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ugliest toad in the swamp). She has been a shameless shill for one of the ugliest parts of the financial services industry — the Wall Street-backed network of for-profit colleges, rip-off lenders and ruthless collection agencies. Some 5 million students — largely single moms, veterans and other lowincome people — have been forced to default on their student loan debt and have had their credit ratings and job improvement prospects destroyed by this profiteering private education system that DeVos carelessly promotes. Her latest favor for the industry was to assert unilaterally that her agency can preempt any state laws designed to stop the blatant lies and abuses of this predatory network of corporate education. Her bureaucratic claim is that state efforts to protect student borrowers undermines
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“uniform administration” of student loans. In her shriveled world of laissezfairyland values, you see, the uniform gouging of students trumps such basic human values as economic fairness and social justice. Heavens to Betsy, what’s wrong with this lady? Our nation’s student loan debt has ballooned to $1.4 trillion, threatening to blow another big hole in our economy, yet she’s stupidly conspiring in her department’s back rooms with Wall Street’s fast-buck educational exploiters to enrich them at the expense of students, taxpayers and the public interest. DeVos is the one who needs an education — both in economics and ethics. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. June 7 , 2018 5
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henever Hamas’s excitable boys in Gaza pick a fight with Israel — as they did in 2008, 2014 and this spring — it plays out the same way. Hamas starts it by doing something that is considered an act of war when it occurs anywhere else in the world — like firing several thousand rockets at Israel civilian targets in 2008, or firing rockets and digging tunnels into Israel for use in terror attacks in 2014, or organizing lynch mobs to breach the border fence and kill or kidnap Israelis, which has been its shtick this year. Israel responds with air strikes and ground attacks into Gaza, or in the more recent round, with sniper fire. After a few days, Hamas starts yelping like a kicked dog about Israeli aggression, Israeli atrocities and civilian casualties. Before long the international press joins in like a Greek chorus of velveteen anti-Semites, regurgitating Hamas’s lies and blood libels. For the past two months this has taken the form of characterizing Hamas’s “right of return” marches in Gaza as grassroots civilian civil rights demonstrations that were “mostly peaceful,” and Israel’s response to them — with sniper fire and tear gas — as a “disproportionate use of force” against “innocent civilians.” The international press lies. The marchers are not peaceful. Nor
are they intended to be. If there’s any doubt on this point, consider how Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar described what they were intended to do in a pep talk he gave to some of the marchers April 6: “We will take down the border, and we will tear out their hearts from their bodies.” He also called on the marchers to “eat their livers.” (“Eat their livers,” huh? As we Jews are wont to reply: “Who do you think we are, asshole? Chopped liver? Tell it to the snipers.”) And on May 13, in an interview with Al Jazeera, Mahmoud Al-Zahar, one of the founders of Hamas, brightly added: “When we talk of peaceful resistance, we are deceiving the public.” One Hamas Facebook page urged marchers to bring knives and cleavers to the demonstrations and hide them under their clothes. In an article at the website frontpagemag.com, Daniel Greenfield sarcastically and succinctly described one of the demonstrations, or more plainly riots, like this: “Hamas supporters in Gaza held the world’s first peaceful protest with hand grenades, pipe bombs, cleavers, and guns. Ten explosive devices were peacefully detonated. There were outbursts of peaceful gunfire and over a dozen kites carrying firebombs were sent into Israel where they started 23 peaceful fires. And Israeli soldiers peacefully defended their country leavBoulder Weekly
ing multiple Hamas attackers at peace.” Nor was participation in the marches exactly the spontaneous uprising of the wretched of the Earth that most of the international media has been trying to portray it as. According to a report in early April from the Middle East correspondent for the U.K. paper The Telegraph, marchers were paid $100 for showing up, $200 if they were shot and $500 for being severely injured. Families of the dead got $3,000. The international media frequently reported that Israeli snipers were shooting innocent, unarmed civilians. That narrative fell apart on May 16, when a senior Hamas official named Salah Bardawil told a Palestinian TV station that 50 of 62 rioters killed on May 14 were members of Hamas. But what of the 2,000 or so marchers who have been wounded by Israeli snipers, usually by being shot in the legs? Surely they were unarmed innocent civilians. Whatever else the Hamas marches may have accomplished, they have raised, once again, a question the international press prefers not to ask of militants who, in Mao’s phrase, consider themselves entitled to “move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea,” even when the fish might prefer that they were in someone else’s shoal. The question is “who’s a civilian?”
The Great March of Return casualties were civilians, at least to the extent of not wearing uniforms; a lot of militants fight in T-shirts, Levis and chinos. But the “innocent” part is another matter. “Innocent” means, at a minimum, uninvolved. The Gaza protesters stormed an international border (Israel’s), which they do not recognize, with the intent of challenging the sovereignty of the country on the other side (Israel), whose existence they don’t recognize. That may be many things, but “uninvolved” isn’t one of them. Indeed, violating an international border with the intent of challenging the sovereignty and existence of the country on the other side is an act of war. A civilian who engages in such an act can be variously characterized as a rioter, a rebel, a partisan, a revolutionary, a non-uniformed militiaman, a nonuniformed combatant, a complicit civilian, a civilian combatant, or some other category of irregular forces. But they are not innocent bystanders, and to suggest they are is to reject reality. The fact that the international press continues to portray the ones in Gaza as innocents and libel Israel for defending itself against the acts of war perpetrated by them raises two other questions: 1) Who’s a journalist?, and 2) Who’s an anti-Semite? This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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tell Chris Castilian about having recently gone elk CRED is a nonprofit legally organized solely for tions seem entirely political. A good example is the oil hunting in the mountains of Northern Colorado, educational purposes. Its idea of education is to inform and gas industry front group Protecting Colorado’s saying that although I hunted hard and walked the public about the “benefits of responsible energy Environment, Economy, and Energy Independence many miles, I didn’t get an elk. The snows didn’t development and fracking.” While the name is intend(Protect Colorado), which was formed specifically to come this year to push the elk down into the area ed to infer an organization born of and backed by citifight against any citizen initiative that could hinder oil where my family traditionally hunts. Castilian replies zens of Colorado, in reality, CRED was created and and gas industry profits. Among its activities are pushthat although he isn’t a hunter, he plans to go through bankrolled by multinational corporations Anadarko ing industry-spawned initiatives that make it harder for a program soon, “and hopefully become one of you — Petroleum and Noble Energy, which launched it in citizens to get measures on the ballot along with other a sportsman — at some point.” Normally, his choice of response to the proliferation of anti-fracking groups political activity like directing campaign contributions the word “sportsman,” instead of hunter, would have that successfully pushed fracking bans and moratorito pro-oil candidates, even at the city council level. struck me as odd, but considering his background and ums in Colorado in 2012 and 2013. CRED’s own director of operations and coalitions, connections to the oil and gas industry, I understand Despite its claimed education-only mandate, Mark Truax, has referred to Protect Colorado as, exactly what he means. “kinda the political arm we work with.” And In the world of oil and gas in it’s a very short arm. Castilian was overseeing Colorado, there is no single group of citithe combined $70 million-plus budgets of zens more important to the industry’s abilboth CRED and Protect Colorado as part of ity to continue its fracking and energy his employment with Anadarko. extraction on public lands or in close proxIf Protect Colorado is “kinda the political imity to homes, schools and neighborarm,” then another industry front group, hoods than the people the industry refers Vital for Colorado (Vital), must be CRED’s to simply as “sportsmen.” And there is a other political arm, making it possible to put good reason these folks who enjoy the the squeeze on critics of oil and gas in a litagreat outdoors garner such attention. ny of ways. In 2017, Colorado College conducted Once again, by its own admission, its Conservation in the West poll, which CRED staff has been recorded admitting it found over one third (38 percent) of uses Vital for political purposes, something Coloradans — as well as an overall total of akin to a political rapid response team for the 41 percent of Western voters from purpose of directly manipulating local elecArizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, tion outcomes in the industry’s favor. Truax New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — told an industry gathering in 2015 that Vital identify as a hunter or angler (sportsmen has been responsible for turning the election in oil industry vernacular). And of this tide in the industry’s favor during key votes group, 75 percent of hunters and 78 perin several Front Range communities. He also cent of anglers consider themselves to be told his audience that Vital had been “put conservationists having strong feelings together” by CRED. about public lands; strong feelings such as “Put together?” Considering such selfthey don’t want to see public lands, fish admitted political cross contamination, it is and wildlife destroyed by anything, includsurprising that CRED’s status as an “educaing oil and gas extraction. tion only” nonprofit has yet to be challenged According to the research, over half of by its critics. The digital ad above was targeted specifically at “sportsmen” by Coloradans for all “sportsmen” oppose allowing energy As seen in the imagery and words on Responsible Energy Development (CRED). Not everyone agrees that its claims are accurate. extraction on public lands. A full 56 pereverything from its logo to its Facebook ads cent oppose oil and gas extraction while 53 to its website, CRED’s “educational” purpose percent are averse to allowing coal to be mined on pub- CRED often appears to be a bit more politically motifrom its inception appears to have been to persuade lic lands. The poll also found sportsmen oppose giving vated than that. It disseminates geographically and psy- and manipulate sportsmen and veterans into believing states control over federal public lands and support chographically targeted pro-fracking propaganda via that drilling for oil and gas on public lands and near keeping national monuments in place. All bad news for digital advertisements, TV commercials, mailed flyers homes and schools is a matter of vital national security an oil and gas industry that needs the ability to exploit as well as a good way to fund and protect the public and even verbal delivery via 1,500 trained oil industry public lands in order to propagate its massive shale lands and wildlife critical to preserving Colorado’s employees using a special mobile application and cusplays. hunting and fishing legacy for future generations. tomer service software program. All this effort is to More importantly, sportsmen tend to vote. And These would be noble causes indeed, if only they were reach specific voters with targeted pro-oil-and-gas that’s why they pose such a threat to the oil and gas true. messaging, particularly sportsmen and veterans, whose industry and why they have become the principle target political clout may well represent the swing votes that In reality, the oil and gas industry is busy exporting for the industry’s sophisticated political manipulation both oil and gas even as the imports continue to flow ultimately decide who wins or loses any future election techniques. in. And as for oil and gas extraction on public lands concerning the regulation of oil and gas drilling in So it was no surprise when Castilian — one of the Colorado. Think setback initiatives or community con- somehow enhancing the legacy of hunting and fishing progenitors of Coloradans for Responsible Energy on those lands, the research is clear that nothing could trol measures on the ballot. Development (CRED) while working at Anadarko Also raising red flags regarding CRED’s “education be further from the truth. From declining deer populaPetroleum — used the somewhat awkward term only” claim is its admittedly close working relationships tions to the rapid spiral toward extinction of the sage “sportsmen” when referring to hunting. grouse, loss of habitat to oil and gas operations along with other groups whose stated purposes and motiva-
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with spills and other contamination is having a devastating impact on fisheries and wildlife. This conflict between reality and the message the oil industry needs to convey to accomplish its political goals helps explain why CRED’s sportsmen-/veterantargeted advertisements alternate between scenes of unspoiled wilderness and patriotic enthusiasm for oil extraction. To many observers, it’s a rather transparent attempt to engineer consent from sportsmen and veterans, consent that will enable the industry to continue its cumulative and massive negative impacts on public lands and wildlife while also justifying its continued operations dangerously close to occupied structures. The messaging is designed to neutralize these two groups of important voters whose long-standing political opposition to such activity is a tremendous threat to the industry, particularly when it comes to voting on citizen initiatives designed to protect Coloradans against the harms of oil and gas extraction. It seems a stretch to consider CRED’s psychographically targeted advertising to be some strange form of education, but whatever it is, it seems squarely aimed at altering the results at the ballot box. The best way to understand the oil and gas industry’s attempts to manipulate certain voters and control election outcomes in Colorado is to explore the crowded intersection where the oil and gas industry, sportsmen, CRED and Castilian, along with PacWest Communications, one of the industry’s most effective PR firms.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck – Denver, Colorado Of Counsel – January ’06 - August ’07 Practice areas included government relations and public policy; advised clients on natural resources, land use. Clients included Shell Oil; EnCana Oil & Gas USA; Freeport-McMoran; Cabela’s; and others. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (APC) – Denver, Colorado Rockies Government Relations Manager – August ’07 - January ’15 Director, Strategy & Engagement – January ’15 October ’16 Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) Executive Director – March 2017 to present Oversees investments of a portion of Colorado Lottery proceeds to help preserve and enhance the state’s parks, trails, wildlife, rivers and open spaces, independently, and on behalf of CPW.
