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h, joy! Oh, goody! Oh, happy day! If you love the loopy side of American politics, your dream of some serious loco for 2016 has arrived: Donnie Trump is in the race! For president. Of the United States. No, really! He announced his candidacy from, where else?, Trump Tower, the luxury skyscraper on toney Fifth Avenue in

Manhattan. The celebrity billionaire who has splashed the Trump brand on casinos, hotels, resorts, condos, neckties, and even steaks, now wants to put it on the Republican Party. Indeed, Trump declared that he should be our president because, “We need somebody that can take the brand of the United States and make it great again.” There you go, the U.S. is a brand, like a “Big Mac,” or “Vidal Sassoon” hair spray, or “Trump!” As for qualifications, Trump pontificated that only someone “really rich” has what it takes to be America’s CEO. This view that one’s net worth is the measure of one’s worthiness squares with an earlier self-assessment by Donnie: “Let me tell you, I’m a really smart guy,” he assures us. Of course, smart is as smart does, so what does Mr. Smarty-pants propose to do as president? Well, he says he’ll build a “great wall” on the Mexican border to stop all the “rap-

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ists” and other criminals who, he claims, are streaming into the U.S. in droves. Plus, he has “a foolproof way of winning the war with ISIS,” the barbaric terrorists marauding through Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere, Excellent! What is his plan? It’s a secret, he says, “I don’t want the enemy to know what I’m doing.” Such goofiness explains why Trump starts his run for the White House with some 70 percent of voters (including more than half of Republicans) viewing him UNfavorably. But, as a brand-name celebrity, The Donald will qualify to be in the GOP’s presidential debates, so let the lunacy begin! This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. June 25, 2015 5

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ad Dana Dusbiber written characters weren’t particularly believthe op-ed piece she had in able, and the plots left me cold. But the Washington Post last week after week we slogged through week while I was in high the plays. By the time I graduated, I school, I would have nom- had a “personal disinterest” in reading inated her for teacher of the year. Shakespeare. As would most of my classmates. And, like Ms. Dusbiber, I believed Dusbiber teaches English at Luther there was a WORLD of really exciting Burbank High School in Sacramento, literature out there that better spoke to California. Burbank High is described my needs — and I had a laser-like by the Washington Post as Sacramento’s focus on it. It was called science fiction. largest inner-city school, “with all stuI read over 500 science fiction books in dents coming from high school. I low-income homes became proficient and a majority of at reading — and them minorities.” learned to love Dusbiber is white. reading — by Dusbiber’s reading them. 15-minutes-ofBoth the novels TO SHARE SOME fame-winning and the genre ADDITIONAL THINGS SHE essay explains why spoke to me in she doesn’t like ways Shakespeare DOESN’T LIKE ABOUT Shakespeare and never did. SHAKESPEARE LIKE THE FACT doesn’t teach him. (It was only THAT HE WAS 1) WHITE, 2) If I had read it much later that I during my junior learned that the MALE, 3) LIVED 450 YEARS year, she would only science fiction AGO, 4) IS DEAD, AND 5) IS have had me novel that I found KEPT IN THE CURRICULUM BY before I finished genuinely terrifythe first paragraph: ing — Forbidden WHITE PEOPLE. “I am a high Planet, a novelizaschool English tion of the screenteacher,” she wrote. play for the 1956 “I am not supposed to dislike science fiction movie — had appropriShakespeare. But I do. And not ated a number of themes from The only do I dislike Shakespeare because Tempest.) of my own personal disinterest in readFortunately, there was a cure for a ing stories written in an early form of Shakespeare allergy, and Dr. William the English Language that I cannot Markward of the University of always easily navigate, but also because Colorado Boulder English Department there is a WORLD of really exciting administered it in the summer of 1961. literature out there that better speaks to Markward taught two courses in the needs of my very ethnically-diverse Shakespeare that summer; with some trepidation I took them both. One of and wonderfully curious modern-day the plays he emphasized was Henry the students.” Fourth, Part I. And in a heaven-sent (Actually, Shakespeare wrote in stroke of luck, the Colorado modern English but with a lot of Shakespeare Festival staged Henry the words and usages that are now considFourth, Part I that year. ered archaic.) Markward didn’t just have us read In my junior and senior year I was the plays. He read the plays to us. exposed to Shakespeare — Julius Markward had performed as a Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet if memory serves. I had a bad reaction to it. The text was hard to understand, the see DANISH PLAN Page 8

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s Livable Boulder moves forward in getting 4,500 signatures to put its two initiatives on the ballot, we would like to point out to the community that one of our main goals is to protect and keep the middle class in Boulder. The two initiatives are called “Development Pays its Way” and “Neighborhoods’ Right to Vote.” Both of these initiatives were written with the middle class in mind. “Development Pays its Way” was drafted to make large scale developments pay impact fees to offset the impacts that development causes on services, such as traffic, police, fire and other services that the city provides. The city administration brought in an expert from out of state to discuss impact fees with city council and the city employees a few months ago. This expert also met with concerned citizens to answer questions about impacts of development on the city. In no uncertain terms, this expert stated very clearly to the citizens that developments do have a huge impact on the city with associated monetary costs. Without impact fees, the city taxpayers end up subsidizing these developments. So how can this ballot initiative,

making the developers pay for these impacts, help the middle class? Simply put, charging developers for these impacts reduces the amount of taxes that citizens have to pay for city facilities and services. So instead of going back to the voters to ask for yet another tax increase to pay for the impacts of more and more growth, the city council could point out that when growth pays its own way the city will save money and thereby be able help the middle class. If such impact fees were fully implemented, there might even be an opportunity to reduce current tax rates. This would help the middle class afford the rising costs of living in Boulder. Further, the city could provide rental or mortgage support for people who make up the middle class, or even offset increased property taxes that people have to pay. These are only a few examples of what could be done. Creative thinking could certainly come with other ways to use this considerable revenue to benefit the middle class after the city no longer has to subsidize the developers’ projects and profits. Why don’t we hear our city council members discussing these types of arguments? see GUEST COMMENTARY Page 7

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That perhaps is a question for the com- hoods. This initiative would provide ing election in November. protection for those middle class resiThe other initiative, dents so that they could “age in place,” “Neighborhoods’ Right to Vote,” also maintaining the lifestyle they have lived was drafted with the middle class in for most of their lives. mind. It provides a much needed safe Other middle class residents in our guard for our remaining middle class, neighborhoods consist of young famisingle family neighborhoods. The inilies. These young families want to raise tiative creates a pathway for our neightheir children in a neighborhood setborhoods to vote on accepting or reject- ting. They don’t want to be forced to ing land use regulation changes that live in an apartment with their children, affect them. An example of a land use as many of the city planners would like regulation change would be the upzonthem to do. They choose their neighing of a single family neighborhood to borhoods for the explicit purpose that allow multi-unit, high density buildings they are neighborhoods, not high denin that neighborhood. If 10 percent of sity housing projects. If the neighborthe neighbors petition to get a full hoods are upzoned, which appears to be neighborhood vote, the city’s ultimate then a majority of goal, these middle all those voting in class Boulderites that neighborhood will leave Boulder. The city talks all would have to vote the time about to reject that how we need change in order for young, middle it not to come into class families in force. A vote on a our city. These particular developfamilies are already ment project in a here. They live in neighborhood would not be our neighborUNAFFORDABLE FOR allowed unless that hoods. This initiaANYONE BUT THE RICHEST development protive is one way to OF OUR CITIZENS. posal required a further that goal land use regulation and to encourage a change. If there was neighborhood no land use regulation family way of life. It change proposed, the developer will also be an incentive for other could build under the existing land use young, middle class families to move to regulations for that neighborhood. One Boulder knowing that their neighborneighborhood’s vote does not affect any hood will have a say in its future. other neighborhood. The initiative The development of luxury condos would also not impact commercial and increased property taxes in the city development adjoining the neighboris obviously not working for the middle hood. class. Yet the business community How would this initiative help the argues “let’s do more of the same” middle class? First of all, it would give because they “supposedly” have affordthe neighborhoods a say in the develop- able housing in mind. Everyone knows, ment that takes place in their neighbor- however, that the housing these develhood. From a practical sense, the city opers are building is anything but would have to engage the neighboraffordable. Instead, it is driving the hoods before enacting land use changes. middle class out of our city. As we were One of the benefits of this cooperation all told growing up, don’t listen to what between the city and the neighborsomeone says but watch what they do. hoods is that it allows neighborhoods to And what the developers are doing is protect the lifestyle they have. Our making Boulder unaffordable for anyneighborhoods have residents who have one but the richest of our citizens. They been living in their houses for 20-30 say they are for affordable housing but years, or even longer. Many of these the results of their actions tell a comresidents are the middle class of pletely different story. Boulder. They live in Martin Acres, Let’s get these two ballot initiatives Newlands, Table Mesa, East Aurora, on the ballot and over the coming Goss Grove, as well as many other months have an intelligent discussion neighborhoods throughout the city. about Boulder’s future. If we don’t do They have a way of life that the develthat, we will end up with more of the opers would gladly snatch away to prof- same, and the evidence is clear that it from the building of high density, would be a disaster for the middle multi-unit housing in the neighborclass.

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Shakespearean actor. He knew how to our students need Shakespeare and his turn the text into the spoken word, teachings on the human condition,” she which was how Shakespeare, who was wrote. (All caps, italics and parentheses writing plays not novellas, intended are hers.) his work to be presented. Markward There may be legitimate pedagogiloved Shakespeare, and he wore his cal reasons for not teaching love on his sleeve. It was infectious. Shakespeare to high school students, As he read, the text came alive. The but the fact that he is a dead white archaic words and male who lived 450 usages when spoyears ago are not ken in context among them. revealed their Dusbiber also meaning. says that the nub Navigation became of her argument is easier. The content “If we only teach started to make students of color, sense. The power as I have been forREASONS FOR NOT of the poetry came tunate to do my shining through. entire career, then TEACHNG SHAKESPEARE And suddenly it is far past the TO HIGH SCHOOL Shakespeare time for us to disbecame not just pense with our STUDENTS, BUT THE understandable… Eurocentric preFACT THAT HE IS A DEAD but genuinely and sentation of the profoundly enterliterary world.” WHITE MALE WHO LIVED taining. What I worry 450 YEARS AGO ARE NOT Based on my about is that Ms AMONG THEM. experience, I think Dusbiber’s racist, Dusbiber has a sexist and agist valid point. If the prejudices will only thing you result in her stuaccomplish by forcing dents of color being students to read Shakespeare is mal-educated and ill-prepared to enter to make them disinterested in reading, the world in which they will spend then it’s stupid to stuff Shakespeare their lives. down their throats. You’re much better Black high school students are off assigning books they’ll enjoy readgoing to graduate into a society whose ing and have them coming back for intellectual, cultural, political, and ecomore. nomic foundations and institutions are So yes, if Dusbiber had written her Eurocentric. It will be orders of magnipiece in 1959, or even 1961, I would tude harder for them to thrive in that have been shouting “Right on!” or society if they enter it as cultural illiterwords to that effect. ates. And I would be doing so today if One final thought: For the last she had had the wit to shut up after year America’s race hustlers, black and the first paragraph. white, have been howling their heads Unfortunately, Ms. Dusbiber chose off about “White Privilege” — and to share some additional things she (perhaps not unintentionally) in the doesn’t like about Shakespeare like the process conjuring up its evil twin, fact that he was 1) white, 2) male, 3) Black Envy. lived 450 years ago, 4) is dead, and 5) Which is why Dusbiber does need is kept in the curriculum by white to expose her students to at least one people. Shakespeare play — Othello. It’s about “What I worry about is that as long how envy and jealousy can corrupt and as we continue to cling to ONE destroy even the most successful and (white) MAN’s view of life as he lived charismatic of men. A Black man, in it so long ago, we (perhaps unwittingly) this case. The play was written 411 promote the notion that other cultural years ago (in 1604). If you want to perspectives are less important… I have know why it should be taught today, cast Al Sharpton as Iago. heard countless times, from respected This opinion column does not necessarily teachers (mostly white), that they will reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. ALWAYS teach Shakespeare, because

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I agree with the Pope that climate change is a moral issue with causes rooted in human activities and has a disproportionally negative effect on the poorer people of the world [Re: “In Case You Missed it; Pope Francis Takes on Satan,” 5/14/2015]. The Pope is telling us that humanity needs to take the issue of climate change seriously and that our relationship with the environment is symbiotic. The upcoming EPA Clean Power Plan can help us achieve a healthier relationship with the environment by reducing the contribution of our electricity system to global warming. Such a plan falls in line with the Pope’s moral desire to protect the planet we all share and the people we share it with. As residents of this planet we may justly consume resources, but we have the obligation to be responsible caretakers and to not abuse our position as the dominant species on the planet. Kelley Schweissing /Grand Junction

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I would hope that any response to the commentary by Mr. Polis points out the absurdity of his last paragraph where he makes the assertion that there is a difference between the values of Mr. Obama and big corporations over the TPP. Big corporations wrote the TPP. Is he stupid or does he think I am? I truly don’t know. Jim Wilkinson/Boulder

