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Hate makes us stupid By Joel Dyer
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here’s some interesting research out there that should give us all pause. To put it in laymen’s terms: Our friends in academia have found that most Democrats and Republicans actually have similar views on lots of issues. Yep, turns out most of us, regardless of party affiliation, want far more affordable health care, a nonwarming environment and money out of politics. Where we go off the rails is when we’re asked what we think about the proposals being put forth by the other side. It seems Dems hate everything Republican and vice versa no matter the context, and it’s this blinding partisanship I
that is choking off our democracy. On the Republican side of things, the result of universal Dem hatred is easy to spot. It even has a name, Trump. Seriously, 93 percent of Republicans tell pollsters they support Trump, but I don’t know a single Republican who respects the man. It seems the reason so many Republicans support Trump is largely because he makes Democrats absolutely crazy. Worse still in my book, Dem-hate has led many evangelical Christians to abandon their claimed values, replacing them with blind support for our racist, philandering, narcissist president who has actually claimed he has never asked JUNE 27, 2019
for forgiveness because he has never done anything that needed forgiving. Biblically speaking, this nonsensical claim by Trump effectively has him boasting that he is the equal of Jesus Christ, which you would think would make evangelicals a bit uncomfortable. But instead of being repulsed by all that is Trump, they simply point to his stacking of the U.S. Supreme Court with prolife judges as justification for their undeserved allegiance. Sort of makes you wonder if they’d vote for Satan if he campaigned against abortion on Fox News. Or, to take it one step further, does allegiance to the deviant Trump in see DYERTIMES Page 6
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exchange for his judicial appointees transform the abortion issue into a false idol for many Trump-supporting Christians? Look, I understand theology gets complicated and folks have to work out their own beliefs on such matters. All I’m suggesting is that you don’t let your anger for the haters who mock your faith, without really understanding it, turn you into the religious caricatures they already assume you to be. If you’re using Trump to get even with those who’ve told you that you and your religion are silly and weak, then you’re making your critics look way smarter and more accurate than they deserve. Think about that. And what about all you Republican haters out there, would you turn down a low-cost health care system for everyone if it was Trump’s idea. Be honest now. Can’t you just see House Speaker Nancy Pelosi whipping Dems to “not give Trump a victory” at any cost before the 2020 elections. Think I’m being unfair? Here’s a couple of recent real-life examples. Pelosi and the establishment Dems are doing everything they can to prevent impeachment hearings despite the fact that more than 1,000 career prosecutors who’ve read the Muller report say President Trump obstructed justice and should be held accountable. The Dem’s reasoning? Impeachment might make winning in 2020 more difficult. That’s right, beating the hated Republicans come election time is far more important than governing. Heck, the speaker was even out there I
just this week whipping the progressive caucus of her own party to make sure they passed a border funding bill that she says, “Trump wants to see fail.” Apparently, the progressive caucuses crime against Pelosi’s wing of the party was in trying to add language to the bill that would have created consequences should the abuse of immigrant children at our border continue. The speaker was clearly more concerned about not giving the Republicans a win. How did we get to this place where trying to save children is now the purview of only the most progressive among us? The answer is hate. All of us, including every member of Congress should be more concerned about the treatment of defenseless children than the politics of defeating those on the other side of the isle. And the research says that most of us do share this view and many others. We just have to find a way to pull back from our 30 years of ongoing hatred for the other side, a hatred that blinds us to the destructive nature of our actions. Sadly, it won’t be easy in this world of competing parties, competing cable stations and competing websites all designed to sew anger and distrust of the “other side.” It is this partisan hatred that is making us too stupid to live in — or even deserve to live in — a democracy. Our politics can’t just be about hurting the other side. It’s not sustainable. We have to stop hating and start talking to each other again before it’s too late. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
How to sabotage the federal government By Dave Anderson
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he Trump administration offers us a ceaseless sordid circus of chaos and confusion, which dominates the headlines. Each day is a new episode of an absurdist TV series. With the subtly of a fifth grade schoolyard bully, Trump wages a full tilt culture war over race, gender, immigration, even science. In more ordinary times, many people only pay sporadic attention to politics. How many more now are tuning out the conflicts in Washington? Trump is causing serious damage to this country. His 2020 budget would shred the social safety net and give welfare to the rich. There are massive reductions in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — which Trump frequently promised to protect from any cuts. At the end of 2017, Politico reporter Danny Vinik had a lengthy piece entitled “138 things Trump did this year while you weren’t looking.” Many of these quiet and underpublicized actions of the administration contradict the image of Trump as the champion of ordinary folks. Here are two examples, one involving homeowners and the other involving workers. Many homeowners didn’t know that the Obama administration had ordered a reduction in mortgage insurance premiums that was to take effect in 2017. Homeowners would have saved an average of $500 a year. But in a surprise move on Inauguration Day, the Trump administration got the Federal Housing Administration to roll back this reduction. Obama’s Department of Labor (DOL) helped working people with a number of important regulations. For example, they cracked down on employers who mischaracterize their workers as “contractors” and they extended mandatory overtime pay to several million more workers. However, Trump’s DOL started to undermine those rulings right away. Rules also need to be enforced. Vinik says Obama’s DOL, “used its enforcement powers broadly, earning praise from labor groups and criticism from businesses.” Trump changed that and big business is much happier now. Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, talked about “deconBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
structing the administrative state.” That is happening now. That is what right-wingers have long yearned for. In 1986, Ronald Reagan told this anti-government joke: “You know, it’s said that the nine most frightening words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’” For decades, rightwingers have said that government is
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tied white men were in charge? Lobbyist and influential Republican activist Grover Norquist says, “I’m not in favor of abolishing the government. I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” Norquist is a proponent of “starving the beast” (the federal government) of see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8
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The scientific evidence is in. It is the up-to-date review of the relevant, authoritative scientific literature compiled as the New York Compendium. It is the definitive voice; it is the literature search; it is the sought after scientific evidence; it is the further study; it is conclusive. The Compendium, by an overwhelming 84-90 percent of the research, concludes that fracking threatens our air, water, health, public safety, climate and long-term economic viability in ways that regulators cannot prevent. Accordingly, fracking must be banned in order to protect the health, safety and welfare of both citizens and wildlife. Such an overwhelming consensus, evidence at the 84 percent level, has seldom, perhaps never before, been assembled by science on any subject of inquiry. All aspects of meaningful, continued human existence are based on the very qualities of life that fracking undermines.
Senate Bill 181, contrary to legislative intent, is in danger — via the COGCC’s uninformed, preliminary interpretations — of becoming a compromise with an ignorant, shortsighted, selfishly industry-serving, recalcitrant 15 percent. It may even give that very small minority all they need to further destroy to a degree beyond possible remediation. Bad politics, indeed! Should this impending, disastrous, solely politically-based compromise take place, our children, who necessarily inherit the outcomes of our political failures, will never forgive us. If bad politics, as threatened, does prevail over science, our children will be left with no choice. In order to retain a remote chance at a decent life, Colorado’s children would have to rebel against State enforcements of unwarranted law. That likely would mean going to the bloody streets, even knowing it may already be too late. Such threatens to be our legacy to them. Dr. Wendell Bradley, retired professor of physics
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that enables private enterprise to operate efficiently and safely, as well as the assurance of public safety through ever-higher funding of the military, the homeland-security apparatus, the police and other forces of so called law and order.” It’s unnerving to follow the news every day –- little kids being put in cages, attacks on climate scientists, the destruction of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, concessions to sleazy, for-profit colleges, big support for the fossil fuel industry, abortion clinics being closed, the violent farright emboldened. Many doctrinaire right-wing federal judges are being appointed. They have lifetime tenure. The unending Resistance to Trump inspires hope. The Democratic victories in the 2018 elections were impressive. Gans says, “the Democrats could halt the Overthrow Project with a single landslide election, and end it if they obtained control of all branches of the federal government for several consecutive presidential and midterm elections.” Keep fighting. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. BOULDER WEEKLY
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here’s a new wave of micro-mobility e-transportation sweeping the nation, and it’s inevitably coming to Boulder. For the time being, though, it’s been stalled by the City’s “emergency moratorium,” which is holding e-scooter rental companies at bay, preventing them from obtaining business licenses in Boulder. The moratorium is intended to stay in effect until the City has a chance to thoroughly vet the issues surrounding e-scooters, engage the community in conversation and examine the scooter’s environmental and economic impacts. Boulder doesn’t want to be steamrolled by the scooter rental companies in the same way places like Arizona State University, Nashville and Denver were. Boulder hopes to work out most of the kinks before the inevitable problems arise. When e-scooters arrived in Denver, it was late in May 2018 and it was without warning. One day the Mile High City woke up and some 300 brand-new dockless electric Lime scooters were scattered throughout its streets, charged and ready for action. Unlike Boulder, Denver had almost no time to prepare for that first wave of e-scooters, and they had no rules or regulations in place to manage them. “We had word on Wednesday that one of the [e-scooter] operators was planning to launch on that Friday,” says
Cindy Patton, the strategic advisor at the Denver Public Works Office of Policy Legislative Affairs and Special Initiatives. “We worked very hard and tried to coordinate with them, to let us come up with a regulatory structure for them, and that request was not heeded.” A week later, Bird, another rental company, dropped its e-scooters on Denver, also unannounced. By the end of 2018 the number of dockless e-scooters in the city had skyrocketed from several hundred to several thousand, split between five city-approved operators — Lime, Bird, Lyft, Razor and Spin. “We were definitely in reactive mode and that was not ideal,” Patton says. And Denver wasn’t alone. Other cities and college campuses around the country have experienced similar struggles coping with the sudden introduction and subsequent madness of an e-scooter influx. That’s exactly the situation Boulder is hoping to avoid with its emergency moratorium on e-scooter businesses. The ban, passed on May 21 by the Boulder City Council, prohibits the city manager from issuing business licenses to any e-scooter business until February 2020. At that time, the City will either extend the moratorium (if it needs more time to make a decision) or announce which e-scooter company or companies will operate in Boulder.
