the whole summer for everyone by causing the next big one. Secondly, don’t go off trail. Sure, disregarding all of the clearly marked trails and posted signs asking you not to stomp all over a fragile ecosystem will get you that sick Instagram shot, but it could also get you fined, lost or murdered by nature. Which to be honest, at that point, is probably what you deserve. 4) Be courteous. Just because marijuana is a well-accepted part of Colorado culture, doesn’t mean that everyone wants to be around it. Personally, I find it repulsive when people smoke cigarettes on trails, so I can empathize with anyone who feels the same way about cannabis. Be aware of your surroundings. You don’t have to be secretive and paranoid about it, but don’t carelessly puff away if you’re in a crowded area or around children. Also, absolutely no one wants to listen to stoner jams while they’re trying to enjoy the mountains and even if they did, it still sounds like shit blasting through your low-quality bluetooth speaker; just do everyone a solid and use headphones. I’m looking at you, CU undergrads at Chautauqua.
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by Paul Danish
The revenooers’ state-of-the-pot report
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mendment 64, the amendment to the “edible units” sold in Colorado in 2017. (An “edible state constitution that legalized recreunit” is a single serving of an edible containing up to ational marijuana in Colorado, called 10 milligrams of THC.) Sales of edibles jumped by for marijuana to be regulated “like alco- around 25 percent between January and December hol.” It’s actually regulated much more 2017. stringently — save that rant for another time — with • Sales of concentrates also spiked in 2017, with every commercially grown pot plant tracked “from 4.6 million units being sold during the year. Monthly seed to sale.” sales more than doubled, rising from 236,159 in The good news is this provides a trove of statistiJanuary to 493,008 in December. cal information about marijuana production and con• On average, there were 121,197 more plants sumption in Colorado. Sebastian Bergmann Siegburg via Wikimedia Commons cultivated per month in Both medical and 2017 compared to recreational marijuana 2016, which represents are regulated by the a 14.6 percent annual Colorado Department increase in the number of Revenue, and every of plants being cultiyear the department’s vated. During most of Marijuana 2017 (from May Enforcement Division onward), plants grown for the recreational (MED) issues a report market outnumbered containing the data. plants grown for the Here are some of medical market by the findings in the 2-to-1. revenooers 2017 report. • In 2017, Warning! Statistical Colorado’s commercial shitstorm follows: grows harvested just • In 2017, comover 2.5 million plants. About 59 percent of the mercial growers produced 999,022 pounds of “usable marijuana,” or nearly 500 tons. This included 612,333 state’s usable marijuana (590,000 pounds from 1.55 pounds of recreational pot and 386,689 pounds of million plants) was produced in Denver. The county medical marijuana. with the second largest production was Pueblo • More than half of the output consisted of “bud/ (126,000 pounds from 208,000 plants). Boulder flower,” 321,982 pounds were “shake/trim,” and County was third (66,000 pounds from 182,453 121,031 pounds were “wet whole plant.” plants). Pueblo grows got the most pot per plant, • Some 411,000 pounds of the bud/flower output showing the up-side of growing outdoors (when it ended up being sold to consumers. (The rest presum- doesn’t hail). ably was processed for concentrates and edibles.) The • The average life cycle of a Colorado marijuana 411,000 pounds (6,576,000 ounces) of bud/flower plant harvested in 2017 was 132 days, or a little short works out to more than 1.5 ounces (or lids, as we of 4.5 months. The life cycle includes three phases: used to call them) for every adult in the state. immature, 24 days; vegetative, 55 days; and flowering, • Speaking of edibles, there were 11.1 million 53 days.
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• There are commercial grow operations in 39 of Colorado’s 64 counties. • The number of licensed dispensaries selling recreational marijuana in Colorado increased from 463 in January 2017 to 509 in December. The number of licensed dispensaries selling medical marijuana actually dropped slightly from 524 in January to 506 in December. • The total number of licensed marijuana businesses in Colorado, including medical and recreational dispensaries, grows, product manufacturing operations and testing facilities, totaled 3,051 in December 2017, up from 2,922 in January. • In addition to licensing marijuana businesses, the Marijuana Enforcement Division licenses the people who work in the industry, including company owners, supervisors and workers. As of December 2017, the total number of active occupational licenses in Colorado was 37,580, up from 31,256 in January 2017. The MED may be part of the Colorado Department of Revenue, but its annual report didn’t say anything about how much revenue the state took in from taxes on marijuana sales. That number is reported elsewhere on the Department of Revenue’s website. In 2017, the state took in $247,368,473 in assorted marijuana taxes, licenses and fees. During the first four months of 2018, it took in $86,635,263. Between February 2014 and April 2018, Colorado has raked in $725,614,042 from marijuana taxes, licenses and fees. The MED report contained a map showing where marijuana is sold in Colorado and where the locals banned it. No county east of the I-25 corridor allows pot sales, and only a handful of towns in them do. Only two towns along I-76, Log Lane Village and Sedgwick, allow recreational sales. Sedgwick could put up a sign reading “Leaving Colorful Colorado. Next legal recreational marijuana Massachusetts. Obey speed limits; sales don’t begin there until July.”
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