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f you think that none of today’s presidential candidates care about people like you, check out Republican Scott Walker. The Wisconsin governor not only cares, he wants to sit down with you, get your ideas and stay in close touch. No matter who you are, Scottie wants you to join his team, so his presidency can be your presidency! Not a Republican?

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guest commentary The bombing of Judi Bari by BariNews

ay 24, 2015, marked the 25th anniversary of the 1990 bombing of logging reform activist Judi Bari. The bombing remains an unsolved crime. Here is a brief recap of the historical and political context of the bombing and attempted framing of Judi Bari by the FBI and Oakland Police. In the spring of 1990, the Forests Forever Initiative, officially Proposition 130, had just qualified for the November 1990 ballot. If passed, it would have outlawed clearcutting, required actual sustained yield logging, put real teeth in the forest practice rules and their enforcement, and ended industry domination of the state Board of Forestry. It would also place a moratorium on logging the remaining oldgrowth redwood forests. Had it passed, it would have totally blocked the liquidation logging plans of Georgia Pacific (GP), Louisiana Pacific (LP), and especially Pacific Lumber, which had only four years earlier been taken over by corporate raider Charles Hurwitz and his Maxxam Corporation of Houston, Texas. Early polling showed the initiative was supported by a strong majority of Californians.  Passage of Prop. 130 would have caused losses in the billions of dollars to Pacific Lumber alone, and hundreds of millions more in losses to GP and LP. The three corporations launched an all-out, multimillion dollar effort to defeat the initiative.  Redwood Summer was a summerlong campaign of nonviolent protests and demonstrations intended to prevent the three biggest redwood logging corporations from preemptive clearcutting of the forests of Mendocino and Humboldt counties before passage of Prop. 130 could be passed. Judi Bari said so to local radio and TV interviewer Ed Kowas early in 1990, before the planned protest campaign was even named Redwood Summer. Shortly after, a news story by Mike Geniella in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat quoted Judi Bari calling for a nationwide turnout of protesters for a summer-long campaign of nonviolent demonstrations. That story was carried by The Associated Press and appeared in news8 June 4, 2015

papers nationwide, resulting in a huge response from people wanting to join in. It also made Judi Bari the best known logging opponent and organizer, and thereby made her a target of the corporations that would be impacted by forest practices reform.  It was in this context that a pipe bomb was placed under Bari’s car seat and exploded, maiming and very nearly killing her, as she traveled through Oakland on an organizing trip for Redwood Summer. Oakland Police, at the behest of the FBI, arrested Bari within hours of the explosion, announcing to the media that she and her passenger, fellow organizer Darryl Cherney, were terrorists who had been blown up by their own bomb while on their way to do a terror bombing. The false arrest and the bogus terrorist accusations discredited Judi Bari and the Earth First! movement, and chilled plans for their nonviolent Redwood Summer campaign. All this was used by corporate PR agents to create public distrust of all the environmentalist groups who worked to support Prop. 130, and ultimately to cause the initiative’s electoral defeat by a few percentage points when November 1990 rolled around.  Now, 25 years after the bombing, the crime remains unsolved. Bari died in 1997 of cancer, but she was exonerated of the false accusations by police and FBI that she was blown up by her own bomb. In 2002, a federal jury in Oakland delivered a $4.4 million civil judgment against the Oakland police and FBI agents who had falsely accused and arrested her and Cherney. Fully 80 percent of the damages were for violation of their First Amendment rights to speak out and organize politically in defense of the forests. The jury agreed that the cops deliberately — not mistakenly — used false arrest and false and defamatory terrorism accusations in order to shut down their organizing of Redwood Summer. One of the first rules of crime investigation is to follow the money. That is, to look at who might have a financial motive to commit the crime. As sketched out above, if Prop. 130 had passed, three logging corporations would have been blocked from making

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somewhere between $2 billion and $3 billion over the next 10 to 20 years. That’s Billions with a capital B. Their campaign to defeat it leaned heavily on the Bari bombing, and especially the false terrorist charges that had filled the headlines for weeks after the bombing, kept alive by police dribbling out claims of more and more evidence that Bari was the culprit rather than the victim of attempted murder. One of their campaign leaflets called for industry supporters to “Defeat the Earth First Initiative” saying “It’s too extreme.” History has proved the environmental critics correct. The defeat of Prop. 130 allowed all three of the companies to continue clearcutting northern California’s unique redwood forests for another two decades until they were so logged over and depleted that GP and LP closed their sawmills and sold off the battered forest lands, and Pacific Lumber was driven into bankruptcy by Charles Hurwitz, who lined his own pockets with hundreds of millions in the process. When the GP Fort Bragg mill closed in 2002, the Mendocino Coast was left without a single remaining sawmill for the first time since the 1850s, when white men first came here to log the redwoods.  The Bari bombing crime remains unsolved 25 years later because it was never honestly investigated by authorities, who were in fact engaged in a campaign of disinformation intended to pin the crime on the victim. Evidence produced during the 2002 civil rights case and trial against the Oakland and federal defendants showed that they only investigated environmental activists as potential suspects. They did nothing whatsoever to investigate the corporations and their agents despite a clear, multibillion

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dollar motive to target their bestknown and most effective opponent as part of a plan to derail Redwood Summer and ultimately to defeat Prop. 130. The crime remains unsolved because what police agency can you turn to when the FBI itself was involved in it? Darryl Cherney has continued to pursue evidence in the case and offers a $50,000 reward. He has asked the Mendocino County Sheriff to investigate. The sheriff ’s office reportedly said it will look for evidence that the crime originated in Mendocino County, which would give it jurisdiction. With director Mary Liz Thomson, Cherney also produced the new documentary film about the case. It has been showing at film festivals and in limited theatrical showings around the country over the past year. The film is titled Who Bombed Judi Bari?. It is based on Judi Bari’s own telling of the story while under oath just a month before her death. As Judi speaks, the picture shifts to show the events and happenings she describes, using activist documentary video footage. The film is available on DVD. See www.whobombedjudibari.com. For more information about the case, please refer to in-depth reporting on the case by the Albion Monitor, one of the first online newspapers, at www.albionmonitor.com/bari. Although the Monitor ceased publishing in 2009, a full archive of its 14 years of content is still online. See also www.judibari. org for an archive of legal documents, news coverage of the case, and many of Judi Bari’s own writings. Courtesy barinews@judibari.org This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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ecently, the Pentagon announced it was launching a multi-million dollar decade-long 50th anniversary “commemoration” of the Vietnam war in “partnership” with more than 10,000 corporations and local groups which are to sponsor hometown events. Its website presents a fairy tale of “honor” and “valor.” Historian Christian Appy, who has authored several books on the war, says the website is “a masterwork of disproportion, distortion and omission.” Tom Hayden — a leader of the movement against the war — started a petition against this one-sided whitewashed history. It was quickly signed by almost 1,500 people, including many prominent historians. In May, Hayden and others convened a conference in Washington, D.C. called “Vietnam: The Power of Protest.” Featured speakers included former Congressman Ron Dellums of California who chaired the House Armed Services Committee and former Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado. Hayden told the crowd that powerful forces are engaged in “historic cleansing.” He said, “It serves their purpose because they have no interest in the true history of a war in which they sent thousands to their deaths and, almost before the blood had dried, were moving up the national security ladder and showing up for television interviews to advertise what they called the next cakewalks. Only the blood was caked.” Dellums said that one of his first acts as a Congressman in 1971 was to take a small annex to his office and mount an exhibit of atrocities committed by the U.S. in Vietnam. He called for a full-fledged congressional investigation of war crimes but was unsuccess-

ful. He did hold limited ad hoc hearings on war crimes. As a condition of room use, press and cameras were prohibited. After the My Lai massacre was exposed by a courageous soldier and an investigative reporter with a marginal press service, U.S. war crimes began to be discussed somewhat in the mainstream media. However, most people had no idea that there were many massacres like My Lai. Telford Taylor, a retired U.S. army general who was the chief prosecutor of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, argued that the U.S. was just as criminal in Vietnam and Cambodia as the Nazis during World War II. The commemoration website’s timeline makes a few trivial mentions of the anti-war movement which was one of the most significant social movements in U.S. history which included many active duty soldiers and veterans of the war. There is no mention of Secretary of State John Kerry’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971. The angry young Kerry was then a leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). He told the panel about the VVAW’s “Winter Soldier Investigation” hearings in Detroit that year where “over 150 honorably discharged and many highly decorated, veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia.” He pointed out that these crimes were “not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.” He went on to describe the testimony of his fellow veterans who “personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs,

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blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam...” Kerry was talking about face-to-face atrocities. But U.S. bombing of Southeast Asia produced many My Lais from above. Historian Marilyn Young notes: “Throughout World War II, in all sectors, the United States dropped 2 million tons of bombs; for Indochina the total figure is 8 million tons, with an explosive power equivalent to 640 Hiroshima-size bombs. Three million tons were dropped on Laos, exceeding the total for Germany and Japan by

both the U.S. and Great Britain. For nine years, an average of one planeload of bombs fell on Laos every eight minutes. In addition, 150,000 acres of forest were destroyed through the chemical warfare known as defoliation. For South Vietnam, the figure is 19 million gallons of defoliant dropped on an area comprising 20 percent of South Vietnam—some 6 million acres.” Fifty years have passed and historical memories of that horrible war are being replaced by comfortable fantasies. This country is at war in several nations at this moment while too many share a complacent militarist worldview. It’s time for a national conversation about what our role in the world should be. Boulder Weekly

letters most people did. I never believed that looting and burning down businesses would solve anything and would certainly not bring him back. My AfricanAmerican brothers and sisters please refrain from engaging in violence as it will only exacerbate the situation. But rather let our two communities come together in reconciliation and love to make Cleveland once again the best location in the nation if for no other reason than to have achieved racial harmony once and for all. Joe Bialek/ Cleaveland, Ohio

around on this and just sign the bill already.” Kelly Maher, Executive Director Compass Colorado/Denver

FairTax please

Harry Reid called our income tax system a voluntary one. He wants you to think it’s just like giving to your church or charity. Giving is an emotional act, usually done from the heart. Americans give to many causes, more than any other nation on Earth. We are

a giving people George W. Bush once advanced the scariest idea I’d ever heard of. In 2001 The CATO Institute reported “President George W. Bush has proposed that faith-based charities be made eligible to receive billions of dollars in federal grants to provide social services.” Government would have decided which religious organizations received funding. Someone in Washington D. C. would hand out favors to his or her best choice.

When government hands out your tax dollars, is that giving? More than likely the IRS would have been in charge of selecting the “proper” receivers of these monies. Someone like Lois Lerner would choose between Catholics or Baptists or Lutherans, etc. I mention this to contrast it with the theft that is our current tax system. You have no say in how much they take. They want to crush your hope, work harder and they take more. The FairTax is voluntary. Al Ose/Wisconsin Rapids, WI

Heat and water

Now, before, the Flat Earth Society chimes in with barbs about the recent prolonged and near-epic spring storm, it is time to align the record with reality. First, weather is really nothing more than rising air. Second, heat cause air to rise. Third, warmer air holds more moisture than cooler. And from where might additional heat in the atmosphere originate? Why is there more heat in it? Don’t ask “The [Climate] Inquisition!” Does anyone gain a sense of why I voted against Longmont’s flood-mitigation bond? It’s because I am certain all this misery will return, and more frequently. This is likely to be so wherever anyone lives. In short, I think we must unfortunately grow accustomed to more of the same. Or we could pretend it isn’t happening. Gregory Iwan/Longmont

Hick’s indecision is showing again

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper told Colorado Public Radio that he’s considering a veto of the bipartisan legislation to outlaw red light cameras in the state. Striking a similar non-committal tone to many statements about controversial issues over the years, the Governor said he didn’t really have the correct facts, despite access to several studies, and called for further investigation of the issue: “Part of this, as is often the case, it’s hard to get the real facts. Part of me wants to go to the Department of Transportation and say, ‘Why don’t we do our own study,’ and once and for all, in Colorado, try and gather the data and see does this make a difference or not?” We hear this same ‘we need more facts and to study this further’ refrain from the Governor of Denver regularly. This is a compromise bill that was agreed to by the leadership of both major parties,” said Kelly Maher, executive director of Compass Colorado. “Hickenlooper should stop pussyfooting Boulder Weekly

