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Highroad How the feds encourage Wall Street banksterism by Jim Hightower

ey, stop complaining that our government coddles Wall Street’s big, money-grubbing banks! Sure, they went belly-up and crashed our economy with their greed. And, yes, Washington bailed them out, while ignoring the plight of workaday people who lost jobs, homes, businesses, wealth and hope. But come on, Buckos — have you not noticed that the feds are now socking the banksters with huuuuge penalties for their wrongdoings?

Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs, for example, was recently punched in its corporate gut with a jaw-dropping $5 billion punishment for its illegal schemes. It’s hard to comprehend that much money, so think of it like this: If you paid out $100,000 every day, it would take you nearly 28 years to pay off just one billion dollars. So, wow, imagine having to pull Five Big Bs out of your wallet! That should make even the most arrogant and avaricious high-finance flim-flammer think twice before risking such scams, so these negotiated settlements between the feds and the big banks will effectively deter repeats of the 2008 Wall Street debacle. Right? Actually, no. Notice that the $5 billion punishment is applied to Goldman Sachs, not to the “Goldman Sackers.” The bank’s shareholders have to cough up the penalty, rather than the executives who did the bad deeds. Remember, banks don’t

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commit crimes — bankers do. Goldman Sachs’ CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, just awarded himself a $23 million paycheck for his work last year. That work essentially amounted to negotiating the deal with the government to make shareholders pay for the bankers’ wrongdoings, while he and other top executives keep their jobs and keep pocketing millions. What a great role model for young financial executives! With no punishment, the next generation of banksters can view Lloyd’s story as a model for Wall-Street success rather than a deterrent to corruption. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. June 30, 2016 5

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The nonviolent history of American independence

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ndependence Day is commemorated with fireworks and flag-waving, gun salutes and military parades... however, one of our nation’s founding fathers, John Adams, wrote, “A history of military operations ... is not a history of the American Revolution.” Often minimized in our history books, the tactics of nonviolent action played a powerful role in achieving American independence from British rule. Benjamin Naimark-Rowse wrote, “the lesson we learn of a democracy forged in the crucible of revolutionary war tends to ignore how a decade of nonviolent resistance before the “shot heard round the world” shaped the founding of the United States, strengthened our sense of political identity, and laid the foundation of our democracy.” One hundred-fifty years before Gandhi, the American colonists employed many of the same nonviolent actions the Indian Self-Rule Movement would later use to free themselves from the same empire — Great Britain. The boycotting of British goods (tea, cloth and other imported items) significantly undermined British profits from the colonies. Noncooperation with unjust laws eroded British authority as the colonists refused to comply with laws that restricted assembly and speech, allowed the quartering of soldiers in colonists’ homes and imposed curfews. Nonpayment of taxes would prove to be a landmark issue for the independence movement. The development of parallel governments and legal structures strengthened the self-rule and self-reliance of the colonists and grew local political control that would ultimately prove strong enough to replace British governance of the colonies. Acts of protest and persuasion, petitions, pamphlets, rallies, marches, denouncements, legal and illegal publications of articles, and disruption of British meetings and legal proceedings were also employed. Some of the most powerful boycotts in nonviolent history occurred in the New England colonies against the British Crown. Though the term boycott would not emerge for another hun6 June 30, 2016

dred years until the Irish coined it during tenant and land struggles, what the colonists called “nonimportation programs” dropped British revenue in New England by 88 percent between 1774 and 1775. In the Carolinas, colonists deprived the Crown of 98.7 percent of import revenue. Moreover, in Virginia and Maryland, the rate reached an impressive 99.6 percent participation. Resistance to the Stamp Act of 1764 thru 1765 dropped revenues 95 percent below what was expected. The British could not even pay for the cost of enforcing the Stamp Act throughout the colonies, and it was repealed in 1766. Newspapers published without paying the Stamp Tax used noms de plume to avoid reprisal. Courts closed because lawyers and judges refused to pay the Stamp Act for the printing of court documents. Shipping permits were supposed to be stamped, and, since merchants and shippers refused to pay the tax, ports closed, and even official documents were not delivered! Merchants of New York, Boston and Philadelphia pledged a nonimportation pact until the Stamp Act was repealed. Six months later (at a time when crossing the Atlantic by sail took at least six weeks, and sometimes as long as three months), the Crown repealed the Stamp Act under pressure from its own panicked merchants. In a campaign that is strikingly familiar to Gandhi’s spinning campaign, the American boycott of imported British cloth held spin-ins, whereby young women gathered in large groups to spin homespun yarn for weaving cloth. Colonists even stopped wearing the traditional funeral black (which mirrored English style) in protest of Great Britain. Women played significant roles in all the nonimportation programs, especially the resistance to the notorious Tea Act. While everyone remembers the Boston Tea Party’s dumping of tea into the Boston Harbor, few Americans have heard about Susan Boudinot. She was the 9-year-old daughter of a New Jersey patriot, who, when handed a cup of tea while visiting see GUEST COLUMN Page 8

the anderson files The legacy of Joe McCarthy lives on by Dave Anderson

onald Trump has been compared to earlier rightwing demagogues such as Hitler, Mussolini, George Wallace and Pat Buchanan. The name of witch-hunter Senator Joe McCarthy comes up a lot. Recently, the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico published lengthy pieces about how McCarthy’s henchman, Roy Cohn, became one of Trump’s best friends and his closest adviser on business and personal matters. Cohn had been chief counsel for McCarthy’s Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations. McCarthy had been censured and disgraced after he tried to smear the Army and the CIA. But Cohn moved back to his native New York and became a highly visible power broker as the lawyer of politicians, big businessmen and mobsters. He became friends with gossip columnists and shamelessly used the tabloids to get in the headlines. Trump and Cohn met by chance in 1973 at Le Club, a private disco for Manhattan’s rich and famous. Trump was a 27-year-old developer who ran a real estate empire with his dad Fred. Trump introduced himself to Cohn and asked him about a bothersome legal problem. The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department was suing him and his father, accusing them of refusing to rent to black tenants. Trump told Cohn that their lawyers were urging

them to settle. He didn’t want to do that. “Tell them to go to hell and fight the thing in court,’” Cohn said. Trump hired him as his new lawyer and one of Cohn’s first acts was to file a $100 million countersuit that was quickly dismissed by the judge for “wasting time and paper.” But Cohn fought on for over a year and a half and accused the Justice Department and the FBI of using “Gestapo-like tactics.” The Trumps would be forced to sign a consent agreement to rent to more blacks and other minorities and they had to put ads in newspapers — including those targeted specifically to minority communities — saying they were an “equal housing opportunity” company. Trump complained about the cost of the ads. “It is really onerous,” he said. The government called the consent decree “one of the most far reaching ever negotiated.” But Cohn and the Trumps claimed it was a victory for them. After this, Cohn became Trump’s mentor on practically everything. In 1979, Trump told Newsweek, “If you need someone to get vicious toward an opponent, you get Roy.” A year later, pressed by a reporter from New York Magazine to justify his association with Cohn, he said: “All I can tell you is he’s been vicious to othsee THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8

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the anderson files ers in his protection of me.” He elaborated in an interview in 2005. “Roy was brutal, but he was a very loyal guy,” Trump told author Tim O’Brien. “He brutalized for you.” Trump remained friends with Cohn even after the lawyer was disbarred in New York on ethics charges. However, Trump cut all business and personal ties to Cohn when he was dying of AIDS. Trump knew Cohn was a closeted homosexual. Politico’s Michael Kruse says, “(Cohn) was a tangle of contradictions, a Jewish anti-Semite and a homosexual homophobe, vehemently closeted but insatiably promiscuous. In 1964, ’69 and ’71, he had been tried and acquitted of federal charges of conspiracy, bribery and fraud, giving him — at least in the eyes of a certain sort — an aura of battle-tested toughness, the perception of invincibility.” Kruse says that people who have known both Cohn and Trump say they “see in Trump today unmistakable signs of the enduring influence of Cohn. The frank belligerence. The undisguised disregard for niceties and convention. The media manipulation clotted with an abiding belief in the potent currency of celebrity.” Many years ago, Cohn introduced Trump to two men, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, who are playing a crucial role in his presidential campaign. They are longtime political manipulators involved in the Republican “establishment.” The soft-spoken Manafort is now running Trump’s campaign. He studied under James A. Baker III who was

Reagan’s Chief of Staff and George H.W. Bush’s Secretary of State. Trump denounces all those horrible Washington lobbyists. But Manafort is one of the sleaziest lobbyists in D.C. Manafort was a lobbyist for despots in the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and Somalia. The Center for Public Integrity released a report, which detailed the firm’s work, entitled “The Torturers’ Lobby.” Manafort would clean up a dictator’s image, coach him on how to present himself and have him booked on 60 Minutes and Nightline. While Manafort is low-key, Roger Stone is a loudmouth. He has specialized in campaign “dirty tricks” since Nixon. For example, he created a pseudonym and made contributions on behalf of the Young Socialist Alliance to one of Nixon’s potential challengers. Stone recently claimed that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the JFK assassination. He has said that Bernie Sanders should be shot for treason. Stone is now calling for a McCarthyite witchhunt against Muslims. He is specifically asking if Hillary Clinton’s close adviser Huma Abedin is a “Saudi spy” or a “terrorist agent.” Newt Gingrich has jumped in with a proposal to revive the House UnAmerican Activities Committee to go after Muslims. He is a Trump supporter and says he is willing to serve as Donald’s vice president. It will be a very ugly campaign. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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the governor, curtsied, raised the cup to her lips and then tossed the tea out the window. These are just some of the many nonviolent actions engaged in by Americans in their struggle for independence. Some scholars even go so far as to call the Revolutionary War the “War of Reclamation,” for the revolution had already been won in the hearts, minds, homes and practices of the people by the time the British Crown sought to reclaim the independent and self-governing colonies. This Independence Day, tell the

stories of the role nonviolent action played in establishing the United States. Perhaps by next year, we will be participating in re-enactments of spin-ins, holding mock funerals for Lady Liberty and engaging in boycotts of imported goods to commemorate how American independence was actually won. Author/Activist Rivera Sun, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection and other books, and the Programs Coordinator for Campaign Nonviolence. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

letters No more fracking in Colorado

Let’s outlaw fracking in Colorado... as long as somebody else still has some oil. Let’s get enough signatures and get the anti-oil and gas initiatives (#s 40, 63, 75 and 78) on the November ballot. (But, let’s call them what they really are: proposed Amendments to the Colorado Constitution.) No more oil and gas for Colorado. The fallout? First, with the loss of oil and gas comes a profound loss of jobs. Hardworking men and women with families to support would no longer have a livelihood. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost. In addition, hundreds of millions in tax revenue losses would equate to higher taxes. This would, of course, translate into a less than welcoming business environment in the state. Secondly, there are 248,000 cars in Boulder County. Additionally, Colorado ranks seventh in the country for electric vehicle sales per capita, with 0.02 vehicles sold per person. Ranking seventh is impressive, but at 0.02 vehicles sold per person, a giant shortfall is left between what electric vehicles are providing and what our fossil fuel needs are. What plan do the initiative supporters have for this shortfall? So, if we turn our backs on an abundant natural resource and outlaw fracking everywhere in the United States — which is the intent of the initiative supporters, where do we go for oil and gas? Iran? Russia? Saudi Arabia? What an untenable position to put ourselves in, yet that is the future if we allow interest groups outside of Colorado to convince us to sign their petitions. Think seriously if asked to sign a petition. Know what you’re signing and what it may lead to. These initiatives are presented as beneficial. In fact, their passage would be terribly harmful to the people of Colorado. Jeanie Starr/Longmont

