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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: Why Bill Clinton should just go away 6 DANISH PLAN: Underground open space 7 GUEST COLUMN: Boulder homeless issues 8 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 37 ARTS & CULTURE: Paula Poundstone talks comedy, motherhood and gaining confidence 39 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 45 POETRY: by Jennifer Gray 46 SCREEN: First rule of ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’? Nobody talks; ‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’ never stops 49 DEEP DISH: Rincon Argentino and the milanesa de carne 57 DRINK: ‘The Water Knife’ and Dale’s Pale Ale 61 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 63 S AVAGE LOVE: Good things come in tiny packages 65 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: Pharmaceutical considerations of marijuana edibles 67 CANNABIS CORNER: Lies, damn lies and Massachusetts DAs 69 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: An irreverent view of the world Boulder Weekly

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Highroad Why Bill Clinton should just go away by Jim Hightower

hat’s past, as Shakespeare told us, is prologue. So let’s flash back only two decades to that defining achievement of President Bill Clinton’s presidency: “[The] end of welfare as we know it.” He was awfully proud of teaming up with Republican ideologues to reverse FDR’s historic commitment of providing “Aid to Families With Dependent Children.” While there were problems and abuses with this poverty-alleviation program,

Clinton signed-on to the right-wing’s fantasy that simply gutting it would magically make welfare recipients selfsufficient through “the dignity, the power, and the ethic of work.” But his faith in the work ethic lacked any actual ethics. Where were the jobs — much less decent-paying jobs — that were supposed to empower poor people? Bill had no plans for that, except a feeble request that major corporations commit to hiring a number of former-welfare recipients. Surprise — they didn’t! Now, fast-forward 20 years, with millions of poor people, especially single mothers, having no jobs, no cash earnings and no social safety net to protect them. Clinton’s empty promise of jobs for the poor totally disappeared in the smoke of Wall Street’s 2008 crash of our economy. Plus, he had handed the remains of our national poverty program over to states that are now run by right-wing politicos who’ve

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shriveled the benefits to Dickensian levels. Thus, the United States of America — the wealthiest country in the history of the world — now has a “poverty program” that largely consists of the poor being homeless, selling their blood plasma for income and scrounging our alleys and highway medians for aluminum cans. But now, Hillary Clinton says she would put Bill in charge of fixing our economy. Hello, he “fixes” our economy the same way a veterinarian fixes your dog. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. June 9, 2016 5

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nconvenient truth alert. It turns out that the Boulder County property owner with the most oil and gas wells on her land is none other than Boulder County. There are 119 active oil and natural gas wells on Boulder County open space properties, and 191 additional ones on properties on which Boulder County holds conservation easements (properties on which Boulder County bought the development rights, but remain privately owned). A majority of the 530 producing oil and gas wells in Boulder County are on county open space. The wells are spread around too. The 119 wells are on 91 separate County-owned open space parcels; the 191 are on 73 conservation easements. In all, 13,588 acres of Countyowned open space and 8,624 acres of County-owned conservation easements sit above the Wattenberg Field, the 3,000-plus square mile oil field that extends from Weld County into eastern Boulder County. Boulder County didn’t choose to be in the oil business. In some cases, it bought open space without getting the mineral rights, which were subsequently leased to an oil company. In others, it bought open space properties or conservation easements on which oil companies already held leases. But that doesn’t change the fact that the County is in the oil business whether it likes it or not. And chances, are it’s not going to get out of it any time soon,

much as it might want to. That’s because the leases on county open space are “held by production,” which means the lease remains valid for as long as a well on the lease is producing oil or gas, even if it is a small amount. Still, being in the oil business has its little compensations, even for reluctant participants. The wells that are producing on open space where the County owns the mineral rights pay royalties to the County. The royalties usually come to 12.5 to 18 percent of the value of the oil and gas produced. These royalty payments peaked at $800,000 in 2012, the year the Commissioners started messing around with the unconstitutional use of moratoriums on new oil and gas well permits. It’s a lot less today, thanks to the collapse of oil prices and the absence of new wells. When you’re in a business relationship, it’s not a good idea to keep picking fights with your partners, especially when A) they have the right to run the business pretty much as they choose, B) you can’t get out of the relationship, and C) sooner or later they may want to expand the business. Thanks to the global collapse in oil prices, there hasn’t been much interest in drilling new wells in Boulder County. But the price is going back up and the cost of drilling new wells is going down. Sooner or later, the leaseholders are see DANISH PLAN Page 8

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he beauty of Boulder, nesBoulder officials and members of tled in the Foothills and the community recently traveled to dominated by the Flatirons, Portland, Oregon, where Mayor Hales is a metro area gem that spoke to them decrying as inhumane attracts a great number of having the police tell people, “You can’t visitors and would be residents wishing pitch a tent here.” Returning from the to enjoy its charms. Its reputation as an trip, where they visited Eugene idyllic, liberal city, however, was recently Oregon’s Opportunity Village, Council tainted by University of Denver Law Member Aaron Brockett stated, “I saw School’s report, Too High A Price: What new ways to work on problems that we Criminalizing Homelessness Costs haven’t been pursuing so far.” Colorado. Others on the trip, notably Boulder was found to issue citations Councilmembers Shoemaker and for camping at more than twice the rate Appelbaum (who did not visit of Fort Collins, and 19 times that of Opportunity Village), referred to Colorado Springs — the cities that Boulder’s response to homelessness issue the greatest number of camping (shelters and overflow shelters that citations after Boulder. Eighty-seven address a fraction of the unhoused that percent of those executive director receiving such citaof the Boulder tions in Boulder Shelter for the identified as Homeless estimated at 1,500 peohomeless, and 84 MAJESTIC EQUALITY, ple), as “a much percent of the citaFORBIDS THE RICH AS better product.” tions were only for WELL AS THE POOR TO Those on Council camping. who appear supWhile City SLEEP UNDER BRIDGES, TO portive of not Councilmembers BEG IN THE STREETS, AND criminalizing would be at legal TO STEAL BREAD” homelessness risk if they admit— ANATOLE FRANCE ted camping and through its campother laws primariing law have ly target unhoused received recent people, one is reminded of support for such a move, with ACLU Anatole France’s quote, “The law, in its of Colorado’s Denise Maes and Mark majestic equality, forbids the rich as Silverstein speaking at city council well as the poor to sleep under bridges, meetings. to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” I have also challenged the City with Ironically, Boulder laws require pet videos showing Officer Lord, questionowners provide, “enclosed structure suffi- ing a man near the library where cient to protect the animal from wind, unhoused people congregate, for holdrain, snow, or sun,” yet camping is ing an unlit cigarette, stating on camera against the law and prohibits in part that, “It’s not us that just comes down using shelter. In the ordinance, shelter is here willy-nilly, we come down here defined such that it “includes, without because the City Manager has asked limitation, any cover or protection from us,” going on to say, “They can leave the elements other than clothing.” Thus, the city of Boulder, they can leave the a homeless person with a pet must both state of Colorado, they can leave the provide it shelter against the elements country if they want to.” and avoid use for themselves of any such Boulder must work on both their protection, lest they be ticketed. laws and how police enforce them; othIn contrast to the camping ordierwise they must admit that its beauty, nance language, City Attorney Tom its open space, and even its streets are Carr recently stated, “Our camping only open to the wealthy. ordinance doesn’t ban shelter, it doesn’t Darren O’Connor has lived in Boulder ban blankets. It is a reasonable and since 1994, where he received his masters moderate response to prohibit camping degree in electrical engineering and is a on public property.” As a member of social justice advocate with groups includthe homeless advocacy group Boulder ing Boulder Rights Watch, Denver Rights Watch, I requested a clarificaHomeless Out Loud and Boulder Coalition tion from Carr on the disparity between and Alliance on Race. his statement and the ordinance, but This opinion column does not necessarmy request went unanswered. ily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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going to seek to drill and frack new wells on county open space. When that happens, the County will be much more able to minimize the impacts both on the land and on adjoining properties if it has a cooperative relationship with the companies instead of a confrontational one. And if it has some skin in the game, as well. If the County wants to prevent drilling on county land or oil and gas production under it, there is a simple, legal way of doing it: Buy the mineral rights and/or buy out the leases. Or cut a deal with the production company to locate facilities farther than the minimum required from a subdivision or a school or an environmentally vulnerable area. Eastern Boulder County is not covered with subdivisions today because for the last 25 years the people of Boulder County have been taxing themselves to buy open space. If it wants to stop oil and gas production on county lands, an obvious way to do it is to ask the voters to approve a sales tax for an underground open space

Over the Memorial Day weekend, the Libertarian Party selected former two-term New Mexico governor Gary Johnson as its presidential candidate and former two-term Massachusetts governor William Weld as its VP candidate. As two-term governors, both Johnson and Weld have more experience as elected executive branch office holders than all the other presidential candidates combined. (All of the other candidates have zero experience as elected executive branch office holders while Johnson and Weld have a combined 14 years of experience). Unlike all the other presidential candidates, Johnson and Weld are not authoritarians and they’re not assholes. This November, vote for what you want instead of voting against somebody you hate. Vote for peace, freedom, and prosperity. Make America sane. Vote for Johnson/Weld. Vote Libertarian. Chuck Wright/Westminster

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danish plan program. Whether the voters would choose to pass it is another matter, but that is an obvious way to proceed. However, there is a second way to fund such a program. Currently the royalties the County receives from oil and gas produced on county land go into the general fund. These royalties are probably down to a couple hundred thousand dollars a year, if that. But if drilling revives and companies start drilling horizontal wells on county leases, those royalties could go up sharply, maybe to several million a year. Instead of putting royalty revenues in the general fund, the County could put it in the open space fund and use them to acquire leases and mineral rights as they become available or to influence well site decisions — in other words, to create an underground open space program that uses revenues from oil and gas production to mitigate the impacts of oil and gas production. This opinion column does not reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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ise? In just one example, he says he will build a wall along the Mexican border and bring those (high-paid?) jobs back to the U.S. OK, so now we have a 100-plus billion dollar wall (Trump claimed 10 to 15 billion having never walked the circuitous Rio Grand), which still cannot keep people from climbing or flying over it, tunneling under or simply taking a boat around to the open gulf shoreline. Levi jeans production will return to the U.S. where they will pay our workers $25 per hour, which will increase the store price to $250 per pair. Mexicans, having lost the Levi and other accounts lured by high U.S. wages will once again start crossing over to work for $10 per hour which, Levi will be happy to pay. Relations with Mexico will assume an all-time low, and if there is anything we have learned from the Donald, after already insulting the Mexican government, he will pursue every avenue to make things worse — just the person we need to have his finger on the red button. Tom Lopez / Longmont