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Still lost in limbo

Will new Native American burial law bring Jim Thorpe and others home? by Elizabeth Miller

hen Olympic athlete and to their namesake. There was talk of staNative American footdiums, museums and hospitals to bear ball legend Jim Thorpe the athlete’s name, and perhaps even the died in 1953, there Football Hall of Fame, none of which wasn’t money in his came to fruition. bank account to send his body back to In the end, Jim Thorpe was laid to his native state of Oklahoma, where he rest in a small, quiet park on the eastern wanted to be buried. He didn’t have his edge of the Borough, in a mausoleum of Olympic medals for the decathlon and red stone engraved with images of the pentathlon events he won, either. They’d athlete that’s now accompanied by statbeen confiscated several months after the ues of him throwing a discus and run1912 Olympic Games — during which ning with a football clutched to his ribs. the Swedish king had declared him the Since 2010, three of Jim Thorpe’s greatest athlete in the world — when sons, John “Jack”, William and Richard, word came out that he’d once been paid have been embroiled in a court battle $2 to play a baseball game and Wikimedia Commons/U.S. National Archives and Records Administration was therefore disqualified as a professional athlete. The medals were returned decades after his death, given to his children in 1982. But what also happened after his death was that Jim Thorpe and his sons had something else taken from them that they’re still fighting to rectify decades later. A descendant of several tribes, Jim Thorpe had chosen to become a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, and he had told his children time and again that when he died, he wanted to be returned to Indian country in Oklahoma and be given a traditional burial ceremony before being interred in a cemetery he’d share with his father. Jim Thorpe was a multi-sport After he died, money was athlete, playing professional football and winning multiple raised to bring Jim Thorpe Olympic medals. back to Oklahoma, where his children and members of his nation met his body to prepare him for his journey out of this life. The with the Borough that bears their father’s traditional ceremony was underway name to see their father’s remains when his estranged third wife, Patsy returned to Oklahoma where his burial Thorpe, walked in with law enforcement ceremony could be completed. On June officers. That anyone would interrupt 3, their lawyer filed paperwork asking the was an idea so foreign that the tribal U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case. members present were frozen in surprise. If the court takes it, it may be the first They didn’t know how to respond as the ruling on the Native American Graves officers carried Jim Thorpe’s casket away. Protection and Repatriation Act, the law Patsy then undertook negotiations invoked by Jim Thorpe’s sons. If the curwith bidders for his remains, and the rent court ruling is allowed to stand, the highest bidder, it turned out, was a pair Native American Rights Fund cautions it of slumping former coal mining towns may create exemptions that undermine in Pennsylvania, Mauch Chunk and East the law’s efficacy. Mauch Chunk, that had hopes of acquiring a tourist attraction and a little An Oklahoma runaway economic income. The towns united becomes a professional under the name the Borough of Jim athlete Thorpe, and promised a “fitting tribute” Jim Thorpe was born to parents who 12 June 4, 2015

were both half-white and half-Native American in a one-room cabin on 160 acres in Oklahoman Sac and Fox territory. He was given the Native American name “Wa Ha Thuk” meaning “The Bright Path the Lightning Makes as It Goes Across the Sky.” He had a twin brother, Charlie, and both boys were sent at age 6, as was mandatory, to the Sac and Fox Indian Agency School in Stroud, Okla., 23 miles from home. “When they got there, they couldn’t come home. They didn’t come home for anything — not summer weekends, holidays or anything,” says Linda Frick, manager of Jim Thorpe House in Yale, Okla. She’s been through news articles and letters written to and by Jim Thorpe in an effort to get to know the man whose house she has guided tours through since 2008. “It was trying to make them more white, and it actually was fairly brutal. They were pretty rough on the kids.” Even at that young age, Jim Thorpe could manage by himself in the woods. He regularly ran away, the first time jumping off the wagon his father had pulled up the school’s front door, running right out the back door and beating his father home, Frick says, “and for that, he got the razor strap.” So Jim Thorpe, 9 years old, was off in the woods by himself when small pox swept through the school, and his brother Charlie got pneumonia and died. “Some of the things that he had said about it later on, you knew that it really bothered him,” Frick says. “He felt like the reason he had so much ability was that he was carrying the strength for him and his brother too.” Jim Thorpe’s father sent him to schools farther and farther away, from Stroud to one in Lawrence, Kan., where Jim discovered baseball, and then finally to Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Penn. “His father thought if he could get him to go to Kansas, it would be too far for him to run away,” Frick says. “But got news that his mother was ill with blood poisoning from childbirth. … He

asked for permission to go home to check on his mother, and they denied it. He walked almost 300 miles to get home that time.” She died, and shortly after his father convinced him to enroll at Carlisle, his father was in a hunting accident and died as well. “Jim didn’t really have any place to run off to after that,” Frick says. His father sent him to the Carlisle Indian School to learn a trade, but Carlisle was the birthing ground for American football as we know it, and Jim Thorpe was there as Carlisle football coach Glenn Scobey “Pop” Warner led the charge to make or break the rules on the way to creating America’s iconic game. Jim Thorpe was instrumental in leading the football team to wins against college teams from the U.S. Army and Navy, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Pennsylvania and Nebraska. Pop Warner didn’t really want him to play football, Frick says, he wanted him to play track and field, and he was afraid he would get hurt in a game at that point still played mostly without rules or pads. “But that was Jim’s first love, and he had a football someone had made him from Lawrence, Kan., there at the Indian school, and it was leather stuffed with rags and he just wouldn’t have it any other way,” Frick says. “He was studying to be a tailor while he was at school, but of course we all know that didn’t happen.” As a professional football player between 1915 and 1928, he played for the Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, Oorang Indians, Rock Island Independents, New York Giants and Chicago Cardinals. He played for the Bulldogs for $250 a game, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which inducted him in 1963. “While Thorpe’s exploits tend to be exaggerated with the passing years, there is no question he was superb in every way,” his Pro Football Hall of Fame biography reads. “He could run with speed as well as bruising power. He could pass and catch passes with the best, punt long distances and kick field goals either by drop kick or placekick. “Often, he would demonstrate his kicking prowess during halftime by placekicking field goals from the 50-yard line, then turning and dropkicking through the opposite goal post. He Boulder Weekly

blocked with authority and, on defense, The team didn’t have a home field, so was a bone-jarring tackler.” they were on the road all the time, Frick He eventually competed in 20 differ- says, and if the team fell behind in a ent sports, including baseball, which he game, Jim Thorpe would suit up and played professionally in the major play with them. leagues for six seasons, figure skating, Through the Great Depression and lacrosse, handball, tennis, boxing and he the years that followed, he did whatever even won an intercollegiate ballroom had to be done to make money, and it dancing championship in 1912. He also wasn’t always sports. earned gold medals for the pentathlon “He dug ditches, acted in and decathlon in the 1912 Wikimedia Commons/Doug Kerr Olympics. He moved to Yale, current population about 1,300, in 1917, with his first wife, Iva, who he’d met at Carlisle. They had one small child and another on the way and wanted to be closer to her family and were also only roughly 30 miles away from the town where he’d grown up. Their two-bedroom house This memorial sits on the grave of was a Montgomery Ward Jim Thorpe in the Pennsylvania home, ordered out of a catalog town that bears his name. in 1915. The Thorpe family was second to own the house, equipped for the time with all the modern amenities of cold running Hollywood, was in the Merchant water, electricity and sewer and gas lines. Marine, called dances — just anything It had a large front porch and screened he could do to make money, he did,” she back porch that, until recently, looked says. “The reason he moved so much out onto open space where Jim Thorpe around was because he was following the used to hunt raccoons, squirrels and rab- ball playing, and then of course he did bits with an airedale bred by the founder speeches, if somebody wanted him to of the Oorang Indians football team. give a talk, and he made a little money “The Indian guys, when they hunted off that, and he did Indian powwows.” they would run with the dogs. Most of Jim Thorpe married three times, and your regular people that weren’t quite had eight children, four each to his first that talented would just listen to the two wives, and none with his third, dogs run and when they treed, they’d go Patricia. His first marriage, to Iva, with to them,” Frick says. “But Jim actually whom he had Jim Jr., Gail, Charlotte, would run with the dogs.” and Grace, became troubled after Jim Next door is a cabin that is much Jr.’s death, and ended in divorce, the like the one Jim was born in and lived in Shawnee, Okla. News-Star reported. until he was 6. With his second wife Freda Kilpatrick, The Oklahoma Historical Society he had Carl Phillip, William, Richard bought the house in 1968 and restored and John “Jack” before their divorce in it, and it’s now frequented by tourists 1941. and school groups. His first wife, Iva, He died in 1953 in Lomita, Calif., of came back in 1970 and drew the layout a heart attack. and furniture for each room “down to For a while, the Jim Thorpe House the spindles,” Frick says, and then she had his Olympic medals, taking them to helped to fill them with personal effects the bank vault to store each evening and she had saved — clothing, their daughbringing them back in the morning. The ters’ dolls, the quilt handmade by nuns State of Oklahoma, worried about secuthat they bought in France on their rity, took possession of them in 1993, round-the-world honeymoon trip, her and promptly lost them, Frick says, then purses, the suitcase Jim took on tour and figured out a night janitor had taken family photos that show Jim Thorpe them, got them returned and handed proudly holding his first son, Jim Junior, them off to a museum for safer keeping. who died in that house when he was 3 “We still have Jim’s amateur medals, years old. or at least what’s left of them. He let the Jim Thorpe was often on the road at children play with them and they lost a that point, playing for professional footlot of them, and he was known to give ball, baseball and basketball teams. Just a them to friends,” Frick says. “He would few years ago, someone unearthed a have given you the shirt off his back if ticket to a Jim Thorpe basketball team you wanted it.” game; that there ever was such a team The first thing she points out on any had long been forgotten. He coached, tour of the home are the images that too, the Oorang Indians out of Ohio. hang over the mantle of Black Hawk Boulder Weekly

and Whirling Thunder, his son, Sac and Fox heroes from the Thunder Clan from which Jim Thorpe was descended. Black Hawk was his hero, she says. As far as the case to bring him back to Oklahoma, she says, she wouldn’t argue against bringing him all the way back to Yale, but it seems important to at least bring him back to the Nation. “The Sac and Fox believe that if the body doesn’t return to where it was formed, the soul walks the earth, and I can understand why his sons want his body back here. That would be a terrible thought to think he was still walking the earth,” Frick says.

An unfinished ceremony The details of the Sac and Fox Nation burial ceremony are kept to tribal members, but it’s a multi-day event that includes an evening feast with some of the deceased’s favorite foods and some sacred foods before tribal members sit up with the body all night. Then there’s also a namereturning ceremony, in which an Indian name goes back to its clan, and a process by which the dead are given supplies and preparations to take on the journey, and then a ceremony in which they are sent on their way. “What we do is we prepare them for the other side, and then there are other ceremonies after somebody dies that we do so that we send them on, but he didn’t even get to finish. He didn’t even get to finish his burial ceremony,” says Sandra Kaye Massey, director of historic preservation for the Sac and Fox Nation. That first evening meal was underway when Patsy arrived. “He’s kind of in limbo because we didn’t get to finish.” The ceremony can’t be completed with his body in a crypt in Pennsylvania because part of it involves physically preparing him to go and giving him food from the feast. Were his body returned to the Sac and Fox Nation, they’d finish that ceremony to release him from the inbetween no one expects to spend an eternity in. “We’re thinking about him, what he wanted, how he believed,” Massey says. “I can’t imagine that it’s not going to be a great thing to have him back because that’s what he wanted and that’s what the law intended to happen.” The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was created to protect Native American burial sites and see those remains and cultural artifacts that were collected as curiosities and museum pieces returned to tribes. It applied to federal agencies and museums, but also

to any entity that held Native American remains and received federal funding. Native Americans have witnessed desecrations such as Geronimo’s skull being stolen from his grave — a still unresolved case — and an order issued in 1868 by the Surgeon General that Army field officers send Native American skeletons to him to study. An estimated 100,000 to 2 million deceased Native Americans were dug up from their graves for storage or display by government agencies, museums, universities and tourist attractions, according to the NAGPRA. The law created the first opportunity for Native Americans to demand that their remains and those of their ancestors be treated as the remains of people, and not artifacts. Human remains were recalled from the shelves of museums and universities and buried as close as possible to original burial grounds — back in the original gravesite, if that’s an option, according to Massey, who works on the Sac and Fox Nation’s repatriation cases. For Jim Thorpe, she says, “It rights a great wrong, I think, because he did say that he wanted to be buried in a traditional way, and for especially the traditional community it’s like yes, you do deserve to be heard.” Because NAGPRA didn’t exist when Thorpe died, the tribe had no recourse to make their wishes and rights heard over those of Jim Thorpe’s wife. The latest court ruling in Jim Thorpe’s case, Massey argues, misunderstands their intent. “They’re making it sound like we want to use this law to go dig people up and that’s not what we’re trying to do, and in this case, he did not get to finish his ceremony,” Massey says. Jim Thorpe died without a will, but, she says, that’s how Sac and Fox Nation members are. She knows that her family would make sure her remains were given a burial in their tradition if she were to die. It goes without saying, and in that culture, often without writing down. “He is a tribal member, he wanted a traditional Sac and Fox ceremony and that’s extremely important to those of us who believe in our traditional ways,” she says. For 13 days after he died, his wife did nothing about it. Family members picked him up. Others arranged for the money for him to be returned to Oklahoma from where he’d died in California. No one heard from Patsy — they weren’t divorced, but separated. He’d told his children time and again he wanted to be buried in Oklahoma in the traditional way, and those preparations began. Massey’s mother was at the ceremony when Patsy entered. See THORPE Page 14

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“Nobody has ever come in and interfered like this,” Massey says. “Nobody has ever taken somebody away in the middle, so everybody was in shock.”