inexplicably pulled back the signatures of more than a quarter million Coloradans, preventing the citizens from being able to vote on increased setbacks and community control over oil and gas extraction in their neighborhoods. Simultaneous to his employment at Anadarko, Castilian was also appointed to the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation (DPOR) board of directors in May 2011. In June 2011, DPOR merged with the Division of Wildlife to become Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Castilian remained on the CPW commission, until resigning to work for GOCO in March 2017. In 2007, Castilian lobbied on behalf of oil and gas companies, including Encana Oil and Gas, which at the time had significant holdings in the Piceance Basin, regarding regulations meant to protect wildlife, including mule deer and sage grouse, from the cumulative impacts of oil and gas extraction. It is also of note that while at CRED, Castilian laid some of the “groundwork policy” for Colorado Amendment 71, which passed in 2016, making it far more difficult for citizens to amend the Colorado Constitution via the initiative process. The bill was viewed as a way to halt setback measures and other restrictions on fracking and oil and gas extraction near homes, schools, hospitals, water supplies, etc. Amendment 71 was largely driven by the oil and gas industry, but was also supported by the health care industry, which is trying to protect its profits A window into the indusfrom any additional citizen-initry’s evolving game plan tiated attempts to put a single Following the career of Chris payer system on the ballot in Castilian is like tracking big game Colorado. Since its passage, key through a forest. The signs are all components of Amendment 71 there to tell you where the oil and have been struck down due to gas industry is going, provided you its conflict with the state’s conAs illustrated by this screenshot of CRED’s home page, veterans and sportsmen seem to be the two groups most important to the oil and gas industry’s pro-fracking messaging. know how to read them. stitution. Castilian has been at the center It seems more than coinciof Colorado’s oil and gas industry for more than two dence that the arc of Castilian’s career from the mid decades, particularly as it relates to land use, public ’90s to today has consistently found him in a position Among other things during his years at Anadarko, lands, sportsmen and the dissemination of industry to be one of the most influential people in the state Castilian was in charge of the company’s “Advocate/ propaganda. when it comes to the oil and gas industry’s relationship Ambassador” program, which trained and deployed Here’s a quick trip down memory lane complito public lands, its response to citizen ballot initiatives, some 1,500 Anadarko employees to spread positive ments of Castilian’s resumé: information about fracking. Of this, Castilian says it is, and the unprecedented effort to change the way sportsmen think of oil and gas extraction. “one of the things he’s most proud of.” He also served Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association Considering his apparent calling, it was only a matas President and Chairman of the Management Denver, Colorado ter of time before Castilian would find himself working Committee for CRED with a $50 million-plus budget Associate Director, Colorado Division - 1995-97 alongside PacWest Communications. and served as Chairman of the Management Colorado Counties, Inc. - Denver, Colorado Committee for Protect Colorado with a $20 millionDirector of Legislative Affairs - October 1998 Enter PacWest plus budget for the purpose of “defeat[ing] any anti-oil November 2001 You could say that PacWest Communications is the and gas ballot measures.” He was in charge of Lobbied state and federal government on issues brains behind CRED’s sportsmen/veteran persuasion Anadarko’s legislative strategy in Colorado, Wyoming including land use, public lands, agricultural and natuand Utah, which included “pass[ing] legislation such as efforts. If not the brains they are at least the entity in ral resources. Clean Air Clean Jobs Act;” engaging with trade associ- charge of amassing the data, creating the messaging Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners – and delivering it to the targeted demographics. The ations and other stakeholders to pass/amend/defeat Denver, Colorado company describes itself as a communications company numerous bills each year; managing political budgets Director — November ’ 01 - September ’03 that “develops comprehensive solutions to the political including PAC, corporate, campaigns, etc.; and lastly, Managed three million acres of surface and four and public relations challenges our clients face.” he managed Anadarko’s engagement with regulatory million acres of minerals through commercial, agriculWhen it comes to the oil and gas industry in agencies including “COGCC, CDPHE, WOGCC, tural and mineral leases. Colorado, sportsmen are indeed the political and public BLM, UDOGM, etc.” Governor Bill Owens – Denver, Colorado He helped orchestrate the 2014 fiasco known as the relations challenge. Deputy Chief of Staff – September’ 03 - January ’06 PacWest has collected data on millions of Colorado great compromise wherein Congressman Jared Polis
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residents for the purpose of psychograpically targeting them with specific pro-fracking messages. In 2015, Truax told an audience of industry insiders that PacWest/CRED has “scored 3.9 million Colorado voters in our databases, on their opinion of fracking. Everything we do then gets fed back in to this database so that we can use it at a later time.” What isn’t clear is exactly where all this data came from. As previously reported in BW, the oil and gas industry largely funded the Republican-affiliated organizations who paid controversial data company Cambridge Analytica (CA) to use the data it has been accused of illegally gleaning from Facebook users to help several Republican candidates win their races in the Colorado State Senate during the 2014-15 election cycle. Within months of CA’s intrusion into Colorado politics, PacWest, on behalf of the same oil and gas companies whose money found its way to CA, was suddenly using its own massive statewide database. This is not to say that PacWest did anything questionable in acquiring its data or that it derived any of its data from CA. It could simply have purchased its data from Facebook or collected it in myriad other ways. But the timing seems worth noting as the same oil and gas clients were helping to fund the data use of both CA and PacWest in Colorado. PacWest has worked for years nationally at the same intersection of fossil-fuel extraction on public lands and sportsmen that Castilian occupies in Colorado. According to a 2014 report by the Center for American Progress, as part of a major effort since 2008 to bolster its lobbying and political power, the oil and gas industry has steadily expanded its contributions and influence over several conservative sportsmen organizations, including Safari Club International, the National Rifle Association and the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation. “The oil and gas industry’s investments in sportsmen groups such as SCI, the NRA and CSF are, by all appearances, reaping significant benefits for industry at the expense of wildlife and our public lands,” according to the report, which focuses specifically on PacWest. While working for PacWest, Melissa Simpson — who now works in the Trump administration — did work for the Independent Petroleum Association of the Mountain States (IPAMS), now known as the Western Energy Alliance. Her work for IPAMS included countering protests sportsmen’s groups filed on proposed oil and gas extraction that could damage wildlife habitat on public lands. And according to an IPAMS document, her work “serve[d] as a tool to address wildlife protests from the Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, and other sportsmen’s groups.” This work dictated Simpson lobby on behalf of the oil and gas industry at Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies meetings, as well as create “opportunities for partnerships” that would lead to opportunities for the oil and gas industry as well as wildlife habitat for sportsmen. Simpson later worked for Safari Club International as its director of government affairs and “science-based conservation” before joining the Trump campaign in Colorado and later, the Trump Administration. Simpson’s path illustrates that PacWest’s approach to the oil and gas industry and its efforts to influence sportsmen and the agencies that serve them was in place even before CRED was created to accomplish nearly identical goals in Colorado. That’s to say, neutralize any opposition to oil and gas extraction on pubBoulder Weekly
lic lands. And since 2013, PacWest has worked on behalf of CRED, and appears to have brought its previous game plan to the state. Just a month after CRED was launched on Sept. 5, 2013, it posted one of its first Facebook ads. The ad featured a fly fisherman with a fish on the line in a pristine alpine lake. “We’re Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development,” the ad proclaimed. Sportsmen were clearly the target right out of the gate. More such ads followed. The themes were always the same. One showed an upland bird hunter. The accompanying text read, “Colorado sportsmen support fracking.” The ad further claimed that in 2014, oil and gas severance taxes went to “wildlife and environmental conservation.” Another ad featured Olympic target shooter Cory Cogdell-Unrein, who is currently sponsored by Cabela’s, for which Castilian once lobbied.
The myth of energy independence is being exploited by the industry in an attempt to use patriotism to persuade sportsmen and veterans to vote against their own interests out of a misguided sense of duty. The U.S. is actually exporting oil and gas even as it imports oil.
The Cogdell-Unrein ad again highlighted oil and gas contributions to Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) via severance taxes in 2014. The CRED/PacWest attempt to manipulate sportsmen had begun in earnest. What was missing from all of the ads was the fact that the vast majority of all severance taxes going into the DNR were actually used to support the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), the governmental entity charged with both promoting oil and gas development and regulating the industry. The amount of money actually supporting wildlife and public lands was relatively minuscule. In recent years, court rulings allowing infrastructure write-offs for the industry have nearly wiped out all the severance taxes the industry has to pay the state leaving the DNR robbing the state’s general fund just to cover the cost of regulating the industry. Last year it actually cost taxpayers $6 million for the privilege of allowing the oil and gas industry to damage our lands, water and air in Colorado.
Examining the messages On April 15, 2015, Castilian gave a presentation at the Energy and Environment Symposium in Rifle, Colorado, a city on the Western Slope in the middle of one of the nation’s largest natural gas shale plays and largest mule deer herds. Castilian told his audience the industry felt like it needed to create CRED to protect their “asset” in Colorado, “but we’re trying to talk to
voters,” he said. Castilian also noted that CRED is the oil and gas industry’s effort to deal with political threats, saying, “We felt like if we didn’t have this conversation and change the way they thought about this, then we’re going to see these things (ballot initiatives) every two years.” Castilian also told the audience that CRED polling had revealed that oil and gas industry employees were found to be the best messengers to deliver CRED’s pro-fracking message. This explains why Anadarko created a training program and mobile application for its employees to use in their efforts to persuade the public that fracking is safe. Eventually, under Castilian’s watch, the oil company would unleash 1,500 employees as the industry’s ambassadors to fracking. Castilian tells BW these industry-employed ambassadors are everywhere. “They’ve been all over the Western Slope. They’ve been all over Colorado,” he says. Shortly after Castilian’s presentation in Rifle, Mark Truax, then vice president at PacWest and director of operations and coalitions for CRED, gave two presentations regarding what PacWest does for CRED. The presentations were part of the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife’s 2015 Partners in the Outdoors Conference in Keystone, Colorado. Sponsors for this conference that brings together sportsmen and groups that advocate for sportsmen included the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, CRED co-founder/funder Noble Energy, and PacWest. CPW partners attending the conference included the Congressional Sportsmen Foundation, higher education recreation representatives, land trust organizations, town planners, county open space leaders, environmental educators, National Parks Service representatives, etc. — basically, leaders with credibility in their outdoor-related sectors. According to a networking tool produced for the conference, PacWest was looking to build transactional partnerships with the sportsmen groups in attendance. For his part, Truax offered his new potential partners help with things including fiscal management (assisting in budget planning, fundraising planning), data resources (collection/analysis), and outreach to specific populations by way of social media, advocacy and marketing. Truax was very straightforward about what he wanted from his new partners in return. He wanted help getting his oil and gas messaging out to the specific sportsmen subgroups his new partners had access to via their advocacy outreach, marketing and social media platforms. Thus his quid pro quo appears an attempt to ascertain demographic information on sportsmen and sportsmen-related groups, along with their de facto consent and social media outreach, in exchange for assisting the sportsmen groups with their fundraising efforts and data collection and analysis. Truax’s first-day presentation used PacWest’s profracking work for CRED as an example of using technology and marketing to accomplish goals. “Data and information is everything,” he told the audience. Later that same year, Truax gave another presentation at the Interstate Oil and Gas Conference in Oklahoma at the end of September 2015. A transcript of a recording made of his presentation there was given to Boulder Weekly (see “Behind Closed Doors,” July 26, 2016). In this presentation to industry insiders, Truax specifically details the efforts of CRED to persuade sportsmen with their psychographically targeted ads. He told his audience, “how do we talk to hunters and anglers, there is a lot of movement that we have — so we are really making sure we have the right message June 7, 2018 13
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for the right folks. Same with our digital and fish and wildlife populations, than it ads, here are a couple of examples of our receives from oil and gas severance taxes, digital ads... the one in the back there — which have declined significantly in really focuses on hunters and anglers. recent years. And there are hundreds of thousands of Of all the revenue generated by folks in Colorado that either have a license sales, resident elk hunting licenshunting license or a fishing license and es comprise the lion’s share, making up they turn out to vote... So when you tell nearly half of all hunting licenses sold by them in Colorado $82 million in severCPW. So perhaps it’s not a coincidence ance tax went to Commissioner Lapore’s CRED’s logo prominently features a [then COGCC director] boss Mike “trophy” bull elk. King, and the Department of Natural It seems when it comes to public Resources and go into wildlife restoralands and sportsmen’s interests, the oil tion and habitat restoration, maybe the and gas industry is all hat and no cattle. oil and gas industry isn’t so bad. We’ve got to walk them to that edge and Targeting vets explain to them why that actually matAs mentioned earlier, sportsmen ters, and why this matters to us.” aren’t the only group CRED has its This is a perfect example of the sights on, as evidenced by its website, manipulating messages being force-fed CRED also targets veterans. Before to sportsmen. As noted earlier, the vast recently changing its website, sportsmen majority of the $82 million going into and veterans were the only two groups the DNR actually goes to fund the CRED specifically featured on its site, COGCC to promote and regulate the which raises the question, why would oil and gas industry in pro-fracking CRED, Colorado. Of course in the context of sportsmen would be Colorado, target priexcited if $82 million marily sportsmen and was going to the DNR veterans? to support the cause of The answer to this wildlife and habitat question can also be restoration, but that found in the previously referenced Colorado simply is a false mesCollege Conservation sage. in the West poll in The ad aimed at which 41 percent of sportsmen Truax is all survey respondents, referring to in the It seems more than a coincidence including sportsmen, quote above is known that a trophy elk is prominently displayed on CRED’s logo. cite dependence on as the sportsmenforeign oil and gas as direct ad. It was first an extremely or very serious problem. posted on Facebook Dec. 12, 2013. It And that, according to the poll, “may appears as text overlaying an image of a explain why voters try to seek a middle man with a hunting rifle dressed in ground regarding drilling on public camouflage wearing a camouflage backlands.” pack standing next to a child, also camIn other words, the cumulative ouflage-clad. They are overlooking a impacts of the oil and gas industry on mountain valley, which is well-known public lands and wildlife in the U.S. are elk hunting habitat. The header text perceived to be necessary consequences above the image reads, “FRACKING,” in order to prevent Americans from and beneath, “helps protect Colorado’s heritage.” The use of the word “heritage” dying in U.S. military interventions resulting from our perceived dependence appears an attempt at evoking a sportsman ethos — one of pride in passing the on foreign oil. This patriotism-induced acceptance of public land destruction is love of hunting from one generation to the next. In this ad, fracking is framed as critical to the industry because the majority of all those polled by Colorado a defender of sportsmen values. The ad College oppose coal (63 percent) and oil further reads, “last year the oil and gas and gas extraction (62 percent) on public industry contributed $81.5 million in severance tax revenue to the Department lands. CRED understands this perception of Natural Resources.” well, which explains its dual targeting of In reality, the wildlife aspect of sportsmen and veterans using messaging CPW only received 2 percent of its that frames oil and gas drilling on public funding from severance taxes between lands as the price that must be paid in fiscal years 2010-2015, during this same period, it received 62 percent of its wild- order to obtain energy independence and thereby avoid future overseas mililife funding from license sales. Thus tary conflicts. CPW generates far more revenue from Colorado isn’t the first place hunting and fishing license sales, which PacWest has specifically targeted public are both dependent on healthy habitats Boulder Weekly