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“It’s important to note that this is not a moratorium on e-scooters,” clarifies Boulder City Council member Bob Yates. “Owners of e-scooters are free to ride them on the streets of Boulder. What City Council put a pause on is the issuance of new business licenses to e-scooter rental companies.” During the nine-month moratorium the city plans on conducting several public demonstrations, submitting Requests for Information (RFI) to prospective e-scooter companies and potentially conducting a pilot project. “We’ve been working with the City of Boulder for over a year now,” says Sam Sadle, Lime’s senior director of government relations and strategic development. “We’re partners in the process and we’re here to be part of it.” In theory, e-scooters seem like a form of micro-mobility technology at which the City of Boulder would leap. They’re marketed as environmentally friendly, energy efficient alternatives to first and last mile transportation, supposedly replacing short car rides around town. According to Lime’s own research, 34 percent of e-scooter riders in Portland replaced car rides with scooter rides; and in St. Louis that number is even higher, at 38 percent. All told, Lime’s global scooter crusade has apparently prevented some 96 million metric tons of carbon from entering the atmosphere. “Lime riders have saved more [than] 699,786 gallons of gas,” I
Andrew Savage, Lime’s vice president of sustainability said in a press release. “That’s equivalent to taking 1,320 passenger vehicles off the road for a year.” That’s consequential, if it’s true. But there are many who remain skeptical of these professed environmental perks (including several members of Boulder City Council). As with any kind of vehicle, there are environmental costs associated with e-scooters that offset their emissions reductions and that need to be factored into the equation. As the council meeting memo from May 21 points out, the streetlife of one of these scooters on average is only about 30 days. The wear and tear these things incur on the streets, in the weather and on the move (not to mention as the result of random acts of vandalism) means that these e-scooters have a very short life-span. What happens in the e-scooter after-life? How much of their makeup is recycled? If every one of Denver’s 2,350 e-scooters (each approximately 30 pounds of plastic, metal and rubber) has to be replaced every month, the waste associated with operating these might far outweigh any carbon emissions that they offset. Some e-scooter companies, like Lime, are focusing greater and greater energy toward extending the life of their products and recycling their parts however possible. Sam Sadle, of Lime, likened their recycling efforts to how Native Americans “used every BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
part of the buffalo.” “Every piece of the scooter is recycled — our first priority is on maintenance and on extending the lifespan of the scooters if possible,” Sadle assures. When, at last, a scooter is deemed “unusable,” Sadle says it is passed onto reputable recycling companies for disposal. Another question of sustainability concerns electricity. Where do e-scooters get their “E” from? At the council meeting in May, Councilwoman Lisa Morzel asked whether or not it’s a renewable source of energy. It isn’t, usually. Lime “Juicers” or Bird “Chargers” are often paid to collect e-scooters off the streets and charge them in their own homes. The electricity powering these scooters often comes from the same power grid those riding them use to charge their phones and light their homes, which often comes from a petroleum- or natural gas-based source. These questions and many others will hopefully all be addressed in the RFI that the Boulder Department of Transportation plans on submitting to the operators who are courting the City. According to Dave Kemp, City of Boulder transportation planner, once they’ve submitted the RFIs with all of their questions to the operators and get their responses back, they will then select a few “finalists.” From that smaller pool of companies, they will choose who will operate within Boulder. It’s a similar approach to how Fort Collins handled the e-scooter invasion, except Boulder is going to include the public to a much greater degree, Kemp says. “We’re looking at a more extensive public engagement process that really vets the issues and concerns with all of our stakeholders in the community,” he says. Stakeholders that include Boulder’s neighborhoods, CU, the Boulder police, the Boulder Chamber of Commerce and community organizers. Kemp says that the City will be hosting three public demonstrations in July and August along with two more for the college campus. Invitations will be sent out to the community for these demonstrations, which will include talks and panels where people can ask questions, discuss their hopes and concerns, as well as getting to test out different scootBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
ers from different operators. The City is also considering a pilot program at one of the employment centers in Boulder, such as Flatiron Business Park or Boulder Junction, says Kemp. Using the e-scooter’s geofencing technology, the city could electronically cordon off an area and drop off “10 or 20” scooters to see how they’re used over a period of time. “It could enable people who work in these business centers to use these e-scooters to go ride to lunch versus having to drive a car,” Kemp says. A pilot program would allow the City a preview of how these scooters would be used for week-day transportation (versus weekend recreation). It would offer a sneak peek of the day-to-day, week-to-week impact they might have on reducing first and last mile transportation emissions. However, Kemp doesn’t seem certain that the pilot project is going to be totally necessary. “As we think more about it, it may be best to move quicker with just drafting the regulations and then working from there,” Kemp says. Because, the fact is, these e-scooter rental companies are coming to Boulder sooner or later. “That’s quite inevitable,” says Sam Weaver, one of the councilmen who voted in favor of the emergency moratorium. And before the scooters get here, Weaver and the other councilmembers who voted for the moratorium think it’s important to prepare the city thoroughly. “We want these micro mobility solutions in Boulder,” Weaver says. “But we want to do it in a way that avoids some of the downsides that other communities have seen as they come in.” There was nothing emergent about this emergency moratorium, Kemp says. “The only reason why the ‘emergency’ term comes up is because that legal terminology allowed Council to approve the moratorium in one night versus spread out over several meetings.” So, while the e-scooter influx may be inevitable, it isn’t any impending crisis. The City’s moratorium will give the community enough time to properly lay the infrastructure and design regulations, so that when these e-scooter rental companies finally arrive in Boulder, the City and its residents will be ready for them. I
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“We’re here so you can live and die your values.” says. She thinks that rafters, kayakoutfitters will move their trips up or ers, fishermen, paddleboarders and down stream, or even to different tubers are all looking at a booming rivers to keep their clientele safe. wet year. With a year like this, there are a lot “People can really get out and of options. enjoy the water this year in ways “So far, from a rafter’s perspecthat they haven’t had the ability to tive, it’s really nice, probably one of in certain years prior,” she says. the best seasons in 25 years,” he says. That sentiment was echoed by As for the risk of wildfire, the Dave Costlow, the executive director end of Colorado’s drought can go of the Colorado River Outfitter’s either way: If the state continues to association. By his estimation, this get consistent moisture, the risk summer is looking like the perfect decreases. If, however, it stops rainyear for river rafting so far. And not ing and dries up, there could be just because of how much snow problems. there is up high, but because of the “In the event that we dry out speed at which it’s melting. really quick this summer and we This spring has been consistently have all this underbrush that has cooler than U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE grown up as a years prior, result of the Costlow points high snowout, which is pack, it can causing the also make for a snowpack to bad fire season melt at a slower if things turn pace. And slowaround and dry er is better, he up really says. At this quick,” rate, Colorado’s Domonkos water season says. may extend Last year straight was one of through to the Colorado’s end of summer. worst wildfire “Low water seasons on may not hit record: 11 some rivers wildfires tore until the end of across the July, maybe not state, torching even until the over 350,000 end of August,” acres of land Costlow predicts. “There’s still and destroying hundreds of homes enough snow up there that it will and structures. Five of the largest probably result in quite an extensive wildfires in Colorado history were season.” recorded last year, with the extreme And one of the most dangerous, drought conditions to blame. he adds. High rivers can be every bit To that end, more moisture is as hazardous as they are fun to play better (as long as it’s consistent). But on, which has already proven true. it can also increase the risk of floodAs the rivers have risen and ing, warns Domonkos. With the rivpicked up speed they have also ers already running high, it doesn’t claimed lives — on June 25, search take a biblical rainstorm to send and rescue teams finally located the them spilling over their banks — it body of Roberta Sophia Rodriguez, could happen with a relatively averwho had been missing in the South age one. Fork of the Rio Grande for 10 days. There are both pros and cons to Her passing raises this season’s river having this much snowpack in the death toll to six, after two separate high country. Generally speaking, incidents on June 21 claimed two though, big summer water is good lives on the Gunnison River. for Colorado all around: good for But Costlow remains hopeful. the environment, the economy and He explains that most experienced the Colorado way of life. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
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n David Foster Wallace’s book Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, he attempts to explain the possibility of constructing proof of a fourth dimension with a simple framework. He explains to the reader how a 2D drawing of a cube serves as an example of how one could create a 3D model of a hypothetical fourth spatial dimension. As he tries to connect the dots, Wallace shows how maddeningly complex these theories can be. “You can feel, almost immediately, a strain at the very root of yourself, the first popped threads of a mind starting to give at the seams,” he writes. Currently, this quote graces the wall of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA), serving as a spot-on description of the work of artist Clark Richert. Throughout his career, Richert has joined the ranks of those curious about unknown dimensions. This concept hasn’t just drawn the likes of scientists and mathematicians, but also writers like Wallace and artists like Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. By looking at math and science through an artistic perspective, Richert uses his work to delve into hyperdimensions, geometry, systematic patterning and more. “He has this tenacity in the pursuit of his ideas that has never waned,” says Zoe Larkins, curator at MCA Denver. “He has an interest and affinity for math and science, and he has this willingness to transgress what BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
Colorado artist Clark Richert blends art and math to understand reality
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many people would think are the boundaries of visual art in the pursuit of his vision. ... He’s an incredibly good painter as well as a brilliant thinker and brilliant at manifesting his ideas in visual forms.” Richert has been a staple of the Colorado artistic community for half a century. During that time, Richert has been a prolific artist, and his work is now the focus
Richert’s initial dabbling with abstraction, his career-long focus on geometry and his experimentation with figure drawing. Originally from Kansas, Richert moved to Colorado in the ’60s. Larkins credits him as one of the founders of the contemporary art community in Colorado with art collectives like Drop City, The Armory Group and Criss Cross. He helped start Edge Gallery in Boulder and COURTESY OF BMOCA Spark Gallery in Denver. And he also 28 years as a professor at Rocky Mountain College of Art Design, retiring just recently. With the show at MCA, Larkins wanted to focus on Richert’s talent as an artist, which frequently gets overlooked. “Very concisely, I’d say he’s one of the people who brought a more experimental tendency to art in Colorado,” she says. “And he is a painter. So many people here know him for his teaching and Drop City. Not a lot of people know he’s been painting since the beginning of his career. So the exhibition does really reassert him as that.” Art has been a lifelong interest for Richert. But the tendency toward math and science in his work is by no means random. “I grew up in a very mathematical household. My of two concurrent retrospectives: Clark Richert: Pattern father was a math teacher, my brother was a mathematiand Dimensionality, now at Boulder Museum of cian, my other brother was a physicist and my sister was Contemporary Art (BMoCA) through Sept. 15, and Clark Richert in hyperspace at MCA Denver through Sept. 1. see RICHERT Page 18 The exhibits encapsulate the artist’s career and feature I