Senators urge the participation of everyone who is interested, including Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, ACNs, Unaffiliateds, etc. The study group will have its first public meeting on Saturday, June 11, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Colorado State Capitol. (One must enter on the “garden level” on the 14th Street end of the Capitol and go through security.) The goal is to have at least five of these meetings this summer and fall around the

state. The input will be compiled into a database that legislators can use as a basis for a primary bill in the next session. Thank you again for helping with election integrity issues. Mary C. Eberle/Boulder

Trump is a mirror

Donald Trump represents our greatest ever challenge as world citizens, as Americans and as individual human beings. We can, and many are, looking

within ourselves and asking “What is Trump mirroring that I/we need to take a look at?” We see the angry one, the fearful one and eventually the vulnerable “me.” Donald Trump is not in disguise. He is as real as we are in the privacy of our personal unmasking. Could he be our skewed thoughts revealed? Donald Trump lays the sins of America at our feet. David Krest/Marvel, CO

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s the 2016 U.S. Supreme Court term According to a recent poll released by the nonpar- deporting people who are low priorities,” Motomura comes to a close, the Justices announced tisan research group Public Religion Research says. “One possibility is that the field offices will folseveral decisions within the last week, rulInstitute, 73 percent of Americans, including 65 perlow the [priority] guidelines. Another possibility is ing on issues from abortion to government cent of Republicans, support the DAPA program, that the field offices will ignore the guidelines, and I corruption to affirmative action and even allowing parents of U.S. citizen children to stay in the think my fear is that they will feel empowered to do gun control. But following Justice Scalia’s unexpected country for three years without fear of deportation — so by over-reading what the Supreme Court did. But death in February, and the refusal of Congress to people DHS has classified as low-priority for deporta- that would be contrary to the fact that the President cooperate with President Obama in replacing him, the tion. has decided they should prioritize people for deportaremaining eight justices were left with a 4-4 tie on the Shortly after the DAPA program was announced, tion who have criminal records or are a national secuissue of immigration. rity risk.” The United States v. The Supreme Court’s Texas case challenged the ruling also allows for a 2014 Department of future decision by the Homeland Security (DHS) Supreme Court once the immigration policies, prinbench is full. Although the cipally the Deferred Action Obama administration has for Parents of Americans yet to comment on wheth(DAPA) program. Had the Julien Ross/Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition er or not it will take furDAPA program been ther action, Motomura says implemented, it would there is the option, given have provided temporary the missing ninth justice, deportation relief to to ask the Supreme Court approximately 4 million for a re-hearing, and he undocumented parents of believes the federal governU.S.-born children, 80,000 ment has a strong political in Colorado according to reason to do so. immigrant rights groups. “This deserves to be After the Court’s heard in full court,” he says. announcement on June 23, But it’s likely Congress activists and advocates won’t confirm any gathered across the counPresidential nominee to the try at vigils and events in Supreme Court until after support of immigrant famthe November election, as ilies and calling for immimany Senate Republicans gration relief. In Colorado, have refused to consider groups gathered outside the nomination of Judge the State Supreme Merrick Garland since Courthouse. March. “The Supreme Court “It’s an institutional decision, while not entirely failure for the Senate to unexpected, is really disnot even consider the heartening because now Immigration activists and advocates hold vigil outside of the Colorado Supreme Courthouse after the U.S. Supreme appointment and to have Court released its “equally divided” decision regarding federal immigration policies. the timeline toward some an incomplete court,” kind of relief for the immiMotomura says. “There’s a grant community that is human cost and there’s an constantly under attack by deportation is a long way however, the state of Texas sued the federal governinstitutional failure [to the United States v. Texas decioff,” says Jennifer Piper with the American Friends ment and in January 2015 Federal Judge Andrew sion.] But ultimately I think this is going to turn on Service Committee (AFSC), a national nonprofit Hanen issued a preliminary injunction, later upheld by the election both in terms of the Supreme Court and organization celebrating its 100th year working with in terms of immigration policy.” an appeals court, blocking the implementation of the immigrants and refugees. Since the 1952 Immigration Act and confirmed by program until the case could play out. With the Piper says the people she works with in Colorado Supreme Court’s equally divided decision, the prelim- the 2002 Homeland Security Act, DHS, as a function have expressed a variety of emotions regarding the of a presidential administration, is charged with national inary injunction remains in effect while the case conSupreme Court’s announcement, from anger to disap- tinues in Texas. immigration enforcement and policies. The impending pointment to resilience. court case in Texas challenges this, which is why activist “In a way it’s a non-decision,” says prominent “This is something that would allow them a sense organizations like the AFSC are further determined to immigration law professor Hiroshi Motomura. “It is of safety, and security, and stability within their life see national immigration legislation, not just policy. not a ruling by the Supreme Court, it’s more of a here in Colorado,” Piper says. “I think having the “What that means for us is really refocusing our decision not to decide.” hope of that taken away really has shaken the comefforts on limiting the scope of deportations and their The Court’s ruling is only one line: “The judgmunity. 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ately, I have found myself haunted by a particular conversation I had with historian Howard Zinn some two decades ago. And I’ve been feeling the need to both revisit and share it because, oddly, it has become timely. For over a half a century, Zinn, the author of more than 20 books including the influential A People’s History of the United States, was one of our nation’s most important and outspoken voices on American history and its importance to understanding modern events. See ZINN Page 14

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More than a historian, Zinn was also a social activist who understood how labor, the power of corporations and the gap between rich and poor have always had a major influence when it comes to our often-dysfunctional political system and our elected leaders. Zinn died in 2010 at the age of 87, becoming a part of the history to which he had dedicated so much of his life. I suspect my current desire to reminisce on this subject has been triggered by either the insanity of the current political season or the constant reports of racism and violence that invade my den each night dressed as “news.”

dangerous place. To put it more succinctly, so long as the same wealthy establishment continues to choose the candidates for both parties — candidates who may differ on a few social issues but who are, in reality, 98 percent the same when it comes to governing on taxes, banking, corporate consolidation, military spending and the social safety net for the poor — November votes will continue to be little more than an illusionary exercise designed to keep the ruled in line. Zinn was clear as he explained that so long as we justify our voting for the lesser of two evils out of our media-induced fear of the political other, our democracy will remain controlled by the financial interests and the politicians they choose to empower. He added that the whole system was being run for the benefit of the “1 percent” who controlled most of the wealth in the

It seems impossible these days to separate politics, racism and violence as the media is constantly forcing all of it upon us in a mostly context-free and sensationalized clump. Historian Howard Zinn wrote more than 20 books, including A People’s History of We understand only that things are the United States. bad because rarely do we see intelligent analysis amidst the images of carnage and responsible for much of the rise of the growing and country. the who-tweeted-what reports. Few bother to explain increasingly violent antigovernment movement of the I have to say that talking about the outsized politiwhy this is happening or what we can do about it. time. So I had sought out Zinn knowing there was no cal and economic power wielded by the 1 percent was The “news” has become a volley of despair shot at better brain to pick on such a subject. a bit ahead of its time in 1996. It speaks to Truman’s us through our mediated windows to the world. It What neither of us knew back then was that the observation that “the only thing new in this world is doesn’t matter if our window is a computer or televiantigovernment movement of the 1990s was simply the history we don’t know.” sion; both falsely purport to show us more truth than an audition for things to come. Or perhaps it would Zinn knew that history. the real view from our real windows into our real be more accurate to say that I didn’t know it. In 1996 he told me, “What we are seeing now is communities. It is, of course, a lie. Looking back at my notes with the aid of hindrecognized as the growing polarization of wealth in Research tells us that such mediated images and sight, I think it’s clear that Zinn had more than an the country, with just 1 percent owning 40 percent of messages — the ones that have been filtered through inkling of what was coming. the wealth, with the middle class shrinking and a for-profit lens where shock value translates to becoming part of the working class and the working He didn’t know back then our current situation increased profits — tend to leave us more fearful of class shrinking as the people lose their jobs and our neighbors and more angry and scared of the polit- would revolve around names like “Trump” and become part of the homeless poor.” “Sanders” and “Hillary.” He might have guessed ical-other; think MSNBC’s version of Trump and He also said that the trend of less and less govern“Clinton.” He couldn’t have foreseen specifics such as Fox’s depiction of Clinton. ment regulation we had experienced during the 9/11, the rise of ISIS or the out-of-control greed of Pollsters are already telling us this could be the Reagan-Bush-Clinton years (George H. W and Bill) first presidential election in history where more people Wall Street that would lead to the Great Recession. was an attempt to return the U.S. to the free enterBut he clearly understood the potential for all of the turn out to vote against the other party’s candidate above. prise system, a system in which Zinn said the governthan for their own party’s choice. One thing he seemed pretty sure about in 1996 ment does as little as possible to help people in need. I found myself wishing I could know what Zinn was that he was hearing the approaching footsteps of And he noted that this is not the first time in hiswould think of this 2016 meltdown. And then I got a populist movement that had the potential to turn tory that corporations have been allowed to more or this gnawing feeling that maybe he had already told into American fascism if the wrong leadership got its less control their own destiny. me, at least a little bit. hands on the wheel. He also foresaw the rise of an “When we go back to the 1880s and 1890s, what When I pulled my old notes from my 1996 conoverreaching federal security apparatus rooted in anti- we see is a kind of unbridled capitalism. The country versation with Zinn, they brought back memories. immigrant fear. goes through a great industrial growth, but the poor The contents were enlightening, disturbing and more It seems clear to me now that he had a solid and working-class people do not share in that growth importantly, predictive of our current situation. understanding of the forces that were leading us to and do not share in the profits of that growth,” he The reason that our 1996 conversation stands out where we are today; the brink, the edge of democracy, said. from others we had over the years is because I had He then added the context for how such unreasked him to look into his crystal ball and predict how the line marking either a new beginning or the point of no return. stricted corporate behavior plays out on the political what was happening at the time might impact future This is the precipice where we find ourselves prestage. events. cariously balanced in 2016, and it will take more than “What you have in both eras [1880s-1890s and At first he bristled a bit, explaining that historians a vote in November to prevent our fall. In fact, our 1980s-1990s] is sort of capitalism at its worst, [which] hate the idea of looking forward and predicting anymeans the impoverishment of both the middle class naïve belief in the power of Novembers is one of the thing. But eventually he agreed to my request. and the poor, until the distinction between the middle establishment’s greatest tricks and the one that Zinn For context, in 1996 I was working on a book class and the poor becomes less and less. Then the told me he believed would eventually bring us to this examining the economic influences I believed were 14 June 30, 2016