news lands users deploying the myth of enerbecause it ignores the realities of today’s gy independence. In 2006, it received a international oil and gas markets; it is $3 million contract from the state of dangerous because it conditions illAlaska to reportedly press Congress to advised foreign policy choices.” open up the Alaska National Wildlife At this point in time, the more oil Refuge for oil and gas drilling. PacWest and gas the U.S. produces, the more oil reportedly used nearly half the money to and gas it will likely export. Despite this set up a front group called, “Americans reality, CRED and PacWest have for American Energy.” According to a deployed their flag-waving, energy-inde2007 Anchorage Daily News report, pendence propaganda at sportsmen and PacWest’s advertising equated drilling veterans, two demographic groups on American soil with national security. whose shared views on gun-owner But according to an article by Jordan rights, patriotism and the idea of passing Weissmann on the myth of energy inde- their love of hunting and fishing to their pendence in The Atlantic, “American children makes them very vulnerable to energy independence makes for great the industry’s persuasion techniques. political rhetoric. And not much else.” The article describes how the term The real message “energy independence” dates to the According to the best available sciNixon administration where it was ence, the oil and gas industry’s operacoined during the tions on our public dark days of the lands and near our 1973 Arab oil homes is having embargo. Nixon devastating effects publicly vowed to on wildlife popuwean the United lations and human States off foreign health respectively. energy sources by The idea that we the end of the can balance decade, “an initiahealthy public tive he dubbed lands and wildlife ‘Project with the cumulaIndependence.’” tive negative And while things impacts of oil and didn’t quite pan out gas extraction with the way he imagits roads, noise, Psychographically targeted ads, such as ined, “the dream he this one, helped Cambridge Analytica construction operdrive voters to Donald Trump during the conjured has lived ations and pollu2016 presidential election. on with presidents tion is just another industry-spun from both parties myth (see BW’s ever since.” And Off Target series). not only presidents it appears, but also As is the idea that we can balance oil public relations companies like PacWest and gas extraction operations with puband industry propaganda arms like lic safety or trust that the oil and gas CRED that continue to fuel and exploit industry will even take the necessary the “energy independence” myth. There is a reason why drilling rigs steps to try and keep the public safe. are so often adorned by giant American Case in point. In recent days, in flags or even sport red, white and blue response to a final report on paint jobs, which has nothing to do with Anadarko’s role in the Firestone home love of country but rather love of money. explosion that killed two men and After all, what better way to neutralize seriously injured a woman, it has been opposition to fracking and drilling on alleged —by Castilian himself — that public lands or in dangerously close Anadarko, since 2012, has failed to proximity to homes or schools than by spend the money necessary to remedicalling it “un-American”? ate oil and gas wells it knew to be And there’s another downside to safety hazards. If true — and Castilian exploiting patriotism to manipulate should know —this failure occurred at voter behavior. In their 2014 article in the same time Anadarko, Noble and The World Financial Review, internatheir industry peers were spending tens tional affairs professors Flynt Leverett or even hundreds of millions of dollars and Hillary Mann Leverett wrote, “the via CRED, Protect Colorado and notion of energy independence is a other pathways of influence in their myth, and a dangerous one. It is a myth See NEWS Page 22 Boulder Weekly
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ocal government and school district officials and staff are meeting with out-of-state Arapaho tribal members on June 7-8 to discuss how to forge restorative relationships between the Arapaho people and the Boulder community. The series of face-to-face private meetings are part of the “Welcoming the Arapaho People Home” project organized by the grassroots group Right Relationship Boulder (RRB). Topics of discussion include access to Boulder County Parks and Open Space (BCPOS) land for use by native communities, incorporation of Arapaho history and culture into the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) curriculum, and development of interpretive signage that’s more inclusive of Arapaho history. Sociologist Paula Palmer, one of four RRB co-leaders, calls the meetings “very preliminary,” adding that the ultimate goal of the visit is to not only improve the relationship between the Arapaho and the local community, but to plan for Arapaho participation in Indigenous People’s Day (IPD) events Oct. 6-8. The list of participants in the talks include four Northern Arapaho delegates from Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation and three Southern Arapaho delegates from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. They’ll meet with representatives of Boulder’s City Council, Human Relations Commission, Open Space and Mountain Parks and City manager’s office, as well as members of the Lafayette City Council and Cultural
Arts Commission, BVSD, BCPOS, and the mayor of Longmont. Three churches are sponsoring meals. The campaign grew out of Boulder’s 2016 IPD Resolution, says another RRB co-leader, Jerilyn DeCoteau, who is an American Indian tribal judge and retired Native American Rights Fund attorney. “That resolution clearly states the history of the Arapaho people who were here when settlers and miners came to the Boulder Valley. We thought the first thing we should do is learn about Arapaho people,” Palmer adds. The idea for the campaign started when Arapaho filmmaker Ava Hamilton coordinated tribal visits in late 2017 between indigenous leaders and the RRB members. In Wyoming, RRB met with the Elders Committee, and in Oklahoma, with a large group including traditional tribal leaders, tribal government representatives and educators. An RRB document describes the meetings: “We asked the tribes how they would like to relate to the land and current population of the Boulder Valley. They all said they think of Boulder as home and would like to establish people-to-people and institutional ties. They would like to share their history, culture and current realities with the people of Boulder, and they would like to have a protected space here to honor their ancestors, camp and hold sweat lodges and ceremonies.” Summaries of Arapaho responses were presented in December to the Boulder Human Relations Commission, which funded the trips with a $3,000 grant.
Support for the project has been robust. The RRB email list, Palmer says, has about 450 people on it. Individual donations have been generous. The Board of County Commissioners ($2,000), BVSD ($2,000), Boulder Human Relations Commission ($2,700) and Boulder Arts Commission ($10,000) have all contributed toward RRB’s $40,000 goal. Boulder City Arts Commissioner Erica Joos describes her commission’s donation as an effort to give voice to those who’ve been disenfranchised. She also comments on the irony of Colorado drivers with “NATIVE” bumper stickers. “I think people have really strong connections to this place, and everybody is entitled to that. I think an argument could be, well, they (the delegates) don’t live here, they don’t really have a say, but in my opinion that’s ignoring some ancestral ground-breaking, the actual settlers of this area,” Joos says. Katy Waechter, Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks cultural resource coordinator, will tour the city’s historic Fort Chambers site on 63rd St., where local militia gathered with native delegates before the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. At least 150 peacefully encamped Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians were slaughtered in the massacre. Palmer hopes delegates will be able to offer input about potential site uses to the city. “(RRB’s work) helps us ... acknowledge the past, the good things that have happened and a lot of the bad things that have happened, to bridge those gaps Boulder Weekly
news and make our community stronger, more inclusive and resilient, and theirs as well,” Waechter says. Boulder City Council member Mary Young and Mayor Pro Tem Aaron Brockett are also participating. “I think before you’re able to understand why this is important, first you have to understand the history,” Young says, adding that when it comes to securing funds for the campaign, “In the grand scheme of things, it’s not that much money. ... I don’t think constituents would have any issue with reaching out to people from out of town. This is their land, we stole their land; if anything, it’s entirely appropriate.” BVSD Assistant Superintendent of Instructional Services and Equity Samantha Messier likewise feels that learning Arapaho history and culture, and that of other area tribes such as Ute and Cheyenne, is essential for understanding and redressing social inequities, as evidenced in, for example, academic achievement gaps. Messier says she welcomes Arapaho input into upcoming curricular changes. “There’s no doubt in my mind that we could do a more effective job of teaching about the history of the indigenous peoples of this state. I think there are a lot of pieces of the story that are missing,” Messier says. “I plan to do a lot of listening. Because what I’m curious to hear from them is what could we be doing better? What’s the story that needs to be told? How would they tell the story?” Messier wonders whether getting real with local history might be more challenging compared to say, BVSD’s new approach to slavery. “I think there are parts of our history that are emotionally really difficult for people to look at and think about, but if we’re not truthful about those, if we don’t actually allow ourselves ... we’ll never get to the place of reconciliation where the wounds of the past can heal,” Messier says. Hamilton explains the significance of the Arapaho request for land. “It was a total relationship. People were born and they died here, they knew the plants and animals and they had a relationship with everything, with that cycle of life here and with the land. They called this home even if they don’t hold title to property the way all of our land is today,” she says. Delegates will tour BCPOS land under consideration for native use. According to the 1997 donation terms of two parcels in northern Boulder County totaling more than 500 acres, public access is prohibited at one parcel until at least 2030, and permaBoulder Weekly
nently banned at the other, Jeff Moline, BCPOS resource planning manager, says. BCPOS can allow discretionary access at both parcels “for valid educational, scientific or cultural purposes.” At the west parcel, BCPOS is required to consult with “appropriate Native American tribes to promote the cultural interests of Native Americans and to protect archaeological resources on the property.”
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here is valuable in its own right of educating the community and getting more people involved, but ultimately the point is about forming relationships on the rocky ground of our past.” And Hamilton is optimistic. “I’m inspired by the humanity, by the goodness of the people of the land, even though their ancestry may be on the other side of the planet, they love this place as much as we do,” she says.
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Nederland photographer David Bahr looks for the beauty in fire by Amanda Moutinho
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n 2010, the Fourmile Canyon fire raged through Boulder County, leaving more than 160 destroyed homes and almost 6,200 charred acres in its wake. At the time, it was the nation’s highest-priority fire and a threat to Boulder County residents who lived in its path. One such resident was nature photographer and Nederland resident David Bahr. When Bahr heard reports about the blaze, he knew his house would be in danger. “So I went down to see what was going on at an overlook on Magnolia. I took my camera, and I started photographing,” he says. “That took my attention off the fear. By focusing on the art, I didn’t focus on the terror.” He calls the process healing, giving him some semblance of control during a seemingly uncontrollable situation. Bahr was struck by the paradox of fire: how an element can be so destructive yet alluring. “I realized there is a story here to tell,” he says. “There’s something very contradicting, simultaneously beautiful and terrifying.” It was Fourmile that inspired Bahr to continue the project, leading to his exhibit One End of the Forest, showing through June 17 at the Dairy Arts Center. The show features several Boulder County fires from the past few years, including the Cold Springs fire and the Sunshine Canyon fire. Now a full-time photographer, Bahr is a retired climate scientist, previously working as a water resource specialist with a focus in glaciers. Early in his career, he spent time as a firefighter in New Mexico. Considering his background, it’s no surprise that Bahr is interested in the environmental impact of fires. With global temperature’s rising, Bahr predicts there will only be more in the future. “Every degree in temperature increase is about a 4
percent drying, meaning 4 percent less water in the Colorado River Basin,” Bahr says. “When we predict an increase of 10 degrees by the year 2100, that means we’re talking 40 percent reduction in water flow, and you can’t have 40 percent less water without a lot more forest fires. The vegetation is going to dry out, you’re already seeing that. “There’s also a very much increased possibility of mega-droughts that last 50-plus years,” he continues. “The climate model shows about 80 percent chance of that happening by the end of the century.” In the seven years he’s been photographing fires, Bahr has begun to doubt the efficacy of certain forestry practices like removing trees by clear-cutting or patchcutting, which Bahr says is not helpful to prevent fire, especially wind-driven events. He questions logging practices as a solution for mitigation, seeing little to no
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evidence to support the claim. At the same time, he’s developed a new appreciation for fires’ importance in maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Fire suppression is part of the problem, he says, and controlled burns help to clear debris that fuel wildfires. “The forest really renews. It gets choked with too many small bushes and gets too dense. It needs the fires to help clear out,” Bahr says. “[Fires] help control pests, like pine beetles. And certain pine cones won’t even open properly unless they’re exposed to high heat.” Bahr also became enthralled by the aesthetically pleasing aspects of the flames. “What makes it artistic is that this is very much a part of nature, and as someone who’s a nature photographer, it’s just an integral part of the landscape,” he says. “There is some beauty in it.” As we expand communities into open space, we are at risk of becoming victims to the elements. But with One End of the Forest, Bahr wants to explore the duality between development and the natural world. “Who doesn’t love a picture of a volcano? It’s beautiful, but the people in Hawaii are not all happy about [volcanoes] right now. But it is that power of nature,” he says. “I’m trying to find that confusing, conflicting middle ground between art and disaster.” As when his own house was in danger, Bahr’s photography has helped him look at the abstract part of fire without his initial gut reaction. He recognizes how his work can stir emotions in viewers, but hopes the photos can give a similar sense of relief they gave him. “Even in the worst, there’s some of the best,” Bahr says. “It’s a matter of taking that control by seeing the flip side of what fire does, the ecological side, the necessity, the beauty in the flames.”