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a medical doctor,” Richert says. “So the ON THE BILL: ‘CLARK RICHERT IN HYPERSPACE.’ Museum of whole household was kind of scientific Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany and mathematical. I grew up in that setSt., Denver, mcadenver.org. Through Sept. ting, and then I decided to be an artist, 1. ‘CLARK RICHERT: PATTERNS AND taking the opposite approach. But then DIMENSIONS.’ BMoCA, 1750 13th St., [eventually] my early exposure to matheBoulder. Through Sept. 15. matical ideas emerged.” It was a burgeoning artistic movement that captured Richert’s imagination a master’s of fine art from the University and rerouted his path. of Colorado, where he also took inspira“When I was in high school, I came tion from renowned experimental filmacross the work of abstract expressionmakers Stan Brakhage and Bruce ists, which was the art movement that Conner. was happening in New York at the time, From the start, Richert was curious and I got very excited,” he says. “So for about dimensionality. While “dimensionalmy final semester in high school I ity” might sound like a concept best found dropped all my science and math courses in a textbook, a simple painting is an and enrolled in art courses.” example of a dimensional enigma. Many This interest is paintings depict a ‘CENTRAL CORE CUBE’ COURTESY OF MCA DENVER three-dimensional documented in pieces from the image, but a early ’60s currentpainting itself is a ly on display at flat, two-dimenBMoCA that show sional surface. his artistic prowThis paradox ess and establish interested Richert that Richert was and would on his way to become a foundabecoming an tional element in abstract artist. his work. When looking to He made further develop his “Blue Room” in talents, he moved 1964 as a way to to Boulder to get analyze the idea 18
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of a canvas or artwork as a container of unrelated to everyday life. But the patspace, Larkin says. The painting depicts terns are all based on naturally occurring a window looking into a room with anothsystems found in the world, and Richert er window on the opposite wall. believes these systems show how we live “Clark [Richert] very much engaged in an ordered universe. He explores this in using abstraction to call attention to the thought using the periodic table in his flatness of a painting’s surface,” Larkin piece “Argon.” says. “In that way, [‘Blue Room’] sets us “The periodic table was developed by up to contemplate the types of spaces Dmitri Mendeleev, and he [correctly] preartists create whether on canvas, in dicted the placement of elements in this drawings or in three dimensions.” table that had not yet been discovered. Another factor that contributed to And I think that’s a huge part of why Richert’s lifelong artistic trajectory was a Clark is fascinated with it,” Larkins says. lecture at the 1965 Conference on World “The periodic table is a system that Affairs. Inventor and architect explained the organization and structure Buckminster Fuller delivered a presentaof these elements in the natural world. tion on topics including synergy and a Basically, it’s predictive. Therefore, it condesign for a geodesic dome, which is a tinues to systemize organic phenomena, hemispherical even beyond ‘BLUE ROOM’ COURTESY OF MCA DENVER those it already structure composed of triangles categorizes. That — think speaks to Clark’s “Spaceship Earth” understanding of at Epcot Center. there being strucThese theories tures that govern coalesced into everything, and Fuller’s notion of that we can prehigher-dimensiondict characteristics al space, includof the world based ing the fourth on patternistic, dimension. organizational Richert was mechanisms.” intrigued by These underFuller’s ideas lying orders serve about design and to point to efficient use of space. At the time Richert unknown realities, like that of a fourth and friends were coming together to start dimension. Drop City, an art collective in Trinidad. These concepts can feel intimidating When making the physical building for to a layperson, especially in an art musethe group, Richert created his own geoum. And Richert realizes his audience desic dome. might struggle to grasp the theories he “The dome was initially going to proworks with, but he hopes people can still vide housing and studios, and what we enjoy his work regardless. were going to do in the domes was make “I know I work with structures that art,” Richert says. “But being in the people don’t understand,” Richert says. domes, in the actual structure, the geom- “But I love the work of Bach, and I don’t etry of the dome affected my thinking understand his structures. I just like his about art.” work without understanding the structure.” From then on, his art took a systemic Art shares a common goal with math approach. Richert has experimented with and science. Each field of discipline patterning and geometry, like his work in the strives to broaden our understanding of mid-’70s to mid-’80s with another art collec- the world. Throughout his artistic career, tive called Criss Cross. Richert and others Richert has strove to do just that. were inspired by patterns found in mathe“I think the best art is art that helps us see differently and changes our permatics, chemistry, technology and music. spective,” Larkins says. While these paintings are flat, they appear As any artist, Richert applies his lens three-dimensional with a longer look. to the world, offering a unique viewpoint. This ping-ponging between 2D and His work yearns for a deeper comprehen3D helped to move Richert closer to the sion of the everyday patterns and idea of 4D. This thread of investigation unknown spatial measures — ultimately continues with Richert’s most recent working toward a better understanding of paintings from the last decade. the world around us. At first look, the paintings might feel BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
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en his stylings if he planned to major in guitar. He worried, admittedly, that school would tamp down his creative inclinations in favor of rigid form and technique. What he found was a whole new dimension of music. Guitarist composers like Matteo Carcassi, Francisco Tárrega and Mauro Giuliani deepended DeMuth’s understanding of what the guitar could create sonically, as did the piano sonatas of Beethoven and Chopin. All the while he continued to enjoy popular music like Rodrigo y Gabriela, Queen and Eric Johnson. As a result, his compositions are steeped in his deep appreciation for musical theory while still being accessible and not overly technical. Fascinated by space since he was a child, DeMuth retains this appreciation for the expansive universe that birthed the atoms that form each of us. Quiet but candid, earnest but lighthearted, DeMuth makes music that is rooted in his belief that we have to explore the unknown — within ourselves and in our universe — to be able to truly connect with one another. His newest EP, A Different Wavelength, taps into that constant searching. “A black hole has a boundary called an event horizon,” DeMuth writes on his website. “Nobody knows what happens past the event horizon and that’s what this EP is like. It’s like being in the event horizon and peering over the edge. That’s where I feel all my music comes from: the unknown, the uncharted, the great mystery.” See a video of DeMuth playing “Le Selva” at boulderweekly.com. Listen to more of his music at derekdemuth.com.
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he Colorado Music Festival (CMF) opens its 2019 season Thursday, June 27 with Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont, followed by a series of works that form a bridge forward into the Romantic era. CMF Music Director Peter Oundjian will conduct the Festival Orchestra, and RussianAmerican pianist Natasha Paremski will perform Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. The program, also featuring Verdi’s Overture to La forza del destino and Respighi’s Pines of Rome, will be repeated Friday, June 28. Under the title “Beethoven’s Path to Romanticism,” the program sets a pattern for other orchestra concerts during the summer: a keystone work by Beethoven, with other pieces that share a stylistic affinity. These programs and others fit into the summer’s overarching theme, “Beethoven’s Path to the Future.” “The idea is to create beautiful programs with a general theme,” Oundjian says. “Obviously, every composer after Beethoven was in some way in his shadow. I don’t want to suggest that all (of them) were influenced by Beethoven. I just wanted to give a journey through each program.” For the first concert, the Egmont Overture raises a fundamental question: Was Beethoven a Classical or a Romantic composer? Egmont, with its classical form harnessed to music that tells a dramatic
Beethoven’s Path to the Future opens CMF First two weeks, June 27–July 9, set the pattern for the summer festival
by Peter Alexander 2007. When a scheduled soloist canceled a performance at the Caramoor Festival on short notice, “Natasha came in and played a wonderful Rachmaninoff Second Concerto with me,” he says. The festival opens its Sunday chamber orchestra series June 30 with Oundjian conducting a concert titled “Beethoven’s Path to Modernism.” For this program the keystone is one of Beethoven’s most adventurous pieces, the Grosse Fuge (Great fugue), originally written as the finale for a string quartet. Because of its length and curious — for the time — intensity, it was story, suggests the dropped from the quartet. Beethoven ON THE BILL: COLORADO MUSIC answer is both. wrote a conventional finale but the FESTIVAL. Opening “Following that Grosse Fuge remains as a standWeeks: June 27–July 9. with one of the See the CMF calendar and alone work that is unlike anything else ticket information at colo- by Beethoven — or anyone else. great Romantic radomusicfestival.org/fespiano concertos just On the same program will be tival. All performances in seemed a wonderChautauqua Auditorium. works that each represents a kind of ful contrast,” modernism in its time: Berlioz’s Oundjian says. Roman Carnival Overture, Richard “My idea is to let people think about Strauss’ Wind Serenade, and Beethoven when they’re listening to these Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto performed other pieces. The Verdi Forza del destino by 2019 Grammy-winning violinist James is a great example of another Romantic Ehnes. “It’s hard to imagine anyone playoverture that’s much more extroverted ing the violin better,” Oundjian, himself a [than Egmont]. With Respighi there’s a violinist, says. freedom of expression, and it becomes Tuesdays in the CMF schedule are really programmatic, as he depicts the reserved for chamber music concerts. The pine trees in different settings and differfirst, on July 2, will be devoted to two ent locations.” Romantic works: Brahms’s Trio for horn, Oundjian performed the Rachmaninoff violin and piano, and Dvořák’s Piano Quintet in A Major. Concerto with Paremski once before, in
As former principal violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet, Oundjian has a special love for chamber music. “Chamber music is a wonderful contrast to the orchestral experience” — for players and audience — he says. The early weeks of the festival include a concert on July 5 titled “Revolution and Freedom.” Even though Beethoven is not on the program, the title reminds us of a composer whose final symphony is a hymn to the brotherhood of man. There are of course American works — Copland’s Outdoor Overture, Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F and several marches by John Philip Sousa. Also matching the general theme of the concert are Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, a perennial program favorite around the Fourth of July, and Rossini’s Overture to La gazza ladra (The thieving magpie). Gershwin’s concerto will be performed by pianist Jon Kimura Parker, who is known for both his wide repertoire and his passionate interpretations. Parker will remain in Boulder for the annual CMF Family Concert Sunday, July 7, where he will partner with pianist Coco Ma to perform Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals. The sensory-friendly concert conducted by Earl Lee will also feature the Really Inventive Stuff Ensemble, which claims Charlie Chaplin, Lucille Ball and Lily Tomlin among the inspirations for their family programs. For CMF they will present their vaudeville-inspired production of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.