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control of the country by the loses? How will other Americans TO financial interests and by the react if he wins? politicians of both parties goes By all measures the establishMOTIVATE PEOPLE TO VIOLENCE THAN IT IS TO MOTIVATE THEM unchallenged.” ment’s only remaining candidate, TO VOTE. IF PEOPLE BECOME DESPERATE ENOUGH AND ANGRY And here is where Zinn’s Hillary Clinton, will be the next ENOUGH, THEY WILL TAKE IT OUT IN VARIOUS WAYS.” “crystal ball” got interesting, president, but based on the lessons although I couldn’t see it at the of history, she may well be the final — HOWARD ZINN time. act of corporate-controlled governZinn began describing to me ment, at least for a while. how the corporate control of the The question now is how far will political and economic system she be forced to bend away from the during the 1880s and 1890s will of her largest contributors by eventually gave rise to the populist movement. He grants, particularly those of the Muslim faith, all in the social upheaval that is sure to follow in the wake noted that so far in the 1980s and 1990s that the the name of security against terrorism. of her election? Will she be the next cozy-with-corincreasing control over government by corporations So in 1996, Zinn believed the future was likely to porations president to be dragged kicking and screamand the wealthy had only given rise to an antigovernhold the birth of a new social movement as the result ing into doing the right thing to avoid the increasingment movement. But he also told me that he felt this of the increasing disparity between rich and poor ly violent upheaval among the working classes and the could be changing and that we might be on the cusp which stemmed from the fact that corporations and poor? of a new populist movement. wealthy individuals control our political system. While We will see. But there is no reason to believe that He reflected on the fact that populist movements that is true, he did not believe such a movement the political explosion that erupted in 2016 will do rise out of periods wherein the Democratic and would come about calmly as a result of voter engageanything but grow over the next four years. Republican parties grow nearly indistinguishable with ment. How it will grow and what it will ultimately a succession of presidents from both parties who As he looked back over America’s history, Zinn become is still unclear. And on that note, Zinn had resemble one another for the most part. spoke of how the violence of the disenfranchised had one final warning for the future back in 1996. For example he said, “Grover Cleveland was the often been a prerequisite of socially conscience gov“In a situation like today where there is enormous kind of Democrat that Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton ernment reform. He described how even the great alienation ... that alienation can be seized by demahave been; that is, a Democrat who really played a political reformers were often dragged kicking and gogues of the Right, and this is what happened in fasvery cozy game with big corporations of his time.” screaming to do the right thing as a result of violence cist countries like Italy and Germany. It could lead to Zinn then speculated as to what he thought all or the fear of it. a kind of American fascism. I have no doubt it is easithis unbridled corporate influence would yield in the He observed that if the country had not been sim- er to motivate people to violence than it is to motivate future. His best guess, which I must say now looks mering under the influence of tenant movements, them to vote. If people become desperate enough and quite accurate, was that it would ultimately lead to a labor strikes, unemployment protests and general angry enough, they will take it out in various ways.” new social movement and perhaps new radical politiunrest, Roosevelt’s New Deal would never have come I believe this 1996 conversation with Howard about. cal parties. Zinn offers at least some of the missing context for He also claimed that Kennedy was not planning Zinn made another interesting observation in the violence and racism we are seeing on our televimore civil rights legislation or to address racial segre1996. He talked about how political violence — such sion and computer screens nearly everyday now. gation in the South and that Lyndon Johnson and as the famed bombing in Chicago’s Haymarket I believe that it also offers us a clearer lens Congress were not prepared to push the Voting Square in 1885 and the Oklahoma City bombing in through which to view the current political upheaval, Rights Act. He believes these great strides only came 1995 — is always used as an excuse by our governregardless of whether we are Republican, Democrat, ment as a “way to denounce opposition to the existing about due to massive demonstrations by blacks in the unaffiliated or something more nuanced. order as terrorist and anarchist.” He added that such South, many of which were confronted by violence in In 2016, we are teetering at the edge. The only incidents are often “an excuse for further [governthe streets in the early 1960s. He believes it was this question now is what will we do next? Will we step ment] oppression” including very broad government violence and mass demonstrating that finally forced off into the fascist abyss? Attempt to turn back to the action aimed at many people beyond those suspected the federal government to address the problem. failed corporate-controlled government that got us of being involved in the crime. Zinn sounded fatalistic as he described how this here in the first place? Or will we start building a As an example, he pointed to the 1990s so-called violence-before-change scenario was the pattern bridge to a better future that will insure fairness and antiterrorism act, which supposedly sprang from the throughout history. “It takes rebellion to move an oth- an acceptable quality of life for every American efforts to combat the antigovernment movement, but erwise sluggish system,” he said, “a system that norregardless of race, economic status, gender, sexual oriwhich in actuality had a larger impact on immigrants. mally operates on behalf of the rich and powerful.” entation or religious belief? The act, for what can only be described as political So what are we seeing in 2016? I have a feeling we are heading for that bridge, but reasons, allowed for the deportation of immigrants Is the Sanders “revolution” the birth pangs of the building anything takes time. And I fear, as Zinn’s who had come into the country legally but who may new social movement predicted by Zinn? Will its mil- historical perspective confirms, that it will not be a have committed any type of crime including those lions of supporters, more than six thousand of whom smooth or particularly peaceful transition. having nothing to do with terrorism or antigovernhave promised to run for local office on Sander’s proI only wish he were here to see it all unfold. ment behavior. gressive platform in the next few years, stay in for the Twenty years ago, Zinn shared his fear that terror- long haul? Parts of this conversation with Howard Zinn appeared ist acts would continue to be used as an excuse to tarin Joel Dyer’s book Harvest of Rage: Why Oklahoma Does the increasingly unpredictable anti-immiget innocent immigrants. Sadly, he was proven right grant populism of Donald Trump have its own staying City is Only the Beginning (Westview Press, a Division again, as evidenced by our current war on all immiof Harper Collins Publishers, Inc, 1997). power, and how will his supporters react when he Boulder Weekly

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hortly after the financial crash of 2008, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to stimulate the economy with $787 billion in government spending on public infrastructure. Although controversial at the time, ARRA was later credited with saving or creating millions of jobs during the Great Recession. The National Solar Observatory (NSO) received $146 million in ARRA funding to help build the largest solar telescope in the world on a mountaintop in Maui, a $344 million project that may not have moved forward without the stimulus. The investment sparked a chain of events that ultimately moved NSO staff from Arizona and New Mexico to the new headquarters in Boulder this year. The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) was nearing its final design review in early 2009, after more than six years of development. Federal science funding had been slowly declining since 2004, so it was unclear whether construction of a large new facility would be feasible. The National Science

Foundation (NSF) was already planning to shut down some older solar telescopes. With ATST moving forward, the NSO decided to consolidate its operations to one site. In early 2010, they issued a request for proposals to host the new headquarters. The University of Colorado Boulder was one of seven organizations to respond, and in late 2011 our city was selected over the other finalist in Huntsville, Alabama. Boulder has been a national hub for solar physics since Harvard astronomer Walter Orr Roberts founded the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) in 1940. Our first solar observatory was absorbed into NCAR when it was established 20 years later. With the announcement in 2011 that Boulder would soon be home to a second solar observatory, local scientists wondered how long it would take members of Congress to call for a merger of the two organizations. The role of NCAR in climate science made it particularly vulnerable, with numerous politicians looking for ways to slash the budget. The relocation of NSO to Boulder may

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HISTORICALLY, MOST SOLAR PHYSICISTS WORKED AT FEDERALLY FUNDED LABS RATHER THAN UNIVERSITIES. AS A CONSEQUENCE, SOLAR PHYSICS MEETINGS STARTED TO RESEMBLE A RETIREMENT SEMINAR.

have been seen as an unprecedented opportunity to cut out a portion of NCAR and give it to solar physicists whose research had less political impact. So far, the concerns have been unwarranted. With ATST under construction in Maui, the NSF wanted to inspire a new generation of solar physicists to enter the field. Hosting the NSO headquarters at a university was a strategic decision. Historically, most solar physicists worked at federally funded laboratories rather than universities. As a consequence, relatively few students were being trained in the field, and the demographics of solar physics meetings started to resemble a retirement seminar. The NSF subsidized the creation of faculty positions in solar physics across the country, and the University of Colorado enticed the NSO to relocate to Boulder in part by promising to hire several new faculty positions related to solar physics. “By bringing in students, I think we will be able to support NSO in a way that would not have been possible in other cities,” says Axel Brandenburg, visiting professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at CU. Brandenburg first came to Boulder in 1992 to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the High Altitude Observatory at NCAR. He has spent the past 15 years working at research laboratories in Denmark and Sweden, but he jumped at the chance to return to Boulder last year for a rotating three-year faculty position in solar physics, created by CU as part of their agreement with the NSO. Earlier this month the university hosted a solar physics meeting for the American Astronomical Society. “The overall attendance was dominated by young people,” Brandenburg says, suggesting that the plan is already working. Boulder Weekly