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I’m responding to Congressman Jared Polis’ guest commentary last week [Re: “Polis Responds to His Critics on Trade Authority,” 6/18/2015]. Polis blames critics for obfuscation and factual inaccuracy. Then he blames these critics for weakening “the very transparency regarding trade negotiations that is already lacking and detracts from an important and legitimate policy debate.” Polis really turns reality on its head here: now the critics of this secret pro-corporate anti-democratic trade pact are responsible for the fact that Obama refuses to make this text available to the American people. Talk about Orwellian language. The reality is that the purpose of the critics is to open the debate and to inform the American people about some of the very damaging aspects of the TPP to our democracy, environment and economy. Americans know a lot more about the TPP than they Boulder Weekly

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Polis claims that Fast Track and Smart Track are a different animal. Regardless of some cosmetic differences, Smart Track continues the Fast Track process of delegating away Congress’ constitutional trade authority to the president. This is the fundamental purpose of Fast Track and it remains the purpose of Smart Track. If Smart Track is passed, Congress

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voted to approve the agreement. Smart Track would authorize the President to write legislation containing any terms he decided are “necessary and appropriate” to implement the pact. Congress and state governments would have to rewrite their laws to comply with the trade agreement. Smart Track is a massive assault on democracy. Polis has claimed over and over again that he will not support a trade agreement that undermines our national sovereignty or weakens our laws. But that is exact what the the investor-state mechanism (ISDS) in TPP, will do. As Ron Forthofer wrote recently: “Under ISDS, if a foreign investor thinks that a government’s policy reduces his profits or expected future profits, ISDS allows the foreign investor to bring that nation before a hearing of an unelected tribunal of trade lawyers outside the usual judicial system. Public interests take a back seat to trade considerations in these deliberations. In addition, the state has no corresponding right to bring an original claim against the foreign investor.” Polis knows this very well, and continues to claim, despite the evidence, that somehow this will not affect our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Talk about obfuscation and factual inaccuracy. Polis asks, “Do you trust President Obama to negotiate a good trade agreement?” Why should I trust a man who negotiated a secret trade agreement with the help of 600 multinational corporations and refuses to let the American people know what’s in it? Why should I trust a man who is hell bent on grabbing Congress’ constitutional power over trade agreements and ramming them through Congress without any changes? Why should I trust a man who expanded the trillion dollar bail out of Wall Street banks, while throwing peanuts at Americans reeling from the economic crash these bankers created? Why should I trust a man who undermined the global carbon emissions reduction efforts at Copenhagen and has allowed the escalation of strip mining and hazardous offshore drilling projects? Why should I trust a man who disregarded key promises to unions for labor law reform? Why should I trust a man who has supported massive spying and collection of data on the American public? And let’s not forget his continuation of the torture program and indiscriminate killing of innocent people through bombing and drones strikes throughout the Middle East? There’s plenty of reasons not to trust Obama — this is just the tip of the iceberg. 10 June 25, 2015

Congressman Polis could learn a lot from his constituents about TPP and Fast Track — if he was listening. Instead he is listening to the corporateowned U.S. Trade Rep. and to a president who has sold out American working people and the environment over and over again. Carolyn Bninski/Boulder

Protect American Businesses from TPP

I called my U.S. Congressional Representative Jared Polis yesterday, urging him to protect American businesses, consumers and democracy by voting against Trade Promotion Authority, commonly referred to as “fast track,” currently being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives. His staffer was polite and knew Mr. Polis’ position, and I quickly got a lengthy email response as well. Unfortunately, all indications are that Rep. Polis is likely going to throw all of us under the bus in return for vague promises and pipe-dreams that are as old, and broken, as the tired songs of a bygone era. Since NAFTA, we know what these “trade” deals do — they secure additional profits for some of the world’s most profitable corporations while destroying jobs, subverting democracy, and purloining the public purse. The current trade deal being promoted by Obama and the GOP alike is only different because it is much larger than NAFTA and we can no longer claim ignorance. Currently, lawmakers are seeking to extract promises and kickbacks in return for their support of fast track authority. I have no doubt that Rep. Polis sincerely hopes that some of these will result in agreements that protect American consumers and American democracy. These promises have been made before. Ninety-two of them since NAFTA. Seventeen have been kept. None have offset the damage done to American workers or pocket books. Representative Polis seems like a smart man. He should know better. Giving President Obama fast track authority is a little like selling the family farm in exchange for a vague promise that maybe someday in the future you may be able to return to pick an apple. Maybe. Never mind the “no trespassing” signs you were promised would not be there.” David Sherman/Boulder

Aging in Boulder

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writing about our aging society [Re: “Who Will Look After You Someday,” June 18,2015]. The points made about long-term care provision and homecare workers are entirely on target. These workers need our support, certainly from those of us who are already over 65. But readers may come away with the impression that we can only cope with the Elder Boom by looking overseas. Actually, America has produced a remarkable “Village” concept to help people aging in place — and several Villages are up and running in Denver. For those needing more support, the Eden Alternative network is alive and well in Colorado and its innovative “Greenhouse” program is working not far from us in Loveland— another valuable alternative. As the City of Boulder looks to its future, new options need to be considered for our aging population. Harry R. Moody, retired Vice President, AARP Convenor, Boulder Positive Aging Group/Boulder

In praise of the City Manager

Boulder City Manager Jane Brautigam deserves credit for her swift and appropriate response to the Becky Boone/Code for America/Ignite Boulder/City staff-involvement controversy. The task of sorting out a sticky personnel/outside contractor issue such as this one is probably not the easiest or most pleasant of her many responsibilities. Hopefully her investigation will address a number of unanswered questions including: Why did Code for America target such a narrow range of “under-represented” Boulder residents? What, if any, definition of “under-represented” groups was outlined in the Code for America contract with the City and by whom? Is Code for America’s public/private partnership model with respect to fundraising an appropriate one for a City of Boulder contractor? The list of private donors on this Code for America contract with the City did not appear to include more than a small fraction of private — and in this case apparently moneyed — interest groups and individuals. As such, it was far from representative of every so-called “under-represented” demographic group in Boulder. Will the final Code for America work product(s) be truly inclusive of and usable by all Boulder residents? If not, what should be the City’s next steps to rectify the situation? Cosima Krueger-Cunningham/ Boulder

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Thank you to the 559 CWA supporters who responded to our post-conference survey! I want to share some of the more interesting, preliminary results of the survey: * 90 percent of respondents had an “Excellent” or “Good” experience at CWA 2015, and ranked our Speakers, Panel Topics, and the physical Conference Program especially high; * 20 percent of all attendees said they made a charitable contribution based on something they learned at CWA 2015, and respondents who rated their experience as “Excellent” were more likely to make a charitable contribution; * 68 percent of CWA-goers said they went out to eat in Boulder (off campus) in conjunction with their CWA visit; Also, 121 of you stated in the survey you would like to increase your engagement with CWA as a planning committee member, moderator, houser, or donor. If you are one of these people or if you would like to volunteer for CWA in the coming year, please respond to this email and let me know your specific area of interest in being a volunteer! Finally, a somewhat lower level satisfaction was observed in the areas of Transportation/Parking (23 percent of you rated this as fair or poor) and Audience Q&A (25 percent of respondents rated this as fair or poor). Over the years we have implemented new ideas to address these concerns and in the coming year we will explore further solutions. In planning for CWA 2016, we would like to hear from you if you have ideas for ways to improve in these areas. As a friendly reminder, CWA 2016 will take place from April 4-8, 2016. Many thanks for your support of the CWA. John Griffin, Director, Conference on World Affairs

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I very honestly hate to hate, really, but the Confederate flag is one thing that truly disturbs me about my, your, our, the country. I become beyond irrational. Thank goodness the governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, was forced essentially to take that ugly, vicious (damn) flag down from the State capital of South Carolina Amen... Grant D. Cyrus/Boulder Boulder Weekly

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I am a young Boulder local whose kidneys failed eight years ago at age 14. I’m writing to ask for the support of the Boulder community in my work to bring greater awareness of kidney disease to our city, state and nation. After both my kidneys failed, I spent the next six months on dialysis waiting for a transplant, doing my best to keep up with school and my daily routine. I am happy to say that my kidney, affectionately known as Stan, has kept me in excellent health since then, and I now hope to help others facing similar challenges. Today, over 26 million Americans have chronic kidney disease (CKD), but only 10 percent are aware of it. Medicare spends over $87 billion a year on CKD care, but most people wait years to receive a life-saving transplant. I was lucky — as a young, otherwise healthy patient, I received a transplant relatively quickly, reducing my healthcare costs and dramatically improving my quality of life. Work to improve early detection, slow progression and increase the number of transplants is a cost-effective strategy to lower health care costs. This is not only an economic no-brainer, but it also stands to improve the lives of millions of people. Congress appropriates federal funding for CKD programs on an annual basis. Important work is being done at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), and other organizations to advance kidney disease research. However, this work cannot continue without the support of our elected representatives. I hope your readers will ask Senator Gardner and Congressman Polis to expand federal research to save money, kidneys and lives. They can add their voice to the cause by reaching out to their congressional representative at www.kidney.org/takeaction. Please do not hesitate to contact me with additional questions. I am also trained to conduct Your Kidneys & You presentations, a program through the National Kidney Foundation that promotes awareness in the community by providing information about CKD and prevention strategies. If any local organizations are interested in organizing a presentation, they are welcome to contact me. Haley Newkirk, Kidney Action Committee/Boulder

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inconvenienced while driving on rightsized streets; others agree that the changes would be better for cyclists but worse for people who have to drive their cars. Still another person speaks of being tired of “feeling bullied by the board to get on a bicycle.” There should be no contest between driver inconvenience and greater cyclist safety, which is what the new policies are intended to bring about. As is the case in other things, there is no absolute safety in cycling either, but good policies by authorities and sensible behavior by motorists and cyclists can get us closer. In France and Germany, for example, motorists stop for pedestrians and cyclists at every crossing, on a dime, every time. No flashing lights are needed — the laws do the job. Here, traffic laws are often inadequate and poorly enforced, and motorists seem to have the bulk of the law on their side, which is evident in much of their behavior that is dangerous to cyclist safety rather than mere inconvenience. Cyclist training and motorist retraining are not mentioned anywhere, probably because we do poorly with efforts to modify traffic behavior of motorists and cyclists. Some years ago Boulder did conduct training for cyclists, with apparently some good results through “Effective Cycling” classes; it’s not clear to me why they were discontinued as the need is still there. Free on-demand walk-in classes would demonstrate the City’s sincerity in promoting cycling, and good cycling skills and practices would improve rider safety and interaction with motorists. Beginning cyclists should know that much more is involved in “effective” and safe urban cycling than mounting the bike and following the lines on the pavement, especially at driveways and intersections. There also needs to be some retraining. Motorists should be made aware that cyclists have equal rights to the road (something even some in Boulder would deny.) They should use their turn signals well before turning — not one foot before or just as they are turning. They should not follow cyclists too closely and they must absolutely take greater care not to endanger cyclists by giving them more space before turning across the cyclist’s straight path, so as not to cut them off. Cyclists should give hand signals when turning. They would be smart using a rear view mirror and they would also be wise stopping at stop signs and signals. Manfred Schwoch/Boulder

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riven by his frustration worker and educator. “So Jack and with New Jersey’s his mom came to the Capitol and restrictive medical mariwe wrote an amendment to Senate juana program, Ricardo Bill 14 that makes sure it’s now legal Rivera crowd-funded a for parents or a private medical proresearch trip to Colorado. He wantfessional to be able to give their kids ed more information about extractmedical marijuana on school propering cannabis oil for his daughter and ty with a doctor’s recommendation. a new law that means sick kids can Now kids with seizures, cancer, any be treated with medical marijuana kind of serious medical condition on school property. are not going to have to choose Tatyana “Tuffy” Rivera is 8 years between going to school or taking old and completely nonverbal. At 10 their medicine.” months old, she was diagnosed with The updated statute is clear a severe form of epilepsy called about the new rules. Lennox Gastaut Syndrome that can “A school district may adopt a cause up to 300 seizures a day. Her policy… that authorizes a student’s father says the side effects from twoparent or a medical professional... to dozen pharmaceuticals only made possess and administer medical marthings worse. ijuana to the student in an appropri“My daughter would be wheelate location on school grounds, upon chair bound, bed-ridden all day and a school bus, or at any school-sponstill seizing uncontrollably,” Ricardo sored event.” Rivera says. “We decided to get into The legislation emerged from cannabis for my little angel warrior a the conservative Senate agriculture Ricardo Rivera gives his daughter “Tuffy” her medical marijuana cannabis oil drops as friend, year ago and now she has completed N.A. Poe, looks on. committee. Rep. Singer says once a few milestones. The problem is the they saw the kids and talked to the program in New Jersey is just a failparents, legislators were overcome ure.” with sympathy for these families. Rivera administers Tuffy’s mornMost doctors, however, are ing dose of cannabis oil with a dropafraid to support medical marijuana per an hour before she gets her publicly for fear of being reported to pharmaceuticals so the receptors in their practice board, Singer says. her brain aren’t blocked. When she’s School nurses regularly administer home at noon, she gets her second psychotropic medications with seridose. However, most days at that ous side effects for kids, but they time she’s at school, and a nurse is told legislators they don’t want the not allowed to give her drops authority to give kids cannabis oils. because it’s a drug-free school zone. “There’s such a discriminatory “She’s not going to be smoking a bong in the Before getting signed up for Colorado’s medical impression of what medical marijuana actually is,” bathroom,” Rivera says with a laugh. “They just need marijuana program, Vivian couldn’t leave the house. Rep. Singer adds. “Even if nurses support it privately, to give my daughter her oil. She’s actually having Now at 5 years old, Vivian is attending preschool. they’re afraid they will be referred to their licensing more seizures at school than she is at home. I’m supAs of March 31, there were 467 patients under the board for disciplinary action because it is still federally illegal. I wanted a bill that would pass and move the posed to be sending my daughter to school knowing age of 18 on the Colorado Department of Public that she’s safe. It’s an outrage.” Health and Environment’s medical marijuana registry. ball forward. But absolutely, it could go further.” When asked what level of school district particiHe was inspired to visit Colorado by another New After Everitt Middle School in Jefferson County pation he expects, Rep. Singer says schools need to Jersey father named Brian Wilson, who moved to confiscated a 14-year-old student’s medical marjijuana Denver two years ago with his daughter Vivian. She earlier this year, the legislature pushed for a change to decide “whether they want to provide services for kids, suffers from Dravet Syndrome, which causes seizures Colorado statute. The student, Jack Splitt, suffers or whether they’re going to turn their back on kids.” and developmental delays. from spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, but the school In the future, schools kicking kids out for medical “All the work on cannabis is really crowd-sourced was up in arms about his private nurse carrying marijuana will be ignoring state law in favor of federal by the patients,” Wilson says. “The first thing we saw around his cannabis oil. law. was a cognitive awakening. Instead of just being this “Even though medical marijuana is constitutionalIn New Jersey, three separate doctors had to depressed little kid who was always kind of distant, it ly protected, the law in Colorado was pretty clear that approve Tuffy Rivera’s application for medical mariwas like a light bulb turned on and she started interany kind of marijuana can’t be on school property,” acting.” says Rep. Jonathan Singer (D-Longmont), a social See ZERO TOLERANCE Page 16