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Beer Pong is really scary

Legislating “beer bong” tables? I mean, c’mon. And, we know the “Central Park” speak is asking for a homeless crackdown before the summer gets rolling. Why not waste time discussing who gets to use what bathroom, homeless excluded of course — wouldn’t want to

encourage that nuisance. Have a good day, honoring the death of Boulder’s progressive government. Seth Brigham/Providence, RI

The reality of the poor

All kinds of blockades go up when I speak of giving the poor a voice. A Colorado Springs charity, in business since around 1964, says they will not join us because, they say, “The poor speaking out, instead of remaining

muted is not political, it’s human.” To illustrate this they held onto a myth and told me, “Maybe, the 70 percent of Americans in need are out of money because they have badly budgeted.” Rents in Colorado are two to three times what someone on the minimum wage can afford. Blaming the under-paid, rather than the minimum wage being one-third of what’s needed just to meet a person’s basic needs is wrong. Jan Lightfoot/Colorado Springs

Don’t be a Trumpist

I know that it is impossible to change perceptions once established, but perhaps I can keep someone from becoming a Trumpist. Donald is the ultimate Plutocrat, or government-run by-the-wealthy, candidate. The AP media, a monopoly run by its owner to create our views and let us know how we feel about them, has been very productive for Don. PR is a focused science. Social psychology shapes all advertising and sales. Donald’s depreciating nicknames reflect G.W. Bush’s depreciating nicknames, which he gave to his intellectual superiors which he needed to control. I read three valley newspapers that run identical AP inputs, the same with TV news and Clear Channel radio news, only the editorials and letters differ, thankfully, but not much. The way one becomes a billionaire is to steal millions from a thousand or thousands from a million or hundreds from a hundred million. It doesn’t matter; we take it all without regret and buy a bigger airplane. Don has done that too, times 10, if you believe him. As a pathological liar we tell stories we believe in at the time, because it works for our purpose. It can always be changed later, if the news works with me. Science shows that the more we lie, the bigger our brain becomes. The better to keep track of it all. I Boulder Weekly

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“On the high end, I have customers his Thursday, the Colorado Public who use 4,500 kilowatt-hours per Utilities Commission month, and there are thousands.” (PUC) will open its A component of the Rate Case doors for a public hearcalled the pilot Residential Demand ing on Xcel Energy’s proposed changes Time-of-Use rate, Jackson to its rate structure, and opponents will says, is designed to gather ATTEND THE HEARING: be there to raise their voice. The more research as to how PUC Rate Case Hearing. Thursday, June 9, 4-6 p.m. changes, called the “Phase II Rate best to serve different segPublic Utilities Commission Case,” include a new fixed “grid use ments within this broad Hearing Room. 1560 charge” for all of Xcel’s residential and residential customer base, Broadway, Suite 250, Denver. business customers, as well as a comfinding optimal rates while plex new way of calculating customers’ incentivizing energy effikilowatt hour rates. ciency for each. A leading opponent to the Rate COSEIA, however, is Case is the Colorado Solar Energy proposing alternatives to this Xcel Industries Association (COSEIA), a pilot that it says can better address the nonprofit representing a range of solarissue while removing unnecessary related businesses and advancing solar complexity. policy while expanding solar markets in The Rate Case ties to Xcel’s the state. COSEIA, alongside other broader energy policy initiative called similar organizations, worries the com“Our Energy Future,” launched earlier plicated rate changes would harm the this year via a series of separate filings state’s solar industry and existing solar to the PUC, and COSEIA and others customers, and that it isn’t a good way are challenging many of its premises forward for utility customers overall. as well. Part of Our Energy Future, COSEIA says Xcel has not justified for example, proposes dramatic the new grid use charge. Also, the pro- The Public Utility Commission is looking at solar rate changes proposed by Xcel but increases in Xcel’s total solar capacity, opposed by Colorado’s solar industry. posed new rate structure goes against a and while COSEIA supports an recent decision by the PUC, the reguincrease in solar generation for the latory body that oversees monopolies in state, it says the approach gives Xcel the state, including Xcel, the state’s the unfair advantage to develop future largest utility, to leave current rate solar capacity, and further disadvanstructures alone, specifically as pertains tages solar businesses. to solar customers. As another example, Xcel is propos“Xcel is proposing extreme rate ing a 50-megawatt solar farm which changes to everyone. It’s going to affect Xcel would control and sell its energy everybody who buys their electricity through Xcel,” as far as what our trajectory looks like.” at a premium to customers. “This farm would be 25 says Rebecca Cantwell, executive director of “Right now, Colorado is a top 10 state for solar times larger than the largest solar gardens private develCOSEIA. “As a customer, you’re basically having a jobs and installed solar capacity, and hundreds of peo- opers are currently allowed to build,” Cantwell says, callhigher fixed charge that you can’t do much about, at ple moved here in the past year alone to work in the ing the proposal anti-competitive to private solar busileast for a year, and you’re being charged less for the solar industry,” says Lauren Randall, policy manager nesses. From Xcel’s perspective, Jackson says, this is an energy you actually use. That really disincentivizes for Sunrun and spokesperson for The Alliance for optimal way for Xcel to answer customer demands to energy conservation, and it disincentivizes rooftop Solar Choice, another opponent to the rate case. provide more solar faster, especially for customers who solar.” “Xcel’s confusing proposal would bring Colorado can’t access rooftop solar or solar gardens. In a document outlining its position, COSEIA backwards.” There are other points of conflict in this complex says the proposed Phase II Rate Case would make it Xcel disagrees the impact of the Rate Case would set of proposals. And the PUC filing process perhaps less appealing for someone to conserve energy because be to disincentivize energy efficiency and solar. Alice doesn’t do much to simplify the issue; Cantwell calls it using less will reduce the bill less, and it would risk Jackson, regional vice president for rates and regulato- a “very arcane world.” increasing the financial burden for lower income cusry affairs at Xcel, says the Rate Case offers different “One of the real pushes we’re making is to try to tomers. types of customers optimal price signals to encourage help more people understand that this is how these Another outcome, COSEIA says, would be that energy conservation, while keeping rates low for the very, very important decisions about our energy future rooftop solar is a less attractive option for customers. long-term. She calls it the result of significant conare being made,” she says, and the organization wants The organization says Xcel should be encouraging sumer research and says studies of the proposed rate Coloradans to have a greater stake in the entire decienergy efficiency and rooftop solar for its customers, changes show they could reduce peak energy use by sion-making process, around solar in particular. whereas the impact of the Phase II Rate Case, more than 10 percent for residential customers, ulti“When I talk about the need for a better process, COSEIA fears, is to discourage these things. mately reducing the need for additional fossil-fuel I’m talking about the need to make this policymaking “It could create a big paradigm shift, where people fired peak energy plants. more comprehensive, so it gets discussed at a higher aren’t incentivized to look at things like solar,” says Joe The Phase II Rate Case, Jackson says, responds to level before it gets to these granular dockets,” a residential customer base more diverse in energy use Cantwell says. “The grid is a public system, and Xcel Montoya, residential sales director for Namasté Solar, than ever, and it requires the proposed rethinking of one of Boulder’s oldest and largest solar installers and is supposed to be a public utility. They’re saying they a COSEIA member. “As an industry, as a business, it’s current rate structures. “I have some customers [small, need this (rate case) to cover the cost of the distribusingle-bedroom apartments, for example] that consomething we’re absolutely concerned about ... This tion grid and to modernize it, but we don’t think sume just 200 kilowatt-hours per month,” she says. type of rate structure would create cause for concern, they’re going about it in a proper way.”

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crolling through the staff page on 350.org, a global grassroots organization dedicated to preventing climate change, it can be hard to spot founder Bill McKibben. He appears several scrolls down the page, between the U.S. deputy divestment campaign manager and the fossil free Netherlands coordinator on the alphabetical list. In one sense, the inability to find McKibben right away can be disconcerting, and yet, it is actually somewhat reassuring. The movement goes beyond one person; the responsibility to curb global warming rests with all of us. “This really is a leaderless movement,” says McKibben, a prominent environmentalist, activist and writer. “There are tens of thousands of leaders. Maybe Boulder Weekly

leaderless is not quite right. Maybe it’s a leaderful movement.” Regardless of his humility, McKibben has been at the forefront of the climate change debate since publishing his first book The End of Nature in 1989. For more than 25 years, he has been protesting the continued development and extraction of fossil fuels while collaborating with global grassroots movements around the world to advocate for a widespread switch to renewables. And in one sense, it’s working. For more than four days — approximately 107 hours — in early May, the Portuguese National Energy Network relied solely on renewable energy from wind, solar and hydro power. The same week, the United Kingdom reported up to 12 hours of coalfree electricity for a number of days in a row.