Construction of the new telescope in Maui has encountered some resistance from native Hawaiian groups. Although several telescopes were already on the site, the peak where ATST would be located was considered sacred by some indigenous groups. “I think it is important to be aware of these concerns and to work with the indigenous people to make it something positive for both sides,” Brandenburg says. In 2013, the project was officially renamed the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) to honor the late senator from Hawaii who had a strong record of support for fundamental scientific research, and astronomy in particular. Brandenburg explains that in Hawaii everyone knows DKI, almost like JFK in the rest of the country. When it begins regular operations in 2020, DKIST will be the largest solar telescope in the world. It promises to revolutionize observations of the sun’s magnetic field, which are essential for understanding and predicting the explosive events that create space weather for our planet. The building that will house the telescope and instruments is now complete, and the team is beginning to integrate the major optical systems. The main mirror has a diameter of 4 meters (13 feet), and will generate 13 kW of power at the focus of the telescope, so heat management will be crucial. Local scientists expect DKIST to usher in a new era of solar physics. With NSO headquarters now in Boulder, and CU committed to training a new cadre of students, we can expect our city to remain a national hub for solar physics well into the future. Travis Metcalfe, Ph.D., is a researcher and science communicator based in Boulder, Colorado. His non-profit organization accepts contributions to support future Lab Notes columns at http://labnotes.whitedwarf.org

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Although still and stately from outside, NCAR is teeming with excitement inside its thick walls today. That’s because it houses one of the region’s largest permanent exhibits on climate change, the newest addition to its Visitor Center, and a gaggle of young children have come here to explore it. In the Visitor Center lobby, their two teachers shepherd the tiny crowd of matching summer camp T-shirts around Eileen Carpenter, NCAR science education specialist and tour guide. Carpenter leads them up the stairs to the second floor, where the climate change exhibit begins. The first part of the exhibit draws the kids like a beacon, with its flashing lights and videogame-esque appearance. Carpenter crouches to their level as she explains this is a game about how people choose to live their lives. She pushes a button to start the game, which begins posing a series of life choices. The first choice is about travel. “Do you think it uses more energy to take a lot of airplane trips, or just a few?” Carpenter asks the students. “A few!” comes the answer in unison, and several climate-savvy little hands slap the correct button. “A long commute, medium commute or short commute — that means driving to your job,” Carpenter says. “Which one uses less energy?” “Short!” Seemingly all of the kids answer together, and hands slap the “short commute” button. It’s like climate Whack-A-Mole. “You guys have really got it,” she says. And one boy is particularly knowledgeable for his young age. Carpenter starts to ask, “Is energy...” “Energy from coal, energy from natural gas,” the boy cuts in, read-

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A summer road trip primer by Tom Winter

Some hotels are nicer than others, some used to be nicer and now they’re less nice. Some never were nice. That’s why dedicated roadtrippers should always bring camping gear.

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ow far can you go on one tank of gas? Two hundred miles? Three hundred? Four? Well, it all depends upon where you’re headed (you’ll get better gas mileage going east from Boulder than heading west uphill into the mountains), what car you have and how much stuff you have on your roof rack. But regardless of how far you think you can go, and what direction you choose, the reality is that you can go far enough to leave a lot of things behind. Things like your nosey neighbor and the dog across the street that won’t stop barking. You can leave behind your work obligations (well, temporarily) and the bills that keep coming into your mailbox (also temporarily). You can ditch the Thursday night crowds on Pearl Street Mall and the screaming kids at the pool. So, while someone once said that the journey matters more than the destination, we’d beg to differ. We think the destination matters the most. Especially when you can get there on one tank of gas. Because vehicles, driving habits and hills matter, the amount of miles you can drive on a single tank varies. Some can go farther, and some won’t be able to go as far. But who cares? Let’s not quibble over the details of individual cars, driving habits and if you’re light on the pedal or if all those mountain bikes on your roof rack knock off 5 miles per gallon — or is it really 7? — (remember, that kind of niggely stuff is why you want to get the hell out of here) and focus on the big picture: the open road, if you will. According to the internet and Google (which are always right, mostly, some of the time), a gas tank that holds 13 gallons and a car that gets an average of 31 miles per gallon will be able to hit 400 miles on a single tank of gas. That’s 400 miles of freedom. Four hundred miles see ROAD TRIP Page 24

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away from all that stuff that bugs you. Four hundred miles of open road. Not all of our destinations will leave your tank on empty, but they all are far enough out there that you’ll clock plenty of miles, see strange and interesting new things and have the chance to eat at plenty of dubious roadside restaurants. They’re far enough away that you’ll get your car dusty and dirty, you’ll end up road weary, and you’ll have been gone long enough that you’ll forget some of the things you’ve left behind. Because what is summer without a road trip? To be honest, it isn’t summer at all.

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5 hours 32 minutes (298.8 miles) via I-70 West Gateway, Colorado It’s hot here, way out in the desert in the Northwest corner of our state. 5 hours 12 minutes (300.2 miles) via The sun beats down and the rocks I-70 West glisten and sand crunches under your There isn’t much in Gateway. feet. This area is true canyon country, Because of this you’d be well advised with the Green and to stock up on the Yampa the most Tom Winter water, beer, notable of the waterjerky and more courses that have beer in Grand etched the landscape. Junction. But In the canyons and what Gateway on the cliffs below has is an interthe mesas, you’ll find esting mix of evidence of ancient the tourist and people, with petrothe remote. The glyphs and pictotown is home graphs. There’s also The best moments on road trips are when to the Gateway you meet new friends, even if they don’t the evidence of the Canyons Resort bother to wake up from their nap to meet prehistoric beheand Spa as well you. moths that gave this as the Gateway Auto Museum. But the real attracarea its name. But perhaps the most tion is a prime location tucked compelling part of the monument between the Uncompahgre plateau today is its prime location on the edge and Utah’s La Salle Mountains. With of the Colorado plateau which means the Dolores River on the valley floor, the monument is a lesson in biological mountains to the west and the pladiversity with more than 1,000 native teau to the east, the area is a mix of species of plants and animals.

red rock canyons, dirt roads climbing into aspen glades and primo campsites along the river.

Yampa, Colorado 3 hours 33 min (158.3 mi) via I-70 West If you hunt (which used to be common around these parts but is less so now that Boulder has, err, changed) you’ve heard of Yampa. This small town on a back road between Vail and Steamboat started as an honest-toGod hunting camp. And while there’s still plenty of the Old West in this part of the state (including people who own guns and use them to kill stuff they then eat), the reason you need to know about Yampa is the Flattops. Yampa is the gateway to the Flat Tops wilderness area, one of Colorado’s gems. With amazing hiking and backpacking and tons of lakes for fishing or swimming, the area is wild yet accessible and is far enough off the beaten track that you won’t see people. Unless,

3 hours 44 minutes (216.9 miles) via I-25 South The iconic Spanish Peaks loom over this southern Colorado destination, a pair of 13ers that are well worth a summit attempt. To the west, there are more objectives in the southern end of the Sangre de Cristo range with 10,000- to 14,000-foot summits that see a whole lot less traffic than their Front Range counterparts. There are plenty of camping opportunities in the area, along with a smattering of cabins and other rustic lodges. But best of all is the old school Dog Bar, the perfect end to a day of peak bagging in southern Colorado.

Road Warrior Rules: Road trips are awesome, except when they’re not. In this regard the biggest issue on any road trip is the health of your ride. Change your oil and check all fluids before your departure. Make sure your spare tire is full of air (and check your regular tires as well for proper inflation and wear), ensure your jack is functional and you know how to use it. Bring extra water and energy bars. Consider joining AAA: their AAA+ membership gets you up to 100 miles of towing at no extra charge, an essential benefit in some of the more remote parts of our state. Finally, leave the attitude at home. A smile and some stoke goes a long way to a warm welcome when you’re on the road in a strange place and need directions, a recommendation for the best breakfast joint, suggestions for car camping or a mechanic to check out that strange grinding noise that just started coming from the depths of your engine.

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f we’re to trust Thurston Moore, “Rock stars can’t be poets, which sucks.” The line is from a poem by Moore titled “By The Lightswitch.” It’s not actually a comment on whether musicians can cross into poetry, but whether Moore can escape his own very public identity. “You’re always going to be perceived as what you’ve established yourself as through the years, and [for me] that’s as a musician,” Moore explains during a Skype call from his home in London. “When I’m at a reading, sometimes I’m attracting attention because I was in a kind-of-high-profile indie rock band,” Moore says through my laughter. “There’s always going to be that patina, and I have this desire to be known exclusively for what I’m doing in that moment with poetry. And I know that just can’t be the case unless I get some plastic surgery and change my name.” While Moore is best known as co-founder of the “kind-of-high-profile indie rock band” Sonic Youth (a band David Bowie once said was “so important to the ’80s”), he’s been a serious poetry archivist and practitioner since the late 1980s. Indeed, it’s been said that poetry, not music, was the magnet that pulled an 18-year-old Moore to New York’s Lower East Side in 1976. But, as with most stories, Moore says the truth lies somewhere in between. “I think deep down I really just wanted to run off and play electric guitar with a rock ‘n’ roll band,” he admits. “But in a way you couldn’t tell your parents that was a serious endeavor, but if you said you wanted to be a writer or a journalist, that was taken with a little more validity, there was value to that ambition.” see MOORE Page 28