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juana. Cannabis extracts are not pharmaceuticals, it’s horrible,” Wilson allowed, meaning her father must make says. “There’s nothing wrong if my kid the oils in his own kitchen. However, gets a little high from THC. In fact, one ounce of flowers costs more than more and more parents are finding out $500, and there are only three dispensa- they have to add THC to their mediries in the state, so getting the right cine to make it work. There’s no onestrains and dosages is a constant strugsize-fits-all, not even for Dravet gle. [Syndrome].” In isn’t necessarily much easier in Rivera agrees. Colorado. “They actually balance each other “We originally had access to testing out,” he says. “I learned here on this trip when we moved out here,” Wilson [to Colorado] that you really do need points out. “You adjust the dosage THC to help boost [the medicinal based on the results. They decided to effects of ] CBD. We all have different license the labs and bodies, different everybody [on the chemistry.” medical side] got Rep. Singer cut off. You’d have says if it’s done no idea what was under a doctor’s FEDERAL GOVERNMENT in your next batch. supervision, ACTUALLY STARTS It was a matter of Colorado needs to putting Vivian allow it. DEALING WITH THIS IN through the ringer “That’s what A RESPONSIBLE WAY, again.” our constitution Rep. Singer says,” he points out. WE’VE GOT TO BLAZE points to what “Do you trust phyOUR OWN TRAIL.” — REP. Colorado calls a sicians or do you JOHNATHAN SINGER seed-to-sale closed not trust physiloop regulatory cians? Until the (D-LONGMONT) approach for recrefederal government ational marijuana. actually starts dealCaregivers and ing with this in a individuals doing responsible way, we’ve got to blaze our own trail. their own extractions are not Colorado is the fulcrum of the tipping licensed. point.” “When you ask not to be licensed Rivera isn’t hopeful New Jersey’s and outside our closed loop system, that means there are certain benefits that are medical program will get better as long as Governor Chris Christie is in charge. harder to obtain,” Singer says. “My “Once he’s out of office, then things hope is if you have a registered caregivwill change,” he says. “[Our family] will er, they’ll be able to have access to a have to keep chipping away until either licensed testing lab.” we leave or we just belly up. And I’m He also points to new potency testnot bellying up, because I’m from ing technologies being developed in Jersey!” Boulder. While these items are a fiveFor Wilson, moving to Colorado figure investment, a co-op of medical patients or growers could go in on them has had its drawbacks. “We lost our entire support strucand share potency assessments of their flowers and concentrates. However, this ture,” he says. “Vivian has a full-time doesn’t address contaminants, pesticides caretaker. If she calls out sick, in Jersey I could have called my mom. Now, [my and molds. In one recent investigation, wife and I] both have to take half a day 10 out of 10 Front Range commercial off. It’s been very tough.” growers advertising an organic product And while Rivera may move his were found using synthetics. family here if necessary, he has no illuMeanwhile, the CBD vs. THC sions that Colorado will magically solve debate rages on. THC, or tetrahydroTuffy’s problems. cannabinol, is known for euphoric psy“A lot of parents thought they were choactive effects. CBD, or cannabidiol, gonna come here and get a cure and it is a different compound more often doesn’t work that way,” he says. associated with medicinal value. But “Cannabis is not going to cure you. But CBD-based remedies with little or no THC don’t work for everyone. Vivian is it will give you a lot of relief and a better quality of life, which is what most of currently responding better to higher us as parents with children of special doses of THC than CBD. needs want.” “These kids are getting so high on

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Prologue: From behind the ridge, the sun ignites a cloud in its morph above the cliffs. In one instant, it takes the shape of a familiar face which morphs into another and yet another until a wind wisps, and just as quickly as they appeared, appears a cloud. In the dusk, a flock of native turkeys struts across the ridge beneath Bear Peak, making their way across the hill. They walk paths through the forest, learned from their parents who learned from their parents before them. They’ve been strutting these paths for millenia. A star appears above the horizon. My people followed this star so that I can see it shine. I see the light that was cast when they walked. I see the curve of their loving faces in the starlight’s long arc. From a young age, phrases such as, “your real parents,” spilled from the lips of people talking to me about being adopted. I knew what they meant, yet felt that my parents were real — their flesh felt soft in my embrace and their heartbeats Boulder Weekly

pulsed strong with my pulse when we hugged. Was I a “real child,” was I “real” or “unreal” and if so, in what ways? Was I a legitimate member of society or somehow marginal and less powerful? Through my childhood, there was born a belief that within me dwelt an absolute self which, if only it was known or felt, would be freed, or would free me from, the subtle feelings of alienation I felt from society and I would at last, belong. Yet grasping only increased my suffering. It became clear that an aspect of who I really was, or am, is as amorphous as the shifting cloud above the mountains — filled with water vapor, wind and light. What I reflect is something ancient, essential to Earth and so, humanity. My blood is indispensible as the earth in the sandstone of those towering cliffs — the vision of this song. As the reflection of a face in a coursing stream, I am the song the river sings. My name is a quality, an emanation of vision, itself also mor-

phing within each person who speaks it. After years of trying to finally name the face in the shifting waves’ pulse back from shore — or to choose one of myriad appellations I’d been given or assigned — I slowly became the molecules of water that composed the feeling of my face’s image. Then, the world opened and felt alive. Instead of feeling impeded by adoption or race and perceived to be as one belonging to a subaltern, or “other” group, I felt deeply linked — more fully connected by the basic quality, to every tree, stream, and person I saw or who read my name. I felt my citizenship within the community of Earth — of which we’re all a part — deepen and unfurl. I felt my inextricable linkage in the circle of natural law. Concomitant with this vision, the power of my ancestry’s legitimacy took hold in America. See EMIGRATION Page 20

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Last: When I walked in through a metal screen door of a ranch house in the dark windy moors of Wyoming, a svelte, elderly woman sitting on a couch, draped in a handwoven blanket, appeared. She stood up and looked at me through her glasses, covering her mouth as her eyes teared up. The glint of her tears shimmered on the surface of my eyes. Antonio, my birth-father, formally introduced me to Juana, my birth-grandmother, and we hugged. I held her until I could feel her heartbeat and mine synchronize. Eighty-six years old, she had traveled two days by bus from Mexico. I asked her of healing herbs as Antonio had told me that they never went to the doctor growing up in Mexico, but when sick, picked their medicine from the abundant, uncultivated and free lands near their home. In their lives, all healing and nourishment came directly from the earth. She told me of a few herbs and their uses. Her hands gestured their feel and shape — their effect on the body. Antonio told me of ancestry. He came from a tiny town called El Cocono, or the turkey, in southern Mexico. Of this fortuitous bird, one of America’s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, wrote to his daughter of America’s Eagle/Seal, “I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides… a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.” Antonio’s father, Trinidad, had been the local law enforcement for 30 years in his little town. When he died, the police force closed down the highway for the procession. In Mexico, Antonio later told me, funerary practices are different than in America. The body is taken home, if not already there — rather than to a mortuary. Everyone who wishes to come, comes, praying with the family through the night, singing traveling songs as the life passes along in its ongoing journey. In the ranch house, the TV was on. A Spanish language channel made the background sound. My birth-grandmother’s daughter, a quiet, kind and loyal person, sat near Juana’s side, who spoke only in Spanish, asking my age — “Treinta y dos,” Antonio said. There was a pause. She looked sternly at Antonio. “She’s mad at me,” he said. 20 June 25, 2015

“No,” I said, “It’s not his fault.” She laughed, then asked my name. “Rico,” I answered. “Rico?” she replied inquisitively, going quiet and looking at me — the presence of my name sinking in. Antonio’s brother was there and he told me the way by which they came from Mexico. Their journey was long and arduous. Many times they were without food or water in the harsh desert heat. At times, only wild berries and streamwater kept them alive. Traveling thousands of miles on foot, their stories had an air of adventurous joy — as if

hydrological cycle that prevents equal distribution across the whole system. I recently heard of two dams in Washington State that, for a century, ceased the flow of the Elwha River, preventing wild Chinook salmon from spawning in their ancestral waters. This prevention weakened the entire coastal ecosystem that the salmon’s life supports. The dams were recently demolished. A week later, a ranger said, “The wild salmon knew, somehow and began to run upriver to spawn.” Something pulsed quicker than a wave through the water — signaled their return. We are

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they were continuing an ancient circuit. In fact, chocolate residue in bowls, copper, as well as Macaw feathers and paintings of parrots on American canyon walls have surfaced or been unearthed in Utah and New Mexico. Each of these treasures have their origins in Mesoamerica, suggesting that Indigenous people have been cycling north and south since at least the late 8th century C.E. Now, there is a Wall that marks a politcal boundary, bisecting the circuitous, ancient route. It reminds me of a dam. It reminds me of a river, dammed — a blockage in the

all akin to both salmon and rivers. I wonder of their constitution and our rights under an American Constitution. What are we trapping behind our dams? The construction of the border wall is said to disrupt the migration of las mariposas. What is the fluttering song of the breach? I continued to talk with my long lost birth-relatives. “Antonio left when he was 16?” I asked. They all answered, “Yes.” “Do a lot of people leave that area?” I asked.

“All the boys — when they get to a certain age — take off,” Antonio replied. “A lot of them come back but many never do.” “You didn’t have a lot of things,” I said, “But were you happy?” “We always had enough to eat,” Juana said through Antonio. I turned to my birth-father and asked, “Will you ask her where we descend from?” “España,” was her reply. “She’s Spanish,” Antonio said. “Her grandmother is from Spain but she doesn’t know where.” They continued, “With the war in Spain, a lot of muchachas came to Mexico.” Juana said something in Spanish and Antonio laughed. “And grandpa took one,” he said and we all laughed joyfully. “¿Y papá?” Antonio asked his mother. “Jalisco,” she replied. “He was an Indian from Jalisco,” Antonio said of his father, Trinidad. Birth-Grandmother continued to speak: “She had Indian in her family also.” “De Michoacan,” she spoke of her indigenous ancestors. ¿Los Purépechas? I wonder now as I write, unable to ask. Time passed in wonder. “Gracias,” I said to her. “Nunca,” she replied. “She never thought she was going to see you,” Antonio said. “Es bueno,” I replied. “Bonito,” she said. “Ah, bonita,” I replied. “Contento mi corazón,” she said. “Sí,” I replied. As I write, my birth-grandmother’s phrase, “Contento mi corazón” — my heart is happy — echoes from my body to the page, resonant in the sentences. Months after the moment of its utterance, I look up the etymology of her phrase, “Contento mi corazón,” to gain more deeply her meaning by way of linguistic archaeologies. Contento translates to the English as “happiness” or “joy,” which alludes to the simple and powerful feeling of meeting a long-lost birth-grandson whom she thought she never would. Both the English word “content” and the Spanish word contento stem from the Latin contentus, which means, “satisfied” or “contained.” Interestingly, whether we search back from the English or the Spanish, we arrive at the same linguistic root. The suggestion of satisfaction matches with happiness or joy. The feeling of contain, however, has another source. “Contain” comes from the late 13th century Old French, contenir, which branches or stems from Boulder Weekly