The deal Patsy made When Patsy began the search for a place to bury her husband, the story goes, she heard of an economically sinking town in Pennsylvania and approached the towns of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk. Local newspaperman Joe Boyle saw an opportunity to unify the towns, and there was a sense that the athlete’s potential grandiose tributes — the stadiums and museums — would draw tourists to a town losing its other industries. Boyle orchestrated the town’s end of the deal. In the agreement signed in 1954 between Patricia Thorpe and the Boroughs of East Mauch Chunk and Mauch Chunk, Patsy’s right to decide the disposition of his remains was reasserted (and has since been echoed by the town’s legal representation). If Patsy was personally given any form of compensation, it’s not mentioned. The Borough promised to provide a “suitable site within the limits of said consolidated borough of ‘Jim Thorpe,’ Pennsylvania, for the internment of the remains of Jim Thorpe above ground and further agreed to provide for perpetual care thereof as a public shrine under borough supervision.” They did. Statues were erected, and a stone mausoleum was built and etched with images of Thorpe as an athlete competing in various sports; all paid for by the town and its members. The mausoleum is said to sit atop soil from his home state, Oklahoma, as well as ballfields that were the site of his athletic conquests and the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm. He was buried wearing a favorite white buckskin jacket and with a rosary. He was interred there in 1957, four years after his death, over the objections of several of his eight children, as well as the Sac and Fox Nation. The agreement Patsy signed also stated that neither she nor any of her heirs would remove or cause to be removed Jim Thorpe’s body from the town, for as long as the towns were officially known and designated as Jim Thorpe. The Borough of Jim Thorpe in northeastern Pennsylvania, an hour and a half outside Philadelphia, is home to about 5,000 people. The Borough’s economic landscape has been dominated at various turns by coal mining, railroads and textile industry. Now, tourism is the major draw. In recent years, it was second only to Niagara Falls for the number of tourists, Borough of Jim Thorpe Mayor Michael Sofranko says. 14 June 4, 2015

The Borough now celebrates its namesake’s May 28 birthday each year with a weekend of festivities. Jim Thorpe’s grandson, John Thorpe, who shares the Borough’s opinion that Jim Thorpe stay in the town, and Sitting Bull’s great-grandson, Ernie La Pointe, as well as other guests from the Carlisle Indian School, participated in a tribute at Jim Thorpe’s mausoleum this year. Plenty of shop owners throughout town have told previous reporters that the grave isn’t a big draw for tourists — the recreation, the opera, even the shopping are. But few people frequent the athlete’s grave. In a Sports Illustrated interview, a community leader was quoted as saying, “Mention Jim Thorpe and nobody knows what you’re talking about … [a]ll we got is a dead Indian.”

The lawsuit the Thorpe sons brought In June 2010, John “Jack” Thorpe, Jim Thorpe’s oldest living son, filed a court case to have his father’s remains brought home to Oklahoma. He once told the Borough: “The bones of my father will not make or break your town, it’s the people living here that will do that.” In his lawsuit, he argued that the Borough had failed to meet the requirements of NAGPRA and needed to return Jim Thorpe’s remains. Jack’s name on the lawsuits was soon joined by his brothers William and Richard, as well as the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma. He’d been ill with cancer when he filed the case and died in February of the following year. His death came as a surprise, says Stephen Ward, the attorney representing the Thorpe sons. Jack Thorpe hadn’t been alone in wanting to see his father’s remains returned to Oklahoma. It was a longstanding wish of the family and of the Sac and Fox Nation, says Ward, who has represented the Sac and Fox Nation since 2008. He’d heard about the frustrations over Jim Thorpe’s body being buried in Pennsylvania since before Jack Thorpe filed the case. “I had not worked for the Sac and Fox Nation as its council for very long before people in the tribe impressed upon me about what a great injustice they believed had been committed here that the tribe didn’t have the legal tools to remedy,” he says. “So this was not something that just came along at a late date in 2010 with Jack’s lawsuit. It was something that had been a long time interest.” The Nation signed on to the case at the same time William and Richard Thorpe did. “To the Sac and Fox people who

were close to the situation, it was just a really egregious example of a lack of respect for their religious beliefs and their tradition,” Ward says. “Almost everyone in the Thorpe family in 1953 was opposed to his body being shipped off to Pennsylvania to be a tourist attraction.” And, of course, Jim Thorpe’s wishes weren’t respected, either. Initially, a Pennsylvania district court ruled with Jack Thorpe. NAGPRA applied, Jim Thorpe might go home to Oklahoma, and the Borough could lose its namesake. The Borough appealed the decision to a higher court. The representative for the Borough argued that the Borough was honoring the legally secured rights of a widow to decide where her husband is buried, and the matter represented little more than a family dispute. “The repatriation provisions of NAPGRA don’t apply to a body resting in a grave site where he’s been buried by his family or anyone else lawfully authorized to bury him,” said Daniel Wheeler, who represented Michael Koehler and John Thorpe, grandsons from first marriage who want their grandfather to stay in the Borough. Based on that interpretation, anyone with Native American ancestry could be reclaimed by their descendants or tribe — Elvis Presley, who was part Cherokee, could be reclaimed from where he was buried in a museum in Graceland, he said. NAGPRA was going after bones in glass cases and museum drawers, he argued, not in graves. “There’s no harm here. A man was buried by his family in a grave,” Wheeler said. “Why would Congress care? Why would they enact a statute to reach into that grave and get him?” The panel of judges in Pennsylvania’s Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled in the Borough’s favor in October, stating it was absurd to think this kind of family disagreement was what NAGPRA was intended to address. In his written opinion, the Chief Judge on the panel concluded that the literal application of NAGPRA in this incident would produce a “result demonstrably at odds with the intentions of its drafters.” The opinion adds that “the record is clear that plaintiffs delayed bringing this suit until certain of Thorpe’s survivors who favored his burial in the Borough died.” It was suggested that Jack Thorpe waited until his sister Charlotte had died to file the lawsuit to repatriate his father’s remains because she was, and her sons are, in favor of the remains staying in the Borough. Ward says it’s not that simple, and from what he’s heard, Charlotte in the end wanted her father to be buried where and how he had

wanted to be buried. The judge cited an amicus brief submitted by Jim Thorpe’s grandsons, Koehler and John Thorpe, in which they expressed their horror at the idea that a deceased person buried by his widow might later be dug up by subsequent generations and moved elsewhere to be re-buried per their wishes. NAGPRA was not intended to settle familial disputes, the opinion states and would be doing so here. And because he was never buried in Oklahoma, he can’t be “returned” to a final resting place there. The former towns of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk are where he was laid to rest by his widow, and where he should remain, the judge wrote.

The broader effects of ignoring one family’s protests The Native American Rights Fund, based in Boulder, and the National Congress of American Indians immediately began sounding the alarm against the latest court decision on Jim Thorpe’s case and the potential far-reaching effects the exemptions it creates to a basic human rights law of importance to 566 federally recognized Indian tribes and 6.4 million Native Americans, Alaskan Natives and Native Hawaiians. “The panel decided to basically ignore the statute, even though they thought it applied,” says Matt Campbell, with the Native Americans Rights Fund, which has entered an amicus brief into the case arguing for Jim Thorpe’s repatriation to Oklahoma. “That could potentially give courts in the future an opportunity to say ‘Well, this could lead to what we see as an absurd result, so we’re not going to apply it, even though it’s clear that the statute should apply in this instance.’ So it kind of opens the door for future courts to ignore the language of the statute, even though it’s clear it applies.” The National Congress of American Indians, the oldest and largest national organization that represents and advocates for the interests of Native Americans, passed a resolution during their annual convention in 2014 to support the Thorpe brothers and the Sac and Fox Nation through the lawsuit. Their resolution argues, in part, that the Borough “purchased” Thorpe’s body to be displayed for tourism puropses, and contradicts the NAGPRA statute. “The use of an Indian person’s remains as a tourist attraction is really within the core of the injustices that NAGPRA was intended to stop,” Ward says. Among the amicus briefs to come in after their decision was one from Colorado’s former U.S. Senator Ben Boulder Weekly

Nighthorse Campbell, one of the original sponsors of NAGPRA. In it, he stated that the precedent established by the decision creates categories that could be exempted from NAGPRA’s protections, and “nothing could be farther from Congress’s intent.” In his an amicus brief, submitted in December in support of the Thorpe family’s appeal to repatriate Jim Thorpe’s remains, he states that the latest court decision threatens NAGPRA’s protections nationwide and undermines the work achieved by Congress through the passage of that law. In instances when a NAGPRA claim is contested by the entities holding the remains or there’s a dispute over who receives them, there’s a process in place that allows for that discussion, and what the court is being asked to decide is if whether NAGPRA applies and those proceedings can begin. That administrative process could well end in Jim Thorpe’s remains staying exactly where they are, but the current court decision prevents that discussion from occurring among Thorpe’s descendants, the Sac and Fox Nation and the Borough. “If left undisturbed, the opportunity to achieve a greater cultural understanding between an Indian Nation and local municipality will be lost,” Nighthorse Campbell writes. There’s nothing absurd, as the court said, about the application of NAPGRA here, Campbell argues. “One of Congress’s primary concerns underlying the enactment of NAGPRA was the devastation to Tribes caused by the disruption of traditional Native burial ceremonies,” Nighthorse Campbell writes. In the process part of drafting NAGPRA, Congress heard testimony explaining that when American Indians do not receive a proper burial, their spirits are not at rest, unreturned to their homeland. Congress expressed an intention of permitting Native American religious leaders to practices those ceremonies. Campbell joined the Native American Rights Fund, the Thorpe brothers and Sac and Fox Nation in asking for a rehearing of the Third Circuit Court’s decision, but were denied, so the U.S. Supreme Court has been petitioned to hear the case. If three judges decide the case is of serious federal significance and public interest, the Supreme Court will hear the case. If not, the lower court’s decision will stand. At one point before his death, Jack Thorpe seemed to make peace with the idea of his father remaining in Pennsylvania. In 2013, a letter surfaced that he’d written in 1990 to Joe Boyle, who orchestrated bringing Jim Thorpe’s body to Pennsylvania. In it, Jack describes his first visit to the Borough and a morning he’d spent at his father’s grave. “I prayed to the four directions and Boulder Weekly

over my father’s remains,” he wrote. “I sat down on the steps of the monument and asked for inner peace and guidance. … I felt that there was no conflict with my father’s being on the hillside.” He described feeling the respect and love the townspeople had for his father, and how he saw that hillside, then, as a place his father would feel was a good and peaceful one. He asked to retract previous statements about wanting the remains of his father to be returned to Oklahoma. “I now feel that the remains of Jim Thorpe are in a good place and that he

is at peace,” Jack Thorpe wrote. “I think that if Dad were living today, he would smile, shake someone’s hand, pat another on the back and say, ‘This is a good place to be.’” Neither of his brothers knew anything about that letter when it surfaced. Their lawyer, Ward, says that over the years, the family has gone through periods in which they were discouraged over whether the case would succeed, and when that letter was written, Congress had not yet enacted the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. It’s possible Jack

Thorpe just didn’t see any way of bringing his father’s body home. “This is exactly what Indian people have experienced in history that Indian people’s remains and possessions and culture has just been used as a curiosity, as a tourist attraction, for non-Indians,” Ward says. “There’s a long history of this in the Sac and Fox Nation. The great warrior Black Hawk, after his death, his body was dug up and displayed in a museum for a long time. And this is the American Indian experience in history. And unfortunately it’s not gone. This is not ended.”

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within a womb. This heart song pulses from past. Looking back, I imagine the pulse crossing oceans as light rays through time. And as love, the song pulses blindly through borders as if they were naught — through deserts and famine, religious and institutionalized oppression, conquest, inquisition, racism and other tyrannies — through times of war and peace. There was never a moment when the heartbeat’s rhythm didn’t animate life’s tribulations or joys. My life is an imbrication of these. Our hearts stir from the ardency of ancient hearts. We all share a heartbeat. Or, so I think as I write of the moment I hugged my birth-mother, Mary, for the first time — her heartbeat and mine again coalesced. My heart felt as if filled with stars. I met her with the doctor who cared for her through her pregnancy, and me, through my childhood. He was the same doctor who orchestrated my adoption. Somewhat awkwardly, we all sat down at a central table. The lighting was low and origin stories were spun with the candlelight. I remember an impression of good intentions, woven by two voices — that of my birthmother and that of my doctor whom I’ll call Dr. W. Along with my perception, a braid was made and a tale of my life’s beginning, as if woven, appeared. As we cleaned our plates and the waiter came and cleared them away, there was a feeling that the right thing had been done. There wasn’t a hint of injustice. I was told that Mary had been but eighteen at the time and couldn’t handle a baby. Furthermore, I was much wanted, and so, was adopted by lovely parents at eight hours old. Raised with unconditional love and books, I wanted for nothing. At the table, we laughed, as Mary talked of insisting on running in her high school track meet when seven months pregnant with me. As the conversation evolved through story and question, there was little trace of my birth-father’s part in the story. I had always known, or had always been told, that he was a “Mexican National” — that he’d emigrated from Mexico to America, crossing desert, mountain and forest, or so I imagined, never having spoken to him at the time. I had yet to peer deeper into — his eyes. I had yet to learn that half of my physical body — as if I could be split — was of Mexican, Indigenous North American and Spanish descent. Of course, I had lived a life with the outward cultural experience of a Latino, as my eyes were as dark as my hair and brown skin. Raised by Caucasian par-

ents, however, I knew little of the cultural experience of Latino Americans. I was thus a part of, and apart from, both Caucasian and Latino American cultures at once. I was as the third strand of a braid that binds. My name, not legal but nick, is Rico, which means, rich in Spanish. Specifically, it refers to qualities of wealth, deliciousness or abundance. My last name, Moore, is Old English, and first referred to a place — a moor, or, “an area of uncultivated land.” The name given me specifically descends, in part, from a name given to a landscape. Syllables, sonorously arranged into locatives, were as offerings to the surrounding land, which gives of its life to our lives. As such, my name, Rico Moore, represents at first, the joining of cultures with language — the Spanish, Indigenous Mexican, and the English, European-based American. And perhaps, my name might be translated as, an abundantly rich and uncultivated land. There is in it a sense of wilderness. That night at the steakhouse, I also learned that my birth-mother’s family hailed from Ireland. I learned that at birth, I was named another name than I’d been known my entire life — a different name than I’d known myself by. That name, “Chris David,” instantly represented all the possible lives I might have lived — all the identities that might have become but didn’t. What lives would I have known had things happened differently? Who would I be, or more aptly, what world would I see? How differently would I feel, if at all? The possibilities crushed me for some time. Then, I heard the following tale, which is one of dream interpretation. A man has a dream and takes his dream to an interpreter. The interpreter gives a favorable interpretation, if certain steps are taken. The interpreter offers certain rites and ritual songs to alter the dream’s course — to bring to fruition the interpreter’s vision — the potential of the dreamer’s dream. The man performs these rites, utters faithfully the prescribed prayers. And afterwards, he conveys the experience to a group of wise people. From the center of their circle, he asks, ‘How could the interpreter have been right, absolutely, when if I had gone to another interpreter, another interpretation might have been offered?’ To which they replied, ‘You had your dream and went to that interpreter and though it is true that you could have gone to any number of interpreters, you went to that one, and therefore, the interpretation offered is Boulder Weekly