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But so be it.” Buildings on Fire: Five Years In New York That Changed Music Moore eventually got to know Anne Waldman, and in Forever. time she invited him to participate in readings, including “Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataaa and Grandmaster Flash some at the famed Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. She hot-wired street parties with collaged shards of vinyl LPs,” he also asked him to teach at Naropa’s Summer Writing writes. “The New York Dolls stripped rock ‘n’ roll to its frame Program. and wrapped it in gender-fuck drag, taking a cue from “You know, I could never do it,” Moore says. “It took me Warhol’s transvestite glamour queens. Bruce Springsteen and forever to say yes to that. When I did, five years ago, it was a Patti Smith, both bussed in from Jersey, took a cue from the big shift for me in my life. It introduced me to a world I felt elusive Dylan, combining rock and at home with. The poetry world Vera Marmelo poetry into new shapes.” around Naropa has (Digression: It’s all too easy to forinterconnectivity get — or be unaware — of with Buddhist prinON THE BILL: Thurston Springsteen’s punk proclivity, but pick ciples. I’m not a Moore. 7 p.m. Innisfree up a copy of The Boss’s 2014 album practicing Buddhist Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., High Hopes to hear a cover of “Dream — hardly a scholar Boulder, 303-495-3303. Baby Dream” by electro-punk pioneers — but the simple Suicide.) tenants of Buddhism Moore was there while this piogive me a lot of solneering, poetic punk rock grew in the ace. I find them intellectually stimudark clubs of New York City, in 8BC, lating. I really respond to it. That con82 Club, Max’s Kansas City and nection I find really profound, so I CBGBs. He grew fascinated with love returning there — it regenerates musicians who referenced poetry me.” Indie-rock icon Thurston Moore operates two small publishing companies. explicitly in their music — Patti He’s returned to teach at Naropa Smith, of course, Lou Reed, David every summer since 2011. Moore operates two publishing companies, a boutique Bowie, Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine — and he credits publishing house called Ecstatic Peace Library, and a poetrythem with helping to “elucidate this reality of being both a focused small press called Flowers & Cream. writer and a musician and having them have equal stature.” It was only last year when Moore released a large and Still, in the early ’80s, Moore was engrossed with the rather intimate collection of his own poems and lyrics in music he was creating with Sonic Youth. print for the first time, a work called Stereo Sanctity Lyrics and “All my writing was all in the service of the music, and I Poems. The book contains more than 30 years of Moore’s lyrwould transmute poems into music so they would have ics from his time with Sonic Youth and as a solo artist, as rhyming schemes because rhyming works so well with music well as poetry reflecting on life, politics and, of course, punk as its friend but sometimes it can be a little cornball just as a rock. poem on the page,” Moore says. The idea for the collection stemmed from one of the “I didn’t think I needed to be published or work with the summer writing workshops Moore leads each year. He’d poetry world, because I was ensconced with Sonic Youth and written an essay about the distinction between lyric writing that was full time,” he adds. “My interest in poetry came to a and poetry and how the two coexist. From there, Stereo real head in the late ’80s and into the ’90s. I sort of became aware of the publishing history of underground poetry, and it Sanctity came to life. Much ink has been spilled examining the connection fascinated me the same way that underground music fascibetween poetry and rock ‘n’ roll. Some of that ink came from nated me with the obscure LPs and 7-inches and such. I the pen (proverbial as it may be these days) of Stephen Burt, really liked these kind of artist-made documents. I always found them to be really vital to culture. So when I got a sense a literary critic, poet and professor at Harvard University. “Rock is easy, poetry hard to create,” Burt writes in an of what underground publishing had been going on since the essay titled “‘O, Secret Stars, Stay Secret!’: Rock and Roll in ’50s, ’60s, ’70s in New York City, [it lead] me into [poetry Contemporary Poetry.” from] other regions, the Midwest and the West Coast and “Rock is spontaneous and simple; poetry intricate, endurCanada, Europe and England. It just became explosive for ing, reflective. Rock is ephemeral, while poetry endures. And me, and so for years I did research and I would get leads.” Perhaps one of the most significant leads came from punk rock songs (for all those reasons) belong to the young, as poetry maybe did once but sure doesn’t now — or so we assume.” rock innovator Richard Hell (of the Voidoids). He suggested Here, Burt teases apart the notion that many poets covet Moore go see Steve Clay. the trappings of rockstardom — the fame, the immediacy, the Clay was, and still is, director of an independent small undeniable cool. press called Granary Books. In Clay’s collections, Moore And yet Moore is among those rock stars drawn to the discovered books that belonged to Francis Waldman, sold difficult, enduring nature of poetry, with all its intimacy and to Clay by Anne Waldman, co-founder of the Jack intellectual prestige. He knows many have tried to cross the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa great chasm between musician and poet with nauseating University. Moore studied the works he found and began results. But it seems that Moore was never just a musician or to attend poetry readings in New York, something he just a poet; he was always both. There was no chasm to wishes he had been attending “since day one.” cross. “I so regret not going to so many poetry readings in the Boulder Weekly

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The Dead shall rise Dead & Company brings life back to Folsom Stadium

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ot that we knew it at the time, but we’re pretty sure the weirdly twice-echoed staccato stomp of “Ants Marching” we heard from our backyard on 35th Street in 2001 was the sound of the end of live music at Folsom Stadium, since it was pretty late and that was probably The Dave Matthews Band’s last encore. The band ran over curfew and CU Athletics decided, after a series of community complaints over noise and other environmental indignities, that the nuisance of live music at the stadium probably wasn’t worth whatever moolah it generated. That we could hear the crowd singing along said something about how loud it was. We didn’t really get our knickers in a bunch about it, six or seven blocks away, but plenty of others did. And while lots of ink has been shed about bringing stadium-scale live music back to campus, the flowering of the festival culture in the ensuing years has likely defused the frustration of music lovers yearning to share their experience with thousands of their closest friends outdoors and relieved of the pitiless acoustics of aural torture chambers like The Pepsi Center. And who better to test the waters again than Dead & Company? All but guaranteed to sell out, a local favorite, a mostly older crowd... what could go wrong? Hopefully nothing, or at least little enough to validate the paradigm. As for the band itself, it would be less than honest to overlook the fact that we thought they all said goodbye last summer, when they (mostly the same they, but we’ll get to that) staged their Fare Thee Well extravaganza in Chicago. The Long Strange Trip had found its terminus. Expensive and minutely chronicled by all interested and many disinterested parties, the uncertain and fractured post-Jerry era of Dead spinoffs and semi-reunions finally dissolved into a chapter-

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overtones shutting goodbye, the Allman Brothers, Aquarium Rescue trademark slurs and comfort zone, in a place where few of ON THE BILL: Dead & closing of an era, the Unit and The Tedeschi Trucks Band tonal swells come his Spotify fans are likely to follow. Company, July 2-3, Folsom Field, University of Colorado, last petal dropping into the mix, sympathetic and melodic across as overly manAs for the absence of Phil Lesh, Boulder. Tickets are $39.50off the rose. Even the and a perfect fit. nered and sterile in who recently underwent treatment for $119.50. More info at cubuffs. canonists generously Is it all a filthy lucre thing? Like Mayer’s hands, but bladder cancer and is said to be doing com/DeadAndCompany suspended skepticism anything else in the Deadsphere, it kind generally he seems to well, the 76-year-old bassist is content while Trey Anastasio of depends on who you ask, and even have found his balto the leave the stadium touring to his filled The Seat... oh the most skeptical of the diehards can’t ance between tribute former compadres and host shows at yeah, that. deny that the band always cashed their and being himself. Musically, he’s a his Terrapin Crossroads venue in San That Fare Thee Well ended up good player who took the time to learn Rafael. Oteil Burbridge, probably grati- checks. Garcia himself is said to be being “Bye For Now” became but a and breathe some life into some decepfied that most of the attention has been quoted once as saying, “We’ve been tryminor detail in the apparently continutively tough arrangements, and he’s focused on Mayer, brings a lengthy and ing to sell out for years — nobody’s ing saga of the Dead, is actually a feabuying!” humble enough to play outside his deeply respected career with the ture, not a bug. What passed as a freakish virtue of the Dead — its gently morphing constancy — has been unmasked as, surprise, the band that actually takes some chances and sheds its skin right down to its bones. Remove the cultural and iconographic trappings, blow off the patchouli, and the songs remain. “... those songs are my children, and they keep growing. To cut them off and bury them prematurely doesn’t seem like the kind of thing I want to be doing,” original Dead guitarist Bob Weir told Rolling Stone a few weeks ago. That they enlisted John Mayer, of all people, to step in last fall to fill the lead guitar seat seemed like an act of sheer generational defiance. Regarded • • in the larger musical universe as a pop star of middling heft and occasional principal of tabloid breakup gossip, Mayer actually leads a kind of double life: one as the gooey popster guy who • • sang “Your Body is a Wonderland” Kenneth & Myra Monfort Charitable Foundation, Inc and the other as a pretty plausible blues guitarist of studied and occa•Dan Clemens• •Joel Dyer• sionally ferocious chops. So while many may be loathe to count themselves as fans, one has to admit the pop/blues Jungian duality thing isn’t the type of career prestidigitation that comes along every day, and anybody who can sustain that trick has a resume even the haters have to grudgingly respect. And the bottom line, judging by the press and general diasporic feedback of this franchise, is that the band DJ is actually pretty good. It isn’t hard to King YouTube trace Mayer’s progression in Pyro this, one of rock music’s most storied seats, from their early gigs last fall A Great Group of Helpers through Bonnaroo just a couple of from BJ’s Brewhouse, Boulder weeks ago. His singing isn’t dreadful, and if he trended too literal in his soloing last fall, his playing has grown more relaxed and respectfully evocative of Garcia’s sinewy stream of conFreezer Cat sciousness. Yeah, you do get a sense from time IT TO BENEF to time that maybe he learned his Dead ED BY ORGANIZ canon (which he admitted he first immersed himself in through Sirius XM) a little too well; some of Garcia’s

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oulder’s Colorado Music Festival (CMF) opens its 2016 season June 30 at Chautauqua Auditorium, and no one is more excited than music director Jean-Marie Zeitouni. “I’ve been looking forward to this for more than 10 months,” he says. “It’s the occasion for me to connect again with the orchestra.” Titled “Narratives of Heroism,” the concert will open with Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont and close with Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. In between, violinist Jennifer Koh will perform a heroic feat of her own, playing the wildly virtuosic Violin Concerto of Finnish composer/conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Koh was scheduled to appear at CMF in 2014, when Zeitouni first appeared at Chautauqua as a candidate for music director. An accident forced her to cancel, so she is happy to finally get to Boulder. “I love [the Salonen Concerto],” she says. “I think it’s a great piece. I’m so excited about playing it in Boulder.” Koh is known as an adventurous violinist who commissions and plays a Juergen-Frank

Violinist Jennifer Koh helps the Colorado Music Festival kick of its 2016 season on June 30.