And last year, on one particularly windy day in July, wind farms in Denmark produced 140 percent of the nation’s energy needs, with the surplus going to Germany, Norway and Sweden to be stored for later use. By the end of 2015, the Danes had produced 42 percent of their electricity from wind. “I think eventually we’re going to have solar panels and windmills all over the place and that’s how we’ll run the world,” McKibben says. “But I’m not convinced we’ll get there in time to catch up with climate change.” Despite his decades-long fight, 2016 is already the hottest year on record and McKibben continues to question the political will to turn things around. While the engineering technology is there, the systematic reliance on carbon energy remains. “You’d think that would be the easier part, that the engineering would be hard,” McKibben says. “Humans are actually pretty good at engineering, they’re just not much good at self restraint.” Obviously frustrated by the lack of commitment he sees in Washington to confront climate change head on, the activist can be rather pessimistic about the current state of the global climate. However, in his estimation, one candidate in 2016 does possess the will to change the system — his Vermont neighbor Bernie Sanders. At the end of May, Sanders announced McKibben as one of his five representatives on the platform comSee MCKIBBEN Page 15

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they’re actually how we are mittee for the Democratic going to fight this problem. National Convention (DNC). Although the DNC chair has This is a structural, systemic the authority to select all 15 problem, it has to be fought on members to the committee — those grounds. And that means charged with drafting the 2016 the most important thing an party platform to be voted on individual can do is not be an at the convention in individual all the time. Join Philadelphia in July — the with other people in moveDNC responded to a request ments to make change hapfrom Sanders to give the canpen.” didates split representation. In With this perspective, the end, in what is seen by McKibben says he’s much more many as a victory for Sanders, inspired by the community Hillary Clinton is allowed six organizing of say the French appointees, Sanders five and Resistance during World War the DNC chair the remaining II — a collection of different four. Sanders’ appointments groups, voices and activists ralare all well-known progreslying behind the common sives; Rep. Keith Ellison cause of defeating the Nazis — (D-Minn.), author of Race than the more centralized leadMatters Cornel West, Native ership approach of say the civil Since May of this year, McKibben has been under constant video surveillance by America Rising Squared, American activist Deborah rights movement of the 1960s. a conservative research group that admits it is out to discredit him and other environmental leaders. The video on the group’s website of McKibben’s recent Thornton appearance (above) seems to have been Parker and Arab-American In doing so, he takes absolutely shot from the position of the videographer pictured at the far left in the above photo. BW has not been Institute President James no personal credit for leading able to identify this videographer or confirm that they were the source of the smear video. Zogby will join McKibben. the global climate change Wikimedia Commons This marks McKibben’s movement. first foray into the political realm, spend“I’m very cognizant that I’m the ing the majority of his career teaching, smallest part of it and really that my writing and pursuing on-the-ground skillset isn’t all that good,” he says. “I activism that’s included major protests think I was useful at a particular moment around the world and a handful of arrests but you know I’m a writer which means in the U.S. But at this point, McKibben I’m an introvert. There’s a lot of people says he’s willing to do pretty much whatwho are a lot better at giving speeches, ever it takes in an effort to curb climate rousing people up, than I’ll ever be.” change. As a writer, McKibben began his “Oh hell, I’ll try anything,” he says. career with the expectation that people “It’s my strong sense that we really are at would act after reading the information the moment here that if we don’t get he presented on the greenhouse effect going, it’s not going to happen.” and the threat of global warming. McKibben says his goal as part of the “So my theory of change then was platform committee is to represent people will read my book (The End of Sanders’ ideas about energy and climate Nature) and they will change,” he says. change — ideas that in large part mirror “That actually turns out not to be quite his own. Breaking away from how it happens. At a certain point it just Washington’s acceptance of billions of became clear to me that another book On a windy day in July 2015, Denmark was able to produce 140 percent of its energy needs from renewables alone. We have the technology, but not the will. was not going to move the needle.” dollars in federal lobbying from the oil As time passed and it became even and gas industry and a dependence on more scientifically apparent that climate change was a fossil fuels; a move towards renewables backed by “It seemed to me that Bernie had earned the right significant global threat, McKibben says it became leaving the majority of coal, oil and natural gas in the to ask any of us to do some work, considering what less about presenting the facts through writing and ground; updating the electricity and transportation he’s taken on this year,” he says. “Also, he’s a neighbor, speeches, and more about public influence and politiinfrastructure; and incorporating combating climate and, you know, neighbors helping neighbors...” cal sway. change into his national security platform, stating that This neighborly and community mindset has drivit is a leading cause of instability around the world. en much of McKibben’s work over the last several “We weren’t engaged in an argument [anymore], “Don’t know if we’ll be able to get them in the decades. It caused him to partner with his students at we were engaged in a fight,” McKibben says. “Fights platform, since his appointees are a minority, but we Middlebury College, where he teaches environmental aren’t about data and reason, they are about power and will try,” McKibben says. studies, to launch 350.org and it caused him to join money. The fossil fuel industry had a surplus of both McKibben, as he admitted to Democracy Now!’s forces with different groups in Nebraska and Canada so we were going to have to build some power of our Amy Goodman, is in many ways more comfortable already protesting the Keystone XL pipeline in 2011. own if we were going to have any chance in this fight. protesting outside at large political events like the “One’s intuition that one is much too small to “Our currency isn’t money obviously,” he continDNC than being on the inside. However, he says, affect the global climate is in fact correct,” McKibben ues. “It’s passion and spirit and creativity and that’s when Sanders asked him to join the committee, he says. “I’m looking out at my solar panels as we speak See MCKIBBEN Page 16 couldn’t refuse. and happily, but I don’t try and fool myself that Boulder Weekly

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Through her work, Caron pays close to attention to how we react psychologically to the strange predicament of being responsible for own undoing. She notices that we are in denial — both too close to our actions to change them and too far removed from their consequences to comprehend their effect. She questions if we are able to escape the culture of consumerism or if it is too late, if consumerism has become synonymous with living.

ing, leaving a powerful reminder that while the foam looks like ice, it is not, nor is it supposed to be, ice. In the context of global warming, Caron’s work takes on a powerful symbolism, replacing the ice that is melting as sea temperatures rise. In the United States, containers and packaging constitute the largest portion of the generated municipal solid waste, making up about 30 percent. By using these materials in her work, Caron reflects this reality back to the viewer, an opportuSarah Haas nity to consider the repercussions of consumerism. “We are packaging our world, which is nature, with synthetic materials creating constructed environments,” Caron says. “I am trying to deal with this version of nature, with the whole green culture which is actually quite false and just used for advertising. It’s just more packaging, more marketing. The question is how much are we really willing A detail of “Dominium” is an immersive experience in which the viewer encounters a self-sufficient cross-secto change our personal tion of a fictional world. habits if we are born into this culture of consumption Caron’s installations offer an opporthat is rampant and out of control?” tunity to gain distance and perspective “Dominium,” a mechanical installaon the doomsday threat of ecosystem tion standing in the center of the galcollapse by creating dramatic spaces and lery, challenges the idea that free will environments that she equates to the remains intact in a consumer culture. The piece is a large, layered plastic cube theatrical. that stands waist high so that your “I always put a sort of filter or memhands want to reach out brane between the viewand touch the plastic er and the object to give ON THE BILL: Material surface that looks like a it a level of concealment Nature by Kate Caron. Firehouse Art Center, 667 micro civilization. that psychologically Fourth Ave., Longmont, Small, loose pieces of draws the viewer in to 303-651-2787. firehouseart. publishpath.com. Through iron dance on top of be more curious and to June 26. the plastic moved by come in a little bit closer motorized magnets that than they would if it creak and groan underwas real,” Caron says. neath. “By creating separation, Below the surface are layers, like the viewer can escape the bounds of realithose of the earth, but these are parts of ty to explore and interact with what they a machine — the battery to power, the take to be an illusion.” wires to conduct electricity, the motors “Glacial Retreat” is the dramatic lifeblood of the show. In the back corner to move magnets — all of which serve of the gallery, white pillars of Styrofoam to animate life on the surface. The iron moves across its plastic landscape, rest on top of a reflective floor, illumiunaware that its movement is not its nated with soft blue lighting. The effect own, but conducted by a bigger mechais a larger than life replication of the nized system. glow from glacial ice that happens as The resemblance of Caron’s installalight bounces and refracts around its tions to life is uncanny — lifelike but molecular structure. not life at all. It is a mimicry, or worse, a The Styrofoam is a perfect mimicry replacement. In the context of global of ice, marked with striations from a warming, Caron reflects the conseknife used to carve the surface, just as quences of our actions back to us by ice is etched by rocks that scratch its substituting a cheap and packaged beausurface while it moves and melts. But ty for true, natural beauty, exposing the top of the shapes are left uncarved and retain the form of their manufactur- what is lost in that substitution. 22 June 9, 2016

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MOST IVORY SALES NOW ILLEGAL IN UNITED STATES On June 2 President Obama signed a measure introduced by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that almost completely bans the sale of ivory in the U.S. The new restrictions are in response to growing global concerns about the harm the ivory trade has on Africa’s elephants. Previously, some individual states sought bans on ivory sales and there were federal rules against interstate sales. But now, only 100-plus-year-old antiques and musical items with small amounts of the material can be sold legally. FWS Director Daniel Ashe released a statement saying the measure’s passing closed “a major avenue to wildlife trackers. We still have much to do to save this species, but today is a good day for the African eleWikimedia Commons/Rod Waddington phant.” Each year, more than 35,000 elephants are killed by poachers for their tusks, according to Born Free Foundation. Their population numbers in SubSaharan Africa have decreased 300 percent since the 1970s. In May the U.N. released a World Wildlife Crime Report that found ivory trafficking is a larger problem than cocaine trafficking worldwide. Hundreds of tons are smuggled internationally each year. Ivory increases in value along the supply chain, selling for up to $4,600 per pound once it reaches its target market. In China, the world’s largest ivory industry, it’s used for chopsticks, sculptures and more. The U.S. is currently the second most active country in the trade. — by Katie Porter

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The Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance (formerly the Boulder Offroad Alliance) has a quarter-century reputation for rallying volunteers in the name of trailbuilding for mountain bike recreation. These pictures, taken in the early ’90s, show some of the first volunteer workers organized by BOA.

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was rocky riding for mountain bikers in Boulder in the ’80s — in 1983, City Council voted 8-1 to prohibit “non-motorized” bikes on trails, fire access roads and other unimproved roads in city parks and open space. Just four years later, the City Open Space Board closed 12 more trails of the 16 still open to mountain bikes. Arguments against the “wide-tired” bike riders rang out from the Flatirons. From the hikers: They’ll run over us! From the preservationists: They’ll run over the flowers! But the people on mountain bikes had no intentions of hurting anything or anybody; they just wanted access to places where riding was legal and accepted. So they did what any small group of thoughtful, committed see ON THE TRAIL Page 26