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A closed gate, a lawsuit and the First Amendment Couple faces trial after closing cattle gate on public land in Utah by Angela K. Evans
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ne thing is undisputed: On April 1, 2017, Mark Franklin closed a corral gate on state trust lands between the small towns of Bluff and Mexican Hat, in southeastern Utah. Public lands in the area are specifically contentious, as its on the edges of Bears Ears National Monument, which has been used as a political volleyball for years. After the gate-closing incident, San Juan County prosecutors charged Franklin, along with his wife, Rose Chilcoat, with multiple felonies including “attempted wanton destruction of livestock,” alleging the couple were intentionally trying to prevent a rancher’s cattle from reaching a critical water source. Both sides in the case, however, also acknowledge BLM via Wikimedia Commons there was a 10-foot section of downed fence nearby that allowed the cows to move freely into the corral. According to testimony, Franklin said he though he was helping out the rancher by closing the gate. In November 2017, a judge in the case ordered the couple to stand trial for the charges, which if upheld, carry a sentence of 15 years in prison, says the couple’s lawyer Paul Cassell. National and local conservation and environmental organizations fear the charges and impending trial could set a dangerous precedent for governments to arrest and charge private citizens and environmentalists for monitoring public lands. Defending the charges, prosecutors cited Chilcoat’s history and involvement with the conservation group Great Old Broads for Wilderness as proof of her husband’s felonious intent. According to court documents, they argue it’s “a reasonable inference that Defendant Chilcoat’s public beliefs against livestock grazing on the public lands could have been a contributing factor in the Defendant’s actions with the gate.” “We are women with a lot of heart and there is never going to be any desire to harm animals in any way and that implication is just outrageous,” says Shelley Silbert, executive director of Great Old Broads. “It’s an implication that if you’re part of an environmental group then you may have criminal intent, which is a very dangerous accusation and a very dangerous implication for conservation groups or civil rights groups or any organization [that is] working to speak out against abuses of the system or illegal activity.” The Durango-based organization is made up of 40 or so grassroots chapters working on public land conservation and education efforts around the country. During her time at the organization, Chilcoat worked extensively in San Juan County, often drawing the ire of politicians in the area. “Prosecutors have argued that since Rose is a prominent member of an envi-
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ronmental organization, that provides some sort of motive for the two of them to want to kill cattle,” Cassell says. Not only is the claim far-fetched, Cassell says, but it could set a precedent to prosecute other conservationists working to protect public lands. “If that becomes the basis for proving someone has criminal intent, then that places a lot of people in jeopardy of criminal prosecution,” Cassell says. “You could easily see in other jurisdictions the government trying to say, ‘Well, you’re a member of a particular organization with a particular viewpoint and so that means you obviously have criminal intent.’” Fifteen environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club, Western Watershed Project, Wildearth Guardians and After Mark the Center for Biological Franklin and Diversity among others, Rose Chilocoat filed court documents in were charged support of Chilcoat and with multiple Franklin, asserting the felonies following an right to freedom of incident on speech. public land, “Any time a profesconservation sional environmentalist is groups worry it targeted for malicious will set a dangerous prosecution by a corrupt precedent. county government, it has a chilling effect on the willingness of conservationists to speak out about environmental problems on public lands,” says Erik Molvar, with Western Watersheds Project (WWP). The organization is known for water testing on public lands throughout the West and has faced similar lawsuits from ranchers. Recently, WWP challenged Wyoming data trespassing legislation that required permission to access any land, public or private, and collect data, with the threat of a $5,000 fine and inability to use data collected illegally in government records. In 2017, the organization appealed to the 10th District Court and won. “Frankly federal agencies are woefully understaffed and have a very difficult time getting out onto the public lands to see what’s going on, on the ground,” Molvar says. “And so it’s essential for the public to be able to go out and document violations of the law, which the agencies would otherwise never know about.” Currently, the trial is on hold pending a Court of Appeals review of the case as defense attorneys attempt to get the charges dropped based on lack of evidence, and remove the lead prosecutor of the case over conflict of interests due to his political ties. Where the case goes from here is anyone’s guess. The fact that it has already gotten this far has caused conservationists to question the impact it will have for their future work on public lands. As Molvar puts it: “It’s basically sending a message that if you’re out there in the field, doing environmental work on public lands, you could be arrested for some trumped up charge just because you’re an environmentalist trying to make the world a better place.”
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tion that seems based only on what the industry wishes were true. Such psychographic targeting is just a classic tool of socio-political control through media. That’s to say CRED would make a perfect case study for Noam Chomsky. CRED, PacWest and all the other industry players at the intersection of sportsmen and oil appear to believe that this group of outdoor enthusiasts can be manipulated into accepting oil and gas extraction if they are exposed frequently enough to the false narratives that fracking is a matter of national security and that significant amounts of money from the process will be poured into preserving the legacy of hunting and fishing on public lands. But what if sportsmen don’t bite? What if they realize what CRED and the others are trying to do to them? What if they were to realize that the vast majority of their outdoor-loving peers actually oppose drilling on public lands and support sustainable energy as an alternative to fossil fuels? What happens when sportsmen find out that the industry is only drilling on our public lands in order to generate more profits from exporting U.S. oil and gas over seas? What happens when sportsmen and veterans realize that tolerating drilling on public lands and in dangerously close proximity to homes and schools won’t actually prevent any future wars? Let’s hope we find out this November. Boulder Weekly
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The kids are alright Comic artist Emma Oosterhous explores gender and sexuality in ‘Alphabet Soup’
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he opportunity to see a relatable story in popular media is a priceless experience for a young person. The path of self-discovery can be turbulent enough, but it can become especially confusing when sexuality or gender identity starts to veer from the heteronormative. With a lack of representation in the media, queer kids can struggle to find their identity. That was the case for artist Emma Oosterhous, who says her high school years were “rocky” as she came to understand her sexuality. “I lived in a bubble. I went to a pretty conservative school, I didn’t know what it meant to be gay or queer or trans until my sophomore year of high school. That is crazy in retrospect because looking back at my childhood I think, ‘Obviously you’re such a huge lesbian!’” she says with a laugh. “I just didn’t know or have the vocabulary to figure it out for myself. I didn’t have anyone else that I could look at and go, ‘Oh this is a person like me. Maybe that’s what all these things mean, that I’m a queer person.’” Around her mid-high school years, Oosterhous remembers the first time she came across a lesbian protagonist in 24 June 7 , 2018
a book she found in the library. “Even having that one shred of representation was life-changing for me,” she says. “And I can only imagine how much easier it would have been if there was more than that.” Oosterhous hopes the next generation of queer youth doesn’t have to settle for scraps, which is one of the motivations behind her web comic Alphabet Soup. Found on Tumblr, Alphabet Soup has a simple description, “A comic about YOU.” Oosterhous illustrates various submissions she gets from readers telling their own stories. The comics deal with questioning, coming out and dealing with the positive or negative aftermath of doing so. The comics depict many familiar moments and feelings from adolescence — spin the bottle, first love, self-doubt, embarrassment, loneliness, anxiety and more. Oosterhous has gotten submissions from around the world, from Iceland to Saudi Arabia. She’s drawn stories submitted by her best friend and even her childhood violin teacher who wanted Oosterhous to make a comic illustrating her acceptance of her trans granddaughter. Oosterhous has been drawing Alphabet Soup for the past three years, a product of a college internship at the Boulder Weekly
A LOT OF GAY AND QUEER MEDIA IS LABELED ADULT OR NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN, BECAUSE THERE ARE QUEER KIDS. I WAS A GAY BABY.” —EMMAOOSTERHOUS
Colorado Springs nonprofit Inside Out Youth Services. When tasked with coming up with a project, she wanted a way for kids to feel represented. Oosterhous thought about creating a web comic where she could tell their stories and actively engage her audience. “[Representation] lets us see ourselves as people. People who fall into the majority demographic, people who are straight, white, cisgender, etc. — they get to see themselves in the media all the time. They don’t have this gap where they don’t recognize themselves as a part of normal society. But for queer people, there is sort of a void there,” she says. “So having more stories about people from marginalized communities is so, so important because it normalizes the idea that we are worth something not only to ourselves but to people in the majority demographic. They need to see stories about us as much as we do.” Oosterhous has illustrated close to 150 comic panels. Over the years, she has also drawn snippets from her own past like her own coming out story. In a strip entitled “Take it From Me,” Oosterhous explains how she was pressured by a girlfriend to rush her own journey. “I would have figured it out eventually. I wasn’t allowed that time and space,” Oosterhous says. “I wrestled with my sexuality for a long time, and I felt this crushing pressure to know who was I was when I was 16, which didn’t happen. Eventually I gave in.” Telling this part of her story allowed Oosterhous to reassure other people it is not how the process should happen. With more than 65,000 notes, this post is her most popular. “Unfortunately a lot of people have the same experience,” she says. “I got a lot of comments like, ‘This exact same thing happened to me and I thought it Boulder Weekly
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friends and family. She’s received submissions from people who’ve suffered abuse, been kicked out of their houses, struggled with self-harm and more. “It makes me realize how lucky I am, and how I really need to do everything I can to help other people in my community,” she says. Despite some of the heavier topics covered in Alphabet Soup, most of the stories are depicted lightheartedly. Oosterhous use this tone to target her work toward a younger readership, mainly those in middle and high school. She wants to provide a younger generation a safe outlet to explore their identity. “It sucks so much that a lot of gay and queer media is labeled adult or not suitable for children, because there are queer kids. I was a gay baby,” she says with a laugh. “I wish there had been something out there when I was younger that said, ‘It’s OK to be this way. You don’t have to spend so many years being afraid of who you are.’” She also thinks people should stop protecting young people from the realities of life. Diversifying the mainstream storylines increases representation, and it teaches kids about the diversity in the see ALPHABET SOUP Page 26
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world. Plus, having open, honest conversations can facilitate growth. “They’re already dealing with these things and they need to be able to talk about them and read stories about these things in a way that isn’t graphic or disturbing,” she says. “Kids are smart. They’ll be fine if they read a story that has a trans character. It’s not going to destroy them. The kids are alright, but we need to give them the tools that they need to become functioning adults and to figure themselves out in a healthy way.” Another important part of Alphabet Soup is its all-inclusive nature. After all, as the name suggests, Oosterhous wants to include every letter in the gender and sexuality spectrum. While she recognizes some people find the long acronyms overwhelming, Oosterhous welcomes the diversity. “I’ve heard people call [the LGBT acronym] ‘alphabet soup’ kind of derisively. But I always liked that it seemed to go on forever,” she says. “I liked that there was always something else, always another kind of person to learn about and include and make friends with. It always seemed like a fitting name because we’re trying to tell as many stories as possible. I think it would do this community a disservice to only focus on 26 June 7 , 2018
the L, the G, the B or the T.” On the comic’s page, Oosterhous stresses that all identities are welcome. She notices infighting between communities and calls it pointless. “I can’t get behind the thinking that like, bisexuality doesn’t belong here because it’s not gay enough or asexuality isn’t a real thing or that your identity is too long,” she says. “I’m so tired of that sort of argument. It’s absolutely harmless to have a more obscure identity because we’re all trying to figure out who we are. Anybody who wants to be a part of this community can be.” Especially considering the loneliness that can come when trying to understand yourself, Oosterhous wants Alphabet Soup to serve as a beacon for anyone searching for community. “Most of us have to come to the realization we’re queer in an isolated terrifying way, because we don’t know what’s happening, but we know we’re different, and that’s scary. And there’s so much shame surrounding it. You don’t know who you can tell, who’s going to be OK with it,” she says. “I want to make it clear: the loneliness will not last forever. I’m inspired by this community. Time and time again, no matter what we have to go through, we do keep finding each other.” Boulder Weekly
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Lettuce: Praise the master
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n a cool and slightly overcast evening at Red Rocks, 37 years ago, Miles Davis was doing what he did in those days; which is to say, leading his band through a tenuously constructed set of electric jazz, waving here for tempo changes, glancing there for solo cues, prowling aimlessly across the stage, pinching out riffs through a muted trumpet pointed at his feet. Throw the switch 37 years forward and out comes the future funk band Lettuce, headlining their fifth Red Rocks appearance. Coming on the heels of Crush and Mt Crushmore, the band’s last couplet of LP-andextras, they released Witches Stew last fall, a set of late ’60s/early ’70s Davis-inspired music performed live at the Catskill Chill Music Festival in 2016. Clearly a side tributary to the band’s propulsive funk bread and butter, it is available as a digital-only release and an aside, albeit a satisfying one, to the band’s ongoing space-funk discourse with their fanbase. We caught up with guitarist Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff as he was waiting out an Atlanta rainstorm, hoping the weather gods would give a pass to their headlining set at the Candler Park Music Festival, and chatted about the set, fully anticipating he’d tell us that they worked this thing up with hushed reverence, teasing the nuances, treading carefully between tribute and tradition, teasing the polyrhythms, climbing into Miles trademark slurs and Hancock’s chordal inversions. Nah, not really. “It was just a live show, nothing that we practiced for or rehearsed for,” Smirnoff admits. “It was just an idea. I think it was the very first show of the festival that day, so some of the guys who had still been up all night, some were just waking up. ... It was Eric Bloom (Lettuce trumpet player) who really put it together. I remember him fighting with our bass player and our keyboard player — really, just yelling at each other, it was really heated for some reason before we played, ’cause I don’t think we truly knew what we were embarking on or getting