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lot of new music — 32 premieres in “I feel personally very close to it seven days, earlier this year — but also because of the French tradition.” gives stunning performances of the Other than Berlioz, there is very litstandard repertoire. tle of the French tradition on the sum“I get to experience different worlds mer’s orchestra programs — only the through different composers,” she says. Debussy Nocturnes on one concert. “It could be Tchaikovsky, it could be There are works from the standard Bach, it could be Brahms. Or it could Viennese tradition: a Brahms symphony be Salonen. I love that about my life as cycle and works by Mozart and a musician.” Beethoven. There will be newer pieces Salonen wrote the concerto in 2009 and an all-Russian program. (See the as a farewell gift to the Los Angeles whole season schedule at comusic. Philharmonic, where he had been conorg/2016-season/.) ductor for 17 years. A Former music piece that borrows director Michael ON THE BILL: Colorado Music Festival, Opening Night: from diverse traditions, Christie returns for a “Narratives of Heroism.” 7:30 the concerto opens concert July 14 at p.m. Thursday, June 30, with a propulsive Chautauqua. Together Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303movement that reconwith pianist Orion 440-7666. Tickets.chautauqua. figures Bach’s solo vioWeiss, who appeared com. For the 2016 season lin music in a contemmany times at CMF schedule: comusic.org/2016season/ porary idiom. Another during Christie’s tenmovement features ure, he will present rock drumming, and Brahms’s monumental the final movement, First Piano Concerto “Adieux,” is a tender farewell. in D minor. Other works will be pieces “If you love classical music, you’re by Leonard Bernstein and Charles Ives. going to love this piece,” Koh says. “If Sure to be a highlight of the season, you love music in general, you’re going Zeitouni offers his first Mahler at to love this piece. It’s a great ride. It’s CMF, Das Lied von der Erde (Aug. 4 at familiar and contemporary at the same Chautauqua) with soloists Kelly time.” O’Connor, mezzo, and Richard Cox, The same might be said of the tenor. Zeitouni notes that’s one Mahler Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique: it is a piece Christie had not performed as familiar part of the orchestral repertoire, music director. and yet it was a very daring, contempo“The bread and butter of an orchestra rary piece when it premiered in 1830 conductor is a lot of Germanic music,” — only three years Zeitouni says. “Beethoven, Schubert, after Beethoven’s Brahms and Mahler — it’s really part of death. my musical upbringing, [because] I studThe story behind ied for one year at the Vienna Academy. the work is part of its And I’ve done Das Lied von der Erde appeal. It was written for an already now three times.” English actress Berlioz had Adventurous listeners will relish The seen on stage but never met. Tragedy of Carmen, a reconfiguration of The music describes his fanBizet’s opera for chamber orchestra and tasies, ending with a fevered a small cast that was created by theater “Dream of a Witches’ director Peter Brook ( July 10, Sabbath” after the antiChautauqua). “This is the pure essence hero’s execution for murof Carmen,” Zeitouni says. “Most of the spectacular elements der. are gone. It’s more like 97 percent pure The story is “very well alcohol, distilling the essence of the known, but there’s much passion. It’s a kick in the face.” more than that,” Zeitouni In addition to the events listed here, says. “For the time it was there’s a wide range of chamber prowritten, the technique of grams and a contemporary music series composition and orchestration at The Dairy Arts Center. That’s a lot and form and poetic content — of variety, but don’t ask Zeitouni to pick it’s an immense piece. I am lookhis favorites. “That’s like choosing one ing forward to seeing what the of my children,” he laughs. “I’m excited CMF orchestra and I are able to about everything.” draw out of this piece.

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he BolderBoulder has already bounded by. Cottonwood tufts blanket the ground like allergy-nightmare snow. Thermometers regularly top out in the 90s and with University of Colorado’s students on break, there’s a bit more elbowroom all around the town. It’s early summer in beautiful Boulder, and that means it’s time for one of the nation’s most renowned and anticipated Shakespeare festivals, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF), to once again dazzle denizens of delightful theatre. That’s right. It’s time to get your Bard on. This year’s CSF features five plays, four by Shakespeare himself (The Comedy of Errors, Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, and Henry VI – Part 2) and one starring a fictionalized version of him (Equivocation). While the argument will rage eternal as to whether Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, tragicomeON THE BILL: The dies or histories are his Comedy of Errors. Mary Rippon Outdoor best work, it’s no secret Theatre, University of that audiences generally Colorado, 303-492respond most warmly to 8008. Through Aug. 7. Full CSF scedule at the comedies. It is therecoloradoshakes.org. fore no surprise that the 2016 CSF opens with the classic and ever-popular farce, The Comedy of Errors. So seminal are the shenanigans found in The Comedy of Errors that Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers and John Ritter (may he rest in giggling peace) arguably owe their careers to it. For though The Comedy of Errors may have been nearly 400 years old when the sitcom Three’s Company first hit the small screen, its fingerprints are all over the misadventures of the Mr. Roper-dodging roommates Janet, Chrissy and Jack. As is often the case with Shakespeare productions, the setting of The Comedy of Errors has been modernized and relocated. Director Geoffrey Kent’s iteration transforms Ephesus into Paris in the 1930s. Parisian stereotypes, including mimes, accordion players, cancan dancers, berets, copious amounts of wine and omnipresent cigarettes, set a properly comedic tone before the first scene has run its course.

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Though it is obviously Paris, it is still Ephesus, too, and Ephesus remains at odds with rival city Syracuse. Anyone from Syracuse found in Ephesus must pay a hefty fine or face execution. The play Paris in the 1930s provides a fresh backdrop for The Comedy of Errors, now playing at the opens with just such Colorado Shakespeare Festival. an occurrence when Egeon, a Syracusan merchant, is caught in Ephesus. In an attempt to gain some sympathy, Egeon (Howard Swain) tells his woeful tale to the Duke of Ephesus (Coleman Zeigen) have been switched from the original male to female and a rapt Ephesian/Parisian crowd. for this version of The Comedy of Errors. This deciMany years earlier, Egeon’s wife brought twin sion, regardless of its sociological, political or perdaughters into the world, both conveniently named sonal motivations (for example: ire at women earning Antiphola (Carolyn Holding and Kelsey Didion). At $0.79 to every dollar a man earns for the same job or the very same time, another set of twin girls, both people getting their panties in a bunch about phrases named Dromia (Emelie O’Hara and Lindsey Kyler), like “getting your panties in a bunch”), gives were born to a poverty-stricken woman, so Egeon Holding, Didion, O’Hara and Kyler the spotlight, purchased the Dromias to be slave/servants to the and the four women shine brightly in it. The Antipholas. During a shipwreck soon thereafter, requirements of the roles emphasize Holding’s and Egeon, along with one Antiphola and Dromia, was Didion’s verbal dexterity and O’Hara’s and Kyler’s separated from his wife, who had with her the other physical comedic chops, but all four excel in every Antiphola and Dromia. dimension, and I look forward to seeing them in When Egeon’s daughter turned 18, she took other CSF plays this year. Dromia with her to search for her lost mother and The supporting cast delivers uniformly solid persister. Left all alone, Egeon has been trying to reunite formances. A few standouts are Denver-theater phehis family ever since, and that is what brings him to nom Mare Trevathan (how I miss her work at The Ephesus where, coincidentally enough, one Antiphola Bug Theatre) as a no-nonsense Abbess, Sean and Dromia reside and the other Antiphola and Scrutchins as a heavily German-accented physician Dromia have just arrived. Each Antiphola is mistaken and the 12-year-old Avi Levi confidently wearing for the other, as is each Dromia, leading to confusion, some big boy pants as the goldsmith Angelo. multiple instances of slave/servant abuse and barrels of Playing in the singular Mary Rippon Outdoor laughs. Theatre on the University of Colorado’s campus, The The Shakespeare-philes among you may have Comedy of Errors brilliantly kicks off the Colorado noticed that the genders of the two sets of twins Shakespeare Festival and the summer season.

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Just in time for Independence Day, the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) brass ensemble will be playing patriotic tunes and some classic American compositions. Put on your red, white and blue and come escape the summer sun and whistle along to “Stars and Stripes Forever” or “Fanfare for the Common Man.” Led by principle trumpeter and conductor Jeffrey work, the concert won’t just feature songs about America but also some fun musical additions like “Quiddictch” from Harry Potter and Leonard Lebow’s Popular Suite for brass. CMF runs until August. — Katie Porter

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9 p.m. Friday, July 1, Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

The Dead & Company after party has employed the rhythms of two jam bands to keep Courtesy of the Fox Theatre the funk going late into the night. The members of New Orleans’ Dumpstaphunk are bringing their bass and jazzy vibe to the stage. Accompanied by the soothing vocals of founder Ian Neville, Dumpstaphunk boasts complex arrangements combined with soul-filled melodies that appeal to any music lover. Opening for them is multi-Grammy winner and Lettuce co-founder Eric Krasno and ensemble. — Katie Porter

Bassheads should check out this showcase of upcoming electronic artists in the intimate Dicken’s Opera House. From Austin’s music scene is tag-team Blunt Force, who blend deep synths, rap samples and dubstep into unique beats. As of late, they’ve been premiering their crisp glitch-hop at festivals all over the nation. Also hitting the decks is Unexotic, whose futuristic sound features chill down tempos and snares, and a knack for slowed, sexy remixes. The event is an effort to bring in more quality electronic music to Boulder County, so come out and show your support for some dope beats. Tickets are $7. — Katie Porter

Courtesy of Blunt Force

Dance

Colorado Music Festival: Patriotism & Pops — Red, White & Brass.

Jam On

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Open Jam, Boogie Nights Free. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

25th Annual Colorado Watercolor Society State Exhibition. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 28.

Jeff Richards. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971174. Through July 30.

41st Annual Exhibition Western Federation of Watercolor Societies. “Un Río de Cantos Blancos (A River of White Songs)” Ana Maria Hernando Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 28.

Make Your Own Friends — by Brian Bress. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3.

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

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY JUNE 30 8PM

VON DISCO

FRIDAY JULY 1 8PM

RAMAYA & THE TROUBADOURS SATURDAY JULY 2

MOLLY KOLLIER 8PM JACKSON PARTEN 9PM SUNDAY JULY 3

LUCY LANGLAS 8PM AYA MAGUIRE & CELIA GARY 9PM MONDAY JULY 4 8PM “So, You’re a Poet,” presents

AMBROSE BYE, ANNE WALDMAN, CLARK COOLIDGE, THURSTON MOORE, & SPECIAL GUESTS, TED BERRIGAN 33 YEAR MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TUESDAY JULY 5 8PM

THE MATT HUMAN TRIO WEDNESDAY JULY 6 8PM

PURPLE SQUIRREL THURSDAY JULY 7

DANIEL ONDARO 8PM THE BETTER HALVES 9PM FRIDAY JULY 8 8PM

JOSHUA POWELL & THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY 8PM ZEN MUSTACHE 9PM

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Selby Clyman Duo. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Steve Itterly. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Summer Concert Series. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Von Disco. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

arts

We Have Flowers, now at the CU Art Museum through Oct. 22, explores the day and night of flowers.

Ana Maria Hernando: We Have Flowers. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Oct. 22.

Finishing School: BLISS. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 11.

Events Dough. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Betasso Preserve, 377 Betasso Road, Boulder, 303-678-6200.

Janelle Iglesias: Even a Simple Call Can Turn Into a Complex Racket. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through July 9.