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o see a Studio Ghibli film is to believe — in wonder, in magic, in childhood imagination and, most importantly, in the capacity for human compassion. And what could we use more right now than a little compassion? Thankfully, GKIDS and Fathom Events have partnered for Studio Ghibli Fest 2019, with a different Ghibli film playing each month. From Whisper of the Heart (July 1–2) to The Tale of Princess Kaguya (December 16 and 18), with stops at The Secret World of Arrietty (Sept. 29–30) and Spirited Away (Oct. 27–28, 30), and visits to My Neighbor Totoro (Aug. 25–26, 28), Kiki’s Delivery Service (July 28–29, 31) and Princess Mononoke (Nov. 17–18, 20). Founded on June 15, 1984, in Tokyo, Japan — thanks primarily to the financial success of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Studio Ghibli represents an era of moviemaking long forgotten. There once was a time when each studio was known for the genre it produced rather than the intellectual property it acquired — looking for a gritty gangster drama? Warner Bros. has your desire. How about a glitzy and glamorous musical? Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is the studio for you. Like a good kung-fu movie? Seek the Shaw Brothers shield. Among these, only Studio Ghibli still stands today as it did then. Granted, its output has slowed significantly — its last was the 2016 international co-production The Red Turtle — but from 1986’s Castle in the Sky to 2013’s Princess Kaguya, Ghibli rolled masterworks out one at a time, all of them painstakingly labored over by the studios’ top triad: Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki. Of these three, Miyazaki’s name stands tallest, a singular talent in the animation world. But nothing about animation is singular — it is arguably the most collaborative of all the cinematic arts. Which is why it is
ON THE BILL: GKIDS and Fathom Events present Studio Ghibli Fest 2019. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St. Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1250 S. Hover Road, Longmont ‘Whisper of the Heart,’ July 1–2 ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service,’ July 28–29, 31. ‘My Neighbor Totoro,’ Aug. 25–26, 28. ‘The Secret World of Arrietty,’ Sept. 29–30. ‘Spirited Away,’ Oct. 27–28, 30. ‘Princess Mononoke,’ Nov. 17–18, 20. ‘The Tale of Princess Kaguya,’ Dec. 16 and 18
sive Cheshire Cat grin — slightly offputting, but he’s also there to make sure you don’t have to wait in the rain alone. He is your friendly neighbor Totoro, and he is to the Japanese what Winnie-the-Pooh is to the English. What is Totoro exactly? A forest spirit, of sorts; maybe even the forest itself. The two sisters of My Neighbor Totoro never stop to ask, they simply accept. Years later, Miyazaki recounted a conversation with an admirer who succinctly described the Ghibli touch: “Children need to see something incomprehensible,” she told Miyazaki. “They’ll understand it later.” That might explain why so many Ghibli protagonists are children or young adults; it wasn’t just a ploy to sell their movies to children, it was a chance to show the adults that questions often get in the way. From the Forest Spirit of Princess Mononoke to the ghostly No-Face of Spirited Away, the images the Ghibli artists and technicians produced could not be explained easily and so they didn’t. They trusted the audience to interpret them for themselves and the audiences, in turn, trusted the filmmakers to produce something of quality and significance. Amazing how both parties walked away victorious. Good movies make you forget your troubles for an hour or two. Great movies make you forget who you are. The best ones don’t just make you forget; they make you remember what it was like to be open to anything. To believe in talking cats, enchanted bathhouses, tiny worlds just underfoot and the ability to run so fast you practically fly. And to believe in Totoros.
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by Michael J. Casey nice to see GKIDS and Fathom looping in some of Ghibli’s lesser-known films. Take Whisper of the Heart, directed by Yoshifumi Kondō from a script by Miyazaki based on the manga by Aoi Hiiragi. For those unfamiliar with Ghibli animation, Whisper is a wonderful place to start. The character animation is simple and clean, allowing for a great deal of emotional flexibility, and the backgrounds are so detailed, so lush, you want to wrap yourself in them like a warm blanket. Like most Ghibli movies, Whisper’s protagonist is a young girl — here, Shizuku, a middle schooler — given to flights of fantasy while remaining rooted in the real. Almost all Ghibli films feature protagonists who can traverse the mystical and the routine with equal ease. Each has a goal, but these goals hinder not their ability to see the forest for the trees. It’s in those forests that Ghibli thrives. Sometimes they are dark and foreboding, but then a benign tree spirit shows up and offers you a chance to fly or nap on his belly. Sure, he’s enormous and — with that mas-
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5:30 p.m. Friday, June 28, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Head*Set is a three-part concert series taking place this June, July and August as part of a mental health awareness campaign in Boulder. Featuring local musicians, venues and art, Head*Set invites the Boulder community to take a closer look at their own mental wellbeing and the mental health of those around them. The Royal Players’ Guild (RPG), in partnership with Peak to Peak Players and the Dairy Arts Center, plans to initiate healthy and open dialogue about mental illness while giving back to the Boulder mental health community. Proceeds will be donated to local mental health organizations and put toward production costs for the concerts, awareness campaign and RPG’s upcoming original play, ‘Escape.’ Tickets are $10-$12, thedairy.org ‘WEIGHT OF WATER.’
Boedecker Theater, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through June 30.
Erik Weihenmayer is known to push boundaries. In 2001, he became the first blind person to summit Mount Everest, completing his Seven Summit quest, climbing the seven tallest peaks on the seven continents. But he didn’t stop there. ‘Weight of Water,’ by documentary filmmaker Michael Brown, chronicles Weihenmayer’s journey kayaking the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. He soon discovers that whitewater kayaking has unique challenges as water moves unpredictably and the roar makes it impossible to hear his guide’s voice. As his team fights for survival, ‘Weight of Water’ becomes an exploration of overcoming fear and breaking free from a prison of darkness. Winner of several film festival awards and recognitions, ‘Weight of Water’ comes to Boulder for a weekend of screenings through June 30. LYONS GOOD OLD DAYS.
10 a.m. Saturday, June 29, Sandstone Park and Redstone Museum, Broadway Ave., and 340 High St., Lyons, 303-823-5271.
SUMMER CONCERT: MARC BERGER. Friday, June 28, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Marc Berger’s life has been about pursuing twin passions: creating and recording his American roots songs, and exploring remote areas of the desert and mountains. His new album, ‘RIDE,’ presents ten cinematic recordings reflecting his romantic connection to the American West and exploring the value of its myths to contemporary culture.
Lyons Good Old Days is an occasion to celebrate the rich history of the town and enjoy the people, places and activities that makes Lyons such a special community. This year, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Lyons Redstone Museum, all festivities will take place at the Lyons Redstone Museum (340 High St.) and Lyons Elementary School, nextdoor to the museum. There will be kids’ activities and games, live music, Dizzy’s Fun Center, the Good Old Days Car Show, face painting, museum tours and root beer floats.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 27 Music Beni Brosh. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Suite 130 (east side Alleyway), Longmont, 303-258-6910. Earth. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
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Jeff Blumenfeld — Travel with Purpose. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
The Funky Knuckles — with Grateful Bluegrass Boys (2 Sets on the Patio) and special guests. 7:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
Clem Snide (music). 8 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Tickets required.
Grupo Chegando Lá and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Juice + Low Hanging Fruit. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Kids Summer Ukulele Camp. 10:30 a.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. June 24-27 Marc Berger. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. The Midnight Hour. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Nick Shoulders and the Okay Crawdad. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Opening Night: Beethoven’s Path to Romanticism. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Próxima Parada. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Swing Night — with Chez Coucou. 8 p.m. The Waterloo, 817 Main St., Louisville, 303-522-6162.
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Donna Baier Stein and Ann Parker. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
SATURDAY, JUNE 29 Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
SUNDAY, JUNE 30 Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
— Boulder. 7 p.m. Pride House, 2132 14th St., Boulder. Second Annual FWB Midsummer Night’s Dream Bash. 5 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Summer of Discovery: The Inner World of our Body and Mind: Coming into Balance. 2 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
The Well Intentioned. 6 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.
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’90s Alternative Tributes: Ten, Lounge Fly & Blink 303. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Andrew Schulz. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through June 29, comedyworks.com. Bear Cubs Camp. 10:30 a.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. BoulderReads New Tutor Orientation. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Thursdays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. More classes like this at boulderlibrary.org. Foothills Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Heil Valley Ranch, Boulder. Meet at the picnic shelter near the Lichen Loop trailhead. Garden Work Hour. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Geopolitics Discussion Group. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Harry Potter Star Stories. 2 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. Open Mic — with Tony Crank. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group
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Open Improv: Long Form. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
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Alejandro Escovedo. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. CMF: Beethoven’s Path to Romanticism. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. ‘Bella Gaia/Beautiful Earth.’ 8 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Beni Brosh. 7 p.m. Endo Brewing Company, 2755 Dagny Way, Suite 101, Lafayette, 303-552-6693. Blue October. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Second performance on June 29. Bonnie McMurray. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Boulder Fine Art Show. Noon. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 303-4026400. Through July 1, boulderdowntown.com. Corduroy: Pearl Jam Tribute. 8 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Denver Made: Summer Porch Party. 6:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.
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MONDAY, JULY 1 So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
TUESDAY, JULY 2 Patricia Killelea. 6:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles. 7:30 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Steven Wingate — Of Fathers and Fire. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
ten Grafa. 8:30 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525.
Dotsero. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Summer Concert: Marc Berger. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.
Electric Six. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Taarka. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Greyhounds. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.
Teresa Storch Band and Johnny & The Mongrels. 6 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.
Head*Set: Local Musicians Supporting Mental Wellness. 5:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Juice. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Let Them Roar. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Live Music Fridays. 7 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.