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into at that time. “But one of the things we did was like, ‘This is improvisational music, don’t hold yourself to exactly what those guys played.’ It would be whack if you tried to just reproduce it.” And fair enough, it seemed to us. The Bitches Brew sessions were pretty loose affairs, Davis throwing out a line or a progression, frequently giving little in the way of arrangement specifics other than tempo and solo sequence, neling of house-and-Headhunters sensibilities, makes preferring to let his young players (Hancock, Corea, it stick and leaves a mark. McLaughlin, et al.) find the arrangements themselves “I think some people who are out there are going and construct/deconstruct on the fly. Whereas, to be experiencing this and they’re going to think, Lettuce, a well-traveled band with a deep repertoire ‘This is so well-rehearsed, this is so tight’ and everyand airtight arrangements... thing like that, and then there are some of our fans Smirnoff stops us right there. who’ve come to numerous shows and they’re going to “...or at least we have the ability to trick you into thinking we’re playing off really tight arrangements. be watching us and going, ‘They’ve never played it like Really, we’re just playing off the cuff.” this before. Wow, they really go into something.’ Uhh... “I mean, that is really what the draw is to keep see“No, that’s the truth!” Smirnoff insists. “Honesting us, which is hopefully that we’re going to hit to-God truth, man, every show we go in there and do something that we, as musicians, are all excited about something totally different. We always switch it up. playing at that second.” Everyone’s trying to improv new little things here Which is more or less exactly what the original and there.” Miles electric bands were about. Finding that tranBut wait; the horn charts, those marksman-like scendent moment, couched in unforced and underblasts and flourishes punctuating rehearsed compositional context. Erick Coomes’ bass and Nigel Hall’s Tribute, indeed. The canvas, not chordal washes... always the brushstrokes. ON THE BILL: Lettuce, “There’s no charts, man. We’re a But new material is on the way — The Floozies — with The complete vocal band; we sing everya new studio record that Smirnoff can’t Funk Hunters, Jaw Gems. 6 p.m. Friday, June 8, thing to each other. And a lot of help but gush over like a little kid. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, those horn parts, those guys (Bloom “I can’t wait for you to hear the 18300 W. Alameda on trumpet, Ryan Zoidas on alto sax) new stuff. We were just listening to it Parkway, Morrison. Tickets: $29.50-$75 are making up on the spot.” at the back of the bus. We’ve mixed 11 Dancing on the edge of a cliff, songs,” he says. “This is it, this is the isn’t it? record, we gotta figure out the order, “That’s the beauty of it,” he says, grinning (if you what we’re going to call it. And I think this one is can hear a grin over the phone). “At least if you fall off even more special than all the rest.” the cliff, you’ll discover something new.” Undoubtedly, we’ll hear some of it at the Rocks. It’s a testament to the band’s success and collective Fifth Red Rocks headliner... is this getting routine? musical telepathy that their devoted following will fol“It’s never routine, man. Everytime, I am just more low them anywhere, destination frequently undeterand more excited. Last year and this year, especially mined. This is, of course, the “journey is the reward” because I’m now a Denver resident, and this Red ethic that has guided uncountable jam bands through Rocks will be the very first show that my child gets to decades of festivals the last quarter-century, but come to. ... John Scofield told me that since I’m a dad Lettuce, with their sly and gracefully informed channow, I have to play extra funky.”
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Fake divide inspires real comedy by Gary Zeidner unite against the 1 percent and the utterly corrupt and irretrievably broken system that keeps them in power. Human Error does a star-spangled, fireworks-and-bunting, spectacular job of finding the humor in the fallacious Fox News versus NPR conflict. Two couples, the Christian, McMansiondwelling, lily-white Jim and Heather ( Joe Coots and Marissa McGowan) and the atheist, city folk, interracial Keenan and Madelyn (Larry Bates and Kimberly Gilbert), are attempting to have babies via artificial insemination. Due to a “clerical error” committed at the clinic run by Dr. Hoskins (Wayne Kennedy), the Clinton embryo ends up in the Bush belly. The couples meet, and Heather — with hubby Jim’s support — decides to act as the surrogate mother for Keenan and Madelyn’s child. That sets the stage both literally and figuratively for nine months of mismatched, fish-out-ofwater episodes among these politically polarized people. Keenan goes from being reflexively, deathly afraid of guns to enjoying hunting trips with Jim. Heather comes to understand that yoga is not a threat to Jesus; it’s simply a healthy stress-reducer and a way to bond with Madelyn. Blue collar Jim realizes that white collar Keenan isn’t from another planet. And Madelyn, the most socio-politically extreme of the bunch, learns the value of at least a modicum of tolerance for beliefs different from her own. This world premiere marks the first
time the Denver Center Theatre Company has presented a regular season production in the Garner Galleria Theatre, which explains the cognitive dissonance I experienced when I realized that Human Error was a play and not a musical. The Garner traditionally hosts only musical theater, and I’m happy to report that its cabaret atmosphere is just as well-suited to nonmusical performances. The one allowance made was the exclusion of the standard table service during the show, and I for one applaud the Denver Center for making that distractionminimizing choice. Speaking of applause, the cast of Human Error was showered with it during the curtain call and deservedly so. Each actor excellently embodies his or her stereotype without ever stepping over the line into cartoonish territory. More than that, the relationships they develop with their same-sex opposite number feel far more genuine than one would expect in a farcical comedy of this sort. BDT Stage’s master of mirth, Wayne Kennedy, only gets a handful of scenes, and as anyone who’s had the pleasure of watching him work his theatrical magic over the years in Boulder will expect, he makes more than the most of them. Wayne’s bumbling, befuddled fertility doctor earned the loudest and longest laughs in a play filled with hilarity. His Denver Center debut should definitely earn him return invitations to DCPA’s various stages. June 7 , 2018 31
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With her legendary charm, Erica Sodos combines telepathy, predictions and other forms of ESP in this riveting show. Sodos is one of the few female mentalists in the world and has spent more than three decades entertaining audiences as an actress, magician, theater educator, mentalist, clown and palm reader. Come prepared with questions and maybe you’ll get lucky: Sodos is known for using her crystal ball to divine insightful and provocative answers. Lafayette band BioHarmonix will open the night up, so get there on time and enjoy the whole show.
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, but that’s OK because two free showings of TesserACT: Dimensions of Gender (or Queernomicon at Comic Con) are on deck July 8 and 9 before it moves to the 2018 Denver Comic Con. In this collaboration between square product theatre and The Non-Binary Monologues Project, two queer nerds embark on an epic quest to destroy the gender binary. Tickets are offered for free to the community, thanks in part to support provided by the City of Boulder’s Human Relations Committee. Donations are also accepted, and will be used to compensate artists for their work. Reservations are highly recommended.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 7 39th Annual GWC Summer Conference. 8 a.m. University of Colorado, Wolf Law Building, Wittemyer Courtroom, 2450 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder. Featuring a blend of thematic and case study presentations from across the Southwest (defined broadly), this two-day conference will examine a variety of salient topics about groundwater use and management in the Southwest.
Science of SciFi — Genes: Libraries of the Future? 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. This talk will explore how Star Trek: The Next Generation may have predicted the future of data storage, the advantages and limitations of DNA data storage, and whether or not your computer will be reading DNA instead of a hard drive in the near future. Join us as we investigate the science that exists in science fiction! Through June 8.
FRIDAY, JUNE 8
Bears and Aurora of Alaska.
Recycled Runway at the CU Museum of Natural History.
7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.
Museum of Natural History (Henderson), BioLounge, 1035 Broadway, Boulder.
Have you ever wanted to see brown bears in the wild? Or watch the aurora dance overhead? All this and more can be done in Alaska. Join us as Dr. Travis Rector, an astrophysics professor at the University of Alaska (and a CU alumni) presents two planetarium shows that he helped to create about his new home, “River of Bears” and “Above Alaska.”
Young designers. Creative genius. Inspiring fashions. The CU Museum will be decked out with a special collection of original garments, designed and constructed by local artists, grades 6-12. Stop by the BioLounge to see this season’s haute couture creations made from upcycled materials. Learn how making better decisions about the clothing we buy and how we dispose of it can support the planet, a trend that is always in style! More dates through Aug. 31.
SATURDAY, JUNE 9 March for the Ocean. 8 a.m. Boulder Farmer’s Market, 13th St., Boulder. To celebrate World Oceans Week, the Colorado Ocean Coalition will be joining forces with environmental groups, scuba shops and concerned citizens on June 9 to march for the ocean. The event is a call to action to protect the water in our rivers, lakes and oceans. The nation and the world will stand together for the World Oceans Day/March for the Ocean global advocacy celebration. The Colorado Ocean Coalition will have a table at the Boulder Farmer’s Market from 8 a.m.-noon where marchers can create posters for the march. At noon we will walk to our march site on Pearl Street. If you would like to meet us at the march, we will begin at the Boulder Band Shell at noon.
SUNDAY, JUNE 10 Memory Cafe: Early Stage program. 1:30 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), BioLounge, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Memory Cafés are welcoming events where people living with memory loss and their care partners can come together for socialization, education and inspiration. Join us for enjoyable, informal and supportive programs each month.
MONDAY, JUNE 11 International Planetary Probe Workshop 2018. 8 a.m. Williams Village North, 3300 Baseline Road, Boulder. The International Planetary Probe Workshops brings together engineers, technologists, scientists, mission designers, space agency leaders and students from around the world for collaborations focused on solar system exploration with planetary entry and descent probes. More dates through June 15.
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Music
Tommy Emmanuel, Maxwell Hughes. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.
Views & Brews Film: The NeverEnding Story. 7 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.
Jam Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
The Way Down Wanderers. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.
Friday, June 8
Laurie D. 7 p.m. East Simpson Coffee, 414 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-502-7010.
Events
Thursday, June 7
Music Art Night Out & Art Market: Featuring Rachel and the Ruckus. 5 p.m. Old Town, Public Road, Lafayette, 303-661-1261.
Sláinte. 6 p.m. Brewmented, 900 S. Hover St., Unit C, Longmont, 720-699-0214.
Artist Talk. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303443-2122.
The Man With The Halo. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 970-302-7130.
Musk N’ Boots. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
ATOMGA and Mocochetes. 8 p.m. Stoney’s Bar and Grill, 1111 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-830-6839.
Comedy Open Mic. 9 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017.
Colors Presents: R&B Only. 8:30 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
The Death of Stalin. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Dead Funk Summit featuring Melvin Seals, George Porter Jr. and Joe Marcinek. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-4093. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Playing For Change. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Polarity Jazz. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Ryan Herrick & Maya Bennett. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Ryanhood, Matt Cox. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-295-1868. Scott and Rosanna. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Heffernan & Lemme. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. I Spy Bones! 10 a.m. Heil Valley Ranch Open Space, Boulder. Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Rocky Flats Living Library: Jon Lipsky. 1:15 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Summer 2018 Opening Reception. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Summer of Discovery: Hip Hop @ the Library. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Della Mae (free concert series). 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488. Descendents. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Hercules Choice. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. The Hillbilly Hellcats. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Hotfoot. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-4859400. Joseph Cutshall. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Boulder Weekly
events Live Music. 7 p.m. The Tune Up @ Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.
the CBDs. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-499-1829.
Taylor Shae. 5:30 p.m. Dicken’s Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Live Music! 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.
The Corner Girls (single release). 8:30 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Touch Sensitive. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
Longmont Symphony Guild’s 2018 Garden Tour. 9 a.m. Various locations, Coffman, Longmont. Through June 9.
Goatz! 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
US Bombs. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-861-9103.
The Goonies. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Veronique Van Pelt. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.
Voices Rising From Darkness: Only Kindness Makes Sense Anymore. 7 p.m. 1925 Glenwood Drive, Boulder, 720-600-6126.
Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.
Women Rock Denver. 5 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 720-865-0800.
Old Soul. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Joe Kuckla and Irons in the Fire. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.
Split Window. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
John Butler Trio. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Summer Concert Series. 6 p.m. Intersection of Fourth Avenue and Kimbark Street, Longmont, 303-651-8750.