news the Latin continere, which means “to hold together, enclose.” In light of this, my birth-grandmother’s phrase might be translated as, my heart is held together. Looking into continere, we find the Latin com or cum, “together with, beside, near, or by.” Combined with the Latin tenere or tenet, meaning “to hold in mind, take in, understand,” we have another, yet equally rich interpretation of Juana’s phrase — my heart understands. My heart thinks by beating, only ceasing when it ceases — its final outward pulse linking to another being. The imbrication of these interpretations creates diversities of ancient beauty for us. In her honest phrase, there are layers of music playing deep within us all. As rivers trace to spring and source, so too our words course perpetually on. The melody of these lines is partially spun from her love song, Antonio is born. The sky had grown dark and deep against the backdrop of space as the days of early November were shortening in length toward the winter solstice. My time with my birth-grandmother had come to a close. Antonio and I got into his truck to drive towards home. Silence ensued and the dark prairie flew by. The stars began shining. “Even though the house we came from is made of stone,” Antonio said, “We were happy. It’s not about appearance. To us, it was home. We always had enough to eat. We never thought, ‘I want a car’ or anything. We just got up in the morning and said, ‘We need meat, let’s go hunt.’ It was simple.” “But now, in Mexico,” he continued, “It’s so bad with the drug dealers. They just — I’m scared — I will not drive over there. I know that you’d like to see where we’re from but I wouldn’t go now. There are so many different things that happen, like kidnapping people for money. The first time I go over there with my kids, will someone kidnap them and ask for money? And in the end, they’d still kill them. That happens a lot. I’m really scared to take my kids over there. I won’t take them.” The writer Claudio Lomnitz writes in his article entitled, “Three Causes Behind Mexico’s Crisis of Corruption and Impunity,” “The U.S. has decided to criminalize the economy that services its huge appetite for recreational drugs. Because Mexico has a weaker and more corrupt system of law enforcement, the temptation to outsource illegal activities to Mexico is natural — even perfectly predictable. In addition, the U.S. allows legal, and minimally regulated, sale of guns, which Mexico does not… The Boulder Weekly

results of this combination are lethal, with Mexico paying a disproportionate share of the cost of American drug and gun habits: including calculations that run as high as over 100,000 deaths and 22,000 disappeared since the start of President Calderon’s drug war in 2006, not to mention the current corrosion of governmental legitimacy.” Antonio’s thought echoes chorically. “What are some of the differences between then and now?” I asked.

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“With Nature,” he replied. “There’s an oil — ” “There’s another one there — ” “Fracking.” I replied as we passed a fracking oil derrick. “They’re all over the place,” he said. “Who knows what’s going to happen if things keep going the way they are,” he said, continuing, “And then those politicians — they talk about See EMIGRATION Page 22

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I just have to let go of.” “I don’t think it’s diminished,” I said, “I think it’s the feeling’s life that matters.” “At least it gives me a chance to tell her. Because when she left, I just drank — day and night — for months. And finally, one day I thought, ‘It doesn’t do me any good,’ so I slowed down. I probably would’ve been dead by now if I would’ve kept going that way.” I thought of the vision apparent when self-loathing blooms into one’s realization of equality. “That you felt so strongly about Mary… your love for her… is wonderful. That may be why I’m here,” I said. “The way things worked out,” I continued, “I don’t know if I can even explain it to myself — about how they threatened you from adopting me because of your nationality — your race — preventing you from raising me.” “I cannot say who it was. I’m not going to blame anyone. Mary probably never knew anything about it. She would never do anything to me — she would never do that,” he said. “The difference between me and her parents,” Antonio continued, “I understand that — they had their own farms and I’m just a worker.” The belief in an inherent cultural divide — one of inadequacy — between the Mexican-American and the European-American had been so prevalent in his life because of the years of its incessant assertion by the cruel hearts. He believed that his identity as a Mexican-American was one of fundamental difference — an unbridgeable gap in which he always was stuck on the other side. I stood on the bridge of myself and spoke, “But you’re not — you’re a person and you should have been able to choose.” “That’s not how people see it,” he replied. “I know it’s not the way things were for you but it’s the way they are. We have seen.” Mary appeared in his mind — she was, in ways, still his enigma. “Do you have any pictures of her?” he asked. “Yeah,” I replied. I showed him a picture of Mary. “She looks the same,” he said — his looking bound to the moment of losing her. “She hasn’t changed much. You have her hair. She had curly hair. I have a picture she gave to me when I went to Mexico. She has curly hair — long hair,” he said, “It was a big picture.” I can sense that picture, as if printed in my own hand in ink on a page. I can see it in Antonio’s old stone house, near Boulder Weekly

news a window, where the wind breezes cool from the north. In this Boulder evening, the trees are still, awaiting such a wind. He looked at her picture, feeling through time as the traveling light of a star before it’s arrival. “Well, thank you,” he said. “But, I wouldn’t want you to think — I wouldn’t want you to put any blame on them. It was just something that happened. We’re just glad that we got to know each other before it’s too late. I’m happy. This is a real happy time.” “Mary said you used to sing together,” I said. “Mary used to like the song… “I love the rainy nights…” The old music… We’d hear it on the radio and start dancing — we’d always do those crazy things,” he said. “Those things that you’ll never forget.” “I’m glad to have come from that space,” I said. “We really cared about each other when it happened. I know she feels the same way. And when that happened, they lost the farm. They lost everything. So I’m sure it was tough on the whole family. When that happened they lost the whole — they went broke — something happened — you know how it is — they auctioned the whole thing. I’m sure it was tough for them to deal with all of those things at once.” I got out of his car and gave him a hug. The lights from the gas station cast a faint light on the bluffs beyond. We said goodbye and I stepped into my car, turned the key and then drove south, feeling fully the complexity of his difficult forgiveness.

Afterword: I have adopted my name and emigrated from those whom I might have been. Had I been Antonio’s son, Mary’s son, Antonio and Mary’s — some other parents’ or parent’s child — orphaned, et alia. There is no closing of circles that never begin. What has begun is but a continuation of what will never end — this fugitive, migratory love. The imaginative fragments of this story — its elegant diversities — as potsherds, aren’t of a whole vessel but make one when felt together in mind. Each awaits the piecing vision of a loving hand — to be sifted from earth and arranged into the semblance of the necessary. The vessel or vase — the body, my person that came to be — was once comprised of mud or wheat. By certain laws, I — the being who writes — the anima of the words on the page — came into being. In a similar sense, the vase, of riverine clay, was shaped by living hands and etched with features Boulder Weekly

identifying a culture born and dependent upon a particular space of earth, say, a vast, windswept prairie, a mountain ridge, a river or the ocean into which the rivers flow. On the vessel also, the animals — birds and deer — coyote, cougar, otter, bear, salmon and whale — butterflies — are preserved, at least in part. Apart they then become a part of a song that waits — a light cast off that will arrive some time from now. As this vase was filled with water by ancient hands, so I’ve filled these flat dimensions with curve. When the people who made the vase passed on, the sherds of the vase sunk into mud. As when I dissolve, my song disappears to surface again. Over millenia, the images dissolve, becoming rivermud — alluvial sediment somewhere. Some sherds remain as the rivers change their course or dry and leave a desert space — intact — preserved fragments of the images of the life they once contained. Some emigrant will walk through the wild, uncultivated and abundant, fields, finding sherds by the shadows they cast — will gather them — pushed as they are from earth, as splinters from skin. At a creek, whereas before I’d attempted to name each shimmering aspect of sunlight on stream, I notice another sherd. With all of the other sherds I’ve collected, from different places and times — shaped by differently shaded hands — curved and carved by winds from differing lands, I hold them in my hand. An image appears — the feeling of this changing life fuses the sherds. I move my fingers across them in my palm and the roughness of my skin causes them to sing. My companion hears and listens deeply. I lay them down near the stream, whose gentle roll over stones is musical. We rise and walk away. The river swirls and rushes, drawing in and dissolving the memories of the story into its course. The origin song multiplies — echoing — in each gust of wind and misty veil of moon-shimmer on stream. In each gentle touch of a hand. As I walk across stones, leaving watery footprints that disappear as they dry, so I walk from this page. The sky overhead turns dusk, grows dark. The horizon of earth curves, revealing the arc of galaxy. The night-wing emerges and earth feels a sphere in a yet greater sphere. It feels as if I am looking through the walls of a transparent vessel — a space where stars float as motes of dust and the sound is one of soft, twinkling gold, and stillness — the feeling pulse of heartbeat echoes. I close my eyes and feel the stars roaring toward us. I offer you the coming of their song. (the end)

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Canyon — which came just a few weeks after a ndrew Hyde sold almost all of his trip to Moscow. belongings in 2010 and set out to travel the world with just 15 items. (As long “I’m very frugal and I work very hard,” Hyde as you’re not persnickety about whether says. “Like today: I woke up in Moab camping the iPhone and its charger are two difup in a canyon. I went to a coffee shop and I ferent items, he really did it with 15 or so items.) worked for three or four hours and then I drove “The point of the project was to be not overly for three to four hours and then our call and … obsessed with material things,” says Hyde, a my total costs for the day are actually less than if Boulder-based web designer geek turned world I were in Boulder.” traveler turned author turned tech startup guru. According to his website, Hyde is a “miniWhen Andrew Hyde decided it was time for a change, he sold most of his belongings and began to travel the world, an experience he discusses in He started with a trip to 15 countries malist, writer, bootstrapper, designer, user interhis book, This Book is About Travel. throughout South America, the Middle East, face builder, user experience creator, ... buzzword Asia and Australia. originator, blogger, politico, biker, runner, backHe wrote a book about his minimalist travels, titled trustafarian. In fact, he believes that just about anybody packer and nice guy.” This Book is About Travel, available on Kindle and from can afford to travel, even on a dream trip. And while it may seem suspect that someone needs Amazon. “Travel is — when you’re on the road and when to describe himself as a nice guy, the claim pans out. Ef “A couple of my blog posts about the trip were you’re kind of frugal about it — it’s really doable. Time Rodriguez is a digital marketing strategist and a friend doing really, really well, especially [a blog] about Nepal is the one [factor] most people can’t afford. I don’t of Hyde’s. The two met when they were both working which reached almost a million views,” he says. “It went know, I just made it a priority. A lot of people have in the tech sector in Boulder. to that viral level of travel writing … then it just kind hobbies and a lot of people have passions, and travel is “Andrew is frisky, fierce and worth following. ... He of grew. I couldn’t stop writing, I couldn’t stop editing mine.” just inspires people,” Rodriguez says, adding, “The man and researching.” And he has advice for you if you want to do what is sweeter than a bag of Skittles. Just a year before his round-the-world trip, Hyde he’s done. “I love that he pushes himself,” Rodriguez continhad never been outside of the United States. “If you want to do something, you can probably do ues. “He’s met so many people. he’s not afraid of many Growing up in Sisters, Oregon, Hyde’s family it. That’s really generic, but I’ve never met someone things, whether it’s doing Ironmans or trekking.” wasn’t particularly into travel, but they were outdoorsy. who hasn’t been able to achieve traveling to someplace When Rodriguez lived in Amsterdam, Hyde was He became an Eagle Scout and, at age 18, he traveled they wanted to go to,” he says. “It can be very expensive the only friend who visited him. And when Hyde startto Alaska to build a cabin with a friend. but it can be very cheap as well … and that’s what a lot ed TedxBoulder, Boulder Ignite and Boulder Startup “That was probably one of the craziest things I’ve of the book is about. It’s trying to be relatable.” Week, he recruited other volunteers, including ever done,” Hyde says, “[Wielding] a 48-inch chainsaw In his book, Hyde details how to plan for a roundRodriguez. blade in the middle of nowhere.” the-world trip. “I’ve always been really interested in community,” Hyde He then went to the East Coast to attend Johnson “Time is by far the most expensive part of a RTW says. “I kind of know how to get people together and how & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. After trip,” he writes. “My RTW trip is costing me less than to celebrate our achievements collectively really well. I kind graduating, “I threw a dart on a map,” Hyde says, “and it what my rent and bills would be for my apartment.” of accidentally became a really good conference organizer. landed in Red Feather Lakes [in Larimer County]… I Step four in Hyde’s step-by-step guide to planning the [It’s] kind of my way to give back to Boulder.” decided to live in Boulder a year, and it’s been 11 years.” trip sums it up pretty well: Budget, save and book. Looking at the numbers, some might say the events He practices what he preaches. Hyde took a call In that time, Hyde estimates he has now been to a have been smashing successes. The 2014 TedxBoulder from Boulder Weekly just as he was about to launch on a total of 52 countries. Despite what seems like an unatfloat trip down the Colorado River in the Grand tainable lifestyle for a normal person, Hyde is not a see GLOBETROTTING Page 28 Boulder Weekly

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had 2,200 attendees and the 2015 Boulder Startup Week hosted 120 events over five days with some 6,000 in attendance. Ignite Boulder regularly sells out for its collection of five-minute presentations. “He’s an event master,” Rodriguez says of Hyde. “He’s not out to make a buck … Andrew’s approach has always been steeped in earnest commitment to a community.” Hyde defines adventure as “where the outcome is unknown.” Rodriguez draws comparisons between adventure travel and startups, whether business or social. “I think that zeal for seeing the world … does have parallels with startup culture, which is all about taking risk,

about taking the road less traveled,” Rodriguez says. “It’s easy to take the easy path and take a job at a company.” Hyde’s latest ventures include Inside Travel Guides, mobile travel guides that provide three-day itineraries to particular cities or neighborhoods, and Up Global, a nonprofit organization that sponsors Startup events and supports entrepreneurship around the globe. He still manages to travel regularly, despite his work and entrepreneurial schedule. And though Hyde still lives a peripatetic life, he now owns a home in Boulder. “Oh yeah,” he says. “Boulder’s home.” Read blog posts on Hyde’s site at http:// andrewhy.de/.