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citizens would do: They formed the Boulder Offroad Alliance (BOA). The group’s current iteration, the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance (BMA), celebrates 25 years of advocacy, trail building and community engagement this year, capping off its quarter century of work with a fundraiser on June 18. BMA’s annual Spring Soiree kicks off the summer riding season at the Roadhouse Boulder Depot with food, beer and dancing, as well as a raffle and silent auction featuring some epic rides (e.g., a Yeti ASR Enduro GX mountain bike) and a fully supported three-day mountain bike trip to Crested Butte. All proceeds benefit the group’s efforts to build and improve local trails. “The party is a great way to celebrate BMA’s recent and past accomplishments, but also to enjoy our mountain biking community and inspire one another to keep the momentum strong for trail building projects in our area,” says Steve Watts, Courtesy of Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance executive director of BMA. But back in the ’80s, the organization’s first order of business was off-trail. “We were building relationships with the City, County and Forest Service, which hadn’t been done by the mountain bike community,” says Kent Young, BOA’s first board president. “Mountain biking was in its infancy, and it was our effort to create a responsible face and a reasonable presence to bring to the table.” The group hoped to achieve this by working on-trail — both increasing access to existing trails and designing and building new ones. The volunteers who showed up at some of BOA’s early work projects at Walker Ranch and Rabbit Mountain were a bellwether of the organization’s ability to rally people around trail-building events in the future. In 1991, Tony Boone, the resource specialist for Boulder County Parks and Open Space, wrote a letter to the editor of the Daily Camera praising the newly formed advocacy group for their enthusiasm working on the Columbine Trail at Walker Ranch. “With the organization of BOA, a positive voice for the mountain bike community may now be heard, and most importantly gain the Some Boulder Offroad Alliance respect and credibility from the general public volunteers working on a trail at and resource management agencies to play an Walker Ranch in 1994. active role in the future of mountain biking in Boulder County,” Boone wrote. Was such a dramatic shift in the local land management agency attitude possible after mountain bikers were all but forcibly removed off the trails just years before? Boone’s letter implied that mountain biking did have a future in Boulder, and more importantly, that his agency would work with the riders themselves in creating it. Boone, however, was an anomaly among the agencies charged with managing Boulder’s public lands; the culture of open space continued to reflect a staunch anti-development ethos, one in which trails were akin to sidewalks and subdivisions. It became clear to some members of BOA that sweat equity on alreadyplanned county trailwork projects was not going to be enough to get mountain bikers — and other recreationalists — a permanent seat at the table. Enter Michael Barrow, BMA’s most longstanding and arguably tireless member. “In ’97, I realized that we needed to get political and push harder on the agencies because we weren’t getting anywhere in the management planning,” he says. “In 2000, we became a 501c4 (a non-profit that engages in substantial lobbying activities), and it’s made a difference. We started creating coalitions with other recreation groups — climbers, hikers, equestrians, dog walkers — and have collaborated with them politically over the years. It got us on the radar of the City and the County.” Although the public is invited to comment at the meetings and hearings regarding management of public lands, it can be daunting to show up in a crowded room or to even know when and where the conversations are occurring. One of BMA’s greatest strengths lies in its leadership to its constituency: They get the Boulder Weekly

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word out so folks know when meetings are and how to speak at them. In recent years, BMA has facilitated the involvement of hundreds of people in the discussions about recreation on public lands. The Wild Turkey trail at Heil Valley Ranch is perhaps the best example of the power of public comment and the perseverance of BMA; the trail today differs dramatically from what the Boulder County Parks and Open Space initially proposed in 2004. “They said, ‘We’re gonna make a quarter-mile trail,’ and we said, ‘What?’” Barrow remembers. “350 emails from our group later, they came back and said, ‘OK, maybe we’ll do a little more — we’ll do three-quarters to 1 mile.’ Another 350 emails came along, and they came back and said, ‘We’re going to maximize the recreation experience in the space made available for its use.’ That was what we wanted to hear.” It was a watershed moment in the history of the County Open Space program, which had never prioritized recreation before. BMA was quick to capitalize on the shift and wedged a tire firmly in the door. They hired professional trail consultants from the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) to work with County trail crews to design and build the new trail. “Wild Turkey would be 4-feet wide if it weren’t for BMA,” says Michael Rutter, trails volunteer coordinator for Boulder County Parks and Open Space. “We made it 2-feet wide and used IMBA’s ‘rolling contour’ design, so it was really our first singletrack. It’s sustainable, and everyone loves it.” BMA’s commitment to increasing the quality and quantity of mountain biking in Boulder County has inspired its constituency of members, including business partners who can often help garner funds for projects. Chad Melis, marketing director for Oskar Blues, one of BMA’s most loyal supporters, says it’s easy to support an organization whose values align so closely with the culture of the brewery itself — bikes compete with cars for parking at the iconic Lyons’ destination. “Oskar Blues started in Lyons, and at the core of our culture and why people work for us is our access to trails and love of the outdoors,” he says. Last year, a matching donation from Oskar Blues’ Can’d Aid Foundation augmented a grant so that three BMA projects — trail repair on Sourdough and Buchanan Pass and trail maintenance on School Bus — could be completed quickly and efficiently. Every example of an improved or additional riding experience in Boulder County illustrates the same fact: BMA makes things happen, even when — or despite the fact that — there’s usually a long uphill climb to get there. In the week leading up to the fundraiser, the group will have plenty of nonparty related business to tend to — they’re busy writing grants for the Magnolia Trails Project (near Nederland), and they’ll have built part of the new loop trail at Heil 2 on National Trails Day and have represented their interests at a City Council hearing on the proposed North Sky trail. By the time the soiree rolls around, they’ll definitely deserve a beer and some birthday cake. Or better yet, a bike ride. Boulder Weekly

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A JOURNEY THROUGH MEMORY

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alking into Sweet & Lucky is like walking into a life-sized living diorama — as if the glass at a museum is removed and the visitors are invited to play with animated exhibits. The creators of the play categorize it as interactive theater or experiential performance. It’s not a new movement, but a growing one. Zach Morris, co-artistic director of Third Rail Projects, calls it “world making” — a collaborative effort to take theater off the stage to envelop the audience in all of its physicality — creating a sensory experience between reality and illusion.

“You know those museum exhibits where you get a little window into a totally foreign world? Well, they have always fascinated me,” Morris says. “There is something about them, in terms of being able to create a dream state or a playground for grown-ups. I want you to be able to step into one of those dioramas, to have it surround you on all sides and engage with you in all senses.” Through a collaboration between Denver Center for the Performing Arts Off-Center and

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New York-based Third Rail Projects, Sweet & Lucky comes to a warehouse in Denver’s ON THE BILL: Sweet & RiNo neighborhood through June 25. Lucky. 4120 Brighton Blvd., Suite A20, Denver, 303-893The play is built in a previously vacant 4100. Through June 25. 16,000-foot warehouse, a massive and expensive undertaking subsidized through sponsorships and even a Kickstarter campaign. The space is parceled into dozens of rooms forming a maze through which the audience is guided with mind-boggling synchronization as the action of the play is both cued by and relies on the crowd’s participation. Traditionally, theater depends on the idea of the fourth wall, the separation between the audience and the action on the stage. The audience is called to suspend disbelief, to set aside the fiction of performance and partake in a real experience as it unfolds before them. In Sweet & Lucky viewers are no longer passive, they are inside the set, inside the action and a part of the show. The set design, art and lighting in Sweet & Lucky create a space that hosts a drama which almost negates the need for a story. But the play does have a narrative, just not a linear one. Instead, Sweet & Lucky is a swirling composition of notions of remembrance — the things we choose to remember and the things we choose to forget. Each room holds one memory in a larger story, and actors recreate the memory through each of the five senses — smells, sounds, objects, visuals and even tastes are combined with an artisanal particularity that is almost poetic. This is true to the form of memory itself — an experience that is fragmented, imperfect, tactile and dreamlike. As the audience transitions from viewer to participant, Sweet & Lucky pushes theater to the limits, bringing the creators to consider new questions of the form, perhaps most fundamentally: How do you invite the audience to suspend disbelief so they can enter into the narrative without the fourth wall? Morris says this depends on passing that threshold, a line that, once crossed, cannot be regressed. “It isn’t just about creating a window into a world anymore, but a doorway through which the audience can pass through as it happens around them,” Morris says. “To be able to look through drawers and find letters or photographs, to be mere centimeters away from a performer or to find themselves in the midst of a scene that is already going on.” Importantly, the threshold is immediately acknowledged and breached. Within moments of the play’s beginning, audience members find themselves standing in a room, holding umbrellas as rain cascades from the warehouse’s “sky.” The air is damp, drops of water hit the skin and the sound of rain on umbrellas muffles a eulogy. This is the only part of the performance where the actors stand on a stage above the audience, lending them a crucial sense of authority from the outset. There is no other option but to admit the experience of being at a funeral in the rain. Boulder Weekly

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Lia Bonfilio sits under the Winter tree, in snow made of shredded letters.

Lia Bonfilio and Ryan Wuestewald’s characters share a soft moment as they explore the memories of their love story.

In painting there is something called trompe-l’œil — French for “deceive the eye” — a technique that uses imagery to trick the eye into believing that depicted objects are real and three dimensional. Sweet & Lucky is the theater equivalent, as the audience leaves the show having explored themes and stories of memory by actually creating memory. Days later, one can recall the sound of the rain, the heat of a candle and the smell of lavender and rosemary that drift through the air of the performance space. “It has been true for time immemorial that art not only reflects culture, but it also adapts to whatever cultural moment we find ourselves in,” Morris says. “Over the course of [my] career, it has not only been about reimagining content, but also reimagining context. Not just what are we making that the audience is seeing, but how are they seeing it?” It is telling to observe the experiences of other audience members as they interacted with the performance. Couples, inspired by the scenes depicting young love, held each other’s hands and stole glimpses into each other’s eyes. During one scene, an older man became teary eyed while he leaned on a pier and watched naked lovers swim and flirt. His tears broke to laughter as they splashed and played. No one spoke to one another, but there was a softness in the way everyone related. The universal power of memory brought tender moments to the surface and the vulnerability was shared and palpable. There is perhaps no better way to explore the human experience of memory than through experiential theater and Sweet & Lucky is an expert execution. As the performance closes, the audience walks back into the real world. Slowly, life returns and the audience balances living in this moment and recounting moments from before — spinning memories out of experience because it’s all we can do to make sense of life as it passes.