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After dinner, Dr. W. made his exit and my birth-mother and I left the restaurant together. She had more to say, so we sat in her car, which was parked behind the restaurant under a streetlamp. Rain started pouring on the roof. She told me of the difficulties she had faced, being pregnant at such a young age. In a letter she wrote to me, soon after I was born, she wrote, “At first I blamed you for everything, and then I realized it wasn’t your fault, absolutely none of it. You were just what nature is all about.” She said she’d spent years wondering if she’d made the right choice. Looking into my eyes, through her tears she said, “You have your father’s eyes — I feel like I’m seventeen again.” She was, and is, incredibly brave. She said that she met me to know, after all, if she had done the right thing. The alternatives — keeping me, or abortion, weren’t after all, options for her. A Christian, she noted God, saying, “He told me what to do.” She told me that when she was carrying me in her womb she’d walk near the Poudre River of Fort Collins, or the “River of Bright Water,” as it is also known. She was listening to her heart by the flowing vein of the river I’d later live to flyfish and what she heard in the rushing water, she interpreted to be the truth of God’s words. The poet and essayist Gustaf Sobin writes that the multitude of interpretations of one historical event do not require others to be proven false or silenced to be true but can, and in fact do, co-exist. In fact, multiple interpretations of the same event come together in chorus. They sing a song called, humanity. Perhaps she heard my heartbeat sing. In that car, I felt more than ever that I had no idea who I was. I felt the solidity of my identity dissolve as starlight unbraids over light-years. Indeed, being raised as an adopted child had its difficulties, particularly when you exist in a racially stigmatized culture, look the subaltern but are a child of the hegemonic, there can feel a disconnect. When you don’t feel fully within your parents’ cultural

group because of the color of your skin, or your name is markedly different, and when, the cultural group that matches those criteria has no basis in your home-life, then you feel lost, near cultureless — liminal — an incohate citizen. And so I adopted the uncultivated tracts of land as my city—the uncultivated wilderness. I found in the wilds a feeling of home — of citizenship. I found neither discrimination nor prejudice, but the unceasing flow of life. In fact, I found this also with my father when he taught me to flyfish at a young age. I recall the first time, in the upper reaches of the Poudre River, that I first felt the release of a flyline unfurling above and onto the surface of a stream, wending in its shape a deceptive imitation of a fly. I remember the joy in my father’s eyes. I remember yelling to him, over the din of the August breeze, that I had it, ‘I’ve got it!’ He offered the boundless promise of peace near the mountainous ridges, rivers and woods. And my mother, who brought me from the age of eight months to the beaches of Nantucket Sound, whose light breezes are magic, offered and offers me Ocean’s touch. We spend some time each summer in the house her grandfather built at the outset of the twentieth century. In the upper floor bedrooms at night, breezes from the sea pulse the white cotton blinds. Lying in bed, looking at the interlocked slats of wood, one can still see the handprints of those who constructed the house. After nearly a century, the house has seen no major structural issues, built even as it was, in sand. And so that night, spent with my birth-mother, hearing my vita nuova unfold, ended with the solace of the wilds anchoring me. They would be my place of reckoning. Mary had nothing left to say, or was spent in the saying, as I was spent in the hearing. So, she drove into the north darkness to be with her family and I drove to the west to be with my own. (to be continued in a following issue…)

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or most river runners in the West, the middle of February is the real start of the whitewater season, a kind of college acceptance-letter week. While all of the great multi-day river trips through the canyons of the Colorado Plateau are regulated by the fickle swoons of weather and snowpack from year to year, most of them are also governed by the U.S. government, particularly the Bureau of Land Management. As melting snowpack rushes down from Colorado and Wyoming’s high peaks toward its placid end in Lake Powell, coursing through BLM land, the government agency holds a series of lotteries for the limited number of permits granted each year to river runners to float these waters. As stewards of almost 250 million acres of lands in the West, the BLM attracts more than its share of sagebrush ire from ranchers (where is Cliven Bundy these days?), off-roaders, hunters and others chafing against government interference with what they perceive as their divinely bestowed Boulder Weekly

right to do whatever the hell they want across these vast open spaces because, y’know, freedom. River runners, by and large, accept the BLM’s role as essentially underappreciated custodians — keeping river access points functional, managing boaters’ readiness to float these wilderness stretches, occasionally assisting with rescue and, most essentially, keeping the wild parts wild by limiting

the number of people tromping across them. Though a lot of private boaters believe that the commercial outfitters, also subject to limited launch dates, get preferential treatment, the lottery system is basically fair and transparent. It’s easier to appreciate the BLM when you score a permit, and this year the little ball landed on our number for a six-day trip down the San Juan. By way of estimate, this would make our 11th trip down the river, starting in 1991.

Cue: River war stories Later to be my wife, my girlfriend at the time was a committed and reasonably skilled kayaker, vaguely disdainful (as many kayakers were, and some still are) of the rafting crowd, subscribing to the view that most rafters were under-skilled and see SAN JUAN Page 28

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usually inebriated louts, party-barging their way through otherwise serene reaches of postcard perfect landscape, spraying God’s country with discarded Bud Light cans, hogging ramp space and generally being oblivious, self-entitled nuisances. For their part, rafters sometimes refer to kayakers as “stream lice.” But enough of all that. Karin landed a permit for early June of 1991, and it was clear that a) she wanted to use the permit and b) her boyfriend wasn’t a kayaker. So to put together a trip, we needed a boat, nevermind the skills to navigate one. We rented a behemoth Achilles raft and a rent-a-wreck Datsun pickup with a passenger door that didn’t really close. We invited an old friend of mine from back East and, oddly, my Canadian nieces’ old swimming coach, to join us, at least as much for their access to lines of credit (for the rentals) as for their company. The standard San Juan run is an 84-mile course starting just outside Bluff, Utah, a tiny riverside hamlet precariously populated with off-gridders, artists, rafting guides and grizzled retirees from the mining industry. The river winds its way initially through gentle sandstone-framed pasturelands, drops into a 600-foot-deep canyon, pauses at an even tinier settlement called Mexican Hat, then lazily drifts through the famed Gooseneck section, bending and twisting 14 river miles through steeply walled canyons that would only take a bird 4 miles to cover by air. Folded and tortured strata streak the canyon walls — some of the oldest rock in the world plays hide and seek at river’s edge, a geologist’s Valhalla. The river eventually slows and widens as it approaches Lake Powell, at a dusty and bleak remote takeout ramp at the foot of gigantic clay-stratified cliffs. The San Juan will never be any river runner’s idea of a thrill ride. Despite its average gradient (8 feet per mile, which is actually steep for canyon rivers), there are only a handful of noteworthy rapids. And there is only one, Government Rapid, that approaches the betterknow-what-you’re-doing level of Class III, and then really only at very high or very low flows. If one considers the great Colorado Plateau river trips as a family, the Grand Canyon would be the paddleboard wielding patriarch, sternly quoting ancient scripture, Cataract Canyon would be the brawling hell-raising son getting regularly bailed out of the local hoosegow, and the San Juan would be 28 June 4, 2015

the flaxen haired daughter reading Edna St. Vincent Millay and conversing with butterflies. At the launch ramp, Karin strapped in quickly and slid her way into the water, while Mike, Stu (the swimming coach) and I stood befuddled over the raft and the disassembled raft frame, trying to figure out which pieces connected where, loading the oars in backwards, swearing at the hand pump and inspiring the promise that an otherwise fairly simple river would be a comedic challenge. River trips have a unique way of testing interpersonal relations. I didn’t know Stu at all — he got a tip about the opportunity from my brother in Toronto — and despite some years of friendship, both in Boulder and back East, Mike and I had grown in somewhat different directions. He had left Colorado in the mid ’80s to do law school in Pennsylvania and was by this time an ambitious young gun at a law firm outside Philly, collecting a paycheck every week defending ski areas. I had a pony tail and barely two nickels to rub together. We argued over our first camp, a tight little promontory in the upper stretch of the river around Mile 13. Stu wanted to keep going, or at least find a more generous space, but Karin (who in those days wasn’t someone you wanted to argue with) insisted. We took the spot, pitched our tents on the rocky soil and mixed up dinner from a couple of Mountain House pouches. Day one and the beer was already getting warm. Warm indeed. The month of June on the San Juan can be a cranium-sizzling experience, with desert-dry days, hard cobalt blue skies and a sun straight from a sci-fi writer’s fevered alien world imagination. We didn’t see a cloud — not one — over five days on this trip. (Although, by contrast, my current wife and I ran the river in late May of 2007, and our first two days we were pelted by hail in low 40-degree temperatures.) And one of my first lessons was, if you’re going to bring complex beers (somehow we had decided on St. Pauli Girl, which is fairly nasty under the best of circumstances, and Holstein Light), you better plan to have them in Roland Emmerich-proof coolers, laced with dry ice and draped with regularly soaked towels, or they will break down in a hurry into aggressively toxic swill. Which happened on day two. It was pretty obvious that Karin and Stu weren’t going to get along. Karin liked to sleep in, Stu was one of these break-of-dawn types, probably better-

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suited for the military than teaching the backstroke to grade school kids, and by the middle of day two, he was already talking about getting off the river a day early, pulling at the oars as if outrunning what he probably thought was an unfortunate choice of vacation. The heat and deteriorating beer situation weren’t helping. Nor was the Olympus. We were carrying Karin’s beloved OM-1 on the raft, being relatively careful with it (this was years before waterproof cameras, with the exception of the now cheerfully obsolete Nikonos diving camera),

when we hit some sand waves. Sand waves are a hydraulic curiosity unique to the San Juan — a combination of the unusually heavy sediment content of the water and the step gradient can produce, at certain places and at certain flows, a series of standing waves that can range, at high flows, up to 5 feet in height. Usually in a train of half a dozen, they spring like mini-Nessies out of nowhere, usually catching the oarsman unaware. Generally benign, this particular set unfortunately rolled over the front of the raft and deposited some water in our bail bucket where Boulder Weekly

adventure someone (me, I think) had placed the camera for safe keeping. We didn’t notice until we made the next camp, when Karin onshore came over to the boat and saw her black OM-1 in the bucket in 3 inches of water. Hell hath no fury. By the third night, we were baked, dehydrated and barely speaking to one another. We had a nice camp that night and a good campfire, the fragile détente broken only when one of San Juan’s resident prehistoric rock insects — hideous-looking creature with a prehistoric lineage, 2 inches in length, some unholy arachnid/roach spawn that lives under the rocks at waterline and provides nourishment for the lizards — crept unnoticed atop Karin’s left Teva, prompting a quick freakout which spilled the pot and the white gas stove. Dinner was a little late that night. Bugs aren’t usually much of a problem on the San Juan (on a later trip, Karin and I spent an hour trying to chase out a daddy-longlegs from our tent in the middle of the night), but these horrid little things make an appearance from time to time. There are scorpions, too, dastardly little things that live just under the sand. Karin got nailed by one on our 1995 trip, her foot swelled up like an overstuffed burrito. Day four and we were in the last stretch. Mike had bumped the raft down Government Rapid, hitting rocks in the low flow as if aiming for them, and we were now in the final 18 miles. Flat and slow.

Nothing lasts forever In the 1950s, a proposal by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation would have dropped a massive dam at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers at a place called Echo Park, a mind-bogglingly scenic and wild stretch of river now enjoyed by river runners coming down both streams. The proposal was fought tooth and nail by the nascent environmental movement, and David Brower, then president of the Sierra Club, threw his support in favor of a different dam proposal, one that would have dammed the Colorado River below its confluences with the Green and San Juan rivers, essentially drowning the sandstone labyrinth known as Glen Canyon. It is said that Brower essentially traded Glen Canyon for ditching Echo Park, and Brower until his last days (he died in 2000) always regretted the decision. The result was Glen Canyon Dam, and the pool behind it became Lake Boulder Weekly

Powell. One of the unexpected results of the stilling of the Colorado River has been the slow demise of the San Juan, one of its primary feeder streams. As the river’s descent to the confluence of the Colorado (which is now under water) has been slowed, the San Juan has been depositing its silt in its final miles, raising the riverbed and forcing the river to expand laterally, thus slowing its flow further. Below Government Rapid, there is almost no streamside camping, as the river has widened from canyon wall to canyon wall. The silt deposits have created sandbars, and the river is essentially now a barely moving lake for almost 20 miles. The San Juan is slowly choking on its own silt — by some estimates, the Clay Hills takeout will be inaccessible, and the river will be permanently unrunnable by the end of the 2020s. We were within a few miles of the takeout, a day earlier than we had planned. Stu had had enough and wanted off the river. Karin wouldn’t have it though, so we pulled into a reed-choked bank just where the canyon wall began its final plunge below river level, barely 2 miles from the takeout ramp. We set up our tent on the sloped and rocky bank, Stu threw his gear into the reeds and vanished for the rest of the evening. Karin boiled up her last meal of the trip, a homemade gloop of chicken paprikash, a favorite dish of hers since her childhood in Czechoslovakia. Mike brought up the rest of the beers, now well past room temperature, made some conciliatory remarks about the trip and all the work we had put into planning it, and we ate quietly in the fading light of a soft summer evening. Karin and I saw Stu a few years later; he was managing a restaurant in Keystone, and we had a few laughs remembering the trip as being more fun than it really was. That was 18 years ago, and I have no idea what happened to him since. Mike still lives in Pennsylvania, he sells exercise equipment now. We chat occasionally by phone, and the river trip seldom comes up. Karin passed away in 2004, and my current wife and I have run the river together five times — the last time with a couple of her grown kids from Cleveland. Sharon can’t make it this year due to work. I’ll be floating the river with an old rafting friend, both of us solo on our own rafts. The beer will be cold, the river gentle in its dying days, and we’ll share some memories until next time. If there is a next time. June 4, 2015 29