Victor & Penny. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. The Well Intentioned. 7 p.m. Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom, 1805 Industrial Circle, Longmont, 303-753-0824. Woven Hollow. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events
Lonely Whale. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Art lunch break. 11:30 a.m. One Boulder Plaza, 13th St. between Canyon Boulevard and Walnut Street, Boulder.
The Mighty Twisters. 9 p.m. License One Boulderado Hotel, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.
A Course In Creative Expression. 6 p.m. The Neat Factory, 2679 S. Broadway, Denver, 720-280-9824.
Musical Instruments (Ages 5-9). Noon. Tinker Art Studio, 693B S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Fun on the Farm: Horsin’ Around. 10:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Highway 66, Boulder, 303-776-8688.
New Orleans Suspects featuring John “JoJo” Hermann (Widespread Panic), Eric McFadden (Parliament Funkadelic) — Widespread Panic Red Rocks After Show. 11 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
Rise to Reign. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Through June 29, bouldertheater.com.
Red Baraat. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Skypond. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. SonReal. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. The Soundest Sessions: Clay Rose & Aus-
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SATURDAY, JUNE 29 Music 2019 Colorado Music Festival Gala: Up, Up, and Away. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900. see EVENTS Page 28
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arts A·MAZE·D. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 1. Cara a Cara (Face to Face). Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through July 14.
Mike Chiasson The Tune Up at Full Cycle Friday, June 28 7–10 PM 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, Co 80302 www.tunupboulder.com
Clark Richert: Pattern and Dimensions. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 15. Discarded Jewels: Found Object Art by Susie Biehl. Bricolage Gallery, at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder. Through July 6. Evan Cantor, New Work (oil paintings). Seeds Cafe (Boulder Public Library), 1001 Arapaho Ave., Boulder. Through July 31. Eyes On: Erika Harrsch. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17. Eyes On: Jonathan Saiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17. Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Ongoing exhibit. Front Range Rising. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit. The Incubation Effect. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 9.
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Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 18.
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The Light Show. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 2020. Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom. Denver Art Museum, Anschutz Gallery, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 23. Alex McLeod: NPC Hell. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through July 28. Pack-It-Up. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 23. Pard Morrison: Heartmouth. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 1. Poveka: Master Potter Maria Martinez. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Anthropology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 8.
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Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture. Longmont Museum, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont. Through Jan. 5, 2020. Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America. Denver Art Museum, Anschutz Gallery, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 25. Small Works. R Gallery, 2027 Broadway, Boulder. Through July 7. Some Men Lie About Other Things. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through July 6. Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through January 2020.
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Amzy. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.
Bass Control featuring Phaseone (album release tour), G-Rex, Slimez, M-Port, Bace Ventura. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
Laser Beastie Boys. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.
Brews for BOOMS: Lafayette Fireworks Fundraiser. 4 p.m. Liquid Mechanics, 110 N. Harrison, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. Chris Botti. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Chuck Wagon Dinner & Square Dance. 6 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Colorado Symphony Brass Quintet at Parkfield Lake Park. 6 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Dance with a Doc — Free Saturday Morning Dance Gatherings. 10 a.m. The Green @ The Civic Area, 1056 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-971-1972. Elektric Voodoo — with Graham Good & The Painters. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Hazel Miller & Friends. 7 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Ghost Town Blues Band. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-600-4875. Jamestown Revival + Ian Noe. 9 p.m. The
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Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. More classes like this at boulderlibrary.org. THE SPILL: Presented by Excessive Realness. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 724-747-6944. Summer Fun Craft Fair. 9 a.m. Faith Community Lutheran Church, 9775 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-776-8771. Summer of Discovery: Doctor Noize Unplugged. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Summer of Discovery: Eunice Embodiment. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Summer of Discovery: Mmmwhah! Creativity Gathering. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
SUNDAY, JUNE 30 Music CMF: Beethoven’s Path to Modernism. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
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My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra. Performance Now Theatre Company. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Through June 30. Nirvamlet — presented by Band of Toughs. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Through Aug. 3. Northside. Su Teatro, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 30 at 2 p.m. Through June 30. Well — presented by Firehouse Theater Company. The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through July 20. The Wizard of Oz. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through July 7. Tarzan The Musical. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Aug. 25. Twelfth Night. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, Boulder. Through Aug. 11.
Blues & BBQ Series: Lionel Young Band. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. City Park Jazz 2019. 6 p.m. City Park, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, 720-402-5033. F/E/A/T/H/E/R. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Indoor Patriotic Performance. 3 p.m. Westview Presbyterian Church, 1500 Hover St., Longmont, 303-776-3242. Laurie and Lorrie. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-449-3529. Maudlyn Monroe (by slp). 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Mystery Skulls. 7 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Peter Kater. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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JESTERS DINNER THEATRE in Longmont presents ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ a beloved tale in which a Kansas farm girl travels over the rainbow to discover the magical power of home. Now showing through July 7.
Second Annual Après Day and Van Life Rally. Noon. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 South Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898.
Rocky Mountain Pro Wrestling: Milestone 9. 4:30 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
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Boulder Comedy Show. 7 and 9:15 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Summer of Discovery: Live Raptors! By Rocky Mountain Raptor Program. 1:30 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.
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Thursday, June 27 ‘The Third Wife.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Thursday Cinema: ‘Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.’ 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. ‘Storm Boy.’ Thursday Cinema: ‘Thunderbirds are Go’ Family Viewing. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Thursday Cinema: Local Filmmakers’ Showcase ‘Mondo Hollywood’ (120 min.). 6 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-3100. ‘The Weight of Water.’ 2:30 and 7 p.m. Boedecker. Friday, June 28 ‘Female Prisoner Scorpion Jailhouse 41.’ 8:45 p.m. Boedecker. Friday Family Film: ‘Emperor’s New Groove’ (G), 78 Minutes. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. ‘The Third Wife.’ 5 p.m. Boedecker. ‘The Weight of Water.’ 3 and 7 p.m. Boedecker.
‘The Weight of Water.’ 4 and 8 p.m. Boedecker. Sunday, June 30 ‘The Babadook.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker. National Theater Live presents ‘Small Island.’ 7 p.m. Denver Film Society, 2510 E. Colfax, Denver, 303-5953456. ‘Royal Ballet Triple Bill.’ 1 p.m. Boedecker. Monday, July 1 ‘Royal Ballet Triple Bill.’ 7 p.m. Boedecker. Tuesday, July 2 Kids Films: ‘Despicable Me.’ 10 a.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Movie Matinee: ‘Paddington.’ 7 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821. Wednesday, July 3 ‘The Bikes of Wrath.’ 7 p.m. Boedecker. ‘Royal Ballet Triple Bill.’ 1 p.m. Boedecker. ‘Storm Boy.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker.
Saturday, June 29 AniMovie Afternoon. 2:30 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. ‘The Third Wife.’ 2 and 6 p.m. Boedecker.
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Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.
Lonely Whale. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Dancing, Movement, Music, Community and Chocolate. 7:30 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 608-332-4355.
Remo Drive. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
Drop-In Tech Help. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Festival Plaza Storytime. 10 a.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777. Snark Attack. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. Spirit Nia Dance. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. Tuesday Tapping at Upslope Brewing. 11 a.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 South Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Djipster Django Djazz. 9 p.m. License One Boulderado Hotel, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-0486. Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.
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Turnaround by Dee Allen
One hundred and eighty Degree turnaround Made several times In one lifetime— From numbers runner and burglar Breaking into mansions of moneyed White men To writer and Muslim messenger Reaching into hearts of defeated Black men. From hep cat in a scarlet zoot suit Strutting over Boston bricks, later N.Y.C. To harsh judge holding court before the M.I.C. Charging the Caucasian with being the greatest Kidnapper, robber, murderer, enslaver, swine-eater on Earth. From just another criminal and prisoner In the American Nightmare, someone else’s Dream To an amazing, powerful, needed critic Of American hypocrisy, another’s democracy Tearing the veil clean off for African eyes to see. From a servant of separation In the person of Elijah Muhammhad in Harlem To a servant of unity Who embraced the true Muhammhad in Mecca. From being Detroit Red to Brother Malcolm to El Hajj Malik El Shabazz who dropped his Old name, long chained to his ancestral slavemaster’s Whip-hand. Shifty Negro turned strong Black man
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Let Chris Hemsworth rap, you cowards! ‘Men in Black: International’ refuses to have fun
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hen Agnès Varda died March 29, 2019, at the age ON THE BILL: of 90, cinema lost a titan. ‘Vagabond’ Wednesday, July 3, Varda’s first film, La Pointe Courte, (about an 7:15 p.m. unhappy couple trying to work through their probAlamo Drafthouse lems) was shot on location in a fisherman’s village Cinema Sloans and mixed locals into scenes with her two professional leads. Lake, 4255 West Colfax Ave., Denver. Released in 1955 — a full four years before fellow countryman François Truffaut made The 400 Blows and jumpstarted the French New Wave — La Pointe Courte blended documentary and psychoanalysis, reality and fiction, much in the same way Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Alain Resnais (who edited La Pointe Courte) would in the coming decades. But while their names became synonymous with the movement, Varda was relegated to the role of mother, or grandmother, of the new wave. A title the rebellious Belgian never quite fit. Sadly, being first didn’t garner Varda any favors, and a career wasn’t easy to come by. Still, she managed to make over 40 features and shorts, persistently challenging the perceptions of cinema and women’s roles in it — both in front of and behind the camera. And this is no more evident than in 1985’s Vagabond, easily one of Varda’s best and an essential in the canon of feminist cinema. Vagabond opens with the death of Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire), a 17-year-old drifter found in a ditch frozen to death. The police are summoned, and the farmer who found her is questioned. Statements are taken, measurements made and a conclusion is reached: she fell into the ditch and the cold winter night did her in. Their interest is in what happened to her, not who she was. Varda begs to differ and interjects her voice as Vagabond’s unseen investigator. What follows is a series of vignettes from people who encountered Mona on her travels: From the men who tried to pick her up to the women who envied her freedom. Varda refrains from armchair psychology and offers plenty of reasons for Mona’s choices but never tries to simplify them. By the end, we know less but understand her more. The French title, Sans toit ni loi, “with neither shelter nor law” is slightly more apt to Mona than Vagabond. She is a woman of simple needs: a place to pitch her tent and some bread — bought, given or stolen. Those she has. She is also a woman of simple wants: music and marijuana. But without radio or money, they are harder to come by. Not that she can’t, she has her company to offer and her body if she needs to. Yes, she’s free from the strictures of society, but that doesn’t mean she’s free from men’s base desires. But what Mona is most free of is the camera’s leering gaze. Varda’s camera does not sexualize Mona, idealize her promiscuity or fetishize her freedom — think of what a male writer/director would have done with the story of a 17-year-old girl bumming her way through the French countryside. Instead, Varda gives us a compassionate portrait of a complex soul. It’s a wonder to behold.