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Local videographer documents homelessness by Mariah Taylor

amie Crawford was in a church in Fort Collins the first time she heard the song “Here for You,” by The Good Time Travelers. “So it happened/ that thing you’ve always feared,” the song begins. “You’re going down/ there’s no turning ’round.” Crawford couldn’t shake the feeling the song left her with, compelling her to connect with the songwriters. “That song really can open up the flood gates for a lot of people and is kind of opaque — it can be interpreted many different ways,” says Pete Kartsounes of The Good Time Travelers who wrote “Here for You” with bandmate Michael Kirkpatrick. “What I love about [the song] is that people are touched by it for different reasons. Jamie [Crawford] was touched by it and reached out to us wondering if we would work with her on a video and we said, ‘Of course.’” With the full support of the folk rock duo, Crawford used her videography skills to create a music video for the song to support the Sister Mary Alice Murphy Center for Hope, a homeless initiative in Fort Collins. The video features footage and interviews with members of Colorado’s homeless population, telling their stories of being criminal-

ized and living without basic necessities. The video begins with Morris and Cindy, a couple discussing their story of homelessness. Morris is well spoken and, as the video’s subtitles point out, served in the U.S. John-Mark Guzman sits on a bench in Fort Collins with his dog Max. Last year, Guzman started a Marine Corps for men’s support group at the Sister Mary Alice Murphy Center for Hope. seven years. Crawford says the homelessness issue wasn’t a personal [Community College] and was really We have lunch every Thursday. He one for her until she started working on inspired for my final project to docuteaches me new things and we share the video — she admits to being “very ment the homeless population.” stories and he makes me laugh. I’ve blessed in that area.” But at a time In hopes of getting an appropriate really fallen in love with these people when she experienced one personal portrayal of her subject matter, that I didn’t think I’d ever be friends tragedy after another and felt immense Crawford approached Ken John, with. There are some amazing people dissatisfaction at her job, she returned resource and marketing director at the that are homeless. It’s not the stereoto college to find another path and a Murphy Center. John insisted Crawford type of what you might think it would new passion. use actual voices of the homeless combe.” “I have almost 20 years experience munity. So shortly after she started volCrawford’s new friend, John-Mark in journalism,” Crawford says, “and I unteering at the Murphy Center, Guzman, is an advocate for homeless gave that up to raise my family and Crawford met the people she would rights and is himself homeless. For work for my husband’s company about feature in her video. Guzman, being a part of Crawford’s seven years ago. I missed journalism. I “I ended up meeting Morris and video meant sharing an experience missed having a job where I was always Cindy and John-Mark and the video more common than many might think. meeting new people and learning new started to become totally different from “Homeless people who share their things. I became very depressed workmy original vision, but better,” experience want to share the pain of ing for my husband’s company, so I Crawford says. “John-Mark has become what [caused] them to be homeless,” he decided to go back to school. I took a a great friend of mine. I would have videography class at Front Range never thought that in a million years. see POWER OF MUSIC Page 34

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says. “People don’t have to be homeless to know pains like losing a loved one.” Ken John echoes Guzman’s sentiment, adding how difficult it can be to escape homelessness. “Some of the problems that society faces have a pretty quick and easy solution,” John says. “For others there aren’t and, unfortunately, homelessness is becoming more long term. Years ago it might have been measured in weeks. Now it’s beginning to be measured in years and that simply has to reverse. We have to find a way to make homelessness rare, short lived and non-recurring.” For Kartsounes, it’s hard to believe so many veterans, like Morris, fall into homelessness. “That doesn’t make any sense at all to me,” Kartsounes says. “Why somebody who served their counCourtesy of Jamie Crawford try for so long should ever go homeless is a problem that needs a solution and at least this video might bring a lot more awareness to that. These veterans should not be sleeping under bridges.” Crawford says the video project opened her eyes and she hopes others will also come to appreciate the complexity of homelessness, to Homeless couple Cindy and Morris walk in a shot from understand that every Jamie Crawford’s video for The Good Time Travelers’ song “Here for You.” Morris was in the U.S. Marine Corps for seven story is unique and the years. He and Cindy have been homeless for two years. struggles are very real. “What I’ve learned is that if homeless people can’t get into a shelter they have to sleep outdoors, and it’s illegal to sleep outdoors so they’re breaking the law,” Crawford says. “Not only are they hungry and dealing with the elements but they’re becoming criminals for needing to sleep.” For Crawford, the video is a success. Guzman recently found a consistent, clean place to sleep at night — something Crawford is fairly certain is a result of the video. “An anonymous person also came forward and gave John-Mark a bicycle as a result of being in the video,” Crawford says. “Another person came forward offering to help Morris get dental work.” In starting her own business, Crawford Video, she intends to keep employing the combination of music and videography to support homeless initiatives such as the Murphy Center. “It’s funny,” she says. “The power of music.” See the video at hereforyouvideo.com Boulder Weekly

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omedian Paula Poundstone has been in the comedy game for more than 30 years now. She’s known for her stand-up, work on NPR’s weekly news quiz show, Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me, and voicing characters in works such as the cartoon series Home Movies and Disney Pixar’s Inside Out. After three decades, you’d think she was a bit sick of the whole business, but she has nothing but warm things to say. “I’m sure it’s the greatest job there ever was,” Poundstone says. Don’t be fooled by her seemingly optimistic verbiage. She isn’t a particularly idealistic person, spitting empty words of positivity to anyone willing to listen. Rather, she leans toward the realist side, emitting a resolved sense of honesty when speaking about what makes comedy such a necessity in her life. “I can’t imagine raising kids without being a stand-up comedian,” she says. “So much of it is difficult, that’s just the way life is, but I get to tell the stories about the struggles of raising kids on stage and people laugh.” This starts a sort of dialogue between her and her audience members. She gets approached after her shows by fans who have a great deal of understanding for her stories about motherhood, and some even offer a few words of wisdom.

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Music Amoramora. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. West Flanders Brewing Company, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. Bonnie and the Clydes. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Chicos Malos. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Danny Shafer. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.

David Blocks The Human Experience. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Earth and Sky. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Euro Dance Party. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. The Hornitz. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Jessica Eppler. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Keith A. Rea, Rambin’ Pan, Cameron Bailey. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Ladies Night with The Movers & The Shakers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. see EVENTS Page 40

Bowl to Have Fun, Bowl to Give Help

2 p.m. Saturday, June 11, Roosevelt Park, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

8:30 a.m. June 9-12, Boulder High School Lawn, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-929-6226.

5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 11, Coal Creek Bowling Center, 1455 Coal Creek Drive, Lafayette, 303-673-0772.

This yoga festival is more Courtesy of Hanuman Festival than just downward dogs on a grassy lawn. The folks at Hanuman believe in using yoga practice to bring community together in a happy, healthy way. The festival is named after Hanuman, whose love and fidelity for his king is immortalized in the Hunumanasana pose that celebrates reverence, respect and devolution — all tenants of a great yogi. The festival features free live music from artists like Magic Giant and Elijah Rah, along with renowned yoga instructors and speakers from around the world. — Mariah Taylor

Is there any better feeling than bowling a strike? How about bowling a strike for a good cause? On Saturday, head over to Coal Creek Bowling Center for the second annual Bowl to Have Fun, Bowl to Give Help. With a $25 donation you get three games of bowling, two raffle tickets and a door prize entry. Along with bowling, enjoy food, drinks, a silent auction and music from Freezer Cat. All proceeds go to benefit Rocky Mountain Cancer Assistance, which provides much-needed relief for cancer patients by helping them with basic needs and day-to-day expenses. For more information email communitygivingconnection@gmail.com.

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Laser Bunny. 6:30 p.m. Sandstone Park, 301 Railroad Ave., Lyons. Maya Bennett. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Sinatrah. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Use The Sun, Alaska, Bridges Will Break. 6:30 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder, 303-396-8145.

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Vinyl Night, Bring Your Own Album! 7 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Ziggy Marley On Tour. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Events Dairy Arts Center: Benefit Art Auction. 6 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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

Martha Russo: coalescere. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through June 12.

41st Annual Exhibition Western Federation of Watercolor Societies. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 28.

Mountain Standard Clay. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through June 12.

Glassworks explores the many forms of glass at the Arts Longmont Gallery through June 25.

Get Dirty: Hands On Bread Making. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Friday, June 10 Music The Aristocats. 8 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Aural Elixir. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. The Blue Canyon Boys. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Burn It Blue. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Colorado Floyd “A Pink Floyd Jam.” 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Complete Unknowns. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Downtown Summer Concert Series. 6 p.m. Fourth Ave., Between Main St. and Kimbark St., Longmont, 303-651-8484. Dusty Stray. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Earth and Sky. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Flip and Fly. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Follow The Fox. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Foxfeather. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Goonies. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Greg Marmolejo, The Miners Ghost. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Honeycomb. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Hotfoot Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Idlewhile. 8 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Jackson Cloud. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Jacob Larson Funk and Soul Live. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. Jazzebel. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

A Rotation of Six Video Works by Six International Artists from Collection (Anonymous). Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through June 12.

Glassworks. The Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through June 25. Janelle Iglesias: Even a Simple Call Can Turn Into a Complex Racket. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through July 9. Jeff Richards. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 30. Life and Afterlife: Selections from the King Collection of Ancient Chinese Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 25. Make Your Own Friends — by Brian Bress. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3.

On Desert Time. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 8, 2017. Phantom Touch — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3. Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 7. Robert Castellino. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 30. SEED: Disperse. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 4. Shikioriori: Living Through the Seasons in Edo Japan. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 25. Ten by Sixty. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 4. Tethered. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 26. Why We Dance. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 14. Women of Abstract Expressionaism. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 25.

The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

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Kevin Dooley. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

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

Kevin So. 6 p.m. Little Tree Acoustic House Concert Series, Lafayette, 303-620-6634.

The Seers. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Laurie D. 8 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder.

Sheela Bringi, Kevin Paris. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

MaryLynn Gillaspie. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Micheal Hornbuckle Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Shelvis and The Roustabouts. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Skadi. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.

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Biloxi Blues. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through June 26. The Comedy of Errors. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303492-8008. Through Aug. 7. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through June 12. Footloose. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 3. Sweet & Lucky. 4120 Brighton Blvd., Suite A20, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through June 25.

Sweet & Lucky skips the traditional theater set up for an immersive performance. Read more about it on page 29.

Jon Stickley Trio with Robin Davis Duo. 10 p.m.

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Trevor Hall. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Events B.L.A.M! [Beer Local Art + Music] Summer Pop-up Art Festival. 6 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Co., 3550 Frontier Ave., Unit A, Boulder, 303-998-2895.

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Rebecca Makkai — Music for Wartime. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Monday, June 13

Amy Ippoliti and Taro Smith — The Art & Business of Teaching Yoga. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Saturday, June 11 Antonio Lopez. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

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Friday, June 10

Second Fridays. 6 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 677 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Music

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

Brahms’ German Requiem. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770. Dave Tamkin Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. David Newman. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Defunkt Railroad. 11 a.m. Louisville Farmers’ Market at Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville. Dotsero. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Eric Stone. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. The Farmer Sisters. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Follow the Fox. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Goatz. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Good Kind. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Bob Litwin — Live the Best Story of Your Life. 5 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Kierstin Bridger and Teow Lim Goh. 2 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsyl-

Augustus. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Blew Crew. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.