On Desert Time. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 8, 2017. Phantom Touch — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3. Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 7. Robert Castellino. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 30. SEED: Disperse. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 4. Ten by Sixty. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 4. Why We Dance. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 14. Women of Abstract Expressionism. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 25.

T-Rex. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Friday, July 1 Music

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

Andrew Sturtz. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Daniella Katzir. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Johnny Woods. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

The Aristocats. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.

The Daryl Nickle Band. 7 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Just Sayin. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Art Lande and the Boy/Girl Band and Funko Moderno. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Aspen Hourglass, KOA, Taylor Scott Band. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Bakerfield Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Blunt Force. 9 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

theater

Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Koxinga, Roka Hueka. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600.

Jennifer M. Koskinen

Live Music by the McPherson Project. 7 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.

The Comedy of Errors. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 7. Equivocation. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 6. Footloose. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 3. Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through July 24.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival takes the Bard’s The Comedy of Errors and sets it in jazz-filled 1930s Paris. Check out BW’s review on page 37.

Troilus and Cressida. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 6.

The Magic Beans, Shakedown Street. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Maya Bennett. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Catfish John. 9 p.m. Sancho’s Boulder Arrow, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.

David Booker. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

The Mojo Medicine Show. 6 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

The CBDs Trio. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

DeadPhish Orchestra. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.

The Prairie Scholars. 8 p.m. Ax and Oar, 160 E. Main St., Lyons, 303-747-3795.

Chainsaw Charley and The Missing Links. 7 p.m. East Simpson Coffee, 414 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-502-7010.

Envy Alo, Good Touch. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The Custom Shop Band. 8 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

First Friday. 6 p.m. Rocky Ridge Music Academy, 3970 Broadway, Unit 201E, Boulder, 303-4491106. Intuit. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900

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Ronnie Shellist Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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For a full schedule of readings, visit naropa.edu/swp-readings

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Short Films by, for, about Women Presented by Naropa University Alternative Break Program Saturday, July 9 & Sunday, July 10 6:30 p.m.

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So Brooklyn, So Boulder, So Percussion. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, Vera Marmelo 303-442-3282.

Thursday, June 30 Comedy Open Microphone. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Western Centuries. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Saturday, July 2 Nancy Williams. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Wild Love Tigress. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Monday, July 4 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Wildwood Roots. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. WoolEye. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Events

Tuesday, July 5 Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore stops by Innisfree to share some of his original writings on July 6. Read about Moore’s poetic life on page 27.

Artist’s Opening Reception: Molly Morning-glory. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Chicken Scratch: Chickens, Dirt and Eggs. 9:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Highway 66, Longmont, 303-776-8688.

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wednesday, July 6 Thurston Moore. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

720-645-2467.

970-259-3555.

Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Molly Kollier, Jackson Parten. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Dough. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

George Nelson Trio. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Exhibition Reception for On and Off the Wall by Betty Busby. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Girls on Top, Johnny O Band, Dotsero, Tunisia. 2 p.m. Village at the Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 720-438-2500.

New Works by Renowned Abstract Artist Peter Burega. 2 p.m. Smithklein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200.

Guerrilla Fanfare. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Sunshine Daydream. 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. T-Rex. 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday, July 2

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

Native Station. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Nikka Garcia. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Onda. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Powerlung Rangers. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Jackson Cloud. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

The Prairie Scholars: Dinner. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphopuse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

The Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Ravin’ Wolf. 12 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Music Antonio Lopez. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Bioharmonix. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-3390767. Boulder Art & JazzFest. 10 a.m. Pearl Street Mall, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774.

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Mestizaje, Hybridity. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., 303-441-3100. Through Aug. 24.

Saturday, July 23 Friday, July 8 Barrio E’ Cultural Nights. 6 p.m. Barrio E’ Centro, 421 Main St., Longmont, 787-914-9554.

Friday, July 29

Saturday, July 9 The Resilience Project. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., 303-441-3100. Through Aug. 24.

Cat Jerky. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Cosmic Mesa. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Dead & Company. 6:30 p.m. Folsom Field, 2400 Colorado Ave., Boulder. DJ Jarymane and DJ Kirbatron. 10 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. Dumpstaphunk, Eric Krasno Band. 11 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder,

Blackbird, Fly: A Concert for Voice, Body and Strings. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Mokomba Ensemble. 11 a.m., Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., 303-441-3100.

Lagers & Lumber Festival. 2 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Los Cheesies. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. The Malah Superjam with Yamn. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Mama Magnolia. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Mitchel Evan & The Mangrove. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville,

Rumpke Mountain Boys. 2 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Sixty Minute Men. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Strangebyrds. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Stu Allen’s Mars Hotel, Catfish John. 12 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.

The Symbols. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Thievery Corporation. 11 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Tim Ostdieks Kickstarter Kick-off/Birthday Show. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Ultralowfi. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. Voz-Eleven. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, Boulder Weekly

events 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. You Knew Me When. 8 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Events Dough. 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. T-Rex. 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

ern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Events Boulder Road Runners Sunday Social Run/ Walk. 8 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. No Ropes Universal. 8 p.m. Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 201-873-6728. Wildflowers of Caribou Ranch. 9 a.m. Caribou

Sunday, July 3 American Babies and Friends. 11 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Aya Maguire & Celia Gary. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Boulder Art & JazzFest. 10 a.m. Pearl Street Mall, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774. Boulder Friends of Jazz Jamm and Dance. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom Boulder, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Danny Shafer. 1 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066. Dead & Company. 6:30 p.m. Folsom Field, 2400 Colorado Ave., Boulder. Eric Stone. 1 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Eric Wiggs Duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Monday, July 4 Music The Accomplices. 6 p.m. Rocky Mountain Oyster Bar, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-1100. Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. West Flanders Brewing Company, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. Boulder Art & JazzFest. 10 a.m. Pearl Street Mall, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774.

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

Kids Play Area! Jumpy Castles Face Painting

JAZZFEST MUSIC SCHEDULE

Melvin Seals and JGB, DeadPhish Orchestra. 12 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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Laramie River Band. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Ravin’wolf The Acoustic Mountain Sagebrush Blues Duo. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Melvin Seals and JGB, DeadPhish Orchestra. 12 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.

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Kort McCumber. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Randall Dubis. 2 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Halden Wofford & The Hi-Beams, Western Centuries. 12 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

ART&JAZZ

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe. 12 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Frogleg. 9:30 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

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Johanna Winkel. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

The Mighty Twisters. 2 p.m. City Park Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-413-7200.

The Fever. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467.

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Tupelo Honey. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Uptown Toodaloo String Band. 10 p.m. SouthBoulder Weekly

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The Mighty Twisters. 8 p.m. Folsom Field, 2400 Colorado Ave., Boulder. Open Stage. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Potluck Bluegrass. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-6298. Rapidgrass, Steve Manshell. 5 p.m. Village at the Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 720-438-2500. Xavier Rudd, Dustin Thomas. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

Events

Music

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Boulder Mountainbike Alliance Beginner MTB Ride. 6 p.m. Various Locations, Boulder, 575-496-3785.

The Accomplices. 6 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Larry Clyman and Chris Howarth. 7 p.m. East Simpson Coffee, 414 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-502-7010.

Celebrate Fourth Of July. 4 p.m. Waneka Lake, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303-673-9124. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Ralphie’s Independence Day Blast 2016. 8 p.m. Folsom Field, 2400 Colorado Ave., Boulder. Tuesday, July 5

Bluegrass Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

The Matt Human Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Honeyhoney, Margaret Glaspy. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Jalbatross (Ryan Jalbert Of The Motet). 8 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway,

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he exhaustive brilliance of both Mad Max: Fury Road and Creed means you can’t dismiss a sequel outright just because of a decades-long gap between it and the previous installment. Unless, of course, it is directed by Roland Emmerich, who isn’t so much a filmmaker as a feces-smearing finger painter. Independence Day: Resurgence is expectedly dumb but surprisingly ugly, with computer-generated chaos replacing anything resembling comprehendible action. Apparently, it took five writers to come up with, “But what if everything was bigger?” Picking up exactly 20 years after the original, the plot of the movie is that the aliens come back. With a bigger ship. And one of the aliens is way bigger. That’s it. It took five writers to come up with that, and one good character beat where a pilot pees on an alien ship while flipping them off. Nobody should get a Writer’s Guild credit for this collection of reckless adjectives and verbs. All the new characters were purchased at the “stock character” The sequel that nobody asked for is here way too late! The shop. You’ve got entire plot of this movie is the aliens from the first movie come back and are bigger. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. roguishly charming fighter pilot, Jake Morrison (Liam Hemsworth); son who is trying to live up to his father, Dylan Hiller ( Jessie T. Usher) and doting girlfriend who can still kick a little butt (not a lot of butt, only boys can kick a lot of butt in movies like this), Patricia Whitmore (Maika Monroe). They join Jeff Goldblum, playing a character whose name isn’t Jeff Goldblum but who should just be called Jeff Goldblum, and Dr. Brakish Okun (Brent Spiner), General Adams (William Fichtner) and President Whitmore (Bill Pullman) from the original. Missing, of course, is Will Smith, whose character is given a humiliating off-screen death and a fake honorary painting. The only things that work here are the weird parts. The pleasurable insanity of watching an African warlord (Deobia Oparei), dressed in militia gear, killing aliens with machetes in space can’t be understated, nor can the unoriginal-but-cool presence of an orb representing another alien race. But most of the movie is just “we only have one shot, let’s make it count” and multiple countdown clocks. Even in terms of spectacle, the movie manages little, substituting volume for verve. The number of times characters state aloud, “That’s huge,” or, “This is even bigger,” is hilarious. As we all know, size only matters when it comes to the hands of presidential candidates. Look, Independence Day: Resurgence was never going to be good, only potentially fun. Much like those of us with English degrees have been told, that potential is wasted. It’s fitting that a film this colossal and misguided believes itself to be truly awesome. You can tell because the final moments explicitly attempt to set up a sequel nobody will be begging for now or in 20 years. Presumably, if there is a third film, it will require 17 writers, feature a spaceship the size of two earths, sport characters that are literal stick figures and still have Jeff Goldblum fully Goldbluming. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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ank has given up. Marooned on a deserted island in the Pacific, he has run ON THE BILL: Swiss Army Man. Century out of food, water and reasons to live. Boulder, 1700 29th St., All he has is trash. Piles and piles of Boulder, 303-444-0583, trash, all of it cast off once it fulfilled its cinemark.com. Tickets start at $7.65. use — just like Hank, completely useless and ready to die. But just as he tries to hang himself, he sees something new. Something different. A person. Lucky for Hank (Paul Dano), the frayed and junky rope snaps and his life is spared. Wheezing and gasping, he runs over to the motionless person who has washed up on shore and finds a body — the cold, rotting corpse of Manny (Daniel Radcliffe, never better). Hank is once again despondent. Desperate for someone to talk to, he pleads with the corpse, attempts to resurrect it, and when all else fails, he starts to open up his heart to it. The corpse begins to fart. A lot. Hank sighs, steals the corpse’s belt and goes back to trying to hang himself. The corpse continues to fart itself silly as the waves draw it back into the sea. But wait, Hank notices that the corpse not only floats, but is being propelled by its ceaseless flatulence. Eureka! Hanks runs into the surf and saddles the tooting beast, ridIn Swiss Army Man, a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) ing him like a jet ski into the serves as the only chance of survival for Hank (Paul Dano). wild blue yonder, whooping like a damn fool while Manny’s puttering posterior propels them into oblivion. The score from Manchester Orchestra soars, the title, Swiss Army Man, appears on the screen and the audience knows that they’re in for one heck of a ride. The title refers to Manny, who is capable of producing any number of feats whenever Hank needs them. Be it gushing water from his mouth, karate-chop limbs that can make cutting firewood a breeze or a mischievous erection, which Hank uses like a divining rod to find his way back to civilization. Manny’s abilities, including talking when Hank needs someone to converse with, are seemingly endless and completely needed. Manny is as useful as Hank is useless to the world — or so he feels. Hank pours his heart out to Manny: embarrassing details about his upbringing, his infatuation with the girl on the bus (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and how to properly behave in a society, even when one doesn’t want to. To illustrate this, Hank crafts a facsimile world for Manny, one composed entirely of trash. Trash is a reoccurring theme. Hank feels like trash, but is handy with it. He can make whole worlds out of it, re-creating the moments most important to him. A fixation, yes, but also a form of analysis. And by casting Manny in the lead role of this make-believe world — with himself in a supporting one — Hank can observe the world from a perspective outside his own. It is hard not to think of Hank as a movie director, building false fronts to understand significant and personal events. That is the end goal to Hank’s game. It’s not far from a reality that many inhabit, but it’s by no means usual. This is the story of a man whose life was saved by a farting corpse, after all. Whatever it takes.