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recalls. “We had Blockbuster Video and a multiplex, so I kind of got a film education through working at the independent video store, and realized that making films somehow combined all the things I loved.” The pay at Kim’s Video was chicken feed, but one of the perks was taking home three movies a night. Like many other directors of the post-New American Cinema, the video store became Smith’s film studies class. In Smith’s case, her directions didn’t shift, they simply focused. “Like philosophy, [when] writing films you have to think deeply and think out ideas,” Smith says. “It’s about questioning and sometimes closing an argument and solving problems — I really liked that about making films.”

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Smith has had an impressive output for a young filmmak- ple speak freely and talk the way human beings really talk.” er: directing three shorts: Madura (2006), The Sirens and One Smith and the actresses natural approach is visually bolCup of Coffee (both 2009); co-writing Goodbye World (2013); stered by cinematographer Shaheen Seth (also the director’s and editing two parody music videos: Harry Potter in the husband), who gives The Midnight Swim its dreamy visual Hood and Lindsay Fully Loaded (both 2007). But she felt it quality while maintaining a documentary aesthetic via the was time to plunge into features and address ideas that had youngest sister, June. She is the quiet and reserved one who been brewing in her mind for some time — ideas that sudsees the world from behind the video camera she takes everydenly bubbled up when Smith visited her sister and met her where she goes. It is from June’s perspective that audiences newborn nephew. experience The Midnight Swim. “I had never really been a baby person, and still not totally “I wanted to make a movie where the protagonist is almost sure that I am, but, I held her baby, [who] was 2-days-old, and invisible and then slowly reveals herself,” Smith explains. all of a sudden it just like hit me and in this really intense way. But June’s camera doesn’t just capture what she sees; it ... It wasn’t a baby, it was also captures what she Ross Partridge like this old soul, fresh of wants to see. the river of forgetting,” “We wanted to always Smith remembers. “It have the camera feel like a looked like images from all character and be in the his past lives were flickering room with the characters,” underneath his eyelids, and Smith says. “It was a great these really adult complicatset of restrictions because ed emotions were flashing we didn’t want to cheat, across his face, like irony we wanted to make it like and sweet suffering and a documentary and only Behind the things that you wouldn’t look where our character scenes on The Midnight ever think 2-day-olds were would look. It’s limiting, Swim capable of feeling.” because you don’t get covAfter that trip, Smith erage the way you do in a came home to write out normal film, but it was the 25-page outline that would become The Midnight Swim. also a real exciting way to work, because it was purely character driven.” “That script came about so quickly,” Smith says. “Which is This first-person perspective technique incorporates the deceptive, because I think it was brewing in my brain for many, many years, and it just kind of spilled out in a week.” film’s aesthetic into the narrative — a narrative that becomes less and less reliable as June’s true self begins to emerge. The Midnight Swim is the story of three sisters, Annie “My hope was to put the audience inside the character’s ( Jennifer Lafleur), Isa (Aleksa Palladino) and June (Lindsay head,” Smith says. “I was less interested in making a film Burdge) who return to their childhood home after their about mental illness and more interested in making the audimother mysteriously disappears in the nearby lake. The sisence feel mentally ill. Or at least making ters’ relationship is a loving one, but it the audience lose their grasp on reality. tentatively relies on peace treaties estab... [I]f I’m successful, the audience feel’s lished between each sister and their indiON THE BILL: The Midnight like they’re inside June’s brain.” vidual relationship with their mother. Swim. June 30 - July 3. The •••• “My relationship to the feminine is Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut, St., Boulder, 303-440-7825. Tickets Smith maintains that while the really complicated and not something I start at $6 at www.thedairy.org. movie is personal, it isn’t necessarily totally understand, and maybe that kind Q&A with Writer/Director Sarah autobiographical, even considering The of comes out in the portrait of their Adina Smith, after 7 p.m. screening. Wednesday, July 1. Midnight Swim centers on a woman who mother,” Smith explains. “I always imagsees the world through the camera lens, ine that their mother sort of had three was inspired by the birth of a nephew, children with three different men. ... She was shot at Smith’s grandmother’s cottage in Okoboji, Iowa had them almost as science experiments. and is dedicated to her mother. “I was almost more interested in our relationship to grief “My moms always worried that whenever I make art, that than anything else,” Smith continues. “When someone dies, she thinks it’s somehow saying something directly about me there is this kind of tendency to lionize them and think of or my family, which is not always the case,” Smith says. “If them as perfect and truly good. But our relationships in real you’re gonna think deeply about something, you have to life are certainly more complicated than that. I was really think personally. interested in how each sister has a different relationship with “I think that when women make art and women make their mother. That was really the unifying principal in the films, critics and audience assume more quickly that it’s autodirecting process.” biographical for some reason,” Smith explains. “I don’t know It also helps to have good actors who not only look like quite why that is. sisters; they act like them as well. “I think all good artwork should be personal, in that you “The three actresses I worked with are the most talented have personal things and care about it, and you like these people that I know,” Smith says. “They brought so much characters and it comes from some sort of truth you’re richness and humanity.” scratching to find. But just because something is personal, Those qualities are just a couple of aspects they brought doesn’t mean it’s autobiographical.” to the party. Smith works from an outline, leaving most of The Midnight Swim may not be Sarah Adina Smith’s the dialogue to improvisation that she works out together story, but it is a movie that practically exhales her personality. with the actresses. Smith is an energetic and passionate artist, excited and hun“Especially in the era of reality TV and all the documentagry to share her insights and stories with the world. The film ries we see,” Smith explains, “dialogue just sounds fake and script-y a lot of times. ... If you want to make something natu- is just the first step in what should be a long and fruitful career. ralistic, I really think there is no substitute for just letting peoBoulder Weekly

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att Butler is the conOrchestra. ductor and focal point “It really is organic,” Butler of an ever-rotating says. “I have series of musicians always embraced that creates the a level of chaos, ON THE BILL: Everyone Orchestra. The band itself even in building Everyone Orchestra, Wednesday, July 1, is an improvised jam band created the lineups. I’ve Fox Theatre, 1135 13th specifically for each show, with difalways kind of St., Boulder, 720-645ferent combinations of musicians reveled in hav2467. Doors at 8:30 p.m. Show at 9 p.m. playing every performance. ing a couple Visit foxtheatre.com “[The band] has been in exisnew people or a for more information. tence since New Year’s Eve 2001, couple instruand it has definitely evolved over ments that break time,” Butler says. “It has always the norm of Matt Butler, creator and conductor of Everyone Orchestra, uses white boards to get the audience been my baby, but I started conwhat the genre might be perceived pumped up and involved in the show. ducting in 2005.” as. Before Everyone Orchestra, “I think if you bring some unfaButler was originally a percussionmiliar instrumentations or personalist in the ’90s for the band Jambay. ities into the mix it creates a heightHe says when he first started conened inquisitive nature,” he says. ducting he had trouble letting go of “The curiosity is peeked in a way the drums. However, Butler says, that I think is very healthy.” he realized the importance of being Butler describes Everyone the person to take responsibility for Orchestra as a musical sandbox for holding and maintaining the cremusicians to bring their toys and ative space. see what they can make while they “The intent in my creation was to bring people often with the aid of a small white board, which play. together from different bands that don’t necessarily whips up the energy of the audience to match what is “They have a way of creating things that they get a chance to play together on a normal basis — to happening on stage. Butler writes simple cues — won’t create if I tell them what to do all the time,” do something that they haven’t done before,” he says. often just one word — which convey a message of he says. “It’s a real balance between letting the music “And to have a creative container to have people cycle participation. The audience is part of the “everyone” evolve and then stepping up and doing what the through.” in Everyone Orchestra and can expect to sing and be conductor can do to make it special and unique and His role of conductor is the fundamental differpart of the ensemble. then throwing it back to people” ence in what makes Everyone Orchestra unique and is “Once you realize everything is being created in The plan for an Everyone Orchestra show is like crucial to the concept. the moment, I think that is when people get really Butler’s white boards: blank. Everyone is suspended in “There are super jams all over the place, but really excited and start to catch the nuances of what is hapthe present moment waiting for the sound that will composing through conducted improv was really the pening and there is a real magic about it,” Butler says. launch an evening. thing that was really juicing me and really getting me The Everyone Orchestra experience is unique for “The only preconception that I am putting into it, excited,” Butler says. “I really kind of embraced that as more than the fans — the artists involved are explorand what I am asking of the players, is to be spontamy new instrument.” ing a whole new space where creation comes from neous, be ready to follow, be ready to lead and just be Butler goes beyond conducting all-star jam sesbeing in the moment. Artists from different genres aware. Have huge ears and let’s go,” he says. “I don’t sions — he also coordinates audience involvement, and generations all create together with Everyone set out with any more intent than that.”

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After nearly 20 years of perfecting their brand of face-melting improvisational progressive rock, Umphrey’s McGee returns to Colorado for two shows in July, armed with new music and a beer brewed in the band’s honor.

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fter forming in 1997, Umphrey’s McGee soon began their relentless touring schedule. Meticulously recorded on its website, the band tracks the venue and set list for every live show the band has ever played over 17 years: a number that currently sits right above 2,060. Since 2002, they’ve played more than 100 shows annually, averaging 126 shows per year; close to one every three days. Based in South Bend, Indiana, where the group formed on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, Umphrey’s McGee has performed in 46 states (sorry Alaska, Hawaii, South Dakota and Wyoming) and various venues across the world. The sextet consists of lead singer and guitarist Brendan Bayliss, lead guitarist Jake Cinninger, keyboardist Joel Cummins, bassist Ryan Stasik, drummer Kris Myers and percussionist Andy Farag. The band has already played three

“Cut the Cable” off dates in Colorado in their previous studio 2015, which consisted ON THE BILL: Evening with Umphrey’s McGee Doors: 7 album Similar Skin of three shows in p.m. Show: 8 p.m. Thursday, (2014); as well as preAspen back in March. July 2, Boulder Theater, 2032 viously unrecorded Their return to 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Sold Out. songs like “Bad Colorado this summer Umphrey’s McGee Boulder Friday,” “Comma will include two more Theater Live Stream, Tauk and Later” and “Glory;” concerts, July 2 at the Eminence Ensemble. Doors: 6 p.m. Show: 6:45 p.m. Thursday, and a cover of The Boulder Theater and July 2, The Fox Theatre, 1135 Beatles’ classic “I July 3 at Red Rocks. 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Want You (She’s So The Boulder Theater Tickets $10. Ages 21 plus. Umphrey’s McGee. Doors: 5:30 show, which sold out Heavy).” In regards to p.m. Show: 6:30 p.m. Friday, within an hour of the band’s session at July 3, Red Rocks tickets going on sale, the famed studio, Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, will be accompanied Bayliss says the 720-865-2494. by a live stream of the opportunity provided show at the Fox excitement, along Theatre. with a healthy dose of With their most recent studio stress. release, The London Session (2015), the “Anytime I’m in any studio I’m band was able to schedule a mere day of always anxious and nervous and overrecording time at the infamous Abbey analytical, and I think that I can do betRoad Studios, where they recorded an ter, and I think whatever I just did entire studio album. The album wasn’t my best. And then when you includes versions of “No Diablo” and couple that with [the] Abbey Road situBoulder Weekly

overtones ation, where it’s, like, already intimidating because it’s already been like hallowed ground, and then couple that with the fact that you only have one day to get it. It was very, very nerve wracking, and there’s definitely one or two takes where I knew I was blowing it.” Despite what felt like “blowing it,” Bayliss says he managed to keep a cool head, and even found time to appreciate the experience before it was over. “I feel that toward the end of that session, maybe the last hour or two, I caught myself and just told myself, ‘Listen, it is what it is — you’ve got to enjoy some of this because this is pretty sweet,’” Bayliss says. The flexibility of recording The London Session in a day mirrors the musical style that Umphrey’s McGee have made themselves known for: improvisational progressive rock. Often shortened to “improg,” Umphrey’s live shows take the form of extended jams that weave in and out of different original songs and covers. Perfecting that style has come about after more than a decade of non-stop touring for the group. As this year’s tour returns to Colorado and the intimate confines of the Boulder Theater, Bayliss says returning to smaller venues like the Boulder Theater provides its own set of challenges for a band that has by and large moved on to larger venues. “There’s a little more of an excitement in the air for those shows and I feel like that translates to the music,” he says. “And we usually have to dig in a little more and have a more memorable night. It also kind of reminds us of where we’ve been, and it makes you feel grateful for what you have.” The following night, Umphrey’s will be returning to the legendary Red Rocks stage that, despite this being their sixth consecutive year headlining the venue, still feels like a daunting challenge for this veteran group. “I feel like the thing about Red Rocks for me is every single time I walk on that stage it always feels like the first time,” Bayliss says. “It’s weird — no other venue is like that for me. Every time I’m out there I feel like a little kid and I’m super excited.” Since the band’s inception, they’ve put an emphasis on fan experience both at shows and in day-to-day fan interaction, in part because it was a necessity for survival. “We kind of saw quickly that the more inclusive you are of your fan base only good things come from it,” Bayliss says. “Without people being interested and without people coming back all the time, without people supporting us, we don’t have a job. So for us it was clear Boulder Weekly

that’s the way to make it work and to make a career out of it.” Working further on engaging their fan base, Umphreys are in the process of releasing their “Nothing Too Fancy Pale Ale,” brewed right here in Boulder through Boulder Beer Co. in partnership with Cigar City Brewing out of Tampa, Florida. While the beer has already been made available in a very limited release, it will officially be released as a part of the band’s shows at the Boulder Theater and Red Rocks.