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Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Taylor Scott. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Terry Jo Jenkins CD Release Party. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Thomas Hine. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Tilla Americana. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Treehorn. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Two Smoking Barrels. 12 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Wake Up and Live: A Bob Marley Tribute. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Wandering Natives. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Weston Smith. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Wrong Side Right. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Wylie. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, June 14 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Bill Ritter, Jr. — Powering Forward. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Wednesday, June 15 Nate Klemp — Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Bob Story. 1 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066. Cosmic Mesa. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Danny Shafer. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Foxfeather Duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Gina Sobel Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Gregory Porter with Venus Cruz. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Jababa. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Jet Set. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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The Lil’ Smokies, Front Country. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

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Open Bluegrass Pick with Pat Fiddle and New Grass. 1 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Indigent Row. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.

American Ninja Warrior Competition. 9 a.m. Warrior Playground, 2415 Wedgewood Ave., Longmont.

Interstate Stash Express. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Art On The Green. 10 a.m. Sandstone Park, 301 Railroad Ave., Lyons.

Pro Teens, American Grandma, Total Goth, Grass. 5 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder, 303-396-8145.

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Goldilocks. 11 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Longmont Jammers. 1 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209.

Music & Movement, Rhythm & Rhyme. 4:30 p.m. Waneka Lake, Lafayette, 303-661-1460.

Marcus Lucas Show. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Paula Poundstone. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Qeumando. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Sunday, June 12

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Haystack Mountain Bluegrass. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

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Gospel Voices of Boulder Concert. 4 p.m. Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303-895-4539.

The River Arkansas. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

A. J. Fullerton. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411.

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Ravin’wolf. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Stacey Riley Trio. 7 p.m. Las Palmeras, 199 S. Main St., Longmont, 303-848-0103. The Sweet Lillies. 2 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Tim Ostdiek. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Events Art on the Green. 10 a.m. Sandstone Park, 301 Railroad Ave., Lyons. Boulder Market. 11 a.m. Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-272-7467. see EVENTS Page 44

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Opera Gala. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Prairie Scholars Open Mic. 6 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Events Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Boulder Municipal Plaza, 1770 13th St., Boulder. Influential Infographic Design. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Wednesday, June 15 Music

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Bela Fleck & The Flecktones. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Silverplume. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

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Sound Bites. 5 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 718-965-8951.

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hose who only know comic books through their (somehow) still-increasingly popular cinematic adaptations don’t know the dirty secret about the source material: Most story lines are messy and contradict past events. Dude, the actual devil once showed up in a Spider-Man comic to erase his marriage because the writers wanted him single again... X-Men: Apocalypse is getting savaged by critics, fairly and unfairly, for faithfully presenting a particular type of confusing, cross-over mashup, the kind that happens all the time in actual comics. Heroes pop up, do cool fighting crap, bud romance, spout clichés and save the world from villains who want to destroy the world because that’s what villains do. Director Bryan Singer’s five millionth X-movie — please let someone else have a turn — is easily my favorite, even if it may have the biggest flaws. Despite featuring a billion characters, the plot is pretThe first mutant, Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), reawakens after a few thousand years and decides to destroy everyone who isn’t ty damn simple: The a mutant (and even some of the weaker ones of those). first mutant, Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), reawakens after thousands of years trapped in a collapsed pyramid, and he’s got a slight case of the “pissed offs.” His plan is to literally kill every human and let the “strong survive,” meaning the superpowered mutants. He gathers up “Four Horsemen,” consisting of Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Psylocke (Olivia Munn), Angel (Ben Hardy) and, eventually, Magneto (Michael Fassbender), who agrees to go full bad guy after a dick with a bow and arrow kills his wife and kid with one shot. The good guys must stop Apocalypse’s apocalypsing. So Professor X ( James McAvoy) joins with Mystique ( Jennifer Lawrence), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Quicksilver (Evan Peters), Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) to beat the bad guys through diplomacy. Just kidding, through lots of violence. It’s pretty much just, “Everybody fight everybody all the time.” There are some issues, even forgiving a loose plot that doesn’t do much character work. I mean, I’ve read the comics, and I still don’t understand what Apocalypse’s powers are. He can... dissolve stuff? Make people get swallowed into walls? Who knows? I just know it looks cool. And that’s all the movie cares about. For the first time in all the X-movies, and I think we’re at eleventy billion now, characters use their powers in unique and visually exciting ways. From Jean Grey and Magneto using combined telekinesis and control of metal to quickly rebuild things to Quicksilver continuing to be the high point of Singer’s X-Men tenure, it’s all style without substance, spectacle without meaning. Does Apocalypse reach the character-driven, story-rich density of Captain America: Civil War? Oh dear God no. But it also rejects the grimdark idiocy of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in favor of a bombastic, visually resplendent bit of fluffy fighting nonsense. It may boast the lowest collective critical rating, but I’m willing to bet Apocalypse will prove the most rewatchable of the bunch. And the stage is set with Sheridan, Peters, Turner and Smit-McPhee for what could be a great little run moving forward. But, for the love of God, can someone besides Bryan Singer hum the next X-tune? Please? This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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opstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is an all-you-can-eat buffet of comedic gluttony, serving humorous dishes to please every palate. Whatever your taste, you can dine on raunchy laughter due to an international singing sensation caught in a “penis tucking” scandal, the surreal nonsense of an off-screen fight with a flamethrower and killer bees, or savvy sight gags that skewer modern celebrities’ lack of awareness of their contribution to our continual Orwellian camera surveillance. Mostly, you’ll leave singing an insanely catchy ditty comparing sexual intercourse to the killing of Osama Bin Laden. The comedy trio Lonely Island (Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg) are powerfully, almost irresponsibly funny. It comes as no surprise that the boys who got Justin Timberlake to sing about inserting his genitals into a Christmas package are able to deliver the goods musically in this mockumentary spoof. The gossamer narrative is just an excuse for a nonstop series of sizeable hilarity. The Style Boyz — Conner (Samberg), Owen (Taccone) and Lawrence (Schaffer) — were a music sensation; think The Beastie Boys mixed with N’Sync... and a touch of the Baha Men. But then Conner became a breakout star, taking Owen with him (as a “DJ,” who does little more than push play on an iPod) and leaving Lawrence The Lonely Island boys (Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg), best known for their SNL music video sketchbehind. The film es, are at it again with a full-length musical mockumentary. follows Conner on the verge of releasing his sophomore solo album, a follow-up to his impossibly successful debut. The minute he drops the first new single, an argument in favor of legalizing the already legal practice of gay marriage in which Conner keeps repeating how “not gay” he is, it’s obvious the record is doomed. The rest of the flick follows (and makes explicit mention of ) the “rise/fall/rise” pattern of almost every movie about a musician. All the plot does positively is allow Conner to sing/rap lyrics like “Bar none, I am the most humble-est” or dropping a diss track against, of all things, the “Mona Lisa.” That said, one subplot is particularly rich, if only because of a brilliant breakout performance from Chris Redd as a hardcore, edgy, modern rapper named Hunter... who may or may not have been responsible for exposing Conner stripped naked and “fully tucked” on stage. Popstar suffers from the clunks and clogs you’d expect from a trio whose content is best digested in tiny nuggets. Almost every joke and big bit lands and lands hard; however, while the integrity and quality of the “plot skeleton” on which the jokes hang is kind of irrelevant, it is given far too much time. No one actually cares whether the Style Boyz quash their beef, so any time spent expanding or resolving that feud is wasted and bloats things for no reason. Still, the measure of Popstar is in the number of guffaws and raunchy, hilarious earworm songs you’ll feel guilty about absentmindedly singing in public. Besides, an unbalanced, messy film filled with this wide an array of quality gags is infinitely more pleasing than most of what comprises the surprisingly shrinking comedy genre these days. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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deep dish A quick word of introduction: This will be, as are most things in life, a work in progress. But the goal of this column is pretty simple: Stop and smell the bacon. You know, stop and smell the roses, but in a culinary sense. I’ll use each column to take a concentrated look at a single dish. I’ll be gallivanting (as my grandmother would say) around Boulder County in search of food I love and stories to tell about that food. I can’t say for sure what this column will look like from week to week, but I hope you’ll join me on the journey.

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The history of a sandwich

Let’s talk about Argentine food. To talk about Argentine food, we need to talk about Argentine culture, and to talk about Argentine culture we need to talk about immigrants. To say that Italians had a significant influence in Argentina might be a gross understatement — Argentina’s Italian population is the second largest in the world outside of Italy, numbering some 25 million people. Italians began to immigrate to Argentina in the early 1800s, just after Argentina won its independence from Spain. Somewhere around 1815, the Italian states were just beginning the process of unification, and the nascent nation was impoverished, enduring widespread unemployment and political turmoil. Argentina looked like a chance at a new beginning for many Italians. So they flocked to the Latin American country, often settling in the capitol of Buenos Aires where they first arrived, but also throughout Argentina’s provinces, in Córdoba, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, La Pampa and Tucumán. Today there are as many as 1.5 million Italian speakers in Argentina, and some two-thirds of the Argentine population can claim to have decedents from lo stivale — “The Boot.” (Side note: One of my favorite musicians is Argentine, the late Gustavo Cerati. In writing this column I thought how Italian his surname sounds and

corner — el rincón — of Folsom and Arapahoe. This week I sat under the shade of Rincon Argentino’s patio awning in the dewy aftermath of a thunderstorm. From this perfect little corner you can see the Flatirons and watch folks cruise north down the hill of Folsom on their bikes. It’s easy to feel transported, suddenly surrounded by Spanish speakers among the colorful and inviting accouterment of the restaurant. The little eatery is famous, and rightly so, for their amazing empanadas (another dish with great history), but this day I wanted the unofficial dish of Argentina. Rincon’s milanesa de carne is a classic sanguche de milanga, with thinly sliced Argentine steak, breaded and seasoned with oregano, covered in melted mozzarella cheese and topped with lettuce and tomato slices. It’s all placed lovingly between the slices of a crusty baguette. I added a bit of chimmichurri because I love life. What makes Rincon’s milanesa so delicious is their attention to detail — the best cuts of meat for milanesa are lean and lack sinew, so the meat curls up around the edges as it’s cooked, and that’s just what you get at Rincon Argentino. The baguette provides the perfect crustiness against the chewy beef and gooey layer of cheese, and while the sandwich’s internal ingredients often want to escape their bready enclosure, half the fun of eating it is shoving it back together. Part of the allure of Rincon Argentino is the sense of home one gets while there. Like Italians, Argentines have a reputation for their love of food. An invitation to a home-cooked meal is an expression of friendship and trust. They say the best place on Earth to eat a sanguche de milanga is at someone’s mother’s house in Buenos Aires. As a family run business, I’m more than a little sure Rincon Argentino is the North American version of just that.