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Parma has a big menu of red-sauce classics from veal parm to spaghetti aglio e olio to pizzas, paninis and much more. We were inspired by the recent cold snap to stop in for pappardelle cinghiale, a dish with long, broad egg pasta in a robust wild boar ragu. The torn boar meat is tender and has levels of flavor — think short ribs — and the sauce is composed of tomatoes, carrots, herbs and braised boar drippings — think Bolognese. It’s a welcoming dish that quickly envelops you in its richness. $15.
The folks at Boulder Burger on the Hill know how to make a patty melt. A pressed beef patty, Swiss cheese and caramelized onions are placed between two perfectly buttered and toasted pieces of bread. It’s warm, gooey, savory, sweet, salty… everything you want in a patty melt. Get Boulder Burger’s fries while you’re at it — thickcut, with the skin on and the perfect amount of salt. $9.50.
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Centro Mexican Kitchen 950 Pearl St., Boulder, centromexican. com We all pretty much know that tacos are a staple of Mexican cuisine, at least Mexican cuisine found in the U.S. But it’s always delightful to see the not-socommon torta on a lunch menu around here. Take, for example, the ones at Centro Mexican Kitchen. We chose the carne asada torta, served on a fluffy, brioche-type bun. The Mexican sandwich is composed of grilled skirt steak, cheese, guacamole, caramelized onions and rajas — delightfully roasted poblano peppers. After construction, the entire thing is then grilled and served hot with a side of yucca fries and a habaneromalt vinegar aioli dipping sauce. The traditional Mexican flavors stand out wrapped in the lightly buttered bread. Filling and delicious. $14.
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Coffee Crop H eifer and the Hen, an artisan, organic ice cream shop in Boulder, is known to carry some envelope-pushing flavors (along with vanilla and
chocolate). “We made an orange charcoal flavor. Squid ink and lemon was very popular. People still ask for our lavender mint and buttermilk tarragon flavors,” says Ian Clark, chef-owner of the establishment and BRU handbuilt ales & eats next-door. But the most enduring and celebrated flavor at Heifer and the Hen is a simple one that arose along the beaches of Vietnam when Clark and his wife, Bryce, were on vacation. “We were walking near the beach and there would be these little coffee shops in somebody’s house. We had cups of this extra intense Vietnamese coffee with sweetened condensed milk. I didn’t like Vietnamese coffee when I’d tasted it in Denver, but this was a strong flavor without being bitter,” Clark says. However, Clark has long had an affinity for coffee ice cream, and for the family-owned ice
cream parlors that were a part of his New England upbringing. “I found myself in love with Ben & Jerry’s back when it was a local brand. Even as an 11-year-old kid I liked coffee ice cream,” he says. There are a number of secrets to making great coffee ice cream at home, Clark says. For his remarkable Vietnamese coffee ice cream — an original flavor when Heifer and The Hen
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about 24 hours. It improves the flavor and the scoopability,” he says. Freeze any mix-ins first and add them late in the ice cream’s freezing process to avoid melting. My own affinity for the bitterness of coffee also started young in New England with creamy iced coffee, coffee Dannon yogurt and coffee Häagen-Dazs ice cream, once the gold standard for coffee ice creams but now just an afterthought. On the rare occasions when I hit a scoop shop, it’s almost always because I need that magic meld of creaminess, sweetness, bitterness and chill plus a caffeinated buzz. Here are some of my other coffee ice cream favorites. Check with individual shops for flavor availability. Cinnamon Cappuccino Gelato: Strong coffee flavor, cinnamon that’s not shy, and a super creamy gelato texture. Glacier Ice Cream, Boulder. Ozo Coffee Ice Cream: Dark-roasted but mellow coffee ice cream featuring Boulder’s Ozo Coffee. Sweet Cow Ice Cream, five locations.
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opened three years ago — he doesn’t use brewed coffee or concentrate. “Adding any extra water leads to crystals in the ice cream. We use Vitamin Cottage’s organic freeze-dried coffee. We reconstitute it using cold brew coffee. Condensed milk gives it extra creaminess and a little extra sweetness,” he says. He recommends making ice cream the day before you want to eat it — something he admits is easier said than done. “It really should age for I
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Cappuccino Crunch Ice Cream: Old-school creamery coffee ice cream laced with chocolate-covered toffee bits. Bonnie Brae Ice Cream, Denver. Mount Coffee: Taiwanese shaved snow with coffee jelly, chocolate chips and caramel drizzle and coconut condensed milk. Snowlab, Denver. Among brands available at stores, I like Boulder Organic Espresso Chocolate Chip Ice Cream although I’d never refuse Ben and Jerry’s Coffee, Coffee BuzzBuzzBuzz with espresso bean fudge chunks. I was raised on instant/freeze-dried coffee, Folgers and Taster’s Choice, mainly, but left it behind long ago for craft or at least drip coffee until I tasted the new crystallized coffee from Boulder’s Ozo Coffee. The medium-roasted coffee is carefully freeze-dried and makes a remarkably good cup of hot or iced coffee. This is the first “crystalized coffee” I’ve ever sampled that comes with tasting notes mentioning “rich molasses, black cherry, viscous body, lively acidity and a lingering finish.” Packed in airtight tubes, it has a premium price but is still less expensive than a cup at a coffee shop and is highly recommended for backpacking, road trips and airline flights. CULINARY CORRESPONDENCE I claimed in a recent Nibbles column that Boulderites had been dining on the wrap-around porch at the Chautauqua Dining Hall since 1898. “Well, not really. Chautauqua originally did not have the veranda,” notes William Arndt, who sent along a historic porch-less photo of Chautauqua. The porch was added in 1901 and the menu did not always I
include current appetizers like crispy Brussels sprouts. “Chautauqua was like a summer camp mess hall. Women in white uniforms serving fried chicken. Until the late 1970s, I don’t remember eating on the porch. No one thought of letting people dine outside,” Arndt writes. LOCAL FOOD NEWS A tip of the straw hat to Belle Anderson of The Fresh Herb Company, a pioneering Boulder County Farmers Market member who recently passed away. Belle was always at the market regardless of rain, cold, wind or snow. ... Punch Buggy Shave Ice with flavors from lilikoi to pickled mango has opened at 640 Main St., Louisville. ... Coming soon: Torchy’s Tacos, 2805 Pearl St., in the former Turley’s location. ... Tastes from Mercantile, Flagstaff House, Basta and Ras Kassa’s are on the menu for the Hot! Hot! Hot! Flatirons Food Film Festival benefit on July 9. flatironsfoodfilmfest.org ... The acclaimed documentary The Biggest Little Farm will be screened during the inaugural Boulder Environmental/ Nature/Outdoors Film Festival July 10-13. boulderenoff.org WORDS TO CHEW ON “We shall live well — we shall live very well ... The months between the cherries and the peaches are brimming cornucopias which spill fruits red and purple, sombre-bloomed and black.” -— From “Wild Peaches” by Elinor Wylie John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursday on KGNU (88.5 FM, streaming at kgnu.org). Podcasts: news.kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
Profiles in brew: Dr. J. Nikol Jackson-Beckham
The Brewers Associations’ first diversity ambassador
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want you to stop thinking about diversity,” Dr. J Nikol Jackson-Beckham told the crowd at 2019’s Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) in early April in Denver. “I want you to stop thinking about counting faces, or what people look like, and I want you to start thinking about inclusion, equity and justice.” It wasn’t what the audience expected to hear, but the more the Brewers Association’s first diversity ambassador talked, the more it clicked. Diversity, she urged, wasn’t the process, it was the end product — “a model of social stability.” Dr. J. Nikol Jackson-Beckham, Ph.D. — most call her Dr. J. — is a writer, teacher, artist, homebrewer and, as of April 24, 2018, diversity ambassador for the Brewer’s Association (BA). Like the other BA ambassadors — retail chain (Tom McGinty), sustainability (Matt Gacioch), draft beer quality (Matt Meadows and Neil Witte) and safety (Matt Stinchfield) — Dr. J. is a BREWERS ASSOCIATION valuable resource for BA members. From her guide, Diversity Best Practices, to speaking engagements, Dr. J. can help brewers and breweries make their spaces more inclusive while coming to diversity on their terms. “Breweries, the individuals who run them and the communities they serve are all unique,” Dr. J. tells Boulder Weekly. “Thus, the challenges and opportunities they are tackling or hoping to tackle are all pretty different.” “I believe diversity is an end state,” she explains. “So the question is, naturally, ‘How do we get there?’ I believe that inclusion, equity and justice are the how.” At CBC, Dr. J. illustrated this process with a graphic: three people of varying height standing next to a bar top 5 feet tall. As she explained, inclusion invites everyone to the bar, but not everyone can reach their drinks. So, equity is employed, and those who are shorter are given something to stand on. But, helping hands often draw ire from those who require no assistance, thus her solution, justice: cut the bar in half, and now everyone can reach the top and enjoy a pint. “The business imperative [for] diversification is real and should be taken seriously,” Dr. J. says. “Craft beer as an industry is maturing, and the pie isn’t getting bigger at a fantastic rate anymore. But many, many firms are entering the marketplace hoping to cut themselves a slice. Growing craft beer’s fan base is just common sense. Likewise, it makes sense to grow in areas where there is lots of opportunity.” And though there is a financial incentive to diversification, Dr. J. urges brewers to look beyond transactional benefits. There’s a world of opportunity in the craft beer community, and, as Dr. J. sees it, that opportunity is social sustainability. “Socially sustainable communities,” she said at CBC, “whether neighborhoods or neighborhood breweries, are equitable, connected, democratic, diverse and contribute to community resilience.” It’s the mindset that shifts diversity and inclusion “from transactional to transformative.” The BA’s Diversity Best Practices guide and Dr. J.’s upcoming speaking engagements can be found at brewersassociation.org/best-practices/diversity-best-practices. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE
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Taking the edge off
Arcana team to launch Jungle, a tiki bar in downtown Boulder, hoping to make cocktails fun again