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For now Bayliss says the special edition beer will only be sold on tap at select venues. Along with the beer, Umphrey’s McGee has also been hard at work creating music. They released two albums in the past calendar year, the first two studio albums to be released through their record label Nothing Too Fancy Music. For now Umphrey’s remains the only group on the label, and while Bayliss wouldn’t reveal whether there would be any new acts

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joining the label any time soon, he did hint at the possibility of more new Umphrey’s McGee recordings in the foreseeable future. “We just got together two weeks ago in Jake [Cinninger, Umphrey’s guitarist]’s studio working on new songs and came out with five new songs,” Bayliss says. “We’re really excited, we’re already talking about the next studio thing were going to do. So we’re just plugging away, keeping the boat sailing.”

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While laughter is the best medicine, Margaret Cho says comedy is the best weapon by Amanda Moutinho

argaret Cho is pissed off. She might even be a little crazy. Her list of grievances include LBGT rights, violence against women, the hypocrisy of the Duggar family and the continued examination of Bill Cosby. “People are still questioning whether or not he’s guilty. He’s so guilty,” Cho says. “After 40 women come forward and call you a rapist and have the exact same story, it’s very clear.” She’s channeling that frenzy into her new show “There’s No I in Team, But There is a Cho in Psycho,” which will be at Chautauqua on June 26. “The show is really about how to deal with ON THE BILL: the anger that we feel Margaret Cho. 8 p.m. about all the things that Friday, June 26, Chautauqua are happening,” Cho Auditorium, 900 says. “A funny way to Baseline Road, Boulder, deal with rage? I guess 303-442-3282. that’s what it is. “Comedy is a good way to find a sense of place — what can we do with our frustration? For me, it’s about figuring out a new of way of looking at things,” she says. “And I think that’s what comedy is about — trying to find new ways to think about things.” Cho’s been giving the world a new perspective since she first started in the early ’90s. Always outspoken with nothing to hide, Cho openly talks about her queer sexuality and political opinions. She also uses her Korean heritage as material in work, starting with her 1994 show All-American Girl, about growing up Asian in the U.S. And she’s not afraid to poke fun at her background either, like playing a North Korean journalist at this year’s Golden Globes. Even though her performance received some criticism, Cho says it was resonant for her. “Comedy is a good weapon,” she says. “Comedy is

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the only weapon that I For Cho, that help from would have against an entity other female comics is an like North Korea. important aspect in an “It’s weird to me because industry where there aren’t [the backlash] wasn’t really that many. As a woman, Asian people. White people Cho says it hasn’t always were the ones that had the been easy. But with more women claiming their space, problem, not Asian people. things are improving. Are we supposed to be silent “I think it’s better than about who we are? it has been,” she says. “I’ve “I am Korean. I am from grown up in the industry North Korean descent actuthat has been very sexist and ally. So it’s very truthful for difficult for women. There’s me to talk about that.” not a lot of female comics, Cho has been in the so you don’t have the same comedy game for more than support network that men 20 years, and in her new do. ... But I feel like nowashow she talks about two days there’s more women in mentors she met along the comedy. There’s more way whom she recently lost. women in very, very big Growing up in San positions as comedians and Francisco, Cho says Robin big stars. Williams was the first celeb“The biggest comedians rity she ever met. For years Cho’s new show hits on the frustrating state now are women, which is she would have to follow his Margret of the world and the loss of two comedy mentors. really tremendous and excitact. ing. I feel there’s more rec“That’s how I learned ognition for women in comedy. There are more how to be a comedian — by trying to get the audiwomen comics out there playing big venues and makence to get excited about me after they’d seen him,” ing big strides for women in comedy.” she says. As more women enter, the roads are already paved Along with Williams, Joan Rivers was a big influfor newcomers. In a recent Twitter exchange, Cho ence for Cho, who says Rivers was always there to praised Amy Schumer, who responded saying how help a fellow comic. much she loves Cho and that she sees her like a big “She was incredible for so many reasons, not just sister. because she was a great comedian, but she was so “We all appreciate each other more because we supportive and such a good person to have on your side,” Cho says. “She was there for me in any circum- know how hard it is,” she says. “So it’s very imporstance, whether I asked her to be on a show I was on, tant. A lot of the women comics I know, we’re very tight. We’re very supportive of each other. We have or whether I needed advice or was going through to be.” something.”

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LIONEL YOUNG BAND AND MICHAEL HORNBUCKLE BAND. 8 P.M., SATURDAY, JUNE 27, THE FOX THEATRE, 1135 13TH ST., BOULDER, 303-447-0095.

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Hello Dollface. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Afro Cuban Timba Project to Benefit Ciclovia Zona Latina. 5 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-499-6363. DJ Royal Swan and Friends. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. George Nelson Trio. 8 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303442-4344. The Good Kind. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Grant Daniel Reed. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Grupo Chegando L and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat,

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Hunktabunkta. 11 a.m. Main Branch: Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Jon and Miles Ridnell. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Kevin Dooley. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720340-4169. The Longest Day of the Year. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. see EVENTS Page 42

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7 p.m. Saturday, June 27, Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-8349384.

Thursday-Sunday June 25-28, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Amy Kress has been making music since she was 8 years old. But it wasn’t until she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 that she decided to share it with the world with her aptly named debut album Secret Music. Since then, she’s continued to make music, and after finishing a round of chemotherapy in May, Kress is hitting the road, heading to Dicken’s Opera House on June 27. With a sound that pulls together influences ranging from pop rock to electronic, Kress delivers her personal lyrics and piano driven music with soulful emotion and energy fit for a stunning live performance. —Sam Routhier

When legendary jam band Widespread Panic plays three shows this weekend at Red Rocks, audience members can expect music, dancing… and paint. That paint comes courtesy of Scramble Campbell, known to many as the “dancing painter.” You may have seen Campbell in the past, stationed at concerts among the audience with his easel and paint brushes, dancing along to the beat and painting depictions of the musicians on stage. At the end of every show, Campbell’s efforts result in unique encapsulations of the performances through these one-of-a-kind paintings. Along with the concert, Red Rocks will be showcasing Campbell’s work throughout the years, including some of the more than 150 paintings he’s done live with Widespread Panic. —Sam Routhier

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Everyday Monsters — by Kim Dorland. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 28.

3 — Anne Shutan, Cha Cha and Kevan Kransoff. Longmont Center for The Arts Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through June 27.

Flatlander. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 13.

A Taste of Art Competition Exhibition. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 12. Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29.

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Ansel Adams: Matsterworks. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through Aug. 30.

The Comida Truck The Comida Cantinas Longmont Prospect Neighborhood 720-204-6455

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Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 28. Instict & Imagination displays the work from Joan Miró’s last two decades, including “Woman Entranced by the Escape of Shooting Stars” (1969).

Barbara Bosworth: Quiet Wonder. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 20. Conscious and Unconscious: Subjects of the Real & Surreal. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 30.

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Contemporary Photography by Marc Bernardi. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 31. Critical Focus — by Monique Crine. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 28.

Oils on Cavas by Betsy Cole. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 31.

Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Jan. 10, 2016. Rick Stoner. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through June 28. The Secret Life of Fruits and Vegetables. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 12. Showing Off. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3, 2016. Thief Among Thieves. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-

EVENTS from Page 41 Moonshiner. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Soul School. 6 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Swing Night. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Uptown Toodeloo String Band. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Music Act Up! 2 Acts from 2 Operas. All day. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. After Hours Event with Filthy Children. 8 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Arlen Andrews and Derek Blake. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

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Bonnie and the Clydes. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

A 5-Elements Constellations Demonstration. 7 p.m. The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066.

Coelho and Ridnell. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Awe-Struck’s Thursday Night Farm Dinner at Sol y Sombra. 6:30 p.m. Sol y Sombra, 75th Street and Highway 66, Boulder, 303-618-3510. Comedy at the Riverside. 8:30 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-443-2322. Influential Infographic Design. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-8004647. Running Group. 7 a.m. Outdoor DIVAS, 2317 30th St., Boulder, 303-449-DIVA. Silent Disco. 12 p.m. Free Motion Dance Center, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Terry Crook Pottery and Gary Vigen Glass Painting. 10 a.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Weekly Gurlz Ride with BMA. 6 p.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 7701 Flagstaff Mountain Road, Boulder, 303-678-6200.

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Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Danny Shafer. 9 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472. Delta Sonics. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. Dirty Daves Dumpster Dive. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Disco-Funk Night. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Center, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. The Elders. 5 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville, 303-449-3137. Frank & Mike. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Ginga. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut see EVENTS Page 44

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Hog Magundy. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

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Jack Hadley. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-8739185. Jeff Brinkman. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-9086036.

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Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Keith Summers. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

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Kyle & Ryan. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Last Men on Earth. 6 p.m. Downtown Longmont, Main Street and Fouth Avenue, Longmont, 303-651-8484.

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Events Louisville Street Faire. 5:30 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville, 303-449-3137. Margaret Cho. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. SUP Yoga. 4:30 p.m. City of Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N. 51st St., Boulder, 303-441-3461.

Saturday, June 27 Music

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

Cold River City. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

The Mighty Twisters. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Danny Shafer and Chris Ramey. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE.

Second Anniversary Party with Craig Cornett and The Phast and Wreckless. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. NV

Young People’s Concert. 10 a.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Amoramora. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Ron Nance. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Wallpaper House Band. 6 p.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683.

Living Easy. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.

Quickdraw Homegrown Music. 9 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.

Three Legged Dog. 8 p.m. The Tandoori Next Doori, 623 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

Americana Highway. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Paul Sullivan’s Folk-a-Rama. 6 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

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Terry Crook Pottery and Gary Vigen Glass Painting. 10 a.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683.

Liebermonster. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Nicole Jasmin. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Megan Kimble brings her new book, Unprocessed, about giving up processed foods for a year to the Boulder Book Store on June 30.

Selasee. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Strange Parade: A Tribute to The Doors. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757. Strangebyrds. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

David Potter. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-9086036. Dead Set. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Forlorne Strangers. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258. The Gathering Storm. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. George Nelson Band. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Hippie Buckaroos. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303339-0767. Hogback Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Ian Thomas. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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Ed Breazeale Jazz Trio. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

Jon Stickley Trio. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Forlorn Strangers. 1 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Laurie D. 6 p.m. Thai Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-3133. Lionel Young Band and Michael Hornbuckle Band. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Living Easy. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. Megan Burtt. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Mile Wide and Samsonic. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 970-7084067.

The Haunted Windchimes. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Hell’s Belles. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Jump for Jazz. 11 a.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Mestas-Jyemo-Teppa. 2 p.m. Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303442-7771. Mike McPherson. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Music in the Yard with Lonesome Rolan. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066.

Summer Songwriters Series. 4 p.m. Faith Community Lutheran Church, 9775 Ute Highway, Longmont, 909776-8771.

New Family Dog. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Terry Crook Pottery and Gary Vigen Glass Painting. 11 a.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683.

Ramaya and The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Sandra Jean MacDougall: BBQ and Tunes. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Scott Von. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Singer-Songwriter Showcase. 12 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Stickley Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Tim Ostdiek. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Events Barnyard Critter Day. 10 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Highway 66, Longmont, 303-776-8688. Left Hand Artist Group Showcase. 12 p.m. Georgia

Nick Willis Band. 8 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Phoenix Rising. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. The Prairie Scholars. 7:30 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar, 2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-491-3578. Radiate Unified Dance Party with DJ Mr. Getdowne. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Rob Nance and Jordan Nance. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Sixty Minute Men. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Taken. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Terry Crook Pottery and Gary Vigen Glass Painting. 10 a.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Third Stream. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Two By Chance. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Young People’s Concert. 10 a.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Events Artist’s Morning. 9 a.m. Boulder County Parks and Open Space, 5201 St. Vrain Road, Longmont, 303-6786214. Fabric Bead Frenzy Workshop. 10 a.m. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 1303 S. Bross Lane, Longmont, 303776-1072. Free Anonymous HIV Testing. 4 p.m. Downtown Longmont, Fifth Avenue and Main St., Longmont, 303651-8484. Longmont Pride. 4 p.m. Downtown Longmont, Main Street and Fifth Avenue, Longmont, 303-651-8484. Ocean First Summer Party. All day. Ocean First Divers, 3015 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-444-7234. Pastel Painting Workshop. 10 a.m. Sandstone Ranch Visitors & Learning Center, 3001 E. Highway 119, Longmont, 303-774-4692. SHINDIG! Community History Party. 5 p.m. Rogers Hall, Fouth and High streets, Lyons. WOW — Women of Wisdom. 2:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Sunday, June 28 Music Boulder Market. 11 a.m. Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-413-7200. Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Aural Elixir. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Daniella Katzir Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Aladdin. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through July 25. Brighton Beach Memoirs. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-9353044. Through June 28.

door Theatre, University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, 303-492-8008, Through Aug. 8.