Rincon Argentino and the milanesa de carne by Caitlin Rockett decided to check and yes, his father’s family came from the Lombard region of Italy. OK… gracias totales). Italy’s imprint is everywhere in Argentina. Even their Spanish is famous for its Italian-like sound. In 1998, at the Summit of the Americas, a foreign minister quipped, “Argentines are Italians who speak Spanish” (the end of that quote is, “who think they are British,” and the whole comment arose because former president of Argentina Carlos Saul Menem arrived late for the official photo session, making 33 heads of state, including President Clinton, wait. But I digress…). And of course Italy can be seen clearly in Argentine cuisine, which brings me to the point of this little history lesson — milanesa. Milanesa is kind of the unofficial dish of Argentina. It consists of a thinly sliced meat fillet — beef, chicken, veal or pork, and occasionally eggplant or a soy protein — battered in egg, seasoned, breaded and fried in a shallow pan of oil. The meat is often served with some cheese melted on top and mashed potatoes on the side, or, as we’re about to discuss, in sandwich form — sanguche de milanga. Boulder is nearly 6,000 miles from Buenos Aires, but a little slice of Argentina sits right on the

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hen Mike Johnston was growing up in Chicago there were herbs and spices in his mother’s kitchen. “My Mom was a good home cook. She made things like pot roast. When it came to spices, she had the typical little metal cans from McCormick’s. We moved with those same spices over and over again,” Johnston said with a grin. Johnston attended an arts high school and was trained as a painter and ceramicist. He took a winding path to become Colorado’s top retail herb and seasoning merchant. Johnston and his wife, Janet, moved to Colorado in 2004 to open Savory Spice Shop in Denver. Now there are 34 Savory Spice Shops across the country, including the third store in Boulder. For this Q&A, Johnston and I caucused over a paper-lined tray adorned with exceptionally smoked brisket, pork shoulder, see NIBBLES Page 52 “Spices and herbs can take you on taste trips that you can’t afford to take,” said Mike Johnston, co-founder of Savory Spice Shops.

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ith the sun blaring, it is the perfect afternoon for reading, but not for sitting in the sun. I’m 60 pages away from finishing The Water Knife, Colorado author Paolo Bacigalupi’s sixth novel. A nearfuture thriller about climate change and drought in the southwestern United States, the book is a New York Times best seller and charts numerous book lists at Boulder Bookstore. I’ve been meaning to try this for a while. Go to a bar with a book before the evening rush begins. Find a drink that complements the day’s reading material. Sip on that drink, chapter by chapter. There’s nothing more satisfying than finishing a drink and a book at the same time. I walk quickly to escape the heat as I approach the large door of the Outback Saloon. This might be my first time at the Outback when it’s not karaoke night. The joint, tucked away on 28th, is barren on this afternoon, in comparison. Besides the patrons watching soccer at the edge of the bar and the unobtrusive “Band On The Run” infiltrating over the speakers, it’s quiet. I’ve killed time here before — the free popcorn and cheap beer always satisfy my homesick blues. Lucy Monroe, the water journo I’m rooting for throughout Bacigalupi’s novel, drinks beer and follows leads in cool, dark settings, like the Outback. Water is the biggest percentage of any beer. At 95 percent of today’s breweries, making one barrel of beer uses three to seven barrels of water according to Bart Watson, client economist of the Brewers Association. It’s just the kind of morsel of information Lucy would appreciate. So with that in mind, I order up a Dale’s Pale Ale on tap, an Oskar Blues’ staple American Pale Ale. Dale’s pours a burnt amber orange with a creamy beige head an inch thick. My first sip is a gulp. The pale ale goes down cool and crisp; the taste bitter yet light and refreshing after being in the citrus Colorado sun all morning. Aromatically, Dale’s scent is a caramel malt with hints of zesty orange, mild pine and toasted bread. All flavors balanced with a dry aftertaste. The hops are more typical than a standard IPA, Dale’s emits no false notes. Its medium body and weight make it a nice malty pale ale for sipping while finishing up The Water Knife. A hired gun gets tangled up with a young migrant and a hungry journalist in the Paonia-based Bacigalupi’s not-so-distant future, where the water wars have taken effect. The author draws influence for his fiction from his time as an environmental journalist working for numerous national publications. Water is power in Bacigalupi’s novel. Like his other works, The Water Knife depicts the world changing and the nature of humanity as desperation. The deadly outcome of this novel stems from society’s lack of oversight, planning and cooperation in regards to droughts and climate change. You could say it was informed by today’s very real headlines. In that sense, pairing The Water Knife with a Dale’s Pale Ale was strategic. In January 2016, Oskar Blues sent crates of canned water to Flint, Michigan. Cheers to that. Boulder Weekly

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Mythologist Joseph Campbell

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am silent there is singing In many cases, that’s not around me. Though I am a problem. Who among dark there is vision around us has unlimited time and me. Though I am heavy energy? Why leave all the Go to RealAstrology.com to check out there is flight around me.” options open? Short cuts Please remember this poem can be valuable. It’s often Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO at least three times a day smart to be ruthlessly effiHOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE during the next two weeks. cient as we head toward HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes It’s important for you to our destination. But here’s are also available by phone at know that no matter what a caveat: According to my 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. murky or maudlin or mysanalysis of the astrologiterious mood you might be cal omens, you’re now in in, you are surrounded by vitality and generosity. a phase when taking short cuts may be counterproductive. To be as well-seasoned as you will need to be to reach your goal, you should probably take the scenic route. The long LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: A half-dead blast from the past is way around may, in this instance, be the most efficient and effective. throttling the free flow of your imagination. Your best possible future will be postponed until you agree to deal more SCORPIO intimately with this crumbled dream, which you have never fully grieved or surrendered. So here’s my advice: Summon OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “Truth is like the flu,” says poet the bravest, smartest love you’re capable of, and lay your James Richardson. “I fight it off, but it changes in other sad loss to rest with gentle ferocity. This may take a while, bodies and returns in a form to which I am not immune.” so be patient. Be inspired by the fact that your new supply In the coming days, Scorpio, I suspect you will experience of brave, smart love will be a crucial resource for the rest of that riddle first hand — and probably on more than one your long life. occasion. Obvious secrets and wild understandings that you have fought against finding out will mutate in just the right way to sneak past your defenses. Unwelcome insights you’ve VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Five times every day, devout Muslims been trying to ignore will finally wiggle their way into your psyche. Don’t worry, though. These new arrivals will be turn face their holiest city, Mecca, and say prayers to Allah. Even out to be good medicine. if you’re not Islamic, I recommend that you carry out your own unique version of this ritual. The next three weeks will SAGITTARIUS be a favorable time to cultivate a closer relationship with the inspirational influence, the high ideal, or the divine being NOV. 22-DEC. 21: According to Guinness World records, that reigns supreme in your life. Here’s how you could do it: the most consecutive hours spent riding on a roller coaster Identify a place that excites your imagination and provokes is 405 hours and 40 minutes. But I suspect that during the a sense of wonder. Five times a day for the next 21 days, bow next 15 months, a Sagittarian daredevil may exceed this in the direction of this treasured spot. Unleash songs, vows, mark. I have come to this conclusion because I believe your and celebratory expostulations that deepen your fierce and tribe will be especially adept and relatively comfortable at tender commitment to what you trust most and love best. handling steep rises and sudden dips at high speeds. And that won’t be the only rough talent you’ll have in abundance. I’m guessing you could also set new personal bests in the LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “The road reaches every place, categories of most frequent changes of mind, most heroic leaps of faith, and fastest talking. the short cut only one,” says aphorist James Richardson.

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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Whether we like to admit it or not, all

of us have acted like puppets. Bosses and teachers and loved ones can manipulate us even if they’re not in our presence. Our conditioned responses and programmed impulses may control our behavior in the present moment even though they were formed long ago. That’s the bad news. The good news is that now and then moments of lucidity blossom, revealing the puppet strings. We emerge from our unconsciousness and see that we’re under the spell of influential people to whom we have surrendered our power. This is one of those magic times for you, Capricorn.

AQUARIUS

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course of study in the art of fun and games. You realized you hadn’t been playing hard enough, and took measures to correct the problem. After refamiliarizing yourself with the mysteries of innocent joy, you raised the stakes. You began dabbling with more intensive forms of relief and release. Now you have the chance to go even further: to explore the mysteries of experimental delight. Exuberant escapades may become available to you. Amorous adventures could invite you to explore the frontiers of liberated love. Will you be brave and free enough to meet the challenge of such deeply meaningful gaiety? Meditate on this radical possibility: spiritually adept hedonism.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Poet Sharon Dolin compares artists

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Dear Dan: I’m a 33-year-old straight guy with a small dick. I have a girlfriend of seven years. When we met, I was really insecure and she had to spend a lot of time reassuring me that it didn’t matter — she loved my dick, sex with me was great, it was big enough for her, etc. I broke up with her once because I didn’t think she should settle for someone so small. After some hugely painful nights and another near breakup, we are in a good place now. We have lots of great vanilla sex, we love being together, and we recently got engaged. © LaRae Lobdell After everything I put her through — and I put her through hell — how do I tell her that being mocked (and worse) for having a small dick is the only thing I ever think about when I masturbate? I want a woman to punish me emotionally and physically for having such a small and inadequate dick. There’s porn about my kink, but I didn’t discover it until long after I was aware of my interest. (I grew up in a weird family that lived “off the grid,” and I didn’t get online until I got into college at age 23.) I’ve never been able to bring myself to tell anyone about my kink. How

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do I tell this woman? I basically bullied her into telling me that my dick was big enough — and now I want her to tell me it isn’t big enough. But do I really want her to? I’ve never actually experienced the kind of insulting comments and physical punishments that I fantasize about. What if the reality is shattering? — Tense In New York Dear TINY: “I was in a similar situation years ago with my then-girlfriend, now-wife,” TP says. “I was too chicken to tell her about my fetish and worried she wasn’t satisfied with my size, so I didn’t want to bring more attention to it. I eventually went to a pro Domme and felt guilty about doing it behind my girlfriend’s back.” TP, which stands for Tiny Prick, is a prominent member of the SPH