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In which Steven Wilson constructs a life inspired by someone known to many, cherished by a few and forgotten by everyone by Dave Kirby

ON JANUARY 25, 2006, police officials in North London executed orders to repossess a bedsit, essentially an efficiency apartment, for which rent had gone intolerably in arrears. With no reply to knocks, the police broke in the double locked front door and found the skeletal remains of an individual on a couch, in front of a running television, with wrapped but unaddressed Christmas gifts on the floor at their feet. An inquest concluded that the remains were those of Joyce Carol Vincent, a London resident of Caribbean descent, not yet 40 years old at the time of her death. Her demise was never conclusively determined, but she had been dead, according to the best approximation that forensic science could ascertain, for about 25 months. More than two years. Vincentâ€™s story, remembered through the voices of the people who had known her and were close to her at various times during her life in London, was told in a 2011 documentary called Dreams of a Life, made by English filmmaker Carol Morley. The woman in question, it is stressed, was atypical of these types of forgotten-lives stories. Attractive and talented, Vincent had a professional life in various financial and legal firms in London, had boyfriends see REMEMBERED Page 32

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and admirers, hobnobbed occasionally with celebrities and possessed an elegant and natural singing voice. Not a drug addict, not a sufferer of mental illness, not an abandoned pensioner. At some point, Joyce Vincent just erased herself from her own life, which by all accounts was well worth living. She’d lived at the bedsit since February 2003. It is speculated that she was escaping a domestic violence situation. Unemployed at the time of her death, there were no co-workers checking on her absence from the office. Her friends forgot about her. Her bills were paid, for a while, by automatic bank debit. Her neighbors didn’t notice the odor. The questions that this strangely tragic case raised created the inspiration for British guitarist/songwriter/ producer Steven Wilson’s latest project Hand. Cannot. Erase. The corrosion of memory, the frailty of self, the paradox of isolation in a crowd. Hand. Cannot. Erase., however, is not a retelling of Vincent’s life. Wilson’s approach was to create his own fictional character, another young woman with a different background and different memories and a different 32 June 4, 2015

trajectory through life, and he tells it through the music and a variety of alternative media — a website, a blog written by his protagonist, photographs, doodles on a page. Wilson’s character, known only as H, luxuriates in her own isolation, self-imposed as Vincent’s was, but sees her world and remembers her life imperfectly and obliquely in real time. “This story, this underlying concept, was kind of a gift as regards, as you suggested, bringing in themes that I’ve dealt with before,” he explained in an interview with the Boulder Weekly. “This is something that really taps in to every aspect of modern life. This is a story of a young woman who essentially erases herself from view, at a time when she’s living in the heart of one of the biggest cities on Earth. “And that taps into all sorts of things. It taps into how the Internet, social networking, affects our lives in the 21st century. It taps into things like loneliness, obviously, isolation, obviously, but also things like regret and loss, nostalgia for childhood, relationships with parents and family, fear and confusion. The fear and confusion that one might experience just stepping outside Boulder Weekly

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one’s front door, into this crazy world can never be… moments that are we live in now of terrorists and pedogone. Nostalgia can be this very joyphiles and religious fundamentalists. ful thing, but at the same time it’s “So, I think the more I kind of always tinged with melancholy, explored this young woman as a kind because there’s an implicit awareness of character, the more I realized it kind that these are moments that are gone of tapped into all these other themes forever. I’ve been interested in talking about “At the end of the day, whether [the and have been talking about for years. sister] is real or not is unimportant. So in some ways, it’s the most encomThe point is that we really cannot trust passing album I’ve ever done.” anything we read in [H’s] blog, we canThe music here is trademark not trust anything that she says, Wilson — lengthy and fiendishly com- because it is an internal dialogue. She plex prog figures with the guitarist’s may believe some of these things herown inclinations toward pitiless metalself, but as you say, there is a kind of lurgy cast against extended instrumennatural distortion that occurs with tal expeditions, chill interludes, strings memory and nostalgia. and apocalyptic cadences. Wilson was “I find that I tend to have a much for many years recogmore idyllic view of nized as the founder my own childhood ON THE BILL: Steven and front man for the than is probably realWilson. Doors: 6:30 p.m. British neo-prog franistic. Because I don’t Show: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, really remember chise Porcupine Tree, June 9, Boulder Theater, 2042 14th St., Boulder, 303-786enjoying being a which may or may not 7030. Price: $27.50-$37.50. All child that much. You be a past-tense enterages. Sold out. know what I mean? prise, but fans of that Like a lot of kids, I band’s output will find couldn’t wait to be a much to appreciate grown-up. But now I find that I have here. this kind of rose-tinted view of my And still, despite its unapologetic childhood, and I am suspicious of ambitions, perhaps the album’s most myself in that respect… So the distorpoignant gift is the humbly portioned tion of memory is one of the things “Perfect Life,” a low-key meditation on memory narrated by H herself, that’s going on here.” draped over a chill mid-tempo club Ultimately, though, Wilson’s primarhythm. “When I was 13, I had a sisry medium is the music, which was ter for six months...” recalls H, relatconceived and charted over a 15-month ing the things they did together, lisperiod from summer 2013 to fall 2014, tening to This Mortal Coil and Dead and the show he brings to the Boulder Can Dance (a detail Wilson says he Theater will not disappoint for lack of cribbed from his own childhood), how breadth. her sister completed her own frag“We’re playing almost all the mented and lonely life, before disaprecord, about 95 percent, with a couple pearing as inexplicably as she of small pieces that are difficult to appeared. The piece defies the listener reproduce live. Essentially the show is a to decide whether the sister is real or multi-media representation of the not. album, with music, video, quadraphonic This struck a particularly personal sound. And I would say, it’s not even as chord for this reporter. Having lost my simple as that, because it’s not like we own wife 11 years ago, I have spent just come out and play the record. … many hours replaying scenes, good and Other songs from my back catalogue bad, from the fraying and increasingly that have a kind of resonance with the static-choked tape of my own memory, themes and concept of Hand. Cannot. infuriatingly uncertain whether I can Erase. have been programmed in as trust in the accuracy or meaning of my kind of an honorary part of the album own recollection. It is a creeping for the night.” awareness of being dragged involunFor all its staggering reach and tarily to a place where you can only be depth of conceptualization, we couldn’t sure you remember the memory and help but ask Wilson if he ever feels as not the scene itself. When the past is if he needs to temper his reach. Even all you have of a thing, you watch help- just a little bit. lessly as its profile in your memory cor“Nope,” he laughs. “I’m the kind of rodes over time. Loss is not always an person who really needs a challenge. event; sometimes it is a process, and it Everything needs to have something is indifferent to the clock. about it that makes it fresh and inter“It’s one of my favorites, too,” esting and a challenge. A lot of that Wilson says of “Perfect Life.” “I’m comes from picking projects which glad you like it. It’s a song about nos- mean I can get involved in writing, talgia for childhood. It’s a song about recording, conceptualizing, and I love crystallized moments, moments that it.”

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ON THE BILL: Lucinda Williams/Big Head Todd and the Monsters. Doors: 5:30 p.m. Show: 7 p.m. Saturday, June 6 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494. Tickets: $45.50-$65.50. All ages.

he idea that suffering makes for great art is one of those time-honored rock ’n’ roll tropes that even made its way into the title of a 1982 Todd Rundgren album (The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect). And while Lucinda Williams has had her share of personal trauma that’s informed her work over the past few decades, the happily married musician isn’t buying it. For her, happiness is rather underrated when it comes to the creative process, even if the name of her recently released double album, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, might suggest otherwise. “[Being miserable in order to create great art] is a big myth,” she said with a laugh on the phone at her L.A. home. “Not that suffering doesn’t help your writing, but I can’t write when I’m in the middle of feeling like crap. That’s the last thing I want to do. Tom Petty said the exact same thing in an interview. There’s this whole myth that you’re sitting on the side of your bed drinking Jack Daniels while your tears fall onto your guitar and you’re writing away. That’s not how it works.” Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone marks something of a new phase for the respected 61-year-old singersongwriter. She left her former label, Lost Highway, following the release of 2011’s Blessed and signed with the artist-friendly, Nashville-based Thirty Tigers, which signed off on Williams’ request for her new album to be a twoCD set. “I wanted to do this back when the West album came out [in 2007],” she explained. “I actually had enough songs for a double album then, but [label Boulder Weekly

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head] Luke [Lewis] didn’t want to do it at the time for business reasons. He was concerned that they’d have to charge more for it and that the fans wouldn’t want to pay that much. So a lot of the songs that came out on Little Honey (in 2008) were supposed to come out on West. That was frustrating for me because once you have a batch of songs that kind of all fit together, you want to put them together.” It would be easy to worry that Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone could go down a slippery slope of creative over-indulgence. But Williams managed to deftly sidestep that with a collection of songs that are all killer and no filler. The opening cut, “Compassion,” is a piece by her father and renowned poet Miller Williams that the singer-songwriter put to music. Stripped down to vocal and acoustic guitar, it has the cadence of a murder ballad that has a world weary aura hanging over it and includes the line Williams chose for the album title. (Miller Williams passed away on New Years Day at age 84.) From there, the Louisiana native drawls her way through swamp rock that would do Tony Joe White proud (the twang-soaked “Protection”), endearingly pledging her love (the “Harvest”-like “Stowaway in Your Heart”) and even gives a girlfriend an emotional hand up (the upbeat “Walk On”). Elsewhere, she goes from railing over the trio of teens framed in the 1993 murders of three Arkansas boys (a laconic “West Memphis”) to serving up classic tear-in-your-beer sentiment (the honky-tonk ballad “This Old Heartache”). Best of all is a near-10 minute reading of the late J.J. Cale’s “Magnolia,” which has an ethereal

haze hanging over it thanks to the elegant and minimalistic support of guitarists Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz, whose strumming wraps their singer’s vocals in a gauze of delicate riffs and chords. But for anyone who’s even remotely followed Lucinda Williams’ long and storied career, it should come as no surprise that she’d carry on this high level of creative brilliance as she enters her sixth decade of life. Her catalog includes several albums that were nothing less than stellar, including her 1988 self-titled release, 1992’s Sweet Old World and 1998’s Car Wheels On a Gravel Road, the latter of which was a commercial breakthrough that landed her a Grammy. Since 2007’s West, Williams has released four records. It was around this time that she met, fell in love with and eventually married music executive Tom Overby. It doesn’t seem like much of a coincidence that this newfound tranquility coincided with this prolific (for Williams) run of records. “I’m not really sure [where this creative burst] has come from. It’s this period in my life and being in this place where I feel where I’m comfortable. It’s given me more freedom being happily married and in that kind of situation that’s forcing me to push myself to find other things to write about besides unrequited love,” she said. “I have to be in a certain state of mind to feel like writing. The other side of it all is that you can draw on those things that created the pain. I just look at it like an endless well where I dip into it and pull stuff out that goes all the way back into my childhood and not just my own life. It’s really been liberating to be in that place as a writer.”

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ON THE BILL: I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story. Friday to Sunday, June 10 to 13, The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7825. Tickets start at $6 at www.thedairy.org.

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here is one thing you never do on Sesame the wings to center stage. Street and that is put someone down. Spinney is the heart and soul of the Bird. At the “Our business is not to ridicule,” Caroll age of 81, he is still that big kid in the Bird, even slipSpinney — the long time puppeteer inside ping in and out of that iconic voice — as well as a Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch — tells variety of impressions — during the course of a Boulder Weekly. 30-minute interview. But as fun as being Big Bird is, “Dumb is a word we never use on Sesame Street,” it certainly isn’t easy. Spinney says. “Or stupid,” adds Big Bird. First, there’s the suit. Opening this Friday at the “The body weighs probaCourtesy of Robert Furhing Boedecker Theater, I Am Big bly only about 10 lbs., and its Bird traces the life and times of sitting on a wide strap, susthe man who has played those penders kind of thing over roles for the past 46 years, our shoulders, so you don’t uplifting countless children even notice it,” Spinney along the way. explains. “But the head To make the doc, directors weighs 4.5 lbs. And that Dave LaMattina and Chad N. doesn’t sound like a lot until Walker assemble a plethora of you try holding it over your interviews and archival footage head.” to give a comprehensive overTo operate Big Bird, Spinney slides his left hand view of Spinney’s long and into Big Bird’s left wing, impressive career. What is which is attached via fishing revealed is the synthesis of the line up to Big Bird’s beak and Bird and the Grouch — a comback down to the right wing. bination of innocence and honThis allows Spinney to move esty — that provides that makeeither the left wing indepenup for Spinney’s life and work. dently or both wings simultaYet, as the title of the documenneously. To operate the head, tary alluded, Spinney will always Spinney stretches his right be associated first with Big Bird, an association that isn’t simply arm high above his head and happenstance. uses his thumb and three fin“[ Jim Henson] thought that I Am Big Bird gives insight and a behind-thegers to operate the beak scenes look into the world of playing one of Big Bird should be done like a while the pinky pulls on a the world’s most beloved icons. country yokel, like a Mortimer small lever to makes the eyes Snerd. ... Just a goofy guy,” blink. Spinney says. “As we were doing Of course, part of puppetthe show, I said, ‘I don’t think a goofy guy is what this ry is seeing how the puppet is reacting, so Spinney show needs. I think it needs a kid.’ ... Why can’t Big straps a video monitor connected to the studio camera Bird be a kid?” feed to his chest to see how Big Bird is behaving. If And like that, Big Bird went from being a country that wasn’t complicated enough, Spinney also has the bumpkin to a big kid, and the character went from scripts taped to the inside of the suit to keep pace