Local playwright David Davalos’ Wittenberg is now playing at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival through Aug. 8.

Othello. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, 303-492-8008, Through Aug. 9.

Children of Eden. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through July 12.

The Spitfire Grill. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-856-7830. Through Aug. 16.

Defending the Caveman. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720865-4239, Through June 28.

Wicked. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through July 5.

Mary Poppins. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 5.

Wittenberg. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, 303492-8008, Through Aug. 8.

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Monday, June 29 Music Boulder Concert Band Summer Parks Concert. 7 p.m. Scott Carpenter Park, 30th St., Boulder, 303413-7200. Cloudmakers Trio. 6:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120. Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Meadow Music. 5:30 p.m. Chautauqua Park, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Open Stage. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

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Prospect Sound Bites Summer Concert Series. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467. Weston Smith Album Release Show. 9 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Events BCCRN Free Film Series. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-252-3962. Beginners Trail Ride with BMA. 6 p.m. Boulder Valley Ranch OSMP Trailhead, Longhorn Road, Boulder, 720-564-2057.

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Tuesday, June 30 Music Chris Kroger Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Gasoline Lollipops. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Wednesday, July 1 Music Antonio Lopez Trio. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. Bands on the Bricks with The Long Run. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Mall & Courthouse Lawn, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder. Everyone Orchestra. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Festival Orchestra: Jean-Marie Zeitouni. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Mariachi Vasquez. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-6518374. Mitchell and The Mangrove. 8:05 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Prairie Scholars: Sushi and Sake. 5 p.m. E. Moon Bistro, 2144 Main St., Suite 1, Longmont, 303684-8383. Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Events

Open Jam. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Trivia Night. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Rhymes and Rhythms of the West. 7 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-3354849.

Terry Crook Pottery and Gary Vigen Glass Painting. 10 a.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683.

Son Tres. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179.

Steamboat Bill, Jr. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium,

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American Life in Poetry: Column 535 by Melissa Balmain

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have questions. Many questions. Inside Out plops us in the brainspace of an 11-year-old girl, Riley (Kaitlyn Dias), revealing her behaviors to be controlled by five primary emotions: Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling). My first set of questions: Why disgust? How did that make the cut as a dominant emotion? What about love or jealousy or shame or pride? I could go on… Each of the emotions takes their turn at the controls, with their influence creating memories. During a particularly tumultuous time, Riley’s Mom (Diane Lane) and Dad (Kyle MacLachlan) suddenly move her from Minnesota to California and things go berserk in the “control room.” Joy and Sadness are separated from the group and must make it back before Anger, Disgust and Fear turn Riley into a worse version of herself. My second set of questions: So logic doesn’t exist in this world? I understand this is a kid’s movie but “you are a creature ruled solely by your basic emotions” is a horrifying message. Why go to school if you never apply knowledge and you just emotionally react to stuff? You may think that perhaps adults in this version of reality don’t work this way and actually use their knowledge, but you’d be wrong. We pop into various characters’ brains/control rooms. They are all run the same way, by the same emotions. Actually, that’s another question: Why is it that almost every single other character has emotion creatures that all share one gender except Riley? It’d be cool if that was on pur-

pose and suggested somehow that she didn’t conform to a simplistic binary concept of gender, but as it stands right now, it’s just weirdly unexplained. More concerning is that the film’s view of the value that Sadness adds to our life is “it makes other people feel sorry for you”? Yikes! I was hoping it would be either a quasi-Taoist concept of Joy requiring Sadness to exist or that Sadness would be the catalyst for some kind of internal strengthening. Nope! Sadness makes the little girl cry so people know to help her (because she can’t help herself ). While I applaud the film’s attempt to deploy a climax that involves emotional catharsis instead of throwing some bad guy off a cliff like most animated movies, it didn’t feel nuanced so much as “meh.” There are bright spots: Bing Bong (Richard Kind), Riley’s forgotten imaginary friend, is just wonderful. Gags like how the Forgetters keep finding an old commercial jingle and sending it up to the control room for no reason land quite well. But this is a movie that places emotions on such a high pedestal that they come to life at the sake of all intellect. I guess I was hoping to feel a little bit more than “that’s kinda neat.” Three of the last four Pixar movies have been sequels. Perhaps the expectation that this original idea would be up to par with their excellent past was simply too lofty. Look at me, I feel something other than Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Anger or Fear. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

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Seduced by the criminal in ‘Badlands’ by Michael J. Casey

n Jan. 21, 1958, Charles Starkweather entered the Nebraska home of girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate and shot and killed her father, mother and 2-yearold sister. The two went on the lam and Starkweather slayed seven more over the course of eight days before surrenMartin Sheen and Sissy Spacek star in Badlands, a tale about young love and a murder spree. dering to authorities. He was 19, Fugate was 14. “Kit, I gotta question for you. You like people?” the police officer asks. “They’re OK,” Kit responds with a shrug. “Then why’d you do it?” “I don’t know. I always wanted to be a criminal, I guess. Just not this big a one. Takes all kinds, though.” Charles Starkweath was a real person, Kit Carruthers is a movie character, but he speaks for both. They are killers, sociopaths and villains. Angry, young white men that the American public continues to find endlessly fascinating. Criminals have always made fascinating characters, but it is how director Terrence Malick depicted Starkweather’s killing spree that made Badlands, playing July 1 at the Landmark, Mayan Theatre, revolutionary in 1973 and sadly still relevant in 2015. Malick, an artist who could find infinity in a blade of grass, strips the story bare of background ON THE BILL: Badlands. and any psychoanalysis that might explain why Kit Wednesday, July 1, (Martin Sheen) and Holly (Sissy Spacek) are incaLandmark Theatres Mayan, pable of viewing murder as anything but romantic. 110 Broadway St., 303-7446799. Tickets start at $8.50 at The answer is Holly, who isn’t just the movie’s www.landmarktheatres. stand-in for Fugate, but America’s as well. She is com. so hopelessly in love with the bad boy who has freed her from the father, that she is blind to the atrocities right in front of her. Despite all the despicable things Kit does, Holly loves Kit in a naïve and innocent way, almost devoid of sexuality and emotion. They are two kids running around America’s heartland, playing house and pretending to be grown-ups. But they are not grown-ups. They are children, and Malick tips his hat to this fact in one of Holly’s many, slightly off-kilter voice-overs: “It sent a chill down my spine and I thought, ‘Where would I be this very moment, if Kit had never met me? Or killed anybody... This very moment... If my mom had never met my dad... If she had never died. And what’s the man I’ll marry gonna look like? What’s he doing right this minute? Is he thinking about me now, by some coincidence, even though he doesn’t know me? Does it show on his face?’” Holly breezes right past, “Or killed anybody” to musing about her past and future, because she knows that what is happening now is wrong. She just isn’t ready to acknowledge that she is in love with a sociopath any more than white America isn’t ready to admit that they are in love with angry young white men. Why? Twenty-seven years after Badlands was released, Goodfellas echoed Holly’s sentiment with another female voice-over, this time highlighting the crucial piece of the puzzle that Holly is still too young to understand: “I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn’t. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.” Boulder Weekly

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t took a while to find Café Blue in Gunbarrel. It’s hidden in a strip mall, which is in the shadow of another, bigger strip mall, which is in the shadow of a King Soopers… part of a larger strip mall. But inside those doors is a quaint, friendly cafe that serves a variety of lunch and dinner options and has a homey bar set right in the middle of the dining room. The place was packed one recent evening, which wasn’t a surprise as there are maybe 15 tables in the restaurant. A short wait later, we sat at a nice, clean table and were greeted by several friendly waitresses. We ordered the specials that evening — a sea scallop and halibut entrée and a fish taco appetizer. We also ordered a bowl of clam chowder and a plate of saffron seafood risotto. It wasn’t the intent to make this a seafood feast, it’s just that half of Café Blue’s menu is seafood, with interesting dishes to boot. We passed up mahi, salmon, cioppino and more, as well as terrestrial fare like meatloaf, enchiladas and sausage pasta. Anyway, the clam chowder came first. It was a good chowder. The base was creamy and rich. It was

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spice in the toppings, but I wasn’t wild about the texture. The halibut was better. It was cooked well and tasted fresh. Sitting on a bed of fresh spinach and a pile of mashed potatoes, there was also a chile lime sauce that was scarce but delicious when it made it onto the fork. The scallops were not as well prepared. They were not seared long enough and lacked tenderness. The saffron seafood risotto was interesting. There were definitely fine elements. The mussels were well prepared and delicious and there were fun bits of baby octopus and lobster claw. The cream base was a bit heavy on lemon and a bit light on saffron for my taste, and I thought it too viscous for risotto. I do think this dish was close. Seafood is the invitation at Café Blue but my next trip back will be to try the meatloaf, steak, enchiladas and others of the ilk, which represent the other half of the menu. The ambiance is cozy. The service is exceptional and friendly. And I can imagine a burger and a tall beer at the bar would be a good meal and fine time.

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One of the biggest national dining trends is sweeping into Boulder

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onsider a group of strangers, gathering around a dining room table at a location they only just learned about the day before, to eat handcrafted delicacies from a thoughtfully considered menu. And so it is with the growing trend of secret supper clubs, pop-up dinners, and/or special chef collaborations. With social media to share our every move, along with the foodie movement, chefs and other food-centric creatives are choosing to step outside of their tradi-

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tional restaurant locales and push the limit in one-time, often edgy, spaces to host dinners. Typically at a restaurant, chefs are in the back of the kitchen and diners never get a glimpse of the creative forces behind the meal in front of them. Such pop-up events give chefs an opportunity to call something their own and step outside of the daily grind. “The pop-up idea takes away a ton of the pomp and barriers, like having to make reservations a month in advance or wear certain clothes,” Chicago-based

chef Graham Elliot break bread with strangers, learn about Bowles said in an interone another and view with Food & Wine. indulge in food pre“It’s a good way to say pared right around the ‘Screw you,’ to the corner, often in a whole system.” makeshift kitchen. Often with a preThe community fixed charge associated with the pop-up conaspect, along with the cept, hosts will use thrill of trying sometools such as Eventbrite thing different, are or Brown Paper Tickets perhaps what make The menus at pop-up restauto manage the associat- rants are carefully crafted for an these pop-up dinners such a popular endeaved cost and disseminate unusual dining experience. a schedule of the eveour. ning’s flow of events. Eventbrite has “I think humans as a species are cited that the fastest growing trend in characterized by novelty- and intensitythe 40,000 events they host is pop-up seeking,” wrote psychologist Marvin dining, with 82 percent growth, as Zuckerman, professor emeritus at the shared in “This Year’s Top Food and University of Delaware, in a recent Drink Events” report from March report from the Dana Foundation, an 2015. see POP-UP DINNERS Page 56 Often setup family style, guests

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institute that supports brain research. It is perhaps this desire for the novel that drives the popularity of pop-up dinners, each with their own flare. L.R. Laggy, founder of Blank Plate Boulder, says it all started for him because of a “whimsical suggestion that made a lot of sense” from his roommate who tossed out the idea they put a restaurant in their backyard — literally. Even though the concept scared him, Laggy knew it was something different,

and with a full-time job at The Kitchen in Boulder, food is core to Laggy’s joy. The first pop-up dinner they hosted was in September 2014, and they’re currently working on their fifth dinner this June. Laggy believes the popularity of pop-ups stem from “the adventure of the unknown.” “There are no Yelp reviews for popup dinners,” he says. Folks who attend such events are seeking something different.

“No one’s coming to a pop-up dinner because they couldn’t get into Oak or The Kitchen on a given night,” he adds. Laggy attends to each detail of the event, from menu design to cooking to marketing to emceeing the evening. “[It’s a] creative outlet for talented cooks and chefs in Boulder to share their gifts directly and get full credit for what they do, to have a moment in the sun,” says Laggy.