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onsider the piña colada. An iconic tropical treat composed of cream of coconut, rum, pineapple juice and pulverized ice, usually served with a fruit wedge, maybe a little umbrella, maybe in a mug with Polynesian art on it. It’s fun, it’s refreshing, it’s delicious and yet think about where you might be able to get one in Boulder County this afternoon. Having trouble? When did we all start taking cocktails so seriously? Plenty of beverage directors wouldn’t be caught dead having a piña colada on their menu because, why? It’s not high-brow enough? It’s a drink for cruise liners and Sandals getaways and Chili’s, but unsuitable for serious restaurants with serious beverage programs and serious drinkers? No more. Jake Novotny and the team at Arcana want to make cocktails fun again, and they’ll do so when they launch Jungle, a tiki bar in the recently vacated PMG Wine space
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idea for opening his own bar — “I was kind of working on my own business plan and, you know, the old bartender dream, like I want to open my own spot.” He moved onto Arcana about three years ago and shortly after making the switch, co-owner Elliott Toan prodded Novotny about his plan, a tiki bar in downtown Boulder. “We’ve just been slowly talking, and we’ve been through some hurdles and down some roads and came back, but it’s been really fun to work with [Toan] and work with the group … to slowly tailor this concept to something that we think is awesome,” Novotny says. Arcana Chef Samuel McCandless has generated a menu of Carribeaninspired dishes, served without frills in baskets with parchment paper — popcorn shrimp, jerk chicken, fried plantains, Jamaican beef patties. Arcana Advanced Sommelier and partner Michael Elmore has helped compile the cocktail list with Novotny and has also put together an island wine list with glasses and bottles from the Canary Islands, Sicily, Sardinia, Santorini and more. But the guess is the cocktails will be the main attraction. Novotny says he’s put together a list that includes the staples — the aforementioned piña colada, and its cast-aside siblings the mai tai, zombie and painkiller. But catering to tiki classics doesn’t limit the Jungle team’s ability to create. Novotny has built a menu of original cocktails that span the history of rum and borrows from global flavors in rum-producing nations. One could go on an exploration of time and space via the Jungle menu. Start with the High off the Indo, inspired by rum’s origins in Indonesia, and made of Indonesian rum, banana, coconut cream, fenugreek and Thai peppercorns. Move to the Caribbean with The Belafonte, a concoction of Blanc Armagnac, pear William, Puerto Rican and Jamaican rum, ginger, cinnamon and Sparkling pear cider. There’s also the Don the Beachcomber, honoring America’s first tiki bar in Southern California opened in 1933. Read the historic notes on the menu, or not. Jump around or follow the charted course. Novotny says the structure helped him develop the menu and might appeal to the curious drinker. “First and foremost, we just wanted to make this tons of fun,” Novotny says. “But I love narrative cocktail menus that people can dance through and have fun and where there’s meaning to the drinks. I don’t want to impress that meaning upon [guests], so I tried to make it just I
like, if you want to check this out, cool.” By sourcing rum from around the world, Jungle will be able to shed light on a spirit that’s often maligned as overly saccharine or considered to not have the range of other liquors. Sugarcane itself may not have the range of, say, grape varietals or the herbal components of gin, but inherent in the story of rum is the story of colonization, and the distilling methods brought around the world from European colonizers had a huge impact on the taste and quality of the rums produced in the islands on which they settled. “When you go to Martinique, you have these French rums that are like really grassy and funky. And then if you go to Jamaica, they’re processed, they do almost like a sour mash type of thing. And they’re also made with pot stills. So they’re really rich and unctuous. And when you taste those two rums next to each other, you’re like, ‘These are different spirits,’” Novotny says. “In Venezuela they use a column still so it’ll be a little bit lighter. Column stills have a lot more copper in them and they can attract those heavy elements and pull it out of the spirit. To me Spanish-style or Venezuelan- or Central America-style rums are more akin to whiskey.” Jungle won’t be the dive you’re envisioning if you’ve been to a tiki bar. You’ll be able to see your drinks and dining partners, for one, but in lieu of hacky shipping nets, flotsam and pirate-themed memorabilia, the Jungle team has created a space inspired by early 20th century Martinique — fresh plants, colonial fixtures and old rattan furniture. But even though the design’s tenor skews more Pearl Street than Bourbon Street, Novotny says it’s OK to let loose at Jungle. “When you walk into a space, it needs to have the human element, it needs to be kind of dirty for humans to feel comfortable,” Novotny says. “We’ve bought all this cool Craigslist furniture that’s already kind of worn down, but like beautiful like rattan Martinique-style furniture that’s ready to be sat on. We didn’t reupholster it purposefully because I want you to be OK with spilling a drink on that. We’ll fix it.” Novotny points out that more bars have closed in downtown Boulder than have opened in the last decade. That doesn’t reflect the desires of Boulder County’s changing demographics. “We have all these awesome people coming in that are moving from big cities that have a lot of cocktail bars,” Novotny says. “They deserve to have more than one cocktail bar.” BOULDER WEEKLY
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Discipline your inner flame. Use your radiance constructively. Your theme is controlled fire. AUGUST: Release yourself from dwelling on what’s amiss or off-kilter. Find the inspiration to focus on what’s right and good. SEPTEMBER: Pay your dues with joy and gratitude. Work hard in service to your beautiful dreams. OCTOBER: You can undo your attractions to “gratifications” that aren’t really very gratifying. NOVEMBER: Your allies can become even better allies. Ask them for more. DECEMBER: Be alert for unrecognized value and hidden resources.
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APRIL 20-MAY 20: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: If you choose to play one of life’s trickier games, you must get trickier yourself. AUGUST: Shedding irrelevant theories and unlearning old approaches will pave the way for creative breakthroughs. SEPTEMBER: Begin working on a new product or project that will last a long time. OCTOBER: Maybe you don’t need that emotional crutch as much as you thought. NOVEMBER: Explore the intense, perplexing, interesting feelings until you’re cleansed and healed. DECEMBER: Join forces with a new ally and/or deepen an existing alliance.
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MAY 21-JUNE 20: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: It’s time to take fuller advantage of a resource you’ve been neglecting or underestimating. AUGUST: For a limited time only, two plus two equals five. Capitalize on that fact by temporarily becoming a two-plus-twoequals-five-type-of-person. SEPTEMBER: It’s time and you’re ready to discover new keys to fostering interesting intimacy and robust collaboration. OCTOBER: The boundaries are shifting on the map of the heart. That will ultimately be a good thing. NOVEMBER: If you do what you fear, you’ll gain unprecedented power over the fear. DECEMBER: What’s the one thing you can’t live without? Refine and deepen your relationship to it.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Acquire a new personal symbol that thrills your mind and mobilizes your soul. AUGUST: Reconfigure the way you deal with money. Get smarter about your finances. SEPTEMBER: It’s time to expedite your learning. But streetwise education is more useful than formal education. Study the Book of Life. OCTOBER: Ask for more help than you normally do. Aggressively build your support. NOVEMBER: Creativity is your superpower. Reinvent any part of your life that needs a bolt of imaginative ingenuity. DECEMBER: Love and care for what you imagine to be your flaws and liabilities.
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JULY 23-AUG. 22: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Transform something that’s semi-ugly into something that’s useful and winsome. AUGUST: Go to the top of the world and seek a big vision of who you must become. SEPTEMBER: Your instinct for worthy and constructive adventures is impeccable. Trust it. OCTOBER: Be alert for a new teacher with a capacity to teach you precisely what you need to learn. NOVEMBER: Your mind might not guide you perfectly, but your body and soul will. DECEMBER: Fresh hungers and budding fascinations should alert you to the fact that deep in the genius part of your soul, your master plan is changing.
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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: I’d love to see you phase out wishywashy wishes that keep you distracted from your burning, churning desires. AUGUST: A story that began years ago begins again. Be proactive about changing the themes you’d rather not repeat. SEPTEMBER: Get seriously and daringly creative about living in a more expansive world. OCTOBER: Acquire a new tool or skill that will enable you to carry out your mission more effectively. NOVEMBER: Unanticipated plot twists can help heal old dilemmas about intimacy. DECEMBER: Come up with savvy plans to eliminate bad stress and welcome good stress.
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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Say this every morning: “The less I have to prove and the fewer people I have to impress, the smarter I’ll be.” AUGUST: Escape an unnecessary limitation. Break an obsolete rule. Override a faded tradition. SEPTEMBER: What kind of “badness” might give your goodness more power? OCTOBER: You’re stronger and freer than you thought you were. Call on your untapped power. NOVEMBER: Narrowing your focus and paring down your options will serve you beautifully. DECEMBER: Replace what’s fake with the Real Thing.
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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Can you infuse dark places with your intense light without dimming your intense light? Yes! AUGUST: It’s time for an archetypal Sagittarian jaunt, quest or pilgrimage. SEPTEMBER: The world around you needs your practical idealism. Be a role model who catalyzes good changes. OCTOBER: Seek out new allies and connections that can help you with your future goals. NOVEMBER: Be open to new and unexpected ideas so as to get the emotional healing you long for. DECEMBER: Shed old, worn-out self-images. Reinvent yourself. Get to know your depths better.
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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: You have an enhanced capacity to feel at peace with your body, to not wish it were different from what it naturally is. AUGUST: You can finally solve a riddle you’ve been trying to solve for a long time. SEPTEMBER: Make your imagination work and play twice as hard. Crack open seemingly closed possibilities. OCTOBER: Move up at least one rung on the ladder of success. NOVEMBER: Make yourself more receptive to blessings and help that you have overlooked or ignored. DECEMBER: You’ll learn most from what you leave behind — so leave behind as much as possible.