with the scene. And he can do all that while rollerskating or riding a unicycle. It’s all in a days work for Caroll Spinney. The yellow suit, the roller skating, the childlike demeanor and the “La, la, la” he sings to himself as he strolls down 123 Sesame Street — that’s just part of it. But the heart of the character lies in Big Bird’s voice, Spinney says. “Well, it’s just my own voice, you just go higher, if you want to make a young sounding voice,” Spinney says, slipping into Big Bird’s usual register. “It sounds cuter, somehow. I’m not trying to be cute.” But he is trying to make every child’s day just a little more magical. “I did a funny thing at Macy’s once,” Spinney says. “There was a new [Big Bird] puppet that I recorded the voice for. ... It was a toy that had batteries in it, and if you touched his tummy he would talk. “I hear this woman say [to her daughter], ‘Look, Elizabeth, that’s the Big Bird toy that talks.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, they’re pretty nice aren’t they?’ ... so I said, ‘Let’s see if it works.’ “I leaned down and I put my face away from them, and I poked his tummy and said, [as Big Bird], ‘Hello, Elizabeth. My, that’s a pretty red dress.’ [The woman] says, ‘Oh my, that’s amazing! He knew my little girl’s name! How would he know her name? And this toy can tell what color dress she’s wearing?’ And so I said, ‘That’s pretty good isn’t it?’ And I poked it again, and it said, ‘Elizabeth, is it still snowing out?’ She said, ‘Yes.’ “The woman stood up — she was leaning over to listen, she didn’t see me do it — and she says, ‘Sounds just like him. That’s amazing. Come on, Elizabeth.’ And walked away. “If I had a toy that talked to my little girl and called her by name, and could tell she was wearing a red dress and asked her about the weather, I would have bought that so fast!” Big Bird isn’t the only kid around; Caroll Spinney is running a close second. Who would want it any other way?

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Grand Farm and Great American Taxi. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Music Christina Olin and Bill Kopper Duet. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. Dave Honig’s Latin Quarter. 6 p.m. Cantina Laredo, 1680 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-2260. The Delta Sonics. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185. DJ Royal Swan and Friends. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Ed Breazeale Jazz Trio. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine Street, Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

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June 8-12, Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway Ave., Boulder, 303449-3464 It’s summer break and time for your kids to have some fun. The weeklong Junior Curators Boulder History Museum’s camp offers fun activities for your kids including inventing their own alien species and creating a time capsule. Campers will have access to museum collections not currently open to the public and will learn how to make their own exhibits. This day camp gives kids a unique opportunity to learn and play while getting a glimpse at the inner workings of a museum. The program, for kids ages 8-11, will run from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day. —Sam Routhier

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Harmony Life Hoe-Down. 6:30 p.m. D-Barn, 136 S. Main St., Longmont, 303-651-1259. Jason Klobnak Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Pete Kartsounes. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Stephen Thurston. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, see EVENTS Page 40

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America has long been known as a melting pot of cultural heritage. Left Hand Brewing’s third annual Culture Jam music festival is a celebration of that diverse culture, featuring musicians from across the country and world. MexicanAmerican group La Santa Cecilia, 2014 Grammy Award winners for Best Latin Rock Album, will headline the event this year. They’ll be joined by Afro-Fusion artist Paa Kow, Boulder-based salsa band Quemando and African drum group the Mokomba Ensemble. This familyfriendly event will feature activities for kids including a face painting area. Proceeds from the event will go to Left Hand Brewing Foundation, Intercambio and Himalaya Health Care for Nepal earthquake relief. —Sam Routhier

The line up at this year’s Emerging Women Power night is stacked with a diverse selection of women. The event will feature CEO of Tapinfluence Promise Phelon, award-winning poet Dominique Christina, former triathlete and founder of Skirt Sports Nicole DeBoom and Iranian author and speaker Sahar Paz. There will also be a panel about Fempreneurship with businesswomen Sue Heilbronner and Shari Leidich, moderated by Emerging Women’s founder Chantal Pierrat. The event is intended to bring together passionate people who are looking to learn, get inspired and make a difference to change the world.

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Them Travelin’ Birds. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Tim Hill Combo. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. The Workshy with Asalott. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Events

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Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Writing Program: The Braided River: Activist Rhizome Week 1: Disparities, Exigencies, Identity, Lineage Week 2: Who Am I When I Dream?: Philo-poetics Week 3: The Activist Rhizome Week 4: Sangha, Cross Worlds, Common Ground The Summer Writing Program is a four-week-long convocation of students, poets, fiction writers, scholars, translators, performance artists, activist, Buddhist teachers, musicians, printers, editors, and others working in small press publishing. Programming includes workshops, lectures, panels, readings, special events, and more!

Boulder Road Runners Summer Track Series 2015. 6 p.m. Potts Track Field at University of Colorado, Boulder, 303-931-4690. Comedy at the Riverside. 8:30 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-443-2322. Friday, June 5 Music Augustus. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Bonnie and Taylor Sims. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Bonnie Lowdermilk Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Caribou Mountain Collective with Ragged Union. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Chris Daniels and the Kings. 6 p.m. Downtown Longmont, Main Street and Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8484. Clisset and Company. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Colorado Floyd. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Dave Grimsland. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Dirty Bourbon River Show. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. DJ Jon Krunk. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Dustin Devine and The Real Deal. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-8273380. First Friday Jam and Cat Jerky. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

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Megan Burtt. 7:30 p.m. Little Tree Acoustic House Concert Series, Lafayette, 303-661-0891. The Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

The Gaslamp Killer. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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

The Gaslamp Killer Meet and Greet. 5 p.m. Poster Scene, 1505 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4433102.

Sean Farley. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

HenScratch. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-8903993. Intuit. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Matt Flaherty Band, Robby Peoples. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Of Line and Color. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through June 12.

Calling all Photgraphers for 2015 Palette Knife Gone Land Through the Wild. The Dairy Caroline Thompson showcases her Lens Exhibit. The Center for the Arts, work at The Dairy in Palette Knife Great Frame Up, 430 2590 Walnut St., BoulGone Wild. Main St., Longmont, der, 303-440-7826. 303-772-7293. Through June 12. Submission deadline June 19. Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Contemporary Photography by Marc BerMuseum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, nardi. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 10, 2016. 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Rick Stoner. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Through July 31. Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through June Critical Focus — by Monique Crine. Museum 21. of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, Showing Off. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th 303-298-7554. Through June 28. Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Everyday Monsters — by Kim Dorland. Jan. 3, 2016. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Starring Linda: A Trio of John DeAndrea Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 28. Sculptures. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Flatlander. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. June 21. Through September 13. Thief Among Thieves. Museum of ContempoJoan Miró: Instinct & Imagination. Denver rary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 7554. Through June 28. 720-865-5000. Through June 28. Wildflowers. The Dairy Center for the Arts, Margaret Neumann: Inscapes. Boulder 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Through June 12. Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through June 7.

Randall Dubis Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Halden Wofford and the HiBeams. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Oils on Cavas by Betsy Cole. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971174. Through July 31.

Barbara Bosworth: Quiet Wonder. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Sept. 20.

Fredi and The Soul Shakers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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The Sweet Lillies. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Taarka. 9 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472. Troy Clayton. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Wilson Harwood. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Events The “I Have Dream” Foundation’s 13th Annual Golf Tournament. 6:30 a.m. Indian Peaks Golf Club, 2300 Indian Peaks Trail, Lafayette, 303-666-4706.

Seniors on Bikes Berthoud Ride. 9 a.m. Sol Y Sombra, 75th St. and Highway 66, Boulder, 303-618-3510. Viva la Frida! Exhibit Opening Artists Reception and Frida Costume Party. 6 p.m. Bella Frida, 924 Main St., Louisville, 303-926-9000. Saturday, June 6 Music Adam Klein. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955. The Aristocats. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Bella Musser. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Black Water: A Tribute to The Doobie Brothers and More. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Blues on the Lamb. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Boozegrass. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Bradford Lee Folk and The Bluegrass Playboys. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. see EVENTS Page 42

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Burns Twice. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Dave Honig’s New Standards Project. 6 p.m. Tai Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-4443133. David Booker. 7:30 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar, 2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-491-3578.

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Dechen Hawk, Colin Robison, Danit. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. DJ Way Way. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Dolores Scott and Jack. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Fox Feather. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Full Belly. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jeff Brinkman. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 970-708-4067.

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Lumbercat. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Mindbender. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Natural Vibrations. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Nolan McInnis. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Pete Kartsounes. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Radiate Unified Dance Party with DJ Mr. Getdowne. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Randall Dubis Band. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Sanitas Fest 2015 with Euforquestra and More. 2 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Co., 3550 Frontier Ave., Unit A, Boulder, 303-998-2895. Second Acts. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Sherefe. 8 p.m. Trident Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133. Six Degrees of Separation. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building (CU Boulder), 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411. Taarka. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Under The Willow with Reckon. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4403355. Events Back in the Saddle. 9 a.m. Acres of Opportunity Ranch, 9960 Arapahoe Road, Lafayette, 720-2326421. Boulder Nine-Mile Ramble. 8:30 a.m. Alfalfa’s Market, 1651 Broadway, Boulder, 720-420-8400. Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Lyons Art Center Movie Night. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236.

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Thursday, June 4 Find Momo Coast to Coast — Andrew Knapp and Momo. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Monday, June 8 The Home Reference to Holistic Health and Healing — Brigitte Mars. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074. “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, June 9 The Road Less Taken — Kathryn Bertine. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Author Steven Wingate. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wednesday, June 10 How the Trees Got Their Voices — Sue Lion. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Brian Rezac: BBQ and Tunes. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099.

Keith Summers. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-5932066.

The Deer Run Drifters. 8 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Martha Scanlan with Jon Nuefeld. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-4436461.

Dirty Bourbon River. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Elise Wunder. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258. Friends of Jazz. 1 p.m. Boulder Elks Lodge, 3975 28th St., Boulder, 303-442-5003. Julie and John Pennell. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn,

Old’s Cool Rock. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Porch Song. 4 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homesee EVENTS Page 44

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Brighton Beach Memoirs. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through June 28.

449-6000. Through September 5. Much Ado About Nothing. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, 303-492-8008, Through Aug. 9.

Children of Eden. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through July 12. Defending the Caveman. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through June 28. Mary Poppins. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-

Night, Mother. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-856-7830. Through June 14. Defending the Caveman uses comedy to explore the differences between men and women. Now playing at the DCPA through June 28.

Wicked. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239, Through July 5.

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Annual Cleanup Day. 8 a.m. Bohn Park, Second Ave., Lyons, 303-823-6622.

Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Boulder Jewish Festival 2015. 11 a.m. Pearl Street Mall and Courthouse Lawn, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder.

Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Dances With Branches Recreational Tree Climbing. 12:30 p.m. Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303-661-1460.

The Prairie Scholars Open Mic. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Vitality Walk. 9 a.m. Sandstone Ranch Visitors and Learning Center, 3001 E. Highway 119, Longmont, 303-774-4692.

Prospect Sound Bites with The Wendy Woo Band. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467.

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Strum and Blow. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108

Eagles: Majesty in Motion with Perry Conway. 11 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Kids Fly Fishing Camp. All day. Front Range Anglers, 2344 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-494-1375. Moovers & Shakers. 5:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Pastel Painting Workshop. 10 a.m. Longmont Senior Center, 901 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8411. Tuesday, June 9 Music Concerts in the Park. 6:30 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-776-6050. Folk Dancing for Children. 6:15 p.m. Boulder Municipal Plaza, 1770 13th St., Boulder. Gasoline Lollipops. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Hazel Miller’s Blues Fest Featuring Nalani. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Mike Robinson Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. Robert Johnson Jazz Duo. 8 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-4774164. Steven Wilson. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Western Electric. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Events Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Boulder Municipal Plaza, 1770 13th St., Boulder. Night with a Futurist: The Belonging Revolution. 6:30 p.m. DaVinci Institute, 511 E. South Boulder Road, Louisville, 303-666-4133. Wednesday, June 10 Music Butch Walker. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Lukas Borsten and Julie Stratton. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720204-6064. Midday Music. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Moors and McCumber. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. Paper Moonshine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Robert Cline Jr. 6 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020.