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Another pop-up that pushes the limit is Boulder’s version of The Blind Cafe. The Blind Cafe is a national organization that focuses on creating positive social change through pop-up events that require patrons to dine in the dark. That’s right. Diners eat in the dark, and it’s entirely led by legally blind facilitators and servers. In an effort to enhance other senses, dining in total darkness for two hours is not something you get to do everyday. Still another pop-up participant is Farmer Girl, a Boulder food business comprised of a food truck (The Tasterie Truck), farm dinners and a roving supper club. Chef and owner Tim Payne has hosted pop-up dinners at a variety of locations including old Grange Halls, inside urban wineries, at coffee shops and in peoples’ homes. He will often create a theme for his dinners around a specific ingredient, like a pumpkin dinner in the fall, all chocolate or his pig and pinot dinner. He’ll also focus on specific times of year for dinners, like a fall harvest pop-up or celebrating summer’s bounty. Payne describes the act as theatrical and muses that people must think to themselves, “How is the chef going to pull off this food without a kitchen?” “It is fun for me to have that challenge, and I think for the diner to see us walking the highwire so to speak. It is a communal experience— a really, a big, fun dinner party. Those looking for a romantic dinner for two [are] not going to seek out these events.” With all the logistics, it’s tough to “wing” these events. The menu must fit the surroundings, and sometimes when Payne is without staples like electricity or commercial equipment, he has been known to use a camp stove, a charcoal grill and coolers to keep the evening intact and running smoothly. Anything goes. He admits it’s a romantic notion to highlight local, organic and sustainable foods under unusual circumstances. “In practicality, it is not easy and requires diligent pursuit and dedication,” he says. Perhaps the “diligent pursuit and dedication,” are exactly what makes pop-up dinners a growing trend. Actively seeking them, the thrill of finding one, dining at one, watching the unknown unfold and sharing jovial stories after the fact all make for an unusual dining experience. And unlike an evening at a restaurant, there’s an ethereal quality; food that’s served on just one night, at this one special place, that only a small group of people are part of. Ever. Ethereal indeed. Boulder Weekly

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The mojito embraces alcohol and flavor by Noel Phillips

n an era of bow-tied, mustachioed bartenders debating the merits and uses of house-made shrubs, molecular mixology and food-flavored liquors, sometimes it’s refreshing to return to the basics. With the advent of warmer weather, taste buds may start to crave the classic simplicity of a cocktail laden not with esoteric herbs and bitters but with recollections of ocean breezes, sandy beaches and suave early American writers. And what better cocktail than one born from the insatiable desires of Americans escaping their Prohibitionist shores in search of alcohol? Born of rum, sugar, lime, mint and soda, the basic mojito has anything but a basic history. The origins of the mojito remain clouded not so much in mystery but in, perhaps, drunken fugue. Some cite Richard Drake, a fellow privateer of Sir Francis Drake’s, as having created the first version of the mojito using easily accessible ingredients indigenous to the Cuban landscape. Whether he used lime, sugar and mint to help settle his captain’s stomach, cure his fellow pirates of scurvy or to mask the noxious, barely potable aguardiente used instead of the less widely available rum — one may never know. But El Draque, Drake’s new concoction, was born. Wikipedia Others brush aside the pirate backstory and credit early sugarcane plantation slaves in Cuba as the first to add sugar and lime to mask the hot liquor available to them. Both versions bear merit, but whatever the early origins of the mojito, it was not until the 1920s that it found footing in the cocktail world. Eager to escape the stifling liquor laws of the United States, tourists fled to the freer Cuban isle to gamble and imbibe. The mojito saw the addition of soda to appeal to the American tastes, becoming the cocktail we know today. But Ernest Hemingway truly popularized the drink, especially at his local bar of choice, the Bodeguita. American tourists eager to follow the Hemingway trail flocked to the bar, where bartenders today still pour mojiRefreshing and delicious, there’s more tos by the thousands. to the perfect mojito than meets the On a smaller scale, the bartenders of eye. Aji Latin American Restaurant in Boulder serve their specialty blends year-round, regularly garnering the status of “best mojito in Boulder.” There’s no cutting corners here — only the most aromatic, best tasting mint, grown at proprietor Jerry Manning’s Three Leaf Farms, joins the freshest limes cut to order and houseinfused rums to create their famous mojitos. Even with the choicest ingredients and the best of intentions, Taylor Roberts, Aji manager and head of the bar program, feels a mojito can still fall short. But he credits his bar staff with truly making their cocktail stand out. “It’s all in how you shake it,” he explains. After extensive muddling, the ingredients are shaken to further release the mint essence and reduce the size of the leaves, creating a cloudy drink heavy on the flavor profiles. The real challenge is not in the creation of the cocktail, though, but in how to give it appeal through the seasons. Fruity tropical drinks are not typically ordered with a foot of snow outside. “It definitely keeps me on my toes,” laughs Roberts. The bar staff ’s creativity is given a chance to shine with spicier, warmer infused rums such as ginger-clove and cinnamon, bringing a little Christmas to their mojito. But with warmer summer climates, look forward to mango-jalapeno, pineapple-plantain and blueberry-lemon mojitos joining the classic on the menu. Sit out on the expansive patio, close your eyes, take in the rhumba beats and just maybe, for a moment, take a little Cuban holiday in the foothills of Boulder. Boulder Weekly

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During my regular hikes along my favorite trails, I’ve gotten to know the local boulders quite intimately. It might sound daft, but I’ve come to love them. I’ve even given some of them names. They symbolize stability and constancy to me. When I gaze at them or sit on them, I feel my own resolve grow stronger. They teach me about how to be steadfast and unflappable in all kinds of weather. I draw inspiration from the way they are so purely themselves, forever true to their own nature. Now would be an excellent time for you to hang out with your own stony allies, Aries. You could use a boost in your ability to express the qualities they embody.

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Your symbolic object of the week is a magic wand. I recommend that you visualize yourself as the star of a fairy tale in which you do indeed have a wand at your disposal. See yourself wielding it to carry out a series of fantastic tricks, like materializing a pile of gold coins or giving yourself an extraordinary power to concentrate or creating an enchanted drink that allows you to heal your toughest wound. I think this playful imaginative exercise will subtly enhance your ability to perform actual magic in the real world.

SCORPIO

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“Everyone is a genius at least once a year,” wrote German aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. “The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.” According to my astrological analysis, Taurus, your once-a-year explosion of genius is imminent. It’s even possible you will experience a series of eruptions that continue for weeks. The latter scenario is most likely if you unleash the dormant parts of your intelligence through activities like these: having long, rambling conversations with big thinkers; taking long, rambling walks all over creation; enjoying long, rambling sex while listening to provocative music.

The taskmaster planet Saturn wove its way through the sign of Scorpio from October 2012 until the end of 2014. Now it has slipped back into your sign for a last hurrah. Between now and mid-September. I urge you to milk its rigorous help in every way you can imagine. For example, cut away any last residues of trivial desires and frivolous ambitions. Hone your focus and streamline your self-discipline. Once and for all, withdraw your precious energy from activities that waste your time and resist your full engagement. And if you’re serious about capitalizing on Saturn’s demanding gifts, try this ritual: Write either “I will never squander my riches” or “I will make full use of my riches” twenty times — whichever motivates you most.

GEMINI

SAGITTARIUS

“I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring,” says author Paul Auster. “It would be tedious to be alive.” But he goes even further in his defense of inconsistency, adding, “Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do.” This bold assertion may not apply to everyone all the time, but it does for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You should feel free to explore and experiment with the high art of changing your mind. I dare you to use it to generate extravagant amounts of beauty.

The advanced lessons on tap in the coming days are not for the squeamish, the timid, the lazy or the stubborn. But then you’re not any of those things, right? So there shouldn’t be a major problem. The purpose of these subterranean adventures and divine interventions is to teach you to make nerveracking leaps of faith, whether or not you believe you’re ready. Here’s one piece of advice that I think will help: Don’t resist and resent the tests as they appear. Rather, welcome them as blessings you don’t understand yet. Be alert for the liberations they will offer.

CANCER

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In its early days, the band Depeche Mode had the infinitely boring name Composition of Sound. Humphrey Bogart’s and Ingrid Bergman’s classic 1942 film Casablanca was dangerously close to being called Everybody Come to Rick’s. And before Charles Dickens published his novel Bleak House, a scathing critique of the 19th-century British judicial system, he considered eleven other possible titles, including the unfortunate Tom-all-Alone’s. The Solitary House that was always shut up and never Lighted. I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, as the seeding phase of your personal cycle gets underway. The imprints you put on your budding creations will have a major impact on their future. Name them well. Give them a potent start.

“Man’s being is like a vast mansion,” observed philosopher Colin Wilson, “yet he seems to prefer to live in a single room in the basement.” Wilson wasn’t just referring to Capricorns. He meant everybody. Most of us commit the sin of self-limitation on a regular basis. That’s the bad news. The good news, Capricorn, is that you’re entering a time when you’re more likely to rebel against the unconscious restrictions you have placed on yourself. You will have extra motivation to question and overrule the rationales that you used in the past to inhibit your primal energy. Won’t it be fun to venture out of your basement nook and go explore the rest of your domain?

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AQUARIUS

One summer afternoon when I was 7 years old, my friend Billy and I grabbed an empty jar from my kitchen and went looking for ants. Near the creek we found an anthill swarming with black ants and scooped a bunch of them in the jar. A little later we came upon a caravan of red ants and shoved many of them in with the black ants. Would they fight? Naturally. It was mayhem. Looking back now, I’m sorry I participated in that stunt. Why stir up a pointless war? In that spirit, Leo, I urge you to avoid unnecessary conflicts. Don’t do anything remotely comparable to putting red ants and black ants in the same jar.

“An obscure moth from Latin America saved Australia’s pasture-land from the overgrowth of cactus,” writes biologist Edward O. Wilson. “A Madagascar ‘weed,’ the rosy periwinkle, provided the cure for Hodgkin’s disease and childhood leukemia,” he adds, while “a chemical from the saliva of leeches dissolves blood clots during surgery,” and a “Norwegian fungus made possible the organ transplant industry.” I think these are all great metaphors for the kind of healing that will be available for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius: humble, simple, seemingly insignificant things whose power to bring transformation has, up until now, been secret or unknown.

VIRGO

PISCES

In order for everyone in your sphere to meet their appointed destinies, you must cultivate your skills as a party animal. I’m only slightly joking. At least for now, it’s your destiny to be the catalyst of conviviality, the ringleader of the festivities, the engineer of fun and games. To fulfill your assignment, you may have to instigate events that encourage your allies to leave their comfort zones and follow you into the frontiers of collaborative amusement.

“She is hard to tempt, as everything seems to please her equally,” said artist Anne Raymo in describing a hedonistic acquaintance. A similar statement may soon apply to you, Pisces. You will have a talent for finding amusement in an unusually wide variety of phenomena. But more than that: You could become a connoisseur of feeling really good. You may even go so far as to break into a higher octave of pleasure, communing with exotic phenomena that we might call silken thrills and spicy bliss and succulent revelry.

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Dear Dan: I am a male grad student who is technically engaged to a female grad student. She has numerous positive qualities, but she is repulsed by sex. She is very sensitive about her repulsion and becomes distraught when I broach the subject. She says that even the thought of doing anything sexual with me elicits a panic attack. She also insists that she is “broken” because, in the hopes of preventing me from leaving her, she forced herself to go further than she felt comfortable. We are both virgins, and the furthest that we ever went sexually was cunnilingus. She has never seen me completely naked or expressed any interest in making love to me. When she revealed that any form of sexual affection prompted panic attacks and psychological distress, I decided to call off our engagement. She proceeded to threaten to kill herself and blame me for her aversion to sex. I agreed to continue the relationship but insisted that we postpone marriage. She refuses to go to couples counseling. I love her and enjoy her companionship, but my sexual selfesteem is devastated. I feel rejected and bitter, and I am still with her mainly because of guilt. Although she denies that this contributes to the situation, she also holds strong religious convictions. She claims that she always had a weak libido and that bodily fluids (especially semen) disgust her. Finally, despite her use of oral contraceptives, she fears pregnancy. She also disapproves of my family and friends, my interest in science, my distrust of religion, and my use of antidepressants. My questions: (1) If I did cause or contribute to her sexual aversion, do I have a lifelong obligation to remain with her? (2) Barring cheating, the impetus for her decision to break up with a previous boyfriend, what other options do I have? (3) Could her sexual aversion ever dissipate? (4) Could her sexual aversion stem from asexuality? — Gradually Escalating Threats Obligate Unending Togetherness

Dear GETOUT: 1. You are not obligated to stay with this unpleasant woman for the next 50 years just because you made the mistake of proposing to her. And even if she started fucking you, GETOUT, do you really want to be with her? 2. Why bar cheating? If taking herself hostage is so intimidating that it prevents you from breaking up with her (threatening to kill herself = taking herBoulder Weekly

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self hostage), then go ahead and cheat on her, or pretend to cheat on her, and let her break up with you. 3. Her sexual aversion may dissipate over time. Or it may not. But someone who doesn’t want to fuck someone — and she clearly doesn’t want to fuck you — rarely starts wanting to fuck that someone down the road. So she may get over her sexual aversion in time, but she’ll probably be fucking someone else when she does… even if she’s married to you. 4. Could be that, sure. But unless you’re willing to live a sexless life with a manipulative spouse who disapproves of your family, friends, meds, etc., the root cause of her sexual aversion is irrelevant. Dear Dan: My boyfriend and I have been together almost two months. Lately, he doesn’t seem that interested in investing in our relationship, but when I talk to him, he says the opposite. We are a bit long-distance (he lives an hour away). Two weeks ago, he went home to visit his parents. I was going to see him when he got back, but he said he wasn’t feeling well. Then last week, he went to his best friend’s wedding. Now he tells me he’s got to go back home this weekend to get his laptop. Through all this, his texting responses have gone down to where I am lucky to get a reply. If we are on the phone and the call drops, he doesn’t try to call me back, and he never answers when I call him back. I’m just trying to keep the lines of communication open, especially since we don’t see each other all the time, but he is making it difficult. What would be the best way to approach this? — Boyfriend’s Absences Worry Lonely & Invested New Girlfriend Dear BAWLING: Don’t call or text your boyfriend for two weeks. If he doesn’t call or text you in that time — and he won’t — then you cancel your three-month anniversary party. My hunch is that this relationship has been over for a while, BAWLING, but your boyfriend lacks the decency to put you out of your misery. Looking on the bright side: You won’t have to waste any of your money on a traditional threemonth anniversary present — a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos — or any more of your time on this guy. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter June 25, 2015 65

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