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he Blueberry Man always showed up at the back door of my childhood home on hot summer Saturday mornings. I never knew the name of the stooped older man in worn overalls who walked the neighborhood offering freshly picked wild blueberries by the cup from a full tin pail. I didn’t appreciate how hard he had worked until I tried to pick enough wild blueberries for just one pie and ended up a sore, sweaty wreck. On those summer mornings I wasn’t interested in cereal. I would fill a bowl with those tiny berries, add cold milk and an obscene amount of white sugar. It’s one of those pure, simple combinations that can’t be improved. Occasionally Mom would escape her four kids at home and run away to Boston to get her hair done and shop. Guilt would prompt her to bring home gigantic, sugar-crowned blueberry muffins from the department store Jordan Marsh that were nearly purple inside. Years later, wild blueberries are a hip superfruit, but the only fresh berries we saw in Colorado were those gigantic but hugely flavorless commercial varieties. Yuck. Recently I have tasted some decent but pricey commercial organic blueberries. Blueberries aren’t as standardized as other berries, so what you see in the produce department is really a succession of varieties grown in various places as the season progresses. If you find fresh berries you like on sale, buy lots of them and freeze for later. My solution is to use frozen wild see NIBBLES Page 52

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pretend that your feelings are one-dimensional and easily understandable. In my opinion, you are ripe to receive rich lessons in the beauty and power of mysterious emotions. CAPRICORN DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Pop artist Andy Warhol said that in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. His idea had a resonance with the phrase “nine days’ wonder,” which as far back as Elizabethan times referred to a person or event that captured the public’s fascination for a while. You Capricorns are entering a phase when you’re far more likely than usual to bask in the spotlight. Between now and September 2017, I bet you’ll garner at least a short burst of glory, acclaim or stardom — perhaps much more. Are you ready for your close-up? Have you prepped for the influx of attention that may be coming your way? AQUARIUS JAN. 20-FEB. 18: One of my readers, Jay O’Dell, told me this story: “After my cancer surgery, a nurse said to me, ‘You may as well try magical thinking. Regular thinking hasn’t helped.’ I said to the nurse, ‘Well, why the hell not?’ That was seven years ago.” In bringing O’Dell’s testimony to your

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Dear Dan: Is it a super douchey move to pretend to be a lesbian to avoid unwanted male attention? I’m a straight single woman in my mid-thirties and a very plausible lesbian in terms of sartorial stereotypes. Occasionally a guy will hit on me in an awkward or creepy way, and I’ll trot out a line © LaRae Lobdell about “not being into men.” Most recently I used this pose when a courier broke down in my driveway and I invited him in for a glass of water while he waited for the tow truck. It was really uncomfortable and a little threatening when — after establishing that I lived alone — he asked me out. I guess I use this as an excuse so as not to hurt their feelings, but also to shut the conversation down as quickly as possible if I’m feeling vulnerable. Is this a harmless white lie or a major cop-out that would offend actual lesbians? Can you suggest some better strategies for when you’re feeling cornered by a dude you’re not interested in? — Lady’s Entirely Zany Identity Enquiry

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Dear LEZIE: “I’m not offended by this,” says someone I thought was an actual lesbian. I shared your question with this person — a woman I thought was an actual lesbian — because I wasn’t offended by it either, but wanted to check with an actual lesbian just to be safe. Turns out my friend doesn’t identify as a lesbian, but as a womanwho-loves-women-but-does-not-identify-as-a-lesbian-because-she-sometimes-finds-the-odd-dude-hot. So for the record: my friend is speaking for the WWLWBDNIAALBSSFTODH community here — which often intersects/sexts with the lesbian community — and not the lesbian community. “But even though I’m not offended by it, I have to say I’ve found the ‘I’m into women’ line to be totally ineffective,” my not-a-lesbian friend says. “The creeps I’ve used it on get even more riled up after hearing that line. Sometimes I check out and start ignoring these creeps as if they’re wallpaper, but that can rile them up too. Same with a polite ‘I’m not interested.’ The

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only success I’ve had with warding off creeps is by actually yelling at them, asking them if they’d like to be treated the way they’re treating me, and if their mothers, sisters, et cetera, would appreciate that treatment.” My not-a-lesbian friend — who, as it turns out, identifies more strongly with the term “bisexual” than she does WWLWBDNIAALBSSFTODH — has also had some luck with the loseyour-shit strategy (e.g., screaming, yelling and waving your arms around like a crazy person). “You kind of have to treat these people like bears at a campsite,” my not-a-lesbian friend says. “You have to make yourself big and loud and scary so they don’t get closer. Because they will get closer.” Dear Dan: I have a difficult question. A dear young friend has recently started being a stripper for work. I won’t lie: It tears me up. All I feel is sadness and worry — such a nice soul for what I feel is a notso-nice environment. I really hope I’m wrong. Is there any way in which this can be okay? My thoughts are that no matter how strong a woman is, no one can forget

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he words “marijuana” and “golf ” have rarely appeared together in the same sentence since the invention of English, but the times they are a-changing. Last week, Johnny Green at The Weed Blog (theweedblog. com) reported that three marijuana-themed golf tournaments will take place this summer, including one that will be held in Broomfield. The latter is The Ricky Williams Laurel Rosebud Golf Invitational, scheduled to take place on Monday, July 11 at the Omni Interlocken Golf Course in Broomfield. A dinner, awards ceremony and auction will follow the action on the greens. The tournament will benefit the nonprofit mission of the Laurel Rosebud Fund, described as “a nonpartisan public policy organization dedicated to ensuring our cannabis laws reflect thoughtful and contemporary notions of economic growth and fairness, respect for individual rights, and social balance and wellbeing in communities throughout the United States.” Ricky Williams is the 1998 Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Texas, who played for the New Orleans Saints, Miami Dolphins and Baltimore Ravens before retiring in 2011. During his career with the Dolphins, he ran afoul of the NFL anti-marijuana policy and missed the 2004 season with the Dolphins as a result. He has said he used marijuana to treat depression and social anxiety disorder. Following his retirement, he has become a strong advocate of marijuana policy reform in professional sports and throughout the U.S. An earlier marijuana-themed golf tournament took place on June 26 at the Park Hill Golf Club in Denver. Premium Pete’s Cannabis and High Rollers dispensary partnered with The Hemp Connoisseur Magazine to host the Cannabis Charity Open, which benefitted the Denver Colorado AIDS project. The tournament sponsors said, “As part of an industry born by the will of the voters, we feel it is important to give back to our community. By sponsoring the charitable golf tournament in Denver, we hope to help those affected by HIV/AIDS to live healthier, more comfortable lives.”

The third tournament, the second annual Fore Twenty Golf Tournament, will take place in Portland, Oregon June 30. It’s described as a tourney which gives cannabis industry professionals an opportunity “to fortify deals and build relationships on the golf course.” The tournament is billed “as the largest cannabis golf tournament in the Northwest” and has players representing 55 different cannabis brands from Oregon signed up. Former NBA all-star and current sports cannabis activist Cliff Robinson will be in attendance. He’s been active in trying to get marijuana accepted as an alternative to addictive pain killers in sports. In September, the tournament’s sponsor, Fore Twenty Sports, intends to sponsor two additional tournaments, one of which will be open to the public. What makes all this remarkable is that it is so unremarkable. Golf is probably the last sport on earth that one would associate with stoners. Yet suddenly marijuana-themed golf tournaments are all the rage. Golf is probably the most bourgeois of sports, one that in the popular imagination is seen, unfairly perhaps, as more likely to be played by the boss than the workers. What is important here is that the advent of marijuana-themed golf tournaments as an indication of marijuana is transcending the counter-culture and becoming a part of American middle-class culture. In terms of ending the war on pot, that may be as important a development as legalization initiatives because it represents a fundamental change in how marijuana is perceived. Seventy years of reefer madness has left marijuana with a cultural stigma that remains even after it has been legalized. Thus some Niwot residents are more frightened by a proposed marijuana dispensary in the town than the dozen liquor outlets functioning within a block or two of it — despite the fact that liquor outlets are far less stringently regulated and far more likely to be the scene of offensive or violent behavior. Those sorts of fears will persist until marijuana is no longer seen as abnormal. Associating pot with normal middle-class activities, like golf tournaments, is a major step toward its normalization.

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