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‘San Andreas’ is morally terrible, kind of watchable by  Ryan Syrek

et’s get this clear up front: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s character, Ray, in San Andreas is stealthily one of the most morally bankrupt, narcissistic assholes to ever be called a “hero.” He’s introduced as having saved more than 600 lives during his many years with the Los Angeles Fire Department. By the film’s end, in the wake of the greatest disaster (natural or otherwise) in human history, his “lives saved” total goes up only single digits. As people die in ugly, awful ways all around him, Ray ignores them in order to save his estranged wife and loving daughter. If you’re not related to Ray, sorry about your death by fire or pulverization, but you can’t ride in the city’s helicopter or the plane he steals, truck he steals or boat he steals. Disaster movies are, by their very nature, profoundly messed up. For fun, we watch an exaggerated simulation of events that claim the lives of millions in real life. The moral relativism needed to delight in such a thing is decidedly American in nature. In order for disaster films to be guilty-conscience-free experiences, they must do two things: exaggerate circumstances so they no longer resemble reality (think Day After Tomorrow) and embrace character-based melodrama to the point where it’s more about who survives from the evershrinking group we’re following than the epic death toll around them. At least San Andreas gets it half right. After a pretty great opening sequence that shows The Rock might play the hero of San Andreas, but he probably could have saved a few more lives along the way to a playful, nearly saving his daughter. meta-awareness the film immediately abandons, Ray has to tell his daughter, Blake (Alexandra Daddario), that he won’t be able to see her off to college because he’s been called in to help rescue efforts after the Hoover Dam collapses. Oh, right, sorry: The Hoover Dam collapses while Paul Giamatti is on it. It’s not his fault, it’s the San Andreas’. Meanwhile, Ray gets into a squabble with his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Emma (Carla Gugino), who is leaving him because he hasn’t been emotionally available since the death of their other daughter. Other daughter’s death flashback is maybe the most unintentionally hilarious scene in a film rife with them. “I was the one who wanted her to go white water rafting,” should be a line from an aborted Mountain Dew commercial, not a mournful contemplation of death. As soon as California starts literally rocking and rolling, Ray immediately saves Emma, and then the two go after their daughter, the only decent human being in the movie. Daddario deserves bigger, better roles, especially after her killer turn in True Detective. Like Margot Robbie in this year’s blah Focus, Daddario charismatically shines here when she could have understandably phoned it in. Actually, The Rock, Gugino and Giamatti all try quite a bit. It’s just that somehow that makes things worse… San Andreas is at its best when it’s dumb, like when The Rock drives a speedboat up a tsunami wave. Sadly, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, it’s not dumb often enough. Combine that with a lead character who abandons his appointed life-saving duties at the precise moment he’s most needed, and you have an uneven flick that flirts with disaster more than embraces it. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

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wonder what Teddy Roosevelt would think of a swanky wine bar. You are confronted with that question at Modena Wine Cafe in Longmont. It’s located next to Roosevelt Park, but more pertinently, its large windows open up to a Rough Rider-era Roosevelt, cowboy hat and spectacle on, no doubt ready to storm the hill with nothing but testosterone and an under-manned army behind him. Peering into the other corner of Modena is Roosevelt, the politician, yelling reedy from a train car railing, summoning those who had forgotten his prowess as a leader of state with gritty determination and soul-weakening personality. What would Roosevelt — a man who overcame asthma and chronic stomach troubles (and quacky 19th century medicine) on his own, who wrestled wild game in the Dakotas and who chartered a trip in the Amazon and nearly died — think of a refined, elegant 21st century wine bar? He’d love it. Above all, Roosevelt was a man with an insatiable appetite for knowledge and for whom global travel was a lifelong occupation. He, and us, can get that at Modena; a globe-spanning wine list, interesting tapas fare and a resilient and knowledgeable wait staff provides it. Now Roosevelt I am not. My questions are born out of stupidity not insatiable curiosity. But our friendly server at Modena had the patience and deep knowledge of wine necessary to answer the questions we brought. First a few softballs: a buttery white and an easydrinking Bordeaux. The buttery white was a sauvignon blanc from Lake County, Calif. It was wellrounded with subtle sweetness and roasted butter. The

There was also a greek plate on the table with tabouleh, hummus and naan slices. The tabouleh was crazy — the base grain was an earthy quinoa that tasted like the barely burnt edges Modena Wine Cafe 600 Longs Peak Ave., of a fresh brownie. Longmont, The hummus was 720-438-7410 immediately fruity on the tip of the palate, before giving way to smoky pepper, honey and creamy chickpea. Overall, a fantastic starter. Elswehere, there were small meatballs with two dipping sauces — one spicy and one acidic. There was also a flatbread with cut shrimp, spinach and feta cheese. It was a remarkable little bite — fresh and perfectly textured, and aesthetically interesting. The best thing on the table, for me, was the deviled eggs. And that sounds nuts, because you don’t see deviled eggs on menus, and you don’t immediately think they can be elevated. These were, with a Fresno chili aioli, Hawaiian sea salt and fresh-as-the-day-it-wascrushed paprika. If you have a hankering for deviled eggs, go to this wine bar. The final question posed was to pair cheeses with wines. What came back was three cheeses, from mild to weird: buffalo mozzarella, a sharp, havarti-like cheese and Humboldt Fog, a popular hybrid goat’s milk cheese — paired with two floral whites, one from Germany and the other from California. It was an educational finale, seeing how flavors change on the tongue and seeing how easily modern society has made bringing aworld of food to any table anywhere in the world. That globalization of experience is something Teddy could get behind, I think, and it’s where (besides this corner in Longmont) he and Modena overlap.

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2010 Bordeaux was indeed approachable, with dirty freshness. The next request was a little tougher: an earthy, weird red with pleasant funk. The answer was another wine from Lake County, this time a cabernet sauvignon. It had medium brightness and was tonguestarching. The funk was unmistakable, taking on the characteristics of a muddy bog sometime in the mid to late morning, maybe around 11. Before the next wine challenge, I asked the server to bring about five tapas dishes to the table. One was a plate of three chorizo tacos. The spicy chorizo was cut into chunks and paired with cilantro, guacamole and a Fresno chile sauce. They were surprisingly light and the spice interacted well with the last few sips of the funky dry red on the table.

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BASTA REOPENING You may have missed it, but BASTA in Boulder was closed this week in order to complete improvements to the interior of the restaurant as well as the menu. But, the pizza and craft food eatery is open again starting June 4, and is welcoming guests to come in and see the new place. “The open kitchen and newly added open air bar window allow guests to observe the artistry of the chefs manning the wood oven, and bartenders crafting cocktails,” reads a press release from BASTA. “A Chef’s Table tasting menu will be introduced to complement the experience, available by reservation for up to only four guests.” For more information, visit www.bastaboulder.com.

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recent move by the World sion. The very next day, a bill to repeal Trade Organization (WTO) COOL laws for beef, pork and chicken threatens to put more myswas proposed. A day later the committery in your meat, while tee passed it, 38-6. undermining our national National Farmers Union president sovereignty. Robert Johnson was on Capitol Hill On May 18 the WTO ruled that following the WTO’s decision, meeting American meat with legislators labels violate and urging them Wikipedia Canadian and to keep COOL, Mexican free trade as it were. rights. The labels Johnson’s team were created in visited 150 officaccordance with es, he told me by the U.S. Country phone. Their of Origin message was simple: “...do nothing Labeling (COOL) for these next laws, and show several months where the animal while this process was born, raised Who knows where this ground beef came plays out.” and slaughtered. from? The House The labels are Agriculture directed at Committee is jumping the gun, he said, American consumers, and were implebut the Senate, “...will not be in any mented through the American political hurry to do anything.” process. But they put Mexican and “Normally in the WTO, before any Canadian livestock producers at an action is authorized, is the time when unfair disadvantage, the WTO ruled. So they must go. countries are encouraged to negotiate. The House Agriculture Committee And that is precisely what should hapacted quickly in response to the decipen.”

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In a joint statement, Canadian and Mexican representatives praised the ruling, and called COOL “...damaging to North America’s supply chain and harmful to producers and processors in all three countries.” The Canadian government has been tossing around the $1 billion figure for the damages its meat industry has suffered under COOL. The U.S. based National Cattleman’s Beef Association (NCBA) claims the implementation costs of COOL to U.S. producers to be “...in excess of $1 billion for beef alone.” Johnson chuckled when I brought up these numbers. “It’s laughable,” he said. “Nobody really believes that.” Such costs, it is argued, come from keeping foreign-born animals separate

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ketplaces. He told me in an email that WTO based its decision on data that is not only weak, but secret. “The WTO relied on analyses of proprietary Canadian cattle data analyzed by consultants to the Canadian Cattlemens Association and the Canadian Government.... no independent economists can access the Canadian data.” Roberts said his study made use of the meatpacker’s mandatory price reporting data, which told a different story, in which COOL has negligible impact on the Mexican and Canadian meat industries. This argument will get a fair hearing while WTO’s process is allowed to continue, Johnson says. He expects the Canadians and Mexicans will seek retaliation based upon this ruling in the form of a tariff, at which point the United States will request arbitration. Canada and Mexico will be authorized to prove economic damages before they can retaliate. And this is where their job becomes a lot harder, as the damages will have to be proven in public. But if COOL, in reality, isn’t so bad for North American ranchers, I asked Johnson, then why are so many companies against it? It’s the international meat packers, he said, representatives of which sit on the boards of the National Cattleman’s Beef Association and its Canadian and Mexican counterparts, and who send well-armed lobbyists to Capitol Hill. Johnson says the global meat conglomerates don’t like COOL because it eliminates a practice among meat packers that, while it lasted, was as convenient as it was profitable. They were passing off foreign meat as Americangrown, and with the USDA’s unwitting assistance. “Meat imports are required to be inspected by USDA,” Johnson explained. “Consumers see a USDAbeef stamp, and they think it’s American made.” Many Americans want to eat American-grown meat,

which is why there is so much popular support for COOL among consumers and among many non-NCBA affiliated producers as well. “Consumers want to know what’s in their food, and producers would like to tell them,” Johnson says. But the multinationals, “...do not want to label country of origin, so they can go back to pretending that any product was U.S product.” Assuming the meatpackers fail to force a sovereign nation to change its laws, the fact that a global trade agreement could conceivably do so casts an unflattering shadow on the already unpopular TransPacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade deal. “This does make it more difficult for Congress to pass fast track,” Johnson offered. “One of the arguments that’s being made is that there is nothing in the TPP that would require us to change our laws. Now we have a bunch of people in the House that are stampeding to change a law. It undercuts an argument made by fast track supporters that we’ll be able to keep our own laws.” This is why many of the same groups that oppose COOL are also in support of TPP. They want the meat to flow like free capital, anonymously, across borders and around the world, to wherever it can return the most on some investor’s dollar. If you’re a consumer looking to weigh the myriad of health, environmental, animal and human rights impacts of meat eating, or if you just don’t want to eat meat from China, your agenda is at odds with the priorities behind free-trade agreements like the TPP. If what’s happening via COOL is any indication, the TPP won’t be a victory for transparency in labeling. How the World Trade Organization finally resolves the dispute over COOL will say a lot about how much power Big Meat really has. If Johnson is right, and we keep COOL, it will be a victory for knowing where your food comes from, at the expense of Big Meat. It promises to be an engaging process.

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s a kid, I was aware that a Will Frischkorn of Cured in pink wine called white zin- Boulder says they’re selling a lineup of fandel existed, but my dad 27 rosés this season. There are a few considered it crap. That they’ll sell all year and a number of memory lasted well into my which they could only get a case or two adulthood: Don’t buy pink wine that will come and go quickly. because it’s garbage. Fast forward to “It’s been amazing to watch rosé five years ago or so, and you’ll find develop into a category with such a folentire rows of rosé in liquor stores and lowing, and rightly so,” Frischkorn says. a deep craving for it by wine enthusi“The past five years has seen so many asts as we approach summer. I had producers look at rosé with real focus, some questions about all of this, so I not just as a little something on the sought out answers over a rosé tasting side, and the results show in the bottle.” with the two local wineries bottling A few of Frischkorn’s favorites at rosé: Bookcliff Vineyards and the moment: Settembre Cellars. The Premiere Wikipedia Blake and Tracy from St. Andre de Eliasson of Figuiere: From a Settembre Cellars respected provencal invited Ulla Merz of house, the Premiere Bookcliff Vineyards de Figuiere is a and me to their blend of beautiful tasting Mourvedre, room in North Cinsault and Boulder in the Grenache, and it Boulder Wine could be the quintStudios. Merz startessential provencal ed by telling me rosé. Incredibly that rosé wines are crisp, light citrus inspired by Italy and and melon fruit on France where you a mineral backbone pick grapes three to and a finish that four weeks earlier just screams for a than you would for ‘Tis the season for rosé. bite of cheese. red wine. The three Arnot Roberts winemakers then Rosé: One of the explained to me the three different favorite California producers once again methods for making rosé. One, which exceeds expectations delivering a rosé Settembre Cellars employs, is to leave this year that begs for food. Made using the skins on briefly during the pressing; a small parcel of Touriga Nacionall, a another where one mixes red and white grape of Portuguese origin rarely found grapes together; and the third is the elsewhere, this incredibly lean, structechnique of choice for Bookcliff: bleed tured and fresh rosé pairs well with off some juice to make both a deeper roast chicken. red (more skins in the wine than usual) The Essential Rosé: Crisp, but and a rosé. friendly as can be, it’s a bottle that What once was a by-product of seems to quickly disappear whenever its wine production has now become a cork is pulled. It pairs with a huge varicraft, and wine makers worldwide are ety of cheeses but has a soft spot for honing their skills to bottle pink wines Garrotxa, a Catalan goat’s milk cheese. fast enough to meet thirsty consumer If you’re really interested in tasting demands. But, consumers can’t necesrosé, save the date for the first-ever sarily know what to expect from each Drink Pink Vino International Rosé bottle as there’s no sweetness rating like Wine Festival at the Omni Interlocken you find with Rieslings. Merz of Resort in Broomfield on June 11. Wine Bookcliff suggests you ask your local enthusiasts can sample more than sixty wine seller for help selecting a bottle new releases, which sounds like a great because there is a chance you’ll end up way to start the summer rosé drinking disappointed. season. Boulder Weekly

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The Persian scholar Avicenna was so well rounded in his knowledge that he wrote two different encyclopedias. Even as a teenager he was obsessed with learning all he could. He got especially consumed with trying to master Aristotle’s Metaphysics, which did not easily yield its secrets to him. He read it 40 times, memorizing every word. When he finally understood it, he was so excited he celebrated by giving out money and gifts to destitute strangers. I suspect you will soon be having an equivalent breakthrough, Aries. At last you will grasp a truth that has eluded you for a long time. Congratulations in advance!