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to separate the fantasy of the humiliation from the reality of their strong relationship. I know if I wasn’t having good vanilla sex, it would be much harder to enjoy the humiliation aspect of SPH.” When you’re ready to broach the subject with the fiancée, TINY, I would recommend starting with both an apology (“I’m sorry again for what I put you through”) and a warning (“What I’m about to say is probably going to come as a bit of a shock”). Then tell her you have a major kink you haven’t disclosed, tell her she has a right to know about it before you marry, tell her that most people’s kinks are wrapped up with their biggest fears and anxieties… and she’ll probably be able to guess what you have to tell her before you can get the words out. “He should explain to her that he doesn’t want to be emotionally hurt as much as he wants to feel exposed and vulnerable, and that can be a thrill,” TP says. “It can be hard for people to understand how humiliation can be fun. But humiliation play is one way to add a new dynamic to their sexual relationship.” Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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ne of the most difficult issues in No one is better prepared to manage or make recColorado’s legal marijuana industry is ommendations about oral ingestion than someone the regulation of marijuana edibles. who studies the way in which the body intakes and There is a risk that unpracticed (or absorbs substances. hungry) adults or unsuspecting children Peter Rice, professor at the University of will get into edibles and eat more than they need or Colorado’s Skagg School of Pharmacy and want. Next thing you know, patients or consumers Pharmaceutical Sciences, oversees the department’s find themselves having overdosed. Although this is electives in compounding. I called him because I not life threatening, they are high out of their wanted to look at the edibles problem from the acagourds. demic and theoretical side, in order to add a muchI get it. If I sat down to eat cookies, chocolate needed foundation to the political conversations chip or marijuana, chances are I would eat more around the issue. than one because I Rice says that when WellcomeImages.org/ Wellcome Library, London (1933) really like cookies. you are putting together And yes, I have also a dosage form, the prigotten way too high mary concerns are therafor exactly this reapeutic and scientific. For son. This situation example, dosage forms presents a fundaare based on how rapidly mental conflict you want the drug to get into the body. A solution between wanting to will always be absorbed have an intake form more rapidly than a susthat is user-friendly pension, more rapidly and not wanting to than a capsule, more raptread into the disStudents preparing medicine at the idly than a tablet, more tinct domain of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and rapidly than a topical. food, of which peoScience. But in addition to these ple have very differscientific concerns are ent habits. This issue comes with its fair share of controver- market motivators, which is where much of the sy as safety concerns reign supreme in the marijuana nuance comes in. market and regulators scramble to refine marijuana “Companies want dosage forms that are going to codes to make oral intake more predictable and sure. be bought by the public,” Rice says. “One of the The state regularly updates its rules for edible sales things that I find most interesting is that there are and manufacturing, with the most recent round of certain aspects of marketing that help a dosage form changes to include on-product stamping and dividwork better; there are certain colors that work best. ing all edibles into 10 mg doses. Antidepressants work best when they are pink or Although the edibles problem is being explored light blue. Pain meds work best when they are and managed in the political and industry spheres, it bright red. The colors say something to the actually lies in the domain of pharmaceutical compatients.” pounding and pharmacokinetics, the science and art There is a thin line between the scientific and of preparing personalized medications for patients. marketing components of drug compounding, in

pharmaceuticals and in marijuana, that tend to fall in the domain of ethics, such as whether or not it is OK to create an amphetamine for kids in a yummy chewable or to create a marijuana product for adults that is appealing to children. In this latter case, there are special considerations, chief among which is that many children find it difficult to swallow pills, and so companies will look for ways to make drugs in appealing edible forms, whether chewable or in solution. Just think about the gummy vitamins that have overtaken both the youth and adult markets. “Anything like that is both an advantage and a disadvantage,” Rice says. “If you have a medicine that children would not take, and you come up with a gummy form for it and the children take it, [that] is a therapeutic advantage. You have also increased the possibility that children are going to overdose on it and create legal problems for the company.” Rice also notes the preference of intake form is partly attributable to cultural factors. We tend to prefer oral dosage forms in the United States but, according to his colleagues, there are cultures where people prefer other forms like suppositories, which are far more acceptable in Europe than in the U.S. The existence of edibles in the marijuana market is cultural, too; a history that is easily overlooked. In the context of the illegal market, edibles made a lot of sense when it came to camouflaging illegal contraband. Pot brownies and cookies grew into a tradition so strong that it carried over to the legal market. “To me [edibles are] like the wild wild West,” Rice says. “If [pharmacists] were to make something up in a compounded dosage form, it would be our obligation to show that that drug is stable for a certain period of time, and then we would only give it to patients with instructions accordingly. I am still waiting for that to materialize with marijuana in the edibles world.” This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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Lies, damn lies and Massachusetts DAs

hen marijuana legalization opponents think they might lose at the polls, they try to keep legalization initiatives off

the ballot. Their tactics for doing this typically run the gamut from the silly to the slimy. Their challenge to the Massachusetts legalization initiative petition, which was due to be argued before the Massachusetts Supreme Court on Wednesday, June 8, is a brazen mash-up of both. A number of Massachusetts district attorneys are trying to keep the initiative sponsored by Massachusetts’ Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol off the ballot on grounds that the petition language summarizing the content of the initiative, which was approved by the State Attorney General before the petition was circulated, is deliberately misleading. They claim it didn’t inform voters that the initiative would allow the sale of marijuana and marijuanainfused products with THC content higher than 2.5 percent — which they claim is the only acceptable definition of “natural” marijuana. According to Boston attorney John Scheft, who is representing the DAs, the initiative is misleading because voters haven’t been informed that high concentrations of THC could be infused into food or beverages if it passes. “These items bear no resemblance to the leafy substance that nostalgic adults think this law will legalize,” Scheft said in a statement. “Nature’s pot should only have a maximum of 2.5 percent tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, which is the ingredient that gets people high.” Scheft also claims that any marijuana plant that contains more than 2.5 percent THC should be

termed hashish or tetrahydrocannabinol, instead of marijuana and the petition’s failure to embrace this distinction in its summary is misleading and a fatal flaw. The 2.5 percent figure for “natural” marijuana apparently comes from a definition in Massachusetts criminal law that claims any “material” or “compound” that contains more than 2.5 percent THC should be called hashish or THC concentrate. Scheft is claiming that this should include marijuana plants with more than 2.5 percent THC in them. The argument is just one more example of the sort of in-the-bone dishonesty and lying that has defined marijuana prohibition since its inception 70 years ago. There isn’t anyone, including the folks in Scheft’s merry band of self-serving prosecutorial prohibitionists, who has ever called marijuana with more than 2.5 percent THC anything but marijuana.

I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that these DAs have charged tens of thousands of people caught with pot containing more than 2.5 percent THC with “marijuana” possession, not hashish possession. Because if they had, even a minimally competent defense attorney would have gotten the case tossed out of court. A spokesman for the legalization campaign points out that the THC content of most marijuana flower hasn’t been as low as 2.5 percent since the 1970s and that a lot of today’s strains typically contain 17 to 28 percent THC. This has been known for decades, if for no other reason than because legalization opponents have been howling about new, improved, high strength marijuana since the 1970s. So the initiative isn’t misleading anyone about the potency of today’s pot. Moreover the initiative explicitly provides for the legalization and regulation of “marijuana products,” which includes everything from edibles to concentrates, and the summary language on the petition, which was approved by the state’s attorney general, speaks to the regulation of “marijuana products” in the first paragraph. It should be clear by now that national antilegalization organizations have decided that Massachusetts would be the place where they would mount a major effort to defeat a Colorado-style legalization initiative. Their narrative so far involves a lot of lying about marijuana and the consequences of marijuana legalization in Colorado. No surprises there. But the district attorneys’ attempt to get the petition thrown out takes anti-initiative lying to a whole new level. And it tells you much more about the content of their characters than the content of the initiative or the petition to put it on the ballot.

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BEER PONG SHUTDOWN

As you may have heard, the Boulder City Council is considering drafting an ordinance to enforce “the storage and use of ‘beer pong’ tables in front yards,” according to an email from Andrew Shoemaker on the ever-thrilling Boulder Council Hotline. (Was this one of the important lessons you learned from your trip to Portland?) Well golly gee, councilmembers! You’re gonna ruin all our fun, considering we’re already prohibited from having couches on our porches or letting our llamas graze on city property or rolling boulders on city land. What’s next? Don’t worry if you’re drawing a blank, councilmembers, because we’ve got some ideas for other completely asinine laws you can enforce to sap every ounce of personality out of Boulder: • No stray hula hoops on porches • No slacklining in areas where tourists can see • While you’re at it, outlaw hacky sack and Frisbee too • No abandoned bikes chained to city property • No cars other than Subarus or Priuses • A mandatory 10 p.m. curfew for all CU students (because really, this whole beer pong thing is just another attempt to hide the fact that we live in a college town) Listen, if beer pong tables were a health hazard, we’d understand. But that just ain’t the case. City Council, we advise you to reconsider whether living in a college town is right for you.

BOULDER DE-STRESSED

Well folks, we’re moving up in the world. According to a recent report crunching the numbers on a number of factors, Boulder is the second least-stressed city in the U.S. We were beat only by Iowa City, which also won last year. Surprise surprise, Iowa is a winner. Apparently, we here in Boulder have an average 34.7-hour work week and only a 15-minute average commute to work. We have a less than 1 percent bankruptcy rate, 8 percent divorce rate and we average 7.12 hours of sleep per night. But, let’s be real. We also have some of the highest housing prices around. Combine this with a shocking lack of affordable housing, and most people who work here don’t actually live here and commute from much farther than 15 minutes away. Public transportation is lacking and bus prices are so high that we are dependent on cars, so much so it takes more than 15 minutes to go less than 3 miles — not to mention factoring Boulderites who love to drive 5 miles under the speed limit. Plus it’s almost impossible to find parking in all those tiny lots, not only in Downtown, but in most shopping centers, trailheads and even at the University. Oh and if you work in a newsroom, your world is always stressful. Let’s be honest, a certain type of Boulderite may enjoy a stress-free lifestyle, but it’s not even close to the majority of us. Regardless, now that the news is out, expect even more people to come flooding into Boulder in the near future. Which will completely de-stress us all the more. Boulder Weekly

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