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JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: I’ll cry one tear for you, then I’ll cheer. AUGUST: Plant seeds in places that hadn’t previously been on your radar. SEPTEMBER: You may seem to take a wrong turn, but it’ll take you where you need to go. OCTOBER: Open your mind and heart as wide as you can. Be receptive to the unexpected. NOVEMBER: I bet you’ll gain a new power, higher rank or greater privilege. DECEMBER: Send out feelers to new arrivals who may be potential helpers.
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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Your creative powers are at a peak. Use them with flair. AUGUST: Wean yourself from pretend feelings and artificial motivations and inauthentic communications. SEPTEMBER: If you want to have greater impact and more influence, you can. Make it happen! OCTOBER: Love is weird but good. Trust the odd journey it takes you on. NOVEMBER: If you cultivate an appreciation for paradox, your paradoxical goals will succeed. DECEMBER: Set firm deadlines. Have fun disciplining yourself.
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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: Why should I, a feminist, be okay with drag? How is it any different than blackface? —Tough Question Dear TQ: Drag can be sexist, TQ, but it doesn’t have to be. And when done right, it isn’t. Blackface is always racist. Drag celebrates the craft of hyperfeminine presentation. Drag demonstrates that so much of what we think of as “naturally” feminine is not just a social construct, but quite literally a construction. Drag has the power to explode sexism, to expose it, by complicating people’s preconceptions and misconceptions about what it means to be a woman. Blackface can only reinforce and amplify racism. Dear Dan: Is having sex with multiple partners something prevalent in the gay community? If so, why? It seems that having sex is a pretty big deal with gay men. Why? — You Won’t Answer
Dear YWA: Gay men are men, YWA, and let’s not kid ourselves: Yes, the average gay guy has more sex partners than the average straight guy. But straight men would do everything gay men do if straight men could, but straight men can’t because women won’t. It’s not that straight guys are any less interested in sex than gay guys are or that sex is any less of a “big deal” for straight men. And you know what? Women are just as horny and just as interested in sex as men — gay, straight or bi — and that includes sex with multiple partners. But women have to weigh every choice they make and every truth they tell against the very real threat of sexual violence at the hands of straight men and the lesser threat of being slut-shamed by straight men and other women. (Shout-out to the asexual gay, straight and bi men and women out there who aren’t interested in sex with anyone — I don’t mean to erase you, but I’m talking averages here, the centers of various bell curves, not deviations.) On the Lovecast, this show is soooo gay: savagelovecast.com. Send questions and comments to mail@savagelove. net, follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage and visit ITMFA.org.
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The ongoing debate over cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome by Seymour
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annabis is celebrated for its ability to suppress nausea and alleviate pain, but for some long-term daily smokers it may do just the opposite. Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) is a rare (and controversial, but more on that later) condition — only occurring in daily long-term users of marijuana — that leads to repeated and severe bouts of vomiting. It was first identified by a team of Australian researchers in 2004 when a cluster of patients in southern Australia came to emergency rooms complaining of cycles of vomiting and displaying “a spectrum” of involuntary symptoms, “from sweating, flushing, thirst and alteration in body temperature to colicky abdominal pain,” according to the paper. In a line you just can’t find in many research papers, the Australian team described nine out of 10 patients participating in “an abnormal washing behaviour during episodes of active illness.” “The symptoms of nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain would all settle within minutes in a hot bath or shower,” the researchers wrote. “Symptomatic relief
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was temperature dependent. The hotter the water, the better the effect.” More research on CHS emerged in medical journals as the years passed, but, unsurprisingly, it was met with suspicion, much of it from the cannabis industry. It’s understandable; many of the research samples were statistically too small. Boulder Weekly’s own Leland Rucker wrote skeptically about a 93-person, Michgan-based study of CHS back in 2013. Rucker spoke with Paul Armentano, then and still deputy director for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), who said “that such a phenomenon, when documented, is so rare to be — from a practical standpoint — irrelevant.” But with decriminalization of marijuana spreading across the United States, this once novel illness is beginning to look more real to physicians. Dr. Cecilia J. Sorensen, an emergency room doctor at University of Colorado Hospital at the Anschutz medical campus, told the New York Times that “after marijuana was legalized in Colorado, we had a doubling in the number of cases of cyclic vomiting syndrome we saw,” which Sorensen
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says were likely related to pot use. The Times goes on to discuss a 2018 study of 2,127 patients at Bellevue Hospital in New York in which “155 patients who said they smoked marijuana at least 20 days a month, 51 heavy users said they had during the past six months experienced nausea and vomiting that were specifically relieved by hot showers. “Extrapolating from those findings, the authors estimated that up to 2.7 million of the 8.3 million Americans known to smoke marijuana on a daily or near-daily basis may suffer from at least occasional bouts of CHS.” Still, cannabis industry folks still seem reluctant to admit that cannabis might actually pose a medical problem for some fraction of the population. Just recently, on June 24, Russ Hudson, a cannabis consultant for over two decades based in Barcelona, told cannabis website Leafly he “would posit that most veterans in the cannabis industry — people with 20-plus years of experience — think that cannabinoid hyperemesis is a made-up or severely ‘misunderstood’ condition.” Hudson and others suggest that neem oil, a naturally occurring pesticide derived from seeds of the neem tree, might be the culprit. Neem oil contains the active ingredient azadirachtin, which can be toxic in large doses and cause severe vomiting and nausea. Azadirachtin poisonings, however, also include seizures, acidic blood and swelling of the nervous system, none of which are present in CHS. And while cannabis industry folks like
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Hudson can say anecdotally that they believe CHS is “made-up,” what isn’t made-up is the astronomical cost undiagnosed CHS places on patients. A 2019 paper published in the Journal of Addiction found that for 17 patients seeking treatment for cyclical vomiting, “the total cost for combined [emergency room] visits and radiologic evaluations was an average of $76,920.92 per patient. On average these patients had 17.9 [emergency room] visits before the diagnosis of CH[S] was made.” A professor of emergency medicine told the New York Times, “I know patients who have lost their jobs, gone bankrupt from repeatedly seeking medical care, and have been misdiagnosed for years.” Part of the problem — the heart of the problem — is that the research simply isn’t appropriately focused. Sorensen, of Anschutz medical center, led a 2016 review of the available body of literature about CHS, published between 2000 and 2015, and found that the bulk of the research concentrated on diagnostic and treatment concerns. In the paper the researchers noted that “the pathophysiology of CHS remains unclear with a dearth of research dedicated to investigating its underlying mechanism.” Yet another place where marijuana’s Schedule I classification likely prohibits critical research. CHS patients who cease cannabis consumption report relief from their symptoms within weeks — easy as that. Perhaps it’s time for the marijuana industry to admit that cannabis might not be right for everyone.
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Marijuana and alcohol: Compare and contrast by Paul Danish
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ately there’s been a steady drizzle of op-eds and blog posts landing on my desk from otherwise sane conservatives — yeah, I know a lot of Boulder libs think that’s an oxymoron — about how awful legalizing marijuana has been. One in particular stands out. The piece originally appeared on the Ace of Spades website and was written by a blogger who goes by the initials — irony alert here — CBD.
Here’s the paragraph that really yanked my chain: “It is easy to equate alcohol use with drug use, but society has been exposed to alcohol for a very long time, and while it causes problems, the vast majority of people use it responsibly, in spite of what those lunatics at MADD say. I’ll take the known dangers of alcohol any day over the headlong rush to legalize marijuana and undoubtedly other drugs (emphasis added).” Really? Here’s just one of the “known dangers” of alcohol that CBD finds less scary than legal marijuana: According to the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 16.7 million Americans over age 12 (6.1 percent of the total population) were “heavy alcohol
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users” in the past month. Heavy alcohol use is defined as having five or more drinks on the same occasion five or more times a month and is considered an expression of “alcohol use disorder,” or what we used to call “alcohol abuse.” (The National Survey on Drug Use and Health also claims that 4 million Americans have “marijuana use disorder.” But the definition of “marijuana use disorder” includes people who have smoked pot as few as six times a year. Five times a month for booze versus six times a year for pot; no double standard here, no siree!) However, CBD (the blogger) is correct on one point. In deciding whether a recreational drug — any recreational drug — should be legal, it should be judged against alcohol. That’s because alcohol use was considered so dangerous and destructive that we amended the Constitution to ban it in 1919. And then, 14 years later, we re-amended the Constitution to legalize it again — because the consequences of Prohibition turned out to be worse than the consequences of alcohol use. That makes alcohol the gold standard for deciding if a drug should be banned or legal. Here are some metrics that should be used in measuring drugs against alcohol — and how marijuana measures up. What’s the likelihood of getting addicted? The 16.7 million Americans dubbed heavy alcohol users comprise about 10 percent of Americans who currently drink alcohol. For purposes of this discussion let’s call them “addicts.” About 36 million Americans are marijuana users. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health claims there are 4 million Americans with marijuana use disorder; or about 11 percent of pot users, about the
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same as with alcohol. (The actual percentage is likely much lower, if based on a frequency of use comparable to heavy alcohol use.) How easy is it to get unaddicted? Getting unaddicted from alcohol usually involves a 12-step program like the one originated by Alcoholics Anonymous and is a life-time proposition. Most people who want to quit using marijuana just quit without much fuss, because quitting or cutting back on marijuana doesn’t produce withdrawal symptoms and few if any cravings. What is the chance of a fatal overdose? According to the Centers for Disease Control, there are some 2,200 alcohol overdose deaths a year. There is no verified case of a marijuana overdose death. How likely is it to cause user violence? According to the American Addiction Centers’ Project Know website, about 3 million violent crimes occur in the United States each year, and of those, “35 percent involve an offender who is drinking at the time of the offense.” Two-thirds of the victims of domestic or partner violence reported there had been alcohol involved. There is very little violence associated with marijuana use; stoners who get ripped are more likely to fall asleep than get combative. Neo-prohibitionists are throwing out all sorts of claims about legal marijuana’s alleged harms, everything from escalating emergency room visits, traffic accidents, learning disabilities, hallucinations and violence. The questions they should be required to answer, but are rarely asked, are: How do the harms — real, imagined, and theoretical — caused by marijuana compare with the known harms caused by alcohol? Are marijuana harms — real, imagined and theoretical — increasing because of legalization or is the reporting of marijuana harms increasing because of legalization? And how will continued prohibition of marijuana prevent them when it has already failed to do so for more than 80 years?
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