TAURUS

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OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

GEMINI

NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Nobel Prize-winning physicists Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr were both amused at how counterintuitive their innovative theories seemed. Once Pauli was lecturing a group of eminent scientists about a radical new hypothesis. Bohr got out of his seat in the audience and walked up to the front to interrupt his colleague. “We all agree that your theory is crazy,” Bohr told Pauli. “The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.” Pauli defended himself. “It is crazy enough!” he said. But Bohr was insistent. “It’s not crazy enough!” he argued. I’m going to pose a comparable query to you, Gemini. Are your new ideas and possibilities crazy enough to be true? Make sure they are.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

You’ve wandered into an awkward phase of your cycle. Missed connections have aroused confusion. Disjointed events have led to weirdness. I’ve got a suggestion for how you might be able to restore clarity and confidence: Make a foray into a borderland and risk imaginative acts of heroism. Does that sound too cryptic or spooky? How about if I say it like this: Go on an unpredictable quest that will free your trapped vitality, or try a mysterious experiment that will awaken your sleeping magic. P.S. For best results, ask for help every step of the way.

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

People I meet are sometimes taken aback by the probing questions I ask them. Recently an acquaintance said to me, “Why don’t you feel driven to talk about yourself all the time, like everyone else?” I told him the truth: “Being curious is just the way I was made. Maybe it’s because of my Mercury in Gemini, or my seventh-house sun, or my three planets in Libra.” I suspect that you are due to go through a phase similar to the mode I’m so familiar with. If it doesn’t happen naturally, I suggest you coax it out. You need to be extra inquisitive. You’ll benefit from digging as deeply as you dare. The more information you uncover, the better your decisions will be.

When it’s rush hour in Tokyo, unwieldy crowds of commuters board the trains and subways. They often need help at squeezing in. Railway workers known as oshiya, or pushers, provide the necessary force. Wearing crisp uniforms, white gloves and neat hats, they cram the last stragglers into each car. I foresee the possibility of you being called on to perform a metaphorical version of the service these pushers provide. Is there a polite and respectful way for you to be indelicate in a worthy cause? Could you bring light-hearted tact to bear as you seek an outcome that encourages everyone to compromise?

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LIBRA

I love to watch an evolved Scorpio get his or her needs met by helping other people get their needs met. It’s thrilling to behold the paradoxical Scorpio assets in action: the combination of manipulativeness and generosity; the animal magnetism working in service to the greater good; the resourceful willpower that carries out hidden agendas and complex strategies designed to make the world a better place. I expect to see a lot of this idiosyncratic wisdom from you in the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS “Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree,” says the Talmud. “But it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.” That’s a lyrical sentiment, but I don’t agree with it. I’ve come to prefer the shimmering dance over the static stance. The ever-shifting play of light and dark is more interesting to me than the illusion of stability. I feel more at home in the unpredictable flow than in the stagnant trance of certainty. What about you, Sagittarius? I suggest that in the immediate future you cultivate an appreciation for the joys and challenges of the shimmering dance.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

The core of your horoscope comes from the poem “A Color of the Sky” by Tony Hoagland. Imagine that you are the “I” who is saying the following: “What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.” Please understand, Capricorn, that speaking these words might not make total sense to you yet. You may have to take them on faith until you gather further evidence. But I urge you to speak them anyway. Doing so will help generate the transformations you need in order to make them come true.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

Gesamtkunstwer is a German word that can be translated as “total art work” or “all-embracing art form.” It refers to a creative masterpiece that makes use of several genres. The 19th-century composer Richard Wagner had this in mind when he produced his opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, which included orchestral music, singing, theater and literature. I’m invoking the spirit of Gesamtkunstwerk for your use, Leo. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to synthesize and coordinate all the things you do best and express them with a flourish.

Lessons in luck are coming your way. Will they help you attract more luck? Maybe. Will they show you how to make better use of your luck? Maybe. A lot depends on your ability to understand and love the paradox of luck. I’ve assembled a few enigmatic teachings to prepare you. 1. “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” — Tennessee Williams. 2. “It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.” — Baltasar Gracián. 3. “Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.” — Lorii Myers. 4. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” - Samuel Goldwyn. 5. “You’ve got to try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.” - Jimmy Dean. 6. “Go and wake up your luck.” - Persian proverb.

VIRGO

PISCES

Defender was a popular video game that young people played in video arcades during the 1980s. Fifteen-year-old Steve Juraszek was profiled in Time magazine after he racked up a record-breaking 16 million points while playing the game for 16 hours straight. But when his high school principal found out that Juraszek had skipped classes to be at the arcade, he was suspended. I’m wondering if there may soon be a similar development in your own life, Virgo. Will you have to pay a small price for your success? You should at least be prepared to risk an acceptable loss in order to accomplish an important goal.

The word “boudoir” means a woman’s bedroom. But hundreds of years ago, it had a more specific definition. It was a room where a well-bred girl was sent when she was pouting. “Boudoir” is derived from the French verb bouder, which means “to sulk.” If it were in my power, Pisces, I would send you to the sulking room right now. In fact, I would encourage you to sulk. In my opinion, a good long sulk would be just the right prescription for you. It would trigger brainstorms about how to change the soggy, foggy conditions that warranted your sulking in the first place.

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REMOVE SHOES, LAPTOPS AND TSA DIRECTORS The head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the agency that wears blue uniforms and touches you in airports, was reassigned from his job on Monday, June 1 after undercover agents repeatedly penetrated security. According to an ABC News report, undercover agents were able to get Wikipedia through multiple airport security checkpoints with illegal weapons or simulated bombs 95 percent of the time. Melvin Carraway, the acting director at the time, was reassigned to another law enforcement division, and the TSA position is waiting to be filled. It makes you wonder why we have to take off shoes and belts, remove laptops from bags, put shampoo in a plastic bag and get scanned in that spaceship-looking thing every time we go through security. On the other hand, if agents were able to get through security 95 percent of the time with illegal weapons, you’d think terrorists would be able to get through security at least a few times, too. With few reports of airport attacks in the last decade, this must mean they’re not doing the airport thing anymore, and by extension, terrorism is dead. We did it, Dubya! “Mission Accomplished.” SOCCER? CORRUPT? About a dozen officials at FIFA, the world soccer governing body, were arrested and indicted on corruption, fraud and racketeering charges last week, after a 24-year investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. The charges stem from allegations that FIFA officials took millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for World Cup hosting rights, executive votes and more. The charges would be a black eye for FIFA and its former president Sepp Blatter, who resigned on Tuesday, June 2, however both have had their name well sullied over the last many decades. Blatter was widely criticized for awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, a country where game-time temperatures can exceed 130 degrees, and where more than 1,000 migrant workers have died this year in the process of building Boulder Weekly

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were a long time coming — so long in fact, that you wondered if missed it they were ever going to come at all. That’s because a large portion of the world received kickbacks for keeping the FIFA structure in place — and Blatter in charge — and all 208 countries, even the smallest, get an equal say in the organization’s structure. In light of all the negative attention on soccer, the NFL issued the following statement: “Phew. Thanks, guys.”

BLINDED BY A CAT A Nebraska woman says she was blinded in one eye after her cat licked her one morning. The claim has scientific backing — cat scratch disease, made popular by Ted Nugent’s 1977 hit song — is known to cause serious complications in the eyes and brain. Cats are also known to be aloof pieces of garbage, only redeemed by their stupid antics and love of boxes. You weigh the pros and cons with any pet, we suppose: goofy faces vs. permanent blindness and brain trauma. Tough call.

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Cannabis is all the style and now on the floor of the Senate

mong the most surprising things I’ve witnessed in writing Weed Between the Lines for two years now is how quickly the cannabis debate is evolving in Congress. Back then, a small group of representatives, including Colorado’s Jared Polis, were trying, with little success, to get their colleagues to wake up to the fact that states were finding marijuana laws distasteful and changing them on their own. Today that debate has moved across the aisle. On May 20, the Senate Appropriations Committee, on a bipartisan vote of 18 to 12, passed an amendment that will allow Veterans Administration doctors to recommend medical marijuana to vets in states where it is legal. This will only allow VA doctors to do what other physicians can do for anyone else in those states, but it’s the first time any marijuana legislation has gotten out of committee in the “world’s greatest deliberative body.” The Veterans Equal Access Amendment, sponsored by Montana Republican Steve Daines and Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley, was added to a $77.6 billion funding bill for military construction and veterans benefits which is expected to pass the full Senate. A similar VA cannabis-access amendment was narrowly defeated (213-210) in the House version of the veterans’ bill. If this passes the Senate, and most people expect it will, the chambers would have to reconcile the discrepancies. Statewise, in 2015, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia have passed medical marijuana legislation, Louisiana, Ohio and Texas still have bills pending, and Georgia, Idaho and Kansas have all turned down medical marijuana bills already this year. Next year is shaping up to be an important year for marijuana legislation. Several states have already gotten enough signatures to place measures on the ballot, and more are expected as time goes on. Presidential candidates now regularly admit to cannabis use when they were young, and with polls showing

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the pros and cons of legalization. Another surprise is that it’s already no big deal. Marijuana, which has existed outside the law since at least the 1930s, now exists within it. It has permeated the culture and brought more visitors and tourism dollars to the state. Colorado is the weed state, and, like it or not, late-night jokes and social media ridicule come with the territory. There has been no major increase or decrease in crime around the state. No big rise in the number of traffic accidents. No major influx of people into the emergency rooms. No increase in the number of underage users. Is the system perfect? No. Many businesses still face serious banking issues. State and local taxes are high enough that some are still buying through the black market. Though it is legal for tourists to buy cannabis, there are few options for places to use it. Regulations will continue to need tweaking. But in a state where only two legislators came out in favor of Amendment 64 before its passage, the signs are encouraging that the brave thing Colorado voters did in 2012 was the right thing to do at the right time. I am reminded of the subtleties of the change every time I walk down the Pearl Street Mall. Legalization has become part of everyday Colorado tourism. Entire areas are now devoted to cannabis trinkets. There are tables and sections devoted to “Gifts for Your Buds!” Green, cannabis-themed “pot” holders and coffee mugs sit next to flasks, ganja cookbooks (Baking With My Homies and The Marijuana Chef) and baked Blundt Cakes. “This is my potsmoking T-shirt” is on the wall right next to a Led Zeppelin model. Pick up a pair of socks with cannabis leaves on them along with your Go Buffs hosiery. My favorite is something Billie spied at McGuckin Hardware. Our bumbershoot had selfdestructed during all the recent rain, and she found a nice, deep-green model that, when it opens, has marijuana buds beating back the raindrops from your face. We be styling now.

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Dear Dan: I’m a 35-year-old divorced man. I’ve been on plenty of dates since my marriage ended, but I invariably get asked this question on or before date number two: “Why did you get divorced?” This is where everything goes to shit. I’m honest: “We got divorced because I cheated on my wife. A lot.” This usually catches my date off guard because I’m “not the kind of guy I’d have thought could do that.” But I can hardly get past date number two after this, because this information is “too much to handle.” Sometimes my dates will admit to having cheated too. Not even other cheaters are interested in seeing me again. I was a good husband and father for seven years. But after four sexless years of marriage, I strayed. Crying myself to sleep every night took its toll, and I self-medicated with casual sex with attractive women. Two years and 20 women later, I got caught. I don’t hide the facts; I own my mistakes. I’ve grown and learned from my mistakes. But it’s hard for most women to see past “cheater.” In my mind, anything less than complete honesty would validate the belief that I’m still a lying cheat. But complete honesty is kicking my ass and ruining potential relationships. — Forthright About Cheating, Then Silence Dear FACTS: I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt, FACTS, and assume that mistreatment, neglect and stress didn’t extinguish your wife’s libido. (You weren’t shitty to your wife, right? You were helping with the kids, right?) I’m also going to assume that you made a

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good-faith effort to address the sexless state of your marriage before you began self-medicating with all those beautiful women. (You sought counseling and got medical checkups, right?) And I’m going to allow for the possibility that your wife may have married you under false pretenses, i.e., she wasn’t into sex or you or both, but she wanted marriage and kids and figured you would do. (I’m going to allow for that because that shit happens.) These favorable assumptions — of the kind typically extended to persons seeking advice in a format like this — don’t exonerate you of all responsibility for cheating on your wife. But if they’re accurate, FACTS, they do put your cheating in a particular guiltmitigating context. And that’s what you need to do when you answer that question about why your marriage ended: Put your cheating in context. Most people intuitively understand that wedding vows aren’t sexual suicide pacts and are capable of feeling sympathy for those who find themselves in sexless marriages. But instead of emphasizing the context in which you cheated — the emotional dynamics of your marriage, those long sexless years — you’re emphasizing the

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threesomes for the majority of the time we’ve been together. About eight months ago, we had a threesome with someone who has since become a good friend. I have developed a strong bond with our third. My fiancé is not an overly affectionate person, and while I’ve had issues with that in the past and overlooked it, these past months have shown me how much I long for physical affection. My fiancé is threatened by the two of us showing affection. I reassure him as best I can, but nothing I say makes him feel less threatened by my wanting to have alone time with our third. I do not want to give up the bond I have with our third, and I have zero intention of leaving my fiancé. If we could help him get more comfortable, it could be a perfect situation for everyone, with all of our needs being met. — Sincerely Perplexed Lad In Triad Dear SPLIT: Seeing as your third sounds like a better match for you than your fiancé in several important ways — bottom to your top, more physically affectionate — I’m wondering why you wouldn’t want to dump the fiancé to run off with your third. Your fiancé is probably wondering the same thing. Unless your fiancé is willing to enter into a polyamorous triad, SPLIT, you’ll probably have to pick one or the other. And seeing as how you employ “we” in your last sentence — in reference to you and the third, not you and the fiancé — it sounds like you’ve already made your choice. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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