Margaritaville Tribute — Colorado Rockies. 3 p.m. Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Denver, 303-312-2443.
Events
Murmuration. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Los Fear of Shrimp. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Mammoth Water. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. New Found Glory. 7:30 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Okkervil River. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.
CircleTalk Training. 8:30 a.m. Frasier Meadows, 350 Ponca Place, Boulder, 610-986-5478. Free Legal Clinic. 3 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200. Friday Family Film. 2 p.m. Longmont Museum, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8374. Fun on the Farm: The Herd Below Ground. 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, Boulder, 303-776-8688. Hit and Run: Musical Improv. 9 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver, 303-578-0079. HOME: Thomas Dance Project & T2 Dance Project. 7 p.m. Colorado Ballet, 1075 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 303-837-8888. Integral Steps Program. 1 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
Nessly: Back 2 Life Tour — with slouch, Maze, Dubz General and Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Orchard Lounge and LTJ Bukem — with DrFameus (Allen Aucoin of The Disco Biscuits). 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Paper Moonshine. 8 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.
Tahosa. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Pulp Fiction. 8:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown and Gameroom Expo. 11 a.m. Denver Marriott South at Park Meadows, 10345, Denver, 303-938-9889. Through June 10.
Agnes of God. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through July 8. A Hymn to the Goddess: An Egyptian Tale. The BiTSY Stage, 1137 S. Huron St. Denver. Through June 17. Annie. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through July 8.
Saturday, June 9
District Merchants. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through June 24.
Andy Babb & The Big Beautiful Band (album release party). 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Aqueous. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Black Label 2018 featuring Megalodon. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Cat Jerky. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Boulder Weekly
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Denver Handmade Homemade Market. 12 p.m. FORGE970, 970 Yuma St., Denver, 720-598-2490. Firefly Handmade Spring Market. 10 a.m. Embassy Suites by Hilton, 2601 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-502-7010. The Pressed Fest. 2 p.m. Thompson Park, 420 Bross St., Longmont. TesserACT: Dimensions of Gender (or Queernomicon at Comic Con). 7:30 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934. Urban Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, 1100 16th Street Mall, Denver, 720-272-7467.
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Swingin’ Under the Stars. 7:30 p.m. Little Man Ice Cream, 2620 16th St., Denver, 303-455-3811.
Intendence Film Festival 2018. 5:30 p.m. Open Media Foundation, 700 Kalamath St., Denver, 720-222-0160. Through June 10. Makeshift Shakespeare. 8 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver, 303-578-0079.
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Human Error. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Theatre Company. Garner Galleria Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through June 24. The Life and Times of Ol’ Alfred — presented by The SOURCE Theatre Company. Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through June 9. Little Shop of Horrors — presented by Equinox Theatre Company. Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through June 16.
Love’s Labour’s Lost — presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, 277 University Ave, Boulder. Opens June 8. Man of La Mancha. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through June 17. Oh Gnome You Don’t — presented by Public Works Theatre Company. Whitetail Park, 2550 Autumn Ridge Blvd., Lafayette. Through June 10. School of Rock. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through June 10. Superior Donuts — presented by Firehouse Theater Company. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through June 9. Rausch — presented by The Catamounts and Control Group Productions. From a nondescript location in the city of Boulder, audiences will be transported by bus to an undisclosed outdoor location. Through June 17.
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Sunday, June 10 Music Bashville. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
LIVE MUSIC SATURDAYS
8:00pm NO COVER 6/9 Hindsight
Oppression and the Body explores how power, privilege, oppression and attempted disembodiment play out on the bodies of disparaged individuals. Join authors Christine Caldwell and Lucia Bennet Leighton at Boulder Book Store on Monday, June 11.
City Park Jazz. 6 p.m. City Park, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver. An Evening with Greg Laswell. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Jungle Man Sam. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Cafe. 2199 California St, Denver.
Thee Phantom and The Illharmonic Orchestra. 4 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.
Monday, June 11
TONY LUCCA House Concert (adults only). 5 p.m. Sounds of Simon House Concerts, 1086 East Roggen Way, Superior.
Tuesday, June 12
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
Events BAFS “Second Sundays” Poetry Workshop. 2:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Thursday, June 7 Boulder Poetry Slam. 6:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
The Commedia of Robin Hood. 11 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Ari Honarvar — Rumi’s Gift: Oracle Cards. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
6/16 Flynn & Co.
Firefly Handmade Spring Market. 10 a.m. Embassy Suites by Hilton, 2601 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-502-7010.
6/23 Joe Cool Band
John Crist. 7 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.
2:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Manon: Royal Ballet. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Summer Heritage Day: Old Fashioned Jobs. 10 a.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999 Flagstaff Mountain Road, Boulder.
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Open Poetry Reading June 8, 10 p.m. Mercury
The Human Element Film Screening. 5 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 970-948-1439.
Reynolds Teen Advisory Group (TAG) Meeting.
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Charts, Parts, and Holders — by Patrice Renee Washington. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through August 26. David Mack. Firehouse Art Center, Main Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through June 17. Drawn To Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard. Denver Art Museum. 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 22. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. Facing Rocky Flats. Boulder Public Library, Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through June 10.
Highlights from the Collection. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19. Honey — by Kristen Hatgi Sink. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through August 26.
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Christine Caldwell & Lucia Bennett Leighton — Oppression and the Body. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Wednesday June 13 John Tinnell — Actionable Media. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Monday, June 11 Music Andrew Sturtz. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
“Window/Pater” by Roberto Juarez
With more than 65 works of art, Processing presents artist Roberto Juarez as a dramatic interpreter of natural phenomena and abstract form. Now showing at BMoCA through Sept. 16.
Act On It: Exhibit on CU Student Activism. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 15.
Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October.
Rise Like Lions: An hour with Sean Scanlan on taking back our Democracy. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Boulder. Through June 29. Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28. Lay of the Land. The Arts Longmont Gallery, 256 Main St., Longmont. Through June 30. A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19. Like a Hammer — by Jeffrey Gibson. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through August 12. Lisa Oppenheim: Spine. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. Melting — by Marietta Patricia Leis. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby & Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through June 17.
Patrice Renee Washington: Charts, Parts, and Holders. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. Pink Progression. Metropolitan State University, Center for Visual Art, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through August 18. Processing — by Roberto Juarez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 16. Resounding Roar — by Charles E. Burchfield. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through July 29. Transmission — by Derrick Adams. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Opens June 8. Through August 26.
Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21.
TreeHouses: Look Who’s Living in the Trees! Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 6.
Mixed Media Drawing and Watercolor — by Ileana Barbu. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through June 29.
Wood & Stone, Substance & Spirit — by Rebecca Davis and Roger Asay. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through June 17.
Mixed Media Painting — by Frederick Pichon. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive,
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events Creed Bratton of The Office. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303487-0111. Handmade Moments. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. June Networking Mixer: Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts. 5 p.m. 200 E. Baseline, Lafayette, 303-666-9555. Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with Greg Laswell & Loreena McKennitt. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Open Mic/Jam with Tom Kendrot, Jam and The Jiggatones. 6:30 p.m. KCP Art Bar, 364 Main St., Longmont, 720-378-3292. Sleep. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
man’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.
Bill Frisell Trio. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Dr. Dog. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. J&TM. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Josh Brookstein. 4 p.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th St., Boulder, 303-939-0885. Kurt Travis. 7 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
Oskar Blues Comedy Show Presents: Brad Wenzel. 9:30 p.m. The Black Buzzard at Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 1624 Market St., Denver, 720-502-3535. Rabblefish. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-555-1212. Ray Wylie Hubbard. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Events BeeChicas: Meet the Bees and Hold a Drone. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Dragons & Damsels Slide Program. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, Boulder, 303-651-8470. Let the Sunshine In. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker The-
ater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
The Most Unknown. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Rin Tin Tin: Where the North Begins (1923) — with Hank Troy, piano. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Screenplay Workshop: 6-Week Character Lab. 6:15 p.m. Boulder Writing Studio, 777 Pearl St., Suite 211, Boulder. Yoga for Kids. 4 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Wednesday Night Square Dance. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020.
Violent Femmes. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens at York Street, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500. Yes. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Events Children’s SRP: Big Bubble Circus. 2 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Mile High Magicians — Close-Up Show. 7 p.m. Lumber Baron Mystery Mansion, 2555 W. 37th Ave., Denver, 303-477-8205. Tuesday, June 12 Music Calexico. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Covenhoven. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Espresso! Swing & Gypsy Jazz. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Little Dragon. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Mmmwhah’s Vocal Improvisation Playshop Series! — with Elena Camerin Young. 6 p.m. Boulder Circus Center “Workshop” Studio, 4747 26th St., Boulder. Music in the Garden. 6:30 p.m. Louisville Community Gardens, 1108 Lincoln Ave., Louisville, 720-263-0226. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing, 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-786-9270. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Open Mic — with Andy Eppler. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Open Stage hosted by Danny Shafer. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Supermassive. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Tuesday Blues. 8 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9258.
UPCOMING SHOWS
Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wednesday, June 13 Music A “So Indie” Hip Hop Showcase. 9 p.m. HerBoulder Weekly
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film Twenty feet from stardom, a million miles from sanity ‘Filmworker’ and the undying devotion of Leon Vitali by Michael J. Casey
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ike most love stories, this one begins at the movies. London, 1971: A young actor goes to see the latest release, A Clockwork Orange, and is transfixed. The garish colors, the violence, the sex, the terror, Malcolm McDowell’s theatrical performance; the young actor falls for it all. The credits roll: Produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The young actor turns to his friend and says, “I’m going to work for that man.” His name is Leon Vitali, he is 23 years old, and his fate is sealed. Four years later, Vitali auditioned for Kubrick’s next film, Barry Lyndon, and was hired for the small, walk-on role of Lord Bullingdon. Giddy with
excitement, Vitali prepared for the role with a level of devotion only Kubrick could have appreciated. It paid off. Kubrick continued to expand Lord Bullingdon’s role, eventually making him one of the film’s central characters, providing Vitali with the perfect launching pad for a long and illustrious career. But Vitali had little interest in working for anyone else, and when Kubrick called to see if Vitali wanted to help out behind the camera on his next picture, The Shining, Vitali walked away from his acting career and became Kubrick’s right-hand man. While many make art to be loved and recognized by millions, Vitali did everything to be loved and recognized by one man and one man only. That love forms the heart of Filmworker, a documentary-length interview with Vitali about his life-long relationship Boulder Weekly
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with Kubrick. It is impossible to convey the breadth of Vitali’s contributions in a 500-word column; he simply did whatever Kubrick asked. And he did it with a perfection befitting of an obsessive perfectionist. Though this was a severe drain on Vitali’s physical and mental health, as well as his bank account — there seems to be some question as to how much Kubrick compensated Vitali — there is little bitterness or remorse in Vitali’s voice. From The Shining to Kubrick’s death in 1999, Vitali was there for every production meeting, every shot, every cut, every promotional photo and international dub. As Vitali says, “I’m at the service of him because he’s at the service of his movie.” Vitali is still at it, day in and day out. Preserving, restoring and circulating Kubrick’s films is a full-time profession, and if there is any resentment or hesitation in Vitali’s mind about how he chose to spend his life, he hides it well. Filmworker’s director, Tony Zierra, doesn’t push this point, he simply lets Vitali and his two children, now adults, speak for themselves. Zierra is in awe of Vitali, and with good reason. Anyone who watches a Kubrick film owes Vitali a debt of gratitude. Without Vitali’s tireless efforts we would not have the prints in the condition they are, nor would we have the plethora of archival material to study. Vitali may have sacrificed himself for Kubrick, but we, the moviegoers, are the ones who reap the benefits.
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ith the heat of summer comes the occasion to drink refreshing gin cocktails in the shade. We are a picky cocktail bunch, always looking for something fresh, but not too sweet; different, but not over the top. The reviver at Boulder’s bartaco is the perfect combination of refreshing summer fruit flavors and the juniper of Martin Miller’s gin. The only sweetness comes from the mango nectar, while the lime juice adds the tart finish. Cucumber and mint garnish the drink, adding the slightest hint of garden flavor. The cocktail pairs perfectly with any of bartaco’s street tacos — especially the mojo pork carnitas. $10.
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s the name indicates, if you’re up at 2:30 a.m. and you need a cookie sandwich, there’s one place to go: Insomnia Cookies. The list of offereings is simple, but genius: cookies, ice cream, and ice cream cookie sandwiches. We tried a sandwich with butter pecan ice cream mashed between two double chocolate chunk cookies. The ice cream was uber-creamy and rich-tasting (you know, buttery), and the cookies were soft, yet able to keep the sandwich from becoming a big, sloppy mess. $5.90.
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nibbles BY JOHN LEHNDORFF
Return to Scenter Scratch-and-sniff is food for thought when it comes to snail mail
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f you open up your snail mailbox and find that it smells like blue raspberry popsicles, do not be alarmed, and do not call in the HAZMAT team. You may be having a scratch-and-sniff moment courtesy of the USPS. United States Frozen Treats forever stamps — the first U.S. postage with an aroma — will be issued on June 20. The 10 new stamps feature illustrations of various chill pops. The Postal Service people plan to reveal the scents on June 20 but indicate that the stamps “will add the sweet scent of summer to letters of love, friendship, party invitations and other mailings.” Will it be Fudgesicle, Creamsicle or tamarindo paleta? Maybe the real question is: Will it matter, since so few Americans actually correspond by letters and postcards anymore except an occasional card to a cranky, elder relative? You wouldn’t Boulder Weekly
want to waste a sweet-smelling stamp on your monthly ransom payment for medical insurance. Should this set of stamps be successful, you know USPS will have a sequel. Perhaps fall appetizer stamps are next, including garlic-drenched escargot. There will probably be scratch-andsniff food stamps for every state. The Colorado stamp could smell like freshroasted corn, cantaloupe or peaches, or possibly a terpene-rich sativa. India offers stamps scented with sandalwood, roses, jasmine and coffee. I worry that too many sorts of scented stamps in any one mail shipment might create more stink than mail carriers want to deal with on a hot summer day. The Belgian Post Office offered a stamp with cocoa-flavored glue, and Haagen-Dazs teamed up with the Austrian Postal Service for stamps with cookies and cream, macadamia nut brittle and strawberry cheesecake ice cream flavor in the adhesive.
Flavor is unlikely to ever happen with U.S. postage for one simple reason: You have to actually lick them. Nobody does that anymore. Besides, Americans these days are unlikely to lick anything provided by the federal government. P.S.: Speaking of scent, A.1., the steak sauce-maker, has introduced limited-edition candles perfumed in meat, burger and backyard BBQ aromas. Be happy they are not thinking about scenting postage stamps… yet.
The early history of Boulder paleo diets You think your diet is super-meaty? Try this recipe for beef tea with hydrochloric acid from The Boulder Cookbook by Mrs. F. W. Leland, published in the early 1900s by the Federal Gas Company: “Chop fine half pound of round or sirloin steak. Put one drop of chemically pure hydrochloric acid into a cupful of
cold water, add this to the chopped beef, set in the refrigerator for two hours to digest; strain, season with salt. Serve in a red wine glass.”
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The upscale Steakhouse No. 316 will open this summer at 1922 13th St., formerly home of Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub for 17 years, and for 20 years before that as The James Pub. Steakhouse No. 316 has one location in Aspen. ... 12 Point Distillery has opened at 802 S. Public Road in Lafayette. ... Chipotle Mexican Grill will sever its Denver-born roots when the company closes its Denver offices and moves to California by the end of the year. ... Gelato Festival America returns to Boulder Aug. 18-19. Last year the event took place at TwentyNinth Street Mall. This year’s festival location is TBD. gelatofestivalamerica. com. ... About Boulder County’s prissee NIBBLES Page 44
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tine street cred for natural foods: Sales of J.M. Smucker’s frozen Uncrustables sandwiches are likely to reach $250 million in sales in 2018. Those sales are expected to double when the company’s huge new plant opens in Longmont in
2020. You really don’t want to think about the river of grape jelly and peanut butter that will be flowing into Colorado.
18-29 say “organic” is an appealing label, compared to 37 percent of those 65 and older. If you surveyed Boulder County adults, the results would skew quite differently. Politically speaking, 78 percent of Trump voters like the “sourced from American farmers” label, compared to 68 percent of those who voted for Hillary Clinton. Identical percentages of Democrats and Republicans like the “non-GMO” label.
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Believe it or not, the U.S. Postal Service is issuing scratch-and-sniff stamps. Now when we get mail, the upper-right corner will smell like popsicles.
The Lafayette Farmers Market opens for the season this week in its new location on E. Simpson Street between Iowa and Michigan. Early season crops include arugula, asparagus, bok choy, greenhouse tomatoes, green garlic, plant starts, radishes, rhubarb and spring onions. As at the other Boulderarea markets, SNAP benefits are not only accepted but encouraged at the Lafayette market. Be sure to consult the just-published 2018 Colorado Farm Fresh Directory, which is the most comprehensive listing of farmers’ markets, roadside stands, CSAs, u-picks, farmto-table restaurants, wineries and agritourism activities across the state from corn mazes to farm/ranch vacations. This taste tour guide includes information on county fairs and agricultural festivals along with a state crop calendar. coloradoagriculture.com/farmfresh.
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“gluten-free,” and “sustainably sourced” occupied the bottom rungs of approval. However, it depends on your generation. Nearly one-third of shoppers aged 18-21 love the “vegan” label. Fifty-four percent of Americans aged
Bliss is showing up at an event and finding out it is being catered by Boulder’s Kathmandu II Restaurant. There was an array of fine Nepali and Indian dishes, but I made a beeline for the saag paneer (aka palak paneer) and warm tandoori-baked naan to scoop it up with. Unlike the heavy creamed spinach dished at steak joints, this saag paneer has a buttery, bright, fresh spinach flavor mildly seasoned with herbs and spices and dotted with chewy chunks of white paneer cheese. When I eat at the restaurant (or its original Nederland location), I always get this comfort dish as the yin to balance out the incendiary yang of the sweat-inducing lamb vindaloo.
Words to chew on
“This curry was like a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony that I’d once heard... especially the last movement, with everything screaming and banging ‘Joy.’ It stunned, it made one fear great art. My father could say nothing after the meal.” — Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange John Lehndorff has hosted Radio Nibbles for more than 20 years on KGNU. Listen to podcasts at: news.kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles. Send comments to: nibbles@boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly
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Wild Standard’s Mike Milakovich on going from hammer throwing to negroni crafting by Matt Cortina
During Negroni Week, guests at Wild Standard can sample Mike Milakovich’s takes on the classic cocktail.
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n the Olympic sport of hammer throw, bulky men and women grip a handle, which is attached to a steel wire with a heavy metal ball at the end of it, and torque their bodies into quick pirouettes. The speed propels the “hammer” into motion, and at the end of a few revolutions, the athlete releases the hammer and hopes it flies far. The success of the hammer thrower comes down to speed, strength and technique, which makes it an easy analogy to Mike Milakovic, a former hammer thrower and Olympic hopeful, who now mixes and slings artisan Manhattans and negronis at Boulder’s Wild Standard. The journey that led Milakovic from college athlete to cocktail artist at Wild Standard has been as circuitous as a hammer thrower’s approach, too. Milakovic grew up playing football in Indiana before joining the college team at Ball State University. It turned out, though, that the college game wasn’t for him. “So my coach said you should walk on the track team and go throw the hammer and see if you like it. And I like sports, I love being active, so I was like, ‘Cool,’” Milakovic says. “I tried out for the team and broke all the school records. I’ve always had a passion for the Olympics since I was a kid watching downhill skier Bill Johnson win in ’84, so
I kind of thought that might be my sport.” Milakovic trained with an eye on gold medals. He worked with former Olympic medalists, the Swedish hammer throwing team and moved, for a year, to Hungary, where hammer throwing is a big deal, and trained with the national team there, too. “I thought I trained hard until I went to Hungary, and they’re just monsters. Kids are 12, 13 years old, they’re out there six hours a day,” Milakovic says. He came close to making the Olympic team, gaining entry into qualifiers and making the top-15 in the world a few times. But, ultimately, after 10 years chasing the Olympic dream, standing on a podium was out of reach. “I lived the Olympic dream, I never achieved my goal, but I lived my dream,” Milakovic says. He coached for a few years, but in the end learned, “There’s not a lot of money in hammer throwing, [even] in the Olympics if you do make it. When my days of being a hammer thrower were done, I was like, ‘I’m good.’” But being exposed to other cultures, particularly Hungary’s, allowed Milakovic the opportunity to taste and experience cuisines outside of the U.S., despite an Olympic training regiment that certainly see MILAKOVIC Page 48
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forced him to watch what he ate. “I absolutely indulged as much as I possibly could,” Milakovic says. “I remember being in Austria and getting my first wienerschnitzel, a big, huge piece of fried meat. Most of the food in Hungary was pretty unhealthy. I did the best that I could. When we did go out to eat, well we’re training 40 hours a week, what could it hurt?” Milakovic was also able to sample Hungarian wines, which he calls “phenomenal.” When he started working at Wild Standard, he found the bar stocked with unicum, a traditional plum liquor that tastes a little like Jagermeister. “I remember drinking a little too much of that when I lived in Hungary,” Milakovic says. Eventually, Milakovic was able to find a balance between his old passion for athletics and his new passion for food. He launched a health food company, Mike’s Mighty Snacks, which sold kale chips and broccoli crunchers, after finding the people he was helping coach needed a healthier snack. “I was challenged by my clients to figure out if you take all that [bad] stuff out of food, how’s it going to taste good?” he says. He’s taking the summer to find new snacks to launch in the future. When he started working at Wild Standard about a year ago, he found a chef, Bradford Heap, who shared a commitment to serving healthy food with his belief in responsible ingredient sourcing and elevation of plant-based menu items. That extends to Milakovic’s bar, where he serves as bar manager, generating menu items and mixing drinks himself, even though alcohol and health wouldn’t seem like they go together. 48 June 7 , 2018
“At Wild Standard, my mission has been to create a new drink menu that falls more into not using the refined sugars and syrups. Most of the syrups are maple or honey, monk fruit. It brings more of a healthier twist,” Milakovic says. “I’ve always looked for places like Wild Standard that are more on the healthier side.” Still, he acknowledges that alcohol is alcohol, no matter what you add into it. “A friend likes to joke with me, ‘You use organic vodka because you don’t like toxins even when they’re toxins,’” he says. Now, Milakovich’s creations are on full display during Negroni Week, through June 10, an international celebration of the Italian cocktail, which also happens to benefit a multitude of charities. The negroni, which has seen a resurgence in popularity thanks to the craft beverage movement, consists, basically, of gin, vermouth rosso and campari, a liqueur which gives the drink its distinctive bitterness and red color. But it also leaves room for creativity. “It’s one of those classic cocktails and you can kind of do some interchangeable things with it, which I think is the fun thing about it,” Milakovich says. Milakovich is serving up negroni variations that switch in Four Roses bourbon and Cynar amaro; Vapor’s barrel-aged gin; and tequila and Gran Marnier. The potential variations of the cocktail are virtually limitless, as evidenced by Milakovich’s revisions, and he says there’s nothing he won’t try in the name of creativity. “I mean as long as it’s made correctly and not thrown into a shaker and doing that whole thing with it,” Milakovich says. “I know there are kind of hard-and-fast rules about some cocktails, like Old Fashioneds and Manhattans. But to me, the aspect of bartending that I enjoy most is being able to interact with guests at the bar. ‘How can I make this cocktail for you?’ If they want to do a negroni with whatever, I’ll try to make it for them.” For the athlete-turned-artisan, it’s fitting that adaptability is what he values most at his Wild Standard post. Boulder Weekly
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FIRST DOG FOR THE PRESIDENT OF FIRSTS It’s been a particularly bumpy week at the White House, as Trump has insisted he can pardon himself, Press Secretary Sanders was caught in a lie, and the administration pissed off everloving Eagles fans. But there may be an answer. Apparently it’s the first time in 100 years there’s not a First Dog, a furry friend living in the White House along with the Commander-in-Chief and his commanderess. And according to pet experts at pet-smooch.com, having a canine companion could really reduce stress in the Trump Administration and lead to more domestic tranquility than the country has seen since January 2017. Here are a few of their suggestions for what breed our C-in-C should consider. • Korean Jindo. You know, as an olive
branch to North Korea. But it’s risky, given it’s a dominant breed, which Trump could see as a threat to his power. • Black Russian Terrier. Bred to work with the Russian military, it would be like having a Russian commander in the White House. Bad for the rest of the country, but might put Trump at ease. • Xoloitzcuintli. An ancient Mexican breed, that is both cheerful and affectionate, could work to smooth over relations with the U.S.’s southern neighbor. • Portuguese Water Dog. Given Trump’s reported germaphobia, this hypoallergenic dog wouldn’t leave its mark. But it would also be a sign of the Obamas, who owned a few. Maybe that’s a deal breaker. BOTTOMLESS PIT We have a few suggestions for Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Making headlines this week, the Oklahoman reportedly had an aide try to get a used mattress from a Trump hotel. Another aide called a Chick-fil-A to see about a new business venture for his wife. Both of these new flashes come on the heels of months of investigations into other eth-
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astrological omens, you would be wise to ruffle and revise your relationship with time. It would be healthy for you to gain more freedom from its relentless demands; to declare at least some independence from its oppressive hold on you; to elude its push to impinge on every move you make. Here’s a ritual you could do to spur your imagination: Smash a timepiece. I mean that literally. Go to the store and invest $20 in a hammer and alarm clock. Take them home and vociferously apply the hammer to the clock in a holy gesture of pure, righteous chastisement. Who knows? This bold protest might trigger some novel ideas about how to slip free from the imperatives of time for a few stolen hours each week.
them were not inside-out when I threw them in the machine. Does this weird anomaly have some astrological explanation? — Upside-Down Scorpio.” Dear Scorpio: Yes. Lately your planetary omens have been rife with reversals, inversions, flip-flops and switchovers. Your underpants situation is a symptom of the bigger forces at work. Don’t worry about those bigger forces, though. Ultimately, I think you’ll be glad for the renewal that will emerge from the various turnabouts.
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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: As I sat down to meditate on your horoscope, a hummingbird flew in my open window. Scrambling to herd it safely back outside, I knocked my iPad on the floor, which somehow caused it to open a link to a Youtube video of an episode of the TV game show Wheel of Fortune, where the hostess Vanna White, garbed in a long red gown, revealed that the word puzzle solution was USE IT OR LOSE IT. So what does this omen mean? Maybe this: You’ll be surprised by a moreor-less delightful interruption that compels you to realize that you had better start taking greater advantage of a gift or blessing that you’ve been lazy or slow to capitalize on.
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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: You’re in a phase when you’ll be smart to
bring more light and liveliness into the work you do. To spur your efforts, I offer the following provocations: 1. “When I work, I relax. Doing nothing makes me tired.” — Pablo Picasso; 2. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” — Ann Landers; 3. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” — Aristotle; 4. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams; 5. “Working hard and working smart can sometimes be two different things.” — Byron Dorgan; 6. “Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.” — George Burns; 7. “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.” — Mark Twain.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “There isn’t enough of anything as long as we live,” said poet and short-story writer Raymond Carver. “But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance, prevails.” My reading of the astrological omens suggests that the current phase
of your cycle is one of those intervals, Aquarius. In light of this grace period, I have some advice for you, courtesy of author Anne Lamott: “You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then.” Surrender to the sweetness, dear Aquarius.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Between you and your potential new power spot is an imaginary ten-foot-high, electrified fence. It’s composed of your least charitable thoughts about yourself and your rigid beliefs about what’s impossible for you to accomplish. Is there anything you can do to deal with this inconvenient illusion? I recommend that you call on Mickey Rat, the cartoon superhero in your dreams who knows the difference between destructive destruction and creative destruction. Maybe as he demonstrates how enjoyable it could be to tear down the fence, you’ll be inspired to join in the fun.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: Promise me that you won’t disrespect,
demean or neglect your precious body in the coming weeks. Promise me that you will treat it with tender compassion and thoughtful nurturing. Give it deep breaths, pure water, healthy and delicious food, sweet sleep, enjoyable exercise, and reverential sex. Such veneration is always recommended, of course — but it’s especially crucial for you to attend to this noble work during the next four weeks. It’s time to renew and revitalize your commitment to your soft warm animal self.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: Between 1967 and 1973, NASA used a
series of Saturn V rockets to deliver six groups of American astronauts to the moon. Each massive vehicle weighed about 6.5 million pounds. The initial thrust required to launch it was tremendous. Gas mileage was seven inches per gallon. Only later, after the rocket flew farther from the grip of Earth’s gravity, did the fuel economy improve. I’m guessing that in your own life, you may be experiencing something like that seven-inches-pergallon feeling right now. But I guarantee you won’t have to push this hard for long.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22: Mars, the planet that rules animal vitality
and instinctual enthusiasm, will cruise through your astrological House of Synergy for much of the next five months. That’s why I’ve concluded that between now and mid-November, your experience of togetherness can and should reach peak expression. Do you want intimacy to be robust and intense, sometimes bordering on rambunctious? It will be if you want it to be. Adventures in collaboration will invite you to wander out to the frontiers of your understanding about how relationships work best.
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cal omens, a little extra egotism might be healthy for you right now. A surge of super-confidence would boost your competence; it would also fine-tune your physical well-being and attract an opportunity that might not otherwise find its way to you. So, for example, consider the possibility of renting a billboard on which you put a giant photo of yourself with a tally of your accomplishments and a list of your demands. The cosmos and I won’t have any problem with you bragging more than usual or asking for more goodies than you’re usually content with.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: The coming weeks will be a favorable
time for happy endings to sad stories, and for the emergence of efficient solutions to convoluted riddles. I bet it will also be a phase when you can perform some seemingly clumsy magic that dispatches a batch of awkward karma. Hooray! Hallelujah! Praise Goo! But now listen to my admonition, Libra: The coming weeks won’t be a good time to toss and turn in your bed all night long thinking about what you might have done differently in the month of May. Honor the past by letting it go.
SCORPIO
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SAVAGE by Dan Savage
Dear Dan: I’m a 33-year-old man, and for years I’ve practiced edging. Recently I’ve experimented with longterm edges, where I’ll withhold coming for days or weeks while still maintaining a daily masturbation practice. I love living on that horny edge, and I’ve even learned to love the ache in my balls. But is this safe? Am I setting myself up for prostate/ testicular trouble down the road? — Priapus Precipice Dear PP: A study conducted by researchers from Boston University School of Public Health and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health found that men who masturbated at least 21 times per month — masturbated and ejaculated — were at lower risk of developing prostate cancer than men who ejaculated less than 21 times per month (“Ejaculation Frequency and Risk of Prostate Cancer,” European Urology). Read the study, PP, weigh the slightly increased risks against the immediate (and horny) rewards, and make an informed (and horny) choice.
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Dear Dan: I wish I had a better question, but this is all I have: My friends and I were discussing the nuances of a straight orgy (a roughly equal number of male and female participants) versus a gang bang (one woman, many men), and we observed that there is no proper name for a one man, many women situation. The internet tells me it’s just a “reverse gang bang,” which is a very disappointing name. Can we please establish a new one? — Curious Nonparticipant Dear CN: How does “pussy riot” grab you? And while we’re on the subject of flipping gendered expressions: A number of years ago, I was asked to come up with a female version of “sausage fest.” Sticking with the food theme, I proposed “clam bake.” Still mystified as to why it didn’t catch on. Dear Dan: I’m a 22-year-old woman living in Central Asia doing development work. There are 14 other expats within an hour or two of me, but eight of them are in relationships. I’ve
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Don’t let your dog eat your weed
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y favorite thing about being a millennial is that we’re all rejecting typical milestones like getting married, buying a house and having children because most of our priorities revolve around adopting dogs and paying off our student loans. I love dogs, but like the normal amount and not in an insufferable way where I have a full-on conniption fit every time I pass one on the street. Calm down, obnoxious Amouse13 via Wikimedia COmmons
white people who rely on golden retrievers to fill out your personality. But truly, I can’t wait for the day I get a dog so I can stop talking to humans altogether. Obviously, I’m going to be an amazing dog mom because living in Boulder has taught me the most important thing about dog ownership: 1) Adopt from a shelter so people confuse you with Mother Theresa and 2) Don’t let your dog eat your weed (or anything else that could harm them or your wallet with an expensive
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trip to the vet). With the rise of people using cannabis for medical and recreational purposes, there’s no doubt that dogs are getting stoned too, mostly because they will eat anything and owners are accidentally leaving it around for them to get into. Little data is available on how dogs respond to marijuana, but all the evidence suggests the psychoactive components of the drug (THC) are unpleasant for them. According to the ASPCA’s Animal Poison Control Center, the most common clinical signs your dog has ingested marijuana are ataxia (drunken gait), lethargy and urinary incontinence. Depending on the size of your dog and how much they ate, it’s relatively harmless. However, about 25 percent of dogs may present stimulated instead, which means they may experience disorientation, a slowed heart rate, low body temperature, dilated pupils and tremors. If dogs get into a stash with high concentrations of THC, it’s possible for them to experience a steep drop in blood pressure or slip into a coma. So purposefully getting your pet high on THC is not cool or funny and could actually be life-threatening. If you are doing this in a sad attempt to go viral on Youtube, I will personally break into your house and take your dog away. Even if you’re not hotboxing your dog on purpose, they could still accidentally get into your stash. Maybe they ate half the joint you flicked into your yard and forgot about or confused your edibles with their treats. Perhaps they just ate the flower you had sitting out on your coffee table. No matter how it happened, you’re left simultaneously panicking, yelling at your boyfriend and profusely apologizing to your dog. Stay calm! Here’s what to do if you find yourself in that situation. The potency of your weed plays a huge fac-
tor in the severity of your dog’s situation. If they got into your edibles, how much did they eat? 10 mg of THC is very different than 100 mg of THC, especially in a 50-pound dog. Raw cannabis flower is the least severe because it’s not decarboxylated, so the THC hasn’t been activated. Concentrates are super potent and can have a bigger effect on your dog, especially smaller breeds. The danger level for edibles vary depending on the potency and ingredients, especially chocolate since that alone can be toxic for dogs. If your dog ingested a small amount, you’re lucky that it is likely a mild case. Activated charcoal can soak up the toxins in your dog’s stomach, including any remaining THC that hasn’t been absorbed into their bloodstream yet. If that doesn’t work, you can use hydrogen peroxide to induce vomiting, which will make you feel heartless because your dog doesn’t understand why this is happening and you can’t explain it to them. If your dog has consumed a large amount of THC or you’re super worried about the situation, go to the veterinarian. Depending on how much they ate, this could be a life-saving step. It’s not doing you or your dog any favors if you’re too paranoid about smoking weed to mention it. Be honest and as specific as possible with your vet so they know the risks and can remedy the problem as best as possible. Tell the vet what kind of product, its potency, how long it has been since it was ingested, etc. Best case scenario is that your pup will be fine, but your bank account might hurt a little. Also, this doesn’t make you a bad person. Dogs, especially puppies, are a big responsibility and a lot to handle. Accidents happen from time to time, so don’t beat yourself up over it and just try to be more responsible about it in the future.
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Nearly two in three Americans agree: Stoners aren’t bad people Good news, stoners! Nearly two out of three Americans agree: You’re not a bad person! That, at any rate, is the conclusion of an intriguing Gallup survey released earlier this week. The survey, which was conducted May 1-10, asked a random sample of 1,024 adults aged 18 or older to indicate whether they believe each of 21 different behaviors and practices are “morally acceptable” or “morally wrong.” Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said they thought “smoking marijuana” was morally acceptable. Thirty-one percent thought it was morally wrong. Smoking pot was tied with “having a baby outside of marriage” as the eighth most morally acceptable behavior on the list. However, slightly more people found having a baby out of wedlock more morally wrong than smoking pot (32 percent vs. 31 percent). Those surveyed also found smoking marijuana more morally acceptable than such perennial culture war wedge issues as “the death penalty” (62 percent), “doctor-assisted suicide” (54 percent), “abortion” (43 percent) and “pornography” (43 percent). Marijuana users shouldn’t start feeling too holy about their new moral acceptability, however. “Drinking alcohol” was deemed morally acceptable by 78 percent of those surveyed. Only 19 percent called drinking booze morally wrong. Drinking alcohol was in second place in the morally acceptable rankings — despite the fact that by almost every accepted metric it is a more dangerous behavior for both individuals and society than marijuana smoking. The behavior found most morally acceptable by those polled was “birth control,” which 91 percent of those surveyed found morally acceptable. Only 6 percent found it morally wrong. The behavior found least morally acceptable by the survey was “married men and women having an affair.”
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Only 10 percent found it morally acceptable, compared with 88 percent who found it morally wrong. Other behaviors that were found more morally acceptable than smoking pot included “divorce” (78 percent acceptable vs. 20 percent wrong), “sex between an unmarried man and woman” and “gambling” (both
acceptable over wrong by a 69 percent to 28 percent margin), “gay or lesbian relations” (acceptable over wrong 67 percent to 30 percent), and “medical research using stem cells obtained from human embryos” (acceptable over wrong 66 percent to 29 percent). Besides adultery, other behaviors that were found morally wrong by overwhelming margins included “suicide” (20 percent vs. 75 percent), “polygamy, when a married person has more than one spouse at the same time” (19 percent vs. 78 percent), and “cloning humans” (16 percent vs. 81 percent). In reporting the survey results, Gallup pointed out that the percentage of Americans who found smoking marijuana morally acceptable (65 percent) was almost identical with the number who favored legalizing mar-
ijuana in a Gallup survey taken last fall (64 percent). Close matches on moral acceptability and legal acceptability were not found on some of the other behaviors, most notably abortion. While 48 percent found abortion morally wrong, a Gallup survey taken a year ago found 69 percent in favor of legal abortion in all or some circumstances. Gallup’s analysis of the data on the pot vs. booze questions found that “majorities of key subgroups of Americans regard both drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana as morally acceptable, but highly religious Americans, as measured by the frequency with which they attend church, are less likely to do so. Whereas 88 percent of those who seldom or never attend religious services find drinking alcohol to be morally acceptable, 60 percent of those who attend weekly hold that view. And while three-quarters of non-attenders say smoking marijuana is OK, less than half of regular churchgoers, 41 percent, agree.” The bottom line, the analysis said, was that “most Americans do not object on moral grounds to people drinking alcohol or smoking marijuana. Of the two, they are more likely to see drinking alcohol as an acceptable behavior, perhaps because it is legal in all states while smoking marijuana is not.” It added that “with roughly two-thirds of the public saying marijuana use is morally acceptable, it seems there will not be sufficient opposition to thwart attempts to make it legal.” The survey did include one striking omission; it did not include a question about the moral acceptability of smoking tobacco, which would have provided a fascinating comparison with the marijuana question. A Gallup survey taken last summer found that 58 percent of those surveyed favored banning tobacco smoking in public, but only 19 percent would make it entirely illegal. However that survey didn’t speak to the moral acceptability of sot weed vs. weed. Maybe